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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-31

The Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈneːdərlɑntsə koːkaːˈinəfaːˌbrik]; English: Dutch Cocaine Factory) or NCF was an Amsterdam-based company producing cocaine for medical purposes in the 20th century. It imported its raw materials mainly from the Dutch East Indies and sold its products across Europe, making good profits especially in the early years of World War I. The NCF produced morphine, heroin and ephedrine as well.

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Stuff that probably should stay in a article

Hi. "The economy does not have growth (as April 2024), of that kind that is called GDP growth, according to Worldbank.org" (Ref.)--'Reverting good-faith edit', is not a justification for why you might want to revert any edit; Please consider putting in the work, of being more specific (if you are thinking about reverting this new text, from an article).--I will be busy fixing other articles (so i have no expectation of re-visiting your talk page, this year). 80.67.37.2 (talk) 10:42, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@80.67.37.2 Can you tell me which article and what is fhe sources? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:25, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please also show me the diff link Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:42, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/NANPA

Hi, Cactus. I just closed this RfD. Let me just remind you that "RfD" is "request for deletion", not "request for discussion". If you think a page should be redirected, then redirect it. If you want to discuss it first, you can do that at Simple talk. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 04:48, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 oh okay Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:28, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Current sport

This was deleted per Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2012/Multiple article message boxes, and it fits QD G4. Do you still think this is needed? MathXplore (talk) 09:07, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MathXplore I think it is needed because there are some current sporting events that are going to take place this year. However, when it was nominated for deletion, it was stated it was 'pointless', but now there is a use for them. Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 09:09, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RfD nomination of Template:Current sport

An editor has requested deletion of Template:Current sport, a page you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the page meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Please comment on the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Template:Current sport and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also change the page during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns. But you should not remove the requests for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you very much. MathXplore (talk) 09:14, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2024

This is your last warning. The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from changing pages without any more notices. MathXplore (talk) 22:50, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note: This is sent per Special:Diff/9677972 and Special:Diff/9678026. MathXplore (talk) 22:53, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MathXplore How are they disruptive edits? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:30, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Causing admins to warn again and again is disruptive enough. MathXplore (talk) 11:43, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MathXplore But shouldn't the admin who asked me to not comment be the one to warn me, if they think its disruptive? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:45, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ferien: What do you think about this? MathXplore (talk) 11:47, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't going to give one of these warning templates initially, as I think there are times where it's better writing a more custom message, but I think that was my third notice for you to stop commenting on checkuser blocks. I believe I gave a notice here before to not comment on unblock requests, and then you did it again on User talk:DestroyerOfWikis54, yet you still continued to comment. It is disruptive as it can make the situation more complicated to deal with, please just let admins and checkusers deal with it. --Ferien (talk) 11:56, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ferien Oh, Okay Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:58, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Hi! About 6 established user-accounts have edited the article since April 24.--The article is in good hands (or okay hands), one might say.--You have added two tags in front of the lede. Readability (of that wiki-article) does not improve, with a lot of noise in front of the lede.--Another suggestion: please copy any particular red links, to List for creation of articles. (I don't think that List will make much of a difference for these red links. However, if you start a one-line article, about any of the red-links, then i will quite possibly see it, and add some words, and a reference.)--Have a nice day! 2001:2020:357:C807:5007:8B13:74D9:874E (talk) 00:37, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I only added the red links because the article does have a lot of red links. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 03:10, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Skarone

Ok, I'm sorry I didn't delete anything again, but tell me what's wrong so I can learn. Doma101 (talk) 05:15, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article is about a non-notable person. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 05:16, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Skarone

Oh Ok, I truly apologize to you Cactus for the repeated deletion without knowing that he is an unknown person, and I hope that you will retract any reports you sent to me. I am new to Wikipedia and I am still learning. Doma101 (talk) 05:21, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Doma101 Ok, I know. But I can't remove warnings. Next time don't press add topic, but press the reply button to send new messages. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 05:23, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(Update) User blocked/locked. MathXplore (talk) 06:58, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox

Hi, Please avoid edits such as this and this, A bot automatically cleans the sandbox and both edits weren't urgent that they immediately needed removing, Also vandals vandalising the sandbox is a good thing for obvious reasons, Thanks. –Davey2010Talk 14:38, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 Oh alright Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:04, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I thought it was disrupting others using the sandbox. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:25, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The common sandbox (as opposed to a user's personal sandbox) is for anyone to use at any time. Anyone might use it and do pretty much anything to it, so there is no expectation that something you put there will remain. Therefore, the only kind of disruption that can be on that sandbox is if someone posts something that isn't allowed anywhere, such as personal attacks or child pornography. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:12, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thanks. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:27, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BEFORE

