User talk:Tails Wx/Archive 24

This is an archive of past discussions with User:Tails Wx. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Archive 20

←

Archive 22

→

Tech News: 2024-06

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". [1][2]

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). [3][4]
Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [5]

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. [6][7]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Paul Pavelka

On 6 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Paul Pavelka, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that aviator Paul Pavelka was killed after being thrown and stampeded by a horse? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Paul Pavelka. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Paul Pavelka), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Kusma (talk) 15:47, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for collecting more than 500 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) 22:32, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 February newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
27	Patagonian weasel (talk)	Add sources
51	Burmese ferret-badger (talk)	Add sources
116	Galápagos sea lion (talk)	Add sources
25	2010–11 North American winter (talk)	Add sources
8	Early Winter 2006 North American storm complex (talk)	Add sources
384	Corsac fox (talk)	Add sources
2,679	Pineapple Express (talk)	Cleanup
14	Tornado outbreak of March 28–29, 2010 (talk)	Cleanup
807	Good Morning America (talk)	Cleanup
90	Floods in the United States (2000–present) (talk)	Expand
980	European wildcat (talk)	Expand
81	2020–21 North American winter (talk)	Expand
81	Tornado emergency (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
296	Machairodontinae (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
70	Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
118	2004 Atlantic hurricane season (talk)	Merge
309	2022 Atlantic hurricane season (talk)	Merge
90	2003 Atlantic hurricane season (talk)	Merge
47	Tarkine (talk)	Wikify
55	Galápagos fur seal (talk)	Wikify
1,435	Maned wolf (talk)	Wikify
2	Louis-Antoine Chartoire (talk)	Orphan
2	The Cousins Thackeray (talk)	Orphan
1	Anatoly Kaigorodov (talk)	Orphan
21	Neomonachus (talk)	Stub
45	2023 UMass Minutemen football team (talk)	Stub
69	Ferret-badger (talk)	Stub
44	Proteles (talk)	Stub
3	Jean Derode (talk)	Stub
5	Mushroom Corner, Washington (talk)	Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:24, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Uncomplicate (14:31, 12 February 2024)

Hi Mentor. I see one of the guidelines for adding links to other Wikipedia articles is that you should only provide the link for the first time the word/phrase appears. In most encyclopedia instances this makes sense. But I was recently editing a list for notable alumni at a school and noticed there were a lot of them who were famous football players and some of them played for the same teams. In this instance, would it be better to provide the embedded link multiple times just for convenience so that the readers don’t have to scroll up and search for which other player also played for that team, or should I just follow the guidelines for links strictly? --Uncomplicate (talk) 14:31, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @Uncomplicate! In this case, I don't think it'd be better to add the link to an article multiple times, per MOS:REPEATLINK and MOS:OVERLINK, which are part of Manual of Style on Wikipedia. ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 21:33, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 February 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part

Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?

Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football

Crossword: Our crossword to bear

Comix: Strongly

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:36, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-07

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. [8][9][10] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [11][12]

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). [13][14]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[15] 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. [16]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Uncomplicate (21:44, 15 February 2024)

Hi again. I recently added details about an NBA player who was arrested a couple hours before his NBA game, but I wasn’t sure whether to put the details in professional career or personal life, since it occurred in the parking lot of where he was going to be playing and with another player. I put it in personal life since, even though it happened in the arena parking lot, it technically had nothing to do with the game, but an IP editor moved it. Does Wikipedia have guidelines to help direct editors for situations where one’s personal life interferes and is heavily connect with their work life? --Uncomplicate (talk) 21:44, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello again, @Uncomplicate! Yes, I believe that's a conflict-of-interest. ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 21:46, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I meant is there guidelines for where to put information about an event for someone if the situation crosses into both the subject’s personal and professional life. Because biographies about athletes usually separate info about professional career from personal life. Here was my edit I’m not sure which section is better. Uncomplicate (talk) 22:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Based on my knowledge, @Uncomplicate, I don't think there's a guideline as to where information about an event of a subject goes in a specific section, such as the subject's personal and professional life mentioned above. I think originally putting it in the "Personal life" section was better, since it really didn't have much to do with his professional career. ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 22:42, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-08

