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Question from The2gingerman (16:13, 19 November 2024)

Do all edits require discussion? --The2gingerman (talk) 16:13, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@The2gingerman: not necessarily, there are many types of edits that have been agreed upon by the community to be non-controversial. However, if you think an edit may be controversial it may be best to discuss the edit first, or state your intents when making the edits on the talk page. Rusty 🐈 19:08, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! The2gingerman (talk) 19:12, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@The2gingerman: It's a pleasure to help! Rusty 🐈 01:01, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Eeveegirl1221 (18:57, 21 November 2024)

hi how do i make my own artical --Eeveegirl1221 (talk) 18:57, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

@Eeveegirl1221: If you want to make an article about yourself, that may not be possible. If you want to write an article about someone else, see Help:Your first article. Rusty 🐈 21:49, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Boemo "Status B99" Mosese on TECO Electric and Machinery (15:34, 22 November 2024)

How can I mention a location for people to search on Google? --Boemo "Status B99" Mosese (talk) 15:34, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@Boemo "Status B99" Mosese: Can you clarify? Thanks. Rusty 🐈 16:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Taramayatamang (10:20, 24 November 2024)

My article has under review for a long time now, how do i get some one to review it ? --Taramayatamang (talk) 10:20, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

@Taramayatamang: You don't. The message at the top of the draft tells you that it may take a long time since drafts aren't reviewed in a specific order. Just wait and eventually someone will get to the draft. Rusty 🐈 14:48, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

oh okay, also how do I delete draft ? Taramayatamang (talk) 15:02, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

@Taramayatamang: If you want to delete a draft you created, insert the template {{db-author}} at the top of the page. Rusty 🐈 15:06, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from AlBadareenYazeed (20:04, 24 November 2024)

Hello

Thank you for your support and dedication. Two months ago, I updated Rabdan Academy wikepedia page. I am checking everyday but changes still not reflected yet. Is there any issue needs my attention please? --AlBadareenYazeed (talk) 20:04, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

@AlBadareenYazeed: You seem to be undoing your own edit each time you make one to an article. I don't know why that would happen, but it did. Rusty 🐈 21:41, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from TwoAlbert (19:50, 25 November 2024)

In editing, am I allowed to remove any content? For example, in the intro section of the Wikipedia page about a company it has a link to a negative press item. It make no sense there. Could I just remove it, or do I need to move it further down the page more as a note? --TwoAlbert (talk) 19:50, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-48

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

• A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
• The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [1]
• Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

• The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
• Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [2]
• The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [3]

Meetings and events

• A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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Women in Red December 2024

Women in Red | December 2024, Vol 10, Issue 12, Nos 293, 294, 324, 325 Online events: New: Women who died in 2024 | Religion Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Women in Religion have a monthly virtual edit-a-thon and the next session is December 2nd 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. CST. For Zoom meeting details, contact Dzingle1 or RosPost. Women in Red members are welcome to join the Zoom Meeting here Tip of the month: Think of rewarding contributors, especially newcomers, with a barnstar. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Question from Leon sun 90 (11:31, 1 December 2024)

Hello, mentor. I am a loyal user and enthusiast of Wikipedia from mainland China. I hope to obtain IP block exemption. I hope the processing staff will grant me IP block exemption. Thank you. I will definitely abide by the community rules and actively create valuable content. leon --Leon sun 90 (talk) 11:31, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

@Leon sun 90: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! The page on IP block exemption is Wikipedia:IP block exemption. Since you were able to post your question, that means you are able to make an edit and don't need it. Rusty 🐈 14:33, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-49

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

• Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
• Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [4]
• Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [5]
• This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [6]

Updates for technical contributors

• In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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

Administrator changes

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• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Question from Taramayatamang (17:17, 6 December 2024)

Hello I have re edited and added tons of citations from various reputed news outlets as well as reviews but the draft is still awaiting review after almost waiting more than a month. Help please. --Taramayatamang (talk) 17:17, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

@Taramayatamang: There's nothing I can do about it, it will just take time. Rusty 🐈 16:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from WikiLearner73 (16:26, 7 December 2024)

Hello! --WikiLearner73 (talk) 16:26, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@WikiLearner73: Welcome! Rusty 🐈 17:03, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-50

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [7]
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [8]
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [9]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [10]
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [11]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [12][13]

Updates for technical contributors

• Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [14]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
• The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [15]

Meetings and events

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

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Question from News India Group (07:51, 10 December 2024)

Hey, I want to write a wiki article about Vinayak Singh Oberoi. Can I ? --News India Group (talk) 07:51, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

@News India Group If he is on the news, it is possible. However, you must first change your username, as we do not allow "group" accounts. Accounts may be accessed by one person only. Follow the directions on your talk page for more information. Rusty 🐈 15:51, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from WikiLearner73 (23:49, 11 December 2024)

How to see what rank you are? --WikiLearner73 (talk) 23:49, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

@WikiLearner73: We don't have the concept of "rank", but yes, there are "user groups"/"rights", and you can see them in your preferences. You can get to preferences by a dropdown in the top right. Rusty 🐈 03:21, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

November 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Rusty Cat for collecting more than 1.0 point during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt (talk) 18:18, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer: Thanks! I actually had forgotten I took part in this drive lol. Rusty 🐈 22:12, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 December 2024

• News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5

• Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited

• Op-ed: On the backrooms by Tamzin

• In focus: Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?

• In the media: Like the BBC, often useful but not impartial

• Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody

• Opinion: Worm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing

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Question from Tjpwheelie (09:09, 14 December 2024)

What should I know about creating and editing pages? --Tjpwheelie (talk) 09:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Tjpwheelie: Help:Introduction, our introduction page, has what you need to know! Rusty 🐈 15:38, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Foxyworn (14:22, 14 December 2024)

Hello, how to create new article. --Foxyworn (talk) 14:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Foxyworn: Hello and welcome! If you want to create a new article, there is a guide available at the page Help: Your first article. Rusty 🐈 14:25, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from NELLYPOP on User:NELLYPOP (02:10, 15 December 2024)

Hello, how can I create user page on Wikipedia? --NELLYPOP (talk) 02:10, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from NELLYPOP (02:13, 15 December 2024)

Hello, how can I create my own users page on Wikipedia? --NELLYPOP (talk) 02:13, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

@NELLYPOP: I believe you successfully did that. Rusty 🐈 00:04, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-51

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

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

Updates for technical contributors

• There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [16]

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New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

January 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 January 2025, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Each article review will earn 1 point, while each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Streak awards will be given out based on consistently hitting point thresholds for each week of the drive. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Question from ThatWolfDog (20:27, 19 December 2024)

Hi, I was reading the page on Fred Emery (http://en.m.wiki.x.io/wiki/Fred_Emery) and it appears that the suggested edits, disclaimers, and “if you are looking for” banner is under the name/photo/profile. This is inconsistent with how I’ve seen it done so far. How do I fix this? --ThatWolfDog (talk) 20:27, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

@ThatWolfDog: Not sure, but you probably want to make sure that the code for the infobox ({{infobox person|...}} is below all the other templates (such as short description, more citations needed, etc) at the top and directly above the lead section.

This might sound confusing, so feel free to ask if you need further clarification. Rusty 🐈 00:37, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Found it and fixed it. Thanks ThatWolfDog (talk) 03:38, 20 December 2024 (UTC)