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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2023)

Online encyclopedias, also called Internet encyclopedias, are digital encyclopedias accessible through the Internet.
Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:

Online encyclopedia

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: International trade law • East Sussex

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Tech News: 2023-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [1][2]
  • Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [3]
  • There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [4]

Future changes

  • The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
  • The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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Headlong

Sorry for my headlong promotion at DYK, I hope you have a relaxing holiday weekend. Bruxton (talk) 20:21, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Don't give it a thought, many of us have made very similar well-intentioned errors! You have a great holiday weekend too! Valereee (talk) 23:00, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2023

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December greetings

December: story · music · places

Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. - I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:14, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

And to you, Gerda! Valereee (talk) 11:44, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting

❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️

Hi Valereee! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. I always appreciate your insights and contributions. Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!
Cheers,
{{u|Sdkb}} talk
Solstice Celebration for Valereee, 2023, DALL·E 3. (View full series) Note: The vibes are winter solsticey. If you're in the southern hemisphere, oops, apologies.
Solstice Celebration for Valereee, 2023, DALL·E 3.
Note: The vibes are winter solsticey. If you're in the southern hemisphere, oops, apologies.

{{u|Sdkb}} talk 07:09, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Sdkb, wow, I just paged through the whole series, what a cool idea! And thank you for your kind words, Happy Holidays to you also! Valereee (talk) 12:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas, Valereee!
Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 15:15, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Onel5969 TT me 15:15, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Christmas horror

On 25 December 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Christmas horror, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an early example of the genre of Christmas horror is A Christmas Carol, published in 1843? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Christmas horror. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Christmas horror), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2023)

Cycle between autotrophs and heterotrophs: autotrophs use light, carbon dioxide, and water to form oxygen and organic compounds, mainly through the process of photosynthesis (green arrow).
Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:

Carbon source (biology)

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Online encyclopedia • International trade law

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Women in Red January 2024

Women in Red | January 2024, Volume 10, Issue 1, Numbers 291, 293, 294, 295, 296


Online events:

Announcement

  • In 2024 Women in Red also has a one biography a week challenge as part
    of the #1day1woman initiative!

Tip of the month:

Other ways to participate:

Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:19, 28 December 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23

New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

Scripts Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".

Updated scripts Updated scripts

Holy RefRenamer
Screenshot of RefRenamer, a user script that assists in replacing non-descriptive reference names


Scripts++ Newsletter
Scripts++ Newsletter

Improve a script

Pending requests Requested scripts

New scripts New scripts

Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue. Help us out here! Aaron Liu (talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2024)

Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:

Fish slice

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Carbon source (biology) • Online encyclopedia

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

jeffrey skilling

Hi, you mentioned "Have to agree with the argument that "is a convicted felon" is an imprecise label;"

just a heads up, letting you know the short description still says "convicted felon"

thanks 84.247.97.4 (talk) 01:57, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks so much for your suggestions!!!! You triggerred a lot of engagement and explanation. I will not use "blindly reverted" any more. I had meant it to mean "fully reverted without any edits" as opposed to "Re-editted" (Basically contrasting somebody telling me "You can't write that" vs "You should have written it this way") but I will just say "reverted with not edits" from now on. --Bertrc (talk) 01:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey, @Bertrc, I'm glad you found it helpful. FTR, I didn't think you were intentionally assuming bad faith; communicating via text is difficult, and it's especially tricky when we're at a contentious topic, and as I've said the learning curve here is pretty steep. FWIW, Nakba has 177 watchers, 39 of whom visited recent edits. That's a good indication there are eyes on it, so the fact you aren't seeing others chiming in doesn't mean no one is paying attention, and I can pretty much guarantee that on this topic, there are folks with very diverse opinions watching. It looks like that article has been undergoing major work, and the editor doing most of it is not rejecting the content you want to add, just saying he's still working. He's a pretty meticulous researcher, this subject is in his wheelhouse, and you've raised this issue with him. Circle back in a month or so. Valereee (talk) 04:08, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
No, you were right. By this point I was not assuming good faith. Honestly, I still am not -- When somebody asks you to leave an article, it smacks of "owning" the page -- but Levivich thanked me when I said I was stepping out of it, so who knows? I appreciate those numbers you provided; they make me feel less guilty about not having the dedication or energy to keep trying to work towards a solution. I do miss my younger days when I could keep carving, editting and refining as the discussions go back-and-forth. However, nobody else bothered to comment on the issue, itself, so maybe I've been wrong, or, if there was intercommunal violence before the Nakba but nobody else cares enough to get involved then I don't need to feel bad about leaving it, either. --Bertrc (talk) 12:33, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
I do understand why that would feel OWNy, but in general when someone is doing a major overhaul, and that person is in general someone we know to be highly experienced on the project, expert in the topic, and well-intentioned, we'd like to give them room to show us what it is they intend to do, rather than insisting they give any one issue priority while they're actively working on other portions of the article. You can set yourself a W-ping for a month from now. And again, don't assume that because others aren't commenting that no one cares. It's much more likely that they're giving that editor the room for now. Valereee (talk) 13:09, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Sure. And, even if I am no longer assuming good faith, I shouldn't let that creep into my comments!!  :-) Heh, w-ping'ing is way more involvement than I am up for but I really do appreciate all this! Thanks --13:27, 3 January 2024 (UTC) Bertrc (talk) 13:27, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Val

