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Has this been brought to the attention of people?
Essentially what is being argued for here is to replace dead-links with your own page in order to drive traffic. I'm bringing this up following a discussion at WT:MED where a user was doing just that.
An especially troublesome quote:
Plus, you can often take a bit of a shortcut building this content and doing outreach. For dead links specifically, you can take the (now dead) URL, head over to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and look to see what the linked-to resource used to look like. Build something better, then reach out to everyone else who linked to the old page.
I interpret this to be essentially advocating WP:CIRCULAR and potentially very damaging. Worth a heads up. Carl Fredrik talk 20:00, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
EDIT 9/4/14 – GrowthAddict came out with a new tool called WikiGrabber, which can quickly find some of the dead link & citation needed opportunities. Be sure to check it out.
everything necessary-- There'sNoTime ( to explain) 08:04, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Combating this sort of spamming is an additional benefit of measures that help fight WP:LINKROT. The good news is that in the top-voted item in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey was support for a bot that is replacing dead links with links to the Internet Archive, as well as archiving live pages to guard against future linkrot. Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 12:40, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
In the ten years that I've been a Wikipedian I've seen numerous attempts to constructively engage with the marketing & pr industry, all to no avail, the problem just gets worse. Perhaps the time has come for us to openly declare the entire industry personae non grata and treat them as hostile by default? No more AGF or CIVIL - block and ban on sight, no discussion, no appeals, just f##k off - or am I just too angry right now? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:36, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
I've been part of a discussion on a user talk page, about the user gaining the page mover rights, and one editor stated that a draft should be speedy deleted after it is moved to the mainspace under CSD R2. However, I mentioned how R2 is actually only for the mainspace to other namespaces. I recalled that there was a RfC discussion a while back that ended up with the result of allowing redirects from the draft space to the mainspace after the former was moved to the latter. I'm not sure where to look for it, though - can anybody provide the link for it? Thanks. -- Alex TW 03:56, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
The meta:Closing projects policy is discussed at meta:Talk:Closing projects policy#This is not working. Please share your thoughts there. Thanks. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:14, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
The Moldovan Wikipedia, already closed for years, is proposed to be deleted and then transferred to Romanian Wikipedia. The proposal has gone on for three years, so please feel free to comment there. Thanks. -- George Ho ( talk) 22:56, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi!, I'm from gl.wiki and I need help to update Template:GeoGroup to our wiki. I have updated it at here (test version), and I tested it here, but the problem is that the tool to view coordinates at Google Maps doesn't work. If you try it, you get an error because the tool tries to get coordinates from the article at en.wiki instead of the article of gl.wiki. Can somebody help me? Thanks!, -- Elisardojm ( talk) 12:34, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Let me invite you to participate in a new edition challenge: Parliament Challenge. This is a writing contest to create or improve articles about Spanish parlament members. This year Spain celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first democratic elections after the dictatorship. More information at the page on meta. Thanks! -- Millars ( talk) 23:25, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
How old do I have to be to edit WɪᴋɪᴘᴇᴅɪA? From User:HotelFurbyFan1 ( talk • contribs • d. contribs) at 16:48, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
Greetings from zh-wiki.
Recently we are trying to implement the Wikipedia:Password strength requirements, and would like to enforce the password auditing like en-wiki. Where can I find information about that?
Hello everyone!!! I just nominated myself for BAG membership. Your participation would be appreciated.
Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/Cyberpower678 3— CYBERPOWER ( Message) 23:50, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.
This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi! It's the second week of our Cycle 3 discussion, and there's a new challenge: How could we capture the sum of all knowledge when much of it cannot be verified in traditional ways? You can suggest solutions here. You can also read a summary of discussions that took place in the past week. SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 12:28, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Alfred Nemours seems to have a problem with this word being used in various article titles (see [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], and [7], for examples). Rather than have the discussion in 20-30 different locations, I'm moving it here for convenience and to perhaps get more eyes on the discussion. Have at it. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 04:58, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
To the point, as I said here [8] not onlt do RS use the term in exactly the same way we are but (as I says here [9]) his definition of the work "attack" seems unique to him. Slatersteven ( talk) 09:29, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
I've noticed it's only ever articles covering domestic Islamic terrorism that brings about these sorts of accusations of bias. Note the articles above. Never domestic far right, Marxist, or foreign Islamic terrorism. I suspect this has something to do with Western political ideologies, and as such, to remove the word "attack" would be to impose an ideological viewpoint on Wikipedia. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 22:14, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Should be renamed articles:
-- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 15:56, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Can anybody tell what this documentary's name is, who made it and when? It has James Gerrand in it (a journalist who dedicated his life to documenting the Cambodian and Vietnamese wars).
It's not listed in the category:Documentary films about Cambodia or in category:Documentary films about the Cambodian genocide. It is clearly one sided, not showing the attrocities by the north and time and again hammering the US and its allies attrocities. But still it has the following important sections in it:
Thanks פשוט pashute ♫ ( talk) 22:37, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
I have authored 2 articles, and I wonder who will become the "owner" of those articles when I die?
Do I have the duty (or the right) to appoint someone to become the principle editor?
Dcj3616 ( talk) 00:32, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
The SVG armenian Wikipedia logo have truncated letters. Please, fix it.
-- 2001:B07:6442:8903:F156:DA41:5FE:5283 ( talk) 13:45, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Recently, a user page was nominated for deletion at MFD. I assume it was deleted. I didn't record the name of the page or the user. I happen to remember that it was approximately 300 K. The subject matter was ambitious — an attempt to document the history of everything. I'd like to take a look at it. Does anyone recall the name or have a suggestion on how to find it. I tried reviewing recent deletions in MFD but there's hundreds.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 15:29, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Geography : I don't get something about this landmark:
The article Architecture of Uzbekistan#Minaret of Kutlug-Timur reads this minaret is located in: "Another example of architectural work of 11th century is Minaret of Kutlug-Timur, located in Nukus city"...
Nukus city is located in Uzbekistan indeed but the minaret is located at 42.308593° 59.141729°, in Turkmenistan, in the city of Konye-Urgench, article where the minaret is mentioned! BlueChip — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AA13:6200:1080:7176:FFC9:571B:56F3 ( talk) 12:28, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi! It's the third week of our Cycle 3 discussion, and there's a new challenge: As Wikimedia looks toward 2030, how can we counteract the increasing levels of misinformation? You can suggest solutions here. Earlier challenges can be discussed as well. SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 19:22, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi! The movement strategy discussion is still underway, and there are four challenges that you may discuss:
The last, fifth challenge will be released on July, 25.
If you want to know what other communities think about the challenges, there's the latest weekly summary (July 10 to 16), and there's the previous one (July 1 to 9).
SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 14:53, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
I don't know which venue to discuss health benefits and/or risks of searching for offline sources, like books and microfilms. Nonetheless, I'll post here in case of doubt. I browsed offline sources, including old newspapers, to improve Cheers (season 1). I'll put it in another way: the 1982–83 Nielsen ratings were posted on originally newspapers, yet the Nielsen ratings either are poorly or are not replicated or republished online. Therefore, I had to search for the ratings on microfilm. I spent hours and days in local libraries all alone to search for them. Fortunately, I wrote notes based on my findings. Consequently, I just inserted information and offline sources done mostly by myself.
I've been thinking. What are health benefits and risks of browsing offline sources all by myself in order to improve Wikipedia? What about browsing them in collaboration with other people? -- George Ho ( talk) 15:16, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
I've been answering questions at the Teahouse for a long time and finally got around to formally signing up as a host on the nineteenth. I can't see my profile on the host page, though. Even weirder, the page history doesn't show me having edited it, even though my edit history does. Can you just not see your own profile? Or is some kind of bug at play? White Arabian Filly Neigh 19:10, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
I fixed an error in an article and someone reverted me, knowing that my father is a Black African, could this be racism? How should I handle it? Φράγκος Στάθης ( talk) 05:25, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
I can speak with absolute certainty that the editor in question did not know your racial background nor did they care. You have been here for 24 minutes and am already accusing people of racism against you; you dearly need to read WP:AGF. -- Golbez ( talk) 16:34, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
"American Viscose operated from 1910 to 1976, when it was renamed Avtex. Avtex closed in 1990." What disestablishment date should be used in the category, 1976 or 1990? -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 19:34, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
How to article „ Former Yugoslavia“ leads on article „ Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia“ to the part „12 Legacy“ not „2.8 Legacy“? -- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 14:13, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
There is currently an RFC open at Template_talk:Recent_death_Aboriginal_Aus concerning the use of templates and notices to comply with cultural sensitivities. Please feel free to drop by if interested. Thanks! Dane| Geld 21:07, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi all,
Copied from Wikipedia:Help desk:
Hi all,
Could we please put a net neutrality banner for all readers to see, similar to the fundraising banner?
- FCC is considering a law to allow US Internet providers to censor bandwidth price and slow down certain websites you visit.
- Please stop this by writing a letter to your representative today! (If you're outside of US, share with a friend.)
I am a foreigner; if you're able to word this more concisely, please do.
-- Gryllida ( talk) 00:15, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
- Hello Gryllida, hope you're well. As the Help Desk is for resolving issues related to editing, I should recommend that you may consider the Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) forum for posting your suggestion. Thanks. Lourdes 03:01, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
-- Gryllida ( talk) 05:15, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
There are only three days left (plus today) to take part in Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia strategy discussion. Insights to the last challenge our movement is facing has just been published. The challenge is: How does Wikimedia meet our current and future readers’ needs as the world undergoes significant population shifts in the next 15 years?
The previous challenges are:
On this page, you may read more, and suggest solutions to the challenges. Also, if you're interested in related discussions that are taking place on other wikis, please have a look at the weekly summaries: #1 (July 1 to 9), #2 (July 10 to 16), #3 (July 17 to 23).
In August, a broad consultation will take place, but it'll differ from what we've been conducting since March. This is your last chance to take part in such a discussion! SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 13:33, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
A few days ago, I posted a link here referring to an article where someone tried to goad people into posting self-qdvertising articles. I called this "interesting", but thought it an insult to (experienced) colleagues to point out how detrimental such practices are to Wikipedia. Apparently, I was wrong. Ironically, someone has accused me of "blatant advertising", while, as stated, my concern was of course the very opposite.
In my view, reading is not a superficial activity: it is the retrieval of meaning. Bessel Dekker ( talk) 11:16, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about the use of English DVD release dates as a substitute for English air dates at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga#Another issue with DVD release dates as air dates do to an issue that has cropped up on the Naruto: Shippuden episode lists. To summaries, an IP is inserting DVD release dates onto the lists as English air dates because the series stop airing on television midway through its original run. The last episode that was broadcast was episode 312, which aired on the linear Internet television service Neon Alley on September 26, 2015 before the service shutdown. All episodes afterward that point are only available in DVD box sets. — Farix ( t | c) 12:42, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to post this so I might as well do it here then others who are more familiar with such matters can take it further. Some might of course already know about this. "The British Library is offering over 1 million free vintage images for download". Digital Arts.. Hope it's useful. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 18:44, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I saw some people transcribing pages from other wikis. How is this done, if even possible? Thank you. Cheers, FriyMan Per aspera ad astra 07:18, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Genderqueer#Requested move 1 August 2017. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 00:59, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Yuma Soerianto, an article about a currently living child, was deleted ( [13]) via PROD because of the concern "I'm never comfortable on having articles on living children and I think this needs to be reviewed closely". Has this issue been discussed before? I know that Wikipedia:Minors and persons judged incompetent applies, but because the page is only an essay, more perspectives should be considered. I also wish to ask that because the topic appears notable and should be restored if there is no significant disagreement over its inclusion. 211.100.57.166 ( talk) 10:56, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Page Previews (aka Hovercards) is currently the most popular beta feature on all desktop projects. It provides a preview of an article upon hovering over a wiki link for users interested in gaining more context on a subject.
Over the past year, we have been improving our code and incorporating community feedback in the changes to the design and functionality of the feature. Currently, the feature is rolled out on all Wikipedias, except for English and German. Before proceeding with rollout discussions on these two wikis, we would like to schedule an A/B test of the feature to ensure that we can replicate the positive quantitative results from other wikis on this Wikipedia.
The test will be three weeks in length starting August 14. During the test, 1% of anonymous users would receive the feature by default. We will compare their usage to a control group of 1% of anonymous users who do not have the feature enabled. For logged-in users, no changes in functionality will be expected.
