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@Ikipedia2 you shouldn't revert reversions of your edits without discussing it first on the talk page as that is considered edit warring. I advise that you discuss this on the talk page rather than restoring your preferred version of the page. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (she/they) 12:53, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for the suggestions. I stopped the edit war and gave him a barnstar bc I made a mistake in his edits. Appreciate the advice Zippy! your the best, have a great day! Ikipedia2 (talk) 21:28, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I joined because I wanted to add in new marriage info for a celebrity. When I looked at the edit history, somebody had already added in her recent marriage, and then it appears that an admin removed/undid the edit claiming that the marriage info was unsubstantiated. Today I saw that celebrity on TV and hear her personally confirm she recently wed, so I know it is substantiated. I don't want to take credit for the addition since somebody else beat me to it, but how do I go about contacting the admin that removed it, to let them know they were the one who was mistaken and that the celebrity did in fact get married, so they should allow that previous edit to be reinstated. Thanks for your help! --JetsetterJason (talk) 19:27, 24 January 2024 (UTC)JetsetterJason (talk) 23:28, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
Barnstar
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar may be awarded to those that show a pattern of going the extra mile to be nice.
Hi Zippybonzo, thanks for participating in the WikiCup and for reviewing these GANs. Unfortunately, excluding the Template:GAList templates in both of the above reviews, they are too short to qualify for points per WP:WC/SCO.
On Talk:Gary Hobbs/GA1, you left a single comment about the style of the citations. There is no commentary about the other criteria, such as prose or coverage, aside from the boilerplate text in the template.
On Talk:VanossGaming/GA3, the review has three short comments about sourcing, images, and copyright. Besides the lack of commentary on other criteria, it seems that the review did not mention whether the issues raised in the previous, failed reviews were resolved.
If a GA review is too short, we judges cannot easily determine whether a reviewer has spent extensive amounts of time on the article without being able to find any issues, or whether the review is a quick pass. I understand that this can be disappointing, but please do not be disheartened by this. Even if you're reviewing a relatively short GAN, you can usually pick out at least 3 or 4 issues, and that should be enough to qualify for WikiCup points. – Epicgenius (talk) 00:01, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Zippybonzo, I'm new to Wikipedia. I have tried to minorly edit a few articles today, but I don't understand why a lot of articles are marked as "written like an advertisement", and how to improve the wording of such articles. For example, I can't really tell why this article is advertisement-like: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Sessions_Two . Can you help give me advice on this? --Squidb4ll (talk) 01:05, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Question from Mkenya Music (13:30, 29 January 2024)
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An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
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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:
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)
Question from Junior Kryme (19:56, 12 February 2024)
Question from Hector200223 (14:10, 19 February 2024)
Hi!
I would like to create a Wikipedia page for my company. Of course, I will not make something salesy. Do you know if there are some good practices for making this? --Hector200223 (talk) 14:10, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
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I've just noticed you have been allocated to me as a mentor. I will be sure to contact you if I have any questions :-)— Rodtalk14:07, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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
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)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
Hello, your my mentor. I have only done 2 edits so far (both on the same document). I was wondering if you give me any tips on how to make my edits look more...natural. and I don't really know how to add reference's properly so if you could teach me that would be great. :) --0-Bonk (talk) 17:46, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:
Hello There
I am Gurgen, the representative person of Human Development Research Initiative NGO and I want to create Wikipedia page about our NGO , aim, objectives and so on, Please help us to create it. --Hdevri (talk) 12:55, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi Profdibyejdu, I won't be moving any autobiographical material for you in accordance with Conflict of interest editing being that you've written a CV in effect. I will tag the page for deletion as a Wikipedia article is not meant to me promotional. Thanks, Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 07:12, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
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Question from Siekism on Parley (09:43, 26 March 2024)
How do I post this to Parley?
I attempted to use the correct outline for text
In the film The Warriors (1979 film) during the midpoint a segment of the Warriors gang encounters a sub-par outfit called the Orphans. The Orphans are illigitimate to the point of not even being on the map. The supposed war chief of the orphans says “No permits? No parley?”. --Siekism (talk) 09:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi there - you were the only trainer on the list whom matched my time-zone. Was wondering if you'd be happy to take me in? Thanks in advance. Synorem (talk) 11:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
Hi there! I am excited to post my first article on Wiki, but I find the editing process is not super user friendly. My article is pretty ready to go with minor changes pending, yet I wonder if someone literate enough in editing can put this online for review instead of my using my time inefficiently. Would you know any help for me? Many thanks, Andrea --AndreaDaluhay (talk) 10:28, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello I just wanted to know what to do if i want to input an album cover to the album page if that cover is not in the archive ? --Pedro ms G11 (talk) 18:52, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hello. I am trying to add a specific element to a page I am editing but cannot figure out how to do so. I'm referring to the table that can be found at the top right of many pages, containing an image and important synoptic information. Please help. Thanks! --JohnRosenfeld07 (talk) 20:25, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.
Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).
Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.
Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking.
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Hello how do I get ideas to the SNL writing cast. I have been watching them since 1975 and feel they need a little help. I have written songs like s***** kitty whiskers and calm your p**** self down and would like to share these ideas with the writers --Mmm1964! (talk) 03:49, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. 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. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
Hello, can I mostly stick to editing articles in a particular topic(in my case, linguistics, which I’m interested in but don’t have formal qualifications in) instead of just editing everything? --MissLilacSprings (talk) 21:29, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
@MissLilacSprings of course! I don't edit everything, in fact I don't really edit articles to add content, but I perform background tasks such as anti vandalism, page reviewing and cleanups. My advice is find a topic that you enjoy learning about or studying, then just edit around it. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 07:07, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I’m having difficulty with Visual Editor. The help guide says find the three horizontal lines, but I can only find three dots, and the options are more limited. I can’t work out how to add sections to pages. Thank you. By the way, I edit on a tablet. --Lilac17:27, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
Community Configuration
Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.
An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)
Future work
Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)
We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
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Hey, sorry for not responding for a while, I was busy with my exams. I will get back to you today. Lilac11:33, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
WikiCup 2024 May newsletter
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.
The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.
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Hey there! I've just recently got the NPP user permission so I can participate in the May backlog drive, and expand some of my informal NPP-type activities (that don't involve officially reviewing). I saw your kind offer to take people under your wing at WP:NPPSCHOOL. If you have the time I'd love to work with you to make sure I'm doing things correctly and to broaden my knowledge :) Jonathan Deamer (talk) 15:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Any feedback on my patrolling so far is of course very welcome, but I think they full course would be useful for getting me familiar with areas outside the comfort zone I'm operating in right now.
I want to make sure I can make delivering the course a good use of your time; what sort of time commitment is needed from me to make it worthwhile for us both? Jonathan Deamer (talk) 08:42, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I’m a professional futsal player, and I was wondering if I could create a wiki article about myself? I’m going to start coaching at Orlando City academy and I feel like an article about me would help the parents have confidence in me and it’ll help me have credibility. --Jmikefrias (talk) 21:49, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
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I edited my father’s information and I am now unsure if I’m even allowed to?Could you please review my edits and help me understand where I went wrong and/or how to rectify and resolve this matter?
Hello and ‘howdy’,
I just edited my father’s life story, could you please give me your thoughts and feedback about this and if necessary what changes would you recommend for me to make?
Thank you kindly,
Joanna Duncan. --CherokeeJoannaDuncan (talk) 12:46, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi @CherokeeJoannaDuncan, it is discouraged for editors to edit pages where they have a conflict of interest. Please see WP:COIE, too; where there is advice for editors with a COI (conflict of interest):
Be transparent about your conflict of interest.
Do not edit or create articles about yourself, your family or friends, your organization, your clients, or your competitors.
Post suggestions and sources on the article's talk page, or in your user space.
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State facts and statistics; don't be vague or general.
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I just created my first page, but I accidentally put a typo in the title. It should be "Phil Greenwald", not "Phil Greenwald". I can't figure out how to edit it. Do you know how? --Catskills-Buff (talk) 21:12, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. you would use the "Move" tool on the right-hand side of the page, although you should probably read WP:MOVE before moving any pages. Since you are new and do not have autoconfirmed user rights yet, I have moved the page for you. For articles in the main space, you can also place this template on the respective article talk page. Hope that helps. Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 16:53, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Unless it’s just me I can always come and see her if she doesn’t have any symptoms I can come over tomorrow or Saturday morning to get the car for the weekend but I’m sure she’ll want it to stay here until she has the kids to --U Rio Tell Sone (talk) 03:46, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Zippy
My mother tongue is French so I would prefer to start editing spelling mistake in French.
I changed the language of the interface, but the suggestions of edits are still in English.
Can you help? --Sand68 (talk) 16:07, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Zippy!
I'm working on editing a personal page for an astronomer that I am in contact with. Her name is Eun Suk Seoo, and she suggested a few large changes in organization/content that I'm a little nervous to edit. I'm familiar with doing correct citations, but is there any other advice you could give when planning a large rework of a page? --Peter Hakyoung Kim (talk) 22:36, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi! No real burning questions yet. Other than whether you have been an editor on Wikipedia for very long. Thanks! --Cal-batman (talk) 00:33, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for reply. After messaging you, I searched YouTube for how to edit, create articles as a beginner. I also learned when to edit an article, and when not to. ApurboWiki2024 (talk) 03:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
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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.
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 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.
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SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
