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Tech News: 2020-27

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

Problems

• Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [1]
• Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiLoop Battlefield new name vote

Dear CAPTAIN MEDUSA,

Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield. We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting is held at m:WikiProject_WikiLoop/New_name_vote and ends on July 13th 00:00 UTC.

xinbenlv ^{Talk, Remember to "ping" me} 05:00, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of National Paddy Day

Hello! Your submission of National Paddy Day at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! paul2520 (talk) 15:23, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Hello:

I notice you have unlinked a number of terms in this article. I believe this is incorrect. If a term is linked in the lede it should also appear and be linked in the body of the text. Asa courtesy for readers links in pictures are useful.

Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:35, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Twofingered Typist, I have added them back in but the image text have been removed by another editor. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 16:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ed6767's redwarn is this month's featured script

Enterprisey: abusefilter-diff-check • abusefilter-hide-search • live-reload • quick-vand-block •

abusefilter-mass-test • simple-notifs • User:Enterprisey/rc-thanks

• DannyS712's RemindMe • Majavah's Aligner
• BrandonXLF: ShowUserGender • ReferenceExpander
• Awesome Aasim: oneclickdelete • noeditredlinks.js • editrequest
• TheTVExpert: searchForSection • scriptDocumentationTabs
• Alex 21: script-categoriessort.js • script-imageres.js
• Ed6767's redwarn

Twinkle released new features, including a rollback links on history pages and Special:Recentchanges,

the ability to rollback-in-place on Recent changes and Contributions, a new option autoselect warning

level, and an XfD log. (Enable in your prefences; See full list of changes)

• Headbomb's unreliable source detector script now allows users to add their own custom rules. See the documentation at User:Headbomb/unreliable#Custom rules.

Open tasks

• Recent changes to the vector skin may have broken some scripts and gadgets. Uses of the .vectorTabs selector

should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs. Additionally, .menu should be replaced with <ul>, and .vectorMenu

should be replaced with .vector-menu. See phabricator:T255718 and phabricator:T254797 for more.

Pending requests

• A script to simplify the process of nominating articles for good article reassessment (request)
• A script to help create navboxes (request)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
• The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
• Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

New message from Shearonink

Hello, CAPTAIN MEDUSA. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death/archive2.
Message added 17:45, 5 July 2020 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

FYI: Up for a 2nd FLC. Welcome comments/suggestions/oppose/support/etc...whatever you think is appropriate. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 17:45, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

"Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 6#Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Nardog (talk) 00:30, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Visit Nepal 2020

Hello! Your submission of Visit Nepal 2020 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 18:19, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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16		Widow conservation (talk)	Expand
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DYK nomination of Visit Nepal 2020

Hello! Your submission of Visit Nepal 2020 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 18:19, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for The Last Kiss (1931 film)

On 8 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Last Kiss (1931 film), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film The Last Kiss was brought from a brothel in Dhaka? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Last Kiss (1931 film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Last Kiss (1931 film)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:04, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28

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

Problems

• The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [4]
• The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
• Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

--Hellone69 (talk) 14:16, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Please contact me if possible. From Nepal.. hellone696969gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellone69 (talk • contribs) 14:16, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

@Hellone69: You can email me directly from here [5]. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:55, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

@Hellone69: Responded. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 14:21, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Half Million Award for Robert De Niro filmography

	The Half Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Robert De Niro filmography (estimated annual readership: 650,000) to Featured List status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 11:13, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

• Reidgreg, Thank you! ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 11:14, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

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More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

• More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:48, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Jayanendra Chand Thakuri

On 11 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jayanendra Chand Thakuri, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nepali actor Jayanendra Chand Thakuri starred in more than 100 films? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jayanendra Chand Thakuri. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jayanendra Chand Thakuri), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Internet bench

On 12 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Internet bench, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the first few days of the launch of the internet bench (pictured), two teenagers phoned the local council and Bill Gates after discovering that it could be used to make international calls? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Internet bench. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Internet bench), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Inter-caste marriage in Nepal

On 13 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Inter-caste marriage in Nepal, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that most Nepali families disapprove of inter-caste marriage because they are afraid of becoming social outcasts? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Inter-caste marriage in Nepal. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Inter-caste marriage in Nepal), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29

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

Recent changes

• Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [6]

Problems

• Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [7][8]

Changes later this week

• Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [10][11][12][13]

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16:29, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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DYK for Balidaan (1997 film)

On 14 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Balidaan (1997 film), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1997 historical drama Balidaan (Sacrifice) was banned in 2005 by King Gyanendra's government for its portrayal of Nepal's communist movement? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Balidaan (1997 film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Balidaan (1997 film)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Senti Virus

On 15 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Senti Virus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the title of the 2020 Nepali comedy–drama film Senti Virus was changed from Anti Virus on the advice of an astrologer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Senti Virus. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Senti Virus), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 12:02, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Request on 00:17:03, 16 July 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Lorenzsandi

• Lorenzsandi (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:RollerBall: Fantasy Island (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, I made this draft for a PC game that is very obscure, and hard to find sources on. I need help with the sources because of the obscurity of this game.

Lorenzsandi (talk) 00:17, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

FLC review request

Hi. I noticed that you're highly active at FLC. I have a candidate list that is rapidly approaching the older nominations section and has only one review, and I'm worried that my nomination will fail purely from lack of attention. Would you be willing to take a look at it and offer any feedback you have?

