This user's talk page is
monitored by
talk page watchers. Some of them even talk back. Their input is welcome, and their help with messages that I cannot reply to quickly is appreciated.
Frostly is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia soon.
Frostly has recently suffered a significant loss and is grieving. Consequently, his ability to work on Wikipedia and his time available to do so may be affected. Your patience with delays in handling Wikipedia responsibilities and in responding to talk page messages or e-mails is appreciated, as is your compassion and understanding. Thank you.
My talk page archives are in disorder, and I'd love any help in fixing them! Otherwise, I'll get to them eventually.
Question from
Helen Burstyn (21:03, 16 January 2024)
Hello! I am looking for a certain article to make edits on. How do I go about finding that article and then making the edits? Many thanks for any guidance you can offer! --
GasGraci (
talk) 16:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Hello, im new on wikipedia and im read all guides about how to make company page and i hope im doing good job right now. But i have problem, my company name is Artic Ice in licence stay Artic Ice Trading. We export artic ice from greenland to dubai but in future we want export to all world, i want create page but i dont know how should i put name of page i mean first headline and page url. I was think i cannot put Artic Ice than i put Artic Ice Trading, i hope this is right and allowed to use. Also in last days all newspapers worldwide speak about us like The Guardian, CNN, RTL, Khaleej Times etc. also if you google “Artic Ice” you can find all that news about our company. Im also make external link to The Guardian but i have plan to add more. Can you please check my sandbox and see did i on good way to get approved from wikipedia.
Best regards. --
DevBens (
talk) 20:19, 18 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you for that, can you please check em i on good way to get approved this page
User:DevBens/sandboxDevBens (
talk) 17:52, 23 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Not interested in job
DAVID adh (
talk) 15:21, 21 January 2024 (UTC)reply
DAVID adh, I'm not sure that I fully understand your question. Could you please try rephrasing it? Thanks! —
Frostly (
talk) 22:50, 21 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Welcome to the drive! One person cannot make a dent on the backlog, but many people together can. Unfortunately, I don't really know what is your favorite topic area, so I think you should take a look at
tips and tricks section to find articles and practice citing them. Good luck for the drive, you'll need it.
CactiStaccingCrane (
talk) 13:41, 22 January 2024 (UTC)reply
@
I am a war criminal, welcome to Wikipedia! Are you asking about an article, or something else? Sincerely, —
Frostly (
talk) 19:01, 23 January 2024 (UTC)reply
how do I add another language translation to my about page? I wanna translate it into Japanese, my L2 language
I am a war criminal (
talk) 00:36, 25 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Tech News: 2024-04
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
A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed.
[1]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (
calendar).
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Question from
Joan Million (15:47, 23 January 2024)
Hello Frostly, happy to have you as a mentor. I wish to write an article, as a paid contributor, about a project about to be released. How should I proceed? --
Joan Million (
talk) 15:47, 23 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Joan Million, welcome to Wikipedia! It's best to
request an article when you're editing as a paid contributor, instead of drafting one yourself. This helps to maintain a neutral point of view! —
Frostly (
talk) 18:59, 23 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you for your quick answer (and for the cute snowflakes)! :) I have no clue how this works. Is it a way to get it done/approved faster or somewhat pre-approved ?
I looked for the title of the article I would like to write about and it doesn't seem taken. I guess it's a good start.
I'll happily take in all your advice!
Joan Million (
talk) 01:01, 24 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Joan Million, unfortunately, there's no way to accelerate the process. Requesting an article is the best venue for getting the article published! —
Frostly (
talk) 03:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the quick answer Frostly! Therefore, requesting an article implies that someone else would be creating it and writing the text as well. Is that correct?
Once again, thank you for your assistance.
Joan Million (
talk) 00:50, 27 January 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Joan Million, yes, that would be the case! They would write the article based on information available in published
reliable sources. If you have any proposals for further content coverage after the article is published, you can then suggest them to editors. Best,
Frostly (
talk) 02:01, 27 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Books & Bytes – Issue 60
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023
Fezile Mdletshe, welcome to Wikipedia! NASA
notes that the
Dobson unit is the most common unit for measuring ozone concentration. If you have any further questions about Wikipedia's content, please feel free to check out the
reference desk! —
Frostly (
talk) 03:38, 26 January 2024 (UTC)reply
I recently learned Wikipedia has translations into my natural language of Deutsch. From, Hansserd --
Hansserd (
talk) 01:18, 28 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Does editing Wikipedia burn calories? If it does, does it count as exercise? ;)
TWW is back from being long dormant. It was a nice "Hibernation" lol.
