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Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment[edit]
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May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award[edit]
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The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia | |
| This award is given in recognition to Clearfrienda for accumulating at least 500 points during the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:07, 6 June 2024 (UTC) |
May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Streak award[edit]
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Asymmetric Epicyclic Gears Award | |
| This award is given in recognition to Clearfrienda for accumulating at least 50 points during each week of the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:16, 6 June 2024 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter[edit]
Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter
  Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment[edit]
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FTG Metro until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.Magnolia677 (talk) 12:49, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Re-reviews award[edit]
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The Teamwork Barnstar | |
| This award is given to Clearfrienda for doing over 25 re-reviews, in the May 2024 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:46, 9 June 2024 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2024-24[edit]
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
- The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [1]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.- The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the
mw-reference-textclass, Parsoid now also adds thereference-textclass for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [2]
Problems
- There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5]- The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a
<span class="mw-cite-backlink">wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [6] - On multilingual wikis that use the
<translate>system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [7]
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TwoTiime until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.💥Casualty • Hop along. • 04:11, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Article class for Funding of European political parties[edit]
Hi @Clearfrienda, thanks for the banner you added to the talk page of Funding of European political parties. However, you wrote that the article is class C, while @Zanahary has indicated a class B on my talk page. Was there a change (and if so, why?) or is this a mistake? Just trying to understand the discrepancy. Thanks! Julius Schwarz (talk) 07:02, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Julius Schwarz: I use a tool called Rater to add/remove WikiProjects and assess/rate. It will automatically rate an article (using AI) when I run it on a page. In this case, I was configuring the banner shell. Per WP:PIQA, most assessments are now done independent of WikiProjects. There are often discrepancies between reviews because, in the end, rating an article is completely subjective and doesn't mean anything. There is no official process — anyone can rate an article. You can read the B-class criteria here. Funding of European political parties is very long (which in itself is not an issue) so I won't do a full review of it. If you think the article meets the B-class criteria, you can change it yourself. You can also request an independent rating at WP:WPWP/ASSESS. Happy editing, C F A 💬 21:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the detailed reply @Clearfrienda. To be honest, I am not really hung up on the rating itself, I was just interested in the two differing assessments in such a short time. More useful would be some of the observations/recommendations that your tool made (if any). Personally, I do not want to be in a position to grade my own work, that's far too subjective; that's why I was happy when the first rating came in. Whatever the actual grade, the point now is to see what can be improved and work on that one bit at a time. Feel free to share anything of use. Julius Schwarz (talk) 06:59, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Clearfrienda,
Why do you want to move the main space article back to Draft space? Couldn't you just move it to a different page title in Draft space? Liz Read! Talk! 03:32, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
You have made an error in your comment on Draft:Cueva Pintada (California), that site is not the same as Painted Cave, Galdar which is a completely different site on another continent. Please read both the draft and the article you suggested it be merged to and you will find this is the case. Please strike that comment. I do however agree with you that the draft is not ready for article space and should be declined. Just so you know the editor who created the draft has a long history of errors (see their talk page), so your good-faith but incorrect comment is complicating matters. Netherzone (talk) 04:28, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Netherzone: Yes you're 100% correct. I don't know what I was thinking. I believe I googled "Cueva Pintada" and saw the cave in Spain which is also sometimes referred to as "The Painted Cave" - not sure how I didn't see it was in Spain. I'll be more careful next time I decline for this. However, I don't see any other issues with the page aside from possibly some close paraphrasing in some paragraphs. The creator was indeffed in February so I doubt it will ever be resolved in draft space. Is there something else you noticed? Sorry for the confusion. C F A 💬 12:41, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your quick response, Clearfrienda. I totally understand this was a good-faith error! There have been years of this editor misrepresenting sources and using unreliable sources like blogs, self-published books or other sources that are noted on RSP as unreliable. Also wrong page numbers is a frequent problem. So their drafts need to checked thoroughly because if not it presents an endless stream of edit requests once they make it to article space. Just something to be aware of. Nice to meet you here and see you around, Netherzone (talk) 15:00, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-25[edit]
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
- People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [8]
- The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [9][10]
- The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [11]
Problems
- Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [12]
- Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [14][15]
- Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [16]
- Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [17]
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