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Question from Alirezamokarami (18:49, 26 December 2023)

سلام میخوام یه لوگو برام طراحی کنی --Alirezamokarami (talk) 18:49, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

I will leave it to Cassiopeia to decide to remove this or not, but I will opine about this.
  • This is English Wikipedia, & we communicate in English. If you need to communicate in another language, please look up that language's Wikipedia at the list of Wikipedias.
  • سلام میخوام یه لوگو برام طراحی کنی translates to Hello, I want you to design a logo for me. Wikipedia is not a place to solicit goods or services. Please see the Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not policy.
Peaceray (talk) 19:51, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

NPP School

Hi Cassiopeia, I'm looking to expand my horizons on Wikipedia and saw the NPP backlog is huge, I've recently been accepted to AFC on a probationary basis and would like to get involved in NPP. That being said, it does seem more complex and was wondering if you think the school would be a good idea for me. If so, I'd love it if you could be my trainer. Many thanks, Lewcm Talk to me! 23:19, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Lewcm Good day and sorry for the late reply as on my one-month vacation at the moment. Thank you for interested in NPPS. The guidelines for an article to be accepted to to Wikipedia mains pace for NPP and AFC are the same. AFC is for new editors who embark/attempt to write an article in draft space and once it is submitted, one of the AFC reviewers will check and "respond" to the creator of what is needed or which guiltiness should be uphold if the draft is not accepted. It is same for NPP, but it is for the non new editors which we would hope they do understand the notability guiltiness to write an article. Article created in NPP needs to go through NPP reveiwer, and if it is accepted then the article will be published in Wikipedia mains pace, if not then it will go through some process of recommendation of deletion or adding more appropriate sources for avoid so. It is same for a draft article (AFC) but an article accepted by AFC reviewer, will be place at NPP space and an NPP reviewer will review the article prior it public to Wikipedia main space if it is accepted by NPP review, so it is a 2-step process. More me (as I am the creator of NPPS program and both NPP and AFC reviewer), what is "MOST" important is that the reviewers in regardless NPP or AFC need to know the notability guidelines well to review an article and that same go to the creators so the articles is truly meet the notability requirements of Wikipedia for no matter how long the articles have been published in Wikipedia main space and if it does not meet the notability guidelines, the article eventually will be deleted for good.
Please note that NPPS is a comprehensive program and it would take a lot of your time for reading the material (Wikipedia guidelines) and working on the assignment (10 in total and 1 final exam). The topic of the program includes notability, sources, deletions, neutral point of views, copyrights, categories, and etc guidelines. Most of the students would take 3 months to complete the program but there is no timeline to complete as each participant work on the program on their own pace. I notice that you have been quite active on the month of Dec 2023 on editing; however, since you have less than 1.5K edit so for, I would suggest you to complete WP:TWA program (only take 30-90mins) so you could familiar with some basic Wikipedia guidelines before you start the NPPS program for it will be much easier for you to have some guidelines info prior starting the NPPS course. Let me know when you have complete the TWA program and and I will set up the program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 16:24, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red January 2024

Women in Red | January 2024, Volume 10, Issue 1, Numbers 291, 293, 294, 295, 296


Online events:

Announcement

  • In 2024 Women in Red also has a one biography a week challenge as part
    of the #1day1woman initiative!

Tip of the month:

Other ways to participate:

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Question from ImamKhomeini911 on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Razahazara911 (21:33, 30 December 2023)

Hi there I recently corrected historyofiran on mazari sharif’s demography section. Instead of admitting he is providing wrong information to users he is accusing me of false statements that i have made a new account. How should i approach this? Thank you --ImamKhomeini911 (talk) 21:33, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

NPP School

Hello, I am trying to gain NPP rights because the backlog is well huge (and it looks like fun(more fun than RCP)), I would appreciate going through NPP school with you, if the timezone works (EST?).

Best, Geardona (talk) 05:19, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


