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Question from Fmesq (11:58, 3 March 2022)

Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, I'm pretty sure https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Google_Search starts off with wrong info. the number of daily searches is very dated (from 2012). It know be now on close to 13.5 billion. see https://duckduckgo.com/traffic and https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/ Best, fmesq --Fmesq (talk) 11:58, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

@Fmesq: If the information is outdated, you can add a
(as of 2012) after it, or, if you have reliable sources, you can be bold and replace the figure with a more up-to-date one. ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:39, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:A-League Men map templates

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 

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

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 20:52, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Short description case issue

Latest comment: 2 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

The bot has added {{Short description|None}} to many articles but none it needs to be lower case to work correctly ({{Short description|none}}), particularly with {{annotated link}}. Compare the following:

I corrected the first. The bot's entry is there at the second. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:14, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

So you can fix annotated link, or stop messing it up just so you have your caps in your list. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:15, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
@Walter Görlitz: Should be fixed with Template talk:Annotated link#Template-protected edit request on 5 March 2022. Otherwise, this will be fixing the symptom , not the problem. I'll restore Wikipedia:Short description for now. ― Qwerfjkltalk 18:23, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

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

Problems

  • There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [1]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Cinemanolita1 (17:56, 9 March 2022)

Latest comment: 2 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hello, please can you advise how to make our page a regular page? It says 'transclusion' and has zero SEO pick up despite having many active links. --Cinemanolita1 (talk) 17:56, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Are you referring to King Otto (film)? Where exactly does it say "transclusion"? I just patrolled King Otto (film), so it will now be indexed by search engines. Finally, do you have a WP:COI? ― Qwerfjkltalk 18:08, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
Courtesy ping @Cinemanolita1. ― Qwerfjkltalk 18:09, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Flora categories

Latest comment: 2 years ago14 comments2 people in discussion

Flora categories, like Flora of Malta are only for native plants. Please check before you add this category to an article! Peter coxhead (talk) 19:04, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

If you are not sure, follow the POWO link in the taxonbar; there will be a map as well as a list of native distribution units. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:13, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
There's a quirk in using Flora of Malta: "Malta" here, as in all flora distributions, is what is meant in the WGSRPD, not necessarily the political unit. The WGSRPD includes its "Malta" within Sicily, so you would only use "Flora of Malta" if a plant is native to Malta but not to Sicily. I suspect there's a lot of miscategorization! Peter coxhead (talk) 16:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
@Peter coxhead: I got my list from Flora of Malta, so any errors probably originate from there. (My edits yesterday were still from Flora of Malta, but I messedd up my regexp.) Are there any problems from today? ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:40, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
@Qwerfjkl: suppose a species, call it X, occurs as a native in both Malta and an area that includes Malta in the WGSRPD. Then X should appear in the "Flora of Malta" article, but the article on X should not be placed in the category "Flora of Malta", but in the category for the largest unit in which it occurs that includes Malta. It's a nice example to illustrate the difference between list articles and categories – sometimes it has been wrongly argued that you don't need the article "Flora of X" because of the existence of "Category:Flora of X". But you can't just automatically put every article about a species listed in Flora of Malta into Category:Flora of Malta – you have to check that it isn't (or shouldn't be) in a category for the flora of a unit that includes Malta. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:52, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
@Peter coxhead: I see, that sounds problematic. What do you think should be done now? ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:01, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
I could just rollback all my edits, but if it only affects a small proportion of the pages, then it might be better to check manually. ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:50, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
I don't personally think some over-categorization matters that much. There's a lot of it about. Thus, as just one example, all of those here are in both Category:Flora of France and Category:Flora of Europe, which shouldn't be the case. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:24, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
But examples like Yucca gloriosa are different. It's native to North America, and certainly not part of the flora of Malta. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:34, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
These 200 don't belong in Category:Flora of Malta as they are already in Category:Flora of Europe. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:52, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
Fixed those 200. ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:10, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

So I noticed – great work! I fixed a few more that were also in other categories of which Category:Flora of Malta is a subcategory (based on Cat-a-lot's overcategorization check), and some species that I recognized as non-native. As I indicated above, I find myself not very bothered about categorization errors; the entire system is riddled with inconsistencies, as far as I can see, and I'm doubtful as to how useful it is. So that's as much as I'm going to do. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:01, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Different case: in the WGSRPD, "Turkey" is not in Europe – the first part of the category description at Category:Flora of Turkey was wrong as was the categorization. "Turkey" means only the part in Western Asia; "European Turkey" has its own flora category. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Should I revert? ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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  The Technical Barnstar
Thanks for your scripts and the dedication at WP:US/R.

