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Dear friends,
From January 26 to May 26, 2018, Wikimedia RU together with partners holds an international competition for writing biographical articles — « Learn about Russia. Graduates and Mentors». The competition is dedicated to graduates and teachers of Russian educational institutions from the Middle Ages to our time. The competition has a nomination for articles in foreign languages, i.e. official UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, and Spanish.
This nomination has 5 prize-winning places, the main prize is 500 Euros!
We invite participants of your section to take part in this interesting competition. JukoFF ( talk) 17:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
I would like to change my user name in Wikimedia BUT not in Wikpedia, where I'd like to keep my current user name (Pedro Felipe). Is it possible? How can I do it? -- Pedro Felipe ( talk) 22:45, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello everybody! Over the past weeks the Community health initiative team took a look at at all 58 suggestions that came out of the discussion about making improvements to blocking tools. Now join the discussion to select 2 to build from the shortlist. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 19:07, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
I wanted to give you all an update about the Compact Language Links feature. The Wikimedia Foundation Language team has been working on it for a couple of years now. The goal of interlanguage links is to make the access to knowledge in different languages possible. The Compact Language Links feature makes this easier by automatically showing the languages that are most relevant to each user while still providing quick access to all the rest.
This feature is already enabled for readers in Wikipedia in all languages except English. In the English Wikipedia it is defined as a beta feature, and as such it is currently used by more than 60,000 editors, making it the second most popular beta feature. Our measurements and tests have shown that this design makes it easier for most people to find the links to the languages they want, and that they use it more than the old style.
Here are some details about which languages are displayed in the initial list, if you're interested:
The team has been collecting feedback from editors in all wikis, and we have added many features and fixed many bugs to make it more useful to readers and editors. Some of the fixes based on Wikipedia editors' feedback include:
After deployment at other wikis, there have been few complaints from editors (who can always opt-out), and all Wikipedias have seen an increase in clicks on the interlanguage links. From June 2016 to June 2017, the percentage of traffic through interlanguage links out of page views has grown by 90%.
If you haven't tried this beta feature yet, you are welcome to try it now. We welcome your feedback about it at mw:Talk:Universal Language Selector/Compact Language Links. Please read the FAQ at mw:Universal Language Selector/Compact Language Links, which gathers responses to a lot of feedback and analysis from the experience of other wikis with this tool.
Thank you!
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Language team, -- Amir E. Aharoni (WMF) ( talk) 16:00, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi all
I'm compiling a guide for UN agencies on the steps to implement open licensing.
The piece I'm really missing is alternative business models to those which require traditional copyright. This include publishing books, images and other multimedia licensing and also data.
If you know of any existing compilations of information and/or any examples of organisations which have working business models please brain dump below and I will organise it.
Thanks very much
John Cummings ( talk) 16:16, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I'm wondering where I can find a list of basic education (primary and secondary/highschool) teachers on Wikipedia? and on a related matter if there are any guidelines on what would make a teacher notable? while I have seen some categories of teachers, it appears that most of them are famous for something else (like being a politician) but are categorised also a teachers because they did teaching at one point.
Erin_Gruwell is one example I have found, but I'm wondering if there are any more? Egaoblai ( talk) 13:27, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
At Template_talk:Infobox#Deploy_auto-categorization, this talk is going on:
I objected, for being unfulfilling (the promise of being a complete category).
I proposed a better setup: #Let's_define_and_create_a_new_category. Today only few editors are involved, so I want to invite more. - DePiep ( talk) 22:47, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
(ec) To be clear: I did not "edit" Bombhead's posts, I only reverted. Because: by Bombherad's editing AFTER replies, that makes the reply-er stupid. While, actually, I am not the stupid one. Basic Talkpage behaviour. - DePiep ( talk) 00:16, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
There's now an RFC on this, see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RFC: Autopopulate Category:Infobox templates when we can. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 12:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi!
The Language team is planning to change the design of the interlanguage links list for logged-out users, newly registered users, and users who have previously enabled the beta feature. Active users who have not enabled the beta feature will not be affected. The new design will use the searchable Compact Language Links feature. See also the earlier note here: #Compact Language Links update. This is scheduled to be deployed starting on Wednesday, February 28th.
When the feature if enabled, nothing will change for active editors: If you have enabled this beta feature, it will remain enabled. If you have not enabled it, it will remain disabled. Editors will be able to enable and disable it as a normal user preference. The preference will move out of the "Beta features" tab in your preferences, and into the "Appearance" tab. The option's name will be "Use a compact language list, with languages relevant to you".
Our decision to deploy it to anonymous users is based upon user experience research, data showing that a compact list makes it easier for readers to find articles in the language that they need, and a technical review of the tool. For more information, please see the overview and complete data collected in a spreadsheet.
We look forward to your feedback in the coming weeks. If no last-minute technical or functional problems are identified as blockers by the deployment team, we expect to be ready to complete this change by Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Please do let us know if you have any comments, suggestions, or questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.
Thank you!
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Language team, -- Amir E. Aharoni (WMF) ( talk) 13:12, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I was a fairly active editor until late 2014, and now it seems I feel like editing a bit again. Given the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of WP :) I wonder if there have been noteworthy changes in policy/guidelines or common practices from late 2014 to now, especially (but not only) in notability, BLP, RS. Of course I could compare diffs, but I'd like to hear the community's opinion also on what is now current practice, trends etc. Many thanks! -- cyclopia speak! 17:21, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Can one find out the IP address of Wikipedia editors who are registered under a user name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.161.86.40 ( talk) 12:48, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello everybody! Reminder that the discussion to select the improvements to the blocking tools is going on. Over the past weeks the Community health initiative team took a look at at all 58 suggestions that came out of the discussion about making improvements to blocking tools. Now join the discussion to select 2 to build from the shortlist. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 22:44, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Afternoon, all. This is probably an unsolvable problem, but I wanted to bring it up for ideas. I just tried to share the link /info/en/?search=François_Clemmons on Google Hangouts, but the automatic link died at the c-cedilla, leaving me at Fran. Is there anything we could add there to make the original article findable? Obviously, adding François Clemmons would be overkill, but would adding François also be too much? I suppose using /info/en/?search=Francois_Clemmons as the link in the first place would also work, as would copying and pasting the original link instead of clicking it. I'm just wondering if there's something we should be doing in the general case, instead of coming up with case-by-case solutions. Thanks. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:23, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Can someone who knows template magic fix this, please? It doesn't seem to work - it's showing UTC-0 no matter what the parameters are, and appears to have done so in every past incarnation (which were at Template:Infobox time zone (North America)). Thanks, ansh 666 21:57, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
The question was raised due to some suspicious incidents happened on Chinese Wikipedia. I was trying to find out if such thing happened on the English version but didn't find anything so far.
Suppose user A wants to snoop the privacy informations like IP address, operation system and browser of user B. He posted a link to user B's talk page, where B will probably see and click the link. In the meantime, A actually controls the website that hosts the link. Once B clicked the link, A can easily get B's IP address and system, browser information without B's consent.
The described steps can be utilized by someone to find out that if a user is related to an IP address (or another user). However, it looks like the victims are also responsible for the leakage of his/her privacy (we shouldn't click any unknown links sent by someone). I'm wondering how will the English community respond to such situation.
Thanks in advance. -- PhiLiP ( talk) 04:56, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
This page contains signature of mass message. I'm proposing that we uncomment it, by replacing the content
with this
This change would make it more clear who sent the 'mass message', which is useful to make it easier to contact them, I think?
-- Gryllida ( talk) 05:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello all,
Last fall, as part of the Community Health initiative, a number of experienced En.WP editors took a survey capturing their opinions on the AN/I noticeboard. They recorded where they thought the board working well, where it didn’t, and suggested improvements. The results of this survey are now up; these have been supplemented by some interesting data points about the process in general. Please join us for a discussion on the results.
Regards, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 20:31, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Kind of an abstract issue, but is there any customary term here for "pages that are only edited by POV editors because nobody else is interested in them"? Has this issue (and maybe ideas how to address it [or not]) been discussed somewhere in the past that I could read up on?
I ask because in my work I've run across a number of niches where articles are in very poor shape because, to be frank, the articles are extremely important to a narrow range of people in the world, and such groups tend not to have very objective editors nor very experienced editors. And as a result, whole swathes of pages suffer from major POV, terrible or absent sourcing, and constant creeping expansion as an array of novice editors nip in to jam in yet more (uncited) content. And in the majority of cases, nobody comes long who's interested in addressing those problems, so it persists over a decade and longer.
The specific example I always notice is articles on South Asian Sufi saints, namely Category:Indian Sufi saints and Category:Pakistani Sufi saints. To pick just one random example, Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri is not great, though by no means not the worst. I've run across a number of these articles that have extremely POV claims like "he recited XYZ surah of the Quran right as he emerged from his mother's womb" and other such non-academic claims reported as fact rather than legend. Here's one of the "miraculous" ones: Syed Shah Afzal Biabani. Lots of honorifics basically equivalent to "His Holiness, The Honorable Reverend" jammed onto every name, etc. And an absolute obsession with ancestry (since many of these people are claimed to have authority by being direct descendants of Muhammad), and more perniciously often a long list of completely non-notable descendants. The latter being fiercely defended, presumably because some editors have a personal claim to be descended from the figure and so are adamant that "The Purwani family of Gwalanpur is descended from this holy saint" be a part of article.
There are other mucky pockets (Hindu saints are often pretty POV as well), and pockets of articles on ethnic groups that appear to be largely written (and unsourced) by members of the group looking to promote themselves.
In any case, I'm partially venting, but also partially wanting to know if in the bigger picture Wikipedia has any term for this issue, and whether there's anything to be done other than "hope that eventually someone who cares more about Wikipedia values than promoting the subject stumbles across it"? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 08:00, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
I have a few questions about citations. As citations to online reference material are fundimental to validating Wikipedia articles, are there any plans to preserve these references in some way? The reason I ask, I have noticed on some of the more controversial subjects, not just here in Wikipedia, but on the web generally, reference material, even newspaper archive material that supports articles that link to it has been removed from the web, leaving dead links. Notwidthstanding the possibility that certain actors may persue a policy of removing reference material from the web that conflicts with their agenda, also over the long term as the web gets older, sites and publications change hands, shut down etc we might expect online reference material to dissapear more and frequently thereby breaking the validity of Wikipedia articles that depend on them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raven9nine ( talk • contribs) 16:38, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
A couple months ago I asked about this, and I figure it's worth another shot. We're getting ever closer to finishing the Neelix cleanup, and there are 11 Ancient Greek redirects listed here that need checking. Hopefully it won't take long, and it'd be hugely appreciated. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 15:49, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
WP:WATERMARK is typically vague so I'm asking what should be done about the two lead images at List of tallest buildings in Karachi ( permalink). I guess just revert the recent edits, but what about the images themselves? I suppose they are a Commons problem we can ignore? Johnuniq ( talk) 21:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.[4] We can just remove the watermark. -- Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 20:52, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Free images should not be watermarked, distorted, have any credits or titles in the image itself or anything else that would hamper their free use, the "anything else that would hamper their free use" isn't a statement as to when watermarks are ok. It's one more category of thing that free images should not have, probably intended as a catch-all so someone can't wikilawyer "this isn't a watermark, distortion, credit, or title, so it's not against policy". To have the meaning you want to read into it, that sentence would have to be changed to something like "except when that does not hamper their free use". Anomie ⚔ 14:46, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello all, thank you for the input over the past several months about the blocking tools. From all the participation on Blocking tools and improvements talk page on English Wikipedia and on Meta, our discussion with our legal department, and our preliminary technical analysis, the AHT team has decided to a) investigate two projects now, b) next build two small changes, and c) later in the year follow with a third project. The details are below.
First, the team will investigate and decide between:
Next, we will do two feature improvements- adding an optional datetime selector to Special:Block ( phab:T132220) and improving the display of block notices on mobile devices ( phab:T165535).
In a few months (likely around May 2018) we will pursue some form of Project 5 - Block a user from uploading files and/or creating new pages and/or editing all pages in a namespace and/or editing all pages within a category.
Additional ideas can be added to on wiki discussion pages and user blocking column on Phabricator for future discussions and decisions. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 22:34, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
(A.S.: I hope I am in the right sub-section… If not, please move this to a more adequate place. —Thanks).