Geardona Good day and sorry for the late reply as on my one-month vacation at the moment. Thank you for interested in NPPS and any time zone is suitable for me since reviewing the NPPS assignment does take a few days time to revert back to the students. Please note that NPPS is a comprehensive program and it would take a lot of your time for reading the material (Wikipedia guidelines) and working on the assignment (10 in total and 1 final exam). The topic of the program includes notability, sources, deletions, neutral point of views, copyrights, categories, and etc guidelines. Most of the students would take 3 months to complete the program but there is no timeline to complete as each participant work on the program on their own pace. I notice that you have been quite active on the month of Dec 2023 on editing; however, since you have less than 1.5K edit so for, I would suggest you to complete WP:TWA program (only take 30-90mins) so you could familiar with some basic Wikipedia guidelines before you start the NPPS program for it will be much easier for you to have some guidelines info prior starting the NPPS course. Let me know when you have complete the TWA program and and I will set up the program for you. Cassiopeia talk 15:53, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Ok, I will complete TWA and get back to you. Thanks for your time! Geardona (talk) 15:57, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Ok, I have mostly completed TWA, I skipped the first few because I have been here for some time, and understand the basic policys. Geardona (talk) 16:10, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Geardona OK, I will set up the program to you later of the day as I have a few things to do before lack of sunlight. Happy new year. Cassiopeia talk 16:38, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Ok, take all of the time you need, there is no rush, enjoy your new year! Geardona (Tech Support) 16:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Geardona I have set up the program for you. Please read the "communication section" at the bottom of the assignment prior starting answering the questions. Pls let me know/ping me on the "communication section" if you have any questions and when you have finished the assignment for me to review. Welcome to NPPS. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 20:46, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lumenpost (19:21, 29 December 2023)

A movie I watched online doesnt have a wikipedia page am I allowed to make one with the information I found on it in articles and imdb? --Lumenpost (talk) 19:21, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Lumenpost Good day and thank you for the question. First of all, info added or change (or create an article in English Wikipedia) do need independent, reliable sources such as from the newspapers or books to support the info for verification. IMDB is not reliable source so it can NOT be used to change or add information in Wikipedia. Let me know if you have any other questions as I am here to help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 15:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
thank you Lumenpost (talk) 05:57, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Panthertunes (22:49, 31 December 2023)

Ive made a mistake on the preparation , of my first edit . can I delete the whole content >? --Panthertunes (talk) 22:49, 31 December 2023 (UTC)


Panthertune Good day and thank you for the question. As per your contribution log - see HERE you have made all your edit on your WP:Sandbox (your own draft page - which you can edit anything you want as it act like a you own sketch note pad) where your sandbox is not for public in Wikipedia main space such as Wikipedia articles). I suggest you to take the short WP:TWA program to understand and familiar with some of the Wikipedia guidelines. Let me know if you have any other questions as I am here to help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 16:04, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #609

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
    • Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.
  • Development
    • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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

NPP School

Greetings— I'm interested in NPP training to help out with backlogs if you still have availability.

Celjski Grad (talk) 15:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


Celjski Grad Good day and sorry for the late reply as on my one-month vacation at the moment. Thank you for interested in NPPS and and please note that NPPS is a comprehensive program and it would take a lot of your time for reading the material (Wikipedia guidelines) and working on the assignment (10 in total and 1 final exam). The topic of the program includes notability, sources, deletions, neutral point of views, copyrights, categories, and etc guidelines. Most of the students would take 3 months to complete the program but there is no timeline to complete as each participant work on the program on their own pace. I notice that you have less than 1.5K edit so for, I would suggest you to complete WP:TWA program (only take 30-90mins) so you could familiar with some basic Wikipedia guidelines before you start the NPPS program for it will be much easier for you to have some guidelines info prior starting the NPPS course. Let me know when you have complete the TWA program and and I will set up the program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 15:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you, will do! Celjski Grad (talk) 15:20, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Twinkle Usage

How can I use twinkle to fight vandalism on a mobile phone. Yotrages (talk) 14:44, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Kanishka Sajwan (04:32, 6 January 2024)

Hello Kindly help me with giving context for my article --Kanishka Sajwan (talk) 04:32, 6 January 2024 (UTC)


Kanishka Sajwan Good day. I am not familiar with the subject (Indian's God) of your draft article for such I cant help you as per your request. However, you can study the Parvati article for it may help you for what you are looking for. To say all that, I suggest you to read WP:Your first article and complete the WP:TWA program first so you could understand some of the notbility requirements for the page to be in the main space of Wikipedia and familiar yourself of some of the basic guidelines of Wikipedia. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 15:27, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Hevexhexen (15:19, 6 January 2024)

Hi I'm planning to make some wikipedia pages once I'm experienced. If my page gets vandalised, how could I report it? --Hevexhexen (talk) 15:19, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Hevexhexen Good day and thank you for the question. Pls read WP:Your first article and complete the WP:TWA short program (90 mins) first before writing an article as the subject need to meet the notability requirements to have a page in Wikipedia. If a page is vandalised by the same editor for the 5th time then you can report the incident to WP:AIV and if the page is vandalized by multiple editors for more than 4-5 time in a few days duration then request the page to be temporarily protected via ]WP:RPP. Let me know if you have any questions as I am here to help (I will not be able to answer you immediately as I am in vacation at the moment). Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 14:13, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Billmeyers1 (17:01, 7 January 2024)

Hi, Cassiopeia! I don't have any questions at the moment, but I'm pretty sure I'll have some when(if!) I get further along using this resource. ;)

Sincerely, Bill Meyers --Billmeyers1 (talk) 17:01, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Billmeyers1 Good day. Thank you for dropping a message here for me. Welcome to Wikipedia and since you are new to Wikipedia, I suggest you to take WP:TWA short program (90 mins) to familiar yourself with some of the basic Wikipedia guidelines. Happy new year and best. Cassiopeia talk 14:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #610

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Did you know?

