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November music

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For a surprise, a Bach cantata is on the Main page today, where it was last year for the 300th anniversary, and they were too lazy to find something new ;) - Look at my story, and listen to the 3 whole-tone steps and the dialogues of Fear and Hope. - An open letter open to be signed (more info on the talk, and the Signpost above), - I haven't checked if you did, please ignore then. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:42, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Madeleine Riffaud - remember. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

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Question from RodFerOfficial (01:54, 20 November 2024)

Hi Tails!

I'm just asking a small question: how can I find errors that barely any people miss? I like to keep things nice and tidy so I also gotta look for those small issues too.

Thanks! --RodFerOfficial (talk) 01:54, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, @RodFerOfficial! There are errors can be fixed by resolving a tag in an article. Tags are essentially maintenance tags that are placed on an article for whatever reason related to cleanup of it. You can find some articles that have issues to be fixed by heading over to that link and finding articles that need fixing by clicking the "links" next to a respective tag there! ~ Tails Wx 22:31, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from SpaceNerd13 (16:06, 20 November 2024)

Hi Mr Tails,

How do I get media, such as images of videos, onto Wikipedia pages with a proper license? Because some of the pictures that I posted got deleted because of incorrect license (and by license, do they mean what the original owner has put, or what it compiles to on Wikipedia?)

Thanks, SpaceNerd13 --SpaceNerd13 (talk) 16:06, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@SpaceNerd13: Hi there, I'm a friend of Tails who asked me to answer this question due to them being busy. If I correctly understand your question, it's how to upload an image/video. Well, uploading is simple, just follow the steps described on commons:Special:UploadWizard. By uploading media to Wikimedia Commons you allow entirety of the Wikimedia projects to use your media on their sites. Only condition is a free license or expended copyright. If you own copyright to media you'd like to upload (which, I warn you, is not the same as only possessing the media), that usually means you're the author, then hooray, we're halfway there. Just choose one of the licenses Commons accept (CC-BY-SA) and they do wary to some degree. I'd like to warn you that with such actions you allow commercial usage as well - meaning companies can use your media for profit as long as they fulfil license pre-requirements. If media is in public domain, tag it with an appropriate license (usually starts as PD-something). If you don't own copyright, then you need to ask the copyright owner for a permission. Get them to sent that permission to VRT queue as is described on commons:COM:VRT, where an agent will review the permission.

I hope I have adressed all of your concerns, if not, please do not waste any more time and get in touch here. Best regards, A09|(talk) 21:57, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

November thanks

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Thank you for improving articles in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from James J. Buckley (20:26, 21 November 2024)

Tails,

I have an essay on a deceased 20th century philosopher of religion not yet included on Wikipedia. The essay is about 10 pages (single spaced) of a Word document, with half a dozen footnotes and a bibliography of about 30 items. I have considerable experience editing for journals. But I have no experience with editing for Wikipedia -- which I value enough to support financially every couple of years. I’ve read through the Wiki instructions on editing. They are understandably complex, and I am not sure where to begin. Perhaps I could start with learning to edit my footnotes? OR the bibliography? Thanks much for your advice. Jim --James J. Buckley (talk) 20:26, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

I can’t see anything here. What’s happening? James J. Buckley (talk) 20:47, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

@James J. Buckley: Hi, I am A09 and I've been asked to answer this question due to Tails' momentary absence. First, I'd like to point out that the Wikimedia Community has developed some tools to easen conversion from desktop text editors to wikimarkup, and as you have a Word file already prepared, Help:WordToWiki might come handy. While your concerns are much valuable, I believe the easiest path would be to follow Help:Your first article. Since your first article would be a biography (and assuming it would pass notability criteria for people), the best second read would be Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography which provides further insight on how to construct this type of page. My general advice to newcomers is to start simple because no one has written a complete article in a single edit. We learn new things with each edit we do no matter how experienced we are.