Wiki(P/M)edia news
Voting regarding the
Universal Code of Conduct is taking place on Meta Wiki. More information can be found via the link
EN Wikipedia has a few new Administrators following their successful RFA!
Information on the upcoming Steward Election on Meta can be found
here
A new feature called Reference Previews has been created. More information:
here
Editor's Notes
I apologise for the delay, I was not able to edit until recently.
I hope to have TWW published more frequently from this issue onwards. Ideally at least every 2 months. Since its near the end of the month, I decided to name this issue February.
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Recent changes
Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change
on Diff or
on Mediawiki.org.
[4]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on
the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (
calendar).
[5][6]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead.
[8]
Hello - don't understand what all these questions about Wikipedia have to do with obtaining credit report --
LMtacr2386 (
talk) 16:04, 1 February 2024 (UTC)reply
LMtacr2386, I'm not fully sure what you mean - nevertheless,
this page has information on credit reports. Best, —
Frostly (
talk) 02:11, 7 February 2024 (UTC)reply
An
RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (
T326065)
Arbitration
Following a
motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
Community feedback is
requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at
WP:AE.
A vote to ratify the charter for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via
Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found
here.
Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the
Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes.
Read more
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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to
the phabricator task.
On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity.
Learn more about "action blocks".
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (
calendar).
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Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.
[13]
Future changes
24 Wikipedias with
Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make
Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For
46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February,
unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings.
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Question from
StellaDevon (14:48, 6 February 2024)
Hello
I want to edit the editry on Admiral John Duckworth in the Memorials setion. I cannot see how to enter the memorials section. Very grateful for your help.
I am trying to delete one word in the material I have uploaded and get the following message every time I try- "As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. If you are attempting to run a bot or semi-automated script, please read and understand our bot policy, then request approval. Users who run unauthorized bot scripts may lose their editing privileges".
Hello, I want to add to the Wikipedia article about the Anuak tribe attacking members of the Nuer tribe in the Gambella, Ethiopia region. A Lutheran Sudanese Pastor in our congregation here in Faribault, MN, Gatluk Reat, was to leave on a mission trip to his homeland yesterday but had to cancel because of tthe Anuak's attacks on the Nuer tribe. They have attacked people walking on the street, buses carrying people, cars and even an ambulance. --
Rogerwilk (
talk) 18:36, 8 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Rogerwilk, the appropriate venue to report alleged attacks would be local law enforcement. Wikipedia can only include information published in
reliable sources, and editing with a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged. Best, —
Frostly (
talk) 21:50, 8 February 2024 (UTC)reply
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (
submissions), who has one FA on
John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on
Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (
Cwmhiraeth (
talk·contribs),
Epicgenius (
talk·contribs), and
Frostly (
talk·contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)reply
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
WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels.
[16][17][18] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.
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Problems
There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black;
this issue is fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (
calendar).
[21][22]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,
[23] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.
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Hello! My question: Are students who have not yet graduated from a university appropriate to add to notable alumni categories & sections? --
93iambic (
talk) 10:28, 14 February 2024 (UTC)reply
93iambic, welcome to Wikipedia! I think that depends on the specific article and its current formatting. Could you maybe link to it? Best, —
Frostly (
talk) 02:30, 15 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Women in Red
Thank you for signing up for Women in Red. When I turned up your user and talk pages, I saw that you were being treated as deceased. I am trying to resolved the problem. Please let me know if you see this message.--
Ipigott (
talk) 13:52, 17 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Sorry about this. I see that it is simply a result of your user page grievance message.--
Ipigott (
talk) 14:16, 17 February 2024 (UTC)reply
A kitten for you!
i hope you're doing ok right now; this week has been devastating. take care of yourself, and know that we're all here for each other. reach out if you need to
Sawyer-mcdonell, thanks so much for the message; it means a lot. hope you're doing okay too. best, —
Frostly (
talk) 22:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Tech News: 2024-08
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
If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
[25]
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for
Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with
Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see
this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the
task's description.
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (
calendar).
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Selected tools on the grid engine have been
stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the
team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext.
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I stumbled across another Wiki user who was using your snowflake template on their page, and I thought it was so cool that I added it to mine and realized that you were the original creator. Thank you so much for creating such a cool .css!!! I hope you don’t mind that I am using it? I really like snow!