Development

  • IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
  • Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
    • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-02

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

Recent changes

  • mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
  • The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [2][3]

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Question from CarDriver897 (16:40, 9 January 2024)

Hello Cassio, I have some questions about editing articles. There was this user by the username of Revirvlkodlaku who said my edits are disruptive and sloppy, yet faithful. Then, in my mind, I was like "Bro! What do you think makes my edits disruptive, and sloppy, yet faithful?!" So, I'm not sure how to do edits now, because the Wikipedia said that I will be blocked from editing articles, according to Revirvlkodlaku. What should I do? --CarDriver897 (talk) 16:40, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

CarDriver897 Good day and thank you for the question. First of all, you need to provide not only the article names but also the edit you made so I would know the issues at hand. I am not sure which Simon Stålenhag edits you made for User:Revirvlkodlaku to send a warning message on your talk page. From I could find was that you keep on repeating adding the unsourced content which you have However, the Chrysler PT Cruiser edit you made - see "HERE" which was considered a vandalism edit. User Revirvlkodlaku was very kind to you in the message they sent you and informed you you have to learn some Wikipedia guidelines and editing norms and also not biting you but instead let you know what to do to avoid the mistakes. My advice is to take WP:TWA short program to familiar with some of the Wikipedia guidelines and do remember all info added or changed need to be supported by independent, reliable sources such as from the newspapers or books for verification which is the core policy of Wikipedia. If you have any questions on editing, you can always pop back here or you post your question on WP:TH an expericed editors or one of the Tea House hosts will help you. Pls do repeat the same mistakes again so you can avoid warning messages. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 22:39, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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Twinkle Usage

How can I use twinkle to fight vandalism on a mobile phone. Yotrages (talk) 22:04, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Yotrages Good day. I have done more than 50K of counter-vandalism edits but via Twinkle on laptop and not on mobile. Since I have enable Twinkle as a user in Wikipedia and I have checked if I have Twinkle option to do vandalism work and I cant find any filed/button/dropdown list to do so. That to say, it might have the option, but I cant do via my mobile. You can still do vandalism work on mobile without Twinkle and all you have to do is to manually place the warning messages/tags, on the vandalized editor user talk page, as you can find it here. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 16:30, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Justfacts10 (13:37, 15 January 2024)

Hi Mentor,

I'm just realizing I have a mentor. Nice to connect with you. --Justfacts10 (talk) 13:37, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Justfacts10 Good day and welcome to Wikipedia. If you have any questions or needed assistance, pls let me know as I am here to help. Stay safe and happy new year. Cassiopeia talk 16:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #611

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions

  • New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)

Events

  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Past
    • Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
    • WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
  • The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Did you know?

Development

  • IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
  • Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
  • mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
  • REST API:
    • We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
    • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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Tech News: 2024-03

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

Recent changes

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [4]
  • Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [5]
  • Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [6]
  • You can now thank edits made by bots. [7]
  • An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [8][9]
  • Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [10]
  • The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [11]

Future changes

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Question from Ishanvi.M on William T. G. Morton (15:28, 16 January 2024)

How do I create a citation --Ishanvi.M (talk) 15:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Ishanvi.M Good day and thank you for the question. To create a citation you can use the horizontal format of Template:Cite web if the source is from the the web and Template:Cite book if the source is from books. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 15:07, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Canabeers (10:20, 20 January 2024)

I just wanted to add a movie to Vanessa Redgrave's film credits. It was a 2000 movie called "A Rumor Of Angels" and one of my favorite movies. That's really all I wanted to do. I couldn't believe it wasn't on here already. Great film! --Canabeers (talk) 10:20, 20 January 2024 (UTC)


Canabeers Good day. There is a article of a movie named A Rumor of Angels in Wikipedia and I am not sure if this is the movie you mentioned above. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 16:23, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Yes, this is the movie. I didn't see this article. I just noticed it was missing from her long list of films. Thank you. Really great movie. Canabeers (talk) 16:44, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

