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Question from Theonethat (16:19, 31 July 2024)

Hello this may not be a question but I am grateful that I have someone to ask questions and recommendations to! --Theonethat (talk) 16:19, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

@Theonethat: Welcome to Wikipedia. Yeah, feel free to ask any questions you have, no matter how small you think it is. Wikipedia has a lot of nooks and crannies and it sometimes seems daunting to new editors. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:29, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-32

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

Feature news

  • Advanced item Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [1][2]
  • Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
  • The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

  • Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
  • Advanced item The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

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Question from KMarrs1722 (20:30, 7 August 2024)

Hello,

I hope this message finds you well. I am relatively new to contributing to Wikipedia and recently received some feedback regarding my edits to the John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675–1732) article. Specifically, I was advised to adhere more closely to the Manual of Style and to use internal Wikilinks instead of full URLs.

I am eager to improve my editing skills and would greatly appreciate any additional guidance or tips you can provide. Your experience and insights would be incredibly valuable as I work to become a more effective and consistent contributor. Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you for your time and assistance. --KMarrs1722 (talk) 20:30, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

@KMarrs1722: Welcome to Wikipedia. I see you are off to a bumpy start. I have two suggestions for you:
  1. Start and complete WP:TWA at a slow pace.
  2. Leave John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675–1732) alone for a while. Instead pick up one or more tasks from Wikipedia:Task Center. There is no deadline to make Wikipedia the best that it can be, so don't be in a rush to fix things.
I assume that you've read and followed all the helpful advice that folks have left on your page. Everybody makes mistakes, just try not to make them twice and you'll be an awesome editor. Wikipedia also has a bunch of wikiprojects which focus on specific subject areas (Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory) See if you are interested in any of them. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:33, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for suggesting WP:TWA. Excellent tutorial! KMarrs1722 (talk) 07:20, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
Isn't it? I'm surprised it doesn't receive more prominence while a user is signing up. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:36, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for the support! KMarrs1722 (talk) 07:22, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Sethbjj (07:08, 17 August 2024)

How can u make a new Wikipedia page --Sethbjj (talk) 07:08, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

@Sethbjj: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've put a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Please take a look at them when you get a chance. The most relevant to your question is Help:Your first article. You can start reading that and ping me if you have any questions. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:22, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Zambian parliamentary constituencies

Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, List of Zambian parliamentary constituencies, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:26, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, MPGuy2824. I'm just posting to let you know that List of presidents of Burundi – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for September 16. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:29, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

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

Feature news

  • Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
  • Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [5]
  • Advanced item Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [6][7]

Bugs status

  • Advanced item Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
  • Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

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  • The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
  • The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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Question from MsughterFelix (18:51, 20 August 2024)

How do I create a citation? --MsughterFelix (talk) 18:51, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

@MsughterFelix: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Take a look at them when you have the chance. You'll have to read Help:Referencing for beginners to understand how to create a citation. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:48, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from LVSDubai (04:51, 21 August 2024)

Hi, Can you please guide me how to edit. --LVSDubai (talk) 04:51, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

@LVSDubai: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Take a look at them when you have the chance. I suggest that you start with WP:TWA. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:49, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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Tech News: 2024-35

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

Feature news

  • Advanced item Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
  • Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [8]

Bugs status

  • Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • Wishlist item Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
  • Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

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Question from Martytheguy (16:58, 29 August 2024)

hey MPGuy, looks like we are both Guys nice to meet ya.

are we able to add wikipedia pages? i've always wondered about the process for that.

let me know if there's any editing i can do in the meantime. thanks! --Martytheguy (talk) 16:58, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@Martytheguy: Welcome to Wikipedia, fellow "Guy". I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Take a look at them when you have the chance. I'd suggest that you start and complete WP:TWA first. After that you can attempt a few of the easier tasks at Wikipedia:Task Center to see what you find interesting. Also, Help:Your first article gives you a detailed rundown on how to start your first article. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:07, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from GPS-Trace (08:58, 2 September 2024)

Hello,

I want to write an article about GPS-Trace product. GPS-Trace.com

How can i make draft? --GPS-Trace (talk) 08:58, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@GPS-Trace: Welcome to Wikipedia. First, I'd really encourage you to change your username (I'll add a message on your talk page explaining why). To start a draft, you should read and follow Help:Your first article. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:01, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-36

