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Hey Robertsky!
Look forward to you being my Wiki mentor.
I have been uploading some photos and editing a page and my photos go up for 48 hours and then get rejected.
I am managing a Band and have full permission from them and the photographer who took them to post, but it keeps getting flagged. --Mattyc612 (talk) 15:58, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
@Mattyc612 thank you for your contributions. There are several matters at hand, which I will go through in order:
Your status as a manager for the band. There the apparent conflict of interest here. It may factor into a perception that your edits and the photos are promotional in nature, therefore being reverted as such. For future edits, do follow the steps for disclosing the conflict of interest, and potentially use the appropriate {{Edit request}} banner on the talk page.
The copyright ownership of the photograph. Typically the copyright ownership of photograph taken in USA is assumed to be that of the photographer's. If there is an expressed permission given by the photographer to release the photograph as such or that it is stated in the contract of work (or similar) between your company that either it is a work for hire, or that the copyright ownership has been released to you/your company, it is best to email to the Volunteer Response Team on Commons on affirming that the photograph is being released under the public domain license.
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
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. [1]
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). [2][3]
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. [5]
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". [6][7]
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). [8][9]
Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [10]
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. [11][12]
Hi, you blocked this account for 24 hours, but notified them of an indef block at their talk page. Thanks for your help by the way. Wikishovel (talk) 14:08, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
This award is given in recognition to Robertsky for collecting at least 10 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 22:44, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Al Saud
Hi Robertsky
I'd like to contest your decision to add Al Saud to a load of pages on Saudi royal princes. These names have been contested repeatedly over the years and the consensus has been generally to omit Al Saud. Furthermore, WP:COMMONNAME clearly favours the form without the extra Al Saud on the end... e.g. 118,000 hits vs. 30,000 for one example I looked at. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 13:55, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Yet, the example you gave is of a page that is not even listed among the seven that have been put forward for a potential move. The pages were moved multiple times over the years and there has been no solid consensus whatsoever, which has resulted in a mess that goes against WP:TITLECON. Keivan.fTalk18:15, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, Yo mate how can I add Tags labels to my page, also it seems that I have difficulties adding cites/References to my arguments could yo pls give me some tips about these stuffs --Kasra hp81 (talk) 22:03, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
@Kasra hp81, what kind of "Tags labels" are you asking about? As for adding citations and references, I have dropped a welcome template containing links to some tutorials, one of which is on adding references. – robertsky (talk) 09:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you so much for all your help, the tutorial is very useful.
Also about the "tags labels" I actually meant user boxes I didn't know the name back then,
@Kasra hp81, yes. The main page for userbox is at WP:UBX, and an non-exhaustive list of userboxes can be found here Wikipedia:Userboxes/Galleries. On your user page, for example, if you want to declare that you like axolotls, you can simply paste the userbox title as a template into your userpage: {{User:Nabikunyoi/Userboxes/Axolotl}}. – robertsky (talk) 16:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that North Carolina is not listed as a locality that has a particular type of mineral. I have a reference that says it is found there, but the article was published in 1916. It is written by the State Geologist at the time. Is there a way to suggest an edit? I'm not sure if perhaps that locality was invalidated later. --Rokhugr (talk) 18:23, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
@Rokhugr you can suggest an edit on the article's talk page with details of the change you want to make and also the details of the reference, i.e. document title, publication date, agency/person/etc writing it, etc. and add {{help me}} to it. I also have drop a welcome note on your talk page, linking some tutorials that you may be interested in, especially on how to write references on Wikipedia. – robertsky (talk) 16:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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. [13][14][15] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [16][17]
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). [18][19]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[20] 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. [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
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. [22]
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). [24][25]
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. [26]
Question from AngelCarmona1 (14:26, 20 February 2024)
I wanna know how I can write a story about this new artist that out she has been independent artist I need help of making a bio or something like a story about this artist. --AngelCarmona1 (talk) 14:26, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
@AngelCarmona1 That's enthusiastic of you to write a biography about the person. Before you embark on writing a new article, do familiarise yourself with editing on Wikipedia in general first. I see that you have done a couple of edits already on some pages, I encourage you to continue to do so as with each edit, you will be more familiar with the processes and norms on Wikipedia. To that end, I have dropped a welcome message on your talk page full with links to tutorials.