Wafflefrites (
talk) 05:06, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Wafflefrites, thanks, glad you love it!! Definitely don't mind <3 —
Frostly (
talk) 22:18, 23 February 2024 (UTC)reply
--
Lajmmoore (
talk 20:22, 25 February 2024 (UTC) via MassMessagingreply
Tech News: 2024-09
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
mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis.
Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.
[30]
The
mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))).
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (
calendar).
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Future changes
The right to change
edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in
this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
Generalissima (
submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on
John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (
submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five
A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two
Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on
completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his
to-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on
Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia
Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this.
Aaron Liu (
talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script
here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from
the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created
a fork of
SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for
PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and
the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in
TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained
Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by
/redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's
MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the
WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to
Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid:
Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that
editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize
rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
Hello, I'd like to know how or perhaps just get you to add the 2008 movie the ruins to Ben Stiller's list of films that he's been apart of producing --
TherealVictorzsasz (
talk) 04:59, 1 March 2024 (UTC)reply
TherealVictorzsasz, welcome to Wikipedia! I've added the category. See
this page for information on how you can do it in the future! Best, —
Frostly (
talk) 18:28, 1 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Our first double issue in
almost four years, although we will try to return to a monthly schedule henceforth (incidentally, the last double issue saw
Markham's storm petrel at GAN, and this one sees it finally pass FAC).
The
March 2024 GAN Backlog Drive starts today; everyone is welcome to participate and help reduce the backlog of GANs.
The January edition of our
monthly rolling contest was won by Quetzal1964 with 100 points from 40 articles, mainly related to various species of marine fish. simongraham was second with 80 points from 14 articles on jumping spiders.
The February edition saw Quetzal1964 win for the second time in a row, with 114 points from 43 articles. In second place was Snoteleks, with 21 points from 7 seven articles on various unicellular
eukaryotes, including the GA
Telonemia.
January DYKs
... that Dacrytherium, literally meaning 'tear beast', was named after its "
tear-pit"? (3 January)
... that the wood-pasture hypothesis posits that semi-open wood pastures and not primeval forests are the natural vegetation of temperate Europe? (5 January)
... that until April 2023, when the
genusTriassosculda was discovered, the
mantis shrimp fossil record contained a gap of more than a hundred million years? (5 January)
... that although Olga Hartman believed that her
basic research on marine worms had no practical value, it was applied to experimental studies of oysters? (6 January)
... that Oxford ivy grows towards the light to bloom and then towards the darkness when going to seed? (17 January)
... that S. F. Light(pictured) disliked using his full name? (20 January)
... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"? (26 January)
... that having lived in Central Park for more than a year after becoming homeless, Flaco(pictured) has been accused of being a peeping tom? (19 February)
Is this an alternate account of yours? If so, please disclose this on your User page along with any other accounts that you work with. Thank you. LizRead!Talk! 04:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi
Liz, the bot is disclosed
here. My user page is currently blanked, but happy to link to the page more prominently on my talk for now. Best, —
Frostly (
talk) 04:58, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Yes, I want to published my page on wikipedia --
Syed Aqib Bukhari (
talk) 11:33, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Tech News: 2024-10
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 Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension.
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Maintenance on
etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in
this ticket.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
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A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (
calendar).
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Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See
Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (
more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (
more info).
I asked a question in the Talk section, but before I created an account. I have donated year after year but never created an account, just enjoyed using wiki, until I came across something that doesn't seem correct based on my experience. In the Magnesium Citrate page
Magnesium_citrate it lists 20g/100ml solubility, but I can only get 2g/100ml. This looks like it is off by a decimal. I created an account just now. My question to you is how do I get my account associated with that question? (if I am correct I want to edit that and get credit) Thank you! --
GregDeemy (
talk) 02:40, 10 March 2024 (UTC)reply
No. But based on my experiment the value in Wiki is not only incorrect, it is off by an order of magnitude. I am asking other people to try to dissolve the amount that Wiki says is correct and see if it is really correct (it is not correct). If there is another way to get this corrected, please let me know.
GregDeemy (
talk) 01:00, 16 March 2024 (UTC) To be clear, I think the value is off by a decimal point - a typographical error.reply
New Zealand report: WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions, wrapping up the Auckland / Tāmaki Makaurau local histories project, and the Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large
Poland report: WikiMatejko editing action; The eighth European GLAM Wiki coordinators meet up
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (
calendar).
