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File:Tata WPL Logo.webp listed for discussion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:2024 Women's Premier League Points table

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Proposed deletion of 2023 Big Matches

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Deletion discussion about 2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) Squads

Hello, Vestrian24Bio

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Rusalkii and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I've asked for a discussion about the redirect 2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) Squads, created by you. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 9 § 2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) Squads.

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Rusalkii (talk) 08:20, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

File:Tata IPL Logo.webp listed for discussion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) squads

Template:2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) squads has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:03, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Features of Ben 10 moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Features of Ben 10. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. dxneo (talk) 03:57, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

File:TATA IPL Auction 2024 Logo.jpg listed for discussion

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Nomination of 2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) squads for deletion

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Joseph2302 (talk) 15:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of 64th Battle of the Babes for deletion

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AA (talk) 18:09, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

File:TATA IPL 2022 Logo.webp listed for discussion

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File:TATA IPL Auction 2022 Logo.jpg listed for discussion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Women's Premier League current squad templates

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 03:56, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Notable Moments at the MTV Video Music Awards

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April 2024

Hi, I can see that you have conveniently deleted select content from the page Chennai Super Kings in the name of "clean-up" without any due reason. Please provide appropriate and suitable comments when you do the same.

Also, as per MOS:IMGSIZE, it is not a good practice to specify a fixed width of an image in pixels unless with reason. Rather you can use upright with a scaling factor if a enlargement is required.

Thanks! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 03:18, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

It was removed at Royal Challengers Bangalore. 𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷24𝓑𝓲𝓸 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 03:26, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
And then restored, sorry. 𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷24𝓑𝓲𝓸 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 03:46, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
It was removed by a disruptive user despite earlier reverts by other editors as well. I am trying to take the article Chennai Super Kings to GA. The format is inline with similar club related featured articles from sports category (you can refer to the same!). It would help if you do not make contradicting edits which would mean further re-work during GA review process. Thanks for your understanding. Magentic Manifestations (talk) 05:00, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Okay, I am sorry for the troubles caused by me. 𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷24𝓑𝓲𝓸 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 05:13, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Women's Premier League teams

A tag has been placed on Category:Women's Premier League teams indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:26, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Just as an FYI, I moved the 3 categories that were in here to Category:Women's Premier League (cricket) teams, which has existed since 2023-02-17 and follows the naming scheme of the primary article at Women's Premier League (cricket). Hey man im josh (talk) 12:27, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I have an idea! You should make that page a redirect page! Snipertron12 (talk) 12:28, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Women's Premier League navigational boxes

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

This one is just because Category:Women's Premier League (cricket) navigational boxes existed already since 2023-03-05. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Custom signature

Hi Vestrian24Bio. Would you please consider using regular text in your signature instead of the mathematical symbols? It makes it more difficult to copy your username and it's bad for accessibility. You can get a similar effect using fonts like Vestrian24Bio. Actually, using unusual fonts is bad for accessibility in general, but it would still be an improvement. Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 08:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

How about this one: Vestrian24Bio (U, T, A, C, S) 11:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Adjusted font size now. Vestrian24Bio (U, T, A, C, S) 11:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
That's definitely better, thanks. Five subsequent links is a bit out of control, but it's in the eyesore category rather than usability. You only really need a talk page link. Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:17, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

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ITN recognition for 2024 Indian Premier League final

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Discussion

I have begun a discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket about the name of the T20 WC. Feel free to participate! Pharaoh496 (talk) 09:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice! Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 10:01, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Template:2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Group A

We should to restore the earlier format atleast until the end of the tournament, what was the reason for removal of runs scored, overs bowled and such attributes from the template? Cric editor (talk) 04:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

In the earlier format. the NRR is calculated each time when loading the page, which takes up memory to execute; specially for pages like 2024 T20WC which has 6 points tables. But, we could keep the earlier format until the end of the Group stage. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 04:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Yes I guess we can settle with that till group stage, like it's done for all other tournaments. Cric editor (talk) 04:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Also in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup qualification, There are 5 "Final standings (Sub-regional qualifier)" and 5 "Final standings (Regional final)"; It's better to avoid similar headings in a same page as it would result in the anchors being misdirected. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 04:39, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Also, we don't need the final standings here; only points table is enough. ( see 2023 Cricket World Cup qualification) Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 05:41, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

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Change back to Detailed Result

Hello there! Can you kindly change it back to old result board in 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup that it written in details 2400:ADC5:164:3000:9496:392F:75CE:AD63 (talk) 19:26, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

The detailed results are included in the Group articles, only a summary is kept at the main page.
Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 04:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Edit at Smriti Mandhana