---CX Zoom (let's talk|contribs) 07:49, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Tanzeer Khan (18:35, 12 March 2022)

Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

How i can list my information on wikipedia --Tanzeer Khan (talk) 18:35, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

@Tanzeer Khan, Are you trying to write an autobiography? ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:07, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #511

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.
  • Development
    • Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
    • Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
    • Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
    • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Speedy deletion nomination of 4 da Gang (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on 4 da Gang (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

  • disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
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  • is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

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Tech News: 2022-11

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

Recent changes

  • In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [2][3]

Problems

  • There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
  • There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [4]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [5]
  •   Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [6]
  • On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [7]

Future changes

Events

  • The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Regarding a script

Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

At User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/wikibreak: 

window.HourStart = 15
window.HourEnd = 17 // The hour -1, otherwise it will last from 6PM to 6:59PM
{{subst:js|1=User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/wikibreak.js}} // installation text

I believe that the message should've been "otherwise it will last from 3PM to 6:59PM", right? Or am I missing something? Thanks! ---CX Zoom(he/him) (let's talk|contribs) 15:56, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed. ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:39, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #20

 

Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.

Suggested edits

As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.

Add a link is the team's first structured task, deployed in May 2021. It has improved outcomes for newcomers. The team is now working on a second iteration based on community feedback and data analysis. Improvements will include: improved algorithmic suggestions, guardrails to prevent too many similar links to be added, and clearer encouragement for users to continue making edits. After adding these improvements, we will deploy this task to more Wikipedias.

Add an image is the second structured task built by our team. It was deployed in November 2021 to four pilot Wikipedias. This is a more challenging task for newcomers. However, it adds more value to articles (so far, over 1,000 images have been added). We are currently learning from communities and from the data on what is working well and what needs improvements. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.

"Add a link" and "Add an image" now both have a limitation on how many of these tasks newcomers can do per day. It is meant to discourage careless newcomers from making too many problematic edits.

Positive reinforcement

Over the last two years, the Growth team has focused on building suggested edits: easy tasks for newcomers to start with. We have learned with this experience that these tasks help many newcomers to make their first edits. Now, the team is starting a new project : "positive reinforcement". Its goal is to make newcomers proud of their editing and to make them want to come back for more of them. With the positive reinforcement project, we are considering three kinds of features:

  • Impact stats: give newcomers the ability to see how many people read the articles they edit.
  • Leveling up: encourage newcomers to progress from easier tasks to harder tasks.
  • Personalized praise: encourage mentors and other editors to "thank" and award newcomers for good work.

This project is just beginning, and we hope for community thoughts on the direction. We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit the talk page to help guide the project!

News for mentors

  • The mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please contact us.
  • The mentor dashboard has a new module: settings. It is now possible for mentors to define their status (active or away). They can specify the volume of questions they want to receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically reassign their mentees to other mentors.
  • We are working on an ability for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor.
  • Previously, in the table that displays mentees activity, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits. We have changed this so that only mentees with between 1 and 500 edits are visible by default. Mentors can change this value in their filters.
  • We are currently working on a special page for mentors to sign-up.

Some wikis have created userboxes that mentors can display on the user pages. If your wiki has one, please link it to Wikidata!

Scaling

Previously, at most Wikipedias, only 80% of newcomers were getting the Growth features. This was done for experimentation, to have a control group. We have changed this setting. Now 100% of new accounts at all Wikipedias get the Growth features (except a few, kept as test wikis). We invite communities to update their onboarding documentation and tutorials. Please include the Growth features in it. To help you, we have created an help page that can be translated and adapted to your wiki.

How to help

Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it.

Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.

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17:12, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Tropical cyclone timeline color changes

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Would you be willing to change timeline colors for tropical cyclone articles per the consensus achieved at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather#Infobox & Template colors (either by bot or AWB)? I listed the first set below. If you are willing to make these changes I will calculate the RGB values for the other basins and add them + the appropriate categories. NoahTalk 22:25, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Actually, I went ahead and added all of them below. The new color text is listed below for each basin. NoahTalk 23:00, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Atlantic/Eastern Pacific hurricanes
New text =
Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(1,0.99,0.96) id:GP value:red id:TD value:rgb(0.38,0.73,1) legend:Tropical_Depression_=≤38_mph_(0-62_km/h) id:TS value:rgb(0,0.98,0.96) legend:Tropical_Storm_=_39-73_mph_(63–117 km/h) id:C1 value:rgb(1,0.97,0.58) legend:Category_1_=_74–95_mph_(119–153_km/h) id:C2 value:rgb(1,0.85,0.13) legend:Category_2_=_96–110_mph_(154–177_km/h) id:C3 value:rgb(1,0.56,0.13) legend:Category_3_=_111–129_mph_(178–208-km/h) id:C4 value:rgb(1,0.38,0.38) legend:Category_4_=_130–156_mph_(209–251_km/h) id:C5 value:rgb(0.77,0.39,0.85) legend:Category_5_=_≥157_mph_(≥252_km/h)