Please, let us know if you have any comments or concerns on the test. Thank you! CKoerner (WMF) ( talk) 16:22, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
At the beginning of this year, we initiated a broad discussion to form a strategic direction that will unite and inspire people across the entire movement. This direction will be the foundation on which we will build clear plans and set priorities. More than 80 communities and groups have discussed and gave feedback on-wiki, in person, virtually, and through private surveys [strategy 1] [strategy 2]. We researched readers and consulted more than 150 experts [strategy 3]. We looked at future trends that will affect our mission, and gathered feedback from partners and donors.
In July, a group of community volunteers and representatives from the strategy team took on a task of synthesizing this feedback into an early version of the strategic direction that the broader movement can review and discuss.
The first draft is ready. Please read, share, and discuss on the talk page. Based on your feedback, the drafting group will refine and finalize this direction through August.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 16:11, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
I do dispute resolution and have stumbled onto a case in which a move war was under way and a RM would go a long way to settling the problem, but the party wanting to change the title seems reluctant to file it and the other party does not, of course, want to do so. I'd like the community's view on this question: Would it be acceptable for me, as a neutral party, to start the RM without supporting or objecting to it and leave it up to the warring parties to either support or defend it? It could, of course, fall apart if the move proponent doesn't come in to support it, but that's probably unlikely. Let me note that the RM process, linked above, is clearly set up to be filed by an editor who wants the move. What do y'all think? Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 17:08, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I created this entry almost a month ago: Mosul liberation yet it doesn't show up in Google search results at all. What's the problem? -- Expectant of Light ( talk) 07:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
The German Primetals Technologies links to the English Primetals Technologies. However, Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau links to a German article which redirects to the German Primetals article. The content in the German article is essentially the same as the content of both English articles, but there was a discussion of sorts that led to most of the information being moved from the English Siemens VAI article to Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau. For the German Siemens Vai article there was a redirect to Primetals instead. I don't believe the Primetals article in English should have the historical information because it's essentially a merger of two companies. Is there some way to link to the English Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau from German?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:19, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
[[:de:Primetals Technologies]]
, which produces
de:Primetals Technologies. You can pipe that link like so: [[:de:Primetals Technologies|Primetals Technologies]]
=
Primetals Technologies.
Ivanvector (
Talk/
Edits) 21:31, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
The problem, of course, is that de:Primetals Technologies has all the content in Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau and the German article with the name closest to that also redirects to the same German article.
I don't think we really want that in English and I question whether it was the right way to go in German, because Primetals is a new company that combined two other companies. Someone who is now blocked (leading me to wonder if I did the right thing) suggested all the history from Siemens VAI go to the other article, and then Siemens VAI merged with the other company to form Primetals. I made the change, which means the Siemens article has very little actual content. I proposed a merger which would supposedly solve the problem, but I'm not sure what is the right thing to do.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:25, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
When did Wikipedia change to allow editors to post in Archives? What was the rationale for this? Is there a protocol or etiquette to follow when adding to or editing archived discussions???-- Jack Upland ( talk) 18:28, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Lately, I have noticed an increased number of such articles being nominated for deletion, mostly for failing WP:GNG (examples include Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denmark at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tennis at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Three-cushion billiards at the 2017 World Games – men's singles). While I personally have no strong feeling about such articles, I think such nominations are possibly problematic, since we literally have thousands of articles, all of them in the same format and usually with the same amount of sources (or lack thereof). There is WP:NOLY as a guideline already but it only applies to Olympic Games, not others. Should we have an RFC on whether such articles should exist? Again, no real interest, just bringing it to wider attention to avoid a potential overwhelming of AFD. Regards So Why 11:05, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
at
" to narrow down results. Seems to me that such topics are subject to notability rules. --
George Ho (
talk) 15:17, 11 August 2017 (UTC)Should be renamed articles:
-- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 14:23, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library team are happy to announce the migration of our free research access signups to the Library Card platform! The Library Card is a centralised location for signing up to all of the free resources available through the library - now totalling over 60 publishers and databases offering access to more than 80,000 paywalled periodicals to help you research and find citations for Wikipedia articles. On-wiki signup pages have been archived, and all future signups will be coordinated on the platform.
Log in directly with your Wikipedia account via OAuth, and if you find resources that would be useful to you, please sign up! Ongoing development will be occurring for the site, so please let us know if you run into any error messages or unexpected behaviour. You can flag bugs directly on Phabricator.
Later this year we'll be integrating an authentication system, enabling direct access to resources using your Wikipedia login. No more need to remember separate logins for each website! We'll also be using this system to allow automated no-application-required access to a subset of partners, and integrating it with a search tool to make it easier to figure out which aggregator or publisher has the content you need! Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 20:28, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello, your input would be appreciated at this RfC about how we should give references for the "Airlines and destinations" tables of articles about airports. Thank you. — Sunnya343✈ ( háblame • my work) 11:44, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
Please go to Talk:2017#Eclipse and respond to the discussion of whether or not the eclipse should have an entry in the main article. Thank you. — Myk Streja (beep) 21:21, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
I am requesting discussion at the dispute resolution noticeboard talk page about advice for how to deal with editors who have difficulty in English. The question in particular is about editors who are involved in a content dispute but cannot explain clearly what they want changed. Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:23, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
I honestly have no idea where to take this, plus it is probably not really important. But I noticed on Sheng Siong a series of minor edits by anon accounts with some really odd edit summaries. Just wanted to get some opinions on wtf is going on? Bakilas ( talk) 12:54, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello! 16 days ago I got a notification that this page that I had created months ago was reviewed. But despite that, the page still doesn't show up in google results. What might be the problem? -- Expectant of Light ( talk) 09:34, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
Call for papers deadline extended
More info: http://www.wikibrasil.org/projetos/iwsc_en/
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-international-wikipedia-scientific-conference-tickets-36418854775
Rodrigo Padula ( talk) 12:10, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Recently, I noticed that a few IP editors were making edits to pages such as Wall Street, Midtown, BRICS, and Moscow International Business Centre. Then these IP editors would almost immediately undo their own edits without any edit summary or explanation whatsoever for either of these edits. All these edits are invariably major edits with >500 bytes being modified and complex edits to tables, citations, and templates, so it's probably not just some newbie testing stuff. Is this considered disruptive editing? Because if so, I intend to report it to either WP:AIV or WP:RPP.
The users in question are 79.69.137.195 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), 79.69.128.4 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), and 92.22.162.164 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). epicgenius ( talk) 15:13, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Editing tests by experimenting usersat this page (nb. even if it's probably not "newbie testing" it's worth assuming good faith and going through the warnings) -- There'sNoTime ( to explain) 15:16, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello... I am a user editor in Arabic Wikipedia and I sorry for disturbing you but I have a question...
Can you tell me why the article named " Persian Gulf"? because the Arabian Coast is much longer than Persian Coast, and the Arabs have a very long history with this Gulf; where the Arabs put oil and gas fields more than the Persians, and that its coastal population is more than the population of the Persian coast. It is true that the ancient maps are written in the Persian Sea, but the Arabs benefited from it more than the Persians, and even put the name of the " Arabian Gulf" on Google Maps, and a vote was taken to change the name of the " Arabian Gulf" to the " Persian Gulf" on Google's maps, and the majority vote was rejected.
I ask any administrator or anyone to read my message, thank you and I wish you good luck -- A3bdula3ziz ( talk) 19:30, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
In 2017, we initiated a broad discussion to form a strategic direction that will unite and inspire Wikimedians. This direction will be the foundation on which we will build clear plans and set priorities. More than 80 communities and groups discussed and gave feedback [strategy 1] [strategy 2] [strategy 3]. We researched readers and consulted more than 150 experts [strategy 4]. We looked at future trends that will affect our mission, and gathered feedback from partners and donors.
A group of community volunteers and representatives from the strategy team synthesized this feedback into an early version of the strategic direction that the broader movement can review and discuss.
The second version of the direction is ready. Again, please read, share, and discuss on the talk page on Meta. Based on your feedback, the drafting group will refine and finalize the direction.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 10:07, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Some of us who are in desperate need of a life have been active on Wikipedia for a long while may remember that the servers are located in Tampa, Florida. And we may also be aware that the latest projections for Hurricane Irma predict its course directly over Tampa, Florida. So if you're concerned about some serious downtime, you have reason to be.
Fortunately, if you are concerned about the servers in Tampa, it's because you are a bit behind on the news. (Between Gamergate & WMF crises, you can be excused for missing this bit of information. I know I hadn't heard of this news.) The Foundation servers moved to Ashburn, Virginia back in January 2013. [14] Which means that Wikipedia has a better chance of staying up 99.999% of the time. And safe from hurricanes. -- llywrch ( talk) 06:36, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
Do we have a policy on linking to Sci-Hub in citations? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:30, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Looking up
Brigitte Macron recently, I see that her article has an {{Infobox officeholder}}
for the "office" of "Spouse of the President of the French Republic", in which she is shown as the "Incumbent". Similarly for
Philip May and
Melania Trump, whereas
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has an ordinary {{Infobox person}}
. Those are the ones I thought to check; I have not attempted to see which one is more commonly used throughout Wikipedia. I also don't know if there is an easy way to determine all the offices that {{Infobox officeholder}}
is being used for.
Anyway, I suggest that "spouse of the head of government" is not an office, should not use {{Infobox officeholder}}
, and should not have the word "incumbent" applied to it. Either the regular {{Infobox person}}
should be used for these articles or else there should be a separate type of infobox specifically either (1) for spouses of officeholders, or else perhaps (2) for all positions that are held by one person at a time but are not offices.
I am not interested in pursuing this issue myself; I hope that someone else reading this will be. Feel free to copy this message to a more appropriate project page if there is one. -- 69.159.60.147 ( talk) 03:45, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
People may be interested in the new information page Wikipedia:Rough guide to extended confirmed protection, which has been created by a number of users.
The feeling was that consensus had built up around use of ECP but this had not been documented anywhere, causing confusion. This page could be seen as a parallel for Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection.
Being an information page, the aim is to document the consensus that has developed, not to set out anything new. If editors don't like certain aspects of that consensus then I would see this information page as a useful prompt for discussion.
I have only just moved the page into WP space, so any comments or edits will be gratefully received.
Yaris678 ( talk) 10:46, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
This help desk question explains the problem. The person wasn't merely asking how to edit a protected article. The heading of the question makes it clear even the talk page is protected.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:21, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
There is a deletion discussion for {{ Cite_Q}} which would benefit from having high participation. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 10:57, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding " requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."
Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.
Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 21:06, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
I recently (11 September) made two internal Wiktionary links, thinking this was correct. The reverting editor (13 September) failed to give reasons/guidance at the edit summary, and has failed to respond to a polite request for reasons at their talk page, but has logged-in since and I want to get on top of it without waiting further.
Apologies if approaching the Pump seems a cop-out instead of doing lengthy research on a minor point, but if someone could confirm what the issue is here - for example - are Wiktionary links becoming deprecated - then I would be obliged. I admit the links look clumsy, but I didn't write the template, and I was thinking of the readers, including non-English first speakers when writing the original prose with Wiktionary links. Many thanks! Semperito ( talk) 09:25, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
In the case of well-heeled, the film character is a well-established scrap-metal dealer, historically notorious in UK society for business practices using cash and having large disposable incomes; the character has a good, well-groomed appearance, an expensively accessorised motor scooter and fine clothing including a long, tailored leather overcoat, whereas the lead film character is young, with a base-level office job and pays weekly in advance towards a new, tailored cloth suit, covered with an ex-army Parka, as was the vogue at the time; well-heeled covered all aspects of what I needed, as did remonstrated.
I couldn't think of anything better at the time of writing, and I would've preferred to know the deleting editor's motivations, who chose not to replace the words. I am always conscious of the needs of, for example, people in, or originating from, near-Europe who may have a good grasp of English language but may need assistance that a wiktionary link could provide. I'll try to find synonyms to 'dumb it down'. Semperito ( talk) 14:48, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
sadly, Wiwaxia passed away on February 25, 2017.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/christopher-gikas-obituary?pid=1000000184323976&view=guestbook. he will be missed
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Not quite sure where to put this, so I figure here is better than nowhere. I was viewing a Difference between revisions on the MoS when a bubble appeared in the top right with the question "Would you click on this page when searching for 'half adder truth table'?" and the options "Yes", "No", and "I don't know", as well as a link to wmf:Search Relevance Survey Privacy Statement. This was the first time I'd ever seen something like this, and I was confused by the wording. While copying the text, I accidentally clicked inside the bubble but outside the options, dismissing it, but now that I understand what it was asking, I want to say for the record that I highly doubt I would click on a diff page of the MoS when searching for 'half adder truth table'. ReGuess ( talk) 16:11, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
Discussion on synced reading lists
Hello,
To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.
