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Welcome from Martyman
Welcome!
Hello Pelagic, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
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- How to write a great article
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page.
I see you aren't brand new but I thought as no one else had greated you yet I would say hi. I notice you have been editing articles related to Sydney which is great there is still a lot of information about Australia that needs to be fleshed out. It would be great if you would consider joining the Sydney WikiProject which helps users focus their efforts and sets out guidlines and targets for Sydney articles. It would also help you meet other editors who may have similar interests to you. There is also the Australian Wikipedians' notice board which is central meeting place for Australian Wikipedians. --Martyman-(talk) 09:39, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi
Thanks, Martyman, that's a great welcome message. I'm posting back onto my own talk page in case you have a watch on it. I'm new at this so still don't have a great grasp on how the various user pages, discussion pages, project pages, etc. fit into the whole authoring/revision/consensus/editing process.
Pelagic 17:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- It can be a bit confuding yes, though after enough time most things here become almost second nature. It is easy to forget how daunting the interface and communication system is for new comers. I can recommend that the Wikipedia:Community Portal has many useful links for learning your way around. --Martyman-(talk) 21:02, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Sydney meetup
Hi, I got your name from this list, and thought you might be interested in a meetup in Sydney at the Alexandria Hotel tomorrow. I hope you can join us. Sorry for the late notice. --99of9 (talk) 11:23, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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Apology
Pelagic ... very sorry if you got a few password reset messages. I couldn't remember my previously created but unused account name and the system looked like it let me send a password reset to your acccount and my email -- hopefully it just looks that way and doesn't really do it. I am now pelagicsmath Pelagicsmath (talk) 01:04, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
DYK for White-rumped falcon
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:04, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Finding copyright year on UBD street directories
Hi, DaveDodgy here. I read what you were writing about Bankstown Airport and it's naming. Do you still have the old street directory with only the edition number (no year) ? Thanks. DaveDodgy (talk) 14:27, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
- Wow, Dave, that post was nine years ago! I'd forgotten all about it. I'm not sure whether I could put my hands on the book, it may be packed away. If I find it on the bookshelf I'll let you know, but I have a feeling it's in a crate under a pile of other crates behind a mountain of stuff in a storage unit. Or my wife may have thrown it out years ago without my knowledge. Pelagic (talk) 11:58, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
- Hi. I know exactly how you feel. I moved home so many times in the last 4 years alone! Things in PODS, things in a 20' container, things hidden in the roof, things chucked out by my landlords, and cousin, etc. Not knowing what I still have, and what is gone. Or where it is! Nightmare!!!! Depressing!!!! If you ever see the same street directory, at a garage sale, or where ever (based on the image of the front cover) have a look, and get back online ! :) Sorry to any moderator, I know this comment doesn't belong here. DaveDodgy (talk) 13:32, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Care to reply? --George Ho (talk) 04:36, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the prompt, George. I've replied on the talk page. I hope this mention pings you (am still trying to get my head around the alerting system). Pelagic (talk) 10:51, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:40, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
A brownie for you!
Thank you for your help!!! Songuitar333 (talk) 07:08, 14 March 2017 (UTC) |
A barnstar for you!
The Teamwork Barnstar | |
Thank You for editing Pransukh Nayak and helping me in DYK. Regards, Nizil (talk) 05:40, 10 July 2018 (UTC) |
DYK nomination of Cheerleading in Australia
Hello! Your submission of Cheerleading in Australia at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:11, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I have reviewed your DYK nomination of Cheerleading in Australia, and there are some sourcing and issues that need to be addressed. Please fix these as soon as possible, otherwise the nomination will be marked for closure as stale. Thank you and happy editing. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:28, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello Pelagic. As you have not responded to comments left on your DYK nomination of Cheerleading in Australia, the nomination has now been marked for closure. If you wish for the nomination to continue, please leave a message there before it is closed. Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 02:02, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
As you have not been active on Wikipedia over the past few weeks, I have now marked your DYK nomination for closure. If you wish for the nomination to continue, please return to editing as soon as possible. Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 04:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
This bot DID NOT nominate any file(s) for deletion; please refer to the page history of each individual file for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 01:00, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
Page move
I moved the page you created today to User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/08/16. You created the page in mainspace because you forgot to prepend User: before your name. Schazjmd (talk) 21:58, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
- Belated note: thanked on their talk page with some wikilove. Pelagic (talk) 01:59, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Arb comments
Hi Pelagic, could it be that your latest comment on the Fram proposed decision talkpage got accidentally placed in the wrong section? It ended up underneath mine but looks as if it was meant to be in yours, right? Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:48, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
- Heheh, now that I look more closely, it seems you actually posted it three times, in a different section each. Probably because somebody else was busy inserting more section headings above yours and edit-conflicting with you all the time. ;-) Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:51, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
- Aha, you've hit the nail on the head, FP☼. I see that Gerda added some subheads and that the section-edit links work by section number —
action=edit§ion=22
or#/editor/22
— so that explanation would make … 'perfect' sense. The mobile interface doesn't appear to be detecting edit conflicts for me. (Nothing appeared to happen after tapping the Publish button. Also nothing happened when I tried to delete the stray comment in Nosebagbear's section, as you were removing that at the same time. Have left a null-edit summary in the history: mobdiff.) Not sure if the broken ec-detection is a general thing, or specific to AMC, &/or dependent on platform/device. Thanks for cleaning up. Pelagic (talk) 18:53, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
- Aha, you've hit the nail on the head, FP☼. I see that Gerda added some subheads and that the section-edit links work by section number —
Brock Blomberg Bio Request
Hello! I want to thank you again for helping with this request to review and remove the misinterpreted content from the Brock Blomberg article. I was hoping you'd be able to return to this request to remove inaccurate text about T. Winegar as well. I included the link to the (resolved) legal docket, per your request. The last 2 paragraphs of the "Career" section are problematic (as outlined here), but I'm willing to focus on the Winegar content specifically if that's your preference. I understand you probably have a few other requests out there, so if there are fellow editors who may be willing to assist or offer recommendations, please feel free to point me in that direction too. Thanks, again, for your ongoing help and guidance! TY Ursinus (talk) 19:10, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
A survey to improve the community consultation outreach process
Hello!