I intend to use the finished FL as a template for improving similar lists, so the more feedback I'm able to get, the better.

Sincerely, The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 16:08, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

"The Bad Guys (upcoming film)" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect The Bad Guys (upcoming film). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 17#The Bad Guys (upcoming film) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Starzoner (talk) 10:51, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Visit Nepal 2020

On 20 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Visit Nepal 2020, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that for its 2020 tourism campaign, the Government of Nepal proposed building 108 sculptures of the Yeti painted by 108 different artists? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Visit Nepal 2020. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Visit Nepal 2020), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Kartik Naach

On 20 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kartik Naach, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 379-year-old dance musical play Kartik Naach (video clip featured) is performed every year in Nepal? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kartik Naach. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Kartik Naach), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30

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

Recent changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

• There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [14]
• Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [15]
• Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [16]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [17]

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19:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Announcing WikiLoop DoubleCheck

Dear Wikipedians and contributors, the open source Wikipedia review tool, previously "WikiLoop Battlefield" has completed its name vote and is announcing its new name: WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Read the full story on the program page on Meta-wiki, learn about ways to support this tool, and find out what future developments are coming for this tool.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the vote!

xinbenlv ^{Talk, Remember to "ping" me} 18:32, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

August 2020 at Women in Red

Women in Red | August 2020, Volume 6, Issue 8, Numbers 150, 151, 173, 174, 175 Online events: New: Indigenous women | Countries headed by women Interwiki collaborations: Interwiki Women Collaboration | Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Continuing initiatives: #1day1woman | BLM/Anti-discrimination Ending August 31st: Sports (returning for the next Olympics) Help us plan future events: Virtual Ideas Cafe Join the conversation: Women in Red talkpage Stay in touch: Join WikiProject Women in Red | Opt-out of notifications Social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Rosiestep (talk) 18:50, 26 July 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Tech News: 2020-31

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

Recent changes

• The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [18]
• The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
• On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

• The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [19][20]
• Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [21]
• Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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FLCs

Hi Captain, you were kind enough to look at my FLC for List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1965, I wonder whether you might be able to spare the time to also look at the one for List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1966? Not to worry if not..... Kind regards, ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:40, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for National Paddy Day

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Regarding movie releases

Her movies has been released & its pages is also there in wiki request you to kindly approve Vamb30 (talk) 01:30, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

• I don't understand what are talking about? ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 10:31, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Laxmi Sharma

On 1 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Laxmi Sharma, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nepal's first female auto rickshaw driver, Laxmi Sharma, went on to start the first button factory in the country? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laxmi Sharma. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Laxmi Sharma), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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FL

Hi, i have worked on some of list articles can you please help me how to nominate articles for feature article.PK743 (talk) 12:47, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

PK743,

1. Add {{subst:FLC}} to the page's talk page. Then save the page.
2. Click on the red link initiate the nomination. Then create the page.
3. Finally, place {{Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/name of nominated list/archiveNumber}} on WP:FLC. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:54, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. PK743 (talk) 12:59, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/King Girvan Yuddhavikram Shah

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When looking at the "Recent Changes", I found that you deleted a lot of stuff in List of awards and nominations received by Joaquin Phoenix. You did not leave an edit summary. It would be helpful to others in the future if you leave an edit summary. I would like to know why you did it. For now, I haven't yet reverted your edit, but if you do not have a good substantive reason for removing the content, I will have to revert your edit. Thank you. Friend505 (talk) 13:45, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

• Hey Friend505, I see that you are new here; you're doing a great job. Keeping separate makes a lot harder to navigate around, there was a debate about the table situation here. I previously helped that page by adding sources and merging tables together. I had an edit summary there. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 13:48, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

• I wanted to note that when you see a red number next to an edit that is not always bad. If you aren't sure if you should revert an edit You should assume good faith. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 13:52, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice, CAPTAIN MEDUSA. I wasn't simply looking at the red number; I saw that it was a red bold edit. I didn't revert it at once, because you seemed to be trustworthy, so I first contacted you. I know how to combat vandalism; I am a member of the counter-vandalism unit and I have a simple guide for combating vandalism at my user page. Also, could you please give me feedback on the new words that I have put on the bottom of my user page? Thank you. Friend505 (talk) 13:54, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

• Friend505, When I joined Wikipedia in 2019 my main focus was in counter-vandalism. Here are some tools that will help you a lot: Twinkle and STiki. At recent changes: make sure to add bad faith, and problem filters. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 14:02, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Friend505 (talk) 15:56, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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DYK for Bola Maya

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DYK nomination of 1911 George V hunting in Nepal

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Hi, I gave the article a copyedit. It is a very nice article; are you nominating it for GA? I'd just like to point out that while you're doing all the archiving of sources, you should change the google.co.uk domain to google.com, so readers everywhere will be able to view the sources. Best, Yoninah (talk) 21:05, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

GA review

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• Gazal world, I am sorry but I have to decline this request because I have been very busy in real life. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 11:32, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

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Tsum Valley

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Hello Evrik, Due to my work ethic, I am not able to spend more time here like I used to. I will try to create this when I have some spare time (might take months). Also, thank you for helping out on Gorkha Bridge in my absence. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:13, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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• Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
• Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[38]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

• The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
• Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

15:10, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (July and August 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Yet another Articles for creation helper script ("AFCH"), a gadget used by Articles for creation reviewers, is this month's featured script