In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.
The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.
Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.
Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:
More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.
Thank you
CKoerner (WMF) ( talk) 20:35, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
This is probably the wrong place but I've had enough find Permit A 38 for today.
Anyway, someone knowledgable with a neutral POV should probably have a look at /info/en/?search=Zimbabwe_African_National_Liberation_Army and its sources and at least delete the unsourced parts. -- 2A02:8071:B693:BE00:D814:5296:7CAE:AD4F ( talk) 17:43, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm not sure it's the right place to ask, but here it is anyway. English is not my mother tongue and I didn't find by myself. I have a seen 2605:E000:9161:A500:34F4:4D6D:1063:30AF ( talk · contribs) is repeatedly making the same change (see title), and out of curiosity I would like to know fore sure which one is correct. Google has hits for both ( [17], [18]). Maybe an american/british english difference? Does anybody have a definitive explanation about this?
Kiwipidae ( talk) 05:57, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
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Dear colleagues, please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for Wikimedia Conference Russia 2017 announcement (Russian globally + other languages for readers from Russia). Thank you.-- Frhdkazan ( talk) 16:29, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Maproom said in responding to this help desk question that only one English language article can link to the corresponding article in another language. I asked about this before but from the point of view of the other language. I thought I had found the solution but the German article Siemens VAI does not link to the English article Siemens VAI. I have proposed, but gotten no response, that because the German Siemens VAI is a redirect to Primetals Technologies, and the English Siemens VAI has no content that seems worthwhile, the English article should redirect to Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau (in German, a redirect to the German Primetals) and content from the Siemens article should go there or in the English Primetals Technologies. This would be the only solution since it doesn't seem possible for the German Wikipedia to link to the current English Siemens VAI.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:00, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hello!
The
PD-textlogo banner was already present in the permission field of the infobox for the 1996+
Freightliner logo, so I reused it as main banner for the license section (although it appears to be an old version of the template?): the logo was formerly misdated as a 1942 version, giving it then the
PD-US-not renewed banner. Was it the right way to go about it? --
BarnCas (
talk) 11:10, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
As phase one of the Wikimedia movement strategy process nears its close with the strategic direction being finalized, my contractor role as a coordinator is ending too. I am returning to my normal role as a volunteer ( Tar Lócesilion) and wanted to thank you all for your participation in the process.
The strategic direction should be finalized on Meta late this weekend. The planning and designing of phase 2 of the strategy process will start in November. The next phase will again offer many opportunities to participate and discuss the future of our movement, and will focus on roles, resources, and responsibilities.
Thank you, SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 12:29, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
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It seems there was in the past a dashboard system which allowed to see in one glance the use of an image across wikipedia linguistic version, with a display providing results across an entire category. We can not find that tool anymore, nor an equivalent. Does that suggest anything to anyone ? Any tool to suggest that would provide something a bit similar ? Thanks Anthere ( talk)
The project is centred on UTM coordinates 510,000 E 7,350,000 N (UTM WGS 84). Where is this in lat/long coordinates?-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 15:15, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Please share & contribute to: m:Requests for comment/Global ban of INeverCry. -- 78.53.71.61 ( talk) 11:00, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
When archiving references in an article, should ALL the references (live and dead) be archived, or only the dead ones? I raised this question at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Archiving live links - Redux, and referenced an earlier discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 11#Archiving links not dead - good idea?. There was not much response at the bots talk page, so I thought Village Pump might be a more appropriate place to discuss this; after all it involves Wikipedia-wide practices. Here's the issue: The default setting of a tool like IABot v1.5.2 is to archive only the dead links, but some people are choosing the option to archive all the references. This practice came to my attention with this edit to the article Barack Obama: someone using the IABot v1.5.2 archived 392 references, adding 74,894 bytes to the article, and increasing its already huge size by 22.6%, from 330,241 to 405,135 bytes. (The user reverted at my request.) Do people think this kind of outcome is a good thing? Should some kind of consensus be developed, as to when and whether to use the "rescue all" option? -- MelanieN ( talk) 15:38, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
Here's another example: Someone did a total archiving of the 79 references at 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting - an article which is only five days old and had no dead links. [19] Half an hour later, someone reverted as "unnecessary archiving". [20] This is a practice that is not generally accepted and is a source of annoyance to many. -- MelanieN ( talk) 05:29, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Some years ago I created a set of Wikimania attendee userboxes. It occurs to me that I should let people know these exist!
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk, Poland. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, Israel. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C., United States. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong, China. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2014 in London, United Kingdom. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, Mexico. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, Canada. |
Cheers! bd2412 T 04:33, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Also, introducing the "plans to attend" userbox for Wikimania 2018 through 2025.
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden. |
Cheers again! bd2412 T 13:28, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
I am confused by how Wikipedia chooses its "related articles" to link to in mobile view ... and I can not figure out how to edit them.
To give the specifics that bring me here: I was reading our article on the actress Molly McGreevey (who happens to be a relative of mine). At the bottom of the page (in mobile view) are several links to "related articles". Included are links to the articles on her husband (the Actor Earl Hindman, and her Grandfather (the businessman Augustus G. Paine, Jr.)... both of which seem appropriate ... But there is also a link to the article on former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey... and there is absolutely no connection between Jim and Molly.
I tried to edit the link, but can not figure out how to do so. These "related articles" don't appear anywhere in edit mode (neither in desktop view nor mobile view) ... and I don't think this is another Wikidata insertion (it isn't there either). So... two questions: 1) how does mobile view determine what articles are "related" (and thus linked)? 2) and how does one edit "related articles" that may be inappropriate? Blueboar ( talk) 14:12, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
{{#related:}}
. See
mw:Extension:RelatedArticles.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 14:40, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Where at Wikipedia can one find what word or name has the most redlinks, and second-most, and third-most, etc. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 04:32, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage.
I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias).
For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to English Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make English Wikipedia much more multicultural.
Here is the link of the project proposal: meta:Grants:Project/Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory (WCDO)
I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the English Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com
I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it.
Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :).
If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time!
Best regards,
-- Marcmiquel ( talk) 13:19, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Hi all
I've started a first draft of an document on Wikidata explaining how and why Wikidata data can be used on other Wikimedia projects e.g as a way to organise work on a subject, or in infoboxes. Please can you take a look and add any thoughts to the talk page. I very much want to get the perspectives of both Wikidata contributors and people who are unfamiliar with Wikidata.
Many thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 09:04, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
...which I'll never understand, I'm afraid: can one of you link our Monte Cassino to the German de:Abtei Montecassino? Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 16:07, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
There has been a Request for Comment for a discussion regarding the technical level of pages that wall into the Dinosaur and Paleontology WikiProjects. All editors who have currently commented are regular editors of the projects and probably have a higher level of technical knowlegde than the average reader or editor. Any discussion of input from a more layman on the topic would be appreciated. RfC Discussion:
Thanks, IJReid {{ T - C - D - R}} 04:01, 12 October 2017 (UTC) on behalf of WP:DINO
It takes me to a facsimile of /info/en/?search=Main_Page. Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 13:56, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
This issue has sought a forum at ANI (introduced by Antimanipulator: permlink) and the conflict of interest noticeboard (introduced by me, Bri: permlink) without effect. It's an issue I think the wider community should have a chance to weigh in on. A summary of the circumstances is a not-yet-peer-reviewed working paper coming from academics at MIT and University of Pittsburgh. In a nutshell, the paper involved graduate students creating new Wikipedia articles over a period of years and observing the results on other media. It is not clear to me what was the source of funding for the experiment, whether or not the graduate students were compensated explicitly for the articles, and which individual or individuals operated the account ( Carolineneil) that appears to have introduced the material to Wikipedia. My concerns are as follows.
I'm closing the COIN discussion so that things can continue here with wider participation, and wider consideration of concerns beyond conflict of interest. ☆ Bri ( talk) 15:42, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
I don't entirely understand the concern about this incident as paid editing, although I consider myself to be a strong opponent of commercial paid editing. The phrase "paid editing" is sometimes thrown around idly when the real target should be more precisely promotional paid editing. There is one type of "paid editing" that is actually desirable, and that is editing by professors in their areas of expertise, in order to incorporate existing knowledge into Wikipedia. The only times that paid editing by professors is problematic is if the professor is either promoting their university, or also receiving a grant that makes the professor non-neutral (e.g., a biology professor who is also receiving a grant from a pharmacological or agri-chemical company). This does not appear to be a case of promotional paid editing, and I think the use of the phrase "paid editing" distracts from the fact that this is a different problem than paid editing. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
By the way, the chemistry articles appeared to me to be valid chemistry, and I have a degree in chemistry. I declined some of them because they were inadequately referenced and seriously underlinked. The underlinking may mean that they were written off-line as papers, not originally intended for Wikipedia, and only needed working for Wikipedia. The statistics content also appeared to be valid statistics, and I have studied statistics. What struck me as peculiar was that the author never replied to any comments, and that the author never even appeared to be reviewing the state of the drafts. Drafts were being submitted, and declined as already in Wikipedia, with the suggestion that the existing article be updated if appropriate, and new copies of the drafts were being submitted again exactly as they had been. I did wonder whether there was some sort of experiment in the use of Wikipedia, and there was, although not exactly what I thought. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
I think that the next step should be to revise the policy on what Wikipedia is not to include "Wikipedia is not a laboratory". I will propose specific wording for an addition, and it will state that the use of Wikipedia for any sort of experiment is forbidden, and that editors who are using Wikipedia as any sort of experiment will be banned. (We have had occasional breaching experiments in vandalism or the inclusion of patent nonsense, and those editors have been indeffed as not here constructively, but this is a more subtly improper experiment.) Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Above, it is said that only one account was used, by one person, but that the texts were written by different people (from different scientific backgrounds). is there any evidence that these people agreed to have their text published on Wikipedia, with the Wikipedia license and so on? Without evidence of such permission, the person posting this here has violated the copyright of the individual authors, meaning that all contributions should be deleted. Fram ( talk) 10:13, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
In my view the worst thing that happened here, was
These articles aren't class assignments. They're part of a project, with Dario Taraborelli at Wikimedia, to bring more advanced scientific content to Wikipedia. There were extensive discussions with Dario before the creation of these articles. -- User: Carolineneil.That is the definition of NOTHERE not to mention arrogant as hell. If they would have taken a different approach, a bunch of the time of the editing community would not have been wasted, and their contribs would have been more productive. (the whole section that snippet is from, is here)
As a general rule, the Foundation is not in a position to "approve" or "decline" individual research proposals, unless there are security or legal reasons to escalate them. Editorial decisions about content, in particular, are not an area the Foundation has any say about. The authors reached out at the time of the proposal to ask about best practices to follow in setting up the proposal and two WMF staffers ( Aaron Halfaker and I) advised them on discussing and documenting it in the appropriate spaces....-- the WMF was indeed aware of this. What Dario wrote in that note is pretty different from Carolineneil wrote, but .. whatever. Whatever was said in those "extensive discussions" didn't translate to any kind of respect for the editing community's time and work, nor any effort to get prior consensus, and Dario didn't communicate the information to the editing community either.
What happened is frankly stupid and completely avoidable (and in my view, another expresssion of WMF staffers' apparent lack of understanding of the work the editing community does maintaining content and of the importance of consensus here). I am hopeful that the effort to establish WP:NOTLABORATORY will succeed, but we also need to commmunicate clearly to WMF what it should do with this kinds of requests, and what they should do with information they have about people's intentions. (It kills me that the people doing the experiment tried to reach out to what they thought was someone "here" but it took two years, three ANIs, and the paper being published for the editing community to finally understand on its own what had been happening.
So, should we advise the WMF to inform us when they learn about planned experiments like this and if so how? And Dario - when you say "appropriate spaces", which spaces are those, exactly? What advice did you give them? thx Jytdog ( talk) 19:41, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi for Lob (haircut) could you help me to expend the article ? -- Panam2014 ( talk) 13:08, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Please tell me the font for "Wikipedia" below the globe.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 01:02, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
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In the news today Joshua Boyle, a prolific wikipedia contributor, who was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, for five years, was rescued earlier this morning.
Boyle made something like 70,000 edits, from late 2004 to late 2010, his focus including topics related to terrorism and counter-terrorism.