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

Weekly highlight

  • Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

  • Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [9]
  • Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [10]
  • Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

  • A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

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DCWC September update

The Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for two months, and we've seen tremendous improvement in the encyclopedic coverage of several underrepresented areas from a wide range of editors! The coordinators would like to highlght some of the newer faces who have been making notable contributions in the contest, including but by no means limited to:

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Question from EveryDay Matters… ToDay on User:EveryDay Matters… ToDay (23:59, 5 September 2024)

Hello, I want yo change my user name. How do I go about it. --EveryDay Matters… ToDay (talk) 23:59, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @EveryDay Matters… ToDay, If you want to change your username, you can request it through Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or just let me know your new username here, and I'll take care of it for you. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Nhoiialmanzor (05:04, 7 September 2024)

Hello, someone is making my article labelled for speedy deletion what would I do? Can you help me for this one? The article is Bagman --Nhoiialmanzor (talk) 05:04, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

@Nhoiialmanzor: I assume that you are talking about Bagman (2024 film). Another user has removed the speedy deletion tag and asked for a WP:revdel. Your article won't be speedily deleted. Do take a look at the links posted in User talk:Nhoiialmanzor#Wikipedia and copyright when you get the chance. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:26, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hello! Reaching out for your help/thoughts as I'm currently helping with NPP Sept backlog drive (relatively new but wanted to take a stab) and I saw you have experience in this area. I came across the Kharai camel page which needs review and noticed that it's flagged for possible copyvio but in looking at the page history it seems that the issue has been resolved. I also looked through the content and didn't see any more info with copyvio. So was jw as I wasn't sure if there's anything I should/need to do on my end to make note that it's been resolved before marking that the page as reviewed? Thanks! Eucalyptusmint (talk) 17:42, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi, The copypatrol page (linked from the page triage copyvio tag ) says that the problem is fixed and if you look at the history, the offending edits have been revdel-ed. Given that, you should ignore this tag and mark the page as reviewed based on the rest of the factors (e.g. whether it meets WP:GNG or not). I'll try to see what can be done on the backend to get such tags automatically removed. Happy reviewing and good luck with the drive~ -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
Sounds good, appreciate it! Eucalyptusmint (talk) 23:04, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sabakaki Godfrey (04:31, 9 September 2024)

Hello I need to add my profile and Biography --Sabakaki Godfrey (talk) 04:31, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

@Sabakaki Godfrey: Welcome to Wikipedia! I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Please go through them when you get a chance. To answer your question: Before starting an article on Wikipedia, you must first ask the question about whether the subject of the article is notable or not. On Wikipedia, we have a different definition of notability than what may be used in common language. Once you read through that, you can go to Help:Your first article and follow the steps there. Please feel free to reply to this message, if you have any questions regarding this. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:30, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Special:Draftify log is broken

It appears that Special:Draftify log (used by your "MoveToDraft" script) is currently broken, as it is stuck at "Loading..." forever. Could you please check User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft/draftifyLog.js for the cause of this issue and debug it if possible? GTrang (talk) 16:39, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) GTrang, everything seems to be working fine for me. I checked your draftify logs, and everything loads quickly, including the load more option. You might want to try refreshing with F5 or doing a hard refresh with Ctrl+F5; it could be a browser cache issue. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:54, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Neither F5 nor Ctrl+F5 worked for me. The page is still stuck saying "Loading..." forever. GTrang (talk) 03:10, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
I'm facing similar issues to yours. Since it is working for DR, at least we know it isn't fully broken. Could you give me an idea about how important you feel this issue is to you? I wan't even aware that (m)any people used that Special url. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:39, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
As I could always check Special:Log/move instead anyway, I would not consider this issue as very important. Anyway, the "Draftify log" special page is still having trouble loading even if I add the code from User:SD0001/Making user scripts load faster to my "common.js" subpage. GTrang (talk) 22:13, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-37

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  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [12][13]
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [14]

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [15]
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [16]

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Category:Diplomatic missions in Eritrea has been nominated for deletion

Category:Diplomatic missions in Eritrea has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. AusLondonder (talk) 19:43, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Alexa Szentmihályi (08:59, 10 September 2024)