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After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the
Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
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The active link color in
Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
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Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.
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Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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Hello, when adding citations, should I use the direct text from an article or paraphrased sentences? --
Linguza (
talk) 08:49, 12 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Linguza, welcome to Wikipedia! In articles, it depends. If you are adding a view or opinion of the source or the person who wrote it, you can elect to use
quotes, or you can also paraphrase it (a mix of both is usually the best option). Otherwise, if the source presents factual information, write the content in your own words, unless using a quote is helpful for context or further understanding. Best, —
Frostly (
talk) 00:27, 16 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi mentor. I used to operate another Wikipedia account but unfortunately it was banned due to some errors. I like contributing to this website and I don't wanna get banned again. Can you tell something more about such policies? And where are you from btw? --
Dipayanrao2003 (
talk) 10:18, 15 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Dipayanrao2003, could you please link to your previous account? Thanks! —
Frostly (
talk) 00:29, 16 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I don't exactly remember my last username (I think it's something like my current username) but I remember that I was banned for a particular duration but the ban period was regularly extended.
Dipayanrao2003 (
talk) 02:30, 16 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oh yeah, I've another question? How did you create that snowfall animation in your home page? It was nice. --
Dipayanrao2003 (
talk) 10:21, 15 March 2024 (UTC)reply
(
talk page watcher) hi @
Dipayanrao2003! the
css code for this is in
User:Frostly/snowflakes.css, which makes use of keyframes and css animation. the code itself is not wikipedia-specific and can be run (with attribution, of course) as normal css. happy editing! 💜 melecietalk - 01:20, 16 March 2024 (UTC)reply
hi @
Melecie, thanks for providing the code. What other animations are there? Can you forward a few more links for similar animations?
Dipayanrao2003 (
talk) 02:49, 16 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Dipayanrao2003, you can change the snowflake emoji to another one! You can also do things like
falling stars,
leaves,
confetti, and so much more. Google "CSS animations" for inspiration. Regards, —
Frostly (
talk) 11:54, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Hello! Just a reminder that, if you have time, you are welcome to join the
GA backlog drive; it runs until the end of March. You are receiving this message because you
signed up on the drive page but have not yet listed any reviews. We hope to see you there! Either way, happy editing! —
Ganesha811 (
talk) 18:15, 15 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I knew it I knew it, most editors like to contribute because it improves the availability of free knowledge, or because they enjoy it! Best, —
Frostly (
talk) 04:04, 18 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Like your new user page!
Hi @
Frostly! Just wanted to note that I really liked your new user page!!
W9793 (
talk) 16:43, 18 March 2024 (UTC)reply
W9793, thanks! Congrats on the GA - fantastic work :) —
Frostly (
talk) 11:15, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Tech News: 2024-12
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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the
Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
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IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
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The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
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RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in
right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (
calendar).
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All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at
14:00 UTC.
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Hello, if an article has been flagged as possible advertisement. Fails WP:NCORP how is it possible to edit it so it wouldn't get deleted? --
Linguza (
talk) 12:33, 19 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Linguza, articles need to be
notable, demonstrated through
reliable sources that cover the subject. Including relevant citations is the best way to demonstrate suitability. Writing text in a
neutral point of view also contributes. Sincerely, —
Frostly (
talk) 06:40, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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
An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in
Vector 2022 skin. A
checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (
calendar).
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hello there I'm interested In making an article about my self or building a profile that talks about me and my life --
Geraldoquinones (
talk) 19:22, 25 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Asked and answered at Teahouse.
David notMD (
talk) 15:31, 26 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi
Feeshimak7, I'm not sure that I understand your question. Could you please try rephrasing it? Thanks! —
Frostly (
talk) 06:37, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I would like to add new content regarding several people’s historical contribution in a few areas that I am personally knowledgeable about. One is my father (now deceased) that made a huge impact in early mechanical mining.
How would I go about that? Thanks! --
Kent Tabor (
talk) 13:31, 30 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Women in Red April 2024
Women in Red| April 2024, Volume 10, Issue 4, Numbers 293, 294, 302, 303, 304
Hello
I'm new in wikipedia and so excited about it!
I wanted to create an article that was missed in the site.
I wondered if it's possible to do that although I'm a begginer, and wanted to ask you for a guidance in order to do that.
Thank you very much --
Amal institute (
talk) 04:32, 1 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Hello mentor.