During the course of his research he met, and later married, Omar Khadr's sister Zaynab Khadr. After their divorce Boyle married an American, Caitlin Coleman, and the pair embarked on a trip around the world, stopping off to work for non-governmental organizations. In October 2012 the pair were kidnapped by the Haqqani Network. Their kidnappers demanded the release of members of their family and other leaders of their network, who faced death sentences, in Afghanistan.
Several videos of Boyle and Coleman were released. Family members found it chilling that they could hear the sounds of the shackles they were wearing, in the video. Coleman bore three children, during their time in captivity, Boyle helping deliver his children, in the dark, with the aid of a flashlight. In his letters to his family Boyle described trying to play the game of " Beautiful Life", with his children -- referring to the Italian film where a father tries to hide the horror of living in a Nazi death camp from his young son, by pretending all the horrific elements were part of a game.
At one time Boyle, Coleman, and several other American captives were part of the negotiation that saw Bowe Bergdahl swapped for the Taliban Five. Former special forces leader Jason Amerine testified before a Congressional Committee over his frustration over his superiors losing interest in rescuing them.
Boyle was injured by shrapnel, during the rescue.
So, one of our own is safe again. Geo Swan ( talk) 18:51, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
I have a couple of resource subscription that came through Wikipedia (High beam, British Library etc.). But, since I am pretty inactive these days and free subscriptions are a rare commodity, is it possible to transfer my subscription to somebody else? Somebody who could do more justice to the subscriptions. There's a long waiting list, if I am not wrong.
p.s. I will be applying again for the subscriptions when I come back in my full capacity. Aditya( talk • contribs) 06:08, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I will be organising a Wikipedia photo competition "Wiki Love Emirates" in the UAE from 20th October to 20th November. We are planning to run a CN banner for the users/visitors on English Wikipedia from the UAE during the competition period. If anyone have any suggestion or concerns, please raise here. -- Saqib ( talk) 08:54, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Can an uninvolved editor please classify the article on Fur bikini of Raquel Welch? Aditya( talk • contribs) 19:18, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
On December 6th 2017 Finland will celebrate her 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, Wikimedia Suomi organises a public editing competition during November. The goal of this is to improve and translate articles from a list of 100 topics related to Finland into as many languages as possible. Subjects range from Jari Litmanen to Finnish sauna, from Tove Jansson to Maternity package. The list is here.
To participate, create an account in Wikipedia (if you do not have one yet), and register on this page. Winners will receive prizes, other participants may be granted other levels of recognition.
Welcome to participate ! -- Tappinen ( talk) 15:35, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Should we allow Viz., as in ... three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian National Science Academy, in the article A. M. Jayannavar? I initially thought it should be changed, but perhaps there is Wikipedia advice on it. I know Ibid. and Op. Cit. are discouraged.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 02:16, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
In Architecture of Seattle, I really want to be able to say that Seattle's Columbia Center is the second-tallest building on the U.S. West Coast, surpassed only by the U.S. Bank Tower (Los Angeles). Looking at List of tallest buildings in the United States, this is obviously true, but under our rules against original research and synthesis, I don't see how to cite for it. (I have a couple of other similar citation issues, but this one seems the most clearcut.) - Jmabel | Talk 06:45, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
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I am working on an article on Mustang, Nepal here. I have some tables, and I have the data for more tables. But, I am afraid I need some help to format those tables. Where can I go and ask for some help? Aditya( talk • contribs) 05:16, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Hoi, currently the practice at en.wp is to have the categories for college sports as a subcategory for the category of the alumni of that college. However, there is no one on one relation between the two. It is better when the categories for college sports are subcategories of the category of the college. It also follows that any athlete that is also an alumni should be included in both categories.
At Wikidata we do harvest these categories. Personally I am interested in the alumni and sports is not what I am interested in. Thanks, GerardM ( talk) 10:19, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi
Is there some kind of guidance available on delaing with two people who have the same name and have the same profession (who are both notable for their profession)? I'm specifically interested in this for David Pratt (footballer) and David Pratt (footballer).
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 13:15, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Perfect, thanks Uanfala and John of Reading. John Cummings ( talk) 14:52, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
The photo of Alla Rakha appears to be reversed. In fact, the person posting the photo added a caption saying, "(he was right handed unlike shown here)". I did some checking and, indeed, the position of his hands in relation to drums is opposite to every other photo of him on the web. If somebody knows how to fix this, be my guest.-- Toploftical ( talk) 18:26, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Today I learnt that the automated edit summaries for redirecting and creating articles are usually quite informative ( some examples) - more so than edit summaries I've used in the past (iirc, for creation, I usually just type "create" or "creating"). Two issues/questions:
Thanks for any incoming info and opinions,
Samsara 14:49, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi fellas. I'm not fluent in English at 100% but I'm not sure if one particular sentence is actually correct. Anonymous IP 75.172.71.60 introduced the sentence "which it also was named as" in the article Prehistoric Beast ( there's the diff) and I was wondering if it is proper English. Is it? Thank you in advance. Kintaro ( talk) 22:26, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deferred changes is a proposed feature that has received unanimous support for implementation. While development appeared to be active in December last year, the project appears to have been abandoned. The main developer, Cenarium, has not edited Wikipedia since April and the page tracking the development of the project has not been edited since December last year. Would it be appropriate to propose the completion of this project in the m:2017 Community Wishlist Survey? Thanks, Darylgolden( talk) Ping when replying 13:52, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Self-nominations for the 2017 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections are now open. The nomination period runs from Sunday 00:00, 12 November (UTC) until Tuesday 23:59, 21 November 2017 (UTC). Editors interested in running should review the eligibility criteria listed at the top of Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2017/Candidates, then create a candidate page by following the instructions there. Mz7 ( talk) 06:58, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
On the Main page, "In the Icelandic parliamentary election, the Independence Party win the most seats." That should be ...wins... or ...won..., but I don't know how that can be fixed.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 16:21, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello all,
The Interaction Timeline alpha version is ready for testing. The Anti-Harassment Tools team appreciates you spending a few minutes to try out the tool and let us know if there is value in displaying the interactions in a vertical timeline instead of the approach used with the existing interaction analysis tools.
Also we interested in learning about which additional functionality or information we should prioritize developing.
Comments can be left on the discussion page here or on meta. Or you can share your ideas by email.
Thank you,
For the Anti-Harassment Tools Team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 20:34, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Why is there Category:North American winters but not Category:North American springs, Category:North American summers, or Category:North American autumns? 98.197.198.46 ( talk) 00:22, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
We are supposed to be a reference source, not a self-promoting Business.
So it is inappropriate to force information on people, particularly as self-advertising.
Last month it was 'Wiki loves monuments', now it is 'Wiki loves Asia'.
Who is doing it? Who wants it? Can it be stopped? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnWheater ( talk • contribs) 08:43, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that fivebooks.com is on a Wikipedia blacklist. I know not a great deal about this site, but it looks OK to me. How do I find out the reason for the blacklist? ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 18:03, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.
Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.
For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.
The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.
Thank you!
CKoerner (WMF) ( talk) 22:07, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
I have discovered a confusing situation for anyone who searches Wikipedia for "Duchess of Sutherland". The intended target of my search was Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, notable for her role in the Highland Clearances, but instead you get a redirect to Duke of Sutherland. There is a disambiguation page for people with this title: Duchess of Sutherland (disambiguation), but the redirect means that you never find it (unless you make a typing mistake, as I did).
(Another notable Duchess of Sutherland was Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland - notable for her position of influence, not just having a title.)
Sutherland (disambiguation) does not mention any females with a "Sutherland" title - one would expect, perhaps, to see "Countess of Sutherland", "Duchess of Sutherland" and, since many contemporary and historical sources talk about both these 2 titles in this way, "Lady Sutherland".
I note that "Countess of Sutherland" redirects to Earl of Sutherland. This is not helpful if you do not know that a Countess is the female counterpart of an Earl.
Two thoughts on this:
(1) It is difficult to use Wikipedia to find anyone with one of these female titles (because you have to search through each article that you arrive in to find what you want - and note the Countess/Earl situation mentioned above).
(2) It seems to be a sexist policy to refer those with a Wikipedia article on them to the page of their husband or a male holder of the equivalent title.
I am guessing that there is some biography convention on dealing with this. Has it been applied in this case? If yes, are the rules appropriate? Is this a matter that should be in the "policy section"? ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 23:03, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Probably this is not the forum to seek such help, but Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Isa ali pantami has been lying around for sometime without any hope of further participation. Please, people, take a look at the discussion. Aditya( talk • contribs) 19:04, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Currently we're down to the last several thousand Neelix redirects (we just passed the 2 year mark!) and a small chunk of those remaining are Greek language. If someone who knows Greek would care to take a look through them, they're here; if you're not familiar with redirects and/or the ongoing Neelix cleanup efforts, read over the instructions at RfD and WP:X1. It'd be hugely appreciated. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 02:31, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
I remember asking in village pump a long time ago what would happen if the Queen dies but I can't find it in the archives. Anyway, the reason I asked this is because she would most likely be succeeded by a male monarch, but many articles use "the Queen" (including article titles like Queen's Counsel) to refer to the monarch and a lot of changes will have to be done (probably manually because bots can't tell where the word has to be substituted for "King"). Now though my question is what foreseeable event will cause the most trouble for Wikipedia and would require the largest number of manual changes to articles. The Average Wikipedian ( talk) 02:53, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Category:Entertainment events by year has been newly created. It already existed earlier in some other wikis such as the German and Dutch version. By the way I was really amazed that category:Events by year has actually been deleted - what's the idea behind this? It exists on all other wikis, see d:Q7214926. The Wiki ghost ( talk) 17:39, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
I, and judging from my watchlist a lot of other people, have just been spammed with a mess age about the "Women in Red World Contest". No indication who sent it or why it was sent to me. The only link is to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest which does not tell me why I received it. I would normally as the sender but the message was unsigned, and I can hardly complain to the bot (and the bot offers no way to find out who is sending these messages).-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 03:25, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
@ Ser Amantio di Nicolao: You also somehow ended up targeting subpages like User talk:Koavf/Userboxes. You should look over your edits. ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:56, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
The FCC here in the US is about to change the net neutrality regulations. What does this mean for Wikipedia and our access to it? Jcwf ( talk) 05:37, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
We are looking forward to bringing Wikipedia to more people in the coming years. Cheers, — Dispenser 16:06, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
I find File:Stop hand.svg, File:Stop hand nuvola.svg, and their derivatives overused and bitey. Can we try to replace them with more appropriate images? KMF ( talk) 04:15, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
The other day I was editing a section and I wanted to insert an "e" with an acute mark, so I selected "Latin" from the drop down list below the editing textbox, and I saw a bunch of various letters. That's good. But I found it hard to distinguish between certain letters, like an "e" with a grave mark versus an "e" with an acute mark, for example. So I idly hover the mouse cursor over the letters, and I then noticed that all of them have the same alt text that reads "Click on the character or tag to insert it into the edit window". It would be really nice to have each show exactly what it is, like "Click on this character to insert a lower case e with an acute accent" for example. I would imagine this would be helpful to those with some vision problems as well. By the way, I had to use the magnifier program to view the characters in question and picked the right one. So...what do you think of that? I expect it to be a fairly easy fix, say one week top :-) -- TheBlueWizard ( talk) 18:27, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
I don't know where to report this, but IMDB is discontinuing (most) of their character entries on December 6. A quick survey shows that there are at least 2000 links, at least some of them (probably incorrectly) used as references. I don't know what we can do. A bot marking all of them in article-space as dead? In any case, I don't know what board to report this to. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
The way the current donation drive is being handled is very annoying. After closing the large donation-request banner at the top of the Main Page, I have had to close smaller versions that slide in from the side on four other occasions (basically, every time I visit a new page). Dismissing the side-box once should be sufficient to get the point across that the user does not wish to donate at this time. We should not be hounding users incessantly about donating, otherwise they might elect to avoid Wikipedia entirely (at least while donation drives are under way). - 72.182.55.186 ( talk) 21:25, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
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Has this been brought to the attention of people?
Essentially what is being argued for here is to replace dead-links with your own page in order to drive traffic. I'm bringing this up following a discussion at WT:MED where a user was doing just that.
An especially troublesome quote:
Plus, you can often take a bit of a shortcut building this content and doing outreach. For dead links specifically, you can take the (now dead) URL, head over to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and look to see what the linked-to resource used to look like. Build something better, then reach out to everyone else who linked to the old page.