Opencooper's collapseBots declutters talk pages by collapsing comments made by bots

SD0001's GAR-helper is a script to easily create a GAR nomination and carry out the necessary related steps

SD0001's shortdescs-in-category can be used to view short descriptions of pages in a category

WikiMacaroons's Talk to Wiki allows for voice-activated functionality and navigation of Wikipedia

WikiMacaroons's AutoShortDesc simplifies the addition of short descriptions to pages

IagoQnsi's ipareader adds a button next to IPA pronunciations to have them read out by a text-to-speech program

Awesome Aasim's xfdvote makes it easier to participate in XFD discussions

BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker adds "CS1" or "CS2" beside citations to show their style with an optional toggle

GeneralNotability's spihelper a script to help CheckUsers, SPI clerks, and patrolling admins with sockpuppet investigation case pages

Evad37's TimestampDiffs adds a link at the end of every comment to the diff in which it was added

Twinkle has a number of improvements including additional redirect category templates

Updates to Enterprisey's reply-link include compatibility fixes with Mdaniels5757's markAdmins script and Kephir's unclutter script

Evad37's rater is now at version 2.6.0, which updates including OOUI tweaks and the inclusion of banners for inactive projects

Miscellaneous

• If anyone would like to help contribute to this newsletter, please leave a note at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++

Pending requests

• A script to simplify addition of "connected contributor" templates to talk pages
• A script to simplify removal of the "persondata" template on mlwiki
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Stay safe --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-36

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Problems

• This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [39][40]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

DYK for George V's 1911 hunting trip in Nepal

On 1 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article George V's 1911 hunting trip in Nepal, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1911, George V (pictured) killed 21 tigers, 8 rhinos, and 1 bear in Nepal? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, George V's 1911 hunting trip in Nepal), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
• HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
• Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Gorkha Bridge

On 4 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gorkha Bridge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that construction of the 195 m (640 ft) Gorkha Bridge in Nepal reconnected seven remote villages and reestablished a portion of a popular hiking trail? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gorkha Bridge. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gorkha Bridge), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 12:02, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ashta Matrika

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Ashta-Matrika.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:52, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter 14

Welcome to the fourteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Success with guidance

The star on this image is the week we deployed "guidance".

We deployed the "Guidance" feature on June 15.

This feature uses the help panel to explain what to do after selecting a suggested edit. For instance, if a newcomer selects a copyedit task, they are guided on what sorts of errors to look for. They can see examples of how to rewrite the text. You can try this feature on test.wikipedia.org. First enable the homepage and the help panel in your preferences there.

Since we launched "Guidance", the data we collected show good results (see image). Now, we see more users completing suggested edits than before Guidance was deployed.

Structured tasks

Design concept for the "add a link" structured task

Structured tasks is a project that aims to break down editing workflows into a series of steps. We hope newcomers can accomplish these tasks easily.

In the previous newsletter, we asked for feedback from community members on the idea. We had a good discussion in six languages with 35 community members (summary here). We have now posted new design mockups. We hope community members can check the mockups out and react to them (in any language). They are posted along with some of the main questions we are thinking about as we continue to refine our plans.

Other technical updates

Mockup of Variant D of the homepage on desktop.

• We are currently working on Variants C and D (adjacent image) of the homepage. The goal is to increase the number of newcomers who start the newcomer tasks workflow. This is the team's main project at the moment.
• We've made it easier to hide the help panel when not needed. [41]
• The welcome survey has a new question for people who created their account: language skills. The goal is to find out how many newcomers know multiple languages, so that we can learn whether it is a good idea to integrate Content Translation as a newcomer task. To make room for this question, we removed one that is not being used. [42]

Community outreach

• We continue to engage with more communities. We recently deployed the Growth features to Persian, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias. Learn more about getting the features.
• If your community is having a remote event, and you are interested in hearing from the Growth team, please contact us! We have already participated to two community events online:
  • The Polish Wikiconference (recording on Google Drive)
  • The Celtic Knot 2020 (video available on Youtube).

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09:33, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37

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

Changes later this week

• Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [43]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
• All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [44]

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
• OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [45]
• The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [46][47]
• Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
• Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Badnam Basti

On 8 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Badnam Basti, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a print of Badnam Basti, often described as India's first gay film, was discovered in 2019 after having been lost for 40 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Badnam Basti. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Badnam Basti), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Chaubisi Rajya

Thanks for reviewing my list. I've looked at Chaubisi Rajya, but I don't have the background to review this. Please ping me the next time you nominate something at FLC! - Dank (push to talk) 01:31, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Dank, No problems. BTW thanks for nominating two great lists. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 11:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 14:07, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks a million buddy SHISHIR DUA 17:17, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Support aspired

Hi guy profound greetings, This time I appeal for your support. Can you do so on [48]. I may nominate you as well if you wish.

Regards,

SHISHIR DUA 17:57, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

 Done ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 17:16, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

CAPTAIN MEDUSA, I never expected to see this from you. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:05, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi. I apologise. I shouldnt have been rude to you. Its just, that whole ordeal got me very upset. I hope you didnt feel bad. See you around :) —usernamekiran (talk) 15:14, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Usernamekiran, No worries. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 11:38, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Chhetan Gurung

On 12 September 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Chhetan Gurung, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 20:25, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-38

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Problems

• The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [49][50]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-39

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

Recent changes

• There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [51][52]

Changes later this week

• The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [53]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

FLCs

Hi Cap, you very kindly reviewed my 1961 country number ones FLC, I was wondering whether you might look at the equivalent for 1962 if you have a spare moment?

