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Concern regarding Draft:List of fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Turkish emigrants to New Zealand

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

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Tech News: 2023-27

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).

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This Month in Education: June 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 5 • June 2023

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This Month in GLAM: June 2023



Headlines
  • Albania report: CEE Spring Campaign 2023, Albania and Kosovo
  • Asia report: Donation of images from the National Centre for Biological Sciences
  • Brazil report: Native Brazilian photographer wins Wiki Loves Folklore Brazil 2023
  • Croatia report: Half done in 2023
  • Germany report: Museum tour, WLM, handouts and image donation
  • India report: Wiki Exploration Programme GLAM activities
  • Indonesia report: Conclusion of Mini Grants; Second #1Lib1Ref Campaign; Wikisource Workshop in Bali
  • Italy report: TCI and Turin Academy of Science
  • Kosovo report: CEE Spring Campaign 2023, Albania and Kosovo
  • Netherlands report: A new book, new Wikipedia articles, videos and further images on Africa
  • New Zealand report: Report on the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Conference 2023 and Auckland suburb updates
  • Philippines report: GLAM outreach activity at University of Nueva Caceres: Digitization, workshops and proofread-a-thons as future collaboration
  • Poland report: GLAM-Wiki workshops for the Czartoryski Library; Work on the GLAM-Wiki Project Page Continues; End of Internship within the "Praktykuj w Kulturze" Program
  • Sweden report: Knowledge overview; Almedalen week
  • Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm
  • UK report: Cultural diversity
  • USA report: WikiWednesday returns to Manhattan; Wikimedia NYC and Art+Feminism; WikiConference North America 2023; GLAM Wiki 2023
  • Special story: Flickr Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation partner to build Flickypedia
  • GLAM Wiki conference report: The call for proposals is now open for the GLAM Wiki Conference
  • Calendar: July's GLAM events
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Tech News: 2023-28

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

  • The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
  • Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [3]
  • Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [4]
  • The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
  • The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [5]
  • Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [6]

Future changes

  • There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [7]
  • There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

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Request on 16:34:51, 13 July 2023 for assistance on AfC submission by Icsteveoh


I would like to have a page similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Geospatial_Center or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Department_of_Transportation. I don't understand why this agency isn't applicable. What steps can I take to have a better chance?

Icsteveoh (talk) 16:34, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

  • Hi Icsteveoh the pages you mention also have similar flaws. I can't speak for the other editors who have worked on them, but I've tagged them as needing third party sources. As a tertiary source, wikipedia is built on secondary sources; no document written or published by an agency can be a secondary source of information about that agency. Look for press coverage, review articles, etc. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:09, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
    Thanks, I've gone and done that. Icsteveoh (talk) 20:34, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
    What you need to be looking for is significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Passing mentions are not significant. News articles based on press releases (or built around quotes from employees) are not independent. You're heading in the right direction though. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:25, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-Rua Claims Settlement Act 2022

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Concern regarding Draft:Settlement acts

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Tech News: 2023-29

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
  • MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [8]
  • The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [9]

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Tech News: 2023-30

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Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).

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Tech News: 2023-31

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

  • The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
  • The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [10][11]
  • The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [12]

Problems

  • It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
  • Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [14]

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Growth team newsletter #27

Welcome to the twenty-seventh newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Annual plan for Growth

We shared our annual plan, for the period July 2023 - June 2024.

Our first project of the year will be Community configuration 2.0, which helps editors with extended rights transparently and easily configure important on-wiki functionality.

After we finish work on Community configuration 2.0, we will hope to fit in one of the following projects:

  • Article creation: This project aims to provide new editors with better guidance and guardrails in the article creation process, with the intention of lightening the load of new page reviewers.
  • Non-editing participation: This project aims to create low-risk ways for readers to participate in Wikipedia with the intention of funneling more readers into contributing to the Wikimedia movement.

Please let us know what you think about these projects on the related talk page, or Growth's annual plan talk page.

Suggested edits

The new "Add an image" section-level task

We released a new Section-level “add an image” structured task to Growth pilot wikis (Arabic, Bengali, Czech, and Spanish). This task was part of the Structured Data Across Wikipedia project. We are monitoring the edits made, and we look for community feedback as well.

Suggested Edits are now receiving topic predictions via the new Language-Agnostic Topic Classification. This change affects non-English Wikipedia wikis. It will ensure newcomers receive a greater diversity of task recommendations. Before, as this feature was a test, English Wikipedia was used to select topics. The change is gradual as lists of topics are refreshed when they become empty. The Research team will evaluate the impact in a few months. [15]

Starting on August 1, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link": Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia.

Mentorship

The Growth team provides dedicated features to establish a mentorship program for newcomers. Every newcomer gets a volunteer mentor who provides encouragement and answers questions. Communities can set up or join this mentorship system by visiting Special:ManageMentors. This mentorship system is configurable by the community at Special:EditGrowthConfig.