NPP School

Hi! I saw you are one of the trainers for the Wikipedia:New pages patrol/School. I've recently gotten back to actively editing Wikipedia (I was working on it.wikt and it.wiki many years ago) and I would like to help with new pages patrol. On the other hand, I sometime feel slightly overwhelmed by the amount of guidelines and would really appreciate someone to guide me through. Would you have time available for a new student? :) Broc (talk) 12:02, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Broc Good day. Pls note that the program is very comprehensive and there are a lot of guidelines to be read which means you need to spend some personal time to read the guidelines and working on the assignment, but all info/guidlines will be presented in step by step/assignment by assignment format. Most participants will complete the program in about 3 months and there is not time limit to complete the program. With the info above and if you still to join, then pls let me know so I can set up the program for you. Just a note, I am in holiday at the moment, so I would be able to reply/review assignment for at least one week until I am back home. Stay safe and bes. Cassiopeia talk 17:04, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Cassiopeia Thanks for the reply and the disclaimer, I'm ready to start whenever you have time :) Enjoy your holiday! Broc (talk) 08:42, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Broc I have set up the program for you. Pls read the "communication section" at the bottom of the assingment prior you read and answer the assignment's questions. When you have done with the assignment, pls let me know on the communication section. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 14:26, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Richard L-K on Gold Coast (region) (22:47, 20 January 2024)

Hello --Richard L-K (talk) 22:47, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Richard L-K Good day. Let me know if you need help or have any question regarding Gold Coast (region) article. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 17:05, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ahsan171118 (07:58, 21 January 2024)

Hello Cassiopeia. Thank you for your time in advance. I have a simple query as I am new to Wikipedia. My query is, that I have created a page for a person in my Sandbox, but I am unable to find the "Move" option to publish it. On some pages, I have read that it takes 4 days for the 'Move' Option. Will the permission be available after 4 days or what additional efforts I should take for the publication? Thank you again for your Time. Ahsan --Ahsan171118 (talk) 07:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Ahsan171118 Good day. Your sandbox article - User:Ahsan171118/sandbox does not meet the notability guidelines to be accepted in the Wikipedia mainspace. To meet the notability guidelines, the subject needs to have a significant coverage by independent, reliable, such as from the major newspaper and books where by the the sources have not affiliation, connection with the suject, for verification sources where by the source talk about the subject in lenght and in dept and not passing mentioned. Pls read WP:Your first article to understand the requirement better. So to answer you questions, you article will be deleted if if your article move to main space since the subject does not meet the notability requirements. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 18:49, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Dear Cassiopeia, Thank you so much for your time to check and providing valuable suggestions. I will edit accordingly and resubmit. Thanks in advance. Ahsan. Ahsan171118 (talk) 12:35, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Italics

Hey. What am I missing about using italics used for FON and PON awards? I don't see how that complies with MOS:ITALIC. Spagooder (talk) 17:38, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Spagooder Good day. For UFC POTN and FOTN, as per norm we link info to List of UFC bonus award recipients page and as per MOS:EMPHASIS we place italic for emphasis. You can check all subject pages on List of UFC bonus award recipients for the norm where POTN and FOTN is formatted. Pls see a list of editing norms and info on editing MMA related pages in Wikipedia in your talk page which would help you to understand certain things on how we edit those mentioned pages. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 19:09, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Tsarukyan Personal Life Edit

Hello, I do not understand what you mean by "We the editors do not interpret the source which the source doesnt directly indicate." after the reversion of my edit. I cited different posts than the one that had been cited before with a clear explanation of how they demonstrate that he is a Christian. Wearing a cross necklace, calling the St. Gregory the Illuminator church in Yerevan as the "Mother Church", and posting a cross with a photo of the Hagia Sophia are clearly things that only a Christian believer would do. Please elaborate on what you mean by this statement. Doc2129 (talk) 19:43, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Doc2129, Thank you for message. The question is that "does the source directly indicate he is a Christian" ? If not then, whatever, he post with a cross of the Hagia Sophia or wearing a cross necklace and calling the St Gregory the Illumination churh of Yerevan/Mother churh can not be used by us, the editors, to interpreter he is a Christian. If you can find other [[WP:IS|independent\\, reliable source such as from the books or major newspapers directly say he is a Christian, then you are welcome to add the info in with inline citation. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 19:53, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Danielehisaiguokhian (07:01, 22 January 2024)