When searching for info about "
rebelmouse" (though red, the link works !), I noticed that it only appears in reference sections, among which, 3 or 4 are a reference, repeated in a few unrelated articles, which looks like nothing appropriate to the article or the referred sentence, but rather like a kind of hook, or a discret spam. Other of the seven instances have no meaning (I mean : not to me, but I may be wrong, since I am not a native english speaker). What do think of this ? (I came to en.wikipedia looking for info about this "rebelmouse", about which I found a few blog pages closed and redirected to the rebelmouse webpage, a seemingly CMS, concurrent to Wordpress ; I now have doubts.) --
@Éric38fr
(come chat & have a drink), Grenoble (France), 02:59, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
It is March 2018. Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey. This marks 10 months of people in Turkey having no access to the world’s free knowledge, and people around the world not learning from Turkish citizens. We want to re-energize the conversation around Wikipedia in Turkey and galvanize public opinion to support unblocking the site. To do this, the Wikimedia community are running a week-long social media push to express why #WeMissTurkey. Following from this initial push we would like to run a CentralNotice campaign to further energize the conversation. The campaign will be only be show to users a maximum of two times to limit disruption and show, to between 10-50% of traffic. Banners will be low profile based on the community template with added functionality to expand revealing social sharing options on twitter and facebook for mobile with the possibility of a generic template on desktop. Seddon (WMF) ( talk) 20:32, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
I just noticed this today, and am hoping it's all part of some temporary A/B test that I've had the misfortune of being in the wrong group for, but apparently the Languages section over on the left of any article is now limited to like 10 or so languages, with the rest hidden behind a "N more" link. I hate this for a variety of reasons: 1) can't see at a glance if my desired language is there / can't ctrl-F either, 2) the choices for which languages to display seem to be a mystery, and I think this inconsistency across pages makes for a bad user experience, 3) there seems to be no way of disabling this (or at least not w/o logging in, which I don't want to do), 4) the pop-up behind the "N more" link is easy to misclick and close while trying to scroll down it, 5) the links in the pop-up seem to override normal ctrl-click behavior so that instead of just opening the link in a new tab, it also opens the clicked link in the current tab. I was trying to remember the Chilean term for zucchini (it's zapallo italiano, BTW), but the list in the pop-up is terrible, because (aside from not having Español, which I realize is a separate issue), 6) the first category is just a repeat of the languages already listed, but 7) with the Korean link inexplicably on its own separate line within that section, 8) the next section being some vague "Worldwide" section (who decides what's worldwide?), 9) the next section being "America" which I find horribly vague (I'm guessing by its content they meant "Americas") and confusing since Nederlands is there (though I guess that's my fault for not realizing there are a few Dutch-speaking places near the Caribbean). Portuguese is repeated in like every freaking section. God, that layout is hard to scan.
Anyway, I clearly dislike this feature/bug, but when trying to look for something about this change, all my Google searches for things like "wikipedia user interface languages" of course just result in things like the WP user interface article. (If anybody has helpful hints for how to do things like "meta" searches for stuff about WP itself, that would be super helpful!) Given the difficulty of finding meta-information about WP, I'm not even sure I'm posting this in the right place, so my apologies if this should be elsewhere. If someone could point me to more information about this change and/or a better channel for expressing my dissatisfaction with it (unless I'm already at the right place?), that would be great. Thanks! 2601:141:2:8644:5CBA:7EA3:23ED:3A67 ( talk) 06:44, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I am thinking of writing to a few serving politicians to suggest that they organise the upload of photos of themselves. (These are all cases where we have either no existing photo of the person, or only poor photos).
I was looking for a simple, concise how-to-guide on this, and the Commons:Special:UploadWizard seems reasonably simple.
Has anyone done a sort of pro-forma letter to use in such cases?
Something along the lines of:
-- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:44, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi I am Jasonnn, from the chinese version of wikipedia. I tried to translate pages like List of Germans and List_of_Danes and same other pages into chinese. From time to time there are people put these pages into "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion", and two administrators @ AT: and @ Lanwi1: keep deleting these pages. So far they have deleted the chinese version of List_of_Thai_people, List of Portuguese people, Lists of New Zealanders, List of Swiss people, List of French people and 4 more, they are about to delete the chinese version of List_of_Germans and 24 other pages [7].
I made a post about List_of_Thai_people and 4 other pages to "Wikipedia:Deletion review" in 2018.1.31 [8], so far no result. Then I made another post about asking to remove those two administrators [9], cause i think they are being unreasonable and delete my pages on purpose, i @ all the chinese administrators, about 76 people, only two replyed and they are not on my side.
This leaves me no choice, so i post here ask for all your help. I am hoping you could put some pressure on some chinese administrators, so someone could come slove this. Thank you for your help.-- Jasonnn~zhwiki ( talk) 13:42, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
So, it used to be that you clicked a redlink of a deleted page and a message appeared saying that a page with that name had been deleted and pointing to the deletion log. Now, it just suggests creating the page, and I can't find any way to get to the deletion log. This has happened to me several times for pages that I knew had been deleted, but I couldn't find the deletion log. To make things worse, is every page has a link on the left said that says "page information". But, bafflingly, page information apparently doesn't include any logs, whether deletion, move, patrol, protection, or any kind of log really. Why doesn't page information provide a link to logs? Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 23:40, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
&action=edit&redlink=1
from the end of the url, e.g. changing
EPB6 to
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=EPB6.
phab:T176070 is about it.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 01:59, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Meh, at least someone is working on fixing it. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 02:43, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
I recently found myself using the word passim in a reference. [10] [1] Is this an acceptable form? (I have not seen this used anywhere else in Wikipedia.) My intent was to differentiate the reference from one where the editor had not bothered to consider page numbers. In this case the subject is covered extensively throughout the book and any attempt to give individual or blocks of page numbers would be a mess.
Incidentally, the italicisation of passim does not occur in the article where I used it and I cannot make that change at present as the page is currently protected as it has attracted a lot (!!) of editing in another section.
ThoughtIdRetired (
talk) 08:51, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
References
Next month (April 2018), we will be organising first ever Wikipedia photo campaign in the UAE to get free licensed photos related to country. We will be running a CN banner to publicise the event which will be only be show to users (both registered and unregistered) inside the country. Any concerns? -- Saqib ( talk) 05:41, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Is Aavindraa authorized to do it? Russian translator ( talk) 11:58, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello!
My name is Edward Galvez and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation. For those of you who do not know, the Wikimedia Foundation supports you by working on the software and technology to keep the sites fast, secure, and accessible, plus providing programs and initiatives to support free knowledge globally.
In about one week, the Foundation is starting a global survey to learn about the experiences and feedback of Wikimedians. I am writing here, because I wanted to share with you a bit more about the project. The survey is called "Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey" and is conducted annually. We will send the survey to editors across all the Wikimedia projects, as well as Wikimedia affiliates and volunteer developers. This survey is going to be our way of making sure that we can hear feedback from a significant number of users from across the projects. This research supports editors and Wikipedia’s mission. This is our second annual CE Insights survey, and we look forward to improving it every year.
You can sign up to be notified about the results of the survey, or to learn how you can help with planning the survey next year. If you have any questions or concerns about this project, please feel free to send them to my talk page on meta or email me directly at surveys@wikimedia.org in any language. To see the results of last year’s survey, and to see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support communities, you can learn more about this project, or read about frequently asked questions. You can also share your feedback on meta. Thank you! -- EGalvez (WMF) ( talk)
14:05, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Block-evading sock – Ammarpad ( talk) 11:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC) |
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Hey, can anyone get engaged in the Rfc currently in Talk:Taiwan. There haven't been enough opinions on this to form a consensus. -- Aisakano ( talk) 14:42, 25 March 2018 (UTC) |
Please note that Sergei Mavrodi has died on 26 march. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 12:27, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
The Twelve Apostles of Ireland Challenge is an edition competition seeking to create and improve articles on the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Anyone in any language can subscribe and collaborate on building or translating articles relating to the Twelve Apostles. Medals and real icons will be rewarded to the winners. To participate, one just needs to subscribe here and start collaborating. Dia Duit! Leefeni de Karik ( talk) 00:07, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Signpost, our English Wikipedia 'newspaper', began when the project was started by Michael Snow who continues to contribute to the English Wikipedia. The first issue was released on 10 January 2005. Begun as a weekly publication, in July 2016 the official schedule was changed to every two weeks, but by November the issues were already running late with the next issue appearing on 26 November and the following Signpost not being published until 22 December three weeks later.
Signpost appeared on 17 January 2017 with a lead article from editor-in-chief, Peter Forsyth, entitled Next steps for the Signpost. Forsyth's article, which explained some of the concerns surrounding the newspaper, received a significant number of comments from readers including one from Blue Rasberry who suggested that a grant may be worth considering:
If there were a rotating internship program at The Signpost for journalism students then from one perspective it seems controversial to pay for content, but from another perspective for years the international wiki community has major projects with major investment which are almost unknown for lack of journalism. (…)This is wiki's own newspaper of record and if it has problems then I wish we could explore options to support volunteers in maintaining it.
Aschmidt suggested that Signpost could be made a blog, or even a journal, with James Heilman, known for his work on the Medicine project responding with 'Sort of like the Wiki Journal of Medicine? It is a fair bit of work. But could be good.' Stating that other related projects are '...experiencing parallel attenuation (...) Better to have fewer issues with excellent content than to fake along for the sake of hitting a weekly deadline' , Carrite makes a poignant reflection.
From August 2017 that weekly deadline became monthly; now in its thirteenth year, the most recent issue was published on 20 February with a note that the next one would be due out on 27 February (a week later?). We now have 27 March.
Please make any suggestions here Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 02:46, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
When an article has a "History" section, or a subsection of a subject detailing its progress over time, is there a policy or recommendation for whether the information should be in chronological order? I have failed to find a clear policy on this. AadaamS ( talk) 17:09, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I am a researcher at the University of Warsaw, Poland and I'm conducting research on diversity within peer production communities. I want to figure out what makes some of them work better than others - perform more complex tasks, effectively reach their goals, etc. At the moment I'm mostly interested in what makes contributors take on different tasks - for example, some will be more willing to add content, some others to organize content, yet others to organize the work of the team (or clean up the mess that others make...). My idea is that for a community to be successful it has to draw in people with different motivations. I want to check this on the Wikipedia community by analysing how the editors differ in the values they hold - that is, what is important for them. To do that I have designed a list of editor behaviors / traits that can be retrieved from the database; now I need to assess how well these behaviors indicate what is important for editors. While I do have some ideas, I'm aware that I don't have enough experience on the Wiki to make the assessments sensible.
That's why I would be grateful if any Wikipedia editors were willing to help me with this. I have crated a survey here: wikiValues2018.eu which lists the behaviors I have come up with. The task is to assess how well they indicate that an editor holds one chosen value important - each survey is for one value out of ten. It takes about 15 min to complete it.
I have put some more details about the study on my userpage; I'm also very open to critcism and suggestions - if you have any comments about the survey, feel free to leave me a message. I will also be updating my userpage as the results flow in - I hope that this kind of information will be valuable not only for my research but also for the Wikipedia community at large. Allikka ( talk) 15:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks to everyone who took the survey! If you haven't - it will be open for a few more days only, so don't wait! Allikka ( talk) 09:29, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
hello, i am a new Wikipedia user, i have recently been blocked from editing due to a page i edited, it was indeed vandalism of the page but it was intended as a joke and to be deleted before i would of made my actual edits. i was wondering if there was any way to the block lifted as it wont happen again. also is this even how i do this, im realy confused — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gordon Pratt ( talk • contribs) 13:56, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Romania qualified or no to the 2019 rugby world cup? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 17:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Can some admin check if the File:14,5 x 114.jpg is the same as commons:File:14,5 x 114.jpg and is upoaded by user:Francis Flinch. Because there is some doubt with this Deletion Request wetther Francis Flinch realy published that file.-- Sanandros ( talk) 20:49, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, i remember seeing a discussion here on wikipedia about the new 1000 character limit on edit summaries, But i'm not able to find anything about it. can someone give me a link to that discussion? i just noticed the new 500 charater limit. Thanks. Pancho507 ( talk) 07:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Deskmodder is writing about a new dns. It is real dns or April fool? -- 94.247.8.8 ( talk) 15:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm fairly new here. I'd like to get into vandalism fighting. Do you have any tips? Calm Omaha ( talk) 02:59, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
As we shared on Wikimedia-l in October, Facebook has been testing a new feature that uses English Wikipedia content. When users see news articles in their News Feed, the new feature provides more context about the article's source by pulling information about the publishers from English Wikipedia. Today, Facebook will begin making this feature available to all of its users in the United States.
The Wikimedia Foundation first learned of the integration of Wikipedia content into Facebook’s Article Context feature ahead of its initial beta launch in October 2017. This new feature did not come from a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, though we were in contact with Facebook’s product and engineering teams ahead of this week’s launch.
We are going to be tracking the impact of this new feature on English Wikipedia. Including looking at how many people click on the link to Wikipedia and seeing which pages are getting the most traffic. We will continue to keep you updated on our conversations with Facebook and impact of this new feature. JMatazzoni (WMF) ( talk) 19:53, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I have been grappling with including information from different sources that appear in the first instance to be conflicting, but which I think are actually both useful and factual. The result is [11]. The purpose of posting here is to get comment on the idea of pointing the reader at a possible interpretation of the information, but not definitively stating that the suggested interpretation is the case. The sentence at issue is:
Comparison of this route with Schirmer's description of the three lines of march may suggest to the reader that his group started on the northern line of march and finished on the central one.
(bold added)
Does this approach seem useful, over-cautious, or even down-right wrong (or anything else)?
ThoughtIdRetired (
talk) 13:43, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
(I use Firefox.) My Wikipedia screen size has suddenly jumped to a bigger size. Please, how can I quickly change my Wikipedia screen type size or type width? Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 22:03, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Institut Nova Història is a foundation subsidized and awarded by the Catalan government, supported by Catalan historians, intellectuals, writers, Important politicians of the main parties of Catalonia, members are parlamentaries of Catalan assembly and they often do conferences in the assembly, according to all there are enough people that considers that as the true history of Catalonia, i though this article should be in the 'See Also' section of the article on the history of Catalonia and related articles of the Catalan independence movement. -- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 07:13, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Oriol Junqueras (second leader of Catalan independence movement, Artur Mas (strong main figure of Catalan movement and many many of catalan important people openly supported these theories (also they give credencies), Institut Nova Història received an award from a Catalan important gala, why this cant be named in this related articles, since are strong convictions of the Catalan people over their history? (read the article)-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 07:32, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I am only talking about the history of Catalonia and Catalan independentism's articles that are related to this article, if I add it in cervantes, shakespeare, ect. I will not do it again. I am debating over the articles that I talk-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 07:39, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The institution give conferences on these theories in the Catalan national assembly since several years ago, you can read it in the article-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 07:42, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The members of the institution lead the 2014 National Day of Catalonia named Via Catalana or V, in the two main avenues - the Gran Vía and the Diagonal - forming a V of 11 kilometers long with the vertex in the Plaza de Las Glorias, with the aim of claiming the "right of self-determination" of the Catalan people, Its founder created the anthem for the independentist referendum. He made these researchers!-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Other main member, Codinas, the president of the Institute, graduate in Contemporary History, vice president of the Fundació Catalunya Estat, secretary of the Associació Catalunya 2014, voicer of the executive board of the Catalan Association of Leisure, Sports and Culture Companies, co-founder of the Platform for the Right to Decide and former voicer of the executive board of the Catalan Business Circle.
