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Hello! I noticed when trying to redirect Miracle Musical to #After Good & Evil on Tally Hall, it warned me that the section doesn't exist. Why is this? Is it because of the anchor, or is it because of the markup on the section title? -- QuickQuokka [ talk • contribs 12:19, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
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Today Jahrhundertring, and I just listened to Götterdämmerung from the Bayreuth Festival (pictured), - the image (of a woman who can't believe what she has to see) features also on the article talk. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:20, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! i have created a page for a public personality. How can I go about getting it reviewed and posted? Thank you! -- Paratroopingfan ( talk) 01:20, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to the twenty-seventh newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
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:
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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. [40]
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.
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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.
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11 June or: Music not only by Bach -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:33, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Jörg Widmann is 50, and I began Stockholm pics. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:33, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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Track and field has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke ( talk) 20:18, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Its Matthew. I want to ask for some advice. For suggested edits should I edit the page even if I know nothing about the topic of the page? -- Matthew Campbell ( talk) 22:33, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! I noticed when trying to redirect Miracle Musical to #After Good & Evil on Tally Hall, it warned me that the section doesn't exist. Why is this? Is it because of the anchor, or is it because of the markup on the section title? -- QuickQuokka [ talk • contribs 12:19, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
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<nowiki>{{</nowiki>'''subst''':'''requested move'''
which actually just prints {{subst:requested move literally as text. Double curly braces like {{ have a special meaning to the wiki software, and by wrapping {{ in
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Hi Wugapode - Denver Riggleman (former US Senator) just made a super antisemitic comment on Twitter ("X") and I would like to put it in his Wiki page. Is that OK? -- Ellies1969 ( talk) 21:39, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
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On today's Main page, you can find a cantata that Bach first performed 300 years ago, and an iconic saxophonist from East Germany. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:36, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
While today's DYK highlights Santiago on his day, I did my modest share with my story today, describing what I just experienced, pictured. I began the article of the woman in green. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:30, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Today Jahrhundertring, and I just listened to Götterdämmerung from the Bayreuth Festival (pictured), - the image (of a woman who can't believe what she has to see) features also on the article talk. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:20, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! i have created a page for a public personality. How can I go about getting it reviewed and posted? Thank you! -- Paratroopingfan ( talk) 01:20, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to the twenty-seventh newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
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:
Please let us know what you think about these projects on the related talk page, or Growth's annual plan talk page.
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. [40]
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.
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. [41]
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.
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.
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:
We are still in the early planning stage of the Community Configuration 2.0 project:
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Hello. I can’t understand from the description from the file page: did you create this image yourself from existing ones, or did you already take the whole one somewhere? — Ирука 13 01:26, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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