I interpret this to be essentially advocating WP:CIRCULAR and potentially very damaging. Worth a heads up. Carl Fredrik talk 20:00, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
EDIT 9/4/14 – GrowthAddict came out with a new tool called WikiGrabber, which can quickly find some of the dead link & citation needed opportunities. Be sure to check it out.
everything necessary-- There'sNoTime ( to explain) 08:04, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Combating this sort of spamming is an additional benefit of measures that help fight WP:LINKROT. The good news is that in the top-voted item in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey was support for a bot that is replacing dead links with links to the Internet Archive, as well as archiving live pages to guard against future linkrot. Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 12:40, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
In the ten years that I've been a Wikipedian I've seen numerous attempts to constructively engage with the marketing & pr industry, all to no avail, the problem just gets worse. Perhaps the time has come for us to openly declare the entire industry personae non grata and treat them as hostile by default? No more AGF or CIVIL - block and ban on sight, no discussion, no appeals, just f##k off - or am I just too angry right now? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:36, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
I've been part of a discussion on a user talk page, about the user gaining the page mover rights, and one editor stated that a draft should be speedy deleted after it is moved to the mainspace under CSD R2. However, I mentioned how R2 is actually only for the mainspace to other namespaces. I recalled that there was a RfC discussion a while back that ended up with the result of allowing redirects from the draft space to the mainspace after the former was moved to the latter. I'm not sure where to look for it, though - can anybody provide the link for it? Thanks. -- Alex TW 03:56, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
The meta:Closing projects policy is discussed at meta:Talk:Closing projects policy#This is not working. Please share your thoughts there. Thanks. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:14, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
The Moldovan Wikipedia, already closed for years, is proposed to be deleted and then transferred to Romanian Wikipedia. The proposal has gone on for three years, so please feel free to comment there. Thanks. -- George Ho ( talk) 22:56, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi!, I'm from gl.wiki and I need help to update Template:GeoGroup to our wiki. I have updated it at here (test version), and I tested it here, but the problem is that the tool to view coordinates at Google Maps doesn't work. If you try it, you get an error because the tool tries to get coordinates from the article at en.wiki instead of the article of gl.wiki. Can somebody help me? Thanks!, -- Elisardojm ( talk) 12:34, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Let me invite you to participate in a new edition challenge: Parliament Challenge. This is a writing contest to create or improve articles about Spanish parlament members. This year Spain celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first democratic elections after the dictatorship. More information at the page on meta. Thanks! -- Millars ( talk) 23:25, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
How old do I have to be to edit WɪᴋɪᴘᴇᴅɪA? From User:HotelFurbyFan1 ( talk • contribs • d. contribs) at 16:48, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
Greetings from zh-wiki.
Recently we are trying to implement the Wikipedia:Password strength requirements, and would like to enforce the password auditing like en-wiki. Where can I find information about that?
Hello everyone!!! I just nominated myself for BAG membership. Your participation would be appreciated.
Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/Cyberpower678 3— CYBERPOWER ( Message) 23:50, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.
This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi! It's the second week of our Cycle 3 discussion, and there's a new challenge: How could we capture the sum of all knowledge when much of it cannot be verified in traditional ways? You can suggest solutions here. You can also read a summary of discussions that took place in the past week. SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 12:28, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Alfred Nemours seems to have a problem with this word being used in various article titles (see [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], and [7], for examples). Rather than have the discussion in 20-30 different locations, I'm moving it here for convenience and to perhaps get more eyes on the discussion. Have at it. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 04:58, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
To the point, as I said here [8] not onlt do RS use the term in exactly the same way we are but (as I says here [9]) his definition of the work "attack" seems unique to him. Slatersteven ( talk) 09:29, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
I've noticed it's only ever articles covering domestic Islamic terrorism that brings about these sorts of accusations of bias. Note the articles above. Never domestic far right, Marxist, or foreign Islamic terrorism. I suspect this has something to do with Western political ideologies, and as such, to remove the word "attack" would be to impose an ideological viewpoint on Wikipedia. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 22:14, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Should be renamed articles:
-- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 15:56, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Can anybody tell what this documentary's name is, who made it and when? It has James Gerrand in it (a journalist who dedicated his life to documenting the Cambodian and Vietnamese wars).
It's not listed in the category:Documentary films about Cambodia or in category:Documentary films about the Cambodian genocide. It is clearly one sided, not showing the attrocities by the north and time and again hammering the US and its allies attrocities. But still it has the following important sections in it:
Thanks פשוט pashute ♫ ( talk) 22:37, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
I have authored 2 articles, and I wonder who will become the "owner" of those articles when I die?
Do I have the duty (or the right) to appoint someone to become the principle editor?
Dcj3616 ( talk) 00:32, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
The SVG armenian Wikipedia logo have truncated letters. Please, fix it.
-- 2001:B07:6442:8903:F156:DA41:5FE:5283 ( talk) 13:45, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Recently, a user page was nominated for deletion at MFD. I assume it was deleted. I didn't record the name of the page or the user. I happen to remember that it was approximately 300 K. The subject matter was ambitious — an attempt to document the history of everything. I'd like to take a look at it. Does anyone recall the name or have a suggestion on how to find it. I tried reviewing recent deletions in MFD but there's hundreds.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 15:29, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Geography : I don't get something about this landmark:
The article Architecture of Uzbekistan#Minaret of Kutlug-Timur reads this minaret is located in: "Another example of architectural work of 11th century is Minaret of Kutlug-Timur, located in Nukus city"...
Nukus city is located in Uzbekistan indeed but the minaret is located at 42.308593° 59.141729°, in Turkmenistan, in the city of Konye-Urgench, article where the minaret is mentioned! BlueChip — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AA13:6200:1080:7176:FFC9:571B:56F3 ( talk) 12:28, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi! It's the third week of our Cycle 3 discussion, and there's a new challenge: As Wikimedia looks toward 2030, how can we counteract the increasing levels of misinformation? You can suggest solutions here. Earlier challenges can be discussed as well. SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 19:22, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi! The movement strategy discussion is still underway, and there are four challenges that you may discuss:
The last, fifth challenge will be released on July, 25.
If you want to know what other communities think about the challenges, there's the latest weekly summary (July 10 to 16), and there's the previous one (July 1 to 9).
SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 14:53, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
I don't know which venue to discuss health benefits and/or risks of searching for offline sources, like books and microfilms. Nonetheless, I'll post here in case of doubt. I browsed offline sources, including old newspapers, to improve Cheers (season 1). I'll put it in another way: the 1982–83 Nielsen ratings were posted on originally newspapers, yet the Nielsen ratings either are poorly or are not replicated or republished online. Therefore, I had to search for the ratings on microfilm. I spent hours and days in local libraries all alone to search for them. Fortunately, I wrote notes based on my findings. Consequently, I just inserted information and offline sources done mostly by myself.
I've been thinking. What are health benefits and risks of browsing offline sources all by myself in order to improve Wikipedia? What about browsing them in collaboration with other people? -- George Ho ( talk) 15:16, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
I've been answering questions at the Teahouse for a long time and finally got around to formally signing up as a host on the nineteenth. I can't see my profile on the host page, though. Even weirder, the page history doesn't show me having edited it, even though my edit history does. Can you just not see your own profile? Or is some kind of bug at play? White Arabian Filly Neigh 19:10, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
I fixed an error in an article and someone reverted me, knowing that my father is a Black African, could this be racism? How should I handle it? Φράγκος Στάθης ( talk) 05:25, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
I can speak with absolute certainty that the editor in question did not know your racial background nor did they care. You have been here for 24 minutes and am already accusing people of racism against you; you dearly need to read WP:AGF. -- Golbez ( talk) 16:34, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
"American Viscose operated from 1910 to 1976, when it was renamed Avtex. Avtex closed in 1990." What disestablishment date should be used in the category, 1976 or 1990? -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 19:34, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
How to article „ Former Yugoslavia“ leads on article „ Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia“ to the part „12 Legacy“ not „2.8 Legacy“? -- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 14:13, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
There is currently an RFC open at Template_talk:Recent_death_Aboriginal_Aus concerning the use of templates and notices to comply with cultural sensitivities. Please feel free to drop by if interested. Thanks! Dane| Geld 21:07, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi all,
Copied from Wikipedia:Help desk:
Hi all,
Could we please put a net neutrality banner for all readers to see, similar to the fundraising banner?
- FCC is considering a law to allow US Internet providers to censor bandwidth price and slow down certain websites you visit.
- Please stop this by writing a letter to your representative today! (If you're outside of US, share with a friend.)
I am a foreigner; if you're able to word this more concisely, please do.
-- Gryllida ( talk) 00:15, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
- Hello Gryllida, hope you're well. As the Help Desk is for resolving issues related to editing, I should recommend that you may consider the Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) forum for posting your suggestion. Thanks. Lourdes 03:01, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
-- Gryllida ( talk) 05:15, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
There are only three days left (plus today) to take part in Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia strategy discussion. Insights to the last challenge our movement is facing has just been published. The challenge is: How does Wikimedia meet our current and future readers’ needs as the world undergoes significant population shifts in the next 15 years?
The previous challenges are:
On this page, you may read more, and suggest solutions to the challenges. Also, if you're interested in related discussions that are taking place on other wikis, please have a look at the weekly summaries: #1 (July 1 to 9), #2 (July 10 to 16), #3 (July 17 to 23).
In August, a broad consultation will take place, but it'll differ from what we've been conducting since March. This is your last chance to take part in such a discussion! SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 13:33, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
A few days ago, I posted a link here referring to an article where someone tried to goad people into posting self-qdvertising articles. I called this "interesting", but thought it an insult to (experienced) colleagues to point out how detrimental such practices are to Wikipedia. Apparently, I was wrong. Ironically, someone has accused me of "blatant advertising", while, as stated, my concern was of course the very opposite.
In my view, reading is not a superficial activity: it is the retrieval of meaning. Bessel Dekker ( talk) 11:16, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about the use of English DVD release dates as a substitute for English air dates at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga#Another issue with DVD release dates as air dates do to an issue that has cropped up on the Naruto: Shippuden episode lists. To summaries, an IP is inserting DVD release dates onto the lists as English air dates because the series stop airing on television midway through its original run. The last episode that was broadcast was episode 312, which aired on the linear Internet television service Neon Alley on September 26, 2015 before the service shutdown. All episodes afterward that point are only available in DVD box sets. — Farix ( t | c) 12:42, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to post this so I might as well do it here then others who are more familiar with such matters can take it further. Some might of course already know about this. "The British Library is offering over 1 million free vintage images for download". Digital Arts.. Hope it's useful. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 18:44, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I saw some people transcribing pages from other wikis. How is this done, if even possible? Thank you. Cheers, FriyMan Per aspera ad astra 07:18, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Genderqueer#Requested move 1 August 2017. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 00:59, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Yuma Soerianto, an article about a currently living child, was deleted ( [13]) via PROD because of the concern "I'm never comfortable on having articles on living children and I think this needs to be reviewed closely". Has this issue been discussed before? I know that Wikipedia:Minors and persons judged incompetent applies, but because the page is only an essay, more perspectives should be considered. I also wish to ask that because the topic appears notable and should be restored if there is no significant disagreement over its inclusion. 211.100.57.166 ( talk) 10:56, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Page Previews (aka Hovercards) is currently the most popular beta feature on all desktop projects. It provides a preview of an article upon hovering over a wiki link for users interested in gaining more context on a subject.
Over the past year, we have been improving our code and incorporating community feedback in the changes to the design and functionality of the feature. Currently, the feature is rolled out on all Wikipedias, except for English and German. Before proceeding with rollout discussions on these two wikis, we would like to schedule an A/B test of the feature to ensure that we can replicate the positive quantitative results from other wikis on this Wikipedia.
The test will be three weeks in length starting August 14. During the test, 1% of anonymous users would receive the feature by default. We will compare their usage to a control group of 1% of anonymous users who do not have the feature enabled. For logged-in users, no changes in functionality will be expected.
Please, let us know if you have any comments or concerns on the test. Thank you! CKoerner (WMF) ( talk) 16:22, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
At the beginning of this year, we initiated a broad discussion to form a strategic direction that will unite and inspire people across the entire movement. This direction will be the foundation on which we will build clear plans and set priorities. More than 80 communities and groups have discussed and gave feedback on-wiki, in person, virtually, and through private surveys [strategy 1] [strategy 2]. We researched readers and consulted more than 150 experts [strategy 3]. We looked at future trends that will affect our mission, and gathered feedback from partners and donors.
In July, a group of community volunteers and representatives from the strategy team took on a task of synthesizing this feedback into an early version of the strategic direction that the broader movement can review and discuss.