Are you really doing this? MathXplore (talk) 07:57, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:00, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can you explain how you are doing this? MathXplore (talk) 08:03, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Where do you mean? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:03, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For example, what kind of research have you done for Barzin Alaie? MathXplore (talk) 08:05, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The first website in the reference is a news website, however, I do not think it talks much about it. The second one is just the persons main website. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:10, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Have you found a claim of notability in the article? MathXplore (talk) 08:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I mean a news source says about it. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you mean a claim of notability is included in the news source? If so, which claim would be that? MathXplore (talk) 08:14, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MathXploreIsn't a new source stating about the article a claim of notability? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:15, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It depends on the type of news. News about awards/nominations may be like that. Anything less than that may not. When starting RFDs, can you always try to explain why the page does not fit QD? I'm asking this because I was about to delete the page as QD A4. MathXplore (talk) 08:18, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I didn't know that. Feel free to QD the page and close the discussion. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:19, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When we say "claim of notability," we mean a statement about the subject that is something that makes them notable. (See the various guidelines on notability for what makes a subject notable.) Then, ideally, that statement should be backed up with a reference.
This article has only three facts about the person: their name, their nationality, and the fact that they are a singer. None of those makes a person notable. There is no claim of notability, so the article is eligible for QD. We get frequent complaints that the admins don't keep up with closing RfDs. The community can help with that by using the QD process when applicable, because QDs can be handled right away. This one is clearly eligible for QD, so that would have been the better way to go. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:19, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, last time I used a QD about notability, I was decline, so I wasn't really sure. Thanks for the detailed explanation. :) Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:26, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If there's a claim of notability in the article, we can't use the QD option. That was probably why it was declined. It can take a while to learn when to use which option. I'd rather see you get declined a few times and learn when QD is possible, than to use RfD all the time. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:18, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 Alright, thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:14, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to suggest you take some time to read Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Quick deletion. That page has the full definition of each of the quick deletion options, organized by which kind of page each can be applied to. The short descriptions you see in some places don't give all the detail that the admins have to take into account when evaluating QD requests. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:30, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 Okay Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:24, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-32

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Suffrage drama (also known as suffrage plays or suffrage theatre) is a form of dramatic literature that emerged during the British women's suffrage movement in the early twentieth century. Suffrage performances lasted approximately from 1907-1914. Many suffrage plays called for a predominant or all female cast. Suffrage plays served to reveal issues behind the suffrage movement.

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@Magnolioideae Thank you Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:43, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-33

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In the Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australian state of Victoria, the Karatgurk were seven sisters who represented the constellation known in western astronomy as the Pleiades.

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Talkback

Hello, Cactusisme. You have new messages at Template talk:Did you know.
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Maggie🌺 talk edit 17:29, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also used your code for the time in your user talk. Maggie🌺 talk edit 17:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Magnolioideae alright Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:51, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Sturm, Ruger & Co.

Hi, Cactus. A few things about this template you copied from enwiki:

  • It isn't categorized properly. The only category is one we don't have here. We don't have, and often don't want, the same categories as enwiki, so you need to find an appropriate category that exists here.
  • There is only one link in the body of the template. I know there is one in the heading, but it's best to have more than one in the body.
  • The template contains broken anchors. You can see the change that Cewbot made to flag them.

When you bring a template here from enwiki -- when you bring any page, in fact -- look it over to see if there's anything in it that isn't applicable to Simple English Wikipedia, and take care of whatever isn't applicable. It's rare that a navigational box like this can be copied exactly and be ready for use here. -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:54, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 oh okay Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:20, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I nominated it for QD Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:30, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
deleted now Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 04:54, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uses for cactus

Have you seen this Horrible Histories skit? -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:00, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 No? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 01:17, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 I will take a look Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 01:21, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just saw it and had a laugh!! :)) Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 02:27, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

COSMETICBOT

Hi, Just a heads up you might want to read en:WP:COSMETICBOT, Basically you shouldn't be making edits such as this unless your edit is making a difference to the visual rendering of a page (ie a visible change yourself and a reader can see)

  • This is fine because you removed a huge gap between the text above and the stub below
  • Some may disagree but I would say your edit here is borderline okay because you could argue you're making it easier for people to edit (still no visual difference though)
  • This isn't okay as you're just removing whitespace which makes no visual difference to the page,

Just removing whitespace is not okay and for what it's worth I got dragged to ANI at EN over this exact same issue, You can remove whitespace as long as you make a visual change with it, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 11:34, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 oh sorry I was cleaning up with an automated program it auto does it sorry. Will remember in the future. Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 23:00, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, It's not your fault that the preferences and AudoEd itself doesn't make it obvious as to what should and shouldn't be done with the tool so it's all good :), Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 23:06, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-34

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B1 is a medical-based Paralympic classification for blind sport. Athletes in this classification are totally or almost totally blind. It is used by a number of blind sports including blind tennis, para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, blind cricket, blind golf, five-a-side football, goalball and judo. Some other sports, including adaptive rowing, athletics and swimming, have equivalents to this class.

The B1 classification was first created by the IBSA in the 1970s, and has largely remained unchanged since despite an effort by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to move towards a more functional and evidence-based classification system. Classification is often handled on the international level by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) but it sometimes handled by national sport federations. There are exceptions for sports like athletics and cycling, where classification is handled by their own governing bodies.

Equipment utilized by competitors in this class may differ from sport to sport, and may include sighted guides, guide rails, beeping balls and clapsticks. There may be some modifications related to equipment and rules to specifically address needs of competitors in this class to allow them to compete in specific sports. Some sports specifically do not allow a guide, whereas cycling and skiing require one.

