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The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.
Future changes
The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.
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You scored 7 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this cookie. Thanks for helping out!
Hi, Rusty! I would like to edit the Machine Gun Kelly page (he is my husband, not that bitch Megan Fox) and create a new page for me, Monix Rose Zypher. Can you help? I'm not sure how to edit nor create a specific page. Please help!!! ~Monix --ManicMonix (talk) 01:01, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
@ManiacMonix Welcome to Wikipedia, Monix. Do you have sources, like media reports, that state that you are his wi? Without these, there would be no chance of the change being accepted.
Normally, you'd be able to edit the article yourself, but the article is currently "protected" from editing by new users to reduce the amount of spam and disruptive edits.
On creating an article: Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged, but if you are well-known, there is a possible of an article being created. Just because you're Maachine Gun Kelly's husband–if you really are who you laim to be–doesn't mean you'll automatically deserve an article; we have very specific criteria for that, known as "notability."
If this whole thing doesn't work out, it's not the only article in Wikipedia's millions of articles. Find another one to improve maybe. In fact, I came here with no specific purpose, and just absorbed what I saw
Hi, Rusty, and thank you for the reply. How did you get that cute cat image? I have made about fourteen Grammatical and Spelling edits, starting about five days ago. I love being a Wiki Editor, it is my all-time favorite job. We (Colson James Baker II, "Machine Gun Kelly") and myself got married in 2011. We have lost our marriage certificate.
Something weird is going on. Please help. I just clicked 'Visual' in the upper right corner to check my URL link to YouTube, AND SOMEONE WAS ABLE TO CHANGE MY HUSBANDS NAME WHILE I WAS CHECKING THE URL.
You seem like a very smart man and an excellent hacker. I'm sure you can find out who is doing it and can sue for $1.78 TRILLION dollars. Be very careful. I think there is a worm in you PC.
I am a new contributing editor to Wiki... I have made three new pages for myself, my husband (James Colson Baker, "Machine Gun Kelly", and my best friend Adam Lee LaPratt, the singer in in SAIL by AWOLNation. Something wierd is going on. All my pages and edits have been deleted. I think someone is hacking the system. I think you can figure it out.
@ManicMonix: Calm down for a moment. No one is hacking the system. All that's happening is that someone is thinking that your intention is to promote those people, because you have written the articles with what seemed like promotional wording.
As I said before, not everyone meets our standard for inclusion. If I had tried to create a new article for myself, it would've been deleted too.
But I cannot ignore the fact newspapers and other sources contradict what you are saying. According to Wikipedia's own article on "Sail", the original album liner notes credit Aaron Bruno for lead vocals.
If you believe that what you're saying is the truth, i recommend you to search for some sources (preferably accessible online), that prove what you say.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [3]
Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature News
Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [4]
Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [5]
Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [6]
Project Updates
Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Learn more
Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [7]
Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script 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.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
After the ＲＩＩＪ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Newly maintained scripts
Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
@Artist preet raman: Wikipedia is not a good place for writing about yourself, nor is it social media. If you want to write about yourself go to social media. Thank you. Rusty🐈23:21, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you're well! I was assigned as your mentee, and I have a question. I created this account because on the page for Clint Bolick (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Clint_Bolick) a lot of the page reads in a very laudatory tone. I see that the talk page notes that someone connected to Justice Bolick, user Mr. Conservative, has edited the page. I have no issue with this, but there seems to be unnecessary information on the page (e.g., in the "Early life and education" section it mentions that, as a law student [in 1982], Bolick was in favor of Brown v. Board of Education). Is there a process for getting rid of unnecessary information? What should I think about when looking at this? I don't want to be rude about the efforts of the article writers, but I don't see how that type of statement merits inclusion in an article. --Pate Ah Choo (talk) 20:00, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
@Pate Ah Choo: Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia! While we don't have a formal process for getting rid of unnecessary information, one of our core principles is to be bold, i.e. just attempt to remove it yourself. If you have further questions feel free to ask! Rusty🐈23:30, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
What are you doing with Loop redirects??
I have answered your question on my talk page. Why you are creating Loop redirects from non-existing pages ???
