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Recent changes
The
mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis.
Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.
[1]
The
mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))).
[2]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (
calendar).
[3][4]
Future changes
The right to change
edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in
this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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NPP Reviewers talk page earlier today to ask about the process that led to me to recommended to the project where I expressed doubt about whether I'd be right for the project, given that I tend to be more of an inclusionist. Nonetheless, I've decided to apply but I think I may need some training. I've been contributing to Wikipedia for years and I'm familiar with many policies even if I don't have their exact wording memorized, so I don't need complete training wheels. The WP:NPPS page said you had two open slots, so I figured I'd place a request with you first. --
CommonKnowledgeCreator (
talk)
20:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
CommonKnowledgeCreator Good day and thank you for interested in NPPS. To be a reviewer, it not about inclusionist or exclusionist, but accept or reject the new article based on Wikipedia guidelines. It is not right to include an article and place them in main space when it is not acceptable as it will be nominator for deletion in regardless now long the articles are in the main space. NPPS program is a very comprehensive program as it includes topics such as notability, sources, article title, content, catogories, tagging, copyright, NPOV, AfD, CSD, PROD and many other topics. For such, they program do require you to spend time on reading the material (guidelines) and working on assignments (understand the guidelines and how to apply them). Since you have been editing for sometime, you would find the material not that hard to understand as compared to some of editors who have much less edits then you. However, to say that, NPPS will provide you a lot of info that you are not aware of or how to apply them even you with your edits counts or the knowledge you have in the moment for for editors who just edit pages but not as the reviewer for the new page, certain guidelines and their applications are not concern of them and they dont usually know or apply them. There is no time line to complete the program, but most editor take 3 months to complete as every editor work on the program in their own free time and pace they like. Let me know if you still want to join the program after reading the info I provided above. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk04:35, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Let me know if you still want to join the program after reading the info I provided above. I would still like to join the program, but I'm not sure which info you are referring to. --
CommonKnowledgeCreator (
talk)
04:51, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
CommonKnowledgeCreator the info is the message I wrote to you especially about "they program do require you to spend time on reading the material (guidelines) and working on assignments (understand the guidelines and how to apply them)." You need to let the
NPP permissions reviewer know that you are taking the NPPS program instead and cancel your NPP permissions reviewer request. Let me know when you have done that so I can set up the program for you.
Cassiopeiatalk05:04, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
CommonKnowledgeCreator I have set up the program for you. Pls read the "communication section" at the bottom of the assignment prior working on the assignment. Also pls read all the links (guidelines) provided and hist diff and all links as stated in the point 1 and 2 in the "communication section" before start answering the questions. Lastly, all communication (questions or informing me you have done with the assignment and want me to review them) are to be addressed in the "communication section" of respective assignment. Welcome to NPPS. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk05:19, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Nusratzai09, Good day. Kindly read
Wikipedia:Image use policy and the image/picture needs to meet the copyright policy
Wikipedia:Copyrights. This means the picture/image needs to be copyright free to be used states by the copyright holder/entity or the picture is taken by you (this means means your are the copyright holder). It the criteria is met as per above, then you can upload the picture to
Commons and it can be used in Wikipedia after it is uploaded. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk05:52, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can
request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Newphililppine, Good day. You can edit any articles in Wikipedia including
Ninoy Aquino; However, you need to adhere to Wikipedia guidelines. I suggest you to complete
WP:TWA program so that you would understand and familiar with some of the basic Wikipedia guidelines. stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk03:56, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #618
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
Closed request for adminship:
Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.
Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5).
Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing.
WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Claim Analysis Toolkit, collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims
date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
Newest
WikiProjects:
Te Papa Research Expeditions - create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums.
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 Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension.
[6]
Maintenance on
etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in
this ticket.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
[7]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.
[8]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (
calendar).
[9][10]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. 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.
[11]
The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See
Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (
more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (
more info).
It's been ages. I hope you are all well and in high spirits.