The first draft is ready. Please read, share, and discuss on the talk page. Based on your feedback, the drafting group will refine and finalize this direction through August.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 16:11, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
I do dispute resolution and have stumbled onto a case in which a move war was under way and a RM would go a long way to settling the problem, but the party wanting to change the title seems reluctant to file it and the other party does not, of course, want to do so. I'd like the community's view on this question: Would it be acceptable for me, as a neutral party, to start the RM without supporting or objecting to it and leave it up to the warring parties to either support or defend it? It could, of course, fall apart if the move proponent doesn't come in to support it, but that's probably unlikely. Let me note that the RM process, linked above, is clearly set up to be filed by an editor who wants the move. What do y'all think? Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 17:08, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I created this entry almost a month ago: Mosul liberation yet it doesn't show up in Google search results at all. What's the problem? -- Expectant of Light ( talk) 07:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
The German Primetals Technologies links to the English Primetals Technologies. However, Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau links to a German article which redirects to the German Primetals article. The content in the German article is essentially the same as the content of both English articles, but there was a discussion of sorts that led to most of the information being moved from the English Siemens VAI article to Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau. For the German Siemens Vai article there was a redirect to Primetals instead. I don't believe the Primetals article in English should have the historical information because it's essentially a merger of two companies. Is there some way to link to the English Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau from German?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:19, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
[[:de:Primetals Technologies]]
, which produces
de:Primetals Technologies. You can pipe that link like so: [[:de:Primetals Technologies|Primetals Technologies]]
=
Primetals Technologies.
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Talk/
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The problem, of course, is that de:Primetals Technologies has all the content in Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau and the German article with the name closest to that also redirects to the same German article.
I don't think we really want that in English and I question whether it was the right way to go in German, because Primetals is a new company that combined two other companies. Someone who is now blocked (leading me to wonder if I did the right thing) suggested all the history from Siemens VAI go to the other article, and then Siemens VAI merged with the other company to form Primetals. I made the change, which means the Siemens article has very little actual content. I proposed a merger which would supposedly solve the problem, but I'm not sure what is the right thing to do.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:25, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
When did Wikipedia change to allow editors to post in Archives? What was the rationale for this? Is there a protocol or etiquette to follow when adding to or editing archived discussions???-- Jack Upland ( talk) 18:28, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Lately, I have noticed an increased number of such articles being nominated for deletion, mostly for failing WP:GNG (examples include Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denmark at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tennis at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Three-cushion billiards at the 2017 World Games – men's singles). While I personally have no strong feeling about such articles, I think such nominations are possibly problematic, since we literally have thousands of articles, all of them in the same format and usually with the same amount of sources (or lack thereof). There is WP:NOLY as a guideline already but it only applies to Olympic Games, not others. Should we have an RFC on whether such articles should exist? Again, no real interest, just bringing it to wider attention to avoid a potential overwhelming of AFD. Regards So Why 11:05, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
at
" to narrow down results. Seems to me that such topics are subject to notability rules. --
George Ho (
talk) 15:17, 11 August 2017 (UTC)Should be renamed articles:
-- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 14:23, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library team are happy to announce the migration of our free research access signups to the Library Card platform! The Library Card is a centralised location for signing up to all of the free resources available through the library - now totalling over 60 publishers and databases offering access to more than 80,000 paywalled periodicals to help you research and find citations for Wikipedia articles. On-wiki signup pages have been archived, and all future signups will be coordinated on the platform.
Log in directly with your Wikipedia account via OAuth, and if you find resources that would be useful to you, please sign up! Ongoing development will be occurring for the site, so please let us know if you run into any error messages or unexpected behaviour. You can flag bugs directly on Phabricator.
Later this year we'll be integrating an authentication system, enabling direct access to resources using your Wikipedia login. No more need to remember separate logins for each website! We'll also be using this system to allow automated no-application-required access to a subset of partners, and integrating it with a search tool to make it easier to figure out which aggregator or publisher has the content you need! Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 20:28, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello, your input would be appreciated at this RfC about how we should give references for the "Airlines and destinations" tables of articles about airports. Thank you. — Sunnya343✈ ( háblame • my work) 11:44, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
Please go to Talk:2017#Eclipse and respond to the discussion of whether or not the eclipse should have an entry in the main article. Thank you. — Myk Streja (beep) 21:21, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
I am requesting discussion at the dispute resolution noticeboard talk page about advice for how to deal with editors who have difficulty in English. The question in particular is about editors who are involved in a content dispute but cannot explain clearly what they want changed. Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:23, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
I honestly have no idea where to take this, plus it is probably not really important. But I noticed on Sheng Siong a series of minor edits by anon accounts with some really odd edit summaries. Just wanted to get some opinions on wtf is going on? Bakilas ( talk) 12:54, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello! 16 days ago I got a notification that this page that I had created months ago was reviewed. But despite that, the page still doesn't show up in google results. What might be the problem? -- Expectant of Light ( talk) 09:34, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
Call for papers deadline extended
More info: http://www.wikibrasil.org/projetos/iwsc_en/
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-international-wikipedia-scientific-conference-tickets-36418854775
Rodrigo Padula ( talk) 12:10, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Recently, I noticed that a few IP editors were making edits to pages such as Wall Street, Midtown, BRICS, and Moscow International Business Centre. Then these IP editors would almost immediately undo their own edits without any edit summary or explanation whatsoever for either of these edits. All these edits are invariably major edits with >500 bytes being modified and complex edits to tables, citations, and templates, so it's probably not just some newbie testing stuff. Is this considered disruptive editing? Because if so, I intend to report it to either WP:AIV or WP:RPP.
The users in question are 79.69.137.195 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), 79.69.128.4 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), and 92.22.162.164 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). epicgenius ( talk) 15:13, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Editing tests by experimenting usersat this page (nb. even if it's probably not "newbie testing" it's worth assuming good faith and going through the warnings) -- There'sNoTime ( to explain) 15:16, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello... I am a user editor in Arabic Wikipedia and I sorry for disturbing you but I have a question...
Can you tell me why the article named " Persian Gulf"? because the Arabian Coast is much longer than Persian Coast, and the Arabs have a very long history with this Gulf; where the Arabs put oil and gas fields more than the Persians, and that its coastal population is more than the population of the Persian coast. It is true that the ancient maps are written in the Persian Sea, but the Arabs benefited from it more than the Persians, and even put the name of the " Arabian Gulf" on Google Maps, and a vote was taken to change the name of the " Arabian Gulf" to the " Persian Gulf" on Google's maps, and the majority vote was rejected.
I ask any administrator or anyone to read my message, thank you and I wish you good luck -- A3bdula3ziz ( talk) 19:30, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
In 2017, we initiated a broad discussion to form a strategic direction that will unite and inspire Wikimedians. This direction will be the foundation on which we will build clear plans and set priorities. More than 80 communities and groups discussed and gave feedback [strategy 1] [strategy 2] [strategy 3]. We researched readers and consulted more than 150 experts [strategy 4]. We looked at future trends that will affect our mission, and gathered feedback from partners and donors.
A group of community volunteers and representatives from the strategy team synthesized this feedback into an early version of the strategic direction that the broader movement can review and discuss.
The second version of the direction is ready. Again, please read, share, and discuss on the talk page on Meta. Based on your feedback, the drafting group will refine and finalize the direction.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 10:07, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Some of us who are in desperate need of a life have been active on Wikipedia for a long while may remember that the servers are located in Tampa, Florida. And we may also be aware that the latest projections for Hurricane Irma predict its course directly over Tampa, Florida. So if you're concerned about some serious downtime, you have reason to be.
Fortunately, if you are concerned about the servers in Tampa, it's because you are a bit behind on the news. (Between Gamergate & WMF crises, you can be excused for missing this bit of information. I know I hadn't heard of this news.) The Foundation servers moved to Ashburn, Virginia back in January 2013. [14] Which means that Wikipedia has a better chance of staying up 99.999% of the time. And safe from hurricanes. -- llywrch ( talk) 06:36, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
Do we have a policy on linking to Sci-Hub in citations? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:30, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Looking up
Brigitte Macron recently, I see that her article has an {{Infobox officeholder}}
for the "office" of "Spouse of the President of the French Republic", in which she is shown as the "Incumbent". Similarly for
Philip May and
Melania Trump, whereas
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has an ordinary {{Infobox person}}
. Those are the ones I thought to check; I have not attempted to see which one is more commonly used throughout Wikipedia. I also don't know if there is an easy way to determine all the offices that {{Infobox officeholder}}
is being used for.
Anyway, I suggest that "spouse of the head of government" is not an office, should not use {{Infobox officeholder}}
, and should not have the word "incumbent" applied to it. Either the regular {{Infobox person}}
should be used for these articles or else there should be a separate type of infobox specifically either (1) for spouses of officeholders, or else perhaps (2) for all positions that are held by one person at a time but are not offices.
I am not interested in pursuing this issue myself; I hope that someone else reading this will be. Feel free to copy this message to a more appropriate project page if there is one. -- 69.159.60.147 ( talk) 03:45, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
People may be interested in the new information page Wikipedia:Rough guide to extended confirmed protection, which has been created by a number of users.
The feeling was that consensus had built up around use of ECP but this had not been documented anywhere, causing confusion. This page could be seen as a parallel for Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection.
Being an information page, the aim is to document the consensus that has developed, not to set out anything new. If editors don't like certain aspects of that consensus then I would see this information page as a useful prompt for discussion.
I have only just moved the page into WP space, so any comments or edits will be gratefully received.
Yaris678 ( talk) 10:46, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
This help desk question explains the problem. The person wasn't merely asking how to edit a protected article. The heading of the question makes it clear even the talk page is protected.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:21, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
There is a deletion discussion for {{ Cite_Q}} which would benefit from having high participation. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 10:57, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding " requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."
Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.
Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 21:06, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
I recently (11 September) made two internal Wiktionary links, thinking this was correct. The reverting editor (13 September) failed to give reasons/guidance at the edit summary, and has failed to respond to a polite request for reasons at their talk page, but has logged-in since and I want to get on top of it without waiting further.
Apologies if approaching the Pump seems a cop-out instead of doing lengthy research on a minor point, but if someone could confirm what the issue is here - for example - are Wiktionary links becoming deprecated - then I would be obliged. I admit the links look clumsy, but I didn't write the template, and I was thinking of the readers, including non-English first speakers when writing the original prose with Wiktionary links. Many thanks! Semperito ( talk) 09:25, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
In the case of well-heeled, the film character is a well-established scrap-metal dealer, historically notorious in UK society for business practices using cash and having large disposable incomes; the character has a good, well-groomed appearance, an expensively accessorised motor scooter and fine clothing including a long, tailored leather overcoat, whereas the lead film character is young, with a base-level office job and pays weekly in advance towards a new, tailored cloth suit, covered with an ex-army Parka, as was the vogue at the time; well-heeled covered all aspects of what I needed, as did remonstrated.
I couldn't think of anything better at the time of writing, and I would've preferred to know the deleting editor's motivations, who chose not to replace the words. I am always conscious of the needs of, for example, people in, or originating from, near-Europe who may have a good grasp of English language but may need assistance that a wiktionary link could provide. I'll try to find synonyms to 'dumb it down'. Semperito ( talk) 14:48, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
sadly, Wiwaxia passed away on February 25, 2017.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/christopher-gikas-obituary?pid=1000000184323976&view=guestbook. he will be missed
— Preceding
unsigned comment added by
2601:644:101:2c0e:20c2:48e1:7c38:d9d3 (
talk) 23:29, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Not quite sure where to put this, so I figure here is better than nowhere. I was viewing a Difference between revisions on the MoS when a bubble appeared in the top right with the question "Would you click on this page when searching for 'half adder truth table'?" and the options "Yes", "No", and "I don't know", as well as a link to wmf:Search Relevance Survey Privacy Statement. This was the first time I'd ever seen something like this, and I was confused by the wording. While copying the text, I accidentally clicked inside the bubble but outside the options, dismissing it, but now that I understand what it was asking, I want to say for the record that I highly doubt I would click on a diff page of the MoS when searching for 'half adder truth table'. ReGuess ( talk) 16:11, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
Discussion on synced reading lists
Hello,
To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.
In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.
The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.
Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.
Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:
More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.
Thank you
CKoerner (WMF) ( talk) 20:35, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
This is probably the wrong place but I've had enough find Permit A 38 for today.