Other important member, Cucurull, president of the Fundació Societat i Cultura, member of the national secretariat of the Catalan National Assembly he is very known for the video of his June 2013 conference in Navàs, which has been commented by many newspapers.-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:18, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Theses belief is openly supported by Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (a decisive and very main independentist party and the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain), Jordi Pujol was president of Catalonia from 1980 to 2003, Isabel-Clara Simó, Josep Rull, Alfons López Tena, Carles Campuzano, Antoni Strubell, Jaume Manel Oronich (all deputies and parlamentaries of the Catalan assembly), Ramon Tremosa, Josep Maria Terricabras (members of the European parliament), Núria Cadenas (president of a electoral coalition (the second largest independentist political force in Catalonia), Assumpcio Maresma (politician and journalist), Joan Rabasseda (mayor of Arenys de Munt), Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira (a leader of Catalan movement and ex-vice President of Catalonia, Muriel Casals i Couturier she died and she was an economist.-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:18, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The criticisms that appear in the article are from politicians who support Spain, do not mention any Catalan politician or historian denying these theories, and this page was translated from Catalan and Spanish wikipedia, and I translated it completely. and I check the sources-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:23, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Not only propossed by these historians but also propossed by the Centre d'Estudis Colombins, that is an association dedicated to the historical studies not related to Institut Nova Història, this other founded in 1989 that since its foundation until today is totally organized by Òmnium Cultural. See: Centre d'Estudis Colombins (Catalan) and Institut_Nova_Història#Theses_defended_by_the_Institute (Center for Colombian Studies)-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:35, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Not only politicians and historians but also Catalan businessmen organizations (unions for entrepreneurs) strongly support these theories and the institute, I mentioned it above-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm not going to make a paragraph in William Shakespeare or Da Vinci, but I'm going to add the link to several of the organizations and people who publicly support this theories and institute and in the article of the history of Catalonia primarily, all in the sections of see also -- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:53, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
You know that I do not believe in these theories, but a huge number of Catalans actually believe it, these conclusions are supported practically by all those who represent them politically, businessly and research, and the Catalan government finances it, I think it is coherent that adds more information and what happens today related completely to the articles that I say-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 09:03, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
These researchers have often had talks on TV3 (the primary television channel and of Catalan public broadcaster) also on Catalunya Ràdio (owned by the Generalitat de Catalunya and is the major Catalan-language network today), and El Punt Avui TV, etc.'s programs. See: Institut_Nova_Història#References.-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 09:54, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
No, but in the articles of politicians from Catalonia that support them and in the article of the history of catalonia I think that it should be add, so people know about it.-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 10:20, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
and in history of Catalonia It should not be appropriate? knowing that this is an alternating history of Catalonia supported by the main figures of Catalonia today and a lot of Catalan people-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 12:21, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
thanks-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 12:29, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
lol it seems to give propaganda to nationalism, or the opposite as I see it, people when see this know more about the society in which the Catalans live, the ideas that they intend to give to the people, and in a way put some them in the head, I do not want to politicize, I want to say with this that information is included that nobody knows, information that is part of contemporary history, and the reality that the Catalans live, under reliable sources, the truth is shown, that is the wikipedia Let people know the truth and do not try to hide the most relevant and important things of a topic, hiding that important article in a corner that has to be spoiled enough to get it, this article is as important as the rest of the information that comes out In the partial "history of Catalonia" that is shown, as you add more truth, the article becomes more complete-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 16:54, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I have nominated this article for deletion: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institut Nova Història. -- Scolaire ( talk) 18:55, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I am going to tell you an experience, I knew and I am involved by twitter in Spanish politics since 2 months ago, since I am Venezuelan, I live in Venezuela and i cared about Venezuela, however I almost do not twit, I only retwits things, I do not even look for twits of independent Catalans, but of Unionist Catalans since the start, and despite that on February 2, 2018 attacked me a typical Catalan independentist trying to convince a Venezuelan guy like me of these theories that he believes faithfully, with a lot of messages, and giving me that information and other pages that are not from the institute but others (He gave me two pages giving validity and propagating these things: 'Fundació d'Estudis Històrics de Catalunya' and 'Cercle Català d'Història'). Here are the tweets Obviously I did not convince myself but it made me understand how many Catalans think and about what was the famous Institute Nova History and the Cucurull of which many people speak. In Catalonia, it is quite common that they talk about the subject they have mentioned since i know of Catalan politics-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 21:46, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
"I ask you to take pictures of these tweets" as they erase things at once when something fails-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 22:17, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I know that this opinion does not go with wikipedia and sorry for that but only for them to see that you have to take evidence of these things, but I personally know that they are experts in manipulating public opinion, they always go from supporters of malcom x, anti-fascists, etc. in favor of everything that loves most of the world, then they send really explosive messages, leaders and university professors, for example, comparing Spaniards descendents of Catalonia with the Maghrebies of France, for example, which they are " followers of violence and hatred in the host country", or of people doing bad things in the street, then that is bad sight and immediately they try to leave no trace of it. I only say that it does that things like this one do not know and other things that they like them yes. I know that I have already gone politically with this last message but my intention is not this )-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 22:24, 8 April 2018 (UTC).
ok but I ask you to read this page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institut Nova Història and see the sources that are here. I also ask you to review the article Institut Nova Història and that sources posted there. They have good sources, although i think the mass media apparently could have reserved rights to the programs on their channels interviewing these people and at this moment of "internationalization of the process" as they call it, and they took care of deleting many things and I can prove that if someone wants, but in return I left youtube videos and Spanish newspapers showing photos as good proofs of these programs given on tv3 and radio catalunya, the rest of the article gives a lot of Spanish newspapers and a lot of pro-Indepndentist newspapers and pro-independentist sources, I am available and want to help to find more and better sources online-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 11:24, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
The reason it seems I use Wikipedia a lot and that you have in fact had my help this Tuesday, is that I'm one of the librarians, archivists, and information junkies and most working days I do my bit for Wikipedia. I'm perfectly willing to donate the price I pay for my coffee (an undrinkable beverage that is too costly to consider getting used to) or tea (provided for free by my employer) and one could indeed consider the time I spend contributing as that donation.
Now, can you stop asking for donations I can ill afford, especially since your request doesn't scale well to my high screen, making it far more in my face than a "humble" request should be. Mysha ( talk)
And to that I can add that:
If everyone reading that would spend two hours each week editing Wikimedia we'd explode. Mysha ( talk)
I have an idea for something that I really wish I had a user script for, and I'm wondering if one already exists (couldn't easily find one in WP:User scripts/List). When I'm patrolling for vandalism, and I'm looking at a revision (whether in a page's history list or on Special:RecentChanges), the most useful button for me is definitely the "diff"/"prev" button, to show what changed in that one revision. But that's not always quite what I want. If a user has made several edits in a row, then I also like to see a diff of all their consecutive revisions—that is, all the revisions they've made since the last revision by someone else. (If that explanation is unclear, then here's a random example: If I were patrolling 55Sassafras55's edits, instead of just looking at Special:Diff/836020105, I might also want to see Special:Diff/836020105/836016588.)
This diff is possible to access, but it requires: going to the history page, finding + clicking two radio buttons, and clicking "Compare selected revisions" (which is a button rather than a link, so I can't open it in a new tab). Vandalism patrolling is all about efficiency, so this is too tedious for something I do so often. Does anyone know of a script that adds an easy one-click option for getting the diff I want (or do I need to write it myself)? Thanks, IagoQnsi ( talk) 14:37, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
@ In ictu oculi: I have been asked: "How can I find (including their names) which external website pages link to a particular Wikipedia article?". Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 09:13, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous) -site:en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)
. You can also try link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)
in Google.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:39, 12 April 2018 (UTC)link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent
WP:ITN are the news items on the main page. I'm only passingly familiar with this aspect of the project, but I have noticed that roughly 50% of the items are what I'd call routine reporting of very limited or local interest, such as aircraft crashes, minor natural disasters or sports results. I don't think that as an encyclopedia we should be in the business of reporting such matters. Has there ever been a broader community discussion about the ITN priorities or am I just wasting my time complaining? Sandstein 16:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
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About 2018 Palestinian Land Claim protests and Israel shooting unarmed protestors.
It also says that Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine did not even bother to put a {{WikiProject Palestine}} on it s talkpage. It has come this far: enwiki has lost the WP:Palestine WikiProject. - DePiep ( talk) 19:04, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Suggestion in this Techdirt article that EU could restrict people's rights to use CC. Is this a potential problem for Wikipedia?-- A bit iffy ( talk) 11:38, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I have a few questions regarding Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia and Template:Free-content attribution.
I first came across these pages in literacy#Sources because there were three {{ free-content attribution}} templates that took up almost an entire screen. I spoke with John Cummings about this since he did most of the recent work for both pages. You can see my initial conversations with him on his talk page.
I've since trimmed the template to bring it in line with other attribution templates, but John and I are still discussing whether it is appropriate to include the additional links about the project.
Is there a general policy or guideline with regard to linking to the project namespace permanently in an article as part of an attribution template? As originally designed, Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia and the terms of use will be listed with each transclusion of {{ free-content attribution}}. In articles where this template is used multiple times (as it was in literacy), this seems excessive, but I can see an argument to be made for even one link. The content does not relate to the source or the subject of the article and only serve as a way to promote the editing of Wikipedia and adding free content. To be clear, I do support both of those activities and want to make it easier for others to contribute to the project, but not at the expense of article quality. Has anyone seen similar disputes in the past? It wouldn't surprise me if I'm missing something obvious here... Thanks. - Paul T +/ C 17:00, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
To learn how to add open-license text to Wikipedia articles, please see Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia. For information on reusing text from Wikipedia, please see the terms of use., which I don't think is "necessary or intrinsic to the purpose..." of the template", but I certainly could be wrong about that. Additionally, I recently added {{ essay}} to Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia, but is this something that should be reviewed to be an actual project guideline or policy? - Paul T +/ C 17:17, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all
Thanks very much for engaging in this conversation. For context, this template is part of a wider piece of work I have been doing as part of my residency at UNESCO to help organisations share their knowledge by being able to directly add open license text into Wikipedia. This template provides attribution and Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia provides the instructions, additionally Mediaviews allows metrics to be generated on where text from a source is used and how many people visit those articles, e.g text from UNESCO. I have a draft blog post waiting for a bit of editing that will explain all this in more detail soon. I don't see this template as the end point of this process, more it is a proof of concept to show the value of providing an easy way to reuse and measure the reuse of open license text which would then be developed as part of the editing toolbar.
As @ Psantora: has said we are looking for some clarification on how much direction and instruction should be given within the template. Here is the template from Water in Africa which does not appear in the main body of the text, but at the bottom in a sources section:
This article incorporates text from a
free content work. Licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 (
license statement/permission). Text taken from
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2016: water and jobs, UNESCO, UNESCO. UNESCO.
A general issue I have with Wikipedia is the level of easy to use documentation and how connected the processes are with the instructions for those processes. At least 50% of the time I've only worked out how to do something by chance or by asking around rather than being able to follow the instructions, the current situation is not helpful to grow and develop a community....
I really want to keep some link between the text displayed on the page and the instructions to reuse open license text and linking to instructions does happen within templates that appear at the top of the page, e.g AFD. I do accept at the moment that it probably takes up too much space, but I do not want to sacrifice usability and ease of use (something I've spent at least 80 hours on) for saving a line or two of space. I think there are three main things I would like to get out of this discussion:
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 10:48, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
This article incorporates text from a free content work. [source information]
To learn how to add open license text to Wikipedia articles, please see
Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia.
For information on reusing text from Wikipedia, please see
the terms of use.
|how-to=no
, which I don't think would cause a problem when using the template with the visual editor. You know more about editing templates with the visual editor than I do.Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss has just gotten the first fresh batch of spelling errors in a long time, and could use some help if you enjoy fixing typos. The main batch is articles that have a single spelling error. There are also opportunities to add words that belong in Wiktionary but aren't, and to fix common misspellings across lots of articles. -- Beland ( talk) 21:22, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello colleagues, I am somehow helpless. I tried to do some wp:cleanup work in the article Port Arthur massacre (Australia). I have asked for help at multiple [14] + [15] + [16] + [17] + [18] corners of this project. Now the thing is somehow stuck, leaving me with the question if this crime-related articles are OK regarding WP:SYNTH / WP:NOR / WP:PTS etc. It just looks like that nobody dares to touch or edit this article. Please read Talk:Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)#Discussion and let us read your opinions. Best -- Tom ( talk) 18:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
I have no idea as to where I should report this, but try googling:
....and you get the exact same picture for all three. Lol, so all Arab historians look the same?
It is also pictured on the Iraqi dinar, and according to the Iraqi dinar article it is Ibn al-Haytham.