You CANNOT create new Wiki pages for every word that does not have its own Wiki entry and then redirect to somewhere else. This is not the proper way to create entries. If you want to create a Wiki article create one and then link to it. Otherwise, it is better to have no existing page, so that Wiki editors are aware of the "non-existence". Else, one can create Loops by linking page to itself, which is nonsense. Danko Georgiev (talk) 09:29, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
I have now inserted templates for Speedy deletion of empty pages. Editors should know that the pages do not exist, oherwise they insert "blue links" (aka existing pages) which create loops onto the page itself, e.g. all the links from HRE page that were removed by me, were links from HRE to HRE via the intermediate redirects. The solution is to delete all the redirect pages. Some response elements do have standalone pages, so all those that do not have such pages better be deleted as non-existent. Danko Georgiev (talk) 09:45, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
@Danko Georgiev: I would say you have done the correct thing to remove the links on the HRE page itself. The redirecting page themselves are different.
Your guess about the creation of the redirects is probably not correct; I think that someone first created the redirects from types of HREs to the HRE page, because they thought it would help Wikipedia readers. Then, someone else added links to the pages, see the blue links, and think that there is an article on the page because they do not check the content in the page they link to.
2 hours after you placed the speedy deletion, an administrator declined it "Decline speedy, seems to be a plausible redirect" (here)
So the problem is not about the redirect pages, it is the links to the redirect page from the target page. Rusty🐈14:40, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
Dear Rusty Cat. I disagree. The problem is exactly in the improper redirects (see example at the end). There is a good coding practice in Wikipedia directly to page subsection using # in Wikilink, or you can do Masked Wiki link leading directly to Wikipage X then putting | and writing different text Y. Going via redirect is POOR coding and this is NOT the purpose of redirect to lead to completely different Wikipedia page. The SEMANTIC meaning of redirect is to avoid duplicates due to synonymous words or one word being abbreviation of another, e.g. DNA is the same as Deoxyribonucleic acid. To put redirects from specific instance of a set, to the general category of the sets is plain nonsense. I expect you appreciate what is the meaning of what I am saying and then go and delete all these nonsense redirects and de facto "empty pages". If and when somebody has the time to write a standalone article for example on GRE, then he/she can do so by creating a new GRE page. It is NOT helpful to have GRE page redirecting to HRE, because potential Wiki writers may assume that GRE does not deserve its standalone page and the job of writing about GRE has been already done. In order to understand exactly what kind of position you are defending, let me give you nice example: basically, you are saying that it is OK if a specific city like "New York" redirects to "USA". This is exactly what you were doing with your reverts of my edits. Redirect from "New York" to "USA" is NOT a plausible redirect. Similarly, redirect from GRE to HRE is NOT a plausible redirect. Thank you! Danko Georgiev (talk) 20:04, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
@Danko Georgiev: I understand what you are saying but I never said that linking via redirect was recommended. What I previously stated was that redirects are to help with locating a page, not linking to it.
Cases like GRE redirecting to HRE do happen, for instance Professor Rowan (List of Pokémon characters#Professor Rowan), and I don't think that everyone assumes it will never deserve its own page (WP:RTOA). Now, if New York does not have its own article and there is a list "List of United States cities" then it is ok for New York to redirect to it. But if the list does not exist then USA might be okay to redirect to.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [8][9]
Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
Project updates
Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.
The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
I am writing to request the removal of the speedy deletion tag placed on the article Draft:Josh Tedeku I am currently drafting. I understand that the draft may have appeared incomplete; however, I was in the process of gathering information and working on the draft offline.
Now that this issue has been brought to my attention, I have resumed work on the article and am committed to improving it to meet Wikipedia's standards.
Please consider removing the speedy deletion tag to allow me the opportunity to complete and refine the draft.
@Afrowriter: Done, just so you know, next time create the page with at least basic info like "Josh Tedku is a British actor" so it is less likely to be deleted. Rusty🐈18:20, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Hi Rusty, i've made some edits to pages but marked some of them as minor edits before understanding exactly what this meant, apologies, I'm fairly new to this. Any tips/guidance you can provide on what not to do would be greatly appreciated. --Maznet1 (talk) 22:09, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
@Maznet1: I reviewed your edits; sometimes, adding links to other websites isn't always the best option. If the information in the external website could be added to the article, try to do that. Mistakes are perfectly fine when you're starting out here; I made the same mistake regarding minor edits when I was new here.
Thank you Rusty. Should I copy and paste large amounts of relevant information from other websites to Wikipedia, won't Google see this as duplicate content? Maznet1 (talk) 10:44, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
@Maznet1: Well, not copying and pasting, since content on other website may be copyrighted. Try to summarize the text in your own words. Rusty🐈14:00, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to inquire about creating a Wikipedia page for my website, Cinema Guru, which I launched three months ago. As the owner and primary author of the site, I am eager to share the purpose and content of Cinema Guru with a broader audience through this platform.
Could you kindly advise whether I am eligible to create this page?Thank you for your time and consideration.
