User talk:The person who loves reading/Archive 1

Welcome!

Hello, The person who loves reading! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 01:32, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Getting Started Introduction • Contributing to Wikipedia • Your first article The five pillars of Wikipedia • Simplified ruleset How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Get help at the Teahouse Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions Department directory Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Verifiability • No original research Reliable sources • Citing sources • Content guidelines What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style (Simplified) • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sockpuppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability

The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists The Signpost (Wikipedia's newspaper) Things to do Task Center • Be bold in editing Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Copy editing • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguation • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Peaceray (talk) 01:32, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

(Personal attack removed)

Please stop

I'm not sure if English is a language you are not familiar with, but your copyedits are not improvements. Please stop. Also, stop renaming photo files, because when you do, they don't work anymore. Please take a moment to read some of the links for new editors above. Thank you for your cooperation. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:19, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Please be respectful to my work to fix grammar mistakes. Please don't undo my edits without a specific reason written in the edit summary. Thank you for your cooperation. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:53, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

(Personal attack removed)

Sorry about the error. Please Forgive me.

 I thought this was my document and I just wanted to experiment something Abdullah Z Islam (talk) 16:38, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Please Abdullah Z Islam (talk) 16:39, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! The person who loves reading (talk) 16:41, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

You like kittens.

Abdullah Z Islam (talk) 16:38, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! The person who loves reading (talk) 16:39, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Ok Abdullah Z Islam (talk) 16:43, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Also I wanted to ask you if you can add a video about this  Abdullah Z Islam (talk) 16:49, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure how to add a video about this. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:52, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

i guess if you go to youtube you can copy paste the url and aclick insert and put it on there. it should work Abdullah Z Islam (talk) 16:54, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I can't post videos on Youtube. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:59, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Thats fine then Abdullah Z Islam (talk) 17:00, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

 No not like that like just get one that is already made. Abdullah Z Islam (talk) 17:01, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for all your help. Anti-vandal accounts deserve more recognition for their work. 47.227.95.73 (talk) 22:16, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 22:21, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your immense dedication to reducing the backlog of earliest-tagged articles needing copyedit in the March 2023 backlog elimination drive. Your tenacity has not gone unnoticed. Keep up the great work! - Cheers, KoolKidz112 (hit me up) 01:30, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:42, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

My talk page ...

... if I want I will delete it all. Thank you. 81.101.239.132 (talk) 05:58, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

OK. The person who loves reading (talk) 15:50, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

 Self-trout The person who loves reading (talk) 00:39, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi The person who loves reading. After reviewing your request, I have enabled rollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle or RedWarn.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:13, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I'll use rollback to revert only clear cases of vandalism. The person who loves reading (talk) 17:39, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

See also:

• Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing
• Wikipedia:Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes
• Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators.
  

Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:49, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I will help review pending changes now! The person who loves reading (talk) 15:10, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Don't restore my talk page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#Removal_of_comments,_notices,_and_warnings

I Quote: "Policy does not prohibit users, whether registered or unregistered, from removing comments from their own talk pages, although archiving is preferred. If a user removes material from their talk page, it is normally taken to mean that the user has read and is aware of its contents. There is no need to keep them on display, and usually users should not be forced to do so."

Thank you.

58.106.204.79 (talk) 10:51, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about that. The person who loves reading (talk) 15:04, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

 Self-trout The person who loves reading (talk) 00:39, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

(Personal attack removed)

Edits removed

Why did you remove my edits, the wrong numbers were written, check the citations they provided. And here are the real figures https://www.oocities.org/~dagmawi/History/Ethiopia-Egypt-War.html . Those things gets edited by Ethiopians to make it appear as if it was an equal fight 178.164.236.201 (talk) 15:37, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

I revert your edits because there are already sources provided for the numbers. However, maybe you're right, but you may need to discuss on the talk page or cite reliable sources for your numbers. The person who loves reading (talk) 15:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Anyways, thanks for your edits! Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 15:44, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Ok please check the citation they provided and tell me if they are the same figures written in the citations. I literally read the sources they provided and copied the figures provided there instead of the made up figure provided by Ethiopians 178.164.236.201 (talk) 15:47, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Can you read there own citations and if I’m correct please put back the edits I made because it took me time and I can’t do it again now 178.164.236.201 (talk) 15:54, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

If you want to change it back, you can just undo my edit. I’ll double check. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:37, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

You can also add an {{expert needed}} template on the article or the article’s talk page to gain attention from an expert that knows well about this topic. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! The person who loves reading (alt) (talk) 16:51, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
307		Religion in the United Arab Emirates (talk)	Add sources
12		Lushan Quaternary Glaciation National Geopark (talk)	Add sources
77		Creek mythology (talk)	Add sources
3,125		Major religious groups (talk)	Add sources
435		White Lotus (talk)	Add sources
100		Haida mythology (talk)	Add sources
26		Essence-Function (talk)	Cleanup
45		Schwenkfelder Church (talk)	Cleanup
210		Geography of Asia (talk)	Cleanup
322		Culture of Asia (talk)	Expand
204		Choctaw mythology (talk)	Expand
419		Religious symbol (talk)	Expand
278		Contemporary Sant Mat movements (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
150		Hinduism and other religions (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
268		Communist-controlled China (1927–1949) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
44		Milah Abraham (talk)	Merge
1,181		Theosophy (talk)	Merge
3,658		Falun Gong (talk)	Merge
43		Islam in Tatarstan (talk)	Wikify
587		Religion in Vietnam (talk)	Wikify
11		Jinggangshan University (talk)	Wikify
15		Cloud tea (talk)	Orphan
2		Nancy Polette (talk)	Orphan
3		Antimicrobial nanotechnology (talk)	Orphan
46		Parmalim (talk)	Stub
11		Lushan Botanical Garden (talk)	Stub
4		Fairy Cave (Jiujiang) (talk)	Stub
22		Jiangxi Lushan F.C. (talk)	Stub
21		Watercress (book) (talk)	Stub
50		Mount Qingcheng (talk)	Stub

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping.

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 04:28, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

I am sorry but I am German Austrian subject, here/ :| 2A02:2F08:B410:BF00:DC84:7216:C5E1:6BED (talk) 07:03, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
64		Prosthaphaeresis (talk)	Add sources
350		Foundations of mathematics (talk)	Add sources
650		Equation (talk)	Add sources
85		Supertask (talk)	Add sources
76		Non-standard model of arithmetic (talk)	Add sources
34		Functional predicate (talk)	Add sources
2		Size functor (talk)	Cleanup
414		Real analysis (talk)	Cleanup
542		Philosophy of mathematics (talk)	Cleanup
37		Statistical model specification (talk)	Expand
356		Affine space (talk)	Expand
166		Free variables and bound variables (talk)	Expand
292		Homogeneous function (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
124		Logicism (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
61		Glossary of areas of mathematics (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
158		Associative algebra (talk)	Merge
242		Differential operator (talk)	Merge
11		Vertex k-center problem (talk)	Merge
758		Nadhim Zahawi (talk)	Wikify
141		Computer algebra (talk)	Wikify
237		Quantifier (logic) (talk)	Wikify
2		Boehmians (talk)	Orphan
13		Structured sparsity regularization (talk)	Orphan
3		Halperin conjecture (talk)	Orphan
16		Fundamental groupoid (talk)	Stub
38		T-schema (talk)	Stub
4		Moduli stack of formal group laws (talk)	Stub
4		Natural pseudodistance (talk)	Stub
29		Lindström's theorem (talk)	Stub
29		Open formula (talk)	Stub

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping.