I'm reaching out to inquire if you could help by lifting the full protection currently applied to the
Abdul-Kerim Edilov page. This protection was implemented in 2017, likely due to repeated efforts to recreate his article at that time. Given the significant developments since then, as detailed in my draft article at
Draft:Abdul-Kerim Edilov, I believe there's a strong case for allowing a standalone article for him. The story of his rise and fall is pretty insane.
@
Ricco Baroni and
Nearlyevil665: Good day. Long time we havent communicated and I believe I find you well in life. I notice a reviewer have reviewed the draft and you have change some of the sources. I loop in user Ricco Baroni here as he is a mma editor and I believe he know Russian language and I hope he can help on sourcing. Pls note the following sources are not reliable -
newlinesmag,
kavkazr,
sportpolitika, I am not sure this two
gazeta and
Caucasian Knot are reliable and lastly cant find this site -
theins.info. In short, from my view, the articles do not have enough independent, reliable sources for it to be accepted in main page. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk01:58, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
I added an article from
Le Temps - a highly reputable source -- discussing in depth his career and mysterious death. That, coupled with the Guardian coverage, as well as Novaya Gazeta, Radio Free Europe and Insider (which I believe to be one of the most reliable sources one could find in Russian media alongside Meduza), and the subject previously holding the position of Vice-Premier, makes me believe he is notable. Also note he is likely to have been a victim of a quiet purge by the Chechen regime, and the encyclopedia would likely benefit more than less by recording this.
nearlyevil66502:59, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
nearlyevil665 Thank you and pls remove the unreliable source info (including the sources) from the draft and pop back here and let me know and I will have a look at it. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk03:35, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Removed the non-reliable sources. Also managed to find in-depth coverage on German-language
Der Freitag. Included this in the article. So thus far we have at four three newspapers of record covering the subject, in four different languages.
nearlyevil66504:54, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello :)
I'm quite new in Wiki editing and contribution.
I did a translation of an English article to Polish, corrected bibliography links and did some language polishing but it still doesn't show in Polish Wiki. Help? :( --
IddyIggy (
talk)
11:11, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
IddyIggy Good day. First of all it would be much easier for an editor to know which article you are talking about by providing them the URL or the article names. I believe you are talking about the article
Yevgeny Domozhirov in English Wikipedia which you translated to Polish Wikipedia [
here. The Polish Wikipedia article which you wrote/translated is in your Polish Wikipedia sandbox (like your own scrap book as a draft). This means the article is yet to be in Polish Wikipedia main space. For such the article can not be find in Polish Wikipedia or in Google search engine. I am not sure how Polish Wikipedia works as every different languauges Wikipedia have their own policies (most of them are the same but not all) so I dont know the exact way to get the article in your sandbox to be reviewed (not sure there is a process for new article to be reviewed in Polish Wikipedia) and place in Polish Wikipedia. However, I believe one of the Polish Wikipedia editor has given you a link to move the page to the Polish Wikipedia main space - see
HERE". On behalf of Polish Wikipedia, I thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia project. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk02:10, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
💜 Thank you, yes, yesterday I got a reply from a Polish editor and will try to fix the situation. Sorry for not providing the link - I was thinking about that, but didn't know the etiquette and didn't want to spam. Thanks for the reply!
IddyIggy (
talk)
07:14, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
IddyIggy If you have any questions regarding English Wikipedia, kindly pop back here for I am here to help. Thank you for your contribution and stay safe.
Cassiopeiatalk07:35, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello there. How do I create drop down sections for individuals for example when I want to add the Biography for a newly created page. --
Maisiersellers (
talk)
21:48, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Maisiersellers Good day. First all all due to you are a new editor, I suggest you to read
WP:Your First Article to familiar yourself the notability guidelines for an article to be accepted in Wikipedia main space. Pls note that for a subject to be
notable, the subject needs have
significant coverage from
indepdent,
reliable sources (no social media/official website/unrelaible sites, any sources which are connected/affiliated with the subject) such as from the major newspapers and books where by the subject is talked about in depth and in length and not only passing mentioned for
vrification. As for your question, I believe you are talking about sub sections of the article (see below) ===
Background
sfsfjdsjfsdfdsfjsd
Career
sdjfldsflds
You can just place "double = " (front and back) to house the section "wording". You can check out
Help:Wikitext and look for "Layout" then "Section" for more details info.