Cheers! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:22, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

 Done ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 15:13, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard/Issues/September 2020

Hello, CAPTAIN MEDUSA! Here is the September 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard.

• What's Hot! ("working from home")
• Articles (New One this month)
• Interviews (New Interview!)
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To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading & stay safe! --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 00:48, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

(Why) did you

...stop trying to save Nepali film articles? I knew Kismat (2007 film) was at AFD. I didn't know if the film was important or notable, so I ignored it. Only when the closer started removing wikilinks did I realise that it had won Best Director Award[54]. Oh well... Usedtobecool ☎️ 18:50, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Usedtobecool, My current schedule is kind of umm... bad. And this is currently screwing off with my life. With that being said; I don't have a lot of time anymore. Also, Thank you for keeping an extra eye at AFD in my absence. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 18:15, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

I had no idea, Cap! Real life of course takes precedence. Hope everything works out well for you. Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:22, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Death of Angira Pasi

On 24 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Death of Angira Pasi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that residents of Devdaha, Nepal, decided that a 13-year-old girl should marry her 25-year-old alleged rapist? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Death of Angira Pasi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Death of Angira Pasi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 00:02, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Sir Chandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana (restoration).jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 16:38, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Coronation of Tribhuvan

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Crowning Tribhuvan of Nepal (1911) (restoration).jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 15:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

• Featured content: Life finds a Way

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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Requesting

Hello Captian Medusa, Nice to talk with you.Recently you had review my user page and if you have a right to review the user page so i want some information about gaining the right to extended confirmed user permissions which can be shown in any user page name below.So,what is a criteria for this right? can you tell me please.

    Thank you

(Fade258 (talk) 13:25, 28 September 2020 (UTC))

Fade258, You will automatically become extended confirmed when your account is both at least 30 days old and has made at least 500 edits. See user access levels for more information. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 13:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello its me agian.My question you if i want to add categories in new article then how to know that my added category is rightly added can you tell me please.

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Tech News: 2020-40

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

Recent changes

• Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [55]
• Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [56]

Problems

• Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [57]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
• The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
• In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [58]
• You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
• You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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21:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

File:Jessie Bonstelle, Mishkin, N.Y. - Mishkin LCCN2014684961 (restoration).jpg scheduled for POTD

Hi CAPTAIN MEDUSA,

This is to let you know that the featured picture File:Jessie Bonstelle, Mishkin, N.Y. - Mishkin LCCN2014684961 (restoration).jpg, which you uploaded or nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for October 14, 2020. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2020-10-14. In future, please do not list your featured pictures for POTD because the choice of image is generally in the order of their promotion as FPs, and some of the images appearing now date back to 2016 and even earlier. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:21, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Jessie Bonstelle (November 1871 – October 14, 1932) was an American theater director, actress, and drama company manager. She started performing at a young age and went on to become a famous leading lady on Broadway. She later became a director, managing many stock companies, directing Broadway productions and training many young performers who went on to successful careers. From 1906 she managed stock companies at the Star Theater in Buffalo, and from 1910 also at Detroit's Garrick Theater, moving weekly between the two cities. Later, she founded the Bonstelle Playhouse in Detroit, which opened in 1925 and was one of America's first civic theaters.

Photograph credit: Bain News Service; restored by CAPTAIN MEDUSA

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Recent changes

• There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
• You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [59]

Problems

• There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [60]
• Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [61]
• Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
• Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [62]

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [63]

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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

One year!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:08, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Primary source - One Piece

I'm confused why you added that a primary source couldn't be used for the fact when it came from the official Facebook. Even tweets from people that are related to an article's subject can be used as references in articles. SL93 (talk) 15:43, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

SL93, Yes they can be used in articles but It's better to find reliable sources saying the same thing. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 17:30, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

My issue was that the tag placed "[non-primary source needed]" by the reference. SL93 (talk) 19:29, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of You Go to My Head (film)

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Your GA nomination of You Go to My Head (film)

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Your GA nomination of You Go to My Head (film)

The article You Go to My Head (film) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:You Go to My Head (film) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 13:02, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK for List of stupas in Nepal

On 10 October 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of stupas in Nepal, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to legend, Swayambhunath (pictured), one of the oldest stupas in Nepal, came out of a sacred lotus at the centre of Kathmandu when the city was a lake? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of stupas in Nepal. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, List of stupas in Nepal), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number ones of 1945/archive1

Hi Cap, hope you are keeping well. As you have been kind enough to review some of my past FLCs, I was wondering if you might swing by and take a look at this one if you have a spare few minutes? Not to worry if not. All the best, ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:17, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:23, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

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Problems

• Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [64][65][66]

Changes later this week

• Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [67][68]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

• A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [69]

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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Makaiko Kheti

Hello! Your submission of Makaiko Kheti at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:35, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 18:38, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Script

HI, I've installed your version (test) of the OhConfucius's MOS:DATE script. It works fine. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 10:02, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Fylindfotberserk, I'm glad I could help. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 11:31, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Dayahang Rai filmography

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [70]
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [71]
• Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Camille Cordahi

Hello, I would like to renominate Camille Cordahi for DYK, as he now passes the requirements. How would I go about doing that? Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 15:51, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Hey Nehme1499, First go to Template:Did you know nominations/Camille Cordahi 2. Then fill in this information:

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If you get stuck let me know. Thanks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 15:59, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Perfect, thanks! Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 17:17, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Chisapani Gadhi

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DYK for Tusha Hiti

On 28 October 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tusha Hiti, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the queen and others apparently used to watch Malla kings taking baths in the Tusha Hiti? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tusha Hiti. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Tusha Hiti), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

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Tusha Hiti

What a nice surprise! There should be more articles about individual hitis ;-) --Judithcomm (talk) 13:42, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Makaiko Kheti

On 31 October 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Makaiko Kheti, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nepali author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Makaiko Kheti. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Makaiko Kheti), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Krishna Lal Adhikari

On 31 October 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Krishna Lal Adhikari, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nepali author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Krishna Lal Adhikari), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Growth team updates #15

Welcome to the fifteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Variants C and D deployed

Variant D in Portuguese Wikipedia

Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We hope they will increase the number of users using suggested edits. They both make suggested edits the clear place where newcomers should get started on the page. They have some differences in their workflows, because we want to test which design is better. We deployed these variants on October 19; half of newcomers get each variant. After about 5 weeks, we will analyze the data from the tests. The goal is to determine which variant is helping more newcomers to make more suggested edits. We will identify the better variant and then use it with all newcomers.

Structured tasks: add a link

Concept A for add a link.

As we discussed in previous newsletters, the team is working on our first "structured task": the "add a link" task. After community discussion on design ideas, we ran user tests on the mobile designs. We decided on the design concept we want to use moving forward: Concept A. We're now engineering the backend for this feature. Next, we will be running user tests for desktop designs.

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WikiCup 2020 November newsletter

The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
• Rhododendrites (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Badhshala

On 5 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Badhshala, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2013 Nepali historical drama Badhshala was briefly banned by the Nepali Army because the actors wore military uniforms without permission? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Badhshala. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Badhshala), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Dayahang Rai filmography

On 7 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dayahang Rai filmography, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the film roles of Nepali actor Dayahang Rai include a crime boss, a Maoist, the suspected killer of a popular communist leader, a police officer, and a bank robber? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dayahang Rai filmography. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Dayahang Rai filmography), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 12:02, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Kukur Tihar

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DYK for Kukur Tihar

On 14 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kukur Tihar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that on this day, Nepali people worship dogs (example pictured) to please Yama? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kukur Tihar. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Kukur Tihar), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Water truck?

Hi there, I wonder if you can help me. I'm collecting images on Commons to do with water management in Nepal. To possibly use them later for Wikipedia. This image looks like a water tank truck, but i'm not sure. Could you decifer the text on the truck for me? I managed to read part of the text on another truck using Google translate, but this one is too complicated for me. Thanks for your time. --Judithcomm (talk) 14:15, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Judithcomm, New Lama Drinking Water Suppliers Pvt. Ltd. Stay safe! Usedtobecool ☎️ 02:38, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Great! Thanks. --Judithcomm (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Judithcomm, These links might be useful. [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:30, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Interesting! Thank you. --Judithcomm (talk) 18:15, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

SD0001's W-Ping is this month's featured script

Sportzpikachu's bookmarks adds a bookmarks section to the navigation toolbar

SD0001's deleted-metadata-link.js adds links to the deletedrevisions API output for deleted pages

SD0001's GAN-helper makes it easier to create a GAN nomination.

1234qwer1234qwer4's XfDstarted scripts add links to today's XfD log pages to the personal toolbar

Awesome Aasim's rcpatrol is a tool that can be used to patrol recent changes, including reverting edits and warning users

A new JavaScript snippet, MediaWiki:AFC-add-project-tags.js, can be used to add WikiProject tags to drafts at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Add WikiProject tags without actually needing to install a user script.

Nardog's PlayAudioNow makes {{audio}} links playable while staying on the page, regardless of the format

GeneralNotability's ip-ext-info.js adds extended info on IPs in a popup with their range, ASN, and ISP

TheTVExpert's submitRMTR adds a button to Special:MovePage to submit a technical request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests

TheTVExpert's rmCloser helps with closing and relisting requested moves.

Enterprisey's parsoid-round-trip uses Parsoid to convert wikitext to HTML and back, and then shows the result and the difference between the original wikitext and the post-conversion wikitext.

Frietjes's infoboxgap assists in renumbering infobox labels/data/classes, so that a new line can be inserted in the middle of the infobox.

Pending requests

• A request for a script to help with maintaining the lists of vital articles
• A request for a script to make it easier to archive specific list entries, rather than whole discussion sections
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.

SD0001's shortdescs-in-category is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks

GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2 is a newer version of their prior script, TalkHelper

GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.

Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

Open tasks

• Enterprisey is looking for beta testers for their new section-watchlist user script. See the announcement.

Miscellaneous

• The second edition of the m:Coolest Tool Award will be taking place in December.
• Enterprisey's links-in-logs script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core, see gerrit:640761 and phab:T207562.

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

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"Te Ao Hou Marae" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Te Ao Hou Marae to the article Whanganui. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 5#Te Ao Hou Marae until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Chocmilk03 (talk) 08:59, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

List of Nepalese kings

Hi, I promoted your hook to Prep 1. But I notice that the lead of Tribhuvan of Nepal states that he served as king from 1911 until his death, without mentioning two crownings. I wonder if you could fix that lead based on your sources, clarifying that he was crowned twice. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 12:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Growth team updates #16

Welcome to the sixteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Growth features show impact

Newcomer task experiments results

The team recently published our analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We are happy to announce that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers.