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 17:15, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Jonny Quest

I added a character to the Jonny Quest (television series) page under "Characters" which you removed without reason. The character appeared in but a single episode (which was named properly in the text). A footnote would not be necessary given the way in which the addition was made. Kindly restore it. Thank you. 159.250.239.206 (talk) 03:31, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I often make mistakes. I'll look carefully next time. Thanks for telling me. By the way, I also help you fix some grammar mistakes that occurs in the paragraph. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

 Self-trout The person who loves reading (talk) 00:39, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Maud Hobson

I have never added to Wiki before but saw this ladies burial details were missing while researching her. I have just added her to Findagrave.com and Billiongraves.com and Familysearch with GPS photos and sources.

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Maud-Manson-Hobson/84513221 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/251218116/maud-hobson https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GKHF-DPN 51.182.111.192 (talk) 22:39, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Welcome contributing to Wikipedia! Thank you for finding sources. You can undo my edit and cite these sources. The person who loves reading (talk) 22:40, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Yeah I don't know how to do that. I don't know why you deleted it in the first place.

Add it if you want leave it if you want. 51.182.111.192 (talk) 22:42, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

This is because Wikipedia needs editors to cite sources for a statement. This ensures that things added to Wikipedia are true. You can get used to some of Wikipedia policies, such as WP:CITE or WP:RS or WP:V. The person who loves reading (talk) 22:44, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

I add this to the article. Thanks for your effort! The person who loves reading (talk) 22:55, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Russian language in Ukraine

Why did you delete my section in the Russian language in Ukraine article about the language after the invasion? I provided sources to all the information that I wrote. If I cited it wrong, then perhaps you can help me with that rather than deleting the entire section. I cited two articles from the Kyiv Post and a RATING poll. Both of these outlets are already used in the article P0tato112 (talk) 01:15, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

 Self-whale... for when a trout just isn't enough The person who loves reading (talk) 01:17, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry. This might be the biggest mistake I've made. The person who loves reading (talk) 01:18, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Ok no problem but make sure to check next time P0tato112 (talk) 01:20, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Mistaken reversion of my edit

Hey there!

You reverted an edit I made to the Mill page. I believe your reversion is in error. My source is *the same* as the existing cited source. It is fixing a basic mathematical error -- whose logic is immediately apparent in the very following sentence in the same article. You can also see the same criticism on the talk page by another reviewer in 2014 (!!!). It's pretty egregious that this fairly obvious mathematical mistake has been around for that long, imho. Opaldraggy (talk) 04:32, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

One alternative solution is to simply delete the mistaken phrase: "The term is sometimes used as one-hundredth of a cent" as it is not supported by any evidence. Opaldraggy (talk) 04:33, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

 Self-trout The person who loves reading (talk) 14:27, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! This sentence isn't supported by any evidence. The person who loves reading (talk) 14:32, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

About the FEU-D edit.

I remove the 2 names from the page, because it's been vandalize. Those 2 names weren't played for the varsity team. I can't believe you restore those names again. 180.191.172.245 (talk) 16:12, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

 Self-trout The person who loves reading (talk) 17:12, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I’m sorry. Thank you for deleting vandalizing content. The person who loves reading (talk) 19:00, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-13

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 AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [1]
• Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [2]
• Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [3]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [4]
• The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [5]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 01:12, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you for your encouragement and your understanding. The encyclopedia is better because you are here. Miner Editor (talk) 00:02, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! The person who loves reading (talk) 00:03, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

About the edit I did in Walla!

I changed the world former to current since Benjamin Netanyahu was elected on November 1st, 2022 and was sworn to become prime minister in December 29th, 2022. Can I remove or change the word former in Walla!? 79.178.245.143 (talk) 17:45, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

This is actually an interesting question. I check some articles, and they have the similar situation here. We don't need to change it because Benjamin Netanyahu was a former prime minister at that time. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! You can also put a {{help me}} template on your talk page and volunteers will come and help you. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

@79.178.245.143 You can check the Prime Minister (1996-1999) section of Benjamin Netanyahu. Find the first sentence in the second paragraph of the "First term". In 1996, Ehud Olmert was a mayor, but he is actually a former prime minister now. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:52, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: being a liberal 45.72.190.122 (talk) 23:15, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Oops! That hurts! The person who loves reading (talk) 23:21, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

April 2023

Quick question. What's "not appropriate" about using the American English variant on a Wikipedia.org bio page about an American radio personality? It all seems pretty consistent to me. Thanks. Kire1975 (talk) 07:28, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

 Self-trout The person who loves reading (talk) 14:43, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but thank you very much for your edit. I undo my edit and place a {{use American English}} template at the top of the article. The person who loves reading (talk) 14:44, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Revert question

Hi there! I was confused about why this edit was reverted. Thanks, Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 16:15, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Happy April Fool's Day! The person who loves reading (talk) 16:17, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Martine Barrat

Hello, Im a personal assistant of Martine Barrat. I'm currently with her and we would like to edit some portions of the Wiki. I can't provide citation because she is the citation. Please let me know what i can do or if i need to talk to someone else. 2603:7000:4E3D:150C:8CAF:28B3:1392:B5E8 (talk) 19:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

It's a hard question. If you're a personal assistant of Martine Barrat, you can't edit the page because of the Wikipedia policy WP:COI. Additionally, Wikipedia has policies and guidelines called Citing sources, Biographies of living persons, Verifiability. It restricts edits on the article Martine Barrat with no citations, because other people might insert wrong information to the article if edits with no citations are allowed. Wikipedia has a very strict rule on editing articles about biographies of living persons, because the impact of wrong information is huge and Wikipedia doesn't want to have a bad influence on people. The person who loves reading (talk) 19:14, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

There are so many complex policies and guidelines on English Wikipedia, and there are also some global policies on meta-wiki. The person who loves reading (talk) 19:15, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

You can look at WP:POLICYLIST for a full list of Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 19:17, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

You can also see WP:AUTOPROB. I think that it's helpful. The person who loves reading (talk) 19:19, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

If you want other more experienced editor to help you, you can try putting a reward on the reward board. You can award editors if they improve your article to B-class, Good Article, A class, and Featured Article. The person who loves reading (talk) 19:24, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE 90.247.101.169 (talk) 20:39, 1 April 2023 (UTC) Why are you such a boring person you could just let me do my aprils fools

That hurts! The person who loves reading (talk) 20:42, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Today is April Fool's Day, but I can't stop reverting edits which aren't very good. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 20:43, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

U cannot read better than me!

I will have you know that i won a reading competition in my early secondary school days, eat your heart out!😝 BangGut (talk) 03:09, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

I love reading. You can read faster and better than me because you won a reading competition. I will try to read better and faster, too! The person who loves reading (talk) 15:30, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

As the old saying goes! "Practice make perfect!" You just continue doing that, and i promise you, you'd be an accomplished "READING CHAMP" like me, one of these fine days, ok buddy!