It the above is not what you meant, then pls pop back here and explain to me in details of what the issues at hand so I can help you. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk02:22, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #619
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11.
Translations are available.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Zafer - (RfP scheduled to end after 12 March 2024 20:03 (UTC))
Closed request for adminship:
Mike Peel 2 - Adminship re-granted, welcome back Mike!
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Mfchris84-Bot 1 - Task: Add swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to instance of (P31) version, edition or translation (Q3331189) based on checking ISBN-13 (P212) or ISBN-10 (P957).
NinoBot - Task: Semi-automatically create version, edition or translation (Q3331189) entries for Spanish Wikisource Index pages from Commons files.
Emijrpbot 10 - Task: Create a written work (Q47461344) and version, edition or translation (Q3331189) item for works and editions in the National Library of Spain
datos.bne.es project.
Queer Data Days - Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event, a pair of virtual events welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and technology. Sign up for March 15 or March 16, 15:00 (CET).
Wikidata Leveling Up Days, an online event and a collection of resources to welcome new people to Wikidata. The online event takes place on April 5-7 and 12-14 with presentations, workshops and discussions. The program is open to contributions. Learn more about the project at the website
WiGeDi.
Wikibase Intro (Dutch) - Bart Magnus writes an article about the benefits of Wikibase for the Flemish Association for Library, Archives & Documentation (VVBAD).
Multilingual entity linking and global insights - Ontotext are developing AI products that can read text and establish of the same concept in different languages (MEL) and between knowledge graphs and plaintext.
Bosnia and Herzegovina - This project aims to be a central hub for the curation of all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc.) related to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Te Papa Research Expeditions - aims to create or enrich Wikidata with data on research expeditions undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional staff
WikiProject Highlights:
Looted heritage - this WikiProject is calling for Item suggestions to work on. The scope includes all forms of looted heritage; artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
Newest
database reports:
unmarked supercentenarians - contains instance of (P31) human (Q5) with period of life greater than 110 years and not marked with subject has role (P2868) supercentenarian (Q1200828) or subject has role (P2868) alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (
calendar).
[12][13]
After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the
Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
[14]
The active link color in
Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
[15]
Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.
[16]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. 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.
[17][18]
Hi there, please can you help me? I need to rename my page
User:Robhollo/sandbox
I've looked at several online help articles and it tells me I have to move the page to rename it, but i cannot find the move button one the page - my layout is different and i can't figure out how to rename it. Please can you help me?
Robhollo Good day. First of all you need to provide me either the URL or the Name of the page in Wikipedia for the ease to help you. Secondly, we do not remane our sandbox as sandbox is just a note book/scrape book/ draft book of yours in Wikipedia. Thirdly, you had move create the article "Mister Sleep (2024 Movie)"; however, I have move it to "Draft" space - see here
Draft:Mister Sleep (2024 Movie) for the article does not meet the
notability criteria. Pls note that to meet the notability requirements the subject (here the "Mister Sleep (2024 Movie)" needs to have
significant coverage by
independent,
Reliable sources such as from the newspapers or the books where by the sources talk about the subject in length and in depth and not passing mentioned. I suggest you to read
WP:Your Frist Article. (By the way IMBD is not a reliable nor independent source and we dont put external link in the body page. Once you have significant of independent, reliable sources for the above draft article, then submit the draft article for review.
Cassiopeiatalk23:29, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-18.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
KonstantinaG07 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 20 March 2024 17:37 UTC)
Closed request for adminship:
Zafer Adminship granted, welcome Zafer!
New requests for permissions/Bot:
PagesBot - Task: Adds no. of pages statements based on page(s) on items of type: scholarly article. Then adds a reference with based on heuristic equal to inferred from page(s).
Wicci'o'Bot - Task: Import identifiers of new properties created for TheTVDB (Q15616250), nientepopcorn (Q123434360) (and more properties I plan to request to be added shortly) inherent in the film and TV industry, using IMDb ID (P345) as source.