In November 2019, the Growth team added the "newcomer tasks" feature to the newcomer homepage. After six months, we collected data from Arabic, Vietnamese, Czech, and Korean Wikipedias. We analyzed the overall impact of the Growth features, including newcomer tasks.

This analysis finds that the Growth features lead to increases in:

• the probability that newcomers make their first article edit (+11.6%)
• the probability that they are retained as editors
• the number of edits they make during their first couple of weeks on the wiki (+22%)

We also find that the quality of their edits, as measured by revert rate, is comparable to that of a control group.

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  The number of suggested edits completed by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020, with a line for the total.
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  The number of distinct users completing suggested edits by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020.

Because of these results, we think all Wikipedias should consider implementing these features. Learn more about how to get them.

You can find more details about this experiment on the report page. Please post any feedback or questions on the talk page

General metrics

As of November 2020, across all wikis where the features have been deployed:

• more than 5,000 newcomers have made more than 40,000 edits using Newcomer tasks.
• more than 14,000 questions have been sent to volunteer mentors by more than 11,000 users.
• more than 2,000 questions have been asked on help desks by more than 1,500 users.

Learn more about Growth results here, and please post any feedback or questions on the talk page.

Variants C and D

Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We deployed them in October. After six weeks of these variants being deployed, we can see that they have led to increased interactions with newcomer tasks. Next, we will determine which variant is best and use that for all newcomers.

News for mentors

A separate list for workshops hosts

During workshops organized by education programs through the communities, workshops hosts like to mentor people they train on wiki. Several wikis requested to have a way to claim their mentees without having other newcomers being randomly being assigned to them. To address this need, a separate list can be created on wiki, for mentors that wish to claim mentees, but prefer not to have random mentees being assigned to them. Learn more about this feature.

Claiming multiple mentees at once

Mentors can use Special:ClaimMentee to claim a newcomer as their mentee. The feature now allows mentors to claim multiple newcomers at once.

Community news

The help panel allows people to post a message to the local help desk while editing. Previously, the tool always posted messages to the bottom of help desks. Wikis are now able to configure it to display new messages at the top of the help desk page. T261714

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DYK for Hamro Lok Sanskriti

On 9 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hamro Lok Sanskriti, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hamro Lok Sanskriti (Our Folk Culture) was one of three books to win the first issuance of Madan Puraskar, Nepal's highest literary honour? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hamro Lok Sanskriti. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hamro Lok Sanskriti), and it may be added to the statistics page if it received over 400 views per hour. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello CAPTAIN MEDUSA,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	Patrol Page Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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DYK for List of Nepalese kings

On 11 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of Nepalese kings, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Tribhuvan and Gyanendra each became King of Nepal twice? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of Nepalese kings. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, List of Nepalese kings), and it may be added to the statistics page if it received over 400 views per hour. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kaʻiulani

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Kaiulani in 1897, wearing pearl necklace (PPWD-15-3.016, restored).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:20, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's script-installer, a gadget that makes it easier to install scripts, is this month's featured script

Enterprisey's copy-section-link adds popups to section headers which has an appropriate wikilink and external link to the section.

DannyS712's FindBlacklistEntry can be used to figure out which line(s) in either the local or global spamblacklist prevent a particular url from being added.

Nardog's CodeEditorAssist allows customizing the code editor, including changing the color theme and enabling live autocompletion.

Cobaltcigs's IllWill allows searches wikidata.org for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate {{ill}} and replace plain red links.

Twinkle has made a number of improvements, most notably full support for expiring watchlist items.

Evad37's Signpost Publishing Script is now at version 2.4.2, with changes including a fix for calculating the size of pages with files.

Evad37's MoveToDraft is now at version 2.5.1, with changes including:

• checks for move conflicts and better options if move fails
• the addition of {{Drafts moved from mainspace}} after moves
• updating the default move log and notification texts to be more in line with WP:DRAFTIFY

Enterprisey's cv-revdel now handles failures more cleanly, including reporting failures caused by the spam blacklist.

Bradv's Notepad.js script has been updated with new styles and a new launch button.

A beta version of XFDcloser is available for testing, and brings a new user interface for dialogs and some preferences for customization.

Open tasks

• Voting in the m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is ongoing until December 21, 2020. There are 15 proposals in the "bots and gadgets" category that may be of interest.

Pending requests

• A script to help list discussions at WP:ANRFC (request)
• A script to allow undoing edits despite conflicting intermediary edits (request)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

• The Watchlist Expiry feature worked on by the Community Tech team has been enabled on Wikipedia. For scripts that include watching or unwatching pages, developers may want to update their code to take advantage of the new functionality. See the documentation on mediawiki.org.
• As noted in the prior issue, Enterprisey's links-in-logs script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core. By my count, this is his third script that was replaced by implementing the code in MediaWiki core or an extension, along with link-section-edits and abusefilter-hide-search. Additionally, his reply-link script is being converted in part to mw:Extension:DiscussionTools. Are there any other scripts that might be worth integrating directly in MediaWiki? Thoughts would be welcome at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++.