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to improve the community consultation outreach process for Foundation policies, and we are interested in why you didn't participate in a recent consultation that followed a community discussion you’ve been part of.
Please fill out this short survey to help us improve our community consultation process for the future. It should only take about three minutes.
The privacy policy for this survey is here. This survey is a one-off request from us related to this unique topic.
Thank you for your participation, Kbrown (WMF) 10:45, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
Darkinyung people
Thanks for your edits on this page.
One point about bibliographic listings: they are sorted alphabetically by author(s) last name, not by date only. If there is more than one work by the same author, they are sorted by date within author; and if there is more than one work by the same author in the same year, they are distinguished by a single lower-case alphabetic suffix (called a "date disambiguator"), for example Smith 1995a, Smith 1995b, etc.
I mention this because I saw your hidden comment in the wikitext ("ordered by year"). I have a script which takes care of this all automatically (plus a lot more): just on the sorting (a small part of its job), it has to worry about authors with the same last name but different first names, cites with more than one author; cites that don't have any author at all, plus it adds date disambiguators automatically, if needed. If you see "fixes" in my edit summaries on any of the Australian Aboriginal articles, it is referring to this script, which I call my "ETVP script" and is partly described by the long pinned thread on my talk page. --NSH001 (talk) 23:52, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Desktop improvements prototype
Hello, Pelagic!
Exploration of the Unknown | ||
I hereby award you the Exploration of the Unknown award! You are being recognized for your courage and willingness to test a feature, gadget, or tool in development and for the constructive feedback you provided. |
Thanks for taking the time to participate in the user feedback round for our desktop improvements prototype. This feedback is super valuable to us and is currently being used to determine our next steps. We have published a report gathering the main takeaways from the feedback and highlighting the changes we’ll make based on this feedback. Please take a look and give us your thoughts on the talk page of the report. To learn more about the project overall and the other features we’re planning on building in the future, check out the main project page.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:28, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Secret message
I wonder whether you would like User:Pelagic/common.js to look like User:Whatamidoing (WMF)/common.js.
(Just remember that if you "do" this, you will have to "undo" it when the Beta Feature arrives.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 03:38, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for the hint, Whatamidoing (WMF). I'm giving it a try now. Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (20:35 Mon 01, AEST) 10:35, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- Let me know what you think. I'm loving it. (I suspect that the devs produced this so that I would quit pestering them to release it here now. It is sooooo handy on long pages like VPT and ArbCom cases.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:58, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- It sure beats scrolling up to the section heading in a long discussion. There are a few things I’d need before I get to "I’m loving it" territory, though:
- @-mention tool (coming soon): copying and editing the user-page URL is a right pain. This would be enough to prevent me from using it regularly in production. Seems like a nice-to-have at first, but with continued use it’s more of a must-have. I wonder if the French, Hungarians, etc. feel the same.
- Edit summary (already a thread on this but I should go back and add to it): most of the time on a talk page, the edit summary is going to be blah like "response" or "comment", but I’ve already had situations where I wanted to put something more specific.
- Faith that it won’t lose my work when the browser tab reloads. I gather that most post-VE code is supposed to be able to recover, but for me that often doesn’t work. The classic-editor cycle of type–preview–type–preview is more robust. Great for short comments, but for long edits with lots of tab switching there's always Old Faithful.
- Works on mobile.
- — Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (07:57 Tue 02, AEST) 21:57, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- It sure beats scrolling up to the section heading in a long discussion. There are a few things I’d need before I get to "I’m loving it" territory, though:
- Let me know what you think. I'm loving it. (I suspect that the devs produced this so that I would quit pestering them to release it here now. It is sooooo handy on long pages like VPT and ArbCom cases.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:58, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-24
21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@
. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-25
21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-26
18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 June 2020
- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
- News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
Tech News: 2020-27
16:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #3
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
- The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-28
20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-29
16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-30
19:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Pelagic
Your username is fantastic. that is all. :) --Merbabu (talk) 09:47, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-31 (part)
[...]
- The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
[...]