How do I update or create an article about an organization details or another person details? I mean the format to use. --
JOSE LG22 (
talk) 14:53, 1 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (
T313405)
Arbitration
An
arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for
The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve
vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
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
Users of the
reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (
calendar).
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Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read
the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can
comment on the talk page.
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the
May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the
Awards page and the
Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated
NPP Browser tool.
Please how can I create a new published article related to my state of origin here in Nigeria. --
BalaAbduljalil (
talk) 12:00, 4 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Hello there, in the page of tholkapiyam there is mentioned as Hindu gods,and as on that century no Hindu saying in that century.. please recorrect --
Annache3 (
talk) 05:09, 5 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Annache3, I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean. Could you please rephrase? As well, having a
reliable source that supports the correction is also helpful. Sincerely, —
Frostly (
talk) 21:07, 8 April 2024 (UTC)reply
this article is oviously written like an advertisement. How could I change this to be more encyclopedic? --
PhotoEditor123 (
talk) 13:57, 6 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi Frostly, when writing an edit summary, you can use /* [Section] */ to specify where you edited. Is there a way to be more specific than that, for a subsection? Example: I'm working on the page
2024 in archaeology, there is a "Finds" section and an "Events" section, both have subsections named after months (i.e. April). How do I go about specifying if I edited in Finds' April versus Events' April? Thanks! --
Dmhll (
talk) 06:38, 8 April 2024 (UTC)reply
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
Web browsers can use tools called
extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called
Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new
Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a
user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the
project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
Readers using the
Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (
calendar).
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New accounts and logged-out users will get the
visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.
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WMF GLAM report: Learn to upload to Commons with OpenRefine and get up to date on the International Museum Day, GLAM CSI, WiLMa Network, and WikiWorkshop
Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since
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Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year
Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).
Drive: 46 editors signed up for our
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Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki,
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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on
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gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
Péter Fried is the leading operatic basso singer in the Hungarian State Opera. He has won more prizes of his musical life: the "Liszt" Prize, the "Bartók" Award, and the “Artisjus" Prize of the Hungarian Contemporary Composers.
He had success with his most important roles from the U.S. to Japan in the famous concert-halls and opera houses, e.g., Toronto, Baltimore, Washington, Tokyo, Nagoya,Barcelona, Grenoble, Paris, London, Roma, Brussels, Nizza, Monte Carlo, Bayreuth, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, Bangkok, Vienna, Köln, Stuttgart, Amsterdam,Rotterdam.
He had an exclusive contract with Pierre Boulez Management for ten years. He was a returning guest star at famous festivals: PROMS BBC in Barbican Hall, in Royal Albert Hall, in Beaux-Arts (BOZAR)-Brussels, in Paris Salle Pleyel, Cité de la Musique, in Saint Denis Festival, Ravenna Festival-all of which were broadcast by Eurovision and by EUB, and Santa Cecilia Hall Roma, Cologne-Festival, Nashville Festival U.S., and Lincoln Center New-York.
Péter Fried has other performances, e.g., in Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand in Beaux-Arts in Brussels, conducted by Boulez, recorded by Radio Benelux, and also performed in Royal Albert Hall, recorded by the BBC. He had a personal invitation from Péter Eötvös to his own opera Three Sisters Solioni’s role in the Opera National de Lyon and in Wiener Festwochen, and he sang the Seneca role of Monteverdi‘s Poppea in London.He has performed the title role of "Bluebeard" on more than 100 invitations around the world. Bartók‘s Bluebeard's Castle was performed by Péter Fried and conducted by Péter Eötvös in Stuttgart. The CD of this performance was recorded by SWR in 2004 and has won Grammy Award Nomination.
In 2006, Pierre Boulez invited Péter Fried to play the title role in "Bluebeard Duke" at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, which he conducted. Judith's role was sung by Ms. Jessye Norman. This performance has won the “year of the best classical music concert” title and was recorded by Radio France. He had more important performances also in the USA, recorded by the BBC, NBC, and CBS, and in Torino, recorded by RAI.
Péter Fried has other performances, e.g., in Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand in Beaux-Arts in Brussels, conducted by Boulez, recorded by Radio Benelux, and also performed in Royal Albert Hall, recorded by the BBC. He had a personal invitation from Péter Eötvös to his own opera Three Sisters Slioni’s role in the Opera National de Lyon and in "Wiener Festwochen," and he sang Seneca's role in Monteverdi‘s Poppea in London.