This is outside "Wikipedia jurisdiction", so to speak, but does anyone know how can this be fixed? Huldra ( talk) 22:38, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
What is that Tel Aviv / Wikipedia (WMF) link currently going about? - DePiep ( talk) 20:49, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
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User:Filiprino has been constantly deleting information and modifying information without any reliable reference, he has had edit wars with other users, arguing that politicians and organizations against the Catalan independence process have very close affiliations with the far-right, without adding reliable sources, I'm not sure but I think he also used another pet account who did the same edit in the moment of the edit war 37.135.109.62. These edits can be seen in the (1) Tabarnia: Revision history, (2) Societat Civil Catalana:Revision history, (3) Somatemps: Revision history and (4) Jaume Vives: Revision history. What I'm saying is that if he want to hold something like that in these articles that is with reliable sources.
He has already been blocked two times for the same (see User talk:Filiprino).-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 13:31, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
He just added controversial information again with an unreliable source, excusing himself in this above response. Now adding a source with i see a complete radical position, read that url he just post [19]. in the comments of the same page, readers demystify the information of this "media" by saying that the same link that references that page says the opposite. the reference of that link is a blog, which coincidentally ensures otherwise. in summary nothing reliable this source-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:11, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
that link is not the page of El Triangle, it is a mask, a false page, there is no any link in the site that move you to the main page of the real one, you click anywhere and it takes you to dead links. This is the real website of that media [20] (of which I did not know)-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:27, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
El Salto Diario only shows articles of opinion clearly independentists, I have looked at some and nothing else because their titles are radical, I read them and do not show some kind of criticism on the other side, just to one side-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:30, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Whether or not it is a reliable source that I leave to the neutral administrators that can contribute to this discussion. I only see in the links that you pass me a radical opinion and away from reality, based on references that say the opposite when you access it, and fact is based on references that are mere blogs where fans write to various topics-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:48, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
the other link is another opinion biased and radical from beginning to end, of a dubious verifiability if it is of that (unkonw by me) newspaper, remember that there are also current newspapers in Catalonia as "vila-web" and hundreds others that behave as a propaganda archive towards the Catalan independence, and who are not interested in their reputation, and not behave like a newspaper that gives neutral information-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:55, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Response to third opinion request: |
I removed this entry because 3O is for single article disputes. But this isn't the correct venue for this discussion either; if you feel that there is inappropriate behavior across different articles, the discussion belongs at WP:ANI. Erpert blah, blah, blah... 15:08, 20 April 2018 (UTC) |
hi why dump of enwiki is 12 gb but last dump is 13 9 gb — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 14:04, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Denoto que entre las distintas paginas principales de wikipedia hay una diferencia entre la informacion entre ingles y español , ademas de una gran diferencia de cantidad de articulos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kritical Strike ( talk • contribs) 17:10, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Please edit, see WWW & other wiki language versions.-- 37.250.54.251 ( talk) 17:51, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
At National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, there are, I believe, three other-language Wikipedia articles's links. However, the simple English one is a tiny bit paler. When I clicked on it, instead of being sent to a Simple English article, I got a notice that I was agreeing to something in translating the English article. What's going on? Kdammers ( talk) 03:02, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
This zhwiki administrator @AT (his username is AT) recently deleted over 20 wikipages I translated, pages like "Lists of Portuguese people", "Lists of Russian people" and so on, I tried to translate these pages into chinese, and @AT deleted them.
From January 15 to April 15, I post a lot in the zhwiki community, I tried to disscuss with @at but it didn't help. From what I see @AT just make some excuse and pretend to disscuss but actually did not care at all. And @AT got some followers to justify the whole thing for him. In this post [21] I list all the reasons @AT and his followers mentioned, I explain every single reason, but @AT change subject all the time, anyone could see that from that post.
I then post in the zhwiki community ask to remove @AT's administrator job, that pissed off his followers, I got mocked and bullied, my words got twisted, I got blocked 3 times, none is with right reason. @AT and his followers acted like a dictator and his musclemen.
Another thing is this user @Dingruogu, i consider him one of @AT's followers. He is the guy put "Lists of Portuguese people" and "List of Swiss people" and about 20 other pages into the 'Wikipedia:Articles for deletion' then @AT deleted them all. Most recently he tried to delete my another page "Igor Pavlov", known as the creater of the file archiver 7-Zip, I translated "Igor Pavlov" into chinese and he wants to delete it. And just to fit his need, he also changed the enwiki page of "Igor Pavlov" [22]
I know the whole thing happened in zhwiki, and it is indepent to enwiki. but with all the post I did not got much help from othe zhwiki administrators, they remain silence about the deletion, that makes me no choice but ask help from the enwiki and WMF.
If a administrator could delete fine wikipedia pages he doesn't like and other administrators remain silence and the one against him got mocked got bullied got blocked. Then it is not worth editing wikipedia or donate to wikipedia.
With all above, for the good of wikipedia, May I ask a full investigation to this zhwiki administrator?-- Jasonnn~zhwiki ( talk) 05:35, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Ok, so kinda new to this wikipedia thing. Can we ask for help with articles here? If so, can we have someone who speaks finnish help with the page for FOX Finland? It would be nice to translate some content from the Finnish page to English. CobaltBlue101 ( talk) 18:29, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Please note that Roy Young died on april 27 according to sources. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 16:10, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Do we have something which describes the article life cycle? I'm thinking sandbox -> draft -> article -> AfD -> DRV, with lots of loops for editing and discussion at each stage. I can't find such a description, but it seems like we must have one somewhere. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:57, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
No idea which article (I haven't engaged). Thought I'd highlight this which I assume is against policy. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/8g30p3/searching_person_with_an_established_wikipedia/ -- A bit iffy ( talk) 21:34, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
Page Previews is a software feature that allows readers to read an excerpt of a linked article’s lead section without leaving the page they’re currently on, by hovering their mouse over the link. It has been activated by default for logged-out users on all Wikipedias except German and English since August 2017, and numerous further bug fixes and technical improvements have been implemented since. A few weeks ago we announced some updates to Page Previews, published the results of our latest round of A/B testing, and asked for your feedback. These updates resolved all of the issues identified in the discussion held at the English Wikipedia last year. In our A/B tests we found – as expected – that when the feature is enabled, readers will open pages in their browser slightly less often (a decrease of around 3–5% in regular pageviews). But on the other hand, they interact with a lot more different pages when one counts both the seen page previews and the regular pageviews (an increase of around 20–22% in the number of distinct pages interacted with via either method). In addition, the option to deactivate the feature was used very rarely (disable rates were around 0.01%). This leads us to believe that Page Previews is a welcomed feature that is helping readers learn more during their visits.
Based on these results and on feedback we’ve heard so far, we plan on continuing with the next step of rollout here on the English Wikipedia, which is turning the feature on by default for logged-out users. This will mean no changes for logged-in users. The feature will be off by default for logged-in editors, unless currently enabled. If you would like to enable it, it is available in your Preferences under “Appearance”. If you have the feature enabled already, it will stay on. We plan on implementing these changes within the next couple of weeks.
In terms of future changes for logged-in users, we have a few options we’d like to request some feedback on:
What do you think the next step should be in terms of behavior for existing logged-in users?
Yours, OVasileva (WMF) ( talk) 14:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC) (Product manager, Readers web team, Wikimedia Foundation)
Thank you for your feedback! It seems the preferred way forward is to deploy Page Previews as on by default for logged-out users and new accounts and off for current editors (the feature can be enabled via user preferences). As a result, we plan on making the following changes:
Since we haven’t had any comments over the past few days, we’re planning for making the first change next week. Let us know if you would like more time for discussion. OVasileva (WMF) ( talk) 13:53, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, We got a mail in OTRS saying that this image, initially claimed to be Augusta Savage is actually Georgette Seabrooke. I don't understand how we got this confusion, as the initial source shows a different image. May be it was changed there? The good news is we didn't have any good image of Georgette Seabrooke. The bad news is that this picture was promoted as Featured picture, and then appeared on the Main page on 2018-02-28. I renamed the picture, and removed it wherever it was wrongly used. What do we do now with the FP nomination ? Already posted here, but no answer. Regards, Yann ( talk) 17:30, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
What is the distinction between a city and a town in Algeria? I have seen several places which are described in English Wikipedia as 'town and commune' (e.g. Khemisti), while in Commons, they are categorized under 'Cities in XY province' - Khemisti. JiriMatejicek ( talk) 07:40, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I see a warning message on the config page for a bot I help run. The warning message is incorrect. That code does not run when the page is previewed, nor do the users have to bypass their cache. It's also impossible for the code there to compromise the user account. The warning message is recent and I'm wondering if I can help tweak it or have it removed from that page. Thanks. -- Niharika ( talk) 07:24, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
I requested comments regarding the application of WP:CALC at Talk:List of countries by firearm-related death rate. Please comment. Thinker78 ( talk) 05:57, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I plan to sketch a new logo for the Wikipedia Asian Month, but since I am an asian, I don't want to be too biased to my own culture. What do you think is the best symbol for Asia? Or what can remind you about Asia as an entity, instead of a specific asian country?-- 燃灯 ( talk) 17:41, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Since the beginning of May, multiple attempts have been made to crack my password. I have a committed identity. I would like to know what the procedure is in case my account should get hacked? How do I get it back? Debresser ( talk) 16:11, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
What I see it says at Wikipedia:Compromised accounts is: "A typical result of having your account compromised is to have the account either blocked or locked (a lock is a global block from all Wikimedia projects) to prevent further discruption. Although administrators on Wikipedia may be able to help, the WMF Support and Safety team and stewards may also be contacted." So how would I do this? Debresser ( talk) 07:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
I've been around many years, and I know that there always have been some battles and vandalism on Wikipedia. But it used to still be possible to take them with a dose of humor. (See WP:BJAODN). Now we have reached a state of collective hysteria. The word "has become an emotional label for people, the equivalent to the word "communist" in the McCarthy era. (This is of course not meant to diminish the efforts of the many hard wirking people fighting Wikipedia:Vandalism. Part of the problem is that the term "vandal" allows to replace the very specific matter-of-fact definition of our policy to such an emotionally loaded personal label. McCarthy probably would not have been as successful if he had focussed on a specific definition of "communism", instead of speaking of "the Reds".)
I think we've experienced a similar hardening as has happened in countries under the threat of war, which often ends just with what they dreaded most. Wars often begin with an escalation: Some people act with violence. Others are outraged and feel they must do something against it. An arms race ensues. Specialized warriors come to power, recruiting more and more people and resources. People who question the violence get branded as "unpatriotic", "traitors", or even as non-humans, which solidifies the warrior groups. The warriors on both sides are united in threatening the remaining reasonable people. Eventually, even honest, thoughtful people feel forced to align themselves with one side. I wrote about this regarding an ethnic conflict back in 2007.
A similar situation happened in the last decade here at Wikipedia, between righteous editors and readers who distrust what they read. If someone from the latter group does something rash, the warriors quickly come up with their war cry WP:DENY!, ultimately denying the offendors one of the basic rights of humanity, the right to speak about their needs and grieves. What happened of our cherished ideal and self-image of "The Free Encyclopedia"?
I believe it is the obligation of those of us who are more fortunate to help those who are in a situation of strife, most often due to no fault on their part. Eleven years ago, that was still possible here. But since then, the warrior class here has grown and harded to the point where they question anyone's integrity who tries to reasonably speak with a "vandal", and use all weapons they can to obviate any chance for compassionate communication.
This is what I experienced in a recent case. Apparently a reader got upset about something they read or missed here because it violated some of their core beliefs, in this case apparently something that has to do with genocides they attributed to the white "man". ThEy reacted in ways that apparently made it easy for the warriors to summarily disregard their grievances. The term "vandal" was applied, and from then on there was no way out of the mess. The last thing they was allowed to write was a message on my talk page. It was, just like the angry posts before, a desperate attempt to find someone who compassionally listens. This last message also contained an attempt to understand what was going on. In addition to repeating some of the things they wrote before, the last message contained elements of gratitude, of introspection, and the legitimate question "How is it possible to provide a contratry view in Wikipedia." I saw those as signs of hope, and my plan was to, after calming down the reader, explain to them why they ran afoul with Wikipedia, that it's not because of some conspiracy and, if we get so far, the importance of reliable sources. I've done such things successfully in the past, when I helped some people not unlike this disgruntled reader transform in some cases even into reasonable editors. Sadly, this chance to educate a reader was thwarted by cutting off the only communication channell we had, when the reader was blocked with a punitive block.
If we had a more compassionate way of dealing with disgruntled readers, we would have less problems with them. It would be one way to reduce the problem of vandalism, which the warrior's attempts of the last decade have only exacerbated. ◄ Sebastian 14:56, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello!
I would like to share my deepest gratitude for everyone who responded to the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors Survey. The survey has closed for this year.
The quality of the results has improved because more people responded this year. We are working on analyzing the data already and hope to have something published on meta in a couple months. Be sure to watch Community Engagement Insights for when we publish the reports.
We will also message those individuals who signed up on the Thank you page or sent us an email to receive updates about the report.
Feel free to reach out to me directly at egalvez@wikimedia.org or at my talk page on meta.
Thank you again to everyone for sharing your opinions with us! EGalvez (WMF) ( talk) (by way of Johan (WMF) ( talk)) 09:05, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
A lot of Tongan names here are written with just an apostrophe rather than a fakauʻa (which is officially formalized in Tonga). I understand that through WP:COMMONNAME the apostrophe might be better because most publications don't use the fakauʻa. However, this is a small change which wouldn't confuse readers so long there are hard redirects from the apostrophe page to the fakauʻa page.