The Signpost: 2 August 2020
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
Tech News: 2020-32
15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-33
16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-35
17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
IFLA Library Reference Model moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, IFLA Library Reference Model, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:
" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Mccapra (talk) 23:37, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
- Why, @Mccapra? Are you saying it's non-notable? Pelagic ( messages ) – (14:30 Thu 27, AEST) 04:30, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- Hi. I’m saying it does not have enough sources to remain published. It has one that is not third-party. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 04:55, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Mccapra, that's not my understanding of how it works. Articles, even if undeveloped, are kept if the subject is notable. But whatever, I've added some third-party ref's and expanded the content slightly. Understandably for a new standard, a lot of the third-party matter is conference presentations and slide decks. I also removed the AfC template, since I have no intention of going through that process. Thanks for replying so promptly. Would you be happy for me to de-draftify it in its new state? Pelagic ( messages ) – (17:32 Thu 27, AEST) 07:32, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- Hi. I’m saying it does not have enough sources to remain published. It has one that is not third-party. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 04:55, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-41 (highlights)
m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/41
Selected items:
- There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
Problems
- There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [34]
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [35]
- Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.
Wikidata weekly summary #437 (highlight)
- Tool of the week
- OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video
Wikidata weekly summary #439 (trimmed)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
- Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
...
- Tool of the week
- WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ..., Numérisé par, Online catalog, ... word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
- New property proposals to review:
- Query examples:
...
...
- Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
- Development
...
- Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
- Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
- Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
- Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores [No link in original newsletter, but see Item quality judgments from ORES.]
...
- Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report
... Read the full report · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-44
17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Growth team updates #15
10:09, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 November 2020
- News and notes: Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking
- In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books
- Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20
- Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story
- Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.
- Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?
- Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner
- News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters
- In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia
Tech News: 2020-45
16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #440
IP block
This IP address or range is used by Netskope web security, which is widely used by companies and governments. For myself, I can bypass it, or wait until I am off work and edit from home. But there might be a fair bit of collateral blockage. Since it's only a short duration, side effects might not be too significant.
(Unless it's actually the X-Forwarded-For 60._._.14 that's blocked, in which case the user was someone in my building!)
- Pelagic (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
- Pelagic (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Block message:
Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "ACMruralevents". The reason given for ACMruralevents's block is: ...
- Blocking administrator: Cullen328 (talk • blocks)
Decline reason: The autoblock is doing its job properly. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇 15:33, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Meh, thanks anyway. Pelagic ( messages ) – (14:25 Fri 06, AEST) 04:25, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for December 14
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited South Mosman ferry wharf, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Howard Hinton.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:40, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Fixed Pelagic ( messages ) – (14:08 Tue 15, AEDT) 03:08, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #447
Tech News: 2020-52
20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2020
- Arbitration report: 2020 election results
- Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
- Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
- Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
- Essay: Subjective importance
- Gallery: Angels in the architecture
- Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
Happy New Year Wikipedia
HNY from Australia! Pelagic ( messages ) – (00:04 Fri 01, AEDT) 13:04, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #449
Tech News: 2021-02
15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #450
DiscussionTools update
Hello,
The Editing team has scheduled a major update to mw:Extension:DiscussionTools (the new Reply tool) for next week's deployment train. Since you invoke the feature from a script (I do, too), you're probably going to see that update next week, before it's officially released in the mw:Beta Feature system. The new update will use a similar system for starting a ==New discussion==. As before, full-page wikitext editing will not be affected. There is more information on the project page at mw:Talk pages project/New discussion.
You don't have to do anything about this; I just didn't want you to be surprised. If you encounter problems next week, please ping me or leave a note on the talk page for the project. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:10, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #451
Tech News: 2021-03
16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Hexagon article
Hi, Thanks for the encouragement. I don't know how to talk to you without creating a new section, which I have done here. I got feedback that my article rewrite was too informal but have not been able to get clarification. Apparently KGirl is too busy to talk to me. I also got feedback to do incremental revisions rather than a rewrite, so I made an incremental revision. Hopefully it will stick. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Phoenix-anna/sandbox/Hexagon_Qualcomm Qualcomm_Hexagon
Phoenix-anna (talk) 12:16, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, Anna, sorry I left you hanging. New section for a new discussion is the way to go with these talk pages, so definitely the right approach here. (Before they introduced the mw:Echo notification system, posting to user-talk like this was the only way to get someone's attention.) I’m not sure how best to go forward, but have some tentative thoughts (and piecewise updates rather than all-at-once replacement was one of them). I’ll post about procedural matters at User talk:Phoenix-anna/sandbox/Hexagon Qualcomm so that the discussion stays with the draft. — Pelagic ( messages ) – (23:54 Thu 21, AEDT) 12:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #455
Wikidata weekly summary #456
Tech News: 2021-08
00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Test
Pelagic ( messages ) – (06:08 Mon 01, AEDT) 19:08, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 February 2021
- News and notes: Maher stepping down
- Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video
- In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house
- News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia
- Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day
- Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
- Gallery: What is Black history and culture?