P.S: Along with reading, you have to also master the art of writing, this includes knowing all, and knowing where to properly place your abbreviations within your paragraphs body. Having a wide extensive vocabulary, and being cognizant of how to eloquently enunciate with utter clarity, and conviction. In ending, mastering your diction, will leave your recipients yearning for more. The sound of your clear confident voice, would be as "milk & honey" to their naked ears! BangGut (talk) 20:16, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me! The person who loves reading (talk) 20:17, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Don't mention it, my niggums! BangGut (talk) 23:37, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: Undoing my edit on Mount Tai. As a descendant of that culture, I have a lot of knowledge on this area. It can be considered racism if you are to prevent me from writing bout my culture. Leg Lore (talk) 03:10, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Ouch! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:16, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry to undo your edit on Mount Tai, but there's policies and guidelines on Wikipedia which prevent you from editing like this. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:16, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

By the way, remember to sign your username using ~~~~. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:18, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 April 2023

• From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions

• News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI

• In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing

• Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid

• Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages

• Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:47, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-14

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 system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [6][7][8][9][10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
• Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [11]
• The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [12]
• Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [13]
• You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [14][15][16]

Future changes

• The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes

Aoidh

KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes

Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:12, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Octobe Surprise 1980 is fact, not conspiracy theory.

There are plenty of reputable sources to back it up.

Thanks. 99.92.91.57 (talk) 23:06, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Your edit is a Wikipedia:Manual of Style violation and there's no source to support it. Even there are sources to back it up and you believe it's correct, you will need to request a move to the correct name and then change it. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 23:08, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello, why was I mentioned here? دانيالوه (talk) 11:23, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't know. The person who loves reading (talk) 14:01, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

That's an interesting thing! How could it happen? The person who loves reading (talk) 14:04, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

This is honestly so weird... Im noticing a couple of weird things on my YouTube account too (searches I hadn't done for example), I don't know what to do but I suspect I've been hacked.. دانيالوه (talk) 19:56, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

My computer also automatically restarted after it was turned off, and said that it was opened unsuccessfully and let me to restart. I clicked restart and the computer just opened again. The person who loves reading (talk) 20:03, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

I suspect I'm talking to the hacker because this is quite an ungrammatical paragraph of a grammar-maniac user.. دانيالوه (talk) 20:24, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

You might be talking to the hacker (who knows?) The person who loves reading (talk) 20:29, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

This is just..not the situation I'm in the mood for right now, look, I come from basically one of the poorest countries in the middle east so don't even bother. دانيالوه (talk) 20:31, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

March 2023 GOCE drive awards

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copy edits totaling over 80,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:16, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting 21 articles during the GOCE March 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:16, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting 73,123 total words during the GOCE March 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:16, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting 8 long articles during the GOCE March 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:16, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting 16 old articles during the GOCE March 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:16, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 19,296 words – during the GOCE March 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:16, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi.

Those ratchets are Calle& maltracas in Mexico. I lived there and experienced what I talked about 2601:1C0:CB01:A3F0:9C76:61EE:B202:9403 (talk) 22:51, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for trying to contributing to Wikipedia. It's a common mistake that a lot of new editors will make. Wikipedia needs editors to provide reliable sources to help verify the content. You can also see Citing sources for more details. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 22:55, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Why?

Hello, I added a text to the Shahrdari Gorgan Basketball Club Wikipedia, why did you delete it? BigArho (talk) 23:14, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi! Welcome to contribute to Wikipedia! I revert your edit because it isn't back up by a reliable source. Reliable sources can help verify the content. See Citing sources for more details. Have a nice day! The person who loves reading (talk) 23:46, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for your invitation to ‘The Guild of Copy editors’ I am fairly new to editing wikipedia articles and it will really help improve my copy edits. Kolorblind2010 (talk) 02:45, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome! Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 02:48, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you!

Wow, thank you so much for reviewing several of the GOCE requests (and so quickly)! Your assistance is much appreciated.

By the way, I have another strange favor to ask. If you're interested, I'd love to see the Wikipedia entry about me translated for Chinese Wikipedia. I noticed you're a native speaker, but I don't know if you enjoy translating or editing Chinese Wikipedia. Figured I'd ask!

Either way, thanks again reviewing at GOCE! Take care for now, ---Another Believer _(Talk) 03:31, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome! However, I'm sorry because I can't translate this article for now. I'm not familiar with Chinese Wikipedia. I'll first translate this article if I ever translate any articles. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:43, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

I'll try to copyedit your articles as soon as I can. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:44, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

No worries at all! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 03:47, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

Thanks for the copyedit on Holy Family Shrine! –DMartin 04:29, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

I made some improvements to this copy edit for consistency and for adherence with MOS. Please let me know if you have any questions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:42, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

I have checked some of the other GOCE requested articles that you have marked as complete, and they still need more work. Even your responses on the GOCE Requests page are not grammatical. I do not want to discourage you, but I suggest that you slow down and work on quality over quantity. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:56, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestions! I need to slow down a bit to check more closely. The person who loves reading (talk) 14:07, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

I think that I need to learn English more because I write awkward sentences (so it's hard to fix them). The person who loves reading (talk) 14:32, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

If English is not your first language, you should probably be working on backlog articles instead of GANs until your command of the language improves. All the best, Miniapolis 13:12, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestions! I will work on the backlog articles. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:06, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your brownie! The person who loves reading (talk) 14:35, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Please slow down

Hi The person who loves reading, in addition to Jonesey's comments above, I'm concerned about the speed and quality of your copy-edits at the GOCE Requests page; basically you made hardly any changes to several articles that are being prepared for Good Article nominations. Most articles can be improved with in-depth copy-edits, which takes a while to complete. I've opened a discussion at the Requests talk page; you're welcome to discuss the issue there. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 05:35, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I won't work on the request page until I can do a lot better than what I can do now. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:05, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

No problem, I'm glad you've acknowledged what's wrong here. Before you copy-edit any more articles, please read through our basic copy-editing guide. Copy-editing is more than just fixing grammar and spelling; it involves reading the article, understanding it and ensuring it follows our Manual of Style. Nobody wants to discourage you from copy-editing; we're just worried about the way you've been doing it. Making Wikipedia better is an important task; you're always welcome to ask questions and discuss things on the Guild's talk pages. Thanks again and good luck. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 05:09, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE

YO HAVE MADE A MISTAKE>

2601:152:5080:4340:E074:6669:8587:F6D8 (talk) 19:04, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Ouch! The person who loves reading (talk) 19:06, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

I revert your edit because you remove the two templates and these issues still exist. The person who loves reading (talk) 19:07, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for all your efforts in reverting vandalism, keep up the good work! 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔 (talk) 20:24, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! The person who loves reading (talk) 20:26, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Slow down with AntiVandal

So, I happen to be editing while not logged in and making changes that I'd expect to be non-controversial. Instead I find my changes reverted by you within seconds and a quickly escalating series of threats posted to my talk page. This is exactly the sort of behavior that drives away new users. Have you forgotten to assume good faith? I reviewed the other reverts you've done with AV, most of them made within seconds of the edit, and many of those edits I wouldn't call vandalism. Some were accurate improvements to the articles. I don't think you are even taking time to read the edits in context or fact check them before reverting. For the good of the project, and to be welcoming to newcomers, I suggest you slow down. - 134.204.222.36 (talk) 20:36, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions! The person who loves reading (talk) 21:12, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your consideration. - 134.204.222.36 (talk) 21:28, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