Should the pages be moved or otherwise changed? I'm pretty new here; let me know if I'm just not aware of a policy regarding this. Thanks, – Gormflaith ( talk) 13:03, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
On April 17, I was part of a conference which was held at the Centre Saint-Louis in Rome. Three Catholic clerics, myself included (I'm a priest), presented on the topic of "The Church on Wikipedia." Some French-language articles on the conference gave it the title "Wikipedia and Evangelization," which ended up hitting the French equivalent of this Village Pump and causing a bit of a ruckus. Not being Francophone myself, I didn't see it as my place to jump into that discussion, and frankly most of what I saw seemed to be fuelled by vague panic that a concerted group of Catholic priests might be attempting to skew NPOV on Catholicism-related articles. That was not at all the goal of the conference, of course. My presentation was a layman's introduction to the core content policies and a reflection on how these might be not merely respected, but truly assimilated and appreciated while pursuing editing on Wikipedia as a Christian. (I did conclude that editing can be a form of evangelization, but I was very clear that such evangelization is entirely passive... it's about contributing expertise to theologically-related articles and creating articles for underrepresented topics, not proselytism. If people want to know my thoughts on this matter, I can publish my remarks as an essay within my userspace.) A second presentation was from a priest who is an accomplished linguist, merely attesting to the quality and value of Wikipedia's coverage on what would otherwise be obscure linguistic topics. The final presentation was a friendly introduction to entire Wiki project, aimed at the uninitiated "Christian editor." This last presentation was just recently published in English, which is why I am initiating this discussion — firstly, to make people aware of who the editors involved here are (because in the French discussion of this topic, many immediately assumed, among other things, that we were newbie editors); secondly because I want to be preemptively clear about what this conference presented, especially since a few more English-language pieces on the conference remain to be published; and finally to hone my own thoughts on the matter. If you have concerns I would like to hear them. — AJDS talk 22:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, per this edit, a user reverts an article I had rearranged to feature chronological order. As the user comes with various accusations against me, I would prefer a third opinion. This has debated here before, but this time the discussion concerns the practical application of principle. AadaamS ( talk) 12:37, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
The name Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area is not the correct name for this Dutch metropolitan region. I looked it up on the offical website, where on the English language page they write Metropolitan region Rotterdam The Hague. I have corrected the name inside the article already (including reference), but felt I should not change the article title without consulting the community. Not to offend anyone. -- oSeveno ( User talk) 10:16, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
I discovered this on https://unicode.org/policies/logo_policy.html:
Use the ® symbol to indicate that the Unicode Mark is a registered trademark.
Does it mean that most of the usages of the word Unicode on Wikipedia should be replaced with Unicode®? Coeur ( talk) 10:56, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello all,
The Anti-Harassment Tools team made improvements to Special:Block to have a calendar as datetime selector to choose a specific day and hour in the future as expire time. The new feature was first available on the de.wp, meta, and mediawiki.org on 05/03/18. For more information see Improvement of the way the time of a block is determined - from a discussion on de.WP or ( phab:T132220) Questions? or want to give feedback. Leave a message on meta:Talk:Community health initiative/Blocking tools and improvements, on Phabricator, or by email. SPoore (WMF), Trust & Safety, Community health initiative ( talk) 18:01, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
St._Simons,_Georgia#Cotton_production has two paragraphs that seem uncertain. There was some material about slaves but someone went in and called the stories false. I could not determine which edits those were and I don't know what is correct. Is there a way to get someone who knows the history to straighten it out? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 20:13, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
When I clicked the edit button while not being logged into my Wikipedia account, I was able to see a long list of hidden categories at the bottom.
I prefer to have my username and not my IP address as the editor's identity. So I proceeded to log in but now those same hidden categories have disappeared.
What were they? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeldamaniac44 ( talk • contribs) 20:26, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
I keep seeing boxes saying that an article can be expanded by translating content from the same article on a non-English Wikipedia. Initially this looks like an easy win, particularly for a topic where there isn't an article on the English wikipedia yet. However, I keep looking at such pages and finding content that I don't want to translate. Often the articles I see aren't referenced very well, and often don't sound very encyclopaedic to me. In one recent case an article seemed to be full of overly detailed trivia and didn't really give a solid biography of the subject. I'm confident enough to read Wikipedia articles in (sadly only) one other language, but I certainly wouldn't want to offer an opinion on how the articles should be on the non-English Wiki. That's for another community to decide. But, I'm not finding the expected treasure trove of new content for English wiki. It's not all the articles that are bad, but it seems to happen quite often for articles on subjects that I am interested in. So, I suppose I'll keep on writing articles from scratch. This isn't really a question; I'm just curious if other people have had similar experiences or general thoughts on this matter. Ross-c ( talk) 10:03, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Dear all Over the past year or so I've been working quite a lot on Wikidata documentation and have been thinking more about the needs of different kinds of user. I feel that currently Wikidata can be difficult to understand (what it does, how to contribute, what issues there are and what is being done to address them etc) even for experienced Wikimedia project contributors. To help address this I've started an RFC to try and collate this information together. It would be really helpful if you could share your thoughts, especially if you find Wikidata hard to understand or confusing, you can just share your thoughts on the talk page and we will synthesize them into the main document. Wikidata:Requests for comment/Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user Thanks very much John Cummings ( talk) 12:54, 18 May 2018 (UTC) |
Is it customary to remove other people's comments from discourse pages?- Inowen ( talk) 01:55, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
In the article Coast, after the Table of Contents, section 1, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence, this word appears. Now, I don't claim to know every word in the English language, but I do know how to use a dictionary. I have some facility with search engines. I don't believe this word exists. Furthermore, neither does the OED or Wiktionary. A Google search produces the exact sentence from this article MANY times, from MANY sources, and many of them are otherwise nonesense aggregations of words (lorem ipsum) that I had the presence of mind NOT to open. There is new malware at large which activates as soon as you visit a site or open a PDF. The sentence ends " and areas with lower tidal ranges produce deprossosition at a smaller elevation interval." A Google or other search will find this sentence repeatedly, in articles and sources with no possible relation to coast, tides, erosion, etc.
If you are familiar with deprossosition, please explain something of etymology, derivation, or at least citeable sources. I don't believe the sky is falling, but this article and WP may have been salted with clickbait to facilitate malware. ALERT!
(I have posted this info on the Coast talkpage, but I am sufficiently concerned to repost here. If this is overreaction on my part, o.k. I've had egg on my face before.) rags ( talk) 13:17, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, folks. It's sure spread across the net. rags ( talk) 13:41, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello!
Let's look e.g. at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileLanguages/Crime_Traveller
We see "2 languages" there meaning "2 additional languages" actually (total is 3).
It seems somewhat strangely to see on language switch page that "... is available in 2 languages" whereas "2 additional languages" is correct.
Maybe, for equality of displaying show there all language links (not touching that "Return" link).
Crime Traveller is available in 3 languages.
Return to Crime Traveller. < not remove this link
Languages
English < and display also here the "current" language
polski
русский
I hope this idea is reasonable.
Serge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.149.44.203 ( talk • contribs)
Editors regularly ignore key policies such as WP:commonname or delete sourced content etc. Is there a speedy way of countering such violations, rather than lengthy RFC's etc.? Thylacoop5 ( talk) 12:33, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I dont know how to deal with this being less familiar with procedures on the anglophone Wikipedia. Marion Maréchal-Lepen has been recently renamed to Marion Maréchal, but the contributor who initiated this change (virtually everywhere) has been blocked on the francophone wikipedia, and the change reverted at least on the French version. See here for more details (fr). I also left a note on the article talk page. To me it seems this renaming is a little premature and the page should move back to Marion Lepen-Maréchal.-- Nattes à chat ( talk) 19:45, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Is there any purpose to this kind of edit? Oh, now I see Wikipedia:Short description--I'm always the last one to get the news. Drmies ( talk) 18:47, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
taipei has been added to China several times. Can any disability be dealt with in relation to this type of editorial activity that is cheap? ( for example) Zenk0113 ( talk) 16:22, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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Dear friends,
From January 26 to May 26, 2018, Wikimedia RU together with partners holds an international competition for writing biographical articles — « Learn about Russia. Graduates and Mentors». The competition is dedicated to graduates and teachers of Russian educational institutions from the Middle Ages to our time. The competition has a nomination for articles in foreign languages, i.e. official UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, and Spanish.
This nomination has 5 prize-winning places, the main prize is 500 Euros!
We invite participants of your section to take part in this interesting competition. JukoFF ( talk) 17:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
I would like to change my user name in Wikimedia BUT not in Wikpedia, where I'd like to keep my current user name (Pedro Felipe). Is it possible? How can I do it? -- Pedro Felipe ( talk) 22:45, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello everybody! Over the past weeks the Community health initiative team took a look at at all 58 suggestions that came out of the discussion about making improvements to blocking tools. Now join the discussion to select 2 to build from the shortlist. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 19:07, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
I wanted to give you all an update about the Compact Language Links feature. The Wikimedia Foundation Language team has been working on it for a couple of years now. The goal of interlanguage links is to make the access to knowledge in different languages possible. The Compact Language Links feature makes this easier by automatically showing the languages that are most relevant to each user while still providing quick access to all the rest.
This feature is already enabled for readers in Wikipedia in all languages except English. In the English Wikipedia it is defined as a beta feature, and as such it is currently used by more than 60,000 editors, making it the second most popular beta feature. Our measurements and tests have shown that this design makes it easier for most people to find the links to the languages they want, and that they use it more than the old style.
Here are some details about which languages are displayed in the initial list, if you're interested:
The team has been collecting feedback from editors in all wikis, and we have added many features and fixed many bugs to make it more useful to readers and editors. Some of the fixes based on Wikipedia editors' feedback include:
After deployment at other wikis, there have been few complaints from editors (who can always opt-out), and all Wikipedias have seen an increase in clicks on the interlanguage links. From June 2016 to June 2017, the percentage of traffic through interlanguage links out of page views has grown by 90%.
If you haven't tried this beta feature yet, you are welcome to try it now. We welcome your feedback about it at mw:Talk:Universal Language Selector/Compact Language Links. Please read the FAQ at mw:Universal Language Selector/Compact Language Links, which gathers responses to a lot of feedback and analysis from the experience of other wikis with this tool.
Thank you!
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Language team, -- Amir E. Aharoni (WMF) ( talk) 16:00, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi all
I'm compiling a guide for UN agencies on the steps to implement open licensing.
The piece I'm really missing is alternative business models to those which require traditional copyright. This include publishing books, images and other multimedia licensing and also data.
If you know of any existing compilations of information and/or any examples of organisations which have working business models please brain dump below and I will organise it.
Thanks very much
John Cummings ( talk) 16:16, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I'm wondering where I can find a list of basic education (primary and secondary/highschool) teachers on Wikipedia? and on a related matter if there are any guidelines on what would make a teacher notable? while I have seen some categories of teachers, it appears that most of them are famous for something else (like being a politician) but are categorised also a teachers because they did teaching at one point.
Erin_Gruwell is one example I have found, but I'm wondering if there are any more? Egaoblai ( talk) 13:27, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
At Template_talk:Infobox#Deploy_auto-categorization, this talk is going on:
I objected, for being unfulfilling (the promise of being a complete category).
I proposed a better setup: #Let's_define_and_create_a_new_category. Today only few editors are involved, so I want to invite more. - DePiep ( talk) 22:47, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
(ec) To be clear: I did not "edit" Bombhead's posts, I only reverted. Because: by Bombherad's editing AFTER replies, that makes the reply-er stupid. While, actually, I am not the stupid one. Basic Talkpage behaviour. - DePiep ( talk) 00:16, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
There's now an RFC on this, see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RFC: Autopopulate Category:Infobox templates when we can. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 12:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi!
The Language team is planning to change the design of the interlanguage links list for logged-out users, newly registered users, and users who have previously enabled the beta feature. Active users who have not enabled the beta feature will not be affected. The new design will use the searchable Compact Language Links feature. See also the earlier note here: #Compact Language Links update. This is scheduled to be deployed starting on Wednesday, February 28th.
When the feature if enabled, nothing will change for active editors: If you have enabled this beta feature, it will remain enabled. If you have not enabled it, it will remain disabled. Editors will be able to enable and disable it as a normal user preference. The preference will move out of the "Beta features" tab in your preferences, and into the "Appearance" tab. The option's name will be "Use a compact language list, with languages relevant to you".
Our decision to deploy it to anonymous users is based upon user experience research, data showing that a compact list makes it easier for readers to find articles in the language that they need, and a technical review of the tool. For more information, please see the overview and complete data collected in a spreadsheet.
We look forward to your feedback in the coming weeks. If no last-minute technical or functional problems are identified as blockers by the deployment team, we expect to be ready to complete this change by Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Please do let us know if you have any comments, suggestions, or questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.
Thank you!
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Language team, -- Amir E. Aharoni (WMF) ( talk) 13:12, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I was a fairly active editor until late 2014, and now it seems I feel like editing a bit again. Given the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of WP :) I wonder if there have been noteworthy changes in policy/guidelines or common practices from late 2014 to now, especially (but not only) in notability, BLP, RS. Of course I could compare diffs, but I'd like to hear the community's opinion also on what is now current practice, trends etc. Many thanks! -- cyclopia speak! 17:21, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Can one find out the IP address of Wikipedia editors who are registered under a user name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.161.86.40 ( talk) 12:48, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello everybody! Reminder that the discussion to select the improvements to the blocking tools is going on. Over the past weeks the Community health initiative team took a look at at all 58 suggestions that came out of the discussion about making improvements to blocking tools. Now join the discussion to select 2 to build from the shortlist. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 22:44, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Afternoon, all. This is probably an unsolvable problem, but I wanted to bring it up for ideas. I just tried to share the link /info/en/?search=François_Clemmons on Google Hangouts, but the automatic link died at the c-cedilla, leaving me at Fran. Is there anything we could add there to make the original article findable? Obviously, adding François Clemmons would be overkill, but would adding François also be too much? I suppose using /info/en/?search=Francois_Clemmons as the link in the first place would also work, as would copying and pasting the original link instead of clicking it. I'm just wondering if there's something we should be doing in the general case, instead of coming up with case-by-case solutions. Thanks. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:23, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Can someone who knows template magic fix this, please? It doesn't seem to work - it's showing UTC-0 no matter what the parameters are, and appears to have done so in every past incarnation (which were at Template:Infobox time zone (North America)). Thanks, ansh 666 21:57, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
The question was raised due to some suspicious incidents happened on Chinese Wikipedia. I was trying to find out if such thing happened on the English version but didn't find anything so far.
