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Please comment on Talk:Useful idiot
[edit]The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Useful idiot. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
- Is that you DumbBOT? —usernamekiran(talk) 19:59, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
KiranBOT/MOSTREFS non-list articles
[edit]User:KiranBOT/MOSTREFS currently includes articles tagged as lists. For example, 2023 deaths in the United States is tagged as a List. Is it possible for the bot to check the assessment rating of an article if it is a List, and include the article under the section "Top 500 list articles" instead of lumping them together with "non-list" articles? Sanglahi86 (talk) 22:57, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Sanglahi86: Hello. I'm currently a little busy. But I think it would be possible. I will look into it in a week or so. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:24, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from Joshbrainz100 (01:26, 23 August 2024)
[edit]Hello. How do I go about getting topics for article creation? --Joshbrainz100 (talk) 01:27, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from Sarmadlakeshore on Sarmad Gardezi (11:38, 23 August 2024)
[edit]I have professionally written article on a google developer name "Sarmad Gardezi" but is says
This page does not exist. The deletion, protection, and move log for the page are provided below for reference.
15:50, 17 June 2016 DGG talk contribs protected Sarmad Gardezi [Create=Require administrator access] (indefinite) (Recently deleted BLP) (thank) 15:50, 17 June 2016 DGG talk contribs deleted page Sarmad Gardezi (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: A7: Article about a real person, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject) (thank) 14:49, 12 June 2016 Nyttend talk contribs deleted page Sarmad Gardezi (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) (than
i dont know who wrote this can you please check --Sarmadlakeshore (talk) 11:38, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sarmadlakeshore is now indefinitely blocked as a block-evading sockpuppet. JBW (talk) 12:40, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from TsvetankaZheleva on Wikipedia:Help desk (19:37, 23 August 2024)
[edit]Hello, How can I save a text in a sandbox without publishing it so that to come back later and edit it before publishing it? Thanks! --TsvetankaZheleva (talk) 19:37, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from Cathyrobo190177 (20:53, 26 August 2024)
[edit]Hi, Can anyone create a wikipedia account? --Cathyrobo190177 (talk) 20:53, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
dreamlaunchers
[edit]Superscript DREAMLAUNCHERS (talk) 14:26, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Hi -- I just want to add a reference to the Wikipedia page for Spiro Agnew. --Cholden07 (talk) 20:20, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
Question from Murarimukabla on Bryan W. Simon (05:34, 8 September 2024)
[edit]Name- Murari Paswan
S/o -Dileep paswan
At sakardihar, post- Geeta deodha, via-mangal garh, police station- Hasanpur , samastipur (Bihar)
Date of birth- 22 April 2004
Education 10th- CBSE board, 12th BSEB , graduation LNMU,
work - Student federation of india (sfi)
Post - sfi state secretariat member of bihar sfi (student federation of india) --Murarimukabla (talk) 05:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
Question from Areezal lse (19:38, 8 September 2024)
[edit]hello. my article got deleted. im not sure what was wrong. i added a google drive link. was that the reason? --Areezal lse (talk) 19:38, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
Misgendering of PBA athletes
[edit]Could you please check out Wikipedia talk:Tambayan Philippines#Misgendering of PBA athletes, it appears that KiranBOT is mis-tagging male basketball players under women's sports.Hariboneagle927 (talk) 01:11, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- responded. —usernamekiran (talk) 11:32, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-37
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- 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. [1][2]
- 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()
andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)
will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [3]
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. [4]
- Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new
MOS
namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS:
(usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language codemos
). [5]
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Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Tech News: 2024-38
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
- 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. [6]
- 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. [7]
- 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. [8]
- 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 newercdx-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. [9]
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. [10]
Tech in depth
- 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.
- 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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Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
[edit]Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. Register your vote here by 23:59 UTC on 29 September! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
Hello, is there anything major i should avoid doing when making minor edits? --XIVIIII (talk) 16:23, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- @XIVIIII: Hello. Generally, one should mark the edits as "minor" only if they consist of typo fixes, or general html/wikicode fixes, or minor grammatical corrections when these corrections do not change the meaning of that text. Other than that the edits should not be marked as minor. You can find more details on Help:Minor edit. Kindly let me know if you have any questions or doubts regarding Wikipedia. —usernamekiran (talk) 16:34, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, I believe that will help me when making edits, so that I do not label edits incorrectly. XIVIIII (talk) 17:42, 19 September 2024 (UTC)