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Where is the appropriate talk page for me to comment on the decision to rename autistic wikipedians to wikipedians with autism

Uchiha Itachi 25 (talk) 23:24, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@Uchiha Itachi 25: depends what you want to say. If you just have general thoughts about the rename, you should probably keep them to yourself (per WP:NOTBLOG). If you think I misjudged the consensus in the discussion, you can leave a comment here (i.e. on my talk page), and I will consider your objection. If you are unsatisfied with my response, you can open a thread at deletion review. Alternatively, you may also place a request at WP:AN to ask an administrator to overturn my closure if you feel it was wildly off-base (emphasis on the "wildly" part: I sincerely doubt an admin will be willing to overturn my close without discussion, but it is an option you have. I have listed it for the sake of completeness). If no other place seems appropriate, you can leave a comment at Category talk:Autistic Wikipedians. (I will also note that the rename was from Category:Wikipedians with autism to Category:Autistic Wikipedians, not the other way around.) HouseBlaster (he/him) 23:45, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the thorough reply, and especially for correcting me with regard to the nature of the rename itself, as my misunderstanding of that was the entire root of my concern. Uchiha Itachi 25 (talk) 04:39, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Draft:William John Titus Bishop

Dear HouseBlaster,

Thank you for your messages. I have just read your message and edits to my draft. I’m terribly sorry that you feel that I have not taken you seriously. I have taken you very seriously and added independent, reliable sources, and re-written the article to comply with all your and other editors requests. I do not wish for an edit war, but I think other editors would disagree with you.

All my Love,

TopG1985

Topg1985 (talk) 20:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

@Topg1985: Please try to keep discussion in one place; I already got your message on your talk page. I have responded to your message there. Best, HouseBlaster (he/him) 20:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

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• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [1]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [2][3]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 62

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Growth News, April 2024

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Community Configuration

Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.

An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.

In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.

Experiment Results

Add a Image experiment analysis results

The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:

• The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
• The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
• The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
• A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).

Personalized praise experiment results

This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)

English donors encouraged to try editing

As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)

Future work

Annual Plan

The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

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18:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Partial undoing of a Cfd

Hey there. I came here because I realized made a slight mistake and since you closed the discussion I thought I should as you. In this discussion here about the Cleveland Guardian categories, I didn't mean to include the owners category as, even if the only the name changes, personnel category remains seperate for all team names regardless. So how do I undo the redirect there? Only that one, mind you. Omnis Scientia (talk) 17:12, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

@Omnis Scientia: If I understand your question correctly, you want to reverse the direction of the redirect? If so, opening a fresh CfD and explaining your reasoning is the best way forward. Thanks, HouseBlaster (he/him) 17:14, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Just one of them. It was an oversight on my part. Omnis Scientia (talk) 18:46, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I would nominate just the one category for renaming. Best, HouseBlaster (he/him) 19:07, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. Much appreciated. Omnis Scientia (talk) 21:59, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks for your work on Divine Child

Just wanted to send a message of thanks for your work on the Divine Child High School page. I am an alumni from 2016, and this is my service in giving back to the school that served me well. That is my own experience, as I know others may differ.

Best,

PSYCHREL PSYCHREL (talk) 02:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

@PSYCHREL: I can't say I recall working on the page: it appears I did some small edits which used automated tools over a year ago. You are quite welcome, though!

As much as it pains me to say this, if you went to the school, you probably shouldn't be editing the page. I fully realize the fact that you came here to say thanks, so I realize the irony in this request. However, you have a conflict of interest, and as such are discouraged from making any changes to the page. See our plain and simple guide to conflicts of interest for more information. Let me know if you have any questions, HouseBlaster (he/him) 02:56, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Roman Catholic bishops in Portuguese Macau

Please hold on. Melchior Carneiro was never "Bishop of Macau". 219.77.182.250 (talk) 15:00, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

I have removed the category. Best, HouseBlaster (he/him) 15:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

He was a bishop who worked in Macau but he was not Bishop of Macau. 58.152.55.172 (talk) 16:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to adjust the categorization of the article about him. HouseBlaster (he/him) 16:34, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: This is a test for User:User toolbox, please do not review. Will review myself momentarily (April 28)

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Question from XeVierTech (12:03, 29 April 2024)

When can I remove citation needed info box in page? I added citations that were needed on the HarmonyOS Sans page (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_Sans#) --XeVierTech (talk) 12:03, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: you can learn about removing the box at Help:Maintenance template removal. In the VisualEditor, you should be able to click on the box and then click backspace. Let me know if you have any questions, HouseBlaster (he/him) 12:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from XeVierTech (12:20, 29 April 2024)