For writing on any subject, you are recommended to find three independent, third-party, and reliable sources. It cannot be of database-like sources, like song listings or charts, etc. For artist, there is some guidance as to what can determine the person notable:
The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors; or
The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique; or
The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews, or of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series); or
The person's work (or works) has: (a) become a significant monument, (b) been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) won significant critical attention, or (d) been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.
You are also recommended to go through the Your first article page, and use the draft system to get reviews from other editors.
Hi, thanks for helping with the redirect of The Mamba Mentality. For my future reference, what is the procedure for moving a draft to a name occupied by a redirect? Even if I edit the redirect, and blank it, do I have to nominate the page for a speedy delete before being able to move? Reagle (talk) 14:29, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
@Reagle, there is no point blanking the redirect as you are not the first author of the redirect typically. Either file a WP:CSD under the G6 criteria or request on WP:RM/TR, preferably the latter as pagemovers and some admins are quite active there.
Note that only admins have the rights to delete that redirect outright due to the edit history. Pagemovers would have done a page swap between the two pages instead. – robertsky (talk) 14:53, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Robertsky, I've joined in order to get my film listed. It was released in Irish cinemas last year, nationwide and will be released on Amazon Prime worldwide in March. I just submitted the page, how long would it take to be approved and be visible? --Lovelyhurlingpro (talk) 14:56, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
@Lovelyhurlingpro There is no schedule for reviews to be completed. Currently, it may take up to 7 weeks for a draft to be reviewed. I have taken a look at your sandbox article. First, it lacks the necessary template to notify reviewers. I have taken the liberty to add the template. Secondly, as you have a conflict of interest, it is best that you make the COI/PAID disclosure accordingly as many editors are strict on the matter.
Taking a quick look at the article, there is still much work need to be done. The relevant notability guidelines can be read at WP:NFILM. Some new films articles for your reference YOLO (film), The American Society of Magical Negroes. You are currently lacking the following sections: Production and Reception sections. The Release section is without references, and does not carry further information, such as box office details. Reception section should have reviews from known movie critics/publications. Production section can be thin, but would be nice to have. – robertsky (talk) 06:39, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
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. [27]
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"))). [28]
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). [29][30]
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.
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)
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.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
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!
Sorry! I reviewed the wrong article. I got confused with a different law article. I speedy nominated my review. The nomination remains in the same spot. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 05:09, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Lixinsha Bridge, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:
A "bare URL" error. References show this error when one of the URL-containing parameters cannot be paired with an associated title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)
@Esfhsf like how you edit here! On articles, just click on the Edit link at the top right side of the article. There is a welcome message on your talk page. In it there is a link to The Wikipedia Adventure. It is tutorial in guise of a game. Go through it to understand how you can contribute on Wikipedia. – robertsky (talk) 15:13, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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. [31]
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. [32]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [33]
Changes later this week
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). [34][35]
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. [36]
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).
The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meaningful Broadband until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
In recognition of your thoroughness and attention to Wikipedia's policies when closing the discussion on moving the Flour massacre article. This was an extremely contentious move discussion, with dozens of impassioned editors arguing about the necessity of moving the original article and debating the proper title to be used. Adding to the difficulty of this move discussion was the high level of attention that the discussion received off of Wikipedia. All told, Robertsky's thorough explanation in closing the discussion demonstrated clear reasoning as to 1) why the discussion among editors had coalesced around a consensus to move the article, and 2) why a move to Flour massacre was warranted at the time of the move even in the absence of a clear consensus on a target title. --Delta1989 (talk) (contributions) 16:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Move of 'Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident' to 'Flour Massacre'
Hi Robertsky,
I request that you reconsider your move of Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident. Many of the support !votes were brief and perfunctory, and above all I am very concerned by outside canvassing---a Twitter post that achieved over 570,000 views [37], as was noted in the move discussion (albeit, counterintuitively, as a reason to end the discussion) [38]
That tweet, from a user with 24,700 followers, stated as follows:
The Wikipedia page for the Flour Massacre euphemistically calls it the “Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident”. This is straight up Holocaust denialism.