More communities have implemented mentorship. A Wikimedia Foundation data scientist will be looking at the impact of Mentorship. We will look at the impact on Spanish and English Wikipedia. [16]

The Growth team will also host a Mentoring new editors on Wikipedia session at Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Workshop attendees will help brainstorm improvements to Growth’s mentorship features.

Positive reinforcement

We will share more complete experiment analysis for all the three parts of the Positive reinforcement project soon. At the moment, the new Impact module, Leveling up, and Personalized praise are still being A/B tested on the Growth team's pilot wikis.

In the meantime, initial leading indicators for the Personalized praise project have been published. Although this is still a relatively small sample, results seem healthy. They show that Mentors are indeed receiving notifications and clicking through to view their praise-worthy mentees.

Growth contributes to IP Editing migration

The Growth team is currently focusing on IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation. It is a project that touches many different Wikimedia Foundation teams. The Growth team will focus on temporary accounts through two main points:

  • the user experience of a logged-out user, that switches to a temporary account,
  • change Growth-owned extensions and features, so that they work as expected with temporary accounts. [17]

Community Configuration 2.0

We are still in the early planning stage of the Community Configuration 2.0 project:

  • We are gathering internal Wikimedia Foundation teams' needs, so as community feedback. [18]
  • We have started to investigate design improvements. [19]
  • We are also reviewing similar tools that are part of other products. [20]

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12:42, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Julia Kotlarsky for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Julia Kotlarsky is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Julia Kotlarsky until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

—TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:09, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Mary McQueen for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mary McQueen is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary McQueen until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

IncompA 09:12, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-32

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

  • Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [21]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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This Month in GLAM: July 2023



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Tech News: 2023-33

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

  • The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [22]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [23]

Future changes

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

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Tech News: 2023-34

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Krzysztof Pawlikowski for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Krzysztof Pawlikowski is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Krzysztof Pawlikowski until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Panamitsu (talk) 11:16, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35

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

  • As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [34]
  • All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [35]
  • Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [36]
  • Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [37][38]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
  • New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
  • All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [39]

Future changes

  • The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
  • A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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Tech News: 2023-36

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

Problems

  • The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [44]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [45][46]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Talk:Lisa Nakazono for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Talk:Lisa Nakazono is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talk:Lisa Nakazono until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

    • Sorry, this was meant to be (of course) an AfD for the article, not the talk page.

Imaginatorium (talk) 07:59, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-37

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

  • ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [47]
  • When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [48]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
  • The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
  • As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [49]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [50]
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Nomination of Andrea Haines for deletion

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Request on 29 September 2023 for assistance on AfC submission by LarsHolmberg


Hi! I tried to reply to your declining of the new draft for Locust earlier, but somehow it ended up on MY talk page instead of yours. Because I didnt hear from you, I tried to resubmit to get your attention, but then the article got blocked instead...

I'd like to know more specifically what your objections are and how to alleviate them. I have also found another source from a peer reviewed publication that I could add and work in to the article to further support notability.

I dont know how to auto-generate this post so I've copied the source from another one on your talk :) LarsHolmberg (talk) 07:42, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

I've replied in depth at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk where the conversation appears to be happening. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:59, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi! Did you see my reply there? LarsHolmberg (talk) 13:27, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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  • In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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This Month in Education: September 2023

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  • USA report: Wikimedia New York City Election 2023; San Diego/September 2023; Climate Change and Food Safety
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine and Wikimedia Commons: train the trainer course participants and two surveys
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  • WMF GLAM report: Wikisource Loves Manuscripts, ICOM outreach, Flickr Foundation partnership, OpenRefine adoption, new sources in The Wikipedia Library, Image Description Month events, and the GLAM Wiki Conference
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Growth team newsletter #28

Welcome to the twenty-eighth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Configuration, concept A: Accordion style
Community Configuration, concept B: Dashboard style

Community configuration 2.0

  • Community Configuration 2.0 is a feature that will enable Wikimedia communities to easily customize and configure features to meet their unique needs. This approach provides non-technical moderators with more independence and control over enabling/disabling and customizing features for their communities.
  • Technical approach and associated tasks are detailed in this Epic task on Phabricator.
  • Initial designs are drafted for two different approaches (see images). We will soon demo interactive prototypes to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (T346109). Please let us know if you have feedback on the design approach, or want to participate in prototype testing.

IP Masking

  • The Growth team has been working on several updates to ensure Growth maintained features will be compatible with future IP Masking changes. This work has included code changes to: Recent Changes (T343322), Echo notifications (T333531), the Thanks extension (T345679) and Mentorship (T341390).
  • Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with IP Masking. (T346108)

Mentorship

Scaling Growth features

  • We continue the deployment of the structured task "add a link" to all Wikipedias. We plan to scale the task to all Wikipedias that have link suggestions available by the end of 2023.
  • We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data. (T344428)
  • At some wikis, newcomers have access to the "add an image" structured task. This task suggests images that may be relevant to add to unillustrated articles. Newcomers at these wikis can now add images to unillustrated articles sections. (T345940) The wikis that have this task are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table.