Anyway, someone knowledgable with a neutral POV should probably have a look at /info/en/?search=Zimbabwe_African_National_Liberation_Army and its sources and at least delete the unsourced parts. -- 2A02:8071:B693:BE00:D814:5296:7CAE:AD4F ( talk) 17:43, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm not sure it's the right place to ask, but here it is anyway. English is not my mother tongue and I didn't find by myself. I have a seen 2605:E000:9161:A500:34F4:4D6D:1063:30AF ( talk · contribs) is repeatedly making the same change (see title), and out of curiosity I would like to know fore sure which one is correct. Google has hits for both ( [17], [18]). Maybe an american/british english difference? Does anybody have a definitive explanation about this?
Kiwipidae ( talk) 05:57, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team would like to build and improve tools to support the work done by contributors who set, monitor, and enforce editing restrictions on Wikipedia, as well as building systems that make it easier for users under a restriction to avoid the temptation of violating a sanction and remain constructive contributors.
You are invited to participate in a discussion that documents the current problems with using editing restrictions and details possible tech solutions that can be developed by the Anti-harassment tools team. The discussion will be used to prioritize the development and improvement of tools and features.
For the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 15:05, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Dear colleagues, please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for Wikimedia Conference Russia 2017 announcement (Russian globally + other languages for readers from Russia). Thank you.-- Frhdkazan ( talk) 16:29, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Maproom said in responding to this help desk question that only one English language article can link to the corresponding article in another language. I asked about this before but from the point of view of the other language. I thought I had found the solution but the German article Siemens VAI does not link to the English article Siemens VAI. I have proposed, but gotten no response, that because the German Siemens VAI is a redirect to Primetals Technologies, and the English Siemens VAI has no content that seems worthwhile, the English article should redirect to Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau (in German, a redirect to the German Primetals) and content from the Siemens article should go there or in the English Primetals Technologies. This would be the only solution since it doesn't seem possible for the German Wikipedia to link to the current English Siemens VAI.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:00, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team Wikipedia English Administrator Confidence Survey results are in. Thank you to the 117 participants who filled out the survey. :-)
A copy of the raw results can be found on the results page. Initial impressions of the raw results are welcome on this talk page.
On Monday, October 2, 2017, the Anti-Harassment Tools team will share further results from the comments section of the survey and our preliminary analysis. The team wants to work with the community to identity significant findings and how that it could influence our team's work on tool development.
Later in October, we will have second discussion that will focus on the finding in the survey comments sections that are directed towards policy changes or different ways of reporting and managing cases.
Again, thank you for participating in the survey. And look forward to discussing the results on Monday. For Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 20:05, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello!
The
PD-textlogo banner was already present in the permission field of the infobox for the 1996+
Freightliner logo, so I reused it as main banner for the license section (although it appears to be an old version of the template?): the logo was formerly misdated as a 1942 version, giving it then the
PD-US-not renewed banner. Was it the right way to go about it? --
BarnCas (
talk) 11:10, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
As phase one of the Wikimedia movement strategy process nears its close with the strategic direction being finalized, my contractor role as a coordinator is ending too. I am returning to my normal role as a volunteer ( Tar Lócesilion) and wanted to thank you all for your participation in the process.
The strategic direction should be finalized on Meta late this weekend. The planning and designing of phase 2 of the strategy process will start in November. The next phase will again offer many opportunities to participate and discuss the future of our movement, and will focus on roles, resources, and responsibilities.
Thank you, SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 12:29, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello :-)
The Anti-Harassment Tools team reviewed the feedback from the Admin Confidence Survey and did a preliminary analysis of the comments related to tech tools. We are sharing these results today so that the English Wikipedia community can begin discussing the results.
In two weeks the Anti-Harassment Tools team will release more preliminary analysis about the survey comments related to policy, training, and reporting methods.
Again, thank you to everyone who participated in the survey. Whether you participated in the survey or not, we are interested in your thoughts about the results.
If you still would like to provide comments privately to the Anti-Harassment Tools team, you can email the Anti-Harassment Tools team.
For the Anti-Harassment Tools Team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 01:01, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello all! In the coming months the Anti-Harassment Tools team plans to build a feature that we hope will allow users to better investigate user conduct disputes, called the Interaction Timeline. In short, the feature will display all edits by two users on pages where they have both contributed in a chronological timeline. We think the Timeline will help you evaluate conduct disputes in a more time efficient manner, resulting in more informed, confident decisions on how to respond.
But — we need your help! I’ve created two designs to illustrate our concept and we have quite a few open questions which we need your input to answer. Please read about the feature and see the wireframes at Wikipedia:Community health initiative on English Wikipedia/Interaction Timeline and join us at the talk page!
Thank you, — CSinders (WMF) ( talk) 19:43, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
It seems there was in the past a dashboard system which allowed to see in one glance the use of an image across wikipedia linguistic version, with a display providing results across an entire category. We can not find that tool anymore, nor an equivalent. Does that suggest anything to anyone ? Any tool to suggest that would provide something a bit similar ? Thanks Anthere ( talk)
The project is centred on UTM coordinates 510,000 E 7,350,000 N (UTM WGS 84). Where is this in lat/long coordinates?-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 15:15, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Please share & contribute to: m:Requests for comment/Global ban of INeverCry. -- 78.53.71.61 ( talk) 11:00, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
When archiving references in an article, should ALL the references (live and dead) be archived, or only the dead ones? I raised this question at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Archiving live links - Redux, and referenced an earlier discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 11#Archiving links not dead - good idea?. There was not much response at the bots talk page, so I thought Village Pump might be a more appropriate place to discuss this; after all it involves Wikipedia-wide practices. Here's the issue: The default setting of a tool like IABot v1.5.2 is to archive only the dead links, but some people are choosing the option to archive all the references. This practice came to my attention with this edit to the article Barack Obama: someone using the IABot v1.5.2 archived 392 references, adding 74,894 bytes to the article, and increasing its already huge size by 22.6%, from 330,241 to 405,135 bytes. (The user reverted at my request.) Do people think this kind of outcome is a good thing? Should some kind of consensus be developed, as to when and whether to use the "rescue all" option? -- MelanieN ( talk) 15:38, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
Here's another example: Someone did a total archiving of the 79 references at 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting - an article which is only five days old and had no dead links. [19] Half an hour later, someone reverted as "unnecessary archiving". [20] This is a practice that is not generally accepted and is a source of annoyance to many. -- MelanieN ( talk) 05:29, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Some years ago I created a set of Wikimania attendee userboxes. It occurs to me that I should let people know these exist!
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk, Poland. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, Israel. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C., United States. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong, China. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2014 in London, United Kingdom. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, Mexico. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy. |
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, Canada. |
Cheers! bd2412 T 04:33, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Also, introducing the "plans to attend" userbox for Wikimania 2018 through 2025.
![]() | This user attended Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden. |
Cheers again! bd2412 T 13:28, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
I am confused by how Wikipedia chooses its "related articles" to link to in mobile view ... and I can not figure out how to edit them.
To give the specifics that bring me here: I was reading our article on the actress Molly McGreevey (who happens to be a relative of mine). At the bottom of the page (in mobile view) are several links to "related articles". Included are links to the articles on her husband (the Actor Earl Hindman, and her Grandfather (the businessman Augustus G. Paine, Jr.)... both of which seem appropriate ... But there is also a link to the article on former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey... and there is absolutely no connection between Jim and Molly.
I tried to edit the link, but can not figure out how to do so. These "related articles" don't appear anywhere in edit mode (neither in desktop view nor mobile view) ... and I don't think this is another Wikidata insertion (it isn't there either). So... two questions: 1) how does mobile view determine what articles are "related" (and thus linked)? 2) and how does one edit "related articles" that may be inappropriate? Blueboar ( talk) 14:12, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
{{#related:}}
. See
mw:Extension:RelatedArticles.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 14:40, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Where at Wikipedia can one find what word or name has the most redlinks, and second-most, and third-most, etc. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 04:32, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage.
I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias).
For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to English Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make English Wikipedia much more multicultural.
Here is the link of the project proposal: meta:Grants:Project/Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory (WCDO)
I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the English Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com
I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it.
Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :).
If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time!
Best regards,
-- Marcmiquel ( talk) 13:19, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Hi all
I've started a first draft of an document on Wikidata explaining how and why Wikidata data can be used on other Wikimedia projects e.g as a way to organise work on a subject, or in infoboxes. Please can you take a look and add any thoughts to the talk page. I very much want to get the perspectives of both Wikidata contributors and people who are unfamiliar with Wikidata.
Many thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 09:04, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
...which I'll never understand, I'm afraid: can one of you link our Monte Cassino to the German de:Abtei Montecassino? Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 16:07, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
There has been a Request for Comment for a discussion regarding the technical level of pages that wall into the Dinosaur and Paleontology WikiProjects. All editors who have currently commented are regular editors of the projects and probably have a higher level of technical knowlegde than the average reader or editor. Any discussion of input from a more layman on the topic would be appreciated. RfC Discussion:
Thanks, IJReid {{ T - C - D - R}} 04:01, 12 October 2017 (UTC) on behalf of WP:DINO
It takes me to a facsimile of /info/en/?search=Main_Page. Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 13:56, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
This issue has sought a forum at ANI (introduced by Antimanipulator: permlink) and the conflict of interest noticeboard (introduced by me, Bri: permlink) without effect. It's an issue I think the wider community should have a chance to weigh in on. A summary of the circumstances is a not-yet-peer-reviewed working paper coming from academics at MIT and University of Pittsburgh. In a nutshell, the paper involved graduate students creating new Wikipedia articles over a period of years and observing the results on other media. It is not clear to me what was the source of funding for the experiment, whether or not the graduate students were compensated explicitly for the articles, and which individual or individuals operated the account ( Carolineneil) that appears to have introduced the material to Wikipedia. My concerns are as follows.
I'm closing the COIN discussion so that things can continue here with wider participation, and wider consideration of concerns beyond conflict of interest. ☆ Bri ( talk) 15:42, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
I don't entirely understand the concern about this incident as paid editing, although I consider myself to be a strong opponent of commercial paid editing. The phrase "paid editing" is sometimes thrown around idly when the real target should be more precisely promotional paid editing. There is one type of "paid editing" that is actually desirable, and that is editing by professors in their areas of expertise, in order to incorporate existing knowledge into Wikipedia. The only times that paid editing by professors is problematic is if the professor is either promoting their university, or also receiving a grant that makes the professor non-neutral (e.g., a biology professor who is also receiving a grant from a pharmacological or agri-chemical company). This does not appear to be a case of promotional paid editing, and I think the use of the phrase "paid editing" distracts from the fact that this is a different problem than paid editing. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
By the way, the chemistry articles appeared to me to be valid chemistry, and I have a degree in chemistry. I declined some of them because they were inadequately referenced and seriously underlinked. The underlinking may mean that they were written off-line as papers, not originally intended for Wikipedia, and only needed working for Wikipedia. The statistics content also appeared to be valid statistics, and I have studied statistics. What struck me as peculiar was that the author never replied to any comments, and that the author never even appeared to be reviewing the state of the drafts. Drafts were being submitted, and declined as already in Wikipedia, with the suggestion that the existing article be updated if appropriate, and new copies of the drafts were being submitted again exactly as they had been. I did wonder whether there was some sort of experiment in the use of Wikipedia, and there was, although not exactly what I thought. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
I think that the next step should be to revise the policy on what Wikipedia is not to include "Wikipedia is not a laboratory". I will propose specific wording for an addition, and it will state that the use of Wikipedia for any sort of experiment is forbidden, and that editors who are using Wikipedia as any sort of experiment will be banned. (We have had occasional breaching experiments in vandalism or the inclusion of patent nonsense, and those editors have been indeffed as not here constructively, but this is a more subtly improper experiment.) Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Above, it is said that only one account was used, by one person, but that the texts were written by different people (from different scientific backgrounds). is there any evidence that these people agreed to have their text published on Wikipedia, with the Wikipedia license and so on? Without evidence of such permission, the person posting this here has violated the copyright of the individual authors, meaning that all contributions should be deleted. Fram ( talk) 10:13, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
In my view the worst thing that happened here, was
These articles aren't class assignments. They're part of a project, with Dario Taraborelli at Wikimedia, to bring more advanced scientific content to Wikipedia. There were extensive discussions with Dario before the creation of these articles. -- User: Carolineneil.That is the definition of NOTHERE not to mention arrogant as hell. If they would have taken a different approach, a bunch of the time of the editing community would not have been wasted, and their contribs would have been more productive. (the whole section that snippet is from, is here)
As a general rule, the Foundation is not in a position to "approve" or "decline" individual research proposals, unless there are security or legal reasons to escalate them. Editorial decisions about content, in particular, are not an area the Foundation has any say about. The authors reached out at the time of the proposal to ask about best practices to follow in setting up the proposal and two WMF staffers ( Aaron Halfaker and I) advised them on discussing and documenting it in the appropriate spaces....-- the WMF was indeed aware of this. What Dario wrote in that note is pretty different from Carolineneil wrote, but .. whatever. Whatever was said in those "extensive discussions" didn't translate to any kind of respect for the editing community's time and work, nor any effort to get prior consensus, and Dario didn't communicate the information to the editing community either.