You reverted my edit on Smriti Mandhana by stating it was non-constructive. I want to clarify that I only removed one of the two citations used in the lead for the pronunciation of her name, as both citations serve the same purpose and are redundant. I used the same video as the previous citation but from the original upload on the channel of Asian Paints. Therefore, I don't understand why you consider my edit unconstructive. Please clarify. I am writing this to avoid edit war on the Smriti Mandhana page. Thanks. VK wiki100 06:34, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

The citation given is supposed to state how to pronounce the name like this previous one. But, the one you added is "Asian Paints Presents Where The Heart Is Season 4 Episode 02 featuring Smriti Mandhana". How is that relevant? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:20, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
I didn't add it; it was already there. I just pointed it to the original upload. It is the same as the previous second citation, and Smriti herself pronounces her name in it. That's the reason why it is cited. I've removed the previous first citation because it had only 930 views, and the channel was not trustworthy. It still showed the same pronunciation as Smriti in the second citation, so it was redundant to include both. That's why I've removed the less trustworthy one. VK wiki100 08:01, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
When it comes to pronunciation, simple videos like these: [24][25][26] which only contains the pronunciation are better. Unlike the above 7 minute video which includes many other unrelated contents; these only have what's needed. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 13:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
I understand, but the issue lies in the uncertainty of the reliability of these videos. All three videos you provided have different pronunciations of her name. In this situation, it's best to use a primary source. If you could find a shorter and more to-the-point video of Smriti herself pronouncing her name, that would be very helpful. VK wiki100 16:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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Incorrect revert done by Vestrian24Bio

@Vestrian24Bio : About your revert ---> "Reverting edit(s) by IndoPakAfgh (talk) to rev. 1229017290 by Pkr206: Non-constructive edit (UV 0.1.5)". on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3A2024_ICC_Men%27s_T20_World_Cup_Group_C&oldid=prev&diff=1229033107

How my edit was a "Non-constructive edit"?

as per /2024_ICC_Men%27s_T20_World_Cup#Super_8, Afghanistan has already qualified to Super 8, which means other three teams are eliminated.

Either you have been Non-constructive or Super 8 section is incorrect. IndoPakAfgh (talk) 14:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Q, E is placed only when the qualification isn't complete for the group with the table text saying "Advance to Super 8". But, now that the Qualification in Group C is over it's not needed anymore; instead the table text says: "Advanced to Super 8" stating that both  West Indies and  Afghanistan have qualified for Super 8 and there's no need for the Q, E text anymore. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 14:53, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Yeah but Afghanistan is still listed as "Q", and the eliminated teams are listed as "E". Your revert makes it inconsistent @Vestrian24Bio.
As the group stages are still ongoing, we should stick to consistency between the groups, and use Q/E everywhere. It's confusing to use them for some groups and skip them for others.
Also, this should be discussed in the talk page not on user talk. Soni (talk) 16:34, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
I agree this should be discussed in the talk page; I just continued what started by @IndoPakAfgh here. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:46, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Unfounded justification for reverting edit

If you didn't like the edit, it doesn't mean it's not constructive. I just resized the poster image in ""Please Please Please"" which is unnecessarily large in the article. How can this be a non-constructive edit? Should have put "I prefer the large image" in the reason for reverting. Damitinha (talk) 07:10, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Thumbnails aren't supposed to have a size limit per MOS, because thumb file display size is user preferred. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:12, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
See MOS:IMGSIZE Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:13, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
And why is doing something to improve the layout and visualization of the article a non-constructive edit? From what I saw here on your talk page you use the term "non-constructive editing" incorrectly Damitinha (talk) 07:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
Read MOS:IMGSIZE Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:15, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
I may have been hasty, but at least justify correctly when reverting an edit, simply using "non-constructive edit" does not justify or explain anything. Damitinha (talk) 07:23, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
I'm sorry about that; I usually leave a talk page message after reverting, missed this time. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:31, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-25

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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. [34]
  • 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. [35][36]
  • 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. [37]

Problems

  • Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [38]
  • 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. [39]

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). [40][41]
  • 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. [42]
  • 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. [43]

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Problems

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [47][48]
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Songs

What was the purpose of these articles: Samgrame (song) and Lokiverse (song). I have redirected them because the sourcing was very poor and the sourcing in the article did not mention it. Samgrame sounds cool wish there was a full version. DareshMohan (talk) 08:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

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ITN recognition for 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final

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Tech News: 2024-27

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  • Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [50]
  • Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [51]
  • If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [52][53]
  • Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [54]
  • Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [55]

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  • Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [56]

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Your GA nomination of 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final

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Your GA nomination of 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final

The article 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Magentic Manifestations -- Magentic Manifestations (talk) 13:40, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

@Vestrian24Bio Hi! I had taken this as a review and provided comprehensive comments on it. If you require any clarification or want to engage in a discussion, ping me as required. With the required modifications and some time for stability, the article might be good to go. As a suggestion, I can still see a lot of edits on this happening, if there are non-constructive, you should probably seek a page protection again as it might hamper your efforts to take it to a GA. All the best! Thanks! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 08:36, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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At first, I didn't even know this article qualified for DCWC, until someone listed it on Eligible reviews; I just copied what was there, that's all. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:17, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for R. Sampanthan

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Nomination of List of Women's Premier League (cricket) captains for deletion

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Tech News: 2024-28

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Recent changes

  • Advanced item Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
  • Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
  • Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

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  • Advanced item Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [57]
  • Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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Happy First Edit Day!