I hope I have addressed all of your concerns, if not, please do not hesitate to contact us with Tails again. Best regards, A09|(talk) 22:12, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Counter-Vandalism Training Request

Hi, Tails!! My name is Fludd, I've reached close to 200 edits, and I've been looking to potentially join the Counter-Vandalism Unit! I've been on Wikipedia for over a year now and plan on committing to it for the rest of my life, as I deeply value this site and its community. I would love to help fight the eternal battle against vandalism and become a proper member of the Unit, so if you're still taking on students, I would love to be taught by you! Thank you so much. -- FluddStop - Dirty's meaner than clean! 07:26, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

@FluddStop: Hi and welcome. I'm A09 and I have been approached by Tails Wx to answer this question due to their circumstances. As far as I believe, and per current data on Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy/Instructors Tails sadly is not open to mentoring any new students. Whether this is true or if Tails Wx is planning on expanding his mentorship, it's up to him and not me. I'd like to praise your commitment to anti vandal working and if you have any further questions, please contact us and we'll try to answer your prompts. Best regards, A09|(talk) 22:01, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Ah, no worries then! I'll try to seek out a mentor with an available student slot, I completely missed that part! Thank you so much for letting me know.

-- FluddStop - Dirty's meaner than clean! 02:18, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

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counter-vandalism

does that include eliminating the far left bias that almost all wiki admins have ? 2601:589:4101:16F8:A563:6C26:FBDB:2269 (talk) 00:03, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

You'll need to have some concrete evidence to support your claims, but no, counter-vandalism is not meant for this. A09|(talk) 17:41, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

is this "concrete" evidence enough for you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiRgJYMw6YA 2601:589:4101:51EE:30EA:CAA8:E172:3C9C (talk) 11:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

No, it won't be. ~ Tails Wx 17:20, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

yup, predictable response...

welp if simple common sense truths and facts are not a "reliable source" then here's the reality of just one article protected by "far left" admins - Matt Gaetz talk page has questioned it "So the Next Attorney General is far-right ?"

It's not a description. It's designed as a pejorative insult by hateful people who wish to stretch the Overton window for political gain towards their preference. The intent is to allow undefined pejoratives such as this to be loosely thrown around by a half-dozen political pundits who are opponents and hope to then use otherwise legitimate sites such as Wikipedia to then link to "far-right" and paint a Nazi picture. The good news is that these people are why Donald Trump was elected and why the Democrats are losing in every state. They believe that lies like this belong on Wikipedia separating a legitimate and mainstream politician from "is Nazi" by only one-click justified by Op-ed pieces from political rivals. There's no room for legitimacy (such as on Wikipedia) when there are left-wing politics to force-feed to Wikipedia users. This tactic is old and spent and being rejected nationwide. I can link multiple articles from equally reliable sources that show anyone using this tactic is left-wing extremist, but they would reject that notion because they don't feel it fits them and their narrative. The double standard is obvious and available for everyone to see here. Just remember to Thank all the far-left politically motivated people such as this for the destruction of their party and the resounding election of Donald Trump..

Instead of using the obvious logical conclusion that in one of the biggest land slide elections of most folks' lifetimes choosing this administration means it cannot be "far right" because it is the middle of the right by any bell curve distribution, they are effectively defining most of the country as far-right... an insult that keeps them losing. Keep losing. Keep using Wikipedia to further your losing political perspective and keep growing the GOP. :DB36:83C6:5742 (talk) 08:48, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

We go with what the reliable sources say around here, but keep typing paragraphs if you want. TarnishedPathtalk 10:09, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Your comment is too "far right" and will be deleted by a morally superior "administrator".

Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia. It is a leftist propaganda mouthpiece. All the reasons you cited and many more are not enough to make the "editors" and "administrators" refrain from pushing a political viewpoint. Good look and don't trust wikipedia. Do your own research. 2A02:8084:901:2580:CC18:5E80:FF4E:86F0 (talk) 10:58, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Yup, couldn't of said it better myself. "morally superior admin" gave me a good chuckle lol.. Thank you lord for our incoming President of the United States of America. 170.55.61.26 (talk) 23:19, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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December music

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On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:28, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:12, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:34, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Today is a woman poet's centenary. - Thank you for improving article quality in December, including from deletion to quality! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Gerda Arendt, thanks! Thank you for your article contributions this month and this year as a whole too!