Closed request for comments:
Duplicate Refs, Data Model and UI - (RfC closed 15 March 2024 18:57 UTC). The Community showed support for the proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references. A Phabricator ticket has been opened:
T360224
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 19, 2024: Please join us on March 19 for a community discussion about how GLAM professionals can incorporate Wikidata/linked data into their work week. Bring your success stories about institutional buy-in and how you’ve communicated the value of linked data to managers and colleagues. We hope to share some strategies that you can take back and use in your own workplace. This will be a followup of sorts to our call last May, and you can review some of what we talked about then, plus slides from our survey here: Notes from May 30, 2023 Meeting on Advocacy for Wikidata & Linked Data in Libraries.
Agenda
Connecting Local Archive Data to Wikidata: Focusing on the Archives of National Debt Redemption Movement. By Yun, J., & Oh, S.G. Documents the findings of connecting Wikidata with the Korean NDRM.
Wikidata Lab: Dear Diary (Portugese) - Aims to share resources and capabilities for integration of Wikidata with other free knowledge projects, in particular the Querido Diário project, from Open Knowledge Brasil. Hosted by Porto, É. & Giulio Carvalho, G.
ORCID Scraper - helps users get DOIs from
orcid.org for a specific author and curate them using Scholia. It gives users an overview of which DOIs are missing and helps them easily import missing articles one by one.
Newest
WikiProjects:
Polish Socialist Party - aims to document and enrich data and items (Leadership, sports clubs, commemorated buildings, art, publications etc.) that are connected with the Polish Socialist party.
WikiProject Highlights:
RfC: Slowking4 (2) - Comments are required on actions against the named editor.
Showcase Items:
Mahatma Gandhi - The "Great Soul", lawyer, political ethicist and leader of the non-violent resistance to end Imperial British occupation of India.
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
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
mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis.
Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.
[1]
The
mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))).
[2]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (
calendar).
[3][4]
Future changes
The right to change
edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in
this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
Hello, Cassiopeia. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that
Draft:Justin Tafa, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months
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Hello! I received an
automated message on my talk page less than a week ago from a user that had included me on a mass message via the
MediaWiki message delivery system to see if I'd be interested in joining NPP. After following the instructions of the message to read the
tutorial page and
guidelines for granting user rights, I went to the
NPP permissions reviewer to attempt applying, but instead followed the link to the
NPP training program project page. I have now reviewed all of the "Essential further reading" essays and policy pages. I started a discussion on the
NPP Reviewers talk page earlier today to ask about the process that led to me to recommended to the project where I expressed doubt about whether I'd be right for the project, given that I tend to be more of an inclusionist. Nonetheless, I've decided to apply but I think I may need some training. I've been contributing to Wikipedia for years and I'm familiar with many policies even if I don't have their exact wording memorized, so I don't need complete training wheels. The WP:NPPS page said you had two open slots, so I figured I'd place a request with you first. --
CommonKnowledgeCreator (
talk)
20:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
CommonKnowledgeCreator Good day and thank you for interested in NPPS. To be a reviewer, it not about inclusionist or exclusionist, but accept or reject the new article based on Wikipedia guidelines. It is not right to include an article and place them in main space when it is not acceptable as it will be nominator for deletion in regardless now long the articles are in the main space. NPPS program is a very comprehensive program as it includes topics such as notability, sources, article title, content, catogories, tagging, copyright, NPOV, AfD, CSD, PROD and many other topics. For such, they program do require you to spend time on reading the material (guidelines) and working on assignments (understand the guidelines and how to apply them). Since you have been editing for sometime, you would find the material not that hard to understand as compared to some of editors who have much less edits then you. However, to say that, NPPS will provide you a lot of info that you are not aware of or how to apply them even you with your edits counts or the knowledge you have in the moment for for editors who just edit pages but not as the reviewer for the new page, certain guidelines and their applications are not concern of them and they dont usually know or apply them. There is no time line to complete the program, but most editor take 3 months to complete as every editor work on the program in their own free time and pace they like. Let me know if you still want to join the program after reading the info I provided above. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk04:35, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Let me know if you still want to join the program after reading the info I provided above. I would still like to join the program, but I'm not sure which info you are referring to. --
CommonKnowledgeCreator (
talk)
04:51, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
CommonKnowledgeCreator the info is the message I wrote to you especially about "they program do require you to spend time on reading the material (guidelines) and working on assignments (understand the guidelines and how to apply them)." You need to let the
NPP permissions reviewer know that you are taking the NPPS program instead and cancel your NPP permissions reviewer request. Let me know when you have done that so I can set up the program for you.