This tweet was posted at 6:25 pm March 1. It you examine the page view statistics for the talk page where the RM was underway [39], you can see that page views went from 193 on Feb. 29 to 2252 on March 1 and 3374 on March 2 and remained at high levels, coinciding with a surge of support !votes, as was noted in the closure request discussion [40]. The spike in talk page views subsided in the days subsequent to the canvassing on Twitter, most recently to 718 as of 3/7.
The replies to the tweet linked above actively discuss the article move discussion.
I believe the process was tainted by this outside canvassing and I request that you reconsider this action, and let the RM remain open for a meaningful additional period of time.
One other point that bears mentioning, which is somewhat obvious, is that you changed the title to a name that is completely non-neutral and is in breach of WP:NPOV, in particular WP:IMPARTIAL. Even if the "consensus" that you found was not tainted by canvassing, that alone would be sufficient not to use "massacre" in a Wikipedia title of an article on a current event in a contentious topic area. Coretheapple (talk) 18:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
While there is the tweet, it cannot possibly explain all of the page views on the talk page. During the course of the discussion, there is also a similar page views pattern on the article itself [41]. Given that there is a RM banner on the article as well, the traffic to the talk page can also be attributed from the RM banner. If there is canvassing going on, we would expect that much of the talk page traffic come from mobile devices/app, given that 80% of Twitter users access Twitter via mobile (widely cited on the net as early as 2015. not sure what's the recent numbers). However there are many more viewers to the talk page from desktop devices, and despite an obvious spike in mobile traffic on day 1 of the tweet, the traffic from desktop is still much higher. A more definitive assessment on whether the traffic came from the RM banner can be made if we have the clickstream data for March, but that would be another 3 weeks before the data is being produced.
As the talk page is under ECP, the effects of canvassing is lessened, or hopefully non-existent, as many of those coming through the tweet who would have voted in favour of the move would have been anon or newly-registered accounts. EC editors who have joined the discussion may have visited the article, then the talk page by the virtue of the event being in the news. And those who have simply put 'Support/oppose per X' without much explanation of why so have been discounted in the assessment as consensus isn't poll voting. I evaluated at the strengths of the arguments against policies and guidelines instead.
As for the use of 'massacre', while it is seen as non-neutral in some quarters, it is recognizable and widely use in reliable sources, especially as 'Flour massacre' for now, and this is afforded in WP:NPOVNAME, a section of WP:NPOV. I did consider 'killings' or 'disaster', but there's limited evidence of either of their recognition presented and have relatively lesser support as well. – robertsky (talk) 20:48, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
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). [42][43]
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. [44]
The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [45]
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. [46]
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. [47][48]
RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
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your version has [restore this version] and a repeat of the infobox etc... likely a slip in copying a previous version in diff view? – robertsky (talk) 14:06, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks I see it now. Likely as you say a mixup when trying to restore intermediate edits. Will get on it now. CMD (talk) 14:17, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Akita move.