Wikidata weekly summary #457
Tech News: 2021-09
19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #17
16:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Something you may be interested in taking a look at
The first of many? :) (And yes – I know this is mystery meat navigation! :D) (Although... how do I get it to not act like the userboxes are on the right of the page all the way down? D:) DesertPipeline (talk) 05:17, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Never mind; fixed the userpage problem :D DesertPipeline (talk) 05:27, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- @DesertPipeline: awesome, hall of fame! Pelagic ( messages ) – (12:11 Fri 12, AEDT) 01:11, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #458
Tech News: 2021-10
17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #459
Selected items...
A barnstar for you!
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Thnx for helping at the teahouse :) Chefs-kiss (talk) 17:42, 15 March 2021 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2021-11
23:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Thanks
Hi Pelagic. Thanks for your help at teahouse. It has helped with supporting the last paragraph of this news story. Most appreciated. --Gryllida (talk) 21:03, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 42
Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021
- New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
- 1Lib1Ref
- Library Card
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:27, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Help regarding MediaWiki
Hello Pelagic!
I'm Rafi. I Talked with you in the teahouse regarding the training of a group of editors. I'm a fresher in python and hope to learn other languages in the future. Recently I made a visit to MediaWiki and became astonished watching devs of the whole world working together just to develop open-source programs. I'm thinking of starting my journey there but feeling a lil bit confused. I've thought of starting with pywikibot. Is Talkpage feature available there too? If yes, then I can take help from you or other editors using your talkpage there. Thanks a lot and take love!! -Mrb Rafi (talk) 13:45, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, Rafi! I’ve learnt some other programming languages in the past, but as yet I have no experience in Python or programming for MediaWiki. It’s something I thought I would like to learn "one day". You might have just inspired me to make a start. So whilst I might not be able to offer you experience, I’d be happy to stay in touch.
- MediaWiki wiki has talk pages labelled "discussion". The difference is that most talk pages there use the Structured Discussions extension.
- P.S. I just discovered at mw:manual:Pywikibot/PAWS that there’s a Jupyter Hub instance that we can use! Pelagic ( messages ) – (05:41 Fri 26, AEDT) 18:41, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-12
16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #460
The Signpost: 28 March 2021
- News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan
- News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond
- Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
- From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
- Obituary: Yoninah
- From the editor: What else can we say?
- Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees
- Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack
Wikidata weekly summary #461
Tech News: 2021-13
17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
on merging Bonkei to Penjing
Hello Pelagic. Please join discussion in Talk:Penjing#Proposal to merge Bonkei to Penjing (April 2021)--HaussmannSaintLazare (talk) 02:53, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-14
19:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
The Asgill Affair article
Hi Pelagic, I see you've been busy on this article. Since Henry Greville's article has him in the wrong regiment, please could you make the necessary correction? I happen to know how many weeks of work went into correcting the mistakes in General Washington's Dilemma by Katherine Mayo. There are some errors relative to the names and regiments of the thirteen officers drawing lots, of which Henry Greville was one. The 7th Earl Spencer mistranscribed the name of the writer of the eye-witness-account-of-the-drawing-of-lots letter. All references to The Hon. R. Fulke Greville, of the First Foot Guards, are now known to refer to Lieutenant and Captain The Hon. Henry Greville of the Second Regiment of Foot Guards (now known as the Coldstream Guards). All references to Asgylle and Asgyle refer to Lieutenant and Captain Charles Asgill of the First Regiment of Foot Guards (now known as the Grenadier Guards). [1] Anne (talk) 15:42, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
- No need to delete the unread message. It shows in my alerts. But since you say this specific concern is resolved, I won't ping back. I’ve reinstated the post for reference, and moved it to the bottom. One day I'll clean out all the newsletters and make this page easier to use. I pinged about the "Thirteen Officers" reference at Data; will await an answer there. Pelagic ( messages ) – (18:46 Sun 18, AEDT) 07:46, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, Pelagic, I was a bit concerned about changing Greville's regiment, given all the confusion over that, and his name, but was eventually persuaded by an admin to get on with it and do it, so I thought I would save you the bother of looking. If I am supposed to be replying to you elsewhere, I have had no notification, and don't know where to look for your comment. My IT skills are not up to coping well here (I'm not part of the computer generation). Anne (talk) 08:00, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, Anne, I must have inadvertently pinged you when pasting above. I just saw the quote from p. 100 that you provided at Talk:Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet#Henry Francis Greville. Thanks for sharing that. I can think of reasons why you may not have seen a notification from Wikidata; rather than running you from pillar to post, let's continue the discussion at Asgill's talk page. I have replied there. Pelagic ( messages ) – (08:15 Mon 19, AEDT) 21:15, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, Pelagic, I was a bit concerned about changing Greville's regiment, given all the confusion over that, and his name, but was eventually persuaded by an admin to get on with it and do it, so I thought I would save you the bother of looking. If I am supposed to be replying to you elsewhere, I have had no notification, and don't know where to look for your comment. My IT skills are not up to coping well here (I'm not part of the computer generation). Anne (talk) 08:00, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
References
Wikidata weekly summary #464
Tech News: 2021-16
16:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