(Personal attack removed)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
244		Pulmonary consolidation (talk)	Add sources
138		Antibody-dependent enhancement (talk)	Add sources
1,407		SARS-CoV-2 (talk)	Add sources
21		International Standard Link Identifier (talk)	Add sources
62		Serials crisis (talk)	Add sources
382		Flag of Armenia (talk)	Add sources
127		Antiserum (talk)	Cleanup
24		CCR5 receptor antagonist (talk)	Cleanup
101		W. Ian Lipkin (talk)	Cleanup
134		Treatment and management of COVID-19 (talk)	Expand
436		Social distancing (talk)	Expand
12		Pogosta disease (talk)	Expand
25		Lloviu virus (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
27		Travel ban (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
212		Phage therapy (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
28		Central nervous system viral disease (talk)	Merge
93		Merritt Parkway (talk)	Merge
10		Huaxiapterus (talk)	Merge
95		Flu season (talk)	Wikify
172		Pandemic H1N1/09 virus (talk)	Wikify
12		Lipoglycopeptide (talk)	Wikify
2		Yervand Margaryan (talk)	Orphan
1		Aleksandr Garnovskii (talk)	Orphan
2		Nikolai Belov (engineer) (talk)	Orphan
8		Riamilovir (talk)	Stub
6		Türkmenbaşy Gulf (talk)	Stub
9		IGK@ (talk)	Stub
23		CAE number (talk)	Stub
2		Kira Borisovna Povarova (talk)	Stub
15		Pyronaridine (talk)	Stub

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping.

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:14, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: Existing 2600:4040:937B:1B00:95EC:51E3:E544:A8D6 (talk) 16:40, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Ouch! The person who loves reading (talk) 16:47, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-15

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

• In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [17]
• You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [18]

Problems

• There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [19]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [20][21]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 20:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

I DONT CARE

I WILL KEEP ON VANDALIZING AND COMING BACK FOR MORE IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO! Creamer1234 (talk) 20:28, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked indefinitely according to the blocking policy. Consider to edit Wikipedia constructively. The person who loves reading (talk) 20:29, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE Creamer1234 (talk) 20:31, 10 April 2023 (UTC) BECAUSE YOU ARE A HUMAN!! YOU HEARD ME! A COMPLETE HUMANHOLE!

Please follow the talk page guideline. All caps is not the correct way to communicate to other people. Shouting is an unacceptable way according to WP:SHOUT. Thank you very much! The person who loves reading (talk) 20:33, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Hey, just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your effort here fighting vandalism, keep up the good work! - 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔 (talk) 02:47, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia by reverting vandalism, too! The person who loves reading (talk) 02:48, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-16

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

• You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [22][23]
• The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [24]

Problems

• At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [25][26]
• For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [27]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 01:53, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Israr Ahmed

Some unknown IP is regularly editing and writing NO SECT there. I saw you have removed it so i am pinging you. Thanks अकबर अली फरहान (talk) 14:04, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi! It seems like their is a content dispute here. I search online and find that most sources say that his denomination isn't NO SECT. The person who loves reading (talk) 14:10, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

He belonged to Sunni. People are making it wrong and making reels on Instagram with Wikipedia screenshots. I saw that and came here अकबर अली फरहान (talk) 14:12, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

The user who welcomes you has already changed it to Sunni. Thank you very much! Keep an eye on it just in case that this IP changes it again. The person who loves reading (talk) 14:16, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

However, sources also have some conflicts. I check the page history, and I'm not sure what is put there first. The person who loves reading (talk) 14:12, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

look

It doesnt matter how many edits i have. Ive had 800+ on accounts that i cant keep hold of. is this a contribution to the encyclopedia or do you not like my userpage. Even if i was lying or incorrect nobody cares how many edits you have. I like it there Riixvø (talk) 17:36, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me! The person who loves reading (talk) 17:41, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE 129.0.125.16 (talk) 21:39, 23 April 2023 (UTC) Victoria united is current elite one champion 13 teams have been in the league this season, 202/23

Hi! I have to revert your edit because you delete almost everything in this article without an explanation in the edit summary or the article talk page. The person who loves reading (talk) 21:40, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: User:Syedmusadiq954

Hello The person who loves reading, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Syedmusadiq954, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a webhost. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:27, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I will read this page again. The person who loves reading (talk) 15:31, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-17

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 date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [28]

Problems

• Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [29]
• For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [30][31][32]

Changes later this week

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [33]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 22:02, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

April blitz bling

		The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copy edits totaling over 15,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:19, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Farid mostofi (06:54, 26 April 2023)

hi I am new on wiki. I want to make a page for a guy. I should stay four day to have the ability to make a page? --Farid mostofi (talk) 06:54, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for asking me this question! You can create articles in the mainspace only if you're autoconfirmed, which means that your account is at least four days and has at least 10 edits. However, you can directly create an article in other namespaces, such as draft, user, user talk, and many others. Creating an article is a difficult task in Wikipedia because it relates to many policies and guidelines, such as Verifiability, No original research, Citing sources, Biographies of living persons, Neutral point of view, Autobiography, Notability, Article title, Copyrights, Copyright violation, Paid-contribution disclosure, Conflict of interest And Reliable sources. You can find a full list of policies and guidelines here. Read Help:Your first article as well to help you create an article. Check WP:CSD and WP:DP to make sure that your article won't likely be deleted through speedy deletion, proposed deletion, or Article for deletion.

When you're not autoconfirmed (for now), you can create a draft article through Article wizard. When you're finished, you can submit the article for review through an Article for Creation (WP:AFC) process. If your draft is good enough to be in the article mainspace, a reviewer will accept your draft and move it to the mainspace. If the draft still needs improvement, your draft will be declined by a reviewer, and the reviewer will tell you the reason for declining your draft. Before you start to write an article, it's recommended to check whether there is an existing article in the article mainspace by searching the person's name (search for alternative names as well). If you can find it, then consider to improve this article. If not, you will need to make sure the subject is notable enough for an article. A subject should have multiple reliable, secondary, independent sources to be qualified for an article.

Generally, creating an article is difficult, especially for biographies of living persons, and needs a lot of time. My suggestion is that you can do some easy tasks first to get familiar with Wikipedia, such as copyediting articles, and then do some difficult tasks, such as finding reliable, secondary, independent sources and expanding an article. After doing these, you will have a better understanding of Wikipedia articles, policies and guidelines, and you will find easier to create an article.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me. If you want to know suggestions from more Wikipedians, ask questions on the Teahouse. The person who loves reading (talk) 01:09, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2023

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two

• Humour: The law of hats

• Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:18, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Pedals for Progress wikipedia page

Hello The Person Who Loves Reading,

Thanks for being my mentor.

I've been a huge fan of and a monthly $$ contributor to wikipedia for several years.

I finally opened an account because I wanted to create a page for a non-profit I volunteer for: p4p.org. We collect used bikes and sewing machines in the U.S. and send them to our partner organizations in developing countries.

P4P is a great organization that has done a ton of good around the world since 1991. We are chronically underfunded and always looking for ways to widen our appeal. Wikipedia seems like a great way to do that.

I noticed that some of our fellow bicycle non-profits have wikipedia pages so I created a page of our own, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedals_for_Progress. (Our page mentions three of those other groups.)

Ours is a bare-bones page but might help drive traffic to our website and generate donations. Our page now has a 'template message' about neutrality. In my mind, the message distracts from our credibility.