Can you check my edits history and tell me if I made any mistakes? --XeVierTech (talk) 12:20, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: looks good to me! The only thing I would say is that this edit is probably not appropriate: you removed the maintenance tags without changing much of the article. HouseBlaster (he/him) 12:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

What do you suggest I should do? XeVierTech (talk) 12:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: I would simply re-add the maintenance banners. One other thing I missed: please do not remove the "use mdy dates", "use Canadian English", etc. tags from articles. Unlike the "Citation needed" banner, they are permanent tags which should stay on the article so all editors know what style of English the article uses. HouseBlaster (he/him) 12:28, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Oh okay I'm sorry XeVierTech (talk) 12:30, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: don't worry! It is impossible to "break" Wikipedia, and we all make mistakes. HouseBlaster (he/him) 12:31, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Okay it should be fixed now. Let me know if I did It good. So I won't make mistakes in the future XeVierTech (talk) 12:33, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: you did it correctly :) HouseBlaster (he/him) 12:35, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. That's all for now I'll talk here later if I have any more questions XeVierTech (talk) 12:36, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from XeVierTech (14:30, 29 April 2024)

How can I add an image into a wiki page? I want it to be under the logo showing homescreen --XeVierTech (talk) 14:30, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: which page do you want to add an image to? HouseBlaster (he/him) 14:31, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS here under the logo as screenshot depicting harmonyOS 4.2 GUI look XeVierTech (talk) 14:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: the first thing you would need to do is take a screenshot, making sure there is no non-standard themes, third-party applications, or personally identifiable information (quote taken from the documentation of the "infobox"). Then, you should upload the image to a file-sharing service such as Flickr or Imgur, and send me the link. (You would normally upload the image directly to Wikipedia, but accounts must be at least four days old to upload images.) Best, HouseBlaster (he/him) 14:38, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

i uploaded it to wikimedia XeVierTech (talk) 14:39, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarmonyOS_4.2_Home_screen.jpg XeVierTech (talk) 14:41, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: Images are super confusing. Wikimedia Commons is for free content images only, which means they have to be available under terms which permit copying, modifying, and even selling copies by anyone. However, the screenshot you uploaded is of proprietary software, which means it is not free content. Therefore, it needs to be uploaded to Wikipedia itself. (Don't worry if this makes no sense; it takes a while to get the hang of files on Wikipedia!) I filed a request with an admin to move the file from Commons to the English Wikipedia (thanks Explicit!), and have  added the image to the article. HouseBlaster (he/him) 14:57, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Will you keep me updated on that topic? XeVierTech (talk) 15:02, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: It should be all resolved now, but I will be sure to tell you of any updates :) HouseBlaster (he/him) 15:03, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

I mean, when I can add that picture to HarmonyOS page XeVierTech (talk) 15:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: I already added it. HouseBlaster (he/him) 15:06, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

thank you I'll try to learn from your edit on what should I do when adding images XeVierTech (talk) 15:08, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from XeVierTech (17:22, 29 April 2024)

How can I upload a picture to wikipedia I the future? --XeVierTech (talk) 17:22, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@XeVierTech: you need to have an account which is four days old to upload images to Wikipedia. Once you do, see the file upload wizard for instructions. HouseBlaster (he/him) 17:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Our friend

apologies for the delay on this. I was offline a few days. Responding here since they seem to have settled and I don't want to stir them back up, but let me know if action is needed. Thanks for flagging. Star Mississippi 01:32, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

@Star Mississippi: Don't worry. Seems to have sorted itself :) HouseBlaster (he/him) 01:54, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [5]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [6]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [7]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [8]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [9]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [10]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [11]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [12]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [13]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [15][16]

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Question from AvisarTeam (10:40, 4 May 2024)

Hi, Could you please help me update the page of Tzvi Avisar. I need to add his first name Tziki so it suppose to be Tziki Tzvi Avisar. Thanks --AvisarTeam (talk) 10:40, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

@AvisarTeam: hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! First, I would recommend you rename your account. "AvisarTeam" sounds like it represents a group of people, but shared accounts are strictly prohibited on Wikipedia. To do so, you can file a request at Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple.

Second, do you have a conflict of interest regarding Avisar? If so, you should disclose the connection for transparency.

With that out of the way, to move a page, see requested moves. However, we don't always use someone's full name as the page title. (For instance, we use Joe Biden, not Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.) We use the name most common in reliable sources. Do you have evidence that Avisar is usually called by his full name in reliable sources? Best, HouseBlaster (he/him) 16:40, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins

Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

• Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
• Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
• Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
• Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
• Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
• Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
• Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
• Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Demsuz (16:40, 5 May 2024)

Hello! I spelled this artist’s name wrong Kretzschmar not Kretzchmar and now am trying to put his references from books. I’m having an issue with formatting. --Demsuz (talk) 16:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)