He has made his opera debuts at the Opera de Monte-Carlo in Handel's Judas Maccabeus, in the role of Sarastro in Mozart's Magic Flute in Monaco, and in the role of Ramfis in Verdi's Aida in the Grand Arena Pula’s.
He sang many times in the Budapest Spring Festival, the King Henrik in Wagner‘s Lohengrin and the role of Landgraf Hermann Wagners Tannhãuser as a partner of Linda Watson,Riccarda Marberth, and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Edita Gruberova.
Péter Fried has received more invitations from world-famous conductors, e.g. Sir Yehudi Menuhin,Pierre Boulez, Péter Eötvös, Philippe Jordan, Rico Saccani, Jurij Simonov, Pierre Giorgio Morandi, Richard Bradshaw, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and famous directors such as Vilppu Kiljunen, Calixto Bieito, Laurent Pelly, Robert Lepage, and Katharina Wagner.
Péter Fried’s most important opera roles are:
Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle, title roll
Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea-Seneca
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte-Don Alfonso,
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte-Sarastro
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail-Osmin
Beethoven: Fidelio-Rocco
Verdi: Don Carlo: II.Philipp
Verdi: Aida +- Ramfis
Verdi: Macbeth-Banquo,
Verdi: Rigoletto, Sparafucile,
Wagner: Lohengrin, King Henrik
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Landgraf Hermann,
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande - Roi Arkel
Puccini: La Boheme, Colline,
Puccini: Turandot, Timur,
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Basilio
Rossini: La Cenerentola: Alidoro
Tchakowsky: Onegin-Gremin
Borodin: Prince Igor-Khan Kontchak
Schönberg: Die Glückliche Hand
Goldmark: Die Königin in Saba
Péter Fried’s oratorio repertoire (extract)
Handel: Judas Maccabeus: Kaleb,
Handel. Saul, Title Roll
Handel: Messiah, Arias Basso
J.S. Bach: St. Matthew - Passion
J.S. Bach: Christmas oratorio
J.S. Bach: Mass in B-minor
J.S. Bach: Magnificat
J.S. Bach: Phoebus and Pan
Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten
Haydn: Die Schöpfung
Beethoven: IX Symphony
Mozart: Requiem
Rossini: Stabat Mater
Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Verdi: Requiem
Songs-Lieder:
Péter Fried has sung Lieders from many musical ages, e.g.: of preclassical, of baroque,
of classical and romantic composers. His preferred age is "Deutsche Lied, not
only the Wiener Classical composer's work, but inclusive Schubert’s, Schumann’s,
Wolf's, Brahms’s lieder, and so many others also.
Track3000 (
talk) 19:40, 14 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Track3000, I see that you've submitted a draft for review about this topic! Please let me know if there's any questions that I can answer for you. Sincerely,
Frostly (
talk) 03:55, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Problems
Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (
calendar).
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Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in
footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
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A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to
abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.
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Future changes
Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle
temporary accounts.
Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including
Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated.
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Hi, can you please help me? I am blocked for fixing a little typo and have been told that I did "vandalism", although I actually only fixed a typo (last time I haven't have an account). I am sorry if this is actually not allowed. Can you please help me unblock my IP address? --
GlowFrog1912 (
talk) 14:03, 17 April 2024 (UTC)reply
GlowFrog1912, if you're still encountering this issue, could you please let me know the exact error message that you're seeing? Thanks!
Frostly (
talk) 03:56, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I added to an article but I now think that it’s more of my personal opinion. I also didn’t reference a scripture verse properly that I noted. I’m not sure if this post is correct and acceptable because it’s of an opinion nature. I’m thinking I should remove it. --
The Lane Vision (
talk) 04:16, 20 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The Lane Vision, welcome to Wikipedia! You're always free to remove any of your posts on
talk pages if you'd like; good thinking there. Best,
Frostly (
talk) 03:59, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
You can
nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (
calendar).
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Future changes
This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of
Special:MyPage/vector.js to
Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are
more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.
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Hello. When I was three years old (1953) living in Victor Iowa, I used to play with the women who became the 1968 Miss America and I am looking for contact information so I can ask her if she remembers any of that. --
Eastmanlaw (
talk) 23:13, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Eastmanlaw, unfortunately, Wikipedia is not a contact directory. You might want to consider using alternative resources online. Best,
Frostly (
talk) 04:07, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Books & Bytes – Issue 62
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 62, March – April 2024
The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates
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If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to
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Community Configuration
Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig. This quarter we are working on making
Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.