What happened is frankly stupid and completely avoidable (and in my view, another expresssion of WMF staffers' apparent lack of understanding of the work the editing community does maintaining content and of the importance of consensus here). I am hopeful that the effort to establish WP:NOTLABORATORY will succeed, but we also need to commmunicate clearly to WMF what it should do with this kinds of requests, and what they should do with information they have about people's intentions. (It kills me that the people doing the experiment tried to reach out to what they thought was someone "here" but it took two years, three ANIs, and the paper being published for the editing community to finally understand on its own what had been happening.
So, should we advise the WMF to inform us when they learn about planned experiments like this and if so how? And Dario - when you say "appropriate spaces", which spaces are those, exactly? What advice did you give them? thx Jytdog ( talk) 19:41, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi for Lob (haircut) could you help me to expend the article ? -- Panam2014 ( talk) 13:08, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Please tell me the font for "Wikipedia" below the globe.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 01:02, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
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In the news today Joshua Boyle, a prolific wikipedia contributor, who was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, for five years, was rescued earlier this morning.
Boyle made something like 70,000 edits, from late 2004 to late 2010, his focus including topics related to terrorism and counter-terrorism.
During the course of his research he met, and later married, Omar Khadr's sister Zaynab Khadr. After their divorce Boyle married an American, Caitlin Coleman, and the pair embarked on a trip around the world, stopping off to work for non-governmental organizations. In October 2012 the pair were kidnapped by the Haqqani Network. Their kidnappers demanded the release of members of their family and other leaders of their network, who faced death sentences, in Afghanistan.
Several videos of Boyle and Coleman were released. Family members found it chilling that they could hear the sounds of the shackles they were wearing, in the video. Coleman bore three children, during their time in captivity, Boyle helping deliver his children, in the dark, with the aid of a flashlight. In his letters to his family Boyle described trying to play the game of " Beautiful Life", with his children -- referring to the Italian film where a father tries to hide the horror of living in a Nazi death camp from his young son, by pretending all the horrific elements were part of a game.
At one time Boyle, Coleman, and several other American captives were part of the negotiation that saw Bowe Bergdahl swapped for the Taliban Five. Former special forces leader Jason Amerine testified before a Congressional Committee over his frustration over his superiors losing interest in rescuing them.
Boyle was injured by shrapnel, during the rescue.
So, one of our own is safe again. Geo Swan ( talk) 18:51, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
I have a couple of resource subscription that came through Wikipedia (High beam, British Library etc.). But, since I am pretty inactive these days and free subscriptions are a rare commodity, is it possible to transfer my subscription to somebody else? Somebody who could do more justice to the subscriptions. There's a long waiting list, if I am not wrong.
p.s. I will be applying again for the subscriptions when I come back in my full capacity. Aditya( talk • contribs) 06:08, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
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Can an uninvolved editor please classify the article on Fur bikini of Raquel Welch? Aditya( talk • contribs) 19:18, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
On December 6th 2017 Finland will celebrate her 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, Wikimedia Suomi organises a public editing competition during November. The goal of this is to improve and translate articles from a list of 100 topics related to Finland into as many languages as possible. Subjects range from Jari Litmanen to Finnish sauna, from Tove Jansson to Maternity package. The list is here.
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Should we allow Viz., as in ... three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian National Science Academy, in the article A. M. Jayannavar? I initially thought it should be changed, but perhaps there is Wikipedia advice on it. I know Ibid. and Op. Cit. are discouraged.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 02:16, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
In Architecture of Seattle, I really want to be able to say that Seattle's Columbia Center is the second-tallest building on the U.S. West Coast, surpassed only by the U.S. Bank Tower (Los Angeles). Looking at List of tallest buildings in the United States, this is obviously true, but under our rules against original research and synthesis, I don't see how to cite for it. (I have a couple of other similar citation issues, but this one seems the most clearcut.) - Jmabel | Talk 06:45, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
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I am working on an article on Mustang, Nepal here. I have some tables, and I have the data for more tables. But, I am afraid I need some help to format those tables. Where can I go and ask for some help? Aditya( talk • contribs) 05:16, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Hoi, currently the practice at en.wp is to have the categories for college sports as a subcategory for the category of the alumni of that college. However, there is no one on one relation between the two. It is better when the categories for college sports are subcategories of the category of the college. It also follows that any athlete that is also an alumni should be included in both categories.
At Wikidata we do harvest these categories. Personally I am interested in the alumni and sports is not what I am interested in. Thanks, GerardM ( talk) 10:19, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
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Is there some kind of guidance available on delaing with two people who have the same name and have the same profession (who are both notable for their profession)? I'm specifically interested in this for David Pratt (footballer) and David Pratt (footballer).
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Perfect, thanks Uanfala and John of Reading. John Cummings ( talk) 14:52, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
The photo of Alla Rakha appears to be reversed. In fact, the person posting the photo added a caption saying, "(he was right handed unlike shown here)". I did some checking and, indeed, the position of his hands in relation to drums is opposite to every other photo of him on the web. If somebody knows how to fix this, be my guest.-- Toploftical ( talk) 18:26, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Today I learnt that the automated edit summaries for redirecting and creating articles are usually quite informative ( some examples) - more so than edit summaries I've used in the past (iirc, for creation, I usually just type "create" or "creating"). Two issues/questions:
Thanks for any incoming info and opinions,
Samsara 14:49, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi fellas. I'm not fluent in English at 100% but I'm not sure if one particular sentence is actually correct. Anonymous IP 75.172.71.60 introduced the sentence "which it also was named as" in the article Prehistoric Beast ( there's the diff) and I was wondering if it is proper English. Is it? Thank you in advance. Kintaro ( talk) 22:26, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deferred changes is a proposed feature that has received unanimous support for implementation. While development appeared to be active in December last year, the project appears to have been abandoned. The main developer, Cenarium, has not edited Wikipedia since April and the page tracking the development of the project has not been edited since December last year. Would it be appropriate to propose the completion of this project in the m:2017 Community Wishlist Survey? Thanks, Darylgolden( talk) Ping when replying 13:52, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
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On the Main page, "In the Icelandic parliamentary election, the Independence Party win the most seats." That should be ...wins... or ...won..., but I don't know how that can be fixed.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 16:21, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
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Why is there Category:North American winters but not Category:North American springs, Category:North American summers, or Category:North American autumns? 98.197.198.46 ( talk) 00:22, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
We are supposed to be a reference source, not a self-promoting Business.
So it is inappropriate to force information on people, particularly as self-advertising.
Last month it was 'Wiki loves monuments', now it is 'Wiki loves Asia'.
Who is doing it? Who wants it? Can it be stopped? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnWheater ( talk • contribs) 08:43, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that fivebooks.com is on a Wikipedia blacklist. I know not a great deal about this site, but it looks OK to me. How do I find out the reason for the blacklist? ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 18:03, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
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I have discovered a confusing situation for anyone who searches Wikipedia for "Duchess of Sutherland". The intended target of my search was Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, notable for her role in the Highland Clearances, but instead you get a redirect to Duke of Sutherland. There is a disambiguation page for people with this title: Duchess of Sutherland (disambiguation), but the redirect means that you never find it (unless you make a typing mistake, as I did).
(Another notable Duchess of Sutherland was Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland - notable for her position of influence, not just having a title.)
Sutherland (disambiguation) does not mention any females with a "Sutherland" title - one would expect, perhaps, to see "Countess of Sutherland", "Duchess of Sutherland" and, since many contemporary and historical sources talk about both these 2 titles in this way, "Lady Sutherland".
I note that "Countess of Sutherland" redirects to Earl of Sutherland. This is not helpful if you do not know that a Countess is the female counterpart of an Earl.
Two thoughts on this:
(1) It is difficult to use Wikipedia to find anyone with one of these female titles (because you have to search through each article that you arrive in to find what you want - and note the Countess/Earl situation mentioned above).
(2) It seems to be a sexist policy to refer those with a Wikipedia article on them to the page of their husband or a male holder of the equivalent title.
I am guessing that there is some biography convention on dealing with this. Has it been applied in this case? If yes, are the rules appropriate? Is this a matter that should be in the "policy section"? ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 23:03, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Probably this is not the forum to seek such help, but Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Isa ali pantami has been lying around for sometime without any hope of further participation. Please, people, take a look at the discussion. Aditya( talk • contribs) 19:04, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Currently we're down to the last several thousand Neelix redirects (we just passed the 2 year mark!) and a small chunk of those remaining are Greek language. If someone who knows Greek would care to take a look through them, they're here; if you're not familiar with redirects and/or the ongoing Neelix cleanup efforts, read over the instructions at RfD and WP:X1. It'd be hugely appreciated. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 02:31, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
I remember asking in village pump a long time ago what would happen if the Queen dies but I can't find it in the archives. Anyway, the reason I asked this is because she would most likely be succeeded by a male monarch, but many articles use "the Queen" (including article titles like Queen's Counsel) to refer to the monarch and a lot of changes will have to be done (probably manually because bots can't tell where the word has to be substituted for "King"). Now though my question is what foreseeable event will cause the most trouble for Wikipedia and would require the largest number of manual changes to articles. The Average Wikipedian ( talk) 02:53, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Category:Entertainment events by year has been newly created. It already existed earlier in some other wikis such as the German and Dutch version. By the way I was really amazed that category:Events by year has actually been deleted - what's the idea behind this? It exists on all other wikis, see d:Q7214926. The Wiki ghost ( talk) 17:39, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
I, and judging from my watchlist a lot of other people, have just been spammed with a mess age about the "Women in Red World Contest". No indication who sent it or why it was sent to me. The only link is to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest which does not tell me why I received it. I would normally as the sender but the message was unsigned, and I can hardly complain to the bot (and the bot offers no way to find out who is sending these messages).-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 03:25, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
@ Ser Amantio di Nicolao: You also somehow ended up targeting subpages like User talk:Koavf/Userboxes. You should look over your edits. ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:56, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
The FCC here in the US is about to change the net neutrality regulations. What does this mean for Wikipedia and our access to it? Jcwf ( talk) 05:37, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
We are looking forward to bringing Wikipedia to more people in the coming years. Cheers, — Dispenser 16:06, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
I find File:Stop hand.svg, File:Stop hand nuvola.svg, and their derivatives overused and bitey. Can we try to replace them with more appropriate images? KMF ( talk) 04:15, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
The other day I was editing a section and I wanted to insert an "e" with an acute mark, so I selected "Latin" from the drop down list below the editing textbox, and I saw a bunch of various letters. That's good. But I found it hard to distinguish between certain letters, like an "e" with a grave mark versus an "e" with an acute mark, for example. So I idly hover the mouse cursor over the letters, and I then noticed that all of them have the same alt text that reads "Click on the character or tag to insert it into the edit window". It would be really nice to have each show exactly what it is, like "Click on this character to insert a lower case e with an acute accent" for example. I would imagine this would be helpful to those with some vision problems as well. By the way, I had to use the magnifier program to view the characters in question and picked the right one. So...what do you think of that? I expect it to be a fairly easy fix, say one week top :-) -- TheBlueWizard ( talk) 18:27, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
I don't know where to report this, but IMDB is discontinuing (most) of their character entries on December 6. A quick survey shows that there are at least 2000 links, at least some of them (probably incorrectly) used as references. I don't know what we can do. A bot marking all of them in article-space as dead? In any case, I don't know what board to report this to. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
The way the current donation drive is being handled is very annoying. After closing the large donation-request banner at the top of the Main Page, I have had to close smaller versions that slide in from the side on four other occasions (basically, every time I visit a new page). Dismissing the side-box once should be sufficient to get the point across that the user does not wish to donate at this time. We should not be hounding users incessantly about donating, otherwise they might elect to avoid Wikipedia entirely (at least while donation drives are under way). - 72.182.55.186 ( talk) 21:25, 27 November 2017 (UTC)