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

Recent changes

If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [17]
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 maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [18]

Changes later this week

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). [19][20]

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. [21]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 15:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Halfsquareprints (10:18, 19 February 2024)

Hi, I had a quick question about citations. How many citations would you say is required for a given article. I originally listed multiple citations but recently had some of them removed because apparently they weren't all credible. What would be some examples of credible citations if the person I'm writing an article about is an up and coming actor? --Halfsquareprints (talk) 10:18, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @Thefatherferret770!

For your first question about the amount of references required for an article, there really isn't. Instead, there should be a reliable reference verifying each sentence (or paragraph) with information in the article, especially if the material is likely to be challenged and if the person is subject to the biographies of living persons policy.

The reason why the citations you added were removed on Zachary Garmers is because they were either unreliable (such as the Daily Mail source removed here – that source is deprecated, as well as the IMDb sources removed here – they're unreliable per WP:IMDB) or failed to verify content in the article (such as this removal, in which those two sources don't mention the subject).

If you're going to write a notable actor, you should use reliable, in-depth, published sources that have significant coverage of the subject to establish notability of the subject. If those don't exist, then the subject isn't reliable, sadly. I don't think the subject also meets notability guidelines for actors, given that the subject likely has not had significant roles in films or made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment. And unfortunately, there's no sources to establish notability of the subject (although there is a Rotten Tomatoes source mentioning him – but that source is not in-depth in its coverage and thus does not establish notability of the subject), and thus the article is nominated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zachary Garmers. ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 18:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: Maths, science, and technology request for comment

Your feedback is requested at Talk:Hyperloop on a "Maths, science, and technology" request for comment. Thank you for helping out!
You were randomly selected to receive this invitation from the list of Feedback Request Service subscribers. If you'd like not to receive these messages any more, you can opt out at any time by removing your name.

Message delivered to you with love by Yapperbot :) | Is this wrong? Contact my bot operator. | Sent at 07:34, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from JANASHVILI on Wikipedia:Contact us (16:09, 22 February 2024)

Hello, please help me. I write information in wikipedia and this was and that was very little text, wikipedia tell me abt that and I add some information but in the page still is warning and this page can be deleted. what can I do? --JANASHVILI (talk) 16:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @JANASHVILI! I'm not quite sure what you mean by "I write information in wikipedia and this was and that was very little text, wikipedia tell me abt that and I add some information but in the page still is warning and this page can be deleted". Can you please clarify? Thanks! ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 19:21, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

I wrote a small article about the Janashvili family, Wikipedia put a template on my page saying that the article might be deleted because the information was insufficient, so I added the information, but there is still a deletion warning template on this page. Please help me and tell me what to do about this JANASHVILI (talk) 19:25, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

JANASHVILI, I'm pretty sure this is regarding your sandbox, User:JANASHVILI/sandbox. That page is not tagged with a "warning template", nor for deletion. ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 20:04, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @JANASHVILI: Is this regarding ka:ჯანაშვილები? If so, it might be better to ask for help on the Georgian Wikipedia, as editors there may be more familiar with its processes. All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 20:28, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

March 2024 GAN backlog drive

Good article nominations \| March 2024 Backlog Drive
March 2024 Backlog Drive: On 1 March, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin. Barnstars will be awarded. Interested in taking part? You can sign up here or ask questions here.
You're receiving this message because you have reviewed or nominated a good article in the last year.

(t · c) buidhe 02:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:2023 Interstate 55 crash

Hello, Tails Wx. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "2023 Interstate 55 crash".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:03, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: Society, sports, and culture request for comment

Your feedback is requested at Talk:Genital modification and mutilation on a "Society, sports, and culture" request for comment. Thank you for helping out!
You were randomly selected to receive this invitation from the list of Feedback Request Service subscribers. If you'd like not to receive these messages any more, you can opt out at any time by removing your name.