July 2024

Information icon Hi Vestrian24Bio! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of an article several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

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A barnstar for you!

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For continuous collaboration with the WP:TOP25, particularly in helping with the South Asian perspective that is frequently necessary. igordebraga ≠ 19:30, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-30

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Feature News

  • Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
  • Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [58]
  • Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [59]
  • Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
  • Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [60]

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  • Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

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  • Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

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  • Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
  • Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
  • There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [61]

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JSON coding

Hi! I have a JSON coding from XTools which is supposed to generate a table; Is there any possible way to add the coding to wikitext. I currently have the coding here. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 15:04, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

You can write a lua module (if this is only for you, put it in <module name> sub spage of Module:Sandbox/Vestrian24Bio/). Use a Sribunto JSON function to get the data from JSON into a Lua table (mw.loadJsonData(), mw.text.jsonDecode()). Use the html library functions to create an html table from the Lua table.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Created a module here; but it prints this error message... Can someone please help me fix it. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:11, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
A modified module here; but same error message... Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:22, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
@Trappist the monk after your change; the JSON you added appears; but, how do I add a custom JSON do I have to change it in the module directly??? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:14, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
That is why I added the comment: IRL this could be replaced or the real JSON could be kept in this module's doc page. Were it me, I would put the JSON in the ~/doc page or perhaps a subpage of the module (with nothing else) and then have the module fetch the content of the your chosen page. Of course, the simpler way is to just put your 'real' JSON in the module in place of the test JSON.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:23, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:25, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
One other possibility, you might could leave the JSON where it is and wrap it with the invoke so that the JSON is the first positional parameter:
{{#invoke:Sandbox/Vestrian24Bio/JSON table 2|jsonToHtmlTable|<JSON goes here>|}} – the extra trailing pipe may not be needed; I didn't test for that condition
Then change the module to fetch jsonTable from the frame:
local jsonTable = mw.text.jsonDecode (frame.args[1]);
—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
tried now; but gives an error Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:41, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Because frame is out of scope there. If we are going to continue this conversation it would probably be better to have it on your talk page.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:47, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

I've moved the discussion to my talk page now. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:50, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: How do I fix this error? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:38, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
What error where?
—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:57, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

DCWC August update

The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for a month, and we've already seen some momentous improvement in the quality of many articles about underrepresented subjects! So far, our top-scoring participants are:

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2027 CWC Qualifier

Hey there! You didn't mention why the pages 2027 Cricket World Cup Qualifier and 2027 Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off were moved to a redirect page again? Thanks! Sneshik (talk) 11:09, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

There too far events and to avoid them being just stubs they can be developed in draftspace. i.e: Draft:2027 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:12, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Maybe we can just mark it as a stub page with a stub template. The reason why I created these articles is because there were a lot of redirects when I wanted to know more about 2027 CWC qualification process. I think stub pages are better than redirects. What do you think? Sneshik (talk) 11:23, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
It's just WP:TOOSOON, also there was an afd for this qualifier - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2026 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:28, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2027 Cricket World Cup stadiums

A tag has been placed on Category:2027 Cricket World Cup stadiums indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 16:56, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

@Liz Thanks for the notice; the thing is I have a poor connectivity problem due to which my edits are sort of delayed. Otherwise, I am adding the pages to this category. There will be a total of 12 pages here. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 17:10, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

File:2027 CWC Fanmade Logo.png listed for discussion

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This isn't a fandom site, so "fan made" fake logos are not appropriate encyclopedic content. Please don't make any more of these. Joseph2302 (talk) 06:53, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
@Joseph2302:
  1. I didn't create/design the image.
  2. I am not the initial uploader.
  3. I didn't name it that way.
It was already in Commons, I just cropped it to the text and added it to the Sidebar, that's all. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 09:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
My apologies, the image history on English Wikipedia implied you had created it. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:09, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Premier League (cricket)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Premier League (cricket), a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Premier League (cricket) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Premier League (cricket) during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:29, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