Though I understand the wikipedia rules about neutrality and self-promotion, I do not understand how an organization like mine can follow the rules and still avoid the template message. I've been as transparent as possible in the wikipedia page. We have a few third-party awards and stories that our page links to, but most of our supporters are (1) groups and individuals in the U.S. who help us collect bikes and sewing machines and (2) groups and individuals abroad who get our bikes and sewing machines. On our website, we have many dozens of messages and stories from these partners, but they are not neutral either! They love us!

Can you advise me on how we can get rid of the template message? Thanks.

- Michael Sabrio

 p4p.org webmaster Rmsp4p (talk) 12:23, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contribution to create the article Pedals for Progress. It's hard to get rid of the message because the major contributor is you and you have a close connection to the subject. My suggestion is to add more reliable, independent sources to verify every sentence, and try to become neutral according to WP:NPOV. You can also contact the reviewer of this draft (now already an article) to give more suggestions about this.

Sorry for the late response. I have a test taking me the whole day. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:36, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Additionally, you can also look at WP:CLASSES to see the content assessment. This article is a stub-class. To improve to Start-class, you can also add a useful picture or graphic, multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic, a subheading that fully treats an element of a topic, or multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article. You only need to meet one of four above to improve the article to Start-class. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:44, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Mainpage CSD

Did someone have access to your account who should not have had that access? diff Schwede66 03:49, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for tagging the Main Page for speedy deletion. I thought that I can't tag the Main Page for speedy deletion because it's cascade-protected, but Twinkle put CSD on the talk page of the Main Page instead. I revert the edit immediately. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:27, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Are you saying that you were doing an experiment with CSD? Schwede66 23:34, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for any inconvenience made because of this experiment. I thought that it will give an error message saying that I can't tag it for speedy deletion. I won't make an experiment like this on Wikipedia any more. The person who loves reading (talk) 00:55, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Good idea! Schwede66 01:17, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-18

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

• The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [34][35][36]
• The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [37]
• The Special:Preferences page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [38]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 01:43, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes

Spicy

• Ale jrb
• Dbachmann
• DGG (deceased)
• Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes

Jimbo Wales

Oversighter changes

Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:23, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion Tag For Ajura By Digitalageohio

Good day hope you having a nice day the tag is no longer necessary because reliable sources has been Added to the article and the page has been reviewed that was why i deleted the tag you can look over the Citations or look over the article history and look over the citation changes.

Thanks for your contribution to the community helping me and many others and have a blessed day. Digitalageohio (talk) 18:15, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to this article! Have a nice day! The person who loves reading (talk) 18:22, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for dealing with that vandal on Azerbaijani Language! Keep up the great work. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sock 18:29, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, both for the barnstar and your contributions to Wikipedia! The person who loves reading (talk) 18:32, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for your diligence on the Recent Changes Patrol. You often beat me to it! Keep on contributing! Sincerely, --AugustusAudax (talk|contribs) P.S: Aliens exist 23:28, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Sincerely, --AugustusAudax (talk|contribs) P.S: Aliens exist 23:28, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! You're also a nice editor who reverts vandalism! (AntiVandal is really fast sometimes.) The person who loves reading (talk) 23:31, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

stoppop

i gonna bye Abanateuau (talk) 23:36, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Please do not vandalize Wikipedia. I must revert any vandalizing edits to Wikipedia. If you can edit constructively, please do. The person who loves reading (talk) 00:25, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Yooo stop bro

Jane loves cavetown amd thats it Abanateuau (talk) 23:46, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Please do not vandalize Wikipedia. I must revert any vandalizing edits to Wikipedia. If you can edit constructively, please do. The person who loves reading (talk) 00:25, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 8 May 2023

• News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU

• In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics

• Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

• Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion

• News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:26, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-19

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

• Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
• When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [39]
• The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [40]
• Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [41]

Problems

• Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [42]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
• Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [43]

Future changes

• During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [44]
• There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [45][46]
• jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [47]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Thank you for your detailed GA review of Luo Wenzao. Your solid, impartial work demonstrates the excellence of a copyeditor! TheLonelyPather (talk) 04:03, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar and your hard work on this article! The person who loves reading (talk) 04:04, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Improve a vital article (level 1-5) to Good Article

I noticed your announcement regarding elevating a level 1–5 vital article to good article status on the reward board. I successfully nominated an article for GA-status over the course of 9 days. Leopard is the in question article; for further information, visit its talk page. Dancing Dollar ^{(let's talk)} 18:54, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for nominating this article, a level-4 vital article, to good article status! Barnstars will be on your talk page shortly. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:31, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE JDW8646 (talk) 00:12, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I have to revert your edit because your edit appears to be a personal attack against the subject of the article. The person who loves reading (talk) 00:13, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

0812324795559

Mikael Mikael 2404:C0:60A0:0:0:7:75B2:4EA5 (talk) 17:31, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, you can ask me or at the Teahouse. The person who loves reading (talk) 18:23, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

GA review of Parliament railway station

Thank you for reviewing Parliament railway station and feel free to take your time. I am wondering when will you return to continue and finish reviewing the article. NotOrrio (talk) 02:00, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

I'm busy this week, and the review may be slow. Sorry for any inconvenience! The person who loves reading (talk) 02:10, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-20

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

• Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [48]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [49]

Future changes

• There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
• Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [50]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 May 2023

• News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

• In the media: History, propaganda and censorship

• Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"

• Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors

• Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles

• Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs

• WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:41, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-21

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 "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [51]

Changes later this week

• An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [52]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	For creating a very useful compilation! WhichUserAmI 20:37, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Just a note that the page seems to be broken by an unknown reason. (I can't fix it) The person who loves reading (talk) 20:38, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

If it's from the transclusion edit I made feel free to revert it, I was just attempting to make it easier to access the list itself from elsewhere! WhichUserAmI 20:58, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

It seems like a code in the middle break the transclusion part (mistakenly create another parameter). I delete the lead section. I think that it looks like what you want on User:WhichUserAmI/Guidelines. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 21:01, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 56

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023

• New partner:
  • Perlego
• Library access tips and tricks
• Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:04, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-22

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

• Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [53]
• The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [54]

Problems

• For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [55]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [56]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 22:00, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE 81.101.239.132 (talk) 23:41, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

I restore the block notice because another user other than you remove that. Since you remove this now, I won't restore it again. Thanks! The person who loves reading (talk) 23:55, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Redirect creator testing

I'm seeing a bunch of redirects recently generated by you using redirect creator. Can you please CSD them, as they are not really helpful? Especially the variants of:

• Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
• Capsizing of Halifax fireboat ...
• Muur van Mussert
• Tropical Cyclone wind signals
• 2023 Turkish presidential election
• 1973 Paris Air Show TU-144 crash
• 2023 Odisha train collision
• 2023 Indian Premier League

AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 03:26, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me! Probably these redirects are created because of this reason: Likely alternative capitalizations (for example, Natural Selection redirects to Natural selection). This is not necessary for user searches made via Wikipedia's search engine, but may aid linking from other articles and external sites, as well as direct URL entry. I create these redirects because the bot (DannyS712 bot III) automatically patrol these redirects and I think that the creation of these redirects are not controversial. I'm not sure whether these redirects should be deleted (I won't create any more until this issue resolves.) Sorry for any inconvenience caused. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:36, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

The sentence case ones are okay but the ones where they randomly capitalize a word in the middle are not. The hyphenated ones are no good either. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 03:43, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

I will CSD G7 ones that randomly capitalize a word in the middle. Thanks! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:46, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

I keep some redirects because readers have a reasonable chance to enter it into the URL. I'm still CSD redirects now. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:55, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

I think that most redirects I created are eligible for Template:R from other capitalisation or Template:R from miscapitalisation. They are primarily used to aid linking from external sites and direct URL entry. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:44, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

That sounds good. You can add the template on the ones that stand a good chance of staying. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 04:12, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the mistakes I've made. I will continue deleting redirects tomorrow after sleeping. The person who loves reading (talk) 04:19, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

May 2023 GOCE drive awards

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 14:30, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting 39,353 total words during the GOCE May 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 14:30, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting 6 long articles during the GOCE May 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 14:30, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting 8 old articles during the GOCE May 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 14:30, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 27,464 words – during the GOCE May 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 14:30, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Please help me Restoring deleted article!