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August 2024

Hello! Thank you for creating Category:Bays of South America. However, we normally need at least three pages in a category before it is created. Because categories are a way to group together similar articles, there is no need to create a new category for just one or two articles. If you think there might be more pages to add to the new category, please add them now. Thank you. Auntof6 (talk) 14:53, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thank you for reverting the IP's edit on User talk:Magnolioideae! I am now Magnolioideae because I changed my password but forgot it. Anyway, thank you! Astera🪻 talk edits 21:27, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Asteradeae Oh alright Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:06, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What happened to your account? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:11, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I forgot the password of it. Also, some sparkles for you for signing my Guestbook (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧ Astera🪻 talk edits 13:24, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Asteradeae Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:26, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Want to sign mine? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:27, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure! Astera🪻 talk edits 17:28, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-35

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Erzi (Russian: Эрзи; Ingush: Аьрзи, romanized: Ärzi, lit. 'Eagle') is a medieval village (aul) in the Dzheyrakhsky District of Ingushetia. It is part of the rural settlement (administrative center) of Olgeti. The entire territory of the settlement is included in the Dzheyrakh-Assa State Historical-Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve and is under state protection.

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Tech News: 2024-35

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  • Advanced item Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
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  • Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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Redwarn

Hi, by any chance, do you know how to install Redwarn for the Simple English Wiki? Astera🪻 talk edits 13:32, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Asteradeae Might want to ask Davey, he uses it. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:15, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thanks! Astera🪻 talk edits 13:36, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Underpopulated categories

Hi, Cactus. I just noticed that you were working on some of the categories that I proposed a fix for. You might not have understood, but I am making a concentrated effort to take care of the ones that move from year categories to decade categories. If you also want to work on them, please coordinate with me so that we don't work on the same things.

Besides that, it's OK for "<year> births" and "<year> deaths" categories to be underpopulated, and also their required parent categories as necessary. (None of those should have been tagged as underpopulated, and you'll notice that I didn't list any of those in my suggestion at User:Ferien/TBA/P3.) Those are some of the exceptions to the 3-entry rule, so you didn't need to look at those. Please undo the ones you did. If you want to work on any more of this, please run it by someone so we can make sure to get it right the first time. Thanks! -- Auntof6 (talk) 15:52, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks for reverting them. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 03:57, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Rocky Marciano

Hi, I had personally left it because it was a null edit. It doesn't matter too much if you revert it, but that editor does have a tendency to edit war so I prefer not to entertain him. --Ferien (talk) 12:33, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien oh, Alright. Which editor by the way? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:33, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is w:WP:LTA/GRP, "George Reeves Person". Someone who has been causing issues across Wikimedia projects for 19 years now. Calling him very persistent is probably being nice. --Ferien (talk) 12:38, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I remember you telling me about him when I asked who tried to log into my account 19 times. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:39, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, he edits here quite a bit. I'd recommend not paying too much attention to him. --Ferien (talk) 12:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the advice!! Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:44, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ferien I think, 105.66.130.66, is the same guy Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 04:16, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can you revdel? Ip globally locked Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 04:18, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ferien this too, 173.176.17.131 Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:27, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, both are the same person. Please report these IPs to VIP so other administrators are able to see – I haven't been able to get onto my laptop again until now. --Ferien (talk) 14:44, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 00:32, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

w:Wikipedia:Rollback

Please read this before further action. MathXplore (talk) 12:33, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:33, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sock puppet alert

If anyone else puts another welcome message on my talk page here on Simple English Wiki. Please leave a message on my regular English Wikipedia and then (unless I say that it is legitimate) forward that to w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andrew5.

Someone has been impersonating me and w:User:GeorgeMemulous and has been trying to fake an interaction between me and him. Because we’ve been heavily involved in the sock puppet investigation. Hurricane Clyde (talk) 02:43, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 02:47, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The only exception would be if it’s obvious that it was meant to be put there. But if the talk page signature doesn’t line up with the page history log; especially if they appear to trying to impersonate someone. I want to know. Hurricane Clyde (talk) 05:14, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hurricane Clyde Sure Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:52, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hurricane Clyde here, user:Ultimate sockpippetry never dies! Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:25, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Forward this to @Ponyo and to @EPIC; and while you’re at it, go tell Ponyo about the other account that says in the user name and I quote “Ponyo can go die” in the username. Hurricane Clyde (talk) 15:55, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The other one I happened to discover when I fixed @Ponyo’s ping. Hurricane Clyde (talk) 16:01, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The account was locked, although for stuff like this, most of the time it is better to just RBI. EPIC (talk) 16:28, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I’ve tried to ignore. That’s even what Ponyo told me. But it’s hard to ignore a death threat on someone. Hurricane Clyde (talk) 16:44, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And it’s hard to ignore usernames that are meant to harass and intimidate. Hurricane Clyde (talk) 16:46, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your QD request on Category:Horror Channel programmes

Hi, Cactus. Did you mean to use WP:QD#G8 for this page? That's for pages dependent on a deleted page, and I don't see how that applies here. In any case, MathXplore declined the request and put {{popcat}} on the page.