An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at
Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be
Automoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “
Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's
Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (
T361763)
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (
example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a
unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (
T352900)
Future work
Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the
WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (
T361657)
We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at
our project talk page.
Hello, how can a make a wiki page giving more info on the cultural institution Gluon based in Brussels --
DeJaeger2080 (
talk) 21:20, 24 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi
DeJaeger2080, please avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors. If the subject is
notable, you might want to consider
requesting an article to be written about Gluon in a
neutral point of view.
Frostly (
talk) 04:05, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
give urdu blog to edit --
Regal2021 (
talk) 02:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Regal2021, I'm not sure that I fully understand your question. Could you please try rephrasing it? Thanks!
Frostly (
talk) 03:52, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Women in Red May 2024
Women in Red | May 2024, Volume 10, Issue 5, Numbers 293, 294, 305, 306, 307
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.
The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
BennyOnTheLoose (
submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player
John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
The full scores for Round 2 can be seen
here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76
in the news credits and at least 200
did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to
featured topics and
good topics.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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 appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test
gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes
in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
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Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (
calendar).
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Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks.
T280531
You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.
This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
The newsletter will not be returning to a monthly format (mainly because the author is busy failing every exam imaginable) and is on a bimonthly schedule for the foreseeable future.
The second round of the WikiCup was very competitive, requiring the highest points total to advance since 2014. Two TOL editors, AryKun and Fritzmann2002, advanced to the third round.
The March edition of our
monthly rolling contest was won by simongraham, who amassed 118 points from 21 articles on various species of jumping spider; in second place was Quetzal1964 with 109 points from 53 articles on marine ray-finned fish.
Quetzal1964 and simongraham were also the top two in the April edition, although Quetzal was ahead this time, with 68 points to simongraham's 48. In the annual leaderboard, Quetzal and simongraham are in first and second place respectively, with 291 and 246 points; in third place is Snotoleks, with 76 points.
... that the cherry blossom was used symbolically in Japanese World War II
propaganda, with falling petals representing "young soldiers' sacrifice for the emperor"? (8 March)
... that the Kīlauea lava cricket disappears from a lava field as soon as any plants start to grow there? (13 March)
... that
Julian Assange's lawyer argued that the rules set by the
Ecuadorian embassy requiring Assange to take care of his pet cat Michi were "denigrating"? (13 March)
... that
mule deer sometimes prefer the flavor of one Rocky Mountain juniper tree, like "ice cream", over another? (21 March)
... that the skeleton panda sea squirt was known on the Internet for its skeleton-like appearance years before its formal description? (26 March)
... that only one fruit but several thousand seeds were known when Allenbya collinsonae was named? (26 March)
... that while named for
alliums, the fossil Paleoallium(pictured) was not necessarily directly related to any allium species? (27 March)
... that the extinct genus Mixtotherium, meaning 'mixed beast', has traits of both extinct primates and
hyraxes? (28 March)
... that the fossil fern Dickwhitea was described from a single block of
chert? (28 March)
... that only six years after its 2016 discovery, the Meratus blue flycatcher(pictured) was found being sold in Indonesian songbird markets? (30 March)
... that the spirit liverwort is called such because of its proximity to the Māori afterlife? (31 March)
... that cultures of the fungus Lentinus brumalis have been flown on three different satellites? (31 March)
... that the English herbalist
Nicholas Culpeper claimed that eating alkanet leaves would make a person's spit deadly to serpents? (31 March)
Eufriesea purpurata
Korowai gecko
Paleoallium billgenseli fossil
Male Meratus blue flycatcher
April DYKs
... that despite its name meaning 'unscented', Hypericum × inodorum can smell strongly of goat? (1 April)
... that color-changing cats(artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future? (2 April)
... that the white-tailed jay(example pictured) found in Ecuador and Peru was once thought to have been brought to Mexico by
pre-Columbian trade? (5 April)
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 appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (
a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes
on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes
in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
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Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found
at the extension's page.
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Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (
calendar).
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When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".
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Albania report: International Roma Day Editathon in Albania and Kosovo, 2024
Australia report: New images from Central Australia on Wikimedia Commons, Library Science WikiProject students edit Wikipedia & 1Lib1Ref in Australia and New Zealand
Regarding
this edit: thanks for removing the blank lines between list items!
isaacl (
talk) 13:49, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Tech News: 2024-20
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
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If you use the
user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (
what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page.
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Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the
image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
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The old
Guided Tour for the "
New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (
calendar).
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The
Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.