Fun fact, we're playing the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven for a concert in January...coincidence? ;)

Also, I remember seeing somewhere on the news headlines (can't quite remember what the specific website was) that Meneses had died. This is just an example of how good his playing style was. Another legendary cellist lost. :( ~ Tails Wx 22:57, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I'd love to hear "your" Beethoven! - You may have seen that Meneses died right here on our Main page because I brought him there ;) - The projects "sad list" is a list of those who arrived on the Main page, - more than 90 already this year, and working on 2 more. Would you have time for a GA review? Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41? - It should become a New Year DYK, so needs to happen soon ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:04, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Sure! I'll try and open and finish reviewing it right before Christmas. ~ Tails Wx 20:41, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Sounds great! Could you open right now? It would look better for a DYK nom if the review had at least begun ;) - 7 days before desired date is mimimum, but often preps get filled sooner. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Done: Talk:Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41/GA1. I promise I'll have it done sooner than later! ~ Tails Wx 21:06, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [15]
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [16]
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [17]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [18]
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [19]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [20][21]

Updates for technical contributors

• Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [22]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
• The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [23]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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Draft:Pluragrotta cave dive disaster

Would you mind if I took over this draft?

Kingsmasher678 (talk) 23:53, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

@Kingsmasher678: you're welcome to, sure! I'm really busy at the moment so I don't think I have the time to do anything here through the next week or so. I'll be back active as usual before Christmas, at the least. I'll add on anything there if necessary at that time. ~ Tails Wx 03:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from AbubakarMuhammadan on K. C. Kondaiah (10:37, 11 December 2024)

Similar success of the number one general I can't believe ni the first time --AbubakarMuhammadan (talk) 10:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @AbubakarMuhammadan! It's unclear what you're asking or suggesting what to be done here (specifically regarding the linked page, K. C. Kondaiah). It'd be helpful if you clarified your comment a bit. Thanks! ~ Tails Wx 04:10, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Quabizabdul (12:43, 12 December 2024)

Hey hope you’re doing well. I need your help in uploading a logo in Wikimedia. --Quabizabdul (talk) 12:43, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Quabizabdul! So according to Wikipedia:Logos, logos are acceptable for use on Wikipedia per the non-free criteria. The logo pictured on Starbucks is an example of this. Wikimedia Commons cannot host non-free files, though (except if it is in the public domain), and in this case, a non-free image should be uploaded through file upload wizard here. ~ Tails Wx 20:39, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

November 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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Question from SchwartzMorgan (07:58, 13 December 2024)

How do i create a citation --SchwartzMorgan (talk) 07:58, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Hey there, @SchwartzMorgan! Through visual editor, you can create a citation automatically by pressing the "cite" button at the top of the editing bar. For source code, a specific template should generate a source (and Help:Citation#Inline citations is useful here), for example:

<ref>{{cite web|last=Clash|first=Jim|date=June 13, 2023|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2023/06/13/riders-on-the-storms-tornado-chasings-all-the-rage/?sh=449999e45fb5|title=Riders On The Storms: Tornado Chasing's All The Rage|access-date=April 13, 2024|website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref>

This produces a source: . ~ Tails Wx 21:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

• Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
• Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
• The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

• There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [24]

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Your GA nomination of 1997 Jarrell tornado

The article 1997 Jarrell tornado you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1997 Jarrell tornado for comments about the article, and Talk:1997 Jarrell tornado/GA2 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Matthew Yeager -- Matthew Yeager (talk) 22:25, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

An award for you!

		The Deletion to Quality Award
		For your contributions to bring 1997 Jarrell tornado (prior candidate for deletion at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1997 Prairie Dell-Jarrell tornado) to Good Article status, I hereby present you The Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 22:26, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Oh, thanks so much @Hilst! Couldn't have done it without @EF5 as well! :) ~ Tails Wx 22:29, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

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January 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

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