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  • We disabled the “add an image” task temporarily (T345188) because there was a failure in the image suggestions pipeline (T345141). This is now fixed.
  • You can read a report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikimania in Singapore here. Growth team members presented two sessions at Wikimania Singapore.
  • After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Wikipedia, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Wikipedia is now a pilot wiki for Growth experiments.

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  • Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [65][66]
  • Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [67]

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November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Stuartyeates:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2500 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:25, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Hun clan

Hello, I saw that you've marked Hun clan as reviewed. The original article is available at Hun. It's possible that the creator might be a LTA trying to insert a Gurjar POV into various articles about kings and clans. I've taken the step to file an SPI for this. It's important to note that the sources provided in this article only make claims. – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:19, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

This is an area I know little if anything about. You may be right. Stuartyeates (talk) 17:31, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Discord invite

Hey there. Congrats on being on the backlog drive leaderboard. I really appreciate you helping out at NPP. If you want to hang out with other NPPs, consider joining us on the NPP Discord. Discord is live chat software that can be really fun. If not no worries. Thanks and see you around :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:52, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

P.S. I notice your top 10 user talk sections are not auto archiving due to missing headings and/or signatures. I'd be happy to fix that for you if you'd like, just let me know. Happy editing. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:53, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, but I'm not really a Discord kinda person. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:34, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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Request on 03:07:42, 2 November 2023 for assistance on AfC submission by Cd634011


Hello! Any help regarding this article is much appreciated. Both reviewers do not seem to be seeing this as a scholarly book, which has different requirements for establishing notability compared to other types of books.

I have made edits to include over a dozen additional secondary references from sources that are independent of the book's author. These include references to textbooks, other academic books, and papers from other fields (e.g., neuroscience, education, economics) that use work featured in the book.

This is a highly specialized academic book, so I used those guidelines for notability per the "Academic and technical books" section of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(books). The book was published in Routledge's Scientific Psychology series, which is a prestigious series that includes books by well-known and respected figures in mathematical psychology, such as Duncan Luce and Louis Narens. Books in this series normally undergo multiple levels of peer review. The audience for this book is relatively narrow, as mathematical psychology is not a large field. As a tenured professor in Experimental Psychology, I believe it to be an important contribution and have used Chapters from the book in my graduate seminar in Cognitive Psychology.

Please also note that while many of the original references are connected to the book's author, they are all from peer-reviewed journals and thus have undergone review by other experts in the field. These references are not independent of the subject, but they are in-depth and reliable, and they are important to demonstrating how the work in the book has been scientifically validated.

Cd634011 (talk) 03:07, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Notability is always about secondary sources on the topic. To be honest, I'm not seeing the secondary sources here. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:27, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

But how cna this be fix? ~~

Comment on Draft:Exeger Operations AB

Hi.

Regarding: Draft:Exeger Operations AB

In your opinion, are the following references accepable in a Wikipedia article?

  1. https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lpi/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/M_Grtzel-research-achievements-and-their-social-economic-impact-June-2021.pdf (page 8 and 9)
  2. https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/features/eternal-battery-life/
  3. https://www.ribaj.com/products/solar-cell-technology-artificial-photosynthesis-extracts-power-from-indoor-and-outdoor-light-powerfoyle-exeger

I also would like to understand the part of your comment about "press releases and the company's research publications". I have removed such references from the draft. Which ones of the current/remaining references apply to you comment?


Thank you for your help.Regards,

DerekHal22


Derekhal22 (talk) 22:31, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

These are primary sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:22, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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Postcard from the Coast

Postcard from the West Coast

Wednesday 8 Nov, 2023

A bit of a gap since the last postcard, but what a great time we've had with the Wikipedian at Large project in the interim • The highlight has been having Marshall and Lyn join me on the West Coast for a few days, visiting Fox Glacier and Whataroa • We now have good photo collections for the newly-created Waitangiroto Nature Reserve, and a a much improved article with galler • The Whataroa article has been improved with local history and links to the White Herons • We also have much better coverage of Fox Glacier, including new Ngāi Tahu viewing place Te Kopikopiko o te Waka, and photos of Te Weheka Walkway/Cycleway and the South Side Walkway/Cycleway • Could I get you all to check back through your contributions and add anything extra you've done to the [Progress page as we wrap up • Also—I'm hosting a catch-up meeting on Sunday November 12, 2:30 pm, online at my Whereby chat room. This is a chance to go over anything you'd still like to see improved, talk about how the project went and possibilities for future ones, and announce winners of prizes for most or best contributions. Drop me a line at mike@rove.wiki if you can make it (or can't but have ideas about the project) • Thank you all for your contributions, however small, and chat soon. — Giantflightlessbirds
White heron viewed against river and bush
Kōtuku at Waitangiroto Nature Reserve

Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 19:27, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Draft:List of 250 most-backward districts (2006)

What do you think is the copyvio at Draft:List of 250 most-backward districts (2006)? I agree the list is copied from the source but as it's alphabetically listed by state and district, that doesn't seem to be creative (and hence not a copyvio - Wikipedia:Copyright in lists#Copyrightability of other factors). Nor does the choice of districts appear to be creative but is a factual list based on calculation (see Wikipedia:Copyright in lists#Copyrightability of content).