By the way, WP:QD#C1 couldn't have been used, either, because the category hadn't been empty for 4 days or more. (It was created the same day that you did the qd request.) -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:29, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, okay. I thought I had clicked C1, must be a misclick. Been editing all night Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 03:31, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Your comment on the RfD for those WikiProject redirects

Hi, Cactus. I'm sorry if I was harsh with my response to your comment. I've been trying to get people not to get into discussions on RfDs that don't relate to the RfD (although I've been guilty of that myself).

To address your comment, though, if you look at all the WikiProjects we have, I'd bet most of them are in the userspace of inactive users. There's a difference between a project being under an inactive user and a project being under a vanished user. For all intents and purposes, a vanished user is a non-existent user. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:06, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, okay Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:08, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-36

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  • Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

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  • Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [10]
  • Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [11]
  • Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

  • A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

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Follow Kar Lo Yaar

Hello Cactusisme, I hope you're doing well. Can you highlight the references which are unreliable and used in the article, so that I can replace them with reliable sources. Thanks for your consideration C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 12:57, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@C1K98V The first one. Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:58, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think I'm getting it wrong. Do you mean the '"BBFC" source? C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 13:02, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@C1K98V Yes Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 01:40, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay got it. Any policy is available where the source is listed as unreliable. So that I can refer to it for future creation. Thanks C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 02:15, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@C1K98V WP:Reliable sources, thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 04:53, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can’t find the BBFC listed as an unreliable source, so I’m removing the maintenance tag from the article. Thanks. C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 05:27, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I was looking at the wrong articles sorry for the confusion. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 05:29, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Thanks for your assistance C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 07:10, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't edit-war with vandals

Hi, please read en:Wikipedia:Don't edit-war with vandals or sockpuppets. If a vandal clearly has no intention to stop, wait for an admin to block them, there's no point reverting them again and again (and by doing so inflating the article's version history). @LilianaUwU and Codename Noreste: fyi the same advice applies to you. Johannnes89 (talk) 06:45, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 06:46, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 06:46, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Using QD G5‎

Hello @Cactusisme, I have removed the QD tag you placed on the article Dogsled Music Group. You tagged it as QD G5; however, the author of the article was blocked as {{Spamusernameblocked}}, so G5 does not apply in this case. G5 only applies to articles created by an editor while evading a block. Also, the article was already listed at the RFD, you can vote there; Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Dogsled Music Group‎. – Cyber.Eyes.2005Talk 10:40, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cyber.Eyes.2005 Thats wrong actually see Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Dogsled Music Group Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:41, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies, the author is User:ErnestGyasi, so G5 does apply here. Since the article has already been listed at WP:RFD, it's better to vote there. – Cyber.Eyes.2005Talk 10:45, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:45, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pointing out issues with comments at RfD

Please don't strike out other users' RfD comments as you did with this change. If you see that there is some kind of issue, just leave a note about it below the user's comment. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 01:04, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 I saw an admin do it. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 02:19, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You may have. The issue when a non-admin does it is that they haven't been given extra responsibility like the admins have. Any time it's done, even by an admin, you're interfering with someone else's posts. It's best to leave things like that to the admins. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:32, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 Okay Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 04:08, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to WikiProject Pakistan!

Thank you for joining WikiProject Pakistan. :) – Cyber.Eyes.2005Talk 11:01, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cyber.Eyes.2005 Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:33, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' noticeboard discussion - copyright

Hello. This message is being sent to tell you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Copyright - Leave the gate as you found it". Thank you. --12.190.177.187 (talk) 15:41, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have been given a WikiAward!

The Pakistan Star
Thank you for your valuable contributions to WikiProject Pakistan! Your efforts in creating new articles, even as stubs, are greatly appreciated. They provide a solid foundation for further development and improvements. Keep up the excellent work! :)
This WikiAward was given to Cactusisme by – Cyber.Eyes.2005Talk on 08:23, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cyber.Eyes.2005 Thank you so much!! Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:36, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you so much for your contributions, every single one matters, and thank you for giving me my second Barnstar! Happy editing (✿^‿^) Astera🪻 talk edits 21:43, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Asteradeae Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 00:14, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-37

The winner this Translation of the week is

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The Cappadocian calendar was a solar calendar that was derived from the Persian Zoroastrian calendar. It is named after the historic region Cappadocia in present-day Turkey, where it was used. The calendar, which had 12 months of 30 days each and five epagomenal days, originated between 550 and 330 BC, when Cappadocia was part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. The Cappadocian calendar was identical to the Zoroastrian calendar; this can be seen in its structure, in the Avestan names and in the order of the months. The Cappadocian calendar reflects the Iranian cultural influence in the region.

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Hi!

