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Question from KyaniteAl2SiO5 on LENA Foundation (21:17, 11 January 2025)
Hi Tails! I'm learning how to edit Wikipedia, and am completing some copyediting tasks. The title of the page I'm working on is currently "LENA Foundation", but the third paragraph in the History section indicates that the word "Foundation" is no longer part of the organization's name. Would it be appropriate for me to change the title of the page, and if so, to what? Maybe "Language Environment Analysis"? --KyaniteAl2SiO5 (talk) 21:17, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @KyaniteAl2SiO5! In this case, I believe there's somewhere in Wikipedia's Manual of Style that would have to deal with the title of the page – I don't think "Language Environment Analysis" would be a title that could be used here. I'm not familiar with pages similar to that, though, so it wouldn't hurt to ask others who've contributed significantly to that article or other similar articles for their opinion of the page's title name. Thanks! ~ Tails Wx 04:19, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Speed Me Up
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A barnstar!
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The Teamwork Barnstar | |
| Hey Tails! For the last many hours, you've been a massive help in patrolling the back end of the NPP queue! When we started editing like, 7 hours ago at this point, I don't think either of us realized how much of a mammoth it might be. Sure, there were only 65 total unreviewed articles from 2023 and earlier (which was a number that continued to grow), but these were some of the toughest reviews I've ever had to make as they've sat at the end for so long, well over a year old for many of them. Your help over Discord to bounce ideas back and forth, figuring out solutions, saving pages from dire straits and verifying notability in cases where it seemed all hope was lost, this was some powerful and effective editing, and your teamwork was beyond appreciated to me. By the time I'm leaving this message now, there's only four remaining pages left from pre-2024! And after this hurdle, we as an NPP team are able to take a big leap forward with more modern articles, which is a lifesaver for the backlog drive and anyone carrying the rear. So to your efforts, thank you immensely for your help these last several hours in figuring things out together! Utopes (talk / cont) 01:26, 19 January 2025 (UTC) |
- Hi again @Utopes! I didn't even know we'd accomplish this much in that hours-long stretch and never would've happened should I not have taken up your request to work through the backlog! Thanks so much for your input and help through all this as well. I've definitely learned a few things along the way from you and problematic pages, and I love how we coordinated with each other very well. Like I said, we make a fantastic duo! If you ever want to start another one of these, feel free to contact me and I'll do it again! (well, I've got a lot of business off-Wiki sometimes but I'll try to at least get something done.) :) ~ Tails Wx 16:28, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
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- Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [1]
- On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [2]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [3]
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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Happy new year 2025! Today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:29, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Speed Me Up
On 23 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Speed Me Up, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the music video of "Speed Me Up" was described as "incredibly dumb" and a "cornucopia of hilarious imagery"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Speed Me Up. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Speed Me Up), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Sigmaboy9191 on Blackjack (04:30, 19 January 2025)
hey bruh what the sigmer is visual editor --Sigmaboy9191 (talk) 04:30, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Sigmaboy9191! Visual editor is an editing tool which can make editing, y'know, more simple than just editing in source code. More information can be found over on WP:Visual editor. Thanks! ~ Tails Wx 22:29, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
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- Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
- iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [4]- Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [5]
Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [6]- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
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- Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [8]
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[9] You can now also insert
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- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
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archiveID,identifier,repository,organization,repositoryLocation,committee, andversionNumber. [11]
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (
w:knc:) [12] - View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [13]
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Your GA nomination of Stars in the Sky
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Good article reassessment for Speed Me Up
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
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- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
- A '
Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award
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The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia | |
| This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for accumulating at least 500 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC) |
January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Streak award
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Rack and pinion Award | |
| This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for accumulating at least 15 points during each week of the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:47, 6 February 2025 (UTC) |
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- The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.
Updates for editors
- The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [14]
- As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
- Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (
prefers-reduced-motion,prefers-reduced-transparency,prefers-contrast, andforced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [15] - View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [16]
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [17]
- The function
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- Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the
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- Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [20]
- You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [21]
- When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
- The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [22]
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [23]
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [24]
Updates for technical contributors
- Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [25][26]
- Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that
mw.Uriis deprecated. Tools requiringmw.Urimust explicitly declaremediawiki.Urias a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser nativeURLAPI soon. [27]
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Thank you for improving article quality in February although busy! - I pointed at a composer yesterday, as the main page had. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:12, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
... and a soprano today whose performance impressed me. (didn't notice that a new day had begun) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:50, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Notability of individual tornadoes
Hi Tails! Following a (low-participation) RfC at Wikiproject Weather's talk page on the notability of individual tornadoes two months ago, I've went ahead and started Wikipedia:Notability of individual tornadoes, a policy about the notability of articles on singular tornadoes. How does it look? Is it worded clearly and easy-to-read? I've tried to remain neutral throughout, but seeing as the RfC only got two other participants (but unanimous support!) I'm going around and asking some other members of the Weather project for some more opinions. Thanks, and as always, feel free to open another RfC if you feel a wider discussion is needed. :) — EF5 16:35, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
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