I can see a straightforward decline of the draft for notability but not as a copyvio. Nthep (talk) 13:37, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Nthep. I differ on whether the choice of districts is creative (politics is always creative), but you're right it may not be a copyvio. You're welcome to add a note that it may not be a copyvio and give another reason instead. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:25, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Thx. I've made a note and re-declined the draft as lacking notability. Nthep (talk) 19:28, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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Car speed and energy consumption

Dear Stuart,

Thank you for your interest for this physics topic. You write using a template

>This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. (October 2023)

  • Could you please explain this remark? The topic of car speed and energy usage is part of European high school basic physics, and in the Netherlands played a role in policy discussions of reducing the maximum allowed car speed to lower CO2 greenhouse gas production. (The day time max speed was reduced from 120 km/h to 100 km/h.) This is simply hardcore 18th-19th century very classical physics about kinetic energy and friction from physics books, so no, no, there are no personal feelings or original arguments here. Would that i had discovered this...

Please your reaction, thank you, Hansmuller (talk) 08:02, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

User:Hansmuller: The note I posted was unrelated to the content of the article. The note that I posted related to the structure and formatting of the article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and all articles are unified by consistent style and formatting. Particularly the first part of this article needs to be recast. There are a whole list of rules at WP:MOS, but usually it's easier to find a similar / related article and see how it's structured. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:31, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Dear Stuart, thank you for your reply and suggestion. You suggest Particularly the first part of this article needs to be recast. What can i do? A similar article is Drag_(physics). Perhaps you don't want a summary and a simple calculation at the beginning? Formatting? Can you be more specific? The enormous - quadratic - energy consumption at higher speeds is essential knowledge for car drivers, right?

  • Please your more specific suggestions, thank you, Hansmuller (talk) 09:41, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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Draft: Exeger Operations AB

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/start-up-idea-exeger-powerfoyle-peter-h-j-auwerx/

Is this webpage an acceptable reference to an article about Exeger and Powerfoyle?


Kind regards,

DerekHal22 Derekhal22 (talk) 21:59, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Absolutely not. That's LLM-spew, as per the bottom Peter Auwerx, chatting with chatGPT latest version.. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:20, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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Request on 12:23:47, 15 September 2023 for assistance on AfC submission by Stef joosten


Hi Stuart, Thank you for taking the trouble to review my draft.

I have a clarification question about your comment: "Most of the refs don't appear to mention the subject."

Do you mean the references to scientific literature? I don't understand this comment yet, because the subject "Ampersand" is mentioned in three references. These three are the seminal articles on this topic and are peer-reviewed academic work. The hyperlinks in my draft refer to other Wikipedia contributions, so readers can find further explanations for such terms as they see fit. In this way, I did my best to make everything traceable and verifiable.

So, I suspect I don't fully understand your comment yet. Could you please elaborate a bit, so I can adapt the draft in the right direction?

Would you like me to include a language definition? Or examples? I'd be happy to, even though the very first hyperlink in the draft points to https://ampersandtarski.github.io/, which is the authoritative documentation of Ampersand.

I'd really appreciate some more clarification on your comment.

Stef joosten (talk) 12:23, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

User:Stef joosten Articles need to be based on secondary sources with in depth coverage of the topic. Sources from the authors of the programming language aren't independent. Sources which don't mention the programming language don't have in depth coverage. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:28, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
Dear Stuart,
I have improved the article on the citations. However, we still have a problem: Ampersand is a small topic in computer science. Therefore, there are no in-depth sources in which I don't participate.
I dare dispute, however, your conclusion that the in-depth secondary sources are not independent. The secondary sources that are scientific papers have been reviewed by independent academics in scientific conferences and journals. Most notably the international conference on Relation Algebraic Methods in Computer Science (RAMiCS), which boasts a thorough and independent review process. Surely, those sources are not questionable or unreliable. This is precisely why Wikipedia does not forbid self referencing; it leaves room to scrutinize self-referencing critically.
The problem is: Your refusal means that well-established scientific results in small niche-areas are unpublishable on Wikepedia, even when based on solid and acknowledged research results.
So please reconsider the paper with the improvements I have made. If you still find it wanting, I have to rest my case with deep regrets on my side.
Best regards,
Stef Joosten Stef joosten (talk) 08:00, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Encyclopedias are tertiary sources, that is built on secondary sources. Secondary sources in an academic context are review articles. You are welcome to re-submit the draft for review and get a second opinion on this. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:47, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

mi redirects

For your redirects, how will you sort them into modern, Biggs and traditional? 118.149.77.35 (talk) 05:55, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