For all season-related articles with timelines in the categories (may need to check subcategories): Category:Atlantic Ocean meteorological timelines, Category:Atlantic hurricane seasons, Category:Pacific hurricane seasons, and Category:Pacific hurricane meteorological timelines

Pacific typhoons
New text =
Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(1,0.99,0.96) id:GP value:red id:TD value:rgb(0.38,0.73,1) legend:Tropical_Depression_=_≤62_km/h_(≤39_mph) id:TS value:rgb(0,0.98,0.96) legend:Tropical_Storm_=_63-88_km/h_(39-54_mph) id:ST value:rgb(0.71,0.99,0.66) legend:Severe_Tropical_Storm_=_89-117_km/h_(55-73_mph) id:TY value:rgb(1,0.85,0.13) legend:Typhoon_=_≥119_km/h_(≥74_mph)

For all season-related articles with timelines in the categories (may need to check subcategories): Category:Pacific typhoon seasons

North Indian
New text =
Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(1,0.99,0.96) id:GP value:red id:TD value:rgb(0.45,0.66,0.80) legend:Depression_(31–50_km/h) id:DD value:rgb(0.37,0.73,1) legend:Deep_Depression_(51–62_km/h) id:TS value:rgb(0,0.98,0.96) legend:Cyclonic_Storm_(63–88_km/h) id:ST value:rgb(0.71,0.99,0.66) legend:Severe_Cyclonic_Storm_(89–117_km/h) id:VS value:rgb(1,0.85,0.13) legend:Very_Severe_Cyclonic_Storm_(118–165_km/h) id:ES value:rgb(1,0.38,0.38) legend:Extremely_Severe_Cyclonic_Storm_(166–220_km/h) id:SU value:rgb(0.77,0.39,0.85) legend:Super_Cyclonic_Storm_(≥221_km/h)

For all season-related articles with timelines in the categories (may need to check subcategories): Category:North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons and Category:North Indian Ocean meteorological timelines

South-west Indian
New text =
Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(1,0.99,0.96) id:GP value:red id:ZD value:rgb(0.45,0.66,0.80) legend:Zone_of_Disturbed_Weather/Tropical_Disturbance id:TD value:rgb(0.38,0.73,1) legend:Tropical_Depression id:TS value:rgb(0,0.98,0.96) legend:Moderate_Tropical_Storm id:ST value:rgb(0.71,0.99,0.66) legend:Severe_Tropical_Storm id:TC value:rgb(1,0.85,0.13) legend:Tropical_Cyclone id:IT value:rgb(1,0.38,0.38) legend:Intense_Tropical_Cyclone id:VI value:rgb(0.77,0.39,0.85) legend:Very_Intense_Tropical_Cyclone

For all season-related articles with timelines in the categories (may need to check subcategories): Category:Southwest Indian Ocean meteorological timelines and Category:South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons

Australian Region
New text =
Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(1,0.99,0.96) id:GP value:red id:TL value:rgb(0.38,0.73,1) legend:Tropical_Low_=_<63_km/h_(<39_mph) id:C1 value:rgb(0,0.98,0.96) legend:Category_1_=_63–88_km/h_(39-55_mph) id:C2 value:rgb(0.71,0.99,0.66) legend:Category_2_=_89–117_km/h_(55-73_mph) id:C3 value:rgb(1,0.85,0.13) legend:Category_3_=_118–159_km/h_(73-99_mph) id:C4 value:rgb(1,0.38,0.38) legend:Category_4_=_160–199_km/h_(99-124_mph) id:C5 value:rgb(0.77,0.39,0.85) legend:Category_5_=_≥200_km/h_(≥124_mph)

For all season-related articles with timelines in the categories (may need to check subcategories): Category:Australian region cyclone seasons and Category:Australian region meteorological timelines