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

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List of Nepalese kings

The best I can tell, it should be possible to deal with Skdb's objections at FLC, and that would probably give you all the support you need. But if it doesn't turn out that way, if you need additional support, please ping me. - Dank (push to talk) 05:44, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

File:Christmas tree in field.jpg	Merry Christmas CAPTAIN MEDUSA
	Hi CAPTAIN MEDUSA, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia this past year, like this tree, you are a light shining in the darkness. Onel5969 TT me 12:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard-December 2020

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• On the French Wikipedia, the new vector skin design has already been rolled out! Check it out here!
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• EN Wikipedia has more than 6,200,000 Articles!

Humor

• Santa is watching you.... Don't vandalise Wikipedia, or he will reward you a block and no presents this year if you do so. (Seriously don't vandalise Wikipedia, even if santa isn't watching)
• More turkey on Christmas

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To my friend from the other side of the world, I want to wish you a merry Christmas. Do have a blast pal!!!!! Celestina007 (talk) 20:09, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!

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• News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent

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• Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

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Hi, CAPTAIN MEDUSA. I'm just posting to let you know that Wikimedian of the Year – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for January 15, 2021. 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) 23:38, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

A New Year With Women in Red!

Women in Red | January 2021, Volume 7, Issue 1, Numbers 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188 Online events: New: Climate and environment | Public domain Contest (Jan-Feb-Mar): Africa contest Year-long initiative: Women's rights Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2020 Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Hey there! For length reasons, I used Dayahang Rai's lead to summarise Dayahang Rai filmography - you quite rightly put every film of his into context, but that does make abridging for length a bit harder. Does it look alright to you? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.8% of all FPs} 15:04, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Assuming you are still there, it must be quite festive a time for you. Be well, friend! Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:11, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year, CAPTAIN MEDUSA!

Happy New Year!

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Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:10, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations on the No. 14 DYK hook of 2020!

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DYK nomination of Chisapani Gadhi

Hello! Your submission of Chisapani Gadhi at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 16:57, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Chisapani Gadhi

On 13 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chisapani Gadhi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that women are prohibited from entering the Chisapani Gadhi in Nepal due to the belief that this could bring them bad luck or even death? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chisapani Gadhi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chisapani Gadhi), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted

Hi CAPTAIN MEDUSA, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Anarchyte (talk • work) 15:45, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Date formats script

Hi CM. I don't know how easy it is to modify your code to include the changes that Monkbot is doing to the accessdate parameter. Basically it's changing "accessdate" in cites to "access-date". Seeing as this forms part of the date, I was wondering if it could be part of this code too? Two birds/one stone! Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 16:28, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

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Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most Wikipedias.

• The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
• It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

• As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
• We have preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[79]
• The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[80] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
• A large A/B test will start soon.[81] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. You can still turn it on or off for your own account in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[82] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at notifications-talk.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-January 2021

Hello, CAPTAIN MEDUSA! Here is the January 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard. Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter

• Here are the events of January!!

Wikipedia News

• Wikipedia is now 20 years old!! Notice a different logo?
• There is now more than 1 billion edits on Wikipedia!
• The Simple English Wikipedia now has more than 180,000 Articles! So close to 200,000!

Humor

• Did you realize that the word "Humour" has been spelt wrong? I didn't until now! ;)
• I hope you didn't edit Wikipedia straight on and Missed Christmas...

Notes

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About nepal's 10,000 articles

Hi ! I saw a project page which you have created i.e. WikiProject Nepal The 10,000 challenge.I don't understand.So, please Can you tell me about this page?(Fade258 (talk) 17:34, 25 January 2021 (UTC))

Hey Fade258, the 10,000 Nepali Challenge was created to encourage other editors, especially from Nepal to create articles about Nepal. WP:Nepal has about 12,580 articles and the challenge hopes to double that number. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 18:54, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

February 2021 at Women in Red

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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India/Newsletter

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"Gabriela Cartol" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ajbura's anrfc-lister assists with listing discussions at WP:ANRFC to request that they receive a formal close

Bradv's endlesscontribs provides for endless scrolling of contributions pages

Evad37's livenotifications displays notification alerts and messages in a little popup box, (almost) live as they happen

Terasail's Edit Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove protected edit requests

ToBeFree's clear-watchlist allows emptying your watchlist even if the watchlist is too full to be edited or cleared by conventional methods

Dentonius's GlobalRecentChanges allows you to monitor recent changes across various wikis.

Yahya's SNA (Start New Article) allows you to start a new article or draft from the navigation bar.

Nardog:

• CatChangeLinker bluelinks the "(diff | hist)" part of category additions/removals on your watchlist.
• CatChangesViewer lists recent category additions/removals on a category page.
• Consecudiff adds links to diffs of consecutive edits by the same user on watchlist, history, etc.
• DiffFontSwitcher allows you to toggle between fonts for diff by clicking a line number.
• MoveHistory lists the past moves a page has gone through.

Novem Linguae:

• UserHighlighterSimple is a fork of Chlod's UserHighlighter with a simplified color scheme.
• VisualEditorEverywhere displays the Visual Editor edit tab and section links on pages that don't normally have them.

User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs – fixed compatibility issues with various scripts/gadgets, including Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time. For discussion archives, now looks for revisions on the base page.

User:Enterprisey/undo-last-edit.js - no longer tries to load on special pages.

User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap - version 1.4 fixes reading destination from form field if destination is not in article namespace, and fixes self redirects.