By hand. Yes, it's likely to be a big job. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:42, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hello, can you help me to edit my draft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Zula_Global? Thank you for suggesting me to use independent sources. For this reason, in addition to the official sites of the game, I also wanted to report some newspaper articles and a famous player of the game. Unfortunately, however, apart from this information there is nothing else online, since it is just a game and not, for example, historical facts. Could you help me by specifying better what you mean by "indipendent sources" about my case? Thank you for helping me! Rassolino (talk) 07:44, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Independent sources are a key requirement for having a wikipedia article. I had a look in google and there didn't see any. If none can be found, you're not going to be able to get an article accepted. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:38, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Draft of List of California political scandals

Thank you for reviewing my submission List of California political scandals. As to your points:

TOO MUCH BOILERPLATE: The boilerplate here exactly matches the boilerplate on the article List of Alabama political scandals which has already been accepted by Wikipedia for publication. But I agree with you. Each of the paragraphs is an answer to previous editors who could not seem to find a definition of ‘scandal’.

OLDER CITATIONS: Absolutely. I have citations that go back to 1857. I did not use them because some editors have argued this article is too long. They think it would not fit on a modern cell phone! I therefore censured myself, but could easily add more citations, if it will be accepted.

PUBISHING WITHOUT REVIEW: Perhaps I should be talking to the editor who approved List of Alabama political scandals. He mentioned there is a way for published authors to publish again using create articles yourself, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out how. So I submitted this at Articles for creation which led to Article Wizard which led to you. What am I missing? Johnsagent (talk) 03:07, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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Request for guidance

@Stuartyeates A draft (Draft:Odisha Urdu Academy) submitted for review was declined with reasons. Now that I've removed a lot of content against wiki rules, is it worth re-submitting now? I will resubmit if you guide me; otherwise, I will try to improve. Khaatir (talk) 07:16, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

It's hard to say. There's an excellent source at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/urdu-academy-put-on-the-backburner/articleshow/54707661.cms . I suspect that there may be more sources in Urdu (this being an Urdu Academy after all). If you can find one or two more articles like that in Urdu, the article will qualify for inclusion. Important points are (a) published somewhere reputable and (b) those involved with the Academy are not involved in publishing the article. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:21, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
@Stuartyeates I have made corrections to the best of my ability, added reliable references, and omitted unnecessary detailed material that is not covered by secondary sources. I have resubmitted for review. Khaatir (talk) 03:35, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Sport Inside

Hello. Could you take another look at Draft:Sport Inside? I added the Expand German template at the top. The German version of the page, which has existed since 2010, has the sources you requested, but I'm not able to translate them. Thanks. - Richie2023 (talk) 17:37, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Their own website is not independent and IMDb is a website that anyone can edit. These are not suitable. Surely there are some German-language sources? Stuartyeates (talk) 18:18, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Exchange_Job_Definition_Format

Thank you for the suggestion to "steal" some references from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_Job_Definition_Format (which is a published article). The principal German author of that page has added several of his sources to our English page, and says we have more sources than he does.

Question: We believe we had addressed all the "reliable sources" & "primary source" complaints, with updates and several secondary sources added, yet the article was declined once again.  Do you have any thoughts on how best to clear complaints and get this article published?

Thanks again, - Jim Jmekis (talk) 21:14, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

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Draft:International Comission for the History and Theory of Historiography

Dear Stuartyeates,

You have recently reviewed the proposed article on the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH), Draft:International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography. I am grateful for your effort and interest. To my regret, however, you rejected the submission, leaving the following reasons for rejecting the article in my talk page: 'Wikipedia articles require reliable independent secondary sources with in depth coverage of the subjects. I'm not seeing significant independent secondary sources on this org. A quick scan in google scholar isn't helpful either. If decent sources are added to the article, feel free to ping my talk page once you've resubmitted the article for review'.

I must clarify from the outset that ICHTH is not an association that produces scientific historical information itself. Therefore, a scan of Google Scholar will necessarily disappoint. In the Constitution of ICHTH (https://www.ichth.net/constitution) it is stipulated that ICHTH “promotes the study of theory of history, history of historiography, philosophy of history, historical methodology, and historical culture. It encourages debates and exchanges among different approaches to the above subjects of study.” In short, it is a global platform where philosophers of history and historiographers meet, in essence to promote scientific historical knowledge worldwide  - a purpose, indeed, that is at the heart of the Wikipedia project itself.

Let me now show you that ICHTH is worth a Wikipedia entry from both a quantitative and qualitative angle.