I am writing to request the restoration of the Zwak News page, which was recently deleted while someone attempting to publish an article on Wikipedia. I would like to help me to restore the article and I'll be ensure and make it to meet all of Wikipedia's standards to republish it. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. DevPir (talk) 13:07, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Also responded at RfU. Jay 💬 13:48, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Now archived at WP:Requests for undeletion/Archive 386#Zwak News. Jay 💬 14:20, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm not an administrator, so I can't restore the draft for you. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:52, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 5 June 2023

• News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea

• In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again

• Featured content: Poetry under pressure

• Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:22, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes

Ingenuity

• Ddstretch
• Prodego
• Resolute

CheckUser changes

Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:34, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-23

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 RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
• Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [57]
• Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [58]

Problems

• For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [59]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [60]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 22:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here. Blitz: Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo. *All times and dates in this newsletter are in UTC, and may significantly vary from your local time. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:39, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Untitled

@ Radene Renaldo powell (talk) 19:25, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! The person who loves reading (talk) 21:43, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Re. WP:Reward Board

Hi! I just saw that you put out a notice on the reward board for anyone to improve a vital article to GA status. I'm writing to let you know that I've already worked on and nominated Angela Merkel, a level-4 vital article, for GA consideration. That happened before I was aware of this reward, but I guess it still counts if the article passes GA review. Happy editing! Actualcpscm (talk) 13:40, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for nominating a level-4 article, Angela Merkel, for GA consideration! It still counts if the article passes GA review. I hope it passes GA review. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 15:05, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Edit numbers

Hello, thanks for copyediting List of Coronation Street characters (1996), I appreciate the work you've put in. However, is it possible to do copyedits like that in one go rather than section by section? It clogs up watchlists and the recent changes page and would surely be easier for yourself too. – Meena • 22:40, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I do this because my computer isn't stable (blue screen many times) and I'm afraid that my edits will be all gone after a blue screen. I will do copyedit in one go for this article. The person who loves reading (talk) 00:36, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Your recent GOCE work

What did you think of that article? Do you think it could make it to a GA? Paradise Chronicle (talk) 22:49, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but some pictures can be really helpful (not required for GA status). Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States is a good example since its topic is related to this article. The person who loves reading (talk) 01:36, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue V, May 2023 Headlines From the team: E-mail account issue Albania report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Shëngjin, Albania, 2023 Australia report: Improving Wikipedia pages about Australian women filmmakers at ACMI Brazil report: First GLAM-Wiki partnership from Pará Finland report: Adding authority control templates with Pywikibot India report: Digitization of Behar Herald starts in Patna Indonesia report: Wikisource Workshop in Madura; Outreach to Bandung; Indonesian Wikisource Competition Italy report: Open access from North to South Kosovo report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon 2023 New Zealand report: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon and Auckland suburb updates Philippines report: Wikisource promotion at UNC Museum Sweden report: Air travel and city streets Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme Uganda report: These last few months in Uganda UK report: Promoting cultural diversity on Wikipedia USA report: A Spotlight on Black Women Birders; DC Nobel Solution Sessions; Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery; Anthropology and Community Connections; SAGE edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; Into the Wikiverse: AANHPIs in Science Fiction and Pop Culture; Queering Wikipedia 2023 Special story: Help Wikimedia Map Your Efforts to Improve Copyright! GLAM Wiki conference report: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023: Announcing the venue & scholarship application process open Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Photo contests WMF GLAM report: WILMA, DPLA + SDAW, and BHL whitepaper updates Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 00:47, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

AFDs

Hello, The person who loves reading,

If you are going to participate in AFD deletion discussion, please examine the article, evaluate the sources and offer more than a two word judgment on what should happen to the article. Your participation is very welcome, we need more editors to weigh in on deletion discussions just please take them seriously and don't post just "Fails GNG" or "per nom". Assessing an article takes time so it's not for every editor but your opinion is welcome. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:12, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions! I will take AFD discussion more seriously. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:14, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-24

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 content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [61]
• The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [62]
• The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [63]
• The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [64]

Problems

• For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [65]
• Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [66]
• Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [67]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [68]

Future changes

• From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 14:49, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Reward Board - Vital Articles (1-5) to Good Articles

Hello @The person who loves reading, I am signing as a volunteer to upgrade vital articles on the above subject matter.Uncle Bash007 (talk) 09:59, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! I will give you barnstars once you upgrade a vital article (level 1-5) to GA status. The person who loves reading (talk) 14:04, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 June 2023

• News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing

• In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia

• Featured content: Content, featured

• Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:10, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-25

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

• Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [69][70]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [71][72]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 20:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

June blitz bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:33, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Question from Quitesage (02:02, 21 June 2023)

I have prepared an article and would like to submit. --Quitesage (talk) 02:02, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! You may benefit from reading Help:Your first article to learn more about how to create a new article here. I can't see what article you have prepared, and you can put the article to your sandbox -- User:Quitesage/sandbox. Creating a new article on Wikipedia is a complicated thing, and the article needs to follow policies and guidelines listed -- WP:POLICYLIST. The person who loves reading (talk) 02:27, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Okra Energy LLC (June 22)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Fancy Refrigerator were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Okra Energy LLC and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 01:36, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello, The person who loves reading! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 01:36, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't create the article. I just help the content creator to timestamp the submission. The person who loves reading (talk) 01:36, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Ah, apologies. Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 01:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

You may need to manually add this notice to the creator's talk page to notify them. It seems like the script notifies the person who submitted the article instead. The person who loves reading (talk) 01:39, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Page deletions

Hello, The person who loves reading,

Thanks for trying to help but it's important not to tag expiring drafts too early for CSD G13. Doing so can cause there to be another 6 month delay in their deletion. For the record, there is a bot, SDZeroBot, that lists all of the expiring drafts and it's very unlikely that you will come across one that the bot has missed. Also realize that the time of a last edit to a page six months ago, may be different than the time it can be deleted today due to changes in Daylight Savings Time in different countries. I'm not sure where you are located but there is an hour difference for me in NW U.S. so the last edit on a page for 6 pm six months ago means that the draft can be tagged for deletion or deleted at 7 pm today. It can be confusing but there are a handful of editors who work a lot with expiring drafts and we've learned how to keep things straight, mainly by working with Wikipedia's UTC clock which doesn't change throughout the year.