Cassiopeiatalk05:04, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
CommonKnowledgeCreator I have set up the program for you. Pls read the "communication section" at the bottom of the assignment prior working on the assignment. Also pls read all the links (guidelines) provided and hist diff and all links as stated in the point 1 and 2 in the "communication section" before start answering the questions. Lastly, all communication (questions or informing me you have done with the assignment and want me to review them) are to be addressed in the "communication section" of respective assignment. Welcome to NPPS. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk05:19, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Nusratzai09, Good day. Kindly read
Wikipedia:Image use policy and the image/picture needs to meet the copyright policy
Wikipedia:Copyrights. This means the picture/image needs to be copyright free to be used states by the copyright holder/entity or the picture is taken by you (this means means your are the copyright holder). It the criteria is met as per above, then you can upload the picture to
Commons and it can be used in Wikipedia after it is uploaded. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk05:52, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can
request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Newphililppine, Good day. You can edit any articles in Wikipedia including
Ninoy Aquino; However, you need to adhere to Wikipedia guidelines. I suggest you to complete
WP:TWA program so that you would understand and familiar with some of the basic Wikipedia guidelines. stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk03:56, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #618
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
Closed request for adminship:
Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.
Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5).
Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing.
WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Claim Analysis Toolkit, collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims
date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
Newest
WikiProjects:
Te Papa Research Expeditions - create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums.
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 Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension.
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Maintenance on
etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in
this ticket.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
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A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (
calendar).
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Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. 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.
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The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See
Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (
more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (
more info).
It's been ages. I hope you are all well and in high spirits.
I'm reaching out to inquire if you could help by lifting the full protection currently applied to the
Abdul-Kerim Edilov page. This protection was implemented in 2017, likely due to repeated efforts to recreate his article at that time. Given the significant developments since then, as detailed in my draft article at
Draft:Abdul-Kerim Edilov, I believe there's a strong case for allowing a standalone article for him. The story of his rise and fall is pretty insane.
@
Ricco Baroni and
Nearlyevil665: Good day. Long time we havent communicated and I believe I find you well in life. I notice a reviewer have reviewed the draft and you have change some of the sources. I loop in user Ricco Baroni here as he is a mma editor and I believe he know Russian language and I hope he can help on sourcing. Pls note the following sources are not reliable -
newlinesmag,
kavkazr,
sportpolitika, I am not sure this two
gazeta and
Caucasian Knot are reliable and lastly cant find this site -
theins.info. In short, from my view, the articles do not have enough independent, reliable sources for it to be accepted in main page. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk01:58, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
I added an article from
Le Temps - a highly reputable source -- discussing in depth his career and mysterious death. That, coupled with the Guardian coverage, as well as Novaya Gazeta, Radio Free Europe and Insider (which I believe to be one of the most reliable sources one could find in Russian media alongside Meduza), and the subject previously holding the position of Vice-Premier, makes me believe he is notable. Also note he is likely to have been a victim of a quiet purge by the Chechen regime, and the encyclopedia would likely benefit more than less by recording this.
nearlyevil66502:59, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
nearlyevil665 Thank you and pls remove the unreliable source info (including the sources) from the draft and pop back here and let me know and I will have a look at it. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk03:35, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Removed the non-reliable sources. Also managed to find in-depth coverage on German-language
Der Freitag. Included this in the article. So thus far we have at four three newspapers of record covering the subject, in four different languages.
nearlyevil66504:54, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello :)
I'm quite new in Wiki editing and contribution.