I have just googled 'International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography' and found 22,100 results, including, for instance

- Wikipedia's own article on Historiography

- The web page of the International Committee of Historical Sciences: https://www.cish.org/index.php/en/members/international-organisations/

- This page from the Huizinga Instituut. Netherlands Research School for Cultural History: https://www.huizingainstituut.nl/working-group/theory-of-history/

- A newsletter from the Wesleyan University, Conn., USA: https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2018/03/30/kleinberg-lectures-in-france-elected-to-historiography-commission/

- The page of the Centre for Historical Culture, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands: https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/research/centre-historical-culture/general-information

- A book chapter published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, quoted in the proposed article: https://books.google.com.br/books?hl=pt-BR&lr=lang_en%7Clang_pl&id=lcAAEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA165&dq=%22ichth%22+%2B+historiography&ots=ySvMTymuAC&sig=EmK35ugc8D5zQ0r91gsf1Yy-GL4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22ichth%22%20%2B%20historiography&f=false

I think the list already suggests that the ICHTH is not as invisible on the web as the review might have assumed.

However, there are other ways than internet frequencies to assess the relevance of an academic organisation like the ICHTH. Longevity, global representativeness, the prominence of its members within their fields of study should all somehow be included in the assessment. The ICHTH is a 43-year-old academic association. It is an official member of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (https://www.cish.org/index.php/fr/membres/information/?pdb=508), the world’s umbrella organization for historical sciences, but it functions completely autonomously just as the 70 or so other associations affiliated to the ICHS do. ICHTH is made up of leading university professors and researchers from all over the world, many of whom are considered important enough to have their own Wikipedia pages. For example, the Board of the ICHTH (https://www.ichth.net/board) consists of 13 members coming from 12 countries ranging from Canada over Nigeria to China and Australia. And its list of honorary members includes names such as Natalie Zemon Davis, Hayden White, Romila Thapar, Georg Iggers, Peter Burke, Joan Wallach Scott, Jürgen Kocka and Frank Ankersmit - a quick glance at their Wikipedia entries will confirm how important they are/were not only for the theory or history of historiography, but for historical studies in general.

Judging relevance will be unfair if we limit ourselves to the mechanical application of criteria designed to prevent spurious self-promotion or marketing strategies by profit-driven people and companies. And if we think in terms of longevity, representativeness or prominence of members, we will easily find Wikipedia articles on organisations of all kinds that would rank below the ICHTH.

So, in light of the above, I would kindly urge you to reconsider the decision to reject the article. Thank you very much for your attention. Aoaassis (talk) 09:12, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Answered at Draft:International Comission for the History and Theory of Historiography. Stuartyeates (talk) 17:35, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, where to find these sources? That is the problem. ~~ ~~

If sources are the problem, I had just listed some good ones above, attesting that the organisation exists and is recognised in its field. To the attentive and not ill-disposed eye, that should have sufficed. Such a pity that it has not. Aoaassis (talk) 07:06, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Close reading will reveal I said 'in depth coverage of the subject.' I don't see that n any of these sources. You're welcome to resubmit to get another editors opinion. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:14, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Request on 10:32:55, 8 December 2023 for assistance on AfC submission by Ruslan Sharipov


In comments to my draft article you wrote "We need independent sources". Please let me know, (1) you need independent sources for existing content or (2) you need extra content with independent sources. If (1) is the case and if you need independent sources for the section "Institutes and Departments", would it be OK to remove this section or maybe I could find independent sources for some items in the list and keep these items removing others and thus making the list incomplete? Please which option is better? Ruslan Sharipov (talk) 10:32, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Ruslan Sharipov. Right now the draft has a wall of sources, almost all sourced to uust.ru. Wikipedia, as a tertiary source is not built on what people say about themselves (primary sources), but what independent third parties say about them (secondary sources). You need to be looking for in-depth coverage, not database / ranking websites or recycled press releases. Look for coverage in region news sources. Coverage of sports teams can also be useful, if independent. You also need to include the Russian name(s) after the English names, so other editors can easily search for sources. It is possible that this newly established institution does not yet have the coverage to meet our criteria, but I don't speak/read Russian, so I'm not sure. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:27, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
I've remove half the content based on primary sources and approved it based on the other sources. Also tidied up the other two articles. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:44, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

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Submission Review: Liberty Latin America

Hi Stuartyeates!

Thank you so much for taking the time to review my article about Liberty Latin America.

Draft:Liberty Latin America

But I'm not quite sure why it's still being rejected. I've followed your advice about the reliable sources. But I'm not having any progress. Do you have any specific feedback or can you helo me with the article in general?