Hi, I need your help. I'm working on a project related the Virgin Mary, and the pictures I would like to use, are on wikipedia. For example Our Lady of Akita article has a picture by SICDAMNOME. How can I contact him/her? Thank you very much for your help. --Alexa Szentmihályi (talk) 08:59, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

@Alexa Szentmihályi: I assume that you are talking about File:Virgin Mary of Akita Japan.jpg from Our Lady of Akita. If you look at that page you'll notice that the image has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. If that license works for your project, then you can use it. If you really want to contact the person who uploaded the image, then you can try to contact them on their user talk page, but since they haven't done any on-wiki work since 2015, it is possible that the message might fall on deaf ears. Good luck with your project. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:08, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Mandatory notification added - MPGuy2824 is aware of the thread and is already assisting with this particular issue

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User conduct issue: MPGuy2824 at Zamduar College. Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:30, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Runswick Bay Lifeboat Station

I received notification that you have reviewed the page Runswick Bay Lifeboat Station (a redirect)

As far as I am able, I have amended all the relevent links (to Runswick Lifeboat Station), and believe the redirect can now be deleted - but I don't think I can do that.

Martin Ojsyork (talk) 15:27, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Martin, This is a lifeboat station in Runswick Bay, and I believe that "Runswick Bay Lifeboat Station" is therefore a good redirect. In any case, if you think a redirect should be deleted, you can look through Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects. If none of those criteria apply you can take the redirect to WP:RFD. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 15:34, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Hi MPGuy2824
The redirect for Runswick Bay Lifeboat Station to Runswick Lifeboat Station was created as a correction, as it was never known as "Runswick Bay Lifeboat". It was always just "Runswick Lifeboat".
There are cases for retention, such as North Sunderland, which was renamed Seahouses, in which case, you still find images, documentation, etc for the old station name, so the redirect should remain.
I shall endeavour to work out how to tag Runswick Bay Lifeboat Station for deletion.
Best wishes
Martin Ojsyork (talk) 16:08, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

SaadiCorp

Why isn't this page showing up in the New pages feed and NPP browser? — Saqib (talk I contribs) 06:25, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Saqib, since the article has been taken to WP:AFD, it has been marked as reviewed. Some time (variable) after being marked as reviewed, it is removed from both these places so as to keep database tables to a manageable level. Hopefully that explains your question. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:51, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) (edit conflict) Saqib, SaadiCorp is currently at AfD and has been marked as reviewed. This means it has been removed from the Special:NewPagesFeed, which is why it is not showing in the NPP Browser feed. The NPP Browser updates at the 5th minute of each hour (UTC time), so reviewed articles are removed from the feed on an hourly basis. – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:53, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
So is the page not showing up because it was marked as reviewed or is it due to being taken to AfD? — Saqib (talk I contribs) 07:00, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
It's not showing because it's marked as reviewed. We mark AfDed pages as reviewed since the community decides their notability at AfD, so no further review is needed. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:21, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Gerbil Snoot (01:22, 15 September 2024)

Hi can i add a page that doesn't exist yet when it's being discussed in the text? --Gerbil Snoot (talk) 01:22, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

@Gerbil Snoot: Welcome to Wikipedia! Yes, you can add a page that doesn't exist yet, but you should read Help:Your first article first. If you tell me what article you want to create, I'd be happy to weigh in with my thoughts. On a different note, I was looking over at some of your edits, and you should know that there is no particular need to link common words (See MOS:OL). Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:10, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from I'mhoot01 (08:22, 16 September 2024)

How famous would you have to be to have your own Wikipedia page? --I'mhoot01 (talk) 08:22, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@I'mhoot01: Welcome. On Wikipedia, we use the word notability. Read through that link and WP:GNG to get an understanding of what that means. If you can be more specific, then I would be able to provide more details. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:27, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Saddekake (20:31, 16 September 2024)

hi! hope you're doing well. is there any important information or tips you'd like to give me? --Saddekake (talk) 20:31, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Saddekake: Another editor has already added a welcome message on your talk page. Go through those links when you get the chance. I'd suggest that you start and complete WP:TWA and follow that up with trying some of the tasks at Wikipedia:Task Center. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:00, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
thank you, and i will as soon as i get home from work. glad to be a part of the team! Saddekake (talk) 06:08, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-38

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Improvements and Maintenance

  • Wishlist item Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
  • The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [17]
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [18]
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [19]
  • Advanced item Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [20]