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Future changes
In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022.
Learn more.
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Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
Hello Mentor. I am struggling to find those pages of my niche to, where I have the expertise to edit. Even thought I am using the topic filters but still I am struggling to find where I can contribute the best. My niches - India, government schemes of india, blogging, digital skills, laghu udyog, NGOs in India, etc. Please help. --
Jagrukbanoindia (
talk) 18:22, 16 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Jagrukbanoindia, welcome to Wikipedia! Have you tried
SuggestBot? It can be very helpful for finding articles to edit :) Best, —
Frostly (
talk) 01:25, 21 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you so much Frostly for your kind help.
Lovedotedit (
talk) 03:36, 21 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Tech News: 2024-21
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
Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.
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New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (
calendar).
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The HTML used to render all headings
is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and
report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a
Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
Hello, how do I make a page I edited searchable on this site? --
Brugabysebreka (
talk) 14:08, 21 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Brugabysebreka, Wikipedia is not a web hosting service. If you are interested in using the wiki technology for a collaborative effort on something else, even just a single page, many free and commercial sites provide wiki hosting. You can also install wiki software on your own server. See the installation guide at MediaWiki.org for information on doing this. —
Frostly (
talk) 16:37, 22 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I want to update an article ("Thomas Bernard 1750-1818") based on a 1911 public-domain source, which is badly outdated and misses the most important and influential parts of his career while focusing on minor parts. Can I rewrite the whole thing, or do I need to work with 1911 as the base text? I will be providing many citations from the history of science scholarship and some of my own published research.
Please advise,
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
Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see
T365107 and
T365119.
In March 2024 a new
addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and
give feedback.
Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon.
Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (
calendar).
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When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules.
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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
It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript.
Documentation is available.
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The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category".
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (
calendar).
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Future changes
Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read.
Learn more.
Hi,
I am reaching out to you because you are listed as my mentor and I do need help with Wikipedia. I recently created an article and I received a message from “Air on White (talk)” saying the following (among some other stuff but this is the important part):
Hello, Titusunlimited, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as User:Titusunlimited, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's content policies and may not be retained. In short, the topic of an article must be notable and have already been the subject of publication by reliable and independent sources.
Please review Your first article for an overview of the article creation process.
I sent a response saying the following but I haven’t received an answer:
I wanted to create a bio page so when people google me they can see a short description of myself form a reliable source: me. I am not sure if "creating an article" was the right approach and I would appreciate the help/guidance because wikipedia seems quite convoluted and it is not easy to publish anything. I referenced extensively as I have had many interviews and features so I am not sure what exactly goes against the guidelines. I also wanted to add a picture/s but could not figure out how. Can you please assist?
Thanks,
Jean Titus --
Titusunlimited (
talk) 14:25, 6 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.
Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our
mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page.
Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the
April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available
here.
Drive: 58 editors signed up for our
May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are
here.
Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki,
Miniapolis and
Wracking.
To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
our mailing list.
Hi I was wondering what the policy is for creating an article about someone who is "notable" but only in a specific area or region? For example I was thinking about creating an article on a pro wrestler here in the Appalachian mountains. He has won several championships here and has helped to raise a lot of money for charity so my question is would he be considered an appropriate topic for an article? --
Eastkygirl (
talk) 01:33, 9 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Albania report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Kruja; Traditional Albanian food photography competition
Brazil report: Open licensing guide from Midiateca Capixaba; Activities in Rio de Janeiro; First batch from LabDOC; New batch from NeuroMat; Hercule Florence photowalk
Czech Republic report: International discussion on the role of media and new GLAM partnership on the horizon
India report: Digitization concludes for Behar Herald and a digitization workshop held for libraries in Maharashtra
Hello. I think The Atlanta Dream team would be a lot better if we could get Sami Whitcomb. She is a knock down 3 point shooter. Adding another 3 point shooter could help the team with a penetrating guard like J. Canada. --
Dreamdogg (
talk) 23:31, 9 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.
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The HTML used to render all headings
is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and
report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a
Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The HTML markup used for citations by
Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser.
More details are available.
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Problems
There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (
calendar).
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The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations:
Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup.
More details are available.
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On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community
requests it.
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Best University For B.Ed --
Careertips (
talk) 06:22, 11 June 2024 (UTC)reply
The Best University For B.Ed is MDU ( Maharishi Dayanand University). This University Is Situated in Haryana
Careertips (
talk) 06:24, 11 June 2024 (UTC)reply