Wikidata weekly summary #465
Tech News: 2021-17
21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-18
15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #466
Wikidata weekly summary #466
Books & Bytes – Issue 43
Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021
- New Library Card designs
- 1Lib1Ref May
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:11, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #467
Tech News: 2021-19
15:09, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-20
13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #468
Growth Newsletter #18
15:23, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #469
Tech News: 2021-21
17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #470
Tech News: 2021-22
17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello! I saw that you became involved at the aforementioned article talk page disagreement on west/north and using more specific language. I'm planning to provide a third opinion on it, but I'm not sure if you are involving yourself in the discussion or planning to provide a 3O yourself. Either way, I cannot (or rather will not) take on 3Os that involve more than two editors, so thank you for participating! Sennecaster (What now?) 12:30, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #471
Tech News: 2021-23
20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #472
Tech News: 2021-24
20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Question from I-U-She Thomas (14:56, 15 June 2021)
How to make a new article if, I'm a new user --I-U-She Thomas (talk) 14:56, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, @I-U-She Thomas, sorry I didn't answer, I've been inactive for a bit. What kind of article are you interested in creating? (I'll hop over to your user pages in a sec and see how you've been doing.) Pelagic (talk) 10:38, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
- The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #473
Tech News: 2021-25
15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 June 2021
- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
Wikidata weekly summary #474
Tech News: 2021-26
Tech News: 2021-49
21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #498
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar | |
You are doing great, even though you fall behind you are doing great and we all recognize that. Thank you. Mschulz75 (talk) 22:09, 13 December 2021 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2021-50
22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Question from XybxrG on User talk:XybxrG (15:52, 17 December 2021)
Hi there I Just wanna ask what can i do to fix this problem. --XybxrG (talk) 15:52, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Question from XybxrG on User talk:XybxrG (16:08, 17 December 2021)
Hi sir i want to publish my page --XybxrG (talk) 16:08, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Question from XybxrG on User:XybxrG (08:37, 18 December 2021)
Hi there please publish my page --XybxrG (talk) 08:37, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, @XybxrG, you've already "published" your user profile, but it reads like you're attempting to write an article about Sipho Malaza. For Sipho to have an encyclopedia article, he needs to be notable in the Wikipedia sense. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 10:39, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #499
Tech News: 2021-51
22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #500
The Signpost: 28 December 2021
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
Wikidata weekly summary #501
Happy New Year!
- – Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.
ItcouldbepossibleTalk 12:12, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, @Itcouldbepossible, I also hope you had a great New Year! ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 11:10, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Pelagic Yes, I had. May yours be nice too. ItcouldbepossibleTalk 12:39, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- And one more thing, why don't you archive your talk page? It has got scary big. ItcouldbepossibleTalk 12:41, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata #502 (trimmed)
Tech News: 2022-02
01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #503
Tech News: 2022-03
19:54, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #504
Tech News: 2022-04
21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 January 2022
- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
- Obituary: Twofingered Typist
- Essay: The prime directive
- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
Wikidata weekly summary #505 (pruned)
Question from Kalimbassieris Maritime (09:42, 2 February 2022)
Hello, we are a shipping company and would like to create a page for our company on wikipedia. Could i please ask for your assistance? Thank you, Maria --Kalimbassieris Maritime (talk) 09:42, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, @Maria, sorry to be the bearer of bad news. To be "notable" enough for an encyclopaedia article on Wikipedia, KM would need to have been written about in some depth (not just directory listings) by independent (not just interviews or press releases) sources. The guidelines are Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) ("NORG") and Wikipedia:Notability ("GNG").
- Wikipedia is at at the end of the information pipeline: you get written about elsewhere first, then as a result you get written about in WP, not vice versa.
If your aim is to have a Google Knowledge Panel, some other strategies could include: creating a Wikidata item, signing up for a Google MyBusiness account, publishing some engaging content on your website, and embedding the right metadata markup on your site.- Best wishes for success in promoting your company. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 07:47, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #506
Tech News: 2022-06 (pruned)
21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Question from OOF881 (23:22, 9 February 2022)
What do I do if I make a mistake when editing an article? --OOF881 (talk) 23:22, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
- Replied at User talk:OOF881#Reversing mistakes. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 04:46, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Request for Mentorship
Hello Pelagic,
I found you in the list from the Wikipedia:Growth Team features/Mentor list which I went through completely and chosen you mostly by your tech affinity. I'm specialized in IT topics and work in favor of civil rights and privacy as you can see as part of my self-introduction on my user page. Now I'm looking for a mentor to have a starting point here in the community. ARoseWolf is sadly not technical and thus I would flood her with IT topics.
Are you available for mentorship? Are you by chance available on IRC?