Thanks! Altaria06 (talk) 19:45, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Page review

Hi! I hope you are doing well. If possible, can you help me review (curation) this page Great Divine Temple. Thanks! Đại Việt quốc (talk) 20:46, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Done Stuartyeates (talk) 09:42, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Đại Việt quốc (talk) 04:02, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

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  • 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.
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NPP Awards for 2023

The New Page Patroller's Barnstar

For over 100 article reviews during 2023. Well done! Keep up the good work and thank you! Dr vulpes (Talk) 02:45, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Resubmission of GRESB article draft

Hey @Stuartyeates, thanks for your comments on the first submission of the GRESB article. To address your feedback, I have added two new secondary sources to the article (see source #5 and #17). Additionally, source #7 and 11 are both secondary sources. As such, I have resubmitted the article and hope to hear your valuable feedback soon. Thanks again for your time and effort. ESGBencher (talk) 14:26, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

ESGBencher I suggest that opinion pieces, things with associated people in the byline and attributions of data sources are not indepth coverage. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:19, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your continued dialogue on this proposed page, @Stuartyeates. While I know I put a few sources that are opinion pieces to explain some additional context (I'm happy to remove them if that is helpful), the main sources I mentioned above were written by third parties with no association to the organization, so I think they should qualify based on the criteria. Again, thank you for your support as I get more familiar with contributing to wikipedia. ESGBencher (talk) 10:16, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Copyright in accepted AFC

Hello. I thought I should let you know that there was copyright in an article you accepted at AFC. The article, Kuki-Naga conflict in Manipur, had copyvio before it was accepted by you. I requested revdel for the copyright. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Sorry MrLinkinPark333, usually I check for copyright issues. Not how this happened. I'll endeavor to not to let it happen again. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:50, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
No worries! Thank you for replying :) MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:43, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Salinas v. Texas

Hello, I'm the author of Draft:Salinas v. Texas , how can I ensure this is not a copy, because I have a warning that this redirects to Thompkins v. Berguis, I made this draft becuase I don't see a wikipedia article that I've mentioned above, I hope you notice this and thank you Jlvshistory (talk) 01:56, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

No, it has been fixed, thanks Jlvshistory (talk) 09:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
I believe that this has already been fixed by someone with the appropriate permissions. Let me know if you still see a problem of any kind. 08:47, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-03

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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. [114]
  • 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. [115]
  • Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [116]
  • You can now thank edits made by bots. [117]
  • 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). [118][119]
  • 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. [120]
  • 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. [121]

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Your draft article, Draft:Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-Rua Claims Settlement Act 2022

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 08:52, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Settlement acts

Hello, Stuartyeates. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Settlement acts".

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Draft article rejection - Stochastic survival of the densest

Hello Stuartyeates,

Thanks for reviewing my article. I received the following feedback from you: "The academic paper at the core of this article has been cited only 3 times. This is not what notability looks like."

May I kindly ask you more constructive suggestions rather than only pointing out this? Is there any way I can improve the article, or the simple fact that the paper has only three citations (so far) makes the page I wrote not even worth being considered? Thus, we cannot communicate science unless the topic is "popular"? Any suggestion would be really appreciated.

I would like to underline that the paper was published only one year ago (yet, on a journal with impact factor of 11.1 in 2022), and describes a very specific topic. Also, the issue of clonal expansion has been puzzling researchers for years (as you might have seen from many of the references I cited).

There is a huge gap between society (non-scientists) and science in specialist journals. As a scientist, the effort I was doing in writing this article was trying to bridge the gap with the knowledge I have acquired so far and a non-scientific user.

Many thanks in advance for your feedback! Ceciliafruet (talk) 21:06, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Ceciliafruet: Wikipedia is a tertiary source, it needs to be based on secondary sources. The universe of knowledge that never makes it to secondary sources cannot be mentioned by tertiary sources such as wikipedia. This concept does not qualify for inclusion in wikipedia; yet. Come back once the paper or concept has significant coverage in secondary sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:09, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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Problems

  • A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [122]

Changes later this week

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Tech News: 2024-05

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  • 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. [125]
  • 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.

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  • 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). [126][127]
  • 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. [128]
  • 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. [129]

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44 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C California Master Plan for Higher Education (talk) Unencyclopaedic
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92 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C British Ceylon period (talk) Merge
447 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Thermographic camera (talk) Merge
1,663 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Hermann Hesse (talk) Wikify
23 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Regalia of Romania (talk) Wikify
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54 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Operation Renewed Hope (talk) Orphan
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  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
  • On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [130][131]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [132][133]
  • Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [134]

Future changes

  • 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [135][136]

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January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar

This award is given in recognition to Stuartyeates for collecting more than 200 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 22:33, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Streak award

Asymmetric Epicyclic Gears Award

This award is given in recognition to Stuartyeates for collecting at least 50 points during each week of the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 23:02, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [137][138][139] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [140][141]

Problems

  • There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [142][143]
  • As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[144] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [145]

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Upcoming Event in Auckland

You might be interested in an upcoming event in Auckland. Wikimedia Aotearoa is having a WikiCon! WikiCon Aotearoa 2024 is the annual gathering for all new and experienced editors of Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikisource projects. Anyone interested in editing is welcome to attend. This conference is organized by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ). It aims to provide training to new editors, to encourage editors to learn new skills, to grow the Wiki community in Auckland and to ensure that we have a fun weekend. Food and refreshments provided.  

When: Saturday 23 March - Sunday 24 March 2024

Where: Auckland University of Technology - Sir Paul Reeves Building - WG Building 2 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland.

