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December music

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On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:28, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:12, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:34, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Today is a woman poet's centenary. - Thank you for improving article quality in December, including from deletion to quality! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Gerda Arendt, thanks! Thank you for your article contributions this month and this year as a whole too!

Fun fact, we're playing the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven for a concert in January...coincidence? ;)

Also, I remember seeing somewhere on the news headlines (can't quite remember what the specific website was) that Meneses had died. This is just an example of how good his playing style was. Another legendary cellist lost. :( ~ Tails Wx 22:57, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I'd love to hear "your" Beethoven! - You may have seen that Meneses died right here on our Main page because I brought him there ;) - The projects "sad list" is a list of those who arrived on the Main page, - more than 90 already this year, and working on 2 more. Would you have time for a GA review? Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41? - It should become a New Year DYK, so needs to happen soon ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:04, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Sure! I'll try and open and finish reviewing it right before Christmas. ~ Tails Wx 20:41, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Sounds great! Could you open right now? It would look better for a DYK nom if the review had at least begun ;) - 7 days before desired date is mimimum, but often preps get filled sooner. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Done: Talk:Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41/GA1. I promise I'll have it done sooner than later! ~ Tails Wx 21:06, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - Today it's another great woman, soprano Sigrid Kehl, and I found a 1963 Christmas Oratorio detail. 10 years earlier than that cycle, Bach wrote seven cantatas for the 1724 season, based on seven songs, - my focus this year. Expect three stories for the three days they celebrated in Leipzig ;) - Enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Just completed the GA review for ya! Happy holidays to you as well! ~ Tails Wx 22:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - I came to tell you: my first Christmas story is about Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91, 300 years today, and its song, 500 years old. Enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:34, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps we have a different understanding about "complete". - I replied there. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the approval! - My second Christmas story is about Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121, also 300 years today, and its song, 500 years old. An aria is inspired by a baby leaping in his mother's womb. Enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:41, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

My third Christmas story is different. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:07, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

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• 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.

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• 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. [6][7]

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• 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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Draft:Pluragrotta cave dive disaster

Would you mind if I took over this draft?

Kingsmasher678 (talk) 23:53, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

@Kingsmasher678: you're welcome to, sure! I'm really busy at the moment so I don't think I have the time to do anything here through the next week or so. I'll be back active as usual before Christmas, at the least. I'll add on anything there if necessary at that time. ~ Tails Wx 03:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from AbubakarMuhammadan on K. C. Kondaiah (10:37, 11 December 2024)

Similar success of the number one general I can't believe ni the first time --AbubakarMuhammadan (talk) 10:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @AbubakarMuhammadan! It's unclear what you're asking or suggesting what to be done here (specifically regarding the linked page, K. C. Kondaiah). It'd be helpful if you clarified your comment a bit. Thanks! ~ Tails Wx 04:10, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Quabizabdul (12:43, 12 December 2024)

Hey hope you’re doing well. I need your help in uploading a logo in Wikimedia. --Quabizabdul (talk) 12:43, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Quabizabdul! So according to Wikipedia:Logos, logos are acceptable for use on Wikipedia per the non-free criteria. The logo pictured on Starbucks is an example of this. Wikimedia Commons cannot host non-free files, though (except if it is in the public domain), and in this case, a non-free image should be uploaded through file upload wizard here. ~ Tails Wx 20:39, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

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Question from SchwartzMorgan (07:58, 13 December 2024)

How do i create a citation --SchwartzMorgan (talk) 07:58, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Hey there, @SchwartzMorgan! Through visual editor, you can create a citation automatically by pressing the "cite" button at the top of the editing bar. For source code, a specific template should generate a source (and Help:Citation#Inline citations is useful here), for example:

<ref>{{cite web|last=Clash|first=Jim|date=June 13, 2023|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2023/06/13/riders-on-the-storms-tornado-chasings-all-the-rage/?sh=449999e45fb5|title=Riders On The Storms: Tornado Chasing's All The Rage|access-date=April 13, 2024|website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref>

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An award for you!

		The Deletion to Quality Award
		For your contributions to bring 1997 Jarrell tornado (prior candidate for deletion at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1997 Prairie Dell-Jarrell tornado) to Good Article status, I hereby present you The Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 22:26, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Oh, thanks so much @Hilst! Couldn't have done it without @EF5 as well! :) ~ Tails Wx 22:29, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

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		This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for conducting 1,170 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Question from KyaniteAl2SiO5 on LENA Foundation (21:17, 11 January 2025)

Hi Tails! I'm learning how to edit Wikipedia, and am completing some copyediting tasks. The title of the page I'm working on is currently "LENA Foundation", but the third paragraph in the History section indicates that the word "Foundation" is no longer part of the organization's name. Would it be appropriate for me to change the title of the page, and if so, to what? Maybe "Language Environment Analysis"? --KyaniteAl2SiO5 (talk) 21:17, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi @KyaniteAl2SiO5! In this case, I believe there's somewhere in Wikipedia's Manual of Style that would have to deal with the title of the page – I don't think "Language Environment Analysis" would be a title that could be used here. I'm not familiar with pages similar to that, though, so it wouldn't hurt to ask others who've contributed significantly to that article or other similar articles for their opinion of the page's title name. Thanks! ~ Tails Wx 04:19, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

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Updates for technical contributors

• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
• Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
• For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [14]
• Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [15]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

January music

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Happy new year 2025! Today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 January 2025

• From the editors: Looking back, looking forward

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024

• In the media: Will you be targeted?

• Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last

• Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia

• Opinion: Reflections one score hence

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• Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next

• Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia

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• Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics

• Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia

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Courtesy notice - WP:ANI - User:CoastRedwood

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 13:35, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Speed Me Up

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Speed Me Up you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jonathan Deamer -- Jonathan Deamer (talk) 16:26, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar!

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		Hey Tails! For the last many hours, you've been a massive help in patrolling the back end of the NPP queue! When we started editing like, 7 hours ago at this point, I don't think either of us realized how much of a mammoth it might be. Sure, there were only 65 total unreviewed articles from 2023 and earlier (which was a number that continued to grow), but these were some of the toughest reviews I've ever had to make as they've sat at the end for so long, well over a year old for many of them. Your help over Discord to bounce ideas back and forth, figuring out solutions, saving pages from dire straits and verifying notability in cases where it seemed all hope was lost, this was some powerful and effective editing, and your teamwork was beyond appreciated to me. By the time I'm leaving this message now, there's only four remaining pages left from pre-2024! And after this hurdle, we as an NPP team are able to take a big leap forward with more modern articles, which is a lifesaver for the backlog drive and anyone carrying the rear. So to your efforts, thank you immensely for your help these last several hours in figuring things out together! Utopes (talk / cont) 01:26, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Question from Sigmaboy9191 on Blackjack (04:30, 19 January 2025)

hey bruh what the sigmer is visual editor --Sigmaboy9191 (talk) 04:30, 19 January 2025 (UTC)