Greets GavriilaDmitriev (talk) 10:08, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-07
19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Question from Iamhere1234567 (07:59, 15 February 2022)
How does a person or anything get listed on this web please?? I want to add some Bhutanese actors... --Iamhere1234567 (talk) 07:59, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-08
19:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Question from Kttpulliam (19:44, 25 February 2022)
Hello Pelagic, I am the author of 14 books plus 3 paperback reprints. I have created a Wikipedia page and want to publish it. How should I do this? Format? Should I have a friend upload it? My author name is different from my Wiki user name. KathleenTT --Kttpulliam (talk) 19:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
Tech News: 2022-09
22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Question from Samkelo Hlongwane VRY on Benny Boom (10:53, 5 March 2022)
Hello . I would like to ask you how to edit a page on Wikipedia? --Samkelo Hlongwane VRY (talk) 10:53, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Question from Samkelo Hlongwane VRY on Benny Boom (10:54, 5 March 2022)
Hello . I would like to ask you how to edit a page on Wikipedia? --Samkelo Hlongwane VRY (talk) 10:54, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
- Replied at User talk:Samkelo Hlongwane VRY#Reply, how to edit. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 03:41, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-10
21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-11
22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Growth Newsletter #20
17:12, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Question from Unknown1385 (06:53, 17 March 2022)
hello --Unknown1385 (talk) 06:54, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Question from Unknown1385 (06:55, 17 March 2022)
hello im new to wikipedia and i cant edit pls help me --Unknown1385 (talk) 06:55, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, Unknown1385, what do you want to edit? I see that you edited your sandbox, so I assume this is about more than just the mechanics of clicking the Edit button. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 15:46, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-12
15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 49
Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022
- New library collections
- Blog post published detailing technical improvements
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
User page templates (22:23, 26 March 2022)
Are there templates to make it easier to create a user page? --Osalbahr (talk) 22:23, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Question from Osalbahr (22:26, 26 March 2022)
I noticed in the Arabic Wikipedia that I can use a bot to suggest adding links between articles in the suggested edits section. Is there a way to do bot-assisted edits in the English Wikipedia? --Osalbahr (talk) 22:26, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
Question from Osalbahr (09:14, 28 March 2022)
Hello. What do you think of what I added in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Terasail#Reverted_edit_-_number_of_occurrences_of_flagship_in_Apple_Store ? Is that how reverts are usually discussed, or would it be more appropriate to have the discussion in Apple Store's talk page by pinging Terasail. I'm not sure how pinging works. --Osalbahr (talk) 09:14, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Trimmed Tech News: 2022-13
19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Trimmed Tech News: 2022-14
21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-15
19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Question from Vandy 1989 (06:14, 16 April 2022)
Sulochana Das page written with valid and independent sources but moved to draft ? --Vandy 1989 (talk) 06:14, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, Vandy, local-government politicians aren't considered inherently notable for a global readership on English Wikipedia. To give an example of female mayors near where I live: (ex-)Mayor of The Hills Shire Yvonne Keane has had media coverage (here's a few I found on a quick search: [209], [210], [211]), but doesn't yet have a Wikipedia article, whereas Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore does.
- You could check at Oriya Wikipedia to see if they are less strict than English Wikipedia.
- I understand that, in the interest of open and accountable government, it could be good to have records for all political candidates and appointees. Some countries already have reliable official registers of such things. Perhaps that could also be a use case for Wikidata. Sulochana Das (Q62593461) appears to be a different writer with the same name?
- ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 01:19, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
- Understand your concern....
- please do the needful for Draft:Badri Lal Yadav article.
- If I have any doubt further contact you Vandy 1989 (talk) 01:28, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
trimmed Tech News: 2022-16
23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Question from Vandy 1989 (06:07, 19 April 2022)
Please look in to Yadav article page , my hard work edited was removed but added with relevant sources. please so the needful from your end....thanks... --Vandy 1989 (talk) 06:07, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Question from Vandy 1989 (03:06, 21 April 2022)
Please look in my talk page in section Draft:Muslim-Yadav formula for the article you are my mentor so please take care, you can see so many independent sources / link has been added by me but page moved to draft
feeling so bad............................. --Vandy 1989 (talk) 03:06, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, Vandy, without any knowledge of Indian politics, it was a bit hard to follow, but I gave it a go. I haven't read all the references; here are some intitial impressions:
- For the beginning of the article, it seems to be all about RJD and Bihar. I was wondering "why not make this a section in RJD article?" Then I eventually looked at one of the refs for Samajwadi and discovered they are in UP. Perhaps mention this in the lead/intro section, so that the reader has a better idea of the article's scope.
- There is a lot of extra information that isn't directly related to M-Y voting:
- Draft:Muslim-Yadav formula#Prominent members of Rashtriya Janata Dal – there is already Rashtriya Janata Dal#Prominent members
- Draft:Muslim-Yadav formula#Influence of Shahabuddin in Bihar – it's unclear how the story about Mohammad Shahabuddin is relevant.
- Though jargon terms like "M-Y equation", are used in the sources, they are unlikely to be understood by a general audience. For most people "equation" and "formula" have a very different meaning. So you need to explain what the "M-Y formula" is. Instead of
The Muslim-Yadav formula is a political formula
, you could write something like "The Muslim-Yadav formula was a political strategy of appealing to Muslim and Yadav voters in Bihar ..." - It's not clear to me from the article how Samajwadi party in UP ralates to M-Y voting in Bihar. One source says "... M-Y (Muslim-Yadav) formula that has catapulted it to power in Uttar Pradesh more than once." You need to make that explicit. I would write something like "The Samajwadi Party has also used the Muslim and Yadav vote to gain power in Uttar Pradesh. However in 2021, SP claimed to shift its focus away from casteism, saying 'In the new SP, M-Y stands for Mahila (women) and Youth'."