@Altamash422: I must advise you, Wikipedia is not the place for promoting or sharing your content. As it was said on your talk page, Cinema Guru does not meet the criteria for inclusion for websites. There is nothing you can do to make it meet these criteria, as one of them is being discussed in what we call "reliable sources", like a globally known newspaper.
Of course you can try to create the page, but the question then would be whether it would be retained and accepted as an article.
I want to add " Vicky Kaushal's film "Bad Newz" has Released theatrically on July 19, 2024, the film has grossed over ₹108.25 crore (US$12.4 million) worldwide. The film had a strong start with a first day collection of ₹8.3 crore and went on to earn ₹44.1 crore over its first weekend. "
@Altamash422: I would not recommend linking to your website if there are better sources. In one of the links you tried to post on Wikipedia, there was a disclaimer about how you cannot be responsible for the authenticity of the data. We don't use sources that are unreliable. What sources does your website gather information from? Rusty🐈14:16, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
At Cinema Guru, we gather information from a variety of sources, including X/Twitter, Instagram, and news articles, to ensure our content is both current and comprehensive. Each article undergoes thorough research and verification before it is published on our website, ensuring that the information we share is accurate and well-informed.My website gather information from X/Twitter, Instagram and News Article
@Altamash422: Twitter and Instagram are not considered reliable sources (even if they are the official account) on Wikipedia because they are user-generated. I would recommend you stop trying to link to your website on Wikipedia; you've already tried and failed.
Perhaps take a break from writing about your website, and go do something like fixing spelling errors.
Rusty, I gather you have volunteered to mentor Altamash422. As such, you should know that he has already been blocked once for repeatedly referencing his own blog (WP:REFSPAM). Your guidance to Altamash in this matter might need to be more sternly worded. I fear they will be blocked if they again attempt to use their own blog as a source. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!!14:57, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
I have a question regarding the benefits of editing, correcting, and sharing information. Could you please explain how these practices contribute to the accuracy and reliability of information? I am interested in understanding their significance in maintaining high-quality content and ensuring that information is both credible and useful to the audience.
@Altamash422: Could you be more specific in your question? Also, this does not seem like it was written by the same person above in your previous question. Are multiple people using this account, or are you using a LLM (AI) like ChatGPT? Rusty🐈17:10, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-33
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Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Hi, I just suggested an edit on Talk:Judge Holden. I would appreciate if you had any feedback for if this would be a good edit, I am hesitant because it's not a simple correction. --Esobrev (talk) 23:13, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
@Esobrev: I have no opinion on this topic. Per policy, it is best to wait for a clear consensus before making the change.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [12]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [13][14]
Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
Hi Rusty Cat, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the new page reviewer user right to your account. This means you now have access to the page curation tools and can start patrolling pages from the new pages feed. If you asked for this at requests for permissions, please check back there to see if your access is time-limited or if there are other comments.
This is a good time to re-acquaint yourself with the guidance at Wikipedia:New pages patrol. Before you get started, please take the time to:
Hi Layla, I'm afraid you're on the wrong platform. This is Wikipedia, not Twitter/X or Facebook or another social medium. You could make friends there if you like, but we generally don't socialize or make friends here if it's not relevant to the encyclopedia (Wikipedia).
@Aquaphina13: The GFDL stands for GNU Free Documentation License, and it's one of the copyright licenses that Wikipedia text is released under. You don't need to worry much about this, other than the fact that it allows contributions to be republished anywhere, as long as people know where it came from (Wikipedia/you).
So you're saying that you are on Facebook and insta oh and p.s. i though you were different from my last mentor but you're just as messed up as he is. I don't have a phone or a tablet, i've got a stinkin kindle. oh Did i also tell you i have no friends ether and when i sign up for this crap it said that i can ask for you to be my friend but you are a brat Aquaphina13 (talk) 03:15, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
@Aquaphina13: I don't use Facebook or Instagram, I was simply giving examples of social media.
I'd like to know more about this previous mentor you're talking about. And what do you mean that it said you could ask me to be your friend? Rusty🐈03:48, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
hi
Hi rusty I'm so sorry for that message that was my drunk sister but i've got a question for you. So if i wanted to talk to someone do i always have to make a subject? thank you Aquaphina13 (talk) 20:05, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
On a talk page? I'm not sure what features are available to you on the Kindle browser (what your supposed sister said above), but on Kindle there might be a "reply" button that lets you reply to a message. (At least, there should be) Rusty🐈20:11, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
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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.
Feature news
Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [15]
Bugs status
Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
Learn more
If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
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Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.