Suppose user A wants to snoop the privacy informations like IP address, operation system and browser of user B. He posted a link to user B's talk page, where B will probably see and click the link. In the meantime, A actually controls the website that hosts the link. Once B clicked the link, A can easily get B's IP address and system, browser information without B's consent.
The described steps can be utilized by someone to find out that if a user is related to an IP address (or another user). However, it looks like the victims are also responsible for the leakage of his/her privacy (we shouldn't click any unknown links sent by someone). I'm wondering how will the English community respond to such situation.
Thanks in advance. -- PhiLiP ( talk) 04:56, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
This page contains signature of mass message. I'm proposing that we uncomment it, by replacing the content
with this
This change would make it more clear who sent the 'mass message', which is useful to make it easier to contact them, I think?
-- Gryllida ( talk) 05:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello all,
Last fall, as part of the Community Health initiative, a number of experienced En.WP editors took a survey capturing their opinions on the AN/I noticeboard. They recorded where they thought the board working well, where it didn’t, and suggested improvements. The results of this survey are now up; these have been supplemented by some interesting data points about the process in general. Please join us for a discussion on the results.
Regards, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 20:31, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Kind of an abstract issue, but is there any customary term here for "pages that are only edited by POV editors because nobody else is interested in them"? Has this issue (and maybe ideas how to address it [or not]) been discussed somewhere in the past that I could read up on?
I ask because in my work I've run across a number of niches where articles are in very poor shape because, to be frank, the articles are extremely important to a narrow range of people in the world, and such groups tend not to have very objective editors nor very experienced editors. And as a result, whole swathes of pages suffer from major POV, terrible or absent sourcing, and constant creeping expansion as an array of novice editors nip in to jam in yet more (uncited) content. And in the majority of cases, nobody comes long who's interested in addressing those problems, so it persists over a decade and longer.
The specific example I always notice is articles on South Asian Sufi saints, namely Category:Indian Sufi saints and Category:Pakistani Sufi saints. To pick just one random example, Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri is not great, though by no means not the worst. I've run across a number of these articles that have extremely POV claims like "he recited XYZ surah of the Quran right as he emerged from his mother's womb" and other such non-academic claims reported as fact rather than legend. Here's one of the "miraculous" ones: Syed Shah Afzal Biabani. Lots of honorifics basically equivalent to "His Holiness, The Honorable Reverend" jammed onto every name, etc. And an absolute obsession with ancestry (since many of these people are claimed to have authority by being direct descendants of Muhammad), and more perniciously often a long list of completely non-notable descendants. The latter being fiercely defended, presumably because some editors have a personal claim to be descended from the figure and so are adamant that "The Purwani family of Gwalanpur is descended from this holy saint" be a part of article.
There are other mucky pockets (Hindu saints are often pretty POV as well), and pockets of articles on ethnic groups that appear to be largely written (and unsourced) by members of the group looking to promote themselves.
In any case, I'm partially venting, but also partially wanting to know if in the bigger picture Wikipedia has any term for this issue, and whether there's anything to be done other than "hope that eventually someone who cares more about Wikipedia values than promoting the subject stumbles across it"? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 08:00, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
I have a few questions about citations. As citations to online reference material are fundimental to validating Wikipedia articles, are there any plans to preserve these references in some way? The reason I ask, I have noticed on some of the more controversial subjects, not just here in Wikipedia, but on the web generally, reference material, even newspaper archive material that supports articles that link to it has been removed from the web, leaving dead links. Notwidthstanding the possibility that certain actors may persue a policy of removing reference material from the web that conflicts with their agenda, also over the long term as the web gets older, sites and publications change hands, shut down etc we might expect online reference material to dissapear more and frequently thereby breaking the validity of Wikipedia articles that depend on them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raven9nine ( talk • contribs) 16:38, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
A couple months ago I asked about this, and I figure it's worth another shot. We're getting ever closer to finishing the Neelix cleanup, and there are 11 Ancient Greek redirects listed here that need checking. Hopefully it won't take long, and it'd be hugely appreciated. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 15:49, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
WP:WATERMARK is typically vague so I'm asking what should be done about the two lead images at List of tallest buildings in Karachi ( permalink). I guess just revert the recent edits, but what about the images themselves? I suppose they are a Commons problem we can ignore? Johnuniq ( talk) 21:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.[4] We can just remove the watermark. -- Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 20:52, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Free images should not be watermarked, distorted, have any credits or titles in the image itself or anything else that would hamper their free use, the "anything else that would hamper their free use" isn't a statement as to when watermarks are ok. It's one more category of thing that free images should not have, probably intended as a catch-all so someone can't wikilawyer "this isn't a watermark, distortion, credit, or title, so it's not against policy". To have the meaning you want to read into it, that sentence would have to be changed to something like "except when that does not hamper their free use". Anomie ⚔ 14:46, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello all, thank you for the input over the past several months about the blocking tools. From all the participation on Blocking tools and improvements talk page on English Wikipedia and on Meta, our discussion with our legal department, and our preliminary technical analysis, the AHT team has decided to a) investigate two projects now, b) next build two small changes, and c) later in the year follow with a third project. The details are below.
First, the team will investigate and decide between:
Next, we will do two feature improvements- adding an optional datetime selector to Special:Block ( phab:T132220) and improving the display of block notices on mobile devices ( phab:T165535).
In a few months (likely around May 2018) we will pursue some form of Project 5 - Block a user from uploading files and/or creating new pages and/or editing all pages in a namespace and/or editing all pages within a category.
Additional ideas can be added to on wiki discussion pages and user blocking column on Phabricator for future discussions and decisions. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 22:34, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
(A.S.: I hope I am in the right sub-section… If not, please move this to a more adequate place. —Thanks).
When searching for info about "
rebelmouse" (though red, the link works !), I noticed that it only appears in reference sections, among which, 3 or 4 are a reference, repeated in a few unrelated articles, which looks like nothing appropriate to the article or the referred sentence, but rather like a kind of hook, or a discret spam. Other of the seven instances have no meaning (I mean : not to me, but I may be wrong, since I am not a native english speaker). What do think of this ? (I came to en.wikipedia looking for info about this "rebelmouse", about which I found a few blog pages closed and redirected to the rebelmouse webpage, a seemingly CMS, concurrent to Wordpress ; I now have doubts.) --
@Éric38fr
(come chat & have a drink), Grenoble (France), 02:59, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
It is March 2018. Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey. This marks 10 months of people in Turkey having no access to the world’s free knowledge, and people around the world not learning from Turkish citizens. We want to re-energize the conversation around Wikipedia in Turkey and galvanize public opinion to support unblocking the site. To do this, the Wikimedia community are running a week-long social media push to express why #WeMissTurkey. Following from this initial push we would like to run a CentralNotice campaign to further energize the conversation. The campaign will be only be show to users a maximum of two times to limit disruption and show, to between 10-50% of traffic. Banners will be low profile based on the community template with added functionality to expand revealing social sharing options on twitter and facebook for mobile with the possibility of a generic template on desktop. Seddon (WMF) ( talk) 20:32, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
I just noticed this today, and am hoping it's all part of some temporary A/B test that I've had the misfortune of being in the wrong group for, but apparently the Languages section over on the left of any article is now limited to like 10 or so languages, with the rest hidden behind a "N more" link. I hate this for a variety of reasons: 1) can't see at a glance if my desired language is there / can't ctrl-F either, 2) the choices for which languages to display seem to be a mystery, and I think this inconsistency across pages makes for a bad user experience, 3) there seems to be no way of disabling this (or at least not w/o logging in, which I don't want to do), 4) the pop-up behind the "N more" link is easy to misclick and close while trying to scroll down it, 5) the links in the pop-up seem to override normal ctrl-click behavior so that instead of just opening the link in a new tab, it also opens the clicked link in the current tab. I was trying to remember the Chilean term for zucchini (it's zapallo italiano, BTW), but the list in the pop-up is terrible, because (aside from not having Español, which I realize is a separate issue), 6) the first category is just a repeat of the languages already listed, but 7) with the Korean link inexplicably on its own separate line within that section, 8) the next section being some vague "Worldwide" section (who decides what's worldwide?), 9) the next section being "America" which I find horribly vague (I'm guessing by its content they meant "Americas") and confusing since Nederlands is there (though I guess that's my fault for not realizing there are a few Dutch-speaking places near the Caribbean). Portuguese is repeated in like every freaking section. God, that layout is hard to scan.
Anyway, I clearly dislike this feature/bug, but when trying to look for something about this change, all my Google searches for things like "wikipedia user interface languages" of course just result in things like the WP user interface article. (If anybody has helpful hints for how to do things like "meta" searches for stuff about WP itself, that would be super helpful!) Given the difficulty of finding meta-information about WP, I'm not even sure I'm posting this in the right place, so my apologies if this should be elsewhere. If someone could point me to more information about this change and/or a better channel for expressing my dissatisfaction with it (unless I'm already at the right place?), that would be great. Thanks! 2601:141:2:8644:5CBA:7EA3:23ED:3A67 ( talk) 06:44, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I am thinking of writing to a few serving politicians to suggest that they organise the upload of photos of themselves. (These are all cases where we have either no existing photo of the person, or only poor photos).
I was looking for a simple, concise how-to-guide on this, and the Commons:Special:UploadWizard seems reasonably simple.
Has anyone done a sort of pro-forma letter to use in such cases?
Something along the lines of:
-- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:44, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi I am Jasonnn, from the chinese version of wikipedia. I tried to translate pages like List of Germans and List_of_Danes and same other pages into chinese. From time to time there are people put these pages into "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion", and two administrators @ AT: and @ Lanwi1: keep deleting these pages. So far they have deleted the chinese version of List_of_Thai_people, List of Portuguese people, Lists of New Zealanders, List of Swiss people, List of French people and 4 more, they are about to delete the chinese version of List_of_Germans and 24 other pages [7].
I made a post about List_of_Thai_people and 4 other pages to "Wikipedia:Deletion review" in 2018.1.31 [8], so far no result. Then I made another post about asking to remove those two administrators [9], cause i think they are being unreasonable and delete my pages on purpose, i @ all the chinese administrators, about 76 people, only two replyed and they are not on my side.
This leaves me no choice, so i post here ask for all your help. I am hoping you could put some pressure on some chinese administrators, so someone could come slove this. Thank you for your help.-- Jasonnn~zhwiki ( talk) 13:42, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
So, it used to be that you clicked a redlink of a deleted page and a message appeared saying that a page with that name had been deleted and pointing to the deletion log. Now, it just suggests creating the page, and I can't find any way to get to the deletion log. This has happened to me several times for pages that I knew had been deleted, but I couldn't find the deletion log. To make things worse, is every page has a link on the left said that says "page information". But, bafflingly, page information apparently doesn't include any logs, whether deletion, move, patrol, protection, or any kind of log really. Why doesn't page information provide a link to logs? Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 23:40, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
&action=edit&redlink=1
from the end of the url, e.g. changing
EPB6 to
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=EPB6.
phab:T176070 is about it.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 01:59, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Meh, at least someone is working on fixing it. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 02:43, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
I recently found myself using the word passim in a reference. [10] [1] Is this an acceptable form? (I have not seen this used anywhere else in Wikipedia.) My intent was to differentiate the reference from one where the editor had not bothered to consider page numbers. In this case the subject is covered extensively throughout the book and any attempt to give individual or blocks of page numbers would be a mess.
Incidentally, the italicisation of passim does not occur in the article where I used it and I cannot make that change at present as the page is currently protected as it has attracted a lot (!!) of editing in another section.
ThoughtIdRetired (
talk) 08:51, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
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Next month (April 2018), we will be organising first ever Wikipedia photo campaign in the UAE to get free licensed photos related to country. We will be running a CN banner to publicise the event which will be only be show to users (both registered and unregistered) inside the country. Any concerns? -- Saqib ( talk) 05:41, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Is Aavindraa authorized to do it? Russian translator ( talk) 11:58, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello!
My name is Edward Galvez and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation. For those of you who do not know, the Wikimedia Foundation supports you by working on the software and technology to keep the sites fast, secure, and accessible, plus providing programs and initiatives to support free knowledge globally.
In about one week, the Foundation is starting a global survey to learn about the experiences and feedback of Wikimedians. I am writing here, because I wanted to share with you a bit more about the project. The survey is called "Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey" and is conducted annually. We will send the survey to editors across all the Wikimedia projects, as well as Wikimedia affiliates and volunteer developers. This survey is going to be our way of making sure that we can hear feedback from a significant number of users from across the projects. This research supports editors and Wikipedia’s mission. This is our second annual CE Insights survey, and we look forward to improving it every year.