South Pacific
New text =
Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(1,0.99,0.96) id:GP value:red id:TDi value:rgb(0.45,0.66,0.80) legend:Tropical_Disturbance id:TD value:rgb(0.38,0.73,1) legend:Tropical_Depression id:C1 value:rgb(0,0.98,0.96) legend:Category_1_=_63–88_km/h_(39-55_mph) id:C2 value:rgb(0.71,0.99,0.66) legend:Category_2_=_89–117_km/h_(55-73_mph) id:C3 value:rgb(1,0.85,0.13) legend:Category_3_=_118–159_km/h_(73-99_mph) id:C4 value:rgb(1,0.38,0.38) legend:Category_4_=_160–199_km/h_(99-124_mph) id:C5 value:rgb(0.77,0.39,0.85) legend:Category_5_=_≥200_km/h_(≥124_mph)

For all season-related articles with timelines in the categories (may need to check subcategories): Category:South Pacific cyclone seasons and Category:South Pacific meteorological timelines

Winter
New text =
Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(1,0.99,0.96) id:C0 value:rgb(0.66,0.66,0.66) legend:Category_0_&_N/A_<_1.0_RSI id:C1 value:rgb(1,0.97,0.58) legend:Category_1_=_1.0–3.0_RSI id:C2 value:rgb(1,0.85,0.13) legend:Category_2_=_3.0–6.0_RSI id:C3 value:rgb(1,0.56,0.13) legend:Category_3_=_6.0–10.0_RSI id:C4 value:rgb(1,0.38,0.38) legend:Category_4_=_10.0–18.0_RSI id:C5 value:rgb(0.77,0.39,0.85) legend:Category_5_≥_18.0_RSI

Category: Category:North American winters

Windstorms

Timeline background needs to be changed to the new color for season articles at Category:European windstorms (nothing else besides that)

@Noah: I'm up for this. From what I can tell, you want to make a bunch of edits like this one, to improve accessibility? Can you see anything wrong with this edit that I should fix? ― Qwerfjkltalk 23:27, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Yes, that's exactly what we are wanting to do. Your edit looks fine to me. NoahTalk 23:49, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Okay, I'll starting writing some regex. ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:03, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
@Noah: Okay, I've done a larger batch with these 36 contributions. Can you look over these? By the way, I can't do anything about cases like Timeline of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season#Timeline of storms. ― Qwerfjkltalk 08:35, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
I would hold off on more as people objected despite the RfC being closed. NoahTalk 10:05, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
Re this, I could probably save anything between <timeline>...</timeline>, along with the title, and save that somewhere. ― Qwerfjkltalk 12:38, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Oh, this is referring to the map images on commons, not the timeline images. NoahTalk 12:43, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #512

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
      • AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
  • Tool of the week
    • Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
    • Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
    • Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
    • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2022-12

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

New code release schedule for this week

  • There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

Future changes

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Wikiip9750n (16:11, 22 March 2022)

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hello, how do I find something i want to research --Wikiip9750n (talk) 16:11, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@Wikiip9750n: Can you be more specific? You can try the search bar at the top of every Wikipedia page, or try a search engine e.g. search query site:en.wiki.x.io ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:18, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Wikiip9750n (16:03, 22 March 2022)

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are you a bot --Wikiip9750n (talk) 16:03, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@Wikiip9750n: No; however, I do operate Qwerfjkl (bot). Wikipedia:Bots may interest you. ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:26, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Wikiip9750n (17:41, 22 March 2022)

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hello I want to learn everything about flight dynamics but I can't find everything what should I search.

thank you --Wikiip9750n (talk) 17:41, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Have you tried flight dynamics, and the "See also" section of that article? ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:55, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Wikiip9750n (17:45, 22 March 2022)

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are there groups I can join to learn more about the things I love --Wikiip9750n (talk) 17:45, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

You might try Wikipedia:WikiProjects. ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:56, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Wikiip9750n (17:34, 22 March 2022)

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wow, you must have a really hard job I'd imagine. you must have a good salary and a lot of friends thank you, for the service you provide --Wikiip9750n (talk) 17:34, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Everyone who edits Wikipedia is a volunteer. ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:57, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Unbridled.Horse (19:58, 25 March 2022)

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Hello,

I have added an article in the sandbox. Wonder what I can do in order to get it published? does it go automatically to someone for review? or do I need to add/tag people to comment/advice on it? --Unbridled.Horse (talk) 19:58, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Have you written the article in draftspace (does the title begin with Draft:) or userspace (with User:)? If so, then add {{subst:subst}} to the top of the article to submit it. ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:35, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

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