  • Just to say, this isn't specifically targeted at you or WikiProject WPL. I think merging all the cricket tournament WikiProjects into main cricket project is good idea, and appreciate that you created the WPL because those ones existed, which seemed reasonable at the time. It's been on my to-do list for a few years to try and merge them all back in, because some other editors on some of the other WikiProjects have been a pain on cricket articles in the past, and so having it centralised should make things better. Someone showed me the procedure for the merge a month or two ago, which is why I'm suggesting it now. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:10, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

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Accusations of vandalism

In this edit, Sxnxtxn added what appear to be two Indic-script versions of "2023 Asia Cup" to the article 2023 Asia Cup. They did so without an edit summary: poor practice, but very common practice. If the addition is what I think, then it contravenes WP:NOINDICSCRIPT. In your reversion of the edit you call it vandalism. This surprises me, because it doesn't look like my idea of vandalism. But of course my idea of vandalism is of little importance. What matters is Wikipedia's idea of vandalism. Please read that page, carefully.

Please do not accuse other editors of vandalism when what they've done isn't defined by Wikipedia as vandalism.

If I seem to have misunderstood something, please feel free to correct me. -- Hoary (talk) 02:47, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Revert

The reason for the removal is already mentioned. The sources from production companies are not considered reliable and removed other unreliable source. Charliehdb (talk) 14:59, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Who says they are not reliable? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 15:01, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
See WP:PRIMARY. Charliehdb (talk) 15:05, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
It says this: A primary source may be used on Wikipedia only to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 15:09, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

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  • 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.
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  • 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. [67][68]

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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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.

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  • 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.
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WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

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Your GA nomination of 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup

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  • 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.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Sub-regional Qualifier teams

Template:2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Sub-regional Qualifier teams has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:15, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

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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Information icon Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your contributions to article The Greatest of All Time did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Please add figures that is in reliable source and not in unreliable WP:ICTFSOURCES such as Sacnilk or tweets from production company. RangersRus (talk) 14:31, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

The Greatest of All Time

Regarding this edit, you cited "LEADNOCITE"--but you removed the sources from the infobox, not the lead, and actually expanded a source in the lead. User:Espenthordsen, does that answer your question? Drmies (talk) 13:07, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

I see now, sorry about that. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 13:40, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
Yes. Thank you. Espenthordsen (talk) 17:20, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

The Greatest of All Time

Please join discussion here Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film/Indian_cinema_task_force#Twitter_sources_on_The_Greatest_of_All_Time. RangersRus (talk) 17:41, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

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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. [73][74]
  • 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. [75]

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2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Regional Final moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Regional Final. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because this article had both content and a redirect and doesn't look finished after a few hours. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

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  • 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. [78]
  • 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. [79]
  • 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. [80]
  • 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.
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  • 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. [82]

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

Removal of name of captains in my previous edit

Hello. I just noticed that you have reverted my edit of the name of the captains of the teams that I had included in the page International cricket in 2024–25. You mentioned that this was a new format.

I would just like to know when this new format was introduced, and why has it not been used in pages like International cricket in 2024, where the names of the captains are still included.

Thank you. PEditorS10 (talk) 03:27, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@PEditorS10 The new format was introduced for International cricket in 2024–25 just a few months ago as discussed at Talk:International cricket in 2024; Further implementation of the format depends on how it goes through. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 03:31, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

AFDs

Hello, Vestrian24Bio,

I'd like to recommend you pace yourself with your deletion nominations. We have a limited number of editors who participate in AFD deletion discussions and some of them spend a great deal of time for each nomination looking for sources. I'd recommend limiting yourself to 5 nominations a day. This is not policy, of course, this is just the perspective of an admin who spends a lot of time each day reviewing AFD discussions. Thank you for considering this request. Liz Read! Talk! 01:43, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

@Liz, it's just there were these users who has been creating set of articles that fails notability which led to a massive clean-up but, it's over now. I am sorry about any work strain I might have caused to you and others. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 06:02, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

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  • 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.

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  • Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [84][85]
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can i revert the edit and add the cite Xzantiyamoloy (talk) 04:06, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@Xzantiyamoloy Sure, just make sure it's a reliable source. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 04:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

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The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has come to a close! After a thrilling finish to the event with a slew of submissions on the final day, we have our winners. With 608 points, Bronze Belt Buckle – 3rd place Thebiguglyalien (submissions) comes in third with his series of Kiribati and Botswanan submissions; Silver Belt Buckle – 2nd place Tuvalu BeanieFan11 (submissions) flies into second place at the last second with 771 points after a string of good articles about sportspersons; and after leading for much of contest's three months, Gold Belt Buckle – 1st place Generalissima (submissions) finishes with a whopping 798 points to take home the Gold Belt Buckle. Congratulations to our winners!

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  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [89]

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