- Hope that helps, ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 14:38, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Pelagic noted from end suggestions and I'll write on this page shortly in more details. Vandy 1989 (talk) 17:22, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 April 2022
- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
Tech News: 2022-17
22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-18
19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-19
15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-20
18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-21
00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
Tech News: 2022-22
20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Editing newsletter 2022 – #1
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback.
23:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 50
Books & Bytes
Issue 50, March – April 2022
- New library partner - SPIE
- 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC) (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-23
02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-24
16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-25
20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Question from Bobpurvey1 on User:Bobpurvey1/Sandbox (19:34, 12 August 2022)
Hi. It appears tht upon "Publishing" the formatting changed. Also, I believe the links to references were deleted. Ben Marcuse had, just recently, tried to submit a version that was unacceptsble and then he seems to have given up. --Bobpurvey1 (talk) 19:34, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Editing news 2022 #2
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The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:35, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- BTW, you have two links at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter, so you're getting two copies. If you only want one, please remove the other page from the list. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:39, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-35
23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
VickyBenz / Teahouse
Hi Pelagic
I'm just back from vacation, hence my late reply to your ping.
The usual process for people who aren't following Newcomers tasks' instructions is the same as for any kind of poor quality edit. Someone has to tell the user that they are doing things wrongly and explain how to improve their edits. If they don't will to take the advice into consideration, then advice escalate to sanction. Same as usual! :)
ForVickyBenz's defense, the instructions about copyediting aren't about links, so this user wasn't working following faulty instructions. There is a separate task about linking. Ans we have an even more specific task about linking (not yet available at English Wikipedia), where users are even more guided.
Let me know if you have any question! Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:58, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, Trizek (WMF), welcome back! Hope you had a good vacation. I agree, it's not faulty instructions. Just seems that the user wasn't reading them. I thought that maybe they weren't being shown the cleanup template which would tell them an article had been flagged for tone not grammar, but it displays fine for me on the mobile site. I don't know what could be done to make the instructions more obvious: likely nothing needs to be done.
- Guided tasks lead to high volume of edits from well-meaning people. We as a community need to find a way to tactfully guide them without biting.
- This user's edits are all reverted now, though might not have been if someone else hadn't raised the issue at the Teahouse. I guess you collect statistics on reverted suggest-an-edits. Do you analyse for number of users having majority reversion on their newcomer tasks? Apologies if pinging you was unwarranted.
- I saw discussion elsewhere about having separate templates for newbie-friendly cleanup versus hard cleanup. That seems like a good idea, but making it happen would be difficult.
- . ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 21:23, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hi! I randomly checked a few of VickyBenz's edits. None of the templates displayed on the article they edited are about adding links. They were all about tone and being written in a subjective manner. The templates are a warning as they , but they don't really explain, or give a hint, on how to fix things; maybe there is something to do there. This user may have not understood how things work on Wikipedia. The steps presented by the copyediting Growth task are about fixing spelling and grammar errors and rewriting sentences so that they do not contain opinions, not about adding links. They are quite aligned with what the templates warn people about. So I agree on the fact that this user has apparently not read the instructions, alas.
- To increase the chances to having well-meaning people to edit more, there are indeed some improvements that can be made, like thinking about action-oriented templates. But I know it might be difficult (I went though that path at my home wiki). Also, having more people volunteering to be mentors would definitely help: newcomers make more successful edits when they know that they have someone they can find if they have a question. Unfortunately, the Teahouse is not an easy place to discover.
- We indeed collect rever trates, but they give us a trend, not a direct highlight on a given user. Also, reverts are not always well used: some users revert a nearly-perfect edit instead of fixing what misses.
- No problem pinging me for these cases (on the contrary, I'm always happy to reply to direct questions), but you'd have had a quicker response by posting on Wikipedia:Growth Team features' talk page. :)
- Best, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:57, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-36
23:20, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
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Update to commentlinks.js gadget
I am about to update my comment links gadget to link the comment's timestamp rather than add a separate [ link ] button. If you prefer the old style, that gadget will be available at commentlinks-v1.js. As before, this gadget is experimental and may stop working at any time, see T275729 for the task to make this a proper feature. Thanks, ESanders (WMF) (talk) 12:08, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
re Tech News: 2022-46
MediaWiki message delivery 21:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- site links to redirects – about time!