I did a translation of an English article to Polish, corrected bibliography links and did some language polishing but it still doesn't show in Polish Wiki. Help? :( --
IddyIggy (
talk)
11:11, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
IddyIggy Good day. First of all it would be much easier for an editor to know which article you are talking about by providing them the URL or the article names. I believe you are talking about the article
Yevgeny Domozhirov in English Wikipedia which you translated to Polish Wikipedia [
here. The Polish Wikipedia article which you wrote/translated is in your Polish Wikipedia sandbox (like your own scrap book as a draft). This means the article is yet to be in Polish Wikipedia main space. For such the article can not be find in Polish Wikipedia or in Google search engine. I am not sure how Polish Wikipedia works as every different languauges Wikipedia have their own policies (most of them are the same but not all) so I dont know the exact way to get the article in your sandbox to be reviewed (not sure there is a process for new article to be reviewed in Polish Wikipedia) and place in Polish Wikipedia. However, I believe one of the Polish Wikipedia editor has given you a link to move the page to the Polish Wikipedia main space - see
HERE". On behalf of Polish Wikipedia, I thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia project. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk02:10, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
💜 Thank you, yes, yesterday I got a reply from a Polish editor and will try to fix the situation. Sorry for not providing the link - I was thinking about that, but didn't know the etiquette and didn't want to spam. Thanks for the reply!
IddyIggy (
talk)
07:14, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
IddyIggy If you have any questions regarding English Wikipedia, kindly pop back here for I am here to help. Thank you for your contribution and stay safe.
Cassiopeiatalk07:35, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello there. How do I create drop down sections for individuals for example when I want to add the Biography for a newly created page. --
Maisiersellers (
talk)
21:48, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Maisiersellers Good day. First all all due to you are a new editor, I suggest you to read
WP:Your First Article to familiar yourself the notability guidelines for an article to be accepted in Wikipedia main space. Pls note that for a subject to be
notable, the subject needs have
significant coverage from
indepdent,
reliable sources (no social media/official website/unrelaible sites, any sources which are connected/affiliated with the subject) such as from the major newspapers and books where by the subject is talked about in depth and in length and not only passing mentioned for
vrification. As for your question, I believe you are talking about sub sections of the article (see below) ===
Background
sfsfjdsjfsdfdsfjsd
Career
sdjfldsflds
You can just place "double = " (front and back) to house the section "wording". You can check out
Help:Wikitext and look for "Layout" then "Section" for more details info.
It the above is not what you meant, then pls pop back here and explain to me in details of what the issues at hand so I can help you. Stay safe and best.
Cassiopeiatalk02:22, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #619
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11.
Translations are available.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Zafer - (RfP scheduled to end after 12 March 2024 20:03 (UTC))
Closed request for adminship:
Mike Peel 2 - Adminship re-granted, welcome back Mike!
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Mfchris84-Bot 1 - Task: Add swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to instance of (P31) version, edition or translation (Q3331189) based on checking ISBN-13 (P212) or ISBN-10 (P957).
NinoBot - Task: Semi-automatically create version, edition or translation (Q3331189) entries for Spanish Wikisource Index pages from Commons files.
Emijrpbot 10 - Task: Create a written work (Q47461344) and version, edition or translation (Q3331189) item for works and editions in the National Library of Spain
datos.bne.es project.
Queer Data Days - Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event, a pair of virtual events welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and technology. Sign up for March 15 or March 16, 15:00 (CET).
Wikidata Leveling Up Days, an online event and a collection of resources to welcome new people to Wikidata. The online event takes place on April 5-7 and 12-14 with presentations, workshops and discussions. The program is open to contributions. Learn more about the project at the website
WiGeDi.
Wikibase Intro (Dutch) - Bart Magnus writes an article about the benefits of Wikibase for the Flemish Association for Library, Archives & Documentation (VVBAD).
Multilingual entity linking and global insights - Ontotext are developing AI products that can read text and establish of the same concept in different languages (MEL) and between knowledge graphs and plaintext.