Hello, I want to embark on an editing marathon to break a Guinness World Record (Longest edit-a-thon). I have applied for it already and it has been approved. How do I go about it here? --Danielehisaiguokhian (talk) 07:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Danielehisaiguokhian Good day and thank you for the question. As a new editor, I suggest you to take the short program - WP:TWA to understand the basic Wikipedia guidelines so you may familiar yourself the requirements and policies of Wikipedia when you editing the articles. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 14:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from WWIC Calculator (09:19, 22 January 2024)

https://whenwasiconceived.info/ --WWIC Calculator (talk) 09:19, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

WWIC Calculator Good day. If you have a question, then let me know. The URL you mentioned about is considered a risk site to view as per my security software in my computer and I didnt open it. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 14:18, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #612

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
    • We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
    • We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
  • mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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

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Tech News: 2024-04

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

Problems

  • A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [12]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [13][14]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:01, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Germaine de Randamie

Hello,

You reverted my edit and left a message about an unsourced edit. Her height that I corrected comes literally from Sherdog. An editor changed the height incorrectly and it wasn’t reverted, so I changed it back how it was. I’m glad it was changed back correctly by someone else after you wrongly reverted it. For the next time, I advise you to check your sources yourself before you instantly revert something and send a message which doesn’t apply to me. Sendo79 (talk) 11:54, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Sendo79 Thank you for your message. I did check, since it was in metric system, I converted and missed by 1cm. My apologies. Cassiopeia talk 12:03, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red February 2024

Women in Red | February 2024, Volume 10, Issue 2, Numbers 293, 294, 297, 298


Online events:

Announcement

  • Please let other wikiprojects know about our February Black women event.

Tip of the month:

  • AllAfrica can now be searched on the ProQuest tab at the WP Library.

Other ways to participate:

Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk 20:07, 28 January 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #613

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
  • New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
  • The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
  • Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
  • mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
  • IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
    • We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (phab:T355293)


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

Weekly Tasks

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Tech News: 2024-05

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

Recent changes

  • Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [15]
  • There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [16][17]
  • On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [18]
  • Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [19]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Tril89 (03:10, 31 January 2024)

Hi, I'm new to Wikipedia and I'm reaching out for help. I want to update the Biography of Dale Fisher as the page is pretty outdated. I've been reading the wiki guidelines it's guiding me to a talk page or tea house to look for solutions but then I saw they have assigned a mentor. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Fisher

For conflict of interest, I work with Prof Dale Fisher but will uphold a neutral point of view in the edits.

I really do need your help - I hope to update the profile picture of Dale Fisher and the picture with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The photo of Dale is outdated. Also, in the post-pandemic era, Dale has since stepped down from chairing GOARN - World Health Organization (WHO) and I thought it would be timely and notable to readers of the page.

Permission was sought for these 2 images: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dale_Fisher_2023.jpg [ >https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prof._Dale_Fisher_receiving_a_certificate_from_Dr.Tedros_Adhanom_Ghebreyesus.jpg

> Change in GOARN chair source: https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general's-opening-remarks-at-the-31st-goarn-steering-committee-meeting-global-outbreak-alert-and-response-network-(GOARN)%E2%80%9314-June-2022

Need guidance on how to do this. Could you help? --Tril89 (talk) 03:10, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Tril8 Good day. Pls read or maybe read the info below as there is a lot of things you need to understand and familiar with:
  1. The image/photo - is permissible by Wikipedia to public in the subject's article.
  2. COI and PAID - Since you work with the subject, this means you have a WP:COI (conflict of interest} here since you are a WP:PAY (paid editor). We strongly suggest editor with COI does not edit on the subject page. You can either, provide independent, relaible source such as from the major newspapers and books on the talk page and if an interested editor would like to help you to add the info in or you can still edit but Wikipedia is strongly discourage of ) where you need to write the content in neutral point of view, plain, direct matter without "ANY" words/phases that would promote/enhance the subject - pls read WP:PROMO, WP:NPOV, and MOS:PEACOCK.
  3. you need to disclose you COI (Pls read - pls read WP:DISCLOSE) on your user page HERE 1 and the article talk page - HERE 2. If you dont do the above and edit with promotion tone and intent, you will be banned from editing Wikipedia indefinitely.
  4. I have removed all the unsourced content on the article. If you want to add them back, you need to provide independent, reliable source (not from WHO org, the university, govern, social media, affiliation sources) but from major newspapers and books. Pls also note that the WP:LEAD section (intro) only states the important info of the subject in a very brief manner where the info is already in the article sourced body text.
  5. I suggest you to take WP:TWA so you could familiar yourself with some of the basic Wikipedia guidelines to avoid certain issues when editing and reduce/avoid warning messages which would lead to block from editing.
Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:59, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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