This link. (The name is/are the first "words" to stand in the article titled Marco Asensio,

simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco_Asensio&oldid=9758185

.)--Will the link turn blue soon, with Instagram as a 'source'? Maybe ... .--If this post is regarded as helpful, then fine. 2001:2020:351:A342:8D2E:C703:23DD:B54B (talk) 04:59, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think Instagram is a reliable source to begin with. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:10, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-37

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Feature news

  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [13][14]
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [15]

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [16]
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [17]

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New articles

Hi, Cactus. When you create an article, please preview it to see if there are any issues. I was just looking at List of Ramsar wetland sites in Pakistan, and there's a big red error message at the bottom. Please check the articles you've created, and take care of any issues you see. If you aren't sure how to do that, feel free to ask. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 20:06, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 Alright, I'm kinda busy for a month, so if you have time can you look at ti. Reason on the top of my talk page. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:47, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:09, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your DYK nomination for Human

...saying that humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas...

...was removed because the sentence was removed from the article. 2607:F140:6000:816A:18DF:FB43:6A3:B363 (talk) 20:09, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When making new categories

Can you please add parent categories as well as articles? Please note that I already fixed the categories that you recently created. Please see Category:2021 disestablishments by country, Category:2018 disestablishments by country, and Category:Pages using infobox3cols with undocumented parameters for example. Please feel free to ask questions when you don't know what parent categories should be added. Looking at enwiki counterparts may also give hints to you. I hope this is helpful for you. MathXplore (talk) 12:31, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MathXplore Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:51, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quick deletion of Bee Swarm Simulator

The page you wrote, Bee Swarm Simulator, has been selected for quick deletion. If you think this page should be kept, please add {{wait}} below the line {{QD}} and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. You can find more information about the reason here. Auntof6 (talk) 07:37, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 Can I redirect this to Roblox? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:38, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:40, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Non-admin closure of RfDs

We don't really do that here (see this discussion), so please don't. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 16:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) - Hi @Auntof6, Just curious do you have any examples of problematic RFD closures ?,
If you're referring to Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Template:Hospitals in State of Palesitne and Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Alireza-Jadidi then yourself and the other admin didn't close it and I wouldn't say these were problematic ?, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:16, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't remember every case, so I can't point to any that were problematic. However, that's not the point. The point is that we decided not to have them here. -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:30, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Davey2010: Sorry, forgot to ping you. -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:30, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Auntof6, So if you don't have examples then why this message ?, Cleaning up after admins I wouldn't was in the purview of that discussion - If Cactus didn't close it then who would and when ?, One closure was 5 hours later and the other was 12 hours later ..... So I don't see where the problem is?, If they were closing discussions as keep/snow keep then sure you'd have a point/arguement to make ... but they don't ...., Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 07:59, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Davey2010: We didn't decide not to have non-admin closures when they're problematic. We decided not to have them at all. So in that sense I guess they're all problematic.
I don't see this as "cleaning up after admins" (passive aggressive much?). On the one for hospitals in Palestine, I specifically said I wasn't closing it and another admin would need to do it. If Cactus didn't close it, an admin eventually would. I know people don't like it when RfDs stay open past their date, or after an action has already been taken, but in cases like the ones you list it makes no difference exactly when it gets closed -- it's not like a bad page stayed on existence any longer.
So I've said all I have to say on this. @Cactusisme: please don't close any more, for any reason, no matter what the situation is. @Davey2010: If you want to re-revisit non-admin closures, please do so as a general discussion. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:08, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 I agree we did however the community clearly expected more from the admins in terms of closing the discussions,
I don't see how that's passive aggressive - someone's taking the time of their day to clean up the mess an admin left behind which they don't have to do - if admins closed RFDs after then this would be a non-issue, I appreciate that but leaving the RFD open invites people to comment when the article has already been deleted so in that respect I would say there is some urgency in closing them,
Regarding the hospital RFD; Why would you nominate the template for deletion and then QD it after anyway? (the RFD was open by yourself so imho you should've left the deletion to another admin - was there any urgency here?, also the RFD should trump the authors wishes anyway),
@Cactusisme continue as you are. Happy editing all, –Davey2010Talk 08:23, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't get it now, who should I listen to? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:30, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Me because there's literally no point in leaving RFDs open when the article has already been deleted. You're not closing keep RFDs or redirect rfds etc etc, closing RFDs where the article has been deleted is fine so carry on my friend, If Auntof6 has a problem they can go to Simple Talk and either ask for clarification or start a proposal on the matter, Have a great day Cactus, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 13:36, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Davey2010 Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 23:06, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just noting for historical purposes that I've struck parts of my replies above as per this thread initiated by Cactus whom apparently misunderstood my reply above, Consensus was sought and consensus was achieved. –Davey2010Talk 13:56, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-38

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Improvements and Maintenance

  • Wishlist item Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
  • The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [18]
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [19]
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [20]
  • Advanced item Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [21]

Technical project updates

  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [22]

Tech in depth

  • Advanced item The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
  • Advanced item To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
    • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
    • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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Barnstar

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your Tireless work here at Simple English. Seeing you and the other new editors making their mark here at Simple English is quite refreshing to see and keeps me hopeful that when my time comes to leave, Simple English will be in good hands! Next year, I'd like to start working in giving our barnstars more frequently since it's always a nice little surprise to see on our talk pages :) Keep up at the good work.

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Thanks!!! Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:14, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar 2

The Barnstar of Diligence
For your good contributions and your hard work! And you are always being in the DYK! Highway Helper (talk) 23:49, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Highway Helper Thanks!! Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 02:18, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yaay!!!

