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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sri_Selva_Vinayagar_Temple

@Rich Smith"Declining submission: v - Submission is improperly sourced and nn - Submission is about a topic not yet shown to meet general notability guidelines (be more specific if possible)" Draft:Sri Selva Vinayagar Temple - Wikipedia . COULD YOU EXPLAIN HOW THE TOPIC OF RELIGION DOES NOT MEET GENERAL NOTIBILITY GUIDELINES?? Read this wiki article and see if it does: Shri Sidhi Vinayagar Temple - Wikipedia? H669617 (talk) 14:05, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

@H669617: This is not a topic of religion, it is an article about a temple. Therefore, needs to meet at LEAST the WP:GNG and potentially WP:CORP - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 14:16, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

@Rich SmithRead this wiki article and see if it does: Shri Sidhi Vinayagar Temple - Wikipedia? H669617 (talk) 14:25, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

@H669617: That doesn't either and I will request deletion of that article... but also WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 14:33, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

@Rich Smith Please do! Because it is not fair to decline my article and keep that article that has a wrong impression for other and all users. H669617 (talk) 17:50, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

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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. [2]

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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. [3]

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A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [4]
From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
- Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
  - a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [5]
  - a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [6]
- To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
  - Wikifunctions (f:) [7]
  - a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [8]
  - a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [9]
  - a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [10]
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  - a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [12]

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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).

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There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [13]

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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Exoplanets discovered by MASCARA

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

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 14:54, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

@Explicit: This was requested on WP:AFC/R, please notify the requestor, that being User:112.120.56.203 - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 15:10, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

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