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Tech News: 2023-40

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

  • There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [1]
  • Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Future changes

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

  • Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2023-41

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

  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon (w:fon:) [3]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [4]
  • At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [5]
  • In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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Message regarding Capricorn from TartarTorte

Hi Wugapodes! Hope all is well. I noticed that capricorn still has {{R fictional work}}, which was deleted at this TfD Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 May 20#R fictional work. Could you remove it when you get the chance? I think you can clean it up by cutting the R fictional work JSON entry at User:Wugapodes/Capricorn/RedirectTemplates.json. Best! TartarTorte 18:20, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

 Done thanks for letting me know, TartarTorte. — Wug·a·po·des 20:15, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #28

Welcome to the twenty-eighth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Configuration, concept A: Accordion style
Community Configuration, concept B: Dashboard style

Community configuration 2.0

  • Community Configuration 2.0 is a feature that will enable Wikimedia communities to easily customize and configure features to meet their unique needs. This approach provides non-technical moderators with more independence and control over enabling/disabling and customizing features for their communities.
  • Technical approach and associated tasks are detailed in this Epic task on Phabricator.
  • Initial designs are drafted for two different approaches (see images). We will soon demo interactive prototypes to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (T346109). Please let us know if you have feedback on the design approach, or want to participate in prototype testing.

IP Masking

  • The Growth team has been working on several updates to ensure Growth maintained features will be compatible with future IP Masking changes. This work has included code changes to: Recent Changes (T343322), Echo notifications (T333531), the Thanks extension (T345679) and Mentorship (T341390).
  • Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with IP Masking. (T346108)

Mentorship

Scaling Growth features

  • We continue the deployment of the structured task "add a link" to all Wikipedias. We plan to scale the task to all Wikipedias that have link suggestions available by the end of 2023.
  • We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data. (T344428)
  • At some wikis, newcomers have access to the "add an image" structured task. This task suggests images that may be relevant to add to unillustrated articles. Newcomers at these wikis can now add images to unillustrated articles sections. (T345940) The wikis that have this task are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table.

Other news

  • We disabled the “add an image” task temporarily (T345188) because there was a failure in the image suggestions pipeline (T345141). This is now fixed.
  • You can read a report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikimania in Singapore here. Growth team members presented two sessions at Wikimania Singapore.
  • After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Wikipedia, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Wikipedia is now a pilot wiki for Growth experiments.

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Tech News: 2023-42

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 Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [6]
  • Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Future changes

  • In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

October music

October songs
my story today

Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2023

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Tech News: 2023-43

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

  • There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
  • Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [7]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

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Question from Matt the wiki master (19:11, 22 October 2023)

Hi, can you explain how to add a citation or how to make it say "Citation Needed" simply Thanks, Matthew Campbell --Matthew Campbell (talk) 19:11, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

@Matt the wiki master This tutorial walks you through how to add citations. For the citation needed tag, you can simply add {{citation needed}} (including the curly braces) to the text. That link also gives some additional instructions. — Wug·a·po·des 20:34, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from MHFS1971 (10:36, 20 October 2023)

Hello, How to add reference link to a text? and how to add a picture?

Thanks a lot in advance --MHFS1971 (talk) 10:36, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

@MHFS1971 This tutorial walks you through how to add citations. For pictures, this tutorial will help you add images and other media to an article. — Wug·a·po·des 20:36, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from JAAMLERB (18:45, 28 October 2023)

Hi! 

I'm your student, I guess. I'm excited to edit articles! --JAAMLERB (talk) 18:45, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia outlines of books

A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia outlines of books indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 14:54, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-44

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
  • Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [8][9]
  • Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [10]

Future changes

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November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Wugapodes:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 1300 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:25, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, Delaware BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

  • Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
  • England Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
  • Delaware BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
  • Berkelland LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
  • Ukraine Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:52, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 November 2023

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Mcmillenms YouTube --Mcmillenms (talk) 07:00, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-45

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

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [11]

Problems

  • Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [12]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
  • The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [13][14]

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Request for clarification

Hi. Just saw your closure, and in my reading, it didn't appear to address what I think what was a concern.

The proposed text includes the line: "Comments that are uncivil may be removed without warning."

The problem is that is beyond what WP:CIV directs us to do. "It is not normally appropriate to edit or remove another editor's comment. Exceptions include to remove obvious trolling or vandalism, or if the comment is on your own user talk page. Derogatory comments about another contributor may be removed by any editor."

I understand that this can be a question of semantics (uncivil vs. derogatory). But having editors boldly removing others' comments can lead to rather disruptive situations, as we've seen at WP:AN and its sub-boards.