Hey, I got the new right on main wiki [23]. Xegma(talk) 04:51, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats!!! Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:43, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Make good use of the role!! Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:52, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-39

The winner this Translation of the week is

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Independence Day (Albanian: Dita e Pavarësisë) is a public holiday in Albania observed on 28 November. It commemorates the Albanian Declaration of Independence (from the Ottoman Empire), which was ratified by the All-Albanian Congress on 28 November 1912, establishing the state of Albania.

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Templates with your name on them

Hi, Cactus. I noticed the following two templates in template space:

These should go in your userspace, not in template space. Please move them and then let me know so I can delete the template space copies. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 05:04, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 Okay Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 06:07, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:11, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Do you want to update the things that link to them before I delete the redirects? -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:31, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nah, its fine. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:31, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK. They're deleted. Thanks for for moving them. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:51, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Yes, it's me. But what does it matter and why are you asking me about it in a completely unrelated project?  BZPN (talk)   13:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BZPN I saw you were indef block there and wanted to know if it was the same person Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:39, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2024-39

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

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  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

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  • Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
  • The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
  • Advanced item It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [24]
  • Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [25][26]
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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  • Advanced item From Wikimedia Enterprise:
    • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
    • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

  • Advanced item The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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Nominating someone

Hi, it is preferred if you ask users onwiki or privately via email before nominating them. It is important since the candidate might not feel ready yet and is waiting for better opportunity, or there could be any reason.--BRP ever 13:05, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BRPever Thanks for the knowledge. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:33, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extending RfDs

I noticed you extended the RfD at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Ibrahim Alkurd but you did two things wrong in there, which I have fixed for you. The things you got wrong were: 1) 34 September is not a real date 2) You left your comment about extending it in the footer, which is generally agreed upon that you probably shouldn't do that as it turns the footer into a reply on the technical level. Happy editing.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 06:20, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) In fact, in the past we have considered that RfDs that aren't linked on the main page aren't active. The best course of action is to consult the person who created it to see if they want the RfD listed, because they might have changed their mind. If they want it listed, have them do it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:39, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, will keep in mind Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:59, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The wildlife of the archipelago of Bahrain, is more varied than might be expected of this small group of islands in the Persian Gulf. Apart from a strip of the north and west of the main island, where crops are grown with irrigation, the land is arid. With a very hot dry summer, a mild winter, and brackish groundwater, the plants need adaptations in order to survive. Nevertheless, 196 species of higher plant have been recorded here, as well as about seventeen species of terrestrial mammals, many birds and reptiles, and many migratory birds visit the islands in autumn and spring.

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Tech News: 2024-40

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

  • Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [27]
  • For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [28]
  • The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
  • View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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  • Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

  • The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [29]

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - September 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty-fifth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 13.

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Tech News: 2024-41

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  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [30]

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  • It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [32]
  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [33]
  • Advanced item Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 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.
  • Advanced item Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
  • Five new wikis have been created:

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-42

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The little Danes experiment was a 1951 Danish operation where 22 Greenlandic Inuit children were sent to Danish foster families in an attempt to re-educate them as "little Danes". While the children were all supposed to be orphans, most were not. Six children were adopted while in Denmark, and sixteen returned to Greenland, only to be placed in Danish-speaking orphanages and never live with their families again. Half of the children experienced mental health disturbances, and half of them died in young adulthood. The government of Denmark officially apologised in 2020, after several years of demands from Greenlandic officials.

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Tech News: 2024-42

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

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [39][40]
  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [41]
  • View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [42]
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [43]
  • Advanced item Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [44]

In depth

  • The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-43

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Kharayeb (Arabic: الخرايب) is a historic town in the Sidon District in the South Governorate, Lebanon. The town is 77 km (48 mi) south of Beirut, and stands at an average altitude of 190 m (620 ft) above sea level. The town boasts a rich historical legacy, with archaeological excavations revealing a complex settlement history spanning from Prehistory to the Ottoman period. Notably, Kharayeb's origins can be traced back to the Persian period (539–330 BC), when it played a pivotal role in the region's agricultural and economic landscape, culminating in the construction of its Phoenician temple around the 6th century BC.

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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.

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  • 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.
iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

  • Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia languages were created last week. [45][46][47][48][49]
  • 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

  • Advanced item 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 "4 March 2025". 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 #timefl for 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. [50][51]
  • Advanced item Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [52]
  • 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. [53]

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.

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Fwiw I had hoped to save these by removing the notes and moving the cites to the names ... however imho the "(0650)" stuff, "evolves from/too", "Chespin (#650)" / "Chesnaught (#652)" and their names overall were just far too complex, Probably could be saved if someone really wanted to invest hours into it but I felt no matter which way I approached the article the end result would still be complex, Sorry I did at least try. Thanks. –Davey2010Talk 17:33, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Table for reference
List of Pokémon species introduced in Generation VI (2013)[nb 1]
Name[nb 2] Type(s) Evolves from Evolves into Notes
Chespin
Harimaron (ハリマロン)
(0650) 		  Grass — Quilladin (#651) Chespin are small creatures that can harden the quills on their head to smash rocks.[2] Its design is based on a chestnut and a hedgehog.[3] In the anime, Chespin was the first Grass-type starter to never be captured by Ash Ketchum, followed by Grookey.