Cost: $10, fully catered, sponsorship / registration fee waiver available  

We are offering full scholarships (registration, travel & accommodation) to attend - please contact info@wikimedia.nz for more information.

To see the full programme as it develops check out the Wikipedia Event page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_Aotearoa/Auckland_2024

To register: https://events.humanitix.com/wikicon-aotearoa-2024 CopperAlchemy (talk) 01:09, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-08

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

  • If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [146]
  • There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
  • Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
  • The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [147]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [148][149]
  • Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
  • The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [150]

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Draft:TETRA_Mobile_network_codes_in_ITU_MCC_region_2xx_(Europe)

Thanks a lot for the review of my draft page @Stuartyeates . Your comment has been: "I'm seeing zero in depth coverage in secondary sources.". I´m not sure what you are referring to. I guess you say that the lists created just are referenced by the regional regulators and their publications and you would require additional sources on top of this? Is my understanding correct? This process would be different to existing handling of e.g. Mobile_network_codes_in_ITU_region_2xx_(Europe), which reflects the same source handling as I applied to my draft. I appreciate your feedback on this in advance! Maedula (talk) 14:10, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

As a tertiary source, wikipedia must remain silent on subjects without secondary sources. Without this, we're not an encyclopedia. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:13, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Request on 03:09:44, 25 February 2024 for assistance on AfC submission by AWolfSpider


The message left as the reason for taking down the article I wrote said there were sources on google scholar I could use instead of ones cited. I checked google scholar prior to writing the article and there are no relevant sources. The species of spider that was the topic of my article does not have much information so I don't know how to go about finding better sources. AWolfSpider (talk) 03:09, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

AWolfSpider (talk) 03:09, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

If I were writing the article I'd be including at least 5-7 of the hits from google scholar in the article. Pretty much everything that isn't just a passing mention. No need to remove existing refs though. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:31, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
There are no sources that I could find on google scholar that aren't just passing mentions of the spider. Do I just abandon the page? AWolfSpider (talk) 13:19, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

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Napoleonic looting of art in Spain

I guess the author found out how to bypass AfC. My concern is that he/she may create more such articles.

  • The English is also terrible. This is not machine translation from Spanish, it is worse.
  • there is already a Napoleonic looting of art
  • Am I correct in thinking that there is no consequence for new editors bypassing AfC? Elinruby (talk) 06:15, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
I've PROD'd Napoleonic looting of art in Spain. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. And you are right, the references are terrible Elinruby (talk) 06:41, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Btw I put a little work into it but but don't let them cite that to turn down the PROD Elinruby (talk) 06:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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Updated draft page for GRESB per your recommendations

Hi @Stuartyeates: I made several changes to the GRESB draft page per your recommendations. If you have time, I would appreciate your further feedback. Draft:GRESB ESGBencher (talk) 13:50, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

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[[ Hi, just a question. The redirect on your user page leads me to a page which has as the only text "To enable the newcomer homepage, visit your "Newcomer editor features" settings in Preferences. Return to Main Page." It's your user page, so if that was the intention, no problem, but perhaps you thought we would see something else? Fram (talk) 08:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi User:Fram. I've been playing with Special:Homepage, which is a relatively new innovation from the WMF. It appears to interact poorly with redirects and not-logged-in users. To be honest, I'd prefer WMF fixed their stuff. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Who wouldn't :-) Thanks for the reply! Fram (talk) 09:35, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
User:Fram, worked out what I was doing wrong. See Special:Impact/Stuartyeates / Special:Impact/Fram. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Oh, thanks, interesting! Fram (talk) 08:19, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

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2023 Awards

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The page <name> has been reviewed.

@Stuartyeates and @Utopes I would like to ask for advice. I have a lot of notifications and many of them are "The page <name> has been reviewed."

However, some of the articles that I created did not get that notification. Kurk Lietuvai is one example, but there could be more. Did I do something wrong or should have done something better?

I am asking you two, because you seem to be very experienced editors and some of my “reviewed” notifications have your nicknames next to the them.

Best regards,
Frequently.by.train (talk) 15:59, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Frequently.by.train. Page review is one of of the quality control processes here. There is a high backlog, but there are occasionally backlog drives to get the numbers down. As far as I can tell you've done nothing wrong. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:41, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you @Stuartyeates!
I had another look at my notifications and the page mentioned in my example seems to be the only one (of those that I created) without "reviewed".
What difference on/for Wikipedia does it make if an article has been "reviewed" or not? Does it in any way indicate lower quality, if it's not reviewed? I tried to make one as good as I could, so this would be a gut punch. 😅
Best regards,
Frequently.by.train (talk) 15:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Frequently.by.train I'm sure there's a statistical difference in quality, because there are a few odd things that get caught in review, but being unreviewed is not a bad thing. All my new pages are unreviewed when I create them, and I've been here nearly 20 years. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:56, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
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