Technical project updates

  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [21]

Tech in depth

  • Advanced item The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
  • Advanced item To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
    • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
    • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:59, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

DCWC submission declined

Hey MPGuy, and thanks for your contributions in the Developing Countries WikiContest! I've had to decline your submission of this FLC review as it is unfortunately too short to award points for. Please see the relevant section of the scoring rules for more information. However, it looks like the candidate has not yet received a source, image, or accessibility review, so your submission could be accepted if you conducted one. I hope you'll consider that, and please let me or another coordinator know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:47, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@TechnoSquirrel69: There is no actual difference between a short review because it was done half-heartedly, and a thorough review that is short because there isn't much to nitpick about (prose-wise). I do understand that it is impossible for someone else to know which of the above cases is true. In any case, no worries: the inclusion/exclusion of these points aren't going to change my rankings in the contest much. On a side note, I hope this contest will be repeated next year too. I assume that you guys are going to write something about it in the Signpost once it concludes, which would serve as a recruitment ad for any future contests. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:41, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
Thanks MPGuy; yes, we had the issue of short (but still probably comprehensive) reviews at FLC before, and the solution that the coordinators agreed on was to allow for resubmission with one of the technical aspects completed as well. We are indeed hoping to make the contest a repeating event as this year's participation and content improvement results were miles beyond what we were expecting! I'm planning on inviting the participants to a general reflection discussion after the contest is over so we can get some feedback about how to move forward with it in the future, which I hope you'll join in on — keep your eyes open for a talk page link in the mass message at the start of October. We hadn't actually discussed a Signpost article, but that makes perfect sense to me, so I'll talk to the other coordinators and see what we can do. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:22, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-39

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

Weekly highlight

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
  • Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
  • The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
  • Advanced item It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [22]
  • Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [23][24]
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item From Wikimedia Enterprise:
    • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
    • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

  • Advanced item The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi,

Just a word of thanks for all your hard work reviewing new redirects. It doesn't go unnoticed.

Best wishes, Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 10:30, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Jean. There are other reviewers doing the same, but its possible that I might have reviewed a lot of the ones you created. Since you seem to be interested in them, do consider joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect. In any case, happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:38, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Nastaran Ebrahimi on Saint Petersburg Conservatory (08:34, 27 September 2024)

سلام من یک شهروند افغان هستم برای بورسیه در یک سایت خواندم دولت روسیه ۹ ماه آموزش زبان میدهد سپس آزمون زبان را می‌گیرد میخواستن در رشته موسیقی در دانشگاه روسیه تحصیل کرده و چگونه درخواست بورسیه بدهم؟ --Nastaran Ebrahimi (talk) 08:34, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

@Nastaran Ebrahmi: Hi, I think you are confused. This is Wikipedia, which isn't related to any Russian university. I found this site, but I don't know how trustworthy it is. Good luck with your studies and your scholarship application.
سلام فکر کنم گیج شدی این ویکی پدیا است که به هیچ دانشگاه روسی مربوط نمی شود. من سایت رو پیدا کردم ولی نمیدونم چقدر قابل اعتماده. در ادامه تحصیل و درخواست بورسیه موفق باشید. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:47, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ancient seekr (02:49, 29 September 2024)

I have edited and article that was misleading and gave source to every piece of information but an editor keeps reverting it giving baseless reasons. How do i got about this? --Ancient seekr (talk) 02:49, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

@Ancient seekr: Welcome to Wikipedia. The usual way to avoid an edit war is to bring up the issue on the concerned article's talk page and discuss it with the other editor(s) there. In this case, a third editor has already started the topic. You should make your case there on why certain sources and their points of view should be added to the article, in a civil manner. Try to remain polite, even if you think that you are instigated. Hopefully, you can come to some sort of consensus with the help of the third editor. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:58, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
@MPGuy2824 Thank you. I have added information with clear citations to enhance the article's content. While I am open to suggestions and improvements from other editors, including the addition of "citation needed" templates, I believe the recent revert was unjustified. The reverted edit lacked proper structure, lacked citations for even existing information, and displayed a clear POV push. Despite the other editor's seniority, their reason for the revert appears baseless. I have expressed my concerns on the article's talk page and am waiting for their response. Ancient seekr (talk) 05:03, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
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