References

  1. ↑ "Pokédex". The Pokémon Company International. 2015. Archived from the original on March 6, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Game Freak (April 22, 2015). Pokémon X. Vol. Nintendo 3DS. The Pokémon Company. Chespin Pokédex entry: 'The quills on its head are usually soft. When it flexes them, the points become so hard and sharp that they can pierce rock.'
  3. ↑ "Complete Pokemon X and Y Pokédex". GamesRadar. Future plc. October 16, 2013. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2016.

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Christmas horror is a fiction genre and film genre that incorporates horror elements into a seasonal setting. It is popular in multiple countries.

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  • 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 emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [55]
  • 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. [56]

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - October 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty-sixth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 13 and 15.

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Placenta cake is a dish from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey. The dessert is mentioned in classical texts such as the Greek poems of Archestratos and Antiphanes, as well as the De agri cultura of Cato the Elder. It is often seen as the predecessor of baklava and börek.

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Tech News: 2024-45

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

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  • Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [57]
  • Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
  • The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [58]
  • View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

  • XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [59]

In depth

  • Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
  • The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-46

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Trisomy 16 is a chromosomal abnormality in which there are 3 copies of chromosome 16 rather than two. It is the most common trisomy leading to miscarriage and the second most common chromosomal cause of it, closely following X-chromosome monosomy. About 6% of miscarriages have trisomy 16.

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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

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [62]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

  • Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [63]

Meetings and events

  • 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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Finishing template migration

Hi, Cactus. Remember when I asked you to move some templates from template-space to your user space a while back? (Thanks for doing that, by the way.) It looks like some of your archive pages are still using the template-space version:

Could you change those to use the userspace version instead (assuming you don't want to just remove them)? Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:01, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Boana platanera, commonly known as the banana tree dwelling frog, is a species of tree frog in the family Hylidae. It is distributed within Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Boana platanera was described in 2021, and individuals of the species were previously classified as Boana crepitans or Boana xerophylla.

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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

  • Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [64]
  • View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [65]

Updates for technical contributors

  • On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [66][67]

In depth

  • There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

Meetings and events

  • 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. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
  • Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
  • A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-48

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Wang Su-bok was a singer from North Korea, who was the most popular singer in Japanese-occupied Korea in 1935. She was credited as a ground-breaking female artist, whose work led the way for the modern K-pop phenomenon.

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Hello Cactus, I wanted to ask if it's possible for you to review Kendall Jenner's GA nomination? There's three votes in favor of promotion, but I wanted to get some more feedback/reviews before promoting the article. Thanks :) TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 21:11, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

  • Wishlist item 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. [68]
  • 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".
  • Advanced item 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. [69]
  • Advanced item 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. [70]

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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Storm Filomena was an extratropical cyclone in early January 2021 that was most notable for bringing unusually heavy snowfall to parts of Spain, with Madrid recording its heaviest snowfall in over a century, and with Portugal being hit less severely. The eighth named storm of the 2020–21 European windstorm season, Filomena formed over the Atlantic Ocean close to the Canary Islands on 7 January, subsequently taking a slow track north-eastwards towards the Iberian Peninsula and then eastwards across the Mediterranean Sea.

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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. [71]
  • 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). [72]
  • 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. [73]

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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Syrian literature is modern fiction written or orally performed in Arabic by writers from Syria since the independence of the Syrian Arab Republic in 1946. It is part of the historically and geographically wider Arabic literature. The modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel as well as the Palestinian autonomous areas only came into being in the mid-20th century. Therefore, Syrian literature has since been referred to by literary scholarship as the national literature of the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as the works created in Arabic by Syrian writers in the diaspora. This literature has been influenced by the country's political history, the literature of other Arabic-speaking countries and, especially in its early days, by French literature.

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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. [74]
  • 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. [75]
  • 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. [76]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [77]
  • 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. [78]
  • Recurrent item 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. [79][80]

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. [81]
  • 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. [82]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-51

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The Mars ocean theory states that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of liquid water early in the planet's geologic history. This primordial ocean, dubbed Paleo-Ocean or Oceanus Borealis (/oʊˈsiːənəs ˌbɒriˈælɪs/ oh-SEE-ə-nəs BORR-ee-AL-iss), would have filled the basin Vastitas Borealis in the northern hemisphere, a region that lies 4–5 km (2.5–3 miles) below the mean planetary elevation, at a time period of approximately 4.1–3.8 billion years ago. Evidence for this ocean includes geographic features resembling ancient shorelines, and the chemical properties of the Martian soil and atmosphere

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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.
  • Recurrent item 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. [83]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-52

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In August 2023, major floods occurred in large part of Slovenia and neighbouring areas of Austria and Croatia due to heavy rain. Amongst others, the level of rivers Sava, Mur and Drava was exceptionally high. Several settlements and transport links in Slovene Littoral, Upper Carniola and Slovenian Carinthia were flooded. Due to the amount of rain, the streams in Idrija, Cerkno and Škofja Loka Hills overflowed.

