User talk:SHB2000/August 2022

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

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Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Question from Shariba on Suzanne Gillis (14:40, 5 August 2022)

Hello mentor! I am wondering why the "Suzanne Gillis" Wikipedia page is not available in a Google search. What did I forget to do that has prevented the Google bots from indexing this page? It has been close to 6 months since the page has been available on Wikipedia... Any help you can provide will be appreciated. Thank you! Shari --Shariba (talk) 14:40, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Shariba, you might want to read search engine optimization, Wikipedia:Search engine optimization and possibly voy:Wikivoyage:Search engine optimization where you'll get much better answers (I do know a fair bit about SEO but I'm not the best at explaining it). Let me know if you need any more help. Cheers, SHB2000 (talk) 08:32, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello SHB2000 - Thank you for the links, but I'm not sure they helped. They were mostly info about SEO that I knew about or Wikivoyage (I have no idea what that is. How is it connected to Wikipedia?) My concern is that the Wikipedia article (Suzanne Gillis) is not in Google results, in spite of it being included in Wikipedia for months now. It seems like there would be something I could do on the Wikipedia site that would open the article up to Google. I do website design and I know about registering with Google, etc. Is there something Wikipedia offers that I've missed? Thank you so much for any additional help. Shariba (talk) 17:02, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

A Wikipedia article won't suddenly make it onto Google – that's where SEO comes in. I'm not an expert on this, but try follow the tips mentioned in those project pages. As for why I linked the Wikivoyage page, it's one of Wikipedia's sister projects so it is related. --SHB2000 (talk) 22:11, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:List of national parks in South Australia

Hello, SHB2000. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:List of national parks in South Australia, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 06:01, 19 August 2022 (UTC)