You can sign up to be notified about the results of the survey, or to learn how you can help with planning the survey next year. If you have any questions or concerns about this project, please feel free to send them to my talk page on meta or email me directly at surveys@wikimedia.org in any language. To see the results of last year’s survey, and to see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support communities, you can learn more about this project, or read about frequently asked questions. You can also share your feedback on meta. Thank you! -- EGalvez (WMF) ( talk)
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Block-evading sock – Ammarpad ( talk) 11:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC) |
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Hey, can anyone get engaged in the Rfc currently in Talk:Taiwan. There haven't been enough opinions on this to form a consensus. -- Aisakano ( talk) 14:42, 25 March 2018 (UTC) |
Please note that Sergei Mavrodi has died on 26 march. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 12:27, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
The Twelve Apostles of Ireland Challenge is an edition competition seeking to create and improve articles on the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Anyone in any language can subscribe and collaborate on building or translating articles relating to the Twelve Apostles. Medals and real icons will be rewarded to the winners. To participate, one just needs to subscribe here and start collaborating. Dia Duit! Leefeni de Karik ( talk) 00:07, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Signpost, our English Wikipedia 'newspaper', began when the project was started by Michael Snow who continues to contribute to the English Wikipedia. The first issue was released on 10 January 2005. Begun as a weekly publication, in July 2016 the official schedule was changed to every two weeks, but by November the issues were already running late with the next issue appearing on 26 November and the following Signpost not being published until 22 December three weeks later.
Signpost appeared on 17 January 2017 with a lead article from editor-in-chief, Peter Forsyth, entitled Next steps for the Signpost. Forsyth's article, which explained some of the concerns surrounding the newspaper, received a significant number of comments from readers including one from Blue Rasberry who suggested that a grant may be worth considering:
If there were a rotating internship program at The Signpost for journalism students then from one perspective it seems controversial to pay for content, but from another perspective for years the international wiki community has major projects with major investment which are almost unknown for lack of journalism. (…)This is wiki's own newspaper of record and if it has problems then I wish we could explore options to support volunteers in maintaining it.
Aschmidt suggested that Signpost could be made a blog, or even a journal, with James Heilman, known for his work on the Medicine project responding with 'Sort of like the Wiki Journal of Medicine? It is a fair bit of work. But could be good.' Stating that other related projects are '...experiencing parallel attenuation (...) Better to have fewer issues with excellent content than to fake along for the sake of hitting a weekly deadline' , Carrite makes a poignant reflection.
From August 2017 that weekly deadline became monthly; now in its thirteenth year, the most recent issue was published on 20 February with a note that the next one would be due out on 27 February (a week later?). We now have 27 March.
Please make any suggestions here Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 02:46, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
When an article has a "History" section, or a subsection of a subject detailing its progress over time, is there a policy or recommendation for whether the information should be in chronological order? I have failed to find a clear policy on this. AadaamS ( talk) 17:09, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I am a researcher at the University of Warsaw, Poland and I'm conducting research on diversity within peer production communities. I want to figure out what makes some of them work better than others - perform more complex tasks, effectively reach their goals, etc. At the moment I'm mostly interested in what makes contributors take on different tasks - for example, some will be more willing to add content, some others to organize content, yet others to organize the work of the team (or clean up the mess that others make...). My idea is that for a community to be successful it has to draw in people with different motivations. I want to check this on the Wikipedia community by analysing how the editors differ in the values they hold - that is, what is important for them. To do that I have designed a list of editor behaviors / traits that can be retrieved from the database; now I need to assess how well these behaviors indicate what is important for editors. While I do have some ideas, I'm aware that I don't have enough experience on the Wiki to make the assessments sensible.
That's why I would be grateful if any Wikipedia editors were willing to help me with this. I have crated a survey here: wikiValues2018.eu which lists the behaviors I have come up with. The task is to assess how well they indicate that an editor holds one chosen value important - each survey is for one value out of ten. It takes about 15 min to complete it.
I have put some more details about the study on my userpage; I'm also very open to critcism and suggestions - if you have any comments about the survey, feel free to leave me a message. I will also be updating my userpage as the results flow in - I hope that this kind of information will be valuable not only for my research but also for the Wikipedia community at large. Allikka ( talk) 15:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks to everyone who took the survey! If you haven't - it will be open for a few more days only, so don't wait! Allikka ( talk) 09:29, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
hello, i am a new Wikipedia user, i have recently been blocked from editing due to a page i edited, it was indeed vandalism of the page but it was intended as a joke and to be deleted before i would of made my actual edits. i was wondering if there was any way to the block lifted as it wont happen again. also is this even how i do this, im realy confused — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gordon Pratt ( talk • contribs) 13:56, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Romania qualified or no to the 2019 rugby world cup? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 17:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Can some admin check if the File:14,5 x 114.jpg is the same as commons:File:14,5 x 114.jpg and is upoaded by user:Francis Flinch. Because there is some doubt with this Deletion Request wetther Francis Flinch realy published that file.-- Sanandros ( talk) 20:49, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, i remember seeing a discussion here on wikipedia about the new 1000 character limit on edit summaries, But i'm not able to find anything about it. can someone give me a link to that discussion? i just noticed the new 500 charater limit. Thanks. Pancho507 ( talk) 07:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Deskmodder is writing about a new dns. It is real dns or April fool? -- 94.247.8.8 ( talk) 15:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm fairly new here. I'd like to get into vandalism fighting. Do you have any tips? Calm Omaha ( talk) 02:59, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
As we shared on Wikimedia-l in October, Facebook has been testing a new feature that uses English Wikipedia content. When users see news articles in their News Feed, the new feature provides more context about the article's source by pulling information about the publishers from English Wikipedia. Today, Facebook will begin making this feature available to all of its users in the United States.
The Wikimedia Foundation first learned of the integration of Wikipedia content into Facebook’s Article Context feature ahead of its initial beta launch in October 2017. This new feature did not come from a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, though we were in contact with Facebook’s product and engineering teams ahead of this week’s launch.
We are going to be tracking the impact of this new feature on English Wikipedia. Including looking at how many people click on the link to Wikipedia and seeing which pages are getting the most traffic. We will continue to keep you updated on our conversations with Facebook and impact of this new feature. JMatazzoni (WMF) ( talk) 19:53, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I have been grappling with including information from different sources that appear in the first instance to be conflicting, but which I think are actually both useful and factual. The result is [11]. The purpose of posting here is to get comment on the idea of pointing the reader at a possible interpretation of the information, but not definitively stating that the suggested interpretation is the case. The sentence at issue is:
Comparison of this route with Schirmer's description of the three lines of march may suggest to the reader that his group started on the northern line of march and finished on the central one.
(bold added)
Does this approach seem useful, over-cautious, or even down-right wrong (or anything else)?
ThoughtIdRetired (
talk) 13:43, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
(I use Firefox.) My Wikipedia screen size has suddenly jumped to a bigger size. Please, how can I quickly change my Wikipedia screen type size or type width? Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 22:03, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Institut Nova Història is a foundation subsidized and awarded by the Catalan government, supported by Catalan historians, intellectuals, writers, Important politicians of the main parties of Catalonia, members are parlamentaries of Catalan assembly and they often do conferences in the assembly, according to all there are enough people that considers that as the true history of Catalonia, i though this article should be in the 'See Also' section of the article on the history of Catalonia and related articles of the Catalan independence movement. -- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 07:13, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Oriol Junqueras (second leader of Catalan independence movement, Artur Mas (strong main figure of Catalan movement and many many of catalan important people openly supported these theories (also they give credencies), Institut Nova Història received an award from a Catalan important gala, why this cant be named in this related articles, since are strong convictions of the Catalan people over their history? (read the article)-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 07:32, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I am only talking about the history of Catalonia and Catalan independentism's articles that are related to this article, if I add it in cervantes, shakespeare, ect. I will not do it again. I am debating over the articles that I talk-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 07:39, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The institution give conferences on these theories in the Catalan national assembly since several years ago, you can read it in the article-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 07:42, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The members of the institution lead the 2014 National Day of Catalonia named Via Catalana or V, in the two main avenues - the Gran Vía and the Diagonal - forming a V of 11 kilometers long with the vertex in the Plaza de Las Glorias, with the aim of claiming the "right of self-determination" of the Catalan people, Its founder created the anthem for the independentist referendum. He made these researchers!-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Other main member, Codinas, the president of the Institute, graduate in Contemporary History, vice president of the Fundació Catalunya Estat, secretary of the Associació Catalunya 2014, voicer of the executive board of the Catalan Association of Leisure, Sports and Culture Companies, co-founder of the Platform for the Right to Decide and former voicer of the executive board of the Catalan Business Circle.
Other important member, Cucurull, president of the Fundació Societat i Cultura, member of the national secretariat of the Catalan National Assembly he is very known for the video of his June 2013 conference in Navàs, which has been commented by many newspapers.-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:18, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Theses belief is openly supported by Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (a decisive and very main independentist party and the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain), Jordi Pujol was president of Catalonia from 1980 to 2003, Isabel-Clara Simó, Josep Rull, Alfons López Tena, Carles Campuzano, Antoni Strubell, Jaume Manel Oronich (all deputies and parlamentaries of the Catalan assembly), Ramon Tremosa, Josep Maria Terricabras (members of the European parliament), Núria Cadenas (president of a electoral coalition (the second largest independentist political force in Catalonia), Assumpcio Maresma (politician and journalist), Joan Rabasseda (mayor of Arenys de Munt), Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira (a leader of Catalan movement and ex-vice President of Catalonia, Muriel Casals i Couturier she died and she was an economist.-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:18, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The criticisms that appear in the article are from politicians who support Spain, do not mention any Catalan politician or historian denying these theories, and this page was translated from Catalan and Spanish wikipedia, and I translated it completely. and I check the sources-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:23, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Not only propossed by these historians but also propossed by the Centre d'Estudis Colombins, that is an association dedicated to the historical studies not related to Institut Nova Història, this other founded in 1989 that since its foundation until today is totally organized by Òmnium Cultural. See: Centre d'Estudis Colombins (Catalan) and Institut_Nova_Història#Theses_defended_by_the_Institute (Center for Colombian Studies)-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:35, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Not only politicians and historians but also Catalan businessmen organizations (unions for entrepreneurs) strongly support these theories and the institute, I mentioned it above-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm not going to make a paragraph in William Shakespeare or Da Vinci, but I'm going to add the link to several of the organizations and people who publicly support this theories and institute and in the article of the history of Catalonia primarily, all in the sections of see also -- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 08:53, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
You know that I do not believe in these theories, but a huge number of Catalans actually believe it, these conclusions are supported practically by all those who represent them politically, businessly and research, and the Catalan government finances it, I think it is coherent that adds more information and what happens today related completely to the articles that I say-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 09:03, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
These researchers have often had talks on TV3 (the primary television channel and of Catalan public broadcaster) also on Catalunya Ràdio (owned by the Generalitat de Catalunya and is the major Catalan-language network today), and El Punt Avui TV, etc.'s programs. See: Institut_Nova_Història#References.-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 09:54, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
No, but in the articles of politicians from Catalonia that support them and in the article of the history of catalonia I think that it should be add, so people know about it.-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 10:20, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
and in history of Catalonia It should not be appropriate? knowing that this is an alternating history of Catalonia supported by the main figures of Catalonia today and a lot of Catalan people-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 12:21, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
thanks-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 12:29, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
lol it seems to give propaganda to nationalism, or the opposite as I see it, people when see this know more about the society in which the Catalans live, the ideas that they intend to give to the people, and in a way put some them in the head, I do not want to politicize, I want to say with this that information is included that nobody knows, information that is part of contemporary history, and the reality that the Catalans live, under reliable sources, the truth is shown, that is the wikipedia Let people know the truth and do not try to hide the most relevant and important things of a topic, hiding that important article in a corner that has to be spoiled enough to get it, this article is as important as the rest of the information that comes out In the partial "history of Catalonia" that is shown, as you add more truth, the article becomes more complete-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 16:54, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I have nominated this article for deletion: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institut Nova Història. -- Scolaire ( talk) 18:55, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I am going to tell you an experience, I knew and I am involved by twitter in Spanish politics since 2 months ago, since I am Venezuelan, I live in Venezuela and i cared about Venezuela, however I almost do not twit, I only retwits things, I do not even look for twits of independent Catalans, but of Unionist Catalans since the start, and despite that on February 2, 2018 attacked me a typical Catalan independentist trying to convince a Venezuelan guy like me of these theories that he believes faithfully, with a lot of messages, and giving me that information and other pages that are not from the institute but others (He gave me two pages giving validity and propagating these things: 'Fundació d'Estudis Històrics de Catalunya' and 'Cercle Català d'Història'). Here are the tweets Obviously I did not convince myself but it made me understand how many Catalans think and about what was the famous Institute Nova History and the Cucurull of which many people speak. In Catalonia, it is quite common that they talk about the subject they have mentioned since i know of Catalan politics-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 21:46, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
"I ask you to take pictures of these tweets" as they erase things at once when something fails-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 22:17, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I know that this opinion does not go with wikipedia and sorry for that but only for them to see that you have to take evidence of these things, but I personally know that they are experts in manipulating public opinion, they always go from supporters of malcom x, anti-fascists, etc. in favor of everything that loves most of the world, then they send really explosive messages, leaders and university professors, for example, comparing Spaniards descendents of Catalonia with the Maghrebies of France, for example, which they are " followers of violence and hatred in the host country", or of people doing bad things in the street, then that is bad sight and immediately they try to leave no trace of it. I only say that it does that things like this one do not know and other things that they like them yes. I know that I have already gone politically with this last message but my intention is not this )-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 22:24, 8 April 2018 (UTC).
ok but I ask you to read this page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institut Nova Història and see the sources that are here. I also ask you to review the article Institut Nova Història and that sources posted there. They have good sources, although i think the mass media apparently could have reserved rights to the programs on their channels interviewing these people and at this moment of "internationalization of the process" as they call it, and they took care of deleting many things and I can prove that if someone wants, but in return I left youtube videos and Spanish newspapers showing photos as good proofs of these programs given on tv3 and radio catalunya, the rest of the article gives a lot of Spanish newspapers and a lot of pro-Indepndentist newspapers and pro-independentist sources, I am available and want to help to find more and better sources online-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 11:24, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
The reason it seems I use Wikipedia a lot and that you have in fact had my help this Tuesday, is that I'm one of the librarians, archivists, and information junkies and most working days I do my bit for Wikipedia. I'm perfectly willing to donate the price I pay for my coffee (an undrinkable beverage that is too costly to consider getting used to) or tea (provided for free by my employer) and one could indeed consider the time I spend contributing as that donation.