- talk page templates – 🤔
- community wishlist survey now biannual – 😡
- . ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 20:19, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-47
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Growth team newsletter #23
20:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
HNY
Happy New Year from Sydney. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 13:05, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 January 2023
- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
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The Signpost: 16 January 2023
- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Tech News: 2023-03
MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 54
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022
- New collections:
- British Newspaper Archive
- Findmypast
- University of Michigan Press
- ACLS
- Duke University Press
- 1Lib1Ref 2023
- Spotlight: EDS Refine Results
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Tech News: 2023-05
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Growth team newsletter #24
14:44, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
- Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
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
- 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
Tech News: 2023-18
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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
Tech News: 2023-19
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Tech News: 2023-20
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The Signpost: 22 May 2023
- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
Tech News: 2023-21
16:53, 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
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Growth team newsletter #26
15:14, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-22
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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
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
Tech News: 2023-23
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The Signpost: 19 June 2023
- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
Tech News: 2023-25
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The Signpost: 3 July 2023
- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
Tech News: 2023-27
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The Signpost: 17 July 2023
- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
Tech News: 2023-29
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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
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Tech News: 2023-30
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Tech News: 2023-31
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!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- 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
Growth team newsletter #27
12:42, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-32
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Tech News: 2023-33
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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
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
Tech News: 2023-34
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Tech News: 2023-35
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The Signpost: 31 August 2023
- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
Tech News: 2023-36
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Books & Bytes – Issue 58
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 58, July – August 2023
- New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
- Tech tip: Filters
- Wikimania presentation
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The Signpost: 16 September 2023
- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
Tech News: 2023-38
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Tech News: 2023-39
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Thank you for your support
Community Relations Award | |
On behalf of the Editing team and my own team, thank you for your support for the Talk pages project during the last several years. I expect the last piece of Discussion tools to graduate from Beta Features here in the coming months. The team couldn't have met its overall goals without your help, especially in the early days at this project. Thank you. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:25, 28 September 2023 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2023-40
MediaWiki message delivery 01:25, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
- Featured content: By your logic,
- Poetry: "The Sight"
Tech News: 2023-41
MediaWiki message delivery 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #28
Trizek_(WMF) Talk 23:16, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-42
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The Signpost: 23 October 2023
- News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
- In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
- Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
- News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
Tech News: 2023-43
MediaWiki message delivery 23:14, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
Moderator Tools newsletter - Issue #1
Welcome to the inaugural Moderator Tools newsletter! We’ll aim to publish new issues whenever we have big new updates about the projects we’re working on.
PageTriage
We’ve now wrapped up our work to support the English Wikipedia’s New Pages Patrol community by tackling some major technical debt in the PageTriage extension. The final project update gives an overview of all the work that we did over the past 6 months.
Automoderator
We’re currently working on a project called Automoderator, which will enable communities to automatically revert bad edits based on community-defined settings. We’re looking for input and feedback on our plans so far, and have a number of questions on topics we need patrollers and administrators to help us understand better. In addition to the overview and questions on the main project page, we now have two sub-pages with more specific information:
- If you want to investigate Automoderator’s accuracy rate and check out how it would behave in practice, we’ve set up a testing process with data and scores so you can help us find new patterns we can take into consideration before Automoderator is deployed.
- The measurement plan is the first draft of our plan to measure whether Automoderator is achieving its goals and not having negative consequences. Want to propose some data for us to capture to help evaluate this project? This is the place to go!
Other
Our team has also been working to ensure that software we’re responsible for is updated to support temporary accounts. We’ve made changes to PageTriage, Nuke, and The Wikipedia Library.
Although we have active engineering projects ongoing, we're always happy to chat about your community's content moderation tool needs - feel free to get in contact at Talk:Moderator Tools.
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Tech News: 2023-44
MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 6 November 2023
- Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
- In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
- Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
- News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
- Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
- Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
- Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
Tech News: 2023-45
MediaWiki message delivery 21:04, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 November 2023
- In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
- News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
- Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
- Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
- Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
Tech News: 2023-47
MediaWiki message delivery 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 59
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 59, September – October 2023
- Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
- Tech tip: Library access methods
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The Signpost: 4 December 2023
- In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
- Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
- Comix: Bold comics for a new age
- Essay: I am going to die
- Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
- Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
- Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
The Signpost: 24 December 2023
- Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
- News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
- In the media: Consider the humble fork
- Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
- In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
- Technology report: Dark mode is coming
- Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
- Crossword: when the crossword is sus
- Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
- From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
- Humour: Guess the joke contest
Tech News: 2024-02
MediaWiki message delivery 01:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 January 2024
- From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
- Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
- Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
- News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
- WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
- Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
- Comix: Conflict resolution
Tech News: 2024-03
MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-04
MediaWiki message delivery 01:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 60
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023
- Three new partners
- Google Scholar integration
- How to track partner suggestions
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Tech News: 2024-05
MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 January 2024
- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
- Opinion: Until it happens to you
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
- Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
Tech News: 2024-06
MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 February 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
- Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
- Comix: Strongly
Tech News: 2024-07
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The Signpost: 2 March 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
- In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
- Obituary: Vami_IV
- Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
- WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
Tech News: 2024-10
MediaWiki message delivery 19:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 61
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 61, January – February 2024
- Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
- 1Lib1Ref results
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Tech News: 2024-11
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The Signpost: 29 March 2024
- Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
- Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
- Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
- Humour: Letters from the editors
- Comix: Layout issue
Tech News: 2024-14
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Books & Bytes – Issue 62
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 62, March – April 2024
- IEEE and Haaretz now available
- Let's Connect Clinics about The Wikipedia Library
- Spotlight and Wikipedia Library tips
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Growth News, April 2024
18:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 April 2024
- In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV
- News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
- WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
- Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
- Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
Tech News: 2024-18
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The Signpost: 16 May 2024
- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
Tech News: 2024-21
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