So with that all in mind, what is your read of the discussion concerning enforcement and application of CIVIL, and whether this RFC is authorizing editors to go beyond what CIVIL says to do? - jc37 00:10, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jc37: The proposal says that uncivil comments may be removed, and your quote from WP:RUC includes three classes of uncivil comments which may be removed. I don't think it's correct to characterize the former as going beyond what the latter advises. CIV is a policy after all, so I don't see why this local consensus should be read as anything more strict. So if your question is whether this authorizes more than what's already in CIV: no, definitely not. The sense I got from the discussion is that it's being read as a short summary of CIV (with many in both support and opposition seeing it as redundant to the policy), not some new thing, so when in doubt refer to CIV. It might be worth rephrasing the wording to something like Uncivil comments such as trolling or personal attacks may be removed... but that wasn't discussed and can be done pretty easily through regular editing. I'd hesitate to add that wording to the close, but I think it would be an improvement personally. — Wug·a·po·des 01:17, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for the clarification.
For now, I just added links to CIVIL and NPA. Hopefully that should be clear enough.
Thanks again : ) - jc37 03:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef
readded Tamzin
removed Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

added Pppery
removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
  • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

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Question from ClaireFirley (02:57, 12 November 2023)

How to I create a pager for a artist ? --ClaireFirley (talk) 02:57, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-46

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Recent changes

Problems

  • Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [19]
  • Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [20]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Future changes

  • Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
  • Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [21]

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Tech News: 2023-47

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

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [22][23]
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [24][25][26]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [27]

Future changes

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Question from Rishi 'Surname' (18:56, 26 November 2023)

I want to add some caste related information, so, that everyone should know this thing and change their views about the caste .. --Rishi 'Surname' (talk) 18:56, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Rishi 'Surname' I would suggest you avoid editing articles related to castes until you have more experience with editing Wikipedia. The topic is contentious and even editors who are trying to help can be asked by an administrator to stop if they accidentally cause problems. I would recommend trying out the newcomer tasks like adding links or citations until you get more experience with our editorial policies. — Wug·a·po·des 00:40, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Morty.tama (20:34, 15 November 2023)

hi wuga, i want to contribute in wikipedia. for starting, i want t o edit some articles and add some citation(when needed) or add some new parts or sentences. i edited my first article but it disapeard. what should i do ? --Morty.tama (talk) 20:34, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Morty.tama and thanks for your contributions! It looks like some of your more recent edits have stuck around. The reason your first edit disappeared is because entries to your list articles usually need to already have their own separate articles. So while your edit had a citation, it was removed because there was no article on the topic. Hopefully that helps! And I look forward to your contributions! — Wug·a·po·des 00:47, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Agottworth (17:44, 13 November 2023)

I like being able to contribute to things that are missing or fix/update things, but a little overwhelmed by all the features and rules. What's the most simple way to edit things? And what are the main rules to follow? --Agottworth (talk) 17:44, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Agottworth and welcome! I left a message on your talk page with a short tutorial that should help you with how to edit and some of our more important rules. Happy editing! — Wug·a·po·des 00:49, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Badly behaved sock

Hi, Wugapodes. Bishzilla knows she's not supposed to post in Wikipedia space, but sometimes she nevertheless does. Sigh. Feel free to ignore/remove the question she just posted on your candidate questions page — I'm sure you have enough to do without looking up that particular ancient history. Bishonen | tålk 14:57, 26 November 2023 (UTC).

Hi Bishonen My understanding of WP:PROJSOCK is that undisclosed alternative accounts are (with limited exception) forbidden from participating in project space, but since Bishzilla is a declared alternate account, I don't see why she can't participate. She even has her own carve out at Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Legitimate uses. It's an interesting piece of history I wasn't aware of, and I've found it an educational read as I dig into the various discussions. Hopefully you find the answer as interesting if long. — Wug·a·po·des 00:04, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Very interesting indeed, Wugapodes, thank you. Note, by "not supposed to", I was referring to my personal rules for my sockfarm, not to WP:PROJSOCK, which I was only vaguely aware of. The socks are not supposed to pop up all over the place and annoy people, and the other lot generally don't. Bishzilla does. Bishonen | tålk 02:39, 27 November 2023 (UTC).

Precious anniversary

Precious
Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:30, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

November music

November songs
my story today

Vacation pictures offered if you click on songs, and my story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. Mozart's Requiem to come on Sunday, coupled with Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine, - I guess you might come if it was a bit closer. Perhaps watch the video of our last production, our first on yt, ever. --(forgot to sign yesterday)

Thank you for standing to continue as arbitrator! My story today is Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, - the composer, born OTD 110 years ago, didn't want it shorter (but the publisher), - more here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:01, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for a reply to my cand question. I may discuss it after tomorrow's concert when we will sing the Mozart and listen to Pärt's urgent call for peace played by the strings, - I'm not in the mood before ;) - I mentioned Pärt for a reason, could have been Beethoven as well, in other words: I believe it's time for a fresh look, as we were told 10 years ago. - Your draft looks like the most productive effort in the field, - thank you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

User Talk:Gerda Arendt#Mozart Requiem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:16, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the story, Gerda Arendt and the question. Regardless of the election outcome I hope to work on the RfC in late December or early January when I should have more free time. — Wug·a·po·des 00:43, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. - Today: in memoriam Jerome Kohl who said (In Freundschaft): "and I hope that they have met again in the beyond and are making joyous music together" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Sindhi Manhon (14:02, 22 November 2023)

Hi, could you please guide me on what I should write on my User Page? Thank you! --Sindhi Manhon (talk) 14:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

@Sindhi Manhon: Your user page looks good to me! Most editors use their user page to talk about what they like editing, list links to pages they find interesting or want to edit, and maybe say about about their personal interests. It looks like you did a good job of that! — Wug·a·po·des 00:36, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you so much. SM (talk) 14:02, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Kurz was not the president of Austria

In your Arbcom election answers to questions, you incorrectly stated that Kurz was the president of Austria. In fact, he was the chancellor. (t · c) buidhe 08:46, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Buidhe, corrected. Apparently I did not remember 2019 Austrian politics as well as I thought. — Wug·a·po·des 09:16, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
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