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WikiProject Louisville:
🗞️ June 23, 2024There's now over 7,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ May 22, 2024There's now over 22,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ February 29, 2024There's now over 21,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ January 13, 2024WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar,
The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (per
usage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go.
🗞️ December 28, 2023There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ December 12, 2023For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ December 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our
most popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapper
Jack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9.
🗞️ December 3, 2023Check out WikiProject Louisville's new
Participation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to our
talk page.
🗞️ October 24, 2023For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ October 21, 2023WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new.
🗞️ October 10, 2023WikiProject Louisville's
Assessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to our
talk page.
🗞️ October 3, 2023WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updated
action items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the
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🗞️ June 7, 2006WikiProject Louisville begins.
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- 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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- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Kadazandusun (
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Changes later this week
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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- 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.
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22:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
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About 5 of us have added citations stating the truck was at fault. There is video. A few cited it that police cited the driver, who had habitual offenses, cut the trucker off leading to it crashing. Is there a reason these keep being reverted? Is there a personal connection? It is in multiple articles
https://www.wlky.com/article/clark-memorial-bridge-semi-crash-louisville-charges-arrest/60295903. The way this article is written, it makes it sound like the trucker was at fault. I am all for being accurate and I have no idea why I care about this issue but when I see the amount of reverts when there is ample evidence - I wonder how neutral it is. I mean this with respect, I promise. I just cannot phantom the amount of reverts and have not seen this on many other articles. All I care about is accuracy and this article is not written in a neutral manner for information that has come out. Thank you.
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- "About 5 of us" looks like 2 in the edit history of the subject article. Anyway, as always, the Wikipedia prefers that content is backed up with a
reliable source. I reverted twice before because such was not provided at the time the additions were made. We're not allowed to synthesize or jump to conclusions; the sources have to come to any conclusions we include in the copy. I will review recent sources to see where this stands. As a long-time Wikipedian, I care about accuracy and neutrality. Given other vehicles were involved, that should be mentioned in some way, but only as far as the sources go. Of course, I'm not the only one who can make additions to the article. Whoever does just needs to ensure the added copy is backed up.
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02:34, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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Done I rewrote it to cover the immediate cause of the incident (pickup crashing into semi) and that the bridge had to be closed for repairs. I don't see any necessity of adjudicating legal responsibility or going into past of the pickup driver, because this isn't a news article but rather an encyclopedia article about the bridge. I think the matter now has been given its
WP:DUE weight.
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05:36, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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- 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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20:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, Stefen, As per above, pls provide the link of Wikipedia guidelines of your edits. Thank you.
Cassiopeia
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- I have just left a note on your talk page that explains.
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07:54, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see
Edit check for more details.
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- The new
Community Configuration extension is available
on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other
Community Configuration use cases in the future.
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- The dark mode
beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the
project talk page.
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Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.
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- Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any,
report them here.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (
calendar).
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- Starting June 18, the
Reference Edit Check will be deployed to
a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During
a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added
more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is
community configurable.
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Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software.
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Category:Defunct Catholic schools in Louisville, Kentucky has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the
categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at
the category's entry on the
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- Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions
on the project talkpage.
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- The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode.
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Changes later this week
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new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (
calendar).
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- Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature
on Diff or
on Mediawiki.org.
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22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
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Just wanted to flag
this memoir of Louisville in the 1850s. I'm going to use a little in a forthcoming
Matthew Garrison (slave trader) article, and I added a bit to
Jim Porter (giant) but there's lots of 160-year-old gossip on murders and the 1855 Know-Nothing Riots etc. cheers.
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15:18, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
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-
Jengod Thanks! Interestingly this is
available on the Filson website in a more readable form (and you can do word searches and copy text from it for quotes and such). Also, you can find all their Filson Club History Quarterly articles
here. And here are some
Louisville area-related sources I've been compiling in WikiProject Louisville. In that, I mention
Project MUSE (accessible from the Wikipedia Library) - with this, you can access practically any book published by the University Press of Kentucky, which may be of special assistance on the topic of slavery in Kentucky. Happy digging! :)
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08:31, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
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- You're awesome. I'll link to the Filson Club one as the source. TY so much for the reference list--I'll go through with each Louisville topic I cover. Best,
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14:39, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
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Latest
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Recent changes
- Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the
top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in
the latest Web team update.
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- Logged-in users can now set
global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis.
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- If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new
CSS features and to send less code to all readers.
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- Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using
Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure
Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months.
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- Editors interested in language issues that are related to
Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at
a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a
member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Mandailing (
w:btm:
)
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Problems
- Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team.
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