Now, can you stop asking for donations I can ill afford, especially since your request doesn't scale well to my high screen, making it far more in my face than a "humble" request should be. Mysha ( talk)
And to that I can add that:
If everyone reading that would spend two hours each week editing Wikimedia we'd explode. Mysha ( talk)
I have an idea for something that I really wish I had a user script for, and I'm wondering if one already exists (couldn't easily find one in WP:User scripts/List). When I'm patrolling for vandalism, and I'm looking at a revision (whether in a page's history list or on Special:RecentChanges), the most useful button for me is definitely the "diff"/"prev" button, to show what changed in that one revision. But that's not always quite what I want. If a user has made several edits in a row, then I also like to see a diff of all their consecutive revisions—that is, all the revisions they've made since the last revision by someone else. (If that explanation is unclear, then here's a random example: If I were patrolling 55Sassafras55's edits, instead of just looking at Special:Diff/836020105, I might also want to see Special:Diff/836020105/836016588.)
This diff is possible to access, but it requires: going to the history page, finding + clicking two radio buttons, and clicking "Compare selected revisions" (which is a button rather than a link, so I can't open it in a new tab). Vandalism patrolling is all about efficiency, so this is too tedious for something I do so often. Does anyone know of a script that adds an easy one-click option for getting the diff I want (or do I need to write it myself)? Thanks, IagoQnsi ( talk) 14:37, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
@ In ictu oculi: I have been asked: "How can I find (including their names) which external website pages link to a particular Wikipedia article?". Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 09:13, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous) -site:en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)
. You can also try link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)
in Google.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:39, 12 April 2018 (UTC)link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent
WP:ITN are the news items on the main page. I'm only passingly familiar with this aspect of the project, but I have noticed that roughly 50% of the items are what I'd call routine reporting of very limited or local interest, such as aircraft crashes, minor natural disasters or sports results. I don't think that as an encyclopedia we should be in the business of reporting such matters. Has there ever been a broader community discussion about the ITN priorities or am I just wasting my time complaining? Sandstein 16:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
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About 2018 Palestinian Land Claim protests and Israel shooting unarmed protestors.
It also says that Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine did not even bother to put a {{WikiProject Palestine}} on it s talkpage. It has come this far: enwiki has lost the WP:Palestine WikiProject. - DePiep ( talk) 19:04, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Suggestion in this Techdirt article that EU could restrict people's rights to use CC. Is this a potential problem for Wikipedia?-- A bit iffy ( talk) 11:38, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I have a few questions regarding Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia and Template:Free-content attribution.
I first came across these pages in literacy#Sources because there were three {{ free-content attribution}} templates that took up almost an entire screen. I spoke with John Cummings about this since he did most of the recent work for both pages. You can see my initial conversations with him on his talk page.
I've since trimmed the template to bring it in line with other attribution templates, but John and I are still discussing whether it is appropriate to include the additional links about the project.
Is there a general policy or guideline with regard to linking to the project namespace permanently in an article as part of an attribution template? As originally designed, Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia and the terms of use will be listed with each transclusion of {{ free-content attribution}}. In articles where this template is used multiple times (as it was in literacy), this seems excessive, but I can see an argument to be made for even one link. The content does not relate to the source or the subject of the article and only serve as a way to promote the editing of Wikipedia and adding free content. To be clear, I do support both of those activities and want to make it easier for others to contribute to the project, but not at the expense of article quality. Has anyone seen similar disputes in the past? It wouldn't surprise me if I'm missing something obvious here... Thanks. - Paul T +/ C 17:00, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
To learn how to add open-license text to Wikipedia articles, please see Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia. For information on reusing text from Wikipedia, please see the terms of use., which I don't think is "necessary or intrinsic to the purpose..." of the template", but I certainly could be wrong about that. Additionally, I recently added {{ essay}} to Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia, but is this something that should be reviewed to be an actual project guideline or policy? - Paul T +/ C 17:17, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all
Thanks very much for engaging in this conversation. For context, this template is part of a wider piece of work I have been doing as part of my residency at UNESCO to help organisations share their knowledge by being able to directly add open license text into Wikipedia. This template provides attribution and Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia provides the instructions, additionally Mediaviews allows metrics to be generated on where text from a source is used and how many people visit those articles, e.g text from UNESCO. I have a draft blog post waiting for a bit of editing that will explain all this in more detail soon. I don't see this template as the end point of this process, more it is a proof of concept to show the value of providing an easy way to reuse and measure the reuse of open license text which would then be developed as part of the editing toolbar.
As @ Psantora: has said we are looking for some clarification on how much direction and instruction should be given within the template. Here is the template from Water in Africa which does not appear in the main body of the text, but at the bottom in a sources section:
This article incorporates text from a
free content work. Licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 (
license statement/permission). Text taken from
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2016: water and jobs, UNESCO, UNESCO. UNESCO.
A general issue I have with Wikipedia is the level of easy to use documentation and how connected the processes are with the instructions for those processes. At least 50% of the time I've only worked out how to do something by chance or by asking around rather than being able to follow the instructions, the current situation is not helpful to grow and develop a community....
I really want to keep some link between the text displayed on the page and the instructions to reuse open license text and linking to instructions does happen within templates that appear at the top of the page, e.g AFD. I do accept at the moment that it probably takes up too much space, but I do not want to sacrifice usability and ease of use (something I've spent at least 80 hours on) for saving a line or two of space. I think there are three main things I would like to get out of this discussion:
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 10:48, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
This article incorporates text from a free content work. [source information]
To learn how to add open license text to Wikipedia articles, please see
Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia.
For information on reusing text from Wikipedia, please see
the terms of use.
|how-to=no
, which I don't think would cause a problem when using the template with the visual editor. You know more about editing templates with the visual editor than I do.Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss has just gotten the first fresh batch of spelling errors in a long time, and could use some help if you enjoy fixing typos. The main batch is articles that have a single spelling error. There are also opportunities to add words that belong in Wiktionary but aren't, and to fix common misspellings across lots of articles. -- Beland ( talk) 21:22, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello colleagues, I am somehow helpless. I tried to do some wp:cleanup work in the article Port Arthur massacre (Australia). I have asked for help at multiple [14] + [15] + [16] + [17] + [18] corners of this project. Now the thing is somehow stuck, leaving me with the question if this crime-related articles are OK regarding WP:SYNTH / WP:NOR / WP:PTS etc. It just looks like that nobody dares to touch or edit this article. Please read Talk:Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)#Discussion and let us read your opinions. Best -- Tom ( talk) 18:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
I have no idea as to where I should report this, but try googling:
....and you get the exact same picture for all three. Lol, so all Arab historians look the same?
It is also pictured on the Iraqi dinar, and according to the Iraqi dinar article it is Ibn al-Haytham.
This is outside "Wikipedia jurisdiction", so to speak, but does anyone know how can this be fixed? Huldra ( talk) 22:38, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
What is that Tel Aviv / Wikipedia (WMF) link currently going about? - DePiep ( talk) 20:49, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
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User:Filiprino has been constantly deleting information and modifying information without any reliable reference, he has had edit wars with other users, arguing that politicians and organizations against the Catalan independence process have very close affiliations with the far-right, without adding reliable sources, I'm not sure but I think he also used another pet account who did the same edit in the moment of the edit war 37.135.109.62. These edits can be seen in the (1) Tabarnia: Revision history, (2) Societat Civil Catalana:Revision history, (3) Somatemps: Revision history and (4) Jaume Vives: Revision history. What I'm saying is that if he want to hold something like that in these articles that is with reliable sources.
He has already been blocked two times for the same (see User talk:Filiprino).-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 13:31, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
He just added controversial information again with an unreliable source, excusing himself in this above response. Now adding a source with i see a complete radical position, read that url he just post [19]. in the comments of the same page, readers demystify the information of this "media" by saying that the same link that references that page says the opposite. the reference of that link is a blog, which coincidentally ensures otherwise. in summary nothing reliable this source-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:11, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
that link is not the page of El Triangle, it is a mask, a false page, there is no any link in the site that move you to the main page of the real one, you click anywhere and it takes you to dead links. This is the real website of that media [20] (of which I did not know)-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:27, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
El Salto Diario only shows articles of opinion clearly independentists, I have looked at some and nothing else because their titles are radical, I read them and do not show some kind of criticism on the other side, just to one side-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:30, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Whether or not it is a reliable source that I leave to the neutral administrators that can contribute to this discussion. I only see in the links that you pass me a radical opinion and away from reality, based on references that say the opposite when you access it, and fact is based on references that are mere blogs where fans write to various topics-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:48, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
the other link is another opinion biased and radical from beginning to end, of a dubious verifiability if it is of that (unkonw by me) newspaper, remember that there are also current newspapers in Catalonia as "vila-web" and hundreds others that behave as a propaganda archive towards the Catalan independence, and who are not interested in their reputation, and not behave like a newspaper that gives neutral information-- ILoveCaracas ( talk) 14:55, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
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I removed this entry because 3O is for single article disputes. But this isn't the correct venue for this discussion either; if you feel that there is inappropriate behavior across different articles, the discussion belongs at WP:ANI. Erpert blah, blah, blah... 15:08, 20 April 2018 (UTC) |
hi why dump of enwiki is 12 gb but last dump is 13 9 gb — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 14:04, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Denoto que entre las distintas paginas principales de wikipedia hay una diferencia entre la informacion entre ingles y español , ademas de una gran diferencia de cantidad de articulos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kritical Strike ( talk • contribs) 17:10, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Please edit, see WWW & other wiki language versions.-- 37.250.54.251 ( talk) 17:51, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
At National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, there are, I believe, three other-language Wikipedia articles's links. However, the simple English one is a tiny bit paler. When I clicked on it, instead of being sent to a Simple English article, I got a notice that I was agreeing to something in translating the English article. What's going on? Kdammers ( talk) 03:02, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
This zhwiki administrator @AT (his username is AT) recently deleted over 20 wikipages I translated, pages like "Lists of Portuguese people", "Lists of Russian people" and so on, I tried to translate these pages into chinese, and @AT deleted them.
From January 15 to April 15, I post a lot in the zhwiki community, I tried to disscuss with @at but it didn't help. From what I see @AT just make some excuse and pretend to disscuss but actually did not care at all. And @AT got some followers to justify the whole thing for him. In this post [21] I list all the reasons @AT and his followers mentioned, I explain every single reason, but @AT change subject all the time, anyone could see that from that post.
I then post in the zhwiki community ask to remove @AT's administrator job, that pissed off his followers, I got mocked and bullied, my words got twisted, I got blocked 3 times, none is with right reason. @AT and his followers acted like a dictator and his musclemen.
Another thing is this user @Dingruogu, i consider him one of @AT's followers. He is the guy put "Lists of Portuguese people" and "List of Swiss people" and about 20 other pages into the 'Wikipedia:Articles for deletion' then @AT deleted them all. Most recently he tried to delete my another page "Igor Pavlov", known as the creater of the file archiver 7-Zip, I translated "Igor Pavlov" into chinese and he wants to delete it. And just to fit his need, he also changed the enwiki page of "Igor Pavlov" [22]
I know the whole thing happened in zhwiki, and it is indepent to enwiki. but with all the post I did not got much help from othe zhwiki administrators, they remain silence about the deletion, that makes me no choice but ask help from the enwiki and WMF.
If a administrator could delete fine wikipedia pages he doesn't like and other administrators remain silence and the one against him got mocked got bullied got blocked. Then it is not worth editing wikipedia or donate to wikipedia.
With all above, for the good of wikipedia, May I ask a full investigation to this zhwiki administrator?-- Jasonnn~zhwiki ( talk) 05:35, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Ok, so kinda new to this wikipedia thing. Can we ask for help with articles here? If so, can we have someone who speaks finnish help with the page for FOX Finland? It would be nice to translate some content from the Finnish page to English. CobaltBlue101 ( talk) 18:29, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Please note that Roy Young died on april 27 according to sources. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 16:10, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Do we have something which describes the article life cycle? I'm thinking sandbox -> draft -> article -> AfD -> DRV, with lots of loops for editing and discussion at each stage. I can't find such a description, but it seems like we must have one somewhere. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:57, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
No idea which article (I haven't engaged). Thought I'd highlight this which I assume is against policy. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/8g30p3/searching_person_with_an_established_wikipedia/ -- A bit iffy ( talk) 21:34, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
Page Previews is a software feature that allows readers to read an excerpt of a linked article’s lead section without leaving the page they’re currently on, by hovering their mouse over the link. It has been activated by default for logged-out users on all Wikipedias except German and English since August 2017, and numerous further bug fixes and technical improvements have been implemented since. A few weeks ago we announced some updates to Page Previews, published the results of our latest round of A/B testing, and asked for your feedback. These updates resolved all of the issues identified in the discussion held at