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Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST
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How adverse is DYK...
Moved to Template:Did you know nominations/David Yong
October music
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You may remember Maryvonne Le Dizès, my story today as on 28 August. Some September music was unusual: last compositions and eternal light, with Ligeti mentioned in story and music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Today is the birthday of Tabea Zimmermann, and you can listen to the exact concert I mentioned last year ;) - I'm fascinated by Rohan de Saram. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Today brought a timely promotion of Helmut Bauer to the Main page on the day when pieces from Mozart's Requiem were performed for him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:31, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
The third-rail tip pic revisited
Roy,
Regarding this discussion, I have been able to get to my DSLR raw files of that image and uploaded one of them (rare for me, I actually overwrote the original because a) it was undeniably subpar and b) I really didn't feel like copying over the entire info text).
What do you think now? I have pretty much done all the work I felt necessary on the article and will be nominating it at FAC soon. Daniel Case (talk) 18:27, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- That one really shows what it's like. Excellent! RoySmith (talk) 20:15, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Daniel Case (talk) 01:40, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- I trust the acquisition of this image was fully compliant with all OSHA and FRA safety regulations :-) RoySmith (talk) 02:19, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Daniel Case (talk) 01:40, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
Japansonglove again
Would you like to merge Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Japansonglove into Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Smagzine, per Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Smagzine/Archive#21 August 2024, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:57, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Elias Karmon
On 21 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elias Karmon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mr. Bronx was not from the Bronx? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elias Karmon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Elias Karmon), 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.
— Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Chinasrise SPI question
Hello, thank you for your help and pointers at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Chinasrise—as it seems I'm continuing to encounter instances, should I be adding them to the investigations page? Or given the remarks in the archive, should I desist in treating this as a sockpuppetry situation until something changes? It really does seem like something odd is going on, and it's fairly disruptive. Remsense ‥ 论 01:12, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- At this point, I don't have a good feel for what's going on, so yes, it would be useful to add additional accounts as you find them. Perhaps with enough examples, something will start to make sense. RoySmith (talk) 01:14, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! And yes, per your point I now get why diffs here are as necessary as they are—I'll be properly rigorous with them from now on. Remsense ‥ 论 01:16, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-43
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Misplaced Pages readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Misplaced Pages languages were created last week.
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}}parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}will show as "27 December 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef(or#timeflfor local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta.- Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}instead of using{{int:lang}}. - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform.
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:50, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in a research
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The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Misplaced Pages, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.
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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
Incredibly minor thing to start a talk over, but ...
... you made a typo in your ANI close, courtesy banking
, which I've found amusing to consider what that could mean. – 2804:F1...DE:554A (talk) 23:35, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. Fixed. RoySmith (talk) 23:36, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- I once made a typo in the edit summary of a mass delete, so it got repeated in the deletion log like 300 times and there was nothing I could do about it. Just Step Sideways 23:42, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- At least you didn't do a WP:STOCKS § Harej for the Bad Cut-and-Paste award
Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 23:48, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- At least you didn't do a WP:STOCKS § Harej for the Bad Cut-and-Paste award
- I once made a typo in the edit summary of a mass delete, so it got repeated in the deletion log like 300 times and there was nothing I could do about it. Just Step Sideways 23:42, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
Welcome in pocket
Welcome in pocket, little user! Feel free enjoy poetry recitations, stately-home ambience, refreshing drinks, unlimited access to cake fridge! Sit on sofa! bishzilla ROARR!! pocket 13:07, 27 October 2024 (UTC).
Tech News: 2024-44
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Misplaced Pages.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Misplaced Pages, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Misplaced Pages.
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnSteptotrueto fix an old bug. They can use the new flagallowAutomaticBackto avoid back-buttons they don't want. - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Sorry
Hi Roy. I'm sorry that my message made you feel yelled at or beaten up. FWIW, I wasn't annoyed at the CU results, I was annoyed by what you wrote in response to Sean. I felt dismissed, ignored, and lectured-to. But it wasn't my intent to make you feel yelled at or beaten up, and I apologize that I came across that way. Levivich (talk) 22:08, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for the note. I think I'll still leave Icewhiz for others to work on. Just too much drama. RoySmith (talk) 22:28, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
Proxy blocking
You blocked a proxy at Special:Contributions/148.252.159.73 after it was used for block evasion by banned User:Brettandelle. The same person used Special:Contributions/148.252.159.110 soon afterward, quite likely another proxy. Perhaps these come from a range of proxies that can be blocked, maybe as wide as the /16.
Cheers! Binksternet (talk) 20:14, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
No comment with respect to IP address(es) RoySmith (talk) 20:58, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
Technical news
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
Arbitration
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
Miscellaneous
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
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