I'v sent before another message with material and another today to ask if you've received it? Will you be able to advise, and just let me know for now if you have received it? אומנות (talk) 19:44, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, busy time here, family home for the holidays. I'll go looking for them. Valereee (talk) 09:44, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Sure I understand and I hope you enjoy the holiday season!! Just had a feeling it got lost there, and while I was afraid to bother-nag you again here, I'm glad to know there was indeed a confusion per my passionate name for music and nature there haha, and sorry for this. Thank you very much! :-) אומנות (talk) 10:28, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, if you often feel like your emails get ignored, that might be the reason. I figured those were spam, didn't even bother to open them. Valereee (talk) 11:10, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, yeah the box there automatically associated it with my YT account, and sorry I just responded yesterday as again some health and pain issues... with this wanna make sure again you saw my message from yesterday, I addressed your explanations and ask there something more. And anyhow, to thank you here as well for your advice and help. I wish you a happy and tasty new year, as I see you love food subjects 🙂אומנות (talk) 18:11, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick and another kind message there now, replied there now too. אומנות (talk) 20:01, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Before archived; I currently wanna leave my YT-address account so keeps delivered as that "music nature". So, notifying I sent something yesterday (besides the links 2 days ago). And I understand what you meant, I just shared last general-feels to explain and sharpen difficulties, dis-attached from the commentary-clean links for the specific issue + 2 last policies questions for now I wish to learn, to satisfy your guidance and the rules. Thank you. And again, a happy new year. אומנות (talk) 14:49, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Answered your concern, and have a query of my own, which I'll raise separately, after. אומנות (talk) 16:31, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2024)

An antacid is a substance which neutralizes stomach acidity and is used to relieve heartburn, indigestion or an upset stomach.
Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:

Antacid

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Fish slice • Carbon source (biology)

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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New message from Red-tailed hawk

Hello, Valereee. You have new messages at Thatsoddd's talk page.
Message added 03:32, 8 January 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

— Red-tailed hawk (nest) 03:32, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
  • The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [5]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [6][7]

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

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XMcan

FYI, in some of their first article space edits after you blocked them from Talk:Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, XMcan is trying to remove a mention of the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory from James A. Lindsay. MrOllie (talk) 19:48, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2023



Headlines
  • Albania report: Wiki Loves EuroPride in Albania 2023
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina report: A year in review ...
  • Croatia report: 2023 in review
  • Czech Republic report: Wiki-residents establishing meeting took place in December
  • Germany report: Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg
  • Italy report: WLM Local winners and funds for 2024 GLAM projects
  • New Zealand report: Auckland Museum summer updates
  • Poland report: Intense end to a year of GLAM-Wiki activities in Poland
  • Sweden report: Photo memories project concludes; Sörmlands museum passes 1000 uploads to Wikimedia Commons; Wikimedian in Residence supports an upload of music content; Subject terms from Queerlit; Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work
  • Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program
  • UK report: 2023 in Review
  • USA report: WikiConference North America 2023; TSU and USF; Philadelphia WikiSalon; Wikimedia DC Annual Membership Meeting; Wikipedia Editing 101 for All; NYC Hacking Night; Upstate NY workshop; Wikiquote She Said Project
  • Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Thank you for making Wiki Loves Living Heritage happen!
  • WMF GLAM report: Updates and invitation to test the Commons Impact Metrics prototype
  • Calendar: January's GLAM events
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2024)

Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:

Shovel

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Antacid • Fish slice

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Tech News: 2024-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [8]
  • Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [9]
  • Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [10]
  • You can now thank edits made by bots. [11]
  • An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [12][13]
  • Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [14]
  • The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [15]

Future changes

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2024)

Visualization of one newton of force
Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:

Newton (unit)

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Shovel • Antacid

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Wikipedia:2024 administrative elections proposal – come check it out?

I've been working on a draft proposal over here – as always, if you had any thoughts on how to make it better, I'd be interested :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 02:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [16]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [17][18]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 60

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023

  • Three new partners
  • Google Scholar integration
  • How to track partner suggestions

Read the full newsletter

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Notification: Feedback request service is down

Hello, Valereee

You may have noticed that you have not received any messages from the Wikipedia:Feedback request service for over a month. Yapperbot appears to have stopped delivering messages. Until that can be resolved, please watch pages that interest you, such as Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines.

This notification has been sent to you as you are subscribed to the Feedback Request Service. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:11, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

As requested

As requested, here is the [[19]]. Andrzejbanas (talk) 01:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, not enough coffee yet...that seems to be a diff to my question? Valereee (talk) 10:29, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red February 2024

Women in Red | February 2024, Volume 10, Issue 2, Numbers 293, 294, 297, 298


Online events:

Announcement

  • Please let other wikiprojects know about our February Black women event.

Tip of the month:

  • AllAfrica can now be searched on the ProQuest tab at the WP Library.

Other ways to participate:

Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2024)

Mahatma Gandhi with a young Indira Ghandi, during his fast in 1924
Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:

Hunger strike

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Newton (unit) • Shovel

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Tech News: 2024-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [20]
  • There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [21][22]
  • On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [23]
  • Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [24]

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