Robertsky

Thanks

Thanks for the heads up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2024_Mmamatlakala_bus_crash. It was my first time taking such an action, and I'll keep it in mind for the future. Dreameditsbrooklyn (talk) 06:04, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@Dreameditsbrooklyn No worries. While it is out of process, the consensus is already building in the direction and thus may be closed early. However, if there's someone coming out to ask for the discussion to be reopened in the next few days, I may just have it reopened. – robertsky (talk) 06:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

WP:RMTR

Regarding this request; generally, we should not be working back-to-front; if a bold move is contested what needs to happen is the move is reverted and an RM opened. Yes, things are made more complicated here by the existence of an already open RM, but that doesn't justify keeping the article at the new title after the move has been contested - per WP:RMUM, recent bold moves can be reverted at any time, and once reverted should not be reinstated.

If you aren't willing to revert the move, can you leave the request open so that it can be considered by other editors? BilledMammal (talk) 15:57, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

@BilledMammal If the discussion is just a couple of days old, and there has yet to have a lively discussion, I would have closed the discussion procedurally and reverted the move, and leave it to whoever is interested to reopen a discussion for the article to be moved in the other direction. However, it has been 5 days with 35 participants. A revert at this point in time is disruptive to the discussion. – robertsky (talk) 17:29, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

What can be done is revert the move and leave the RM open, with a note that a bold move was reverted. It's better than allowing the bold move to stand, and inevitably causing issues if the RM is closed as "no consensus" - which is what appears to be likely to happen. BilledMammal (talk) 17:30, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

A nocon at this stage reverts the article back to the original title. – robertsky (talk) 17:37, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15

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• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
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• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [3]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [4][5]
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Question from Akashsanthosh00 (14:44, 10 April 2024)

Hi I wanted to add a new entry, I have the news article to cite (https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/nivin-paulys-malayalee-from-india-gets-a-release-date/article67975698.ece) but I don't know how to add "access-date, archive-date and archive-url" --Akashsanthosh00 (talk) 14:44, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Chasehilll (18:34, 15 April 2024)

Hello. Y’all don’t need a page for Acta non verba? --Chasehilll (talk) 18:34, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

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• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [7][8]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [9][10]
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