I also wanted to make a comment about your participation in AFD discussions. You seem to make a lot of similar, superficial comments in a lot of different AFD discussions. You should focus on quality of participation, not quantity. I can't tell by your comments if you have actually read the article being discussed and evaluated the sources. Just saying "Delete, doesn't meet GNG" is not helpful participation. You should make your argument based in Wikipedia policies. Participating thoughtfully and productively in deletion discussions requires time, effort and care, and if you are not interested in devoting time to assessing the quality of sources and even going to find more undiscovered sources that haven't been used, then AFD discussions are probably not where you should be participating until you gain more editing experience. AFDs are not a vote and you have to offer more than just a "Keep"/"Delete" opinion. I welcome your participation as long as you are taking the process seriously. Right now, I think most discussion closers ignore your comments because they don't indicate any relevant points to help decide what to do with an article.

Sorry this is such a long message but I think you could be a very good editor, there is just room for improvement (which is true for all of us!). Thank you for your contributions. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:04, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for writing such a long message! I change my local time zone to UTC and find out I tagged the article early although it's not early if I set the local time zone to the actual one (it seems very tricky). I read the description of SDZeroBot and find that it can list G13-eligible drafts, so there's no need for me to tag pages for G13. Sorry for another 6 month delay in the deletion of the draft.

In my past AFD discussions, I made many similar and short comments that were unhelpful to AFD since I didn't offer more information, and these comments didn't help discussion closers to decided whether the article should be keep or deleted (or other options). I will participate in AFD discussions again and focus on quality of my participation instead of the quanitity after I get more editing experience related to the evaluation of sources and articles creation. By looking at more AFD discussions, more detailed, well-reasoned, and policy-based arguments are clearly stronger, and even one strong argument can let the discussion closer to ignore many weak arguments.

By thoroughly reading your comment, I noticed mistakes I have made. Thank you very much! The person who loves reading (talk) 04:28, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Oldham Athletic Nickname

Hi, You seem to have mistaken my recent edits on Oldham Athletic as vandalism. I was simply correct an error another user made, who claims that a nickname for the club is 'Owls'. I explained why the source the user attached as evidence didn't show what he claimed. 82.17.214.126 (talk) 23:20, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit! I revert my edit so that your change can be seen by others. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:35, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Yōko Oginome

Oginome was born Yōko Tsujino per lede. So either infobox must be updated or lede corrected:

Yōko Oginome (荻野目 洋子, Oginome Yōko, born December 10, 1968 in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan), real name Yōko Tsujino (辻野 洋子, Tsujino Yōko), ... " 166.199.7.23 (talk) 01:32, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Actually, her married name is Tsujino, per this link, and confirmed by Ryuso Tsujino's Wikipedia article. I will correct it.

Thanks. 166.199.7.23 (talk) 01:37, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! The person who loves reading (talk) 01:38, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Your GA review of Parliament railway station

Hello. I noticed that you needed someone else to review the rest of this article, as you said that you wouldn't be around, but I also noticed that you've been around recently. I can continue the review of the article if you can't. Cherrell410 (talk) 01:19, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I only have time to do some minor and easy edits on Wikipedia, and the GA review can take me a long time. You can continue the review if you would like to do so. Thanks! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:07, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-26

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 Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [73]

Problems

• Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [74][75]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [76][77]
• Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [78]
• All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [79]
• The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [80]

Future changes

• How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [81]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:59, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for being the 9th person to sign my guestbook. Shadow (talk) has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Shadow (talk) 18:24, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for signing my guestbook, too! The person who loves reading (talk) 18:26, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 July 2023

• News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter

• Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia

• In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed

• Featured content: Incensed

• Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?

• Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:16, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-27

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

Recent changes

• As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension. [82]
• From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file. [83]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 22:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Empty categories

Hello, The person who loves reading,

Please do not tag any of the empty categories created by User:KiranBOT for CSD C1 speedy deletion. They are part of a bot experiment involving categories about football players. They will eventually get filled. Thank you for all of your contributions. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:13, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I have already reverted all C1 tags of empty categories created by KiranBOT. I found Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories and would like to help with tagging of empty categories. The person who loves reading (talk) 01:21, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

By the way, I found This criterion applies to categories that have been unpopulated for at least seven days a little confusing (WP:C1). Am I allowed to tag empty categories recently created (within 7 days)? The person who loves reading (talk) 01:25, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Quitesage on Draft:Dr. Zaverbhai H. Patel PhD. (05:11, 6 July 2023)

Hello, I have a full new article. The article is a short Bio, formatted like similar Wikipedia article, with photos. How do I submit it? --Quitesage (talk) 05:11, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I took a quick look at the draft, and there are some major problems that needs to be addressed before submitting the draft for review. This article doesn't have citations to justify the article's content, although there are [1], [2], and more similar things present. You may benefit from looking at WP:References for beginners to learn how to use citations. Additionally, there are some issues with syntax. Content needs reliable, secondary, independent sources, especially for quotes, materials which are likely to be challenged or already challenged, and all contentious matter about living and recently deceased persons. See WP:V for more details. This article appears to have promotional language, which is not allowed on Wikipedia. See WP:Spam for more details. Finally, the subject of the draft needs to be notable for inclusion on Wikipedia. See WP:N for more details. Generally, the subject of the article needs to pass WP:GNG or other subject-specific criteria. Thanks for your contributions! The person who loves reading (talk) 16:03, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Speedy delete of WikiProject Brigham Young University/Assessment

I understood that according to Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia that pages that are copied need attribution, or are otherwise subject to g12, but you removed the speedy delete template. Could you give me some clarification on this? And at the very least, isn't the page a candidate for deletion as there is no need for duplication, and makes it subject to content forking? I would put it for speedy delete under A10, but it's not in the main namespace. N7fty (talk) 14:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I only know that this page does not satisfy speedy deletion criteria G12. See This applies to text pages that contain copyrighted material with no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a compatible free license, where there is no non-infringing content on the page worth saving. and Public-domain and other free content, such as a Wikipedia mirror, do not fall under this criterion, nor is mere lack of attribution of such works a reason for speedy deletion. Since WP:Content assessment is considered a "free content" because its license is compatible with Wikipedia. Additionally, I provide additional attribution in my edit summary later. I think this criteria mainly applies to non-free content entirely copied from another website, and there's clearly no possible "fair use" explanation.

I don't think there's another speedy deletion template that can be used on this page after reviewing all general speedy deletion criteria. Just like what you say, A10 can't be put on this page because this is not in the mainspace. I'm not experienced on WP:MFD, but you can nominate this page for deletion here if you want to delete this page for other reasons. I believe this page is not helpful, since it's an exact copy of WP:Content assessment. I find other Wikiprojects content assessment page, and although some parts are very similar to WP:Content assessment (such as the table), there are many additional details related to the Wikiproject itself. Example: Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment, Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment, Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Assessment, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Grading scheme. Unless this page can be improved to contain more details and delete some unnecessary parts, Wikipedia:WikiProject Brigham Young University/Assessment should be deleted as an exact copy of WP:Content assessment with no substantial use.

By the way, should the guideline template be removed? Because this is not a guideline and it is incorrectly placed in some categories. Thanks for your contribution! The person who loves reading (talk) 15:24, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

I nominated it as MFD at at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Brigham Young University/Assessment (with a little trial and error lol), thanks for the clarification!

With regards to the guideline template, I'm not sure, it's not a guideline but does show assessment standards, which are kind of guidelines? I'll mention it on the talk page, perhaps someone with more expertise can weigh in.