Bosnia and Herzegovina - This project aims to be a central hub for the curation of all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc.) related to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Te Papa Research Expeditions - aims to create or enrich Wikidata with data on research expeditions undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional staff
WikiProject Highlights:
Looted heritage - this WikiProject is calling for Item suggestions to work on. The scope includes all forms of looted heritage; artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
Newest
database reports:
unmarked supercentenarians - contains instance of (P31) human (Q5) with period of life greater than 110 years and not marked with subject has role (P2868) supercentenarian (Q1200828) or subject has role (P2868) alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (
calendar).
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After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the
Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
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The active link color in
Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
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Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.
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Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. 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.
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Hi there, please can you help me? I need to rename my page
User:Robhollo/sandbox
I've looked at several online help articles and it tells me I have to move the page to rename it, but i cannot find the move button one the page - my layout is different and i can't figure out how to rename it. Please can you help me?
Robhollo Good day. First of all you need to provide me either the URL or the Name of the page in Wikipedia for the ease to help you. Secondly, we do not remane our sandbox as sandbox is just a note book/scrape book/ draft book of yours in Wikipedia. Thirdly, you had move create the article "Mister Sleep (2024 Movie)"; however, I have move it to "Draft" space - see here
Draft:Mister Sleep (2024 Movie) for the article does not meet the
notability criteria. Pls note that to meet the notability requirements the subject (here the "Mister Sleep (2024 Movie)" needs to have
significant coverage by
independent,
Reliable sources such as from the newspapers or the books where by the sources talk about the subject in length and in depth and not passing mentioned. I suggest you to read
WP:Your Frist Article. (By the way IMBD is not a reliable nor independent source and we dont put external link in the body page. Once you have significant of independent, reliable sources for the above draft article, then submit the draft article for review.
Cassiopeiatalk23:29, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-18.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
KonstantinaG07 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 20 March 2024 17:37 UTC)
Closed request for adminship:
Zafer Adminship granted, welcome Zafer!
New requests for permissions/Bot:
PagesBot - Task: Adds no. of pages statements based on page(s) on items of type: scholarly article. Then adds a reference with based on heuristic equal to inferred from page(s).
Wicci'o'Bot - Task: Import identifiers of new properties created for TheTVDB (Q15616250), nientepopcorn (Q123434360) (and more properties I plan to request to be added shortly) inherent in the film and TV industry, using IMDb ID (P345) as source.
Closed request for comments:
Duplicate Refs, Data Model and UI - (RfC closed 15 March 2024 18:57 UTC). The Community showed support for the proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references. A Phabricator ticket has been opened:
T360224
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 19, 2024: Please join us on March 19 for a community discussion about how GLAM professionals can incorporate Wikidata/linked data into their work week. Bring your success stories about institutional buy-in and how you’ve communicated the value of linked data to managers and colleagues. We hope to share some strategies that you can take back and use in your own workplace. This will be a followup of sorts to our call last May, and you can review some of what we talked about then, plus slides from our survey here: Notes from May 30, 2023 Meeting on Advocacy for Wikidata & Linked Data in Libraries.
Agenda
Connecting Local Archive Data to Wikidata: Focusing on the Archives of National Debt Redemption Movement. By Yun, J., & Oh, S.G. Documents the findings of connecting Wikidata with the Korean NDRM.
Wikidata Lab: Dear Diary (Portugese) - Aims to share resources and capabilities for integration of Wikidata with other free knowledge projects, in particular the Querido Diário project, from Open Knowledge Brasil. Hosted by Porto, É. & Giulio Carvalho, G.
ORCID Scraper - helps users get DOIs from
orcid.org for a specific author and curate them using Scholia. It gives users an overview of which DOIs are missing and helps them easily import missing articles one by one.
Newest
WikiProjects:
Polish Socialist Party - aims to document and enrich data and items (Leadership, sports clubs, commemorated buildings, art, publications etc.) that are connected with the Polish Socialist party.
WikiProject Highlights:
RfC: Slowking4 (2) - Comments are required on actions against the named editor.
Showcase Items:
Mahatma Gandhi - The "Great Soul", lawyer, political ethicist and leader of the non-violent resistance to end Imperial British occupation of India.