Message delivered to you with love by Yapperbot :) | Is this wrong? Contact my bot operator. | Sent at 04:30, 25 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. [22]
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"))). [23]

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). [24][25]

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.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 19:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from WikiLover245 (16:33, 27 February 2024)

Hello, I was wondering how do I make a Wikipedia page from scratch? --WikiLover245 (talk) 16:33, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @WikiLover245! If you're interested in creating an article, you may find the Article Wizard or Help:Your first article useful. Happy editing! ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 22:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Review

TYSM FOR Reviewing MY PAGE💛 Camillz (talk) 17:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

No problem @Camillz, thank you for creating the article! :) ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 21:13, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

anytime, I tried my best :) Camillz (talk) 21:14, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Chicago Bears first-round draft picks

Congratulations, Tails Wx! The list you nominated, List of Chicago Bears first-round draft picks, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:25, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for this one, and improving more quality articles in February. - The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). -- (forgot to sign)

Thank you! (Sorry for the late response, I completely forgot to reply to this.) ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 21:10, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

more music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:05, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Interesting, Gerda Arendt! I gave Petite messe solennelle a read; and the opening of the piece seems very, very quiet according to the image! Of course, if I were to play this right now I'd absolutely fail. :P ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 21:10, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Did you listen? A social distancing performance for the original scoring - well, just one piano instead of two. The full mass is on YouTube, if you are interested. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

I'll make sure to listen to it very soon! Abiding by your description, it sounds interesting. :) ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 02:42, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:22, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Fanchen886374 (05:25, 1 March 2024)

Hello! Could you please let me know how I can access an editors' messages in an article? --Fanchen886374 (talk) 05:25, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Hiya, @Fanchen886374! I don't think you can view editor's messages in an article (unless they're hidden comments left by an editor), the editor's messages should be on the article's talk page. ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 22:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Types of earthquake

Hi Tails Wx, apologies for failing to spot the "Major edit" template on the article and going ahead an editing one of the entries. Thanks for your improvements to the page. Mikenorton (talk) 11:57, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

No worries, @Mikenorton! You actually edited at the right time since I was on a brief break between edits. Thanks for your contributions! ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 23:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for 1997 Spring Creek flood

On 4 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1997 Spring Creek flood, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the 1997 Spring Creek flood, a railroad embankment suppressing 8,250 cubic feet (234 m³) of water per second overflowed, causing a train to derail? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1997 Spring Creek flood. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 1997 Spring Creek flood), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-10

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

Recent changes

The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [26]
Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
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. [27]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [28]

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). [29][30]

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. [31]
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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 19:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of March 2023 North American winter storm

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article March 2023 North American winter storm you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Riley1012 -- Riley1012 (talk) 00:21, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for collecting 1 point during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:22, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Aw, I'm disappointed that I didn't do much. 1 article? I should've done more. Thanks anyway! :) ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 17:26, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Tabzy001 (21:38, 8 March 2024)

Hello mentor How can I edit my own citations --Tabzy001 (talk) 21:38, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @Tabzy001! For editing citations, you can check out MediaWiki (which applies to English Wikipedia)'s guide to editing references here and here. Happy editing! ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 22:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Jim Beard

On 9 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jim Beard, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 20:02, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Livaja09 (15:27, 9 March 2024)

How do i create an article --Livaja09 (talk) 15:27, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Hiya, @Livaja09! You can follow instructions and guidance on Article Wizard, or also follow instructions and advice via Help:Your first article. Happy editing! ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 02:22, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Juli Lynne Charlot

On 10 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Juli Lynne Charlot, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 21:14, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Current proposal to set criteria in Tornadoes of XXXX articles

Hello. As an editor who recently edited in the area of tornadoes, I am informing you that there is an ongoing proposal to set criteria for the yearly Tornadoes of XXXX articles. You can see the proposal and discuss it here. Thank you. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 21:48, 10 March 2024 (UTC)