Wikipedia:XFDcloser - version 4 brings a new user interface for dialogs, some preferences for customising XFDcloser, major behind-the-scenes coding changes, and resolves various issues raised on the talkpage. Also, since version 3.16.6 non-admin soft delete closure have been allowed at TfD.

Open tasks

• As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing wgPageName without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName') instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config instead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.

Miscellaneous

• For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
• A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

Pending requests

• A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations
• A script to help manage Z number templates
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard-February 2021

Hello, CAPTAIN MEDUSA! Here is the February 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard. Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter

Wikipedia News

• A New Code of Conduct is being made by Wikipedia/The WMF more info here
• Meta Wiki has Steward Elections open! see this page for more information

Humour

THESE STATEMENTS ARE NOT TRUE/NOT GOOD ADVICE. ALWAYS FOLLOW THE POLICIES THAT WIKIPEDIA HAS. EVERYTHING LISTED HERE IN THIS SECTION IS SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF HUMOUR

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Kukri

Regarding this edit, the origin of the weapon is not explained, explicitly mentioned and/or sourced in the article, so I changed it to "Type of blade associated with the Gurkha people of Nepal and India". A description which can be validated rather easily. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:22, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, CAPTAIN MEDUSA. I'm just posting to let you know that List of stupas in Nepal – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 12. 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) 02:25, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1990 Nepalese revolution

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:An Iconic Photograph of 1990 Nepalese revolution.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:21, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

March 2021 at Women in Red

Women in Red | March 2021, Volume 7, Issue 3, Numbers 184, 186, 188, 192, 193 Online events: New: Art+Activism | VisibleWikiWomen Contest (Jan/Feb/Mar): Africa Year-long campaign: Women's rights Continuing: #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Head of Bhairava

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WikiCup 2021 March newsletter

Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
• Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
• Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
• Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
• The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
• Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
• Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
• Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
• Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, 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 it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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Growth team newsletter #17

Welcome to the seventeenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Structured tasks

Add a link: the team is continuing to engineer on our first "structured task", which will break down the workflow of adding wikilinks to articles, and assist newcomers with an algorithm to identify words and phrases that could be made into links.

Add an image: even as we build our first structured task, we have been thinking about the next one. "Add an image" is a structured task in which newcomers would be recommended images from Wikimedia Commons to add to unillustrated articles. This is an ambitious idea with many details to consider. We have already learned a lot from community members, and we encourage everyone to look at the project page and join the discussion.

Moving forward: more wikis to get the features

Last November, our team published the analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We announced that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers. Because of these results, we believe all Wikipedias should implement these features.

We have started to contact more wikis to deploy the features, including Wikipedias of all sizes. Bengali Wikipedia recently began using Growth features, and Danish, Thai, Indonesian, and Romanian Wikipedias will be coming soon. Please contact us if you have questions regarding deployment.

We are looking for translators who can help by translating the interface. Translating is done on Translatewiki.net (it requires a different account that your Wikimedia one). Communities that already have the Growth features being deployed are invited to check on the translations. Access translations here.

Variant testing

As mentioned in our previous newsletter, we ran a test of two variants of the newcomer homepage, meant to find a version that increases users completing suggested edits. We have completed the experiment, and learned that one of the variants leads to more edits on desktop while the other leads to more edits on mobile. Therefore, we will deploy the strongest variants for each platform to all newcomers.

News for mentors

Mentor dashboard: we have interviewed mentors from several communities as we plan a mentor dashboard feature, which would help mentors track the progress of their mentees. We encourage all mentors to share their thoughts on tools that would help them.

Magic word for mentors: it is now possible to use a magic word, {{#mentor}}, to display the name of a given newcomer's mentor. This can be used on welcome messages, userboxes, etc.

Help panel questions going to mentors: in most wikis, newcomers using the help panel ask questions to the help desk. On Czech Wikipedia, we have experimented with sending these questions to mentors instead. This simplifies the newcomer experience, and only led to a increase in mentorship questions of about 30%. We tried this in Arabic, Bengali, French and Vietnamese Wikipedias, and we are making it the default experience.

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TheWikiWizard-March 2021

Hello, CAPTAIN MEDUSA! Here is the March 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• I came across an interesting article about Wikipedia.
• TJMSmith had a successful RFA, Congrats!

Humour

This section was written by User:Canadian Otaku, I hope you enjoy it as much as I (Tsugaru) did!

• If you edit Wikipedia around 1-5 AM, beware, as any admin could block you for being up too late!
• It's really easy to break Wikipedia, just click here.
• Ignore people telling you to stop putting "Hrrnngg,,,beans" on the article Bean (film), they don't know what good edits are.
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Rajkulo link

Thanks again for all the work you've done. Pity there are no images of rajkulo's. On Commons I collected several pictures of canals, but I do not know what kind they are. I think I'll move the Rajkulo link up a bit I the dhunge dhara article. All the best --Judithcomm (talk) 12:07, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

WikiLoop 2020 Year in Review

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Dear editors, developers and friends:

Thank you for supporting Project WikiLoop! The year 2020 was an unprecedented one. It was unusual for almost everyone. In spite of this, Project WikiLoop continued the hard work and made some progress that we are proud to share with you. We also wanted to extend a big thank you for your support, advice, contributions and love that make all this possible.

Head over to our project page on Meta Wikimedia to read a brief 2020 Year in Review for WikiLoop.

Thank you for taking the time to review Wikipedia using WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Your work is important and it matters to everyone. We look forward to continuing our collaboration through 2021!

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