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The Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) is the parastatal railway of Uganda. It was formed after the breakup of the East African Railways Corporation (EARC) in 1977 when it took over the Ugandan part of the East African railways.

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From 1942 to 1949, Canada forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 22,000 Japanese Canadians—comprising over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population—from British Columbia in the name of "national security". The majority were Canadian citizens by birth and were targeted based on their ancestry. This decision followed the events of the Japanese Empire's war in the Pacific against the Western Allies, such as the invasion of Hong Kong, the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the Fall of Singapore which led to the Canadian declaration of war on Japan during World War II. Similar to the actions taken against Japanese Americans in neighbouring United States, this forced relocation subjected many Japanese Canadians to government-enforced curfews and interrogations, job and property losses, and forced repatriation to Japan

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Christmas seals are adhesive labels that are similar in appearance to postage stamps that are sold then affixed to mail during the Christmas season to raise funds and awareness for charitable programs. Christmas seals have become particularly associated with lung diseases such as tuberculosis, and with child welfare in general. They were first issued in Denmark beginning in 1904, with Sweden and Iceland following with issues that same year. Thereafter the use of Christmas seals proved to be popular and spread quickly around the world, with 130 countries producing their own issues.

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Tech News: 2025-03

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 Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

  • On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [84]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [85]
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [86]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item 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.
  • Advanced item 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. [87]
  • 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. [88]

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Audiophile terminology

Hello, WP:AQD says A4 is about

people, groups, companies, products, services or websites that do not claim to be notable


Audiophile terminology is an article about words, so this is not about people, groups, companies, products, services or websites. Please focus on people, groups, companies, products, services or websites when tagging QD A4. Thank you for your contributions. MathXplore (talk) 08:28, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MathXplore But is the topic notable though? Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 08:29, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Notability of subjects that are not people, groups, companies, products, services or websites can be discussed at RFDs. MathXplore (talk) 08:30, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Things I found in articles you created

I randomly picked some of the articles you created to look at. Here are some things I found. Some of them were later fixed by other editors, but I was looking at the articles as you created them.

Bryn Mawr College

  • minimal stub (later editors expanded)
  • not categorized (later editors categorized)

World Archery:

  • what does "the lead of the sport of archery" mean?
  • last sentence should be divided into 2, so that each sentence has only one subject/verb
  • was in categories "Sports" and "Archery"; Sports category not needed because archery is already under that one

List of cryptids

  • has at least one redlinked template. If you ever want a template imported, just ask at the admins' noticeboard.
  • complex words in headings (we're not supposed to link words in headings, but they can be either explained or changed to simpler words)

Ernest Saunders

  • use of abbreviation UK: better to spell out "United Kingdom"
  • complex words: attempted, subsequently
  • "thought to have" would be simpler than "thought to be suffering from"
  • use of "as" to mean "because" -- "as" has other meanings, so just use "because"
  • the sentence beginning "He was sentenced" would be better divided into two
  • needs a stub template
  • needs more categories
  • needs more internal links

By the way, are you familiar with what a subject and verb are in sentences? If not, let me know and I'll explain because that's important in using simple language.

Feel free to ask any questions you have about any of this. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:03, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Auntof6, Generally i know what a subject and verb are but are they different here? — Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:47, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, they aren't different here. It's just important to know about because there should usually be only one subject/verb per sentence in simple language. I only asked because I don't know how much people know about that kind of grammar stuff. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:50, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Auntof6, alright — Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:55, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Auntof6, Can you import Template:Skeptoid from en? — Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:00, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
and i dont understand the second point in List of cryptids — Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:01, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There are some complex words in the headings in the cryptids article. Sometimes we deal with complex words by linking them, if we have an article for them. However, when those words are in a heading, we can't because we aren't supposed to link anything in a heading. Make sense? -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:19, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not yet, can you show some examples? Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:15, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
how do you elaborate the title? Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know what you mean. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:01, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 Wait nevermind. I understood from the example Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 22:42, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The words aquatic, terrestrial, and hominid are complex. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:01, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 I tried my best to simplify Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 06:50, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 what do u think? Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 03:35, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like BRPever imported the template already. -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:18, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Auntof6, Improved all the articles — Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:06, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Archery:
  • "assembly of archery" doesn't make sense, either. Instead, you could say it's the organization that controls the sport of archery.
Ernest Saunders:
  • Good job. I made one more change -- I may not have explained one of the items very well.
Are you starting to get a feel for what is needed? It takes time for that. -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:28, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I could do with more feedback Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:14, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So long as you genuinely want some feedback, I'd love to be able to help you with that request. Ping me when you next create an article and I'm happy to give you some honest feedback Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:37, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have many articles still needing feedback. Such as Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Crown Tundra. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 06:37, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Full list at User talk:Cactusisme/Archive 2 Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 06:48, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lee Vilenski Forgot ping Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 06:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lee Vilenski I created Murder of Will Sherod Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 04:10, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why is this person notable? This seems to be an almost exact copy of the enwiki version, which also doesn't really explain why we have an article on them. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:58, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lee Vilenski I am working on that Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 22:20, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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