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Are you a newcomer to Wikipedia? Here are some resources that you may find helpful:
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges ( Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), Epicgenius ( talk · contribs), and Frostly ( talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
I am unable to delete article edited thrice -- NZ9616 ( talk) 17:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I've been meaning to weigh in on the Tryptofish discussion but I didn't think it was entirely appropriate to comment there for several reasons. While I don't truly understand the nature and history of the dispute, I do personally understand what it's like to be falsely accused of something (you only have to go over to Wikinews to see what happened to me over there). I hope you can find a way to let it go, even though, like you, I feel the need to clear my name, but it's just not worth it. The only criticism you should ever let get to you is from close friends and family. People will make stuff up about you, regardless of what you do. Although it's been criticized as mundane or trite by those in the know, Yuval Noah Harari often talks about how much of our lives are filled by stories, not only those we tell ourselves, but in this example, stories, perhaps fictional, that others tell about us. It's just the way things are. In times like these, I often find comfort in the story " The old man lost his horse". Whatever happens, I want you to know that Wikipedia is very lucky to have you. Viriditas ( talk) 20:39, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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From User:Jimbo Wales: "You can edit this page! Really, you can! If you would like to, please feel free to do so." Fram ( talk) 15:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig
. This quarter we are working on making
Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.
An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
Add a Image experiment analysis results
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “ Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
Personalized praise experiment results
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. ( T361763)
English donors encouraged to try editing
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation ( example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. ( T352900)
Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. ( T361657)
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
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18:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
plz help me i am parsis and my family is moslim i am in troble plz help me -- Zathasht ( talk) 07:19, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
If a user who is blocked takes advantage of autoblocking being enabled for their block to stop other, innocent users from editing by attempting to edit from random IP addresses, what will the administration do about it? Will they send a request to a steward on Meta to lock the account to prevent further collateral damage because the account can no longer be logged into? Faster than Thunder ( talk | contributions) 17:54, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
On 27 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Destinies of the Soul, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Destinies of the Soul was the only book that contained human skin in the collection of Harvard University? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Destinies of the Soul. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Destinies of the Soul), 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.
RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi!I am Piruty Pipaty. I am sorry to ask the question in this time. How can I make links for the user pages?
By Piruty Pipaty -- Piruty Pipaty ( talk) 04:30, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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Are you a newcomer to Wikipedia? Here are some resources that you may find helpful:
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges ( Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), Epicgenius ( talk · contribs), and Frostly ( talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
I am unable to delete article edited thrice -- NZ9616 ( talk) 17:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I've been meaning to weigh in on the Tryptofish discussion but I didn't think it was entirely appropriate to comment there for several reasons. While I don't truly understand the nature and history of the dispute, I do personally understand what it's like to be falsely accused of something (you only have to go over to Wikinews to see what happened to me over there). I hope you can find a way to let it go, even though, like you, I feel the need to clear my name, but it's just not worth it. The only criticism you should ever let get to you is from close friends and family. People will make stuff up about you, regardless of what you do. Although it's been criticized as mundane or trite by those in the know, Yuval Noah Harari often talks about how much of our lives are filled by stories, not only those we tell ourselves, but in this example, stories, perhaps fictional, that others tell about us. It's just the way things are. In times like these, I often find comfort in the story " The old man lost his horse". Whatever happens, I want you to know that Wikipedia is very lucky to have you. Viriditas ( talk) 20:39, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:14, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
From User:Jimbo Wales: "You can edit this page! Really, you can! If you would like to, please feel free to do so." Fram ( talk) 15:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig
. This quarter we are working on making
Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.
An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
Add a Image experiment analysis results
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “ Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
Personalized praise experiment results
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. ( T361763)
English donors encouraged to try editing
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation ( example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. ( T352900)
Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. ( T361657)
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
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18:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
plz help me i am parsis and my family is moslim i am in troble plz help me -- Zathasht ( talk) 07:19, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
If a user who is blocked takes advantage of autoblocking being enabled for their block to stop other, innocent users from editing by attempting to edit from random IP addresses, what will the administration do about it? Will they send a request to a steward on Meta to lock the account to prevent further collateral damage because the account can no longer be logged into? Faster than Thunder ( talk | contributions) 17:54, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
On 27 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Destinies of the Soul, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Destinies of the Soul was the only book that contained human skin in the collection of Harvard University? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Destinies of the Soul. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Destinies of the Soul), 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.
RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi!I am Piruty Pipaty. I am sorry to ask the question in this time. How can I make links for the user pages?
By Piruty Pipaty -- Piruty Pipaty ( talk) 04:30, 28 April 2024 (UTC)