Anywho, thanks again! N7fty (talk) 17:47, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Note: The relevant WikiProject is notified per Notify the main WikiProject talk page when nominating any WikiProject subpage, in addition to standard notification of the page creator: diff. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:25, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VI, June 2023 Headlines Albania report: CEE Spring Campaign 2023, Albania and Kosovo Asia report: Donation of images from the National Centre for Biological Sciences Brazil report: Native Brazilian photographer wins Wiki Loves Folklore Brazil 2023 Croatia report: Half done in 2023 Germany report: Museum tour, WLM, handouts and image donation India report: Wiki Exploration Programme GLAM activities Indonesia report: Conclusion of Mini Grants; Second #1Lib1Ref Campaign; Wikisource Workshop in Bali Italy report: TCI and Turin Academy of Science Kosovo report: CEE Spring Campaign 2023, Albania and Kosovo Netherlands report: A new book, new Wikipedia articles, videos and further images on Africa New Zealand report: Report on the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Conference 2023 and Auckland suburb updates Philippines report: GLAM outreach activity at University of Nueva Caceres: Digitization, workshops and proofread-a-thons as future collaboration Poland report: GLAM-Wiki workshops for the Czartoryski Library; Work on the GLAM-Wiki Project Page Continues; End of Internship within the "Praktykuj w Kulturze" Program Sweden report: Knowledge overview; Almedalen week Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm UK report: Cultural diversity USA report: WikiWednesday returns to Manhattan; Wikimedia NYC and Art+Feminism; WikiConference North America 2023; GLAM Wiki 2023 Special story: Flickr Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation partner to build Flickypedia GLAM Wiki conference report: The call for proposals is now open for the GLAM Wiki Conference Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 07:10, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-28

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

Recent changes

• The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
• Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [84]
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [85]
• The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
• The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [86]
• Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [87]

Future changes

• There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [88]
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 19:52, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Theirson (21:35, 13 July 2023)

How can I publish an article about a music --Theirson (talk) 21:35, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Writing an article on Wikipedia is a very difficult task that only very experienced editors can do a nice job. You can read Help:Your first article for more details about how to create an article. It is recommended to create an article in the draftspace, so that you can improve the draft and submit it for review when you think it is ready for the mainspace. After submitting the draft, a new page reviewer will review the draft in up to 4 months and give you feedback on how to improve. He/She will decline the draft because of various reasons, or accept the draft and publish it into the mainspace. Then, after the page is patrolled by a new page patroller, or after 90 days without being deleted, the page will be searchable by search engines.

The subject of the article must meet notability guidelines or subject-specific notability guidelines listed. The draft must not be promotional because of this policy. If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it on your user page. You also need to provide reliable sources to prove everything the article says, or it may be deleted because of policies and guidelines, such as WP:V, WP:RS, and WP:BIO.

Related pages that may be useful to you: WP:New page reviewer, WP:New pages patrol, WP:INDEXING, and WP:POLICYLIST. The person who loves reading (talk) 21:45, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 July 2023

• News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?

• In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia

• Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)

• News from the WMF: ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns

• In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?

• Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)

• Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy

• Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced

• Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop

• Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!

• Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:02, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-29

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

• We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
• MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [89]
• The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [90]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 57

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023

• Suggestion improvements
• Favorite collections tips
• Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:22, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mr haker x (20:29, 20 July 2023)

Kya me instagram pe followers increase kar sakte hoo --Mr haker x (talk) 20:29, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Do you have any questions about using or editing Wikipedia? The person who loves reading (talk) 22:33, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-30

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

• On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 02:19, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

August 2023 Good Article Nominations backlog drive

Good article nominations | August 2023 Backlog Drive
August 2023 Backlog Drive: On 1 August, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin. Barnstars will be awarded. Interested in taking part? You can sign up here.
Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage
You're receiving this message because you have reviewed or nominated a good article in the last year. (t · c) buidhe 05:15, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-31

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 Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [91][92]
• The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [93]

Problems

• It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [94]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
• Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [95]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 August 2023

• News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server

• In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change

• Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!

• Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash

• Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!

• Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?

• In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia

• Opinion: Are global bans the last step?

• Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July

• Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:39, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

July 2023 GOCE drive award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to The person who loves reading for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 21:24, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Vital article GA pass

Hi! I hope you're well. I mentioned here that I'm nominating Angela Merkel for GA review, and after a long review, it has passed! :) Actualcpscm (talk) 11:30, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I will post barnstars on your talk page soon. The person who loves reading (talk) 17:07, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-32

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

• Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [96]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 21:19, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VII, July 2023 Headlines Albania report: Wiki Photowalk Albania and Kosovo, 2023 Argentina report: First batch of a big upload Australia report: Where's The Source? Adding Citations to Wikipedia Brazil report: Two new GLAM-wiki partnerships and Three large uploads France report: New milestone reached: already 500 portraits of geographers uploaded on Commons India report: Open Knowledge Fellowship by Heritage Lab and Wikibase set foot in India Netherlands report: Videos and filmmakers of Africa, Open Churches Photochallenge and Wiki goes Caribbean meet-up in Dutch National Archive Poland report: EU GLAM Coordinators; WikiMatejko; Polona; internship program Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence raises the standards UK report: Roads, Kingdoms and Assassins USA report: WikiWednesday Salon; New York Botanical Garden; Meetup San Diego Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Join Wiki Loves Living Heritage at Wikimania! WMF GLAM report: WiLMa updates Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 07:16, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-33

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 Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [97]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [98]

Future changes

• A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 05:58, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 August 2023

• News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects

• In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida

• In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!

• Special report: Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?

• Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them

• Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing

• Opinion: Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?

• Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether

• Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed

• Humour: Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire

• Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:18, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Cwechsler0803 (19:43, 16 August 2023)

Why is another user reverting all my edits. Including to the profiles (wrong) name --Cwechsler0803 (talk) 19:43, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! It seems like other Wikipedians have explained it to you, and you can ask again if you believe that their explanation is not sufficient. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:35, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Rvafadouste (04:28, 18 August 2023)

Can you please tell me how to order a paper form of publication --Rvafadouste (talk) 04:28, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! This question isn't directly related to Wikipedia, and I'm not sure how to order a paper form of publication, so I cannot answer this question for you. Sorry about that. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:37, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Quraishi 1372 on Medical certificate (15:21, 19 August 2023)

سلام برسد خدمت شما دوست عزیز بسیار زیاد ببخشید من یک مشکل دارم در قسمت خانه پری فورم قرارداد از من خواسته است معاینات صحی تایید شده

کشور های اروپایی را من کوشش کردم از طریق سایت خود شان دریافت کردم ولی او از من یک کد یا آی دی نمبر می‌خواهد اما نفهمیدم مطلب شان چیست --Quraishi 1372 (talk) 15:21, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-34

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 GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [99]
• From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
  • Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
    • a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [100]
    • a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [101]
  • To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
    • Wikifunctions (f:) [102]
    • a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [103]
    • a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [104]
    • a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [105]
    • a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [106]
    • a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [107]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

• There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [108]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Improve a vital article (level 1-5) to Good Article

I've nominated Banded palm civet (level 5) for GA. Edward-Woodrow :) _[talk] 21:10, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your hard work! Your barnstars will be given once this article becomes a good article. The person who loves reading (talk) 00:43, 22 August 2023 (UTC)