Why did you move the page to (dog breed) when only two comments supported that and three including the nomination supported appending dog? Traumnovelle (talk) 00:55, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
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@Lightoil there was no firm comments on whether to support or oppose on the move when I was processing through RMC to close discussions in the backlog and relisted it so to give more time to others to respond to the discussion. At that point in time, I had no opinion on which way the discussion should be closed. When it hit the Elapsed section again, I decided to take a closer deeper look at the sources to see if it can substantiate what is essentially a WP:NAMECHANGE request. I didn't feel comfortable closing the discussion as it is and register it as an oppose instead, which other editors may respond to, and at least one other editor had done so. It didn't register to me that it would be seen as a supervote when I commented on the discussion. – robertsky (talk) 11:23, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Robertsky - I can't find any reputable sources for this wiki page. Also, the subheader titles lack clarity. I could probably add their station logo and change their subheaders - or do you suggest I just move on? --Deirdre A. Lopian (talk) 20:20, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
@Deirdre A. Lopian there's one more option for you, if you have done the work of verifying if the article, feel free to remove the unsourced text. Do clearly state in your edit summary that you were unable to find sources for these statements. It will be the onus of the person reverting you to present sources for these unsourced statements. About the station logo, there's no harm in uploading the logo. Just remember to upload as a non-free file. – robertsky (talk) 03:32, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
@Tinkaer1991, see Help:Template#Writing templates for creating a template. If you have a specific template in mind and you have come across similar ones in other articles, use these existing templates as a base, copy them into your sandbox and modify from there. The setup can be, template under development: "User:Tinkaer1991/TemplateTest", and in your sandbox or draft, just tranclude {{User:Tinkaer1991/TemplateTest}} to verify that the tranclusion works as expected. Once your template is done, you can have it moved into the Template namespace. – robertsky (talk) 03:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Are we really going to use mapa-metro.com and belarusfeed.com (dead link) as evidence of strong RS to the point it is not "no consensus" but "not moved"? Mellk (talk) 03:30, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
@Mellk, are there any indications of these sources not being reliable ones? belarusfeed.com being dead does not mean that it cannot be used still, especially not when it has been archived. i.e. [61]. – robertsky (talk) 03:49, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
@Jax 0677 That's the consensus. To elaborate further, WP:RECENTISM for a start, a 4 year-old item vs a 60 year-old item (what's the long term significance of the book vs the album)?
Looking at the pageview data of both article (since you are basing your rationale to move on it), the book could still draw in a steady stream of pageviews (and even a 2x uplift for 2 years prior to the previous RM) after 60 years of its existence, can the album also draw in the same steady stream of pageviews? Was the uplift due to the book or some other factors? The difference in pageviews itself is not the only factor when evaluating for primary topic take over in general, but it generally does help in vacating the primary topic as it did in the early RM. I suggest that a delay renomination for about four to six months for the dust to settle in relation to searchability and reachability of either articles. By then with wikinav and the pageview tools, one would be able to tell if the steady stream of pageviews for the books was because it is the book that people are looking for or because it was for album, and they had limited choices and landed through the book to go to the album; or that the drop in daily traffic for the album has improved or reversed. – robertsky (talk) 14:27, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
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Immediate follow-up: I've done it and I want to clarify—I did it not because I assumed silence on a 20 minute-old talk page question meant approval (I hate when people do that on my talk page), instead I did it BOLDly because it seemed inline with policy and the overal consensus on the discussion would have leaned to do it. I also assume it could be undone as an undiscused move, of which I wouldn't have a problem. In doing the move, I left an {{old move}} template and my new question is is that propper, given the context of my above question. Thanks in advance for the guidance. microbiologyMarcus[petri dish·growths]02:29, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
@MicrobiologyMarcus that's interesting. I always thought that such additions would have trigger the bot to add the necessary notifications on the corresponding article and talk pages. @Wbm1058 is this supposed to be the case for the RMCD bot or was there something that changed? – robertsky (talk) 06:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Since 15 November 2021 (v 7.67), the bot doesn't post notifications more than one week after the RM was listed, to mitigate potential edit conflicts with closes in progress; issue reported here. Since then, a newer enhancement made on 17 February 2024 (v 8.40) limits the bot to three recent edits in subject-space, to stop it from edit-warring over changes to sync modified subject page notices, but that won't stop the bot from re-posting notices after a closer has removed them. Some day I may make the bot even smarter regards to these; better cleanup and reporting/record-keeping after closed RMs still on my back burner. – wbm1058 (talk) 12:25, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
@Wbm1058 I see. Maybe an additional switch in the template on the talk page to force update the notifications if there's any significant changes like this case? I.e. |update=1 after the bot is done with the new notifications, it can reset/remove the parameter. – robertsky (talk) 12:51, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Heck no, I wouldn't want to further complicate the template by adding a new, obscure parameter to it. I might could change the limit from the original list date & time to the current listed date & time, which would be the date that the RM was relisted, if it was relisted. That would extend the window for posting notifications another week, which would be fine if the relisted RM were allowed to run for another full week. But that would open the possibility for edit conflicts with closers if the RM were closed during its relist week. Of course, the current algorithm has the potential for conflicts with "speedy" closes, but we shouldn't have very many of those, theoretically. I've already added two functions to the bot's framework that look into a page's edit history, to serve two different purposes; I suppose I could add a third function to serve this purpose, by reporting how many edits the bot has made to the page since the RM opened, and allow the bot to post notices as long as the bot had not previously edited the page since the RM opened. We're getting into an area of diminishing returns here, where to accommodate ever more unusual and infrequently occurring scenarios, I need to spend ever increasing amounts of time working on coding workarounds. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello I want to upload a new wikipedia page about myself, Lara Smith, CEO of listed Antimony Company and written several articles and given key note addresses on critical metals.
@Larajt.smith005 If you are notable per WP:NBIO, someone else will write about you. I suggest reading through Wikipedia:Autobiography before embarking on this endeavour by yourself. As for writing other articles, you are welcome to write as long as there is no conflict of interest. I have dropped a bunch of links on your talk page which can guide you through your editing journey. – robertsky (talk) 00:04, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
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Just a question, regarding talk pages of Classical music and Opera articles: Classical music has no article classes, such as "stub" (only GA and FA). The template "Vital article" doesn't exist, it seems. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:37, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
That's because the WikiProject Classical music apparently does not do article assessment. You can however add its banner on the classical music related articles' talk pages if it is relevant, like what I just did at Talk:St John Passion structure. The new project banner shell design does not differentiate the article classes, giving it an appearance that the classical music project has done its (non-existing) assessment. – robertsky (talk) 16:53, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Would you be able to help with reviewing a draft wikipedia page for Farisha Ishak?
Hi Robertsky,
I created an article for Farisha Ishak, a singer-songwriter who won the first season of the Final 1, and was signed to Hype Records. She then did hosting, acting, and advocacy work.
I created the article in January and it was quickly rejected. However, I made changes a few days later, but it has not been reviewed again since.
I cam across your username on the Wikiproject Singapore page, so I was hoping you may be able to help with getting the article reviewed?
@Dreameditsbrooklyn No worries. While it is out of process, the consensus is already building in the direction and thus may be closed early. However, if there's someone coming out to ask for the discussion to be reopened in the next few days, I may just have it reopened. – robertsky (talk) 06:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Regarding this request; generally, we should not be working back-to-front; if a bold move is contested what needs to happen is the move is reverted and an RM opened. Yes, things are made more complicated here by the existence of an already open RM, but that doesn't justify keeping the article at the new title after the move has been contested - per WP:RMUM, recent bold moves can be reverted at any time, and once reverted should not be reinstated.
If you aren't willing to revert the move, can you leave the request open so that it can be considered by other editors? BilledMammal (talk) 15:57, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
@BilledMammal If the discussion is just a couple of days old, and there has yet to have a lively discussion, I would have closed the discussion procedurally and reverted the move, and leave it to whoever is interested to reopen a discussion for the article to be moved in the other direction. However, it has been 5 days with 35 participants. A revert at this point in time is disruptive to the discussion. – robertsky (talk) 17:29, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
What can be done is revert the move and leave the RM open, with a note that a bold move was reverted. It's better than allowing the bold move to stand, and inevitably causing issues if the RM is closed as "no consensus" - which is what appears to be likely to happen. BilledMammal (talk) 17:30, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
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I have written article for wikipedia and hopefully get it published. It has over 103 citations. Since you're an experienced editor. I want you to have look at at it Draft:Islam Mamedov
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The discussion, besides being too close to not relist anyway, did not once acknowledge that the article isn't about the 2020 law, but about the concept of the law. The 2024 law is fine to be at a year-disambiguated title, but moving this article was simply inaccurate and unnecessary.
@NasssaNser, thanks for bringing this to my attention.
The discussion indicated that the article title is ambiguous, therefore a consensus to move.
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@Kingsif, aside from the move discussion, responding to your comment directly, if it is the concept of the law, the 2020 article would have been restructured, i.e. removing much of the analysis/reactions sections (into another [new] article, maybe?), and as well as adding the new laws introduced in the 2024 law. There is an infographics in the 2024 article which would gel well into a concept article.
I am assuming that you would like to have a concept article at the base title? If so, I am with you on this, especially after processing the moves of the 2020 law article and related pages. It is set up as a set index page for expediency as I and other editors were processing through the page links. If there's no one else expanding in the next few weeks into a broad concept article, I am inclined to do so. – robertsky (talk) 03:41, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks to NasssaNser for moving this, and robertsky for replying. The 2020 article was originally the concept article, hence I was confused by the move - but I'm in agreement with your notes about extra detail, of course the 2024 developments, etc, and how separate articles for the 2020 and 2024 legislation would be beneficial. For the purposes of preserving history, I thought (think) that moving the concept article to a specific title would be a bit unhelpful. The 1992 through 2003 history is probably not lengthy enough to warrant separate articles from the concept page. I wouldn't know where to have a discussion on the what content where, though. Kingsif (talk) 21:24, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
@Kingsif let's see what I can do in the next few weeks. It may be end up be copying the bits and pieces from the various existing articles to form up the broad concept page. – robertsky (talk) 10:20, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 62
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Issue 62, March – April 2024
I saw your edit summary on an edit on this page. I was kind of taken aback. A year or so ago, an editor created over 100 draft pages regarding this Portal, I can safely say they were all deleted via CSD G13. Without some strong assurance that this Portal is going to be finished and all of these blank pages filled with articles, I don't think any admin, even the nice ones at WP:REFUND will want to take the considerable time to restore all of these mass-produced pages. I think it would be better for them to start from scratch to prove that this version of the Portal won't also be abandoned in a couple of months. LizRead!Talk!05:18, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
@Liz I wasn't aware of the CSD and subsequent refund. Before moving the pages to the portal namespace per requested at RMTR, I did a cursory look at the recent editing history of the primary page and also found that it was filled up with content. I share your concerns on the potential abandonment of the portal. The editathon is scheduled for 18 May to 1 June, which is not too far off. I am willing to wait to see if there are editing activity on the portal pages post editathon for a couple of months. if there aren't much significant activities, maybe a MfD may be in order then. Let me know if you have any other ideas on how to deal with this. – robertsky (talk) 10:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Robertsky,
Oh, I didn't mean that you had done anything wrong. No, I'm more concerned that editors at this editathon will want to get all of these deleted "Draft:Portal African cinema/" pages restored. But they might not even have a list of the deleted pages and REFUND won't restore a page unless you have the exact page title. Of course, the page creator did receive Firefly Bot messages when these pages were up for CSD G13 deletion posted on their User talk page but I'm not sure if it is even the same editors who will want to restore these draft Portal pages. There were a few pages like this one that were not deleted as they contained content but most of these pages were blank or just had an Article Wizard-like template on the page.
Now that I think about it though, if they do want these pages restored, it won't involve requests at RM so much as at REFUND and the deleting admin's User talk page so you are likely not going to be involved. But it's good to hear about the fact that this editathon is coming up. I might reach out to the editor who posted at RM to see what their plans are. Thanks for the thoughtful response. LizRead!Talk!22:15, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Well, I just went back and reread your edit summary where you write "We need help with mass moving subpages" so maybe there were copies kept in User space and you will be involved. I need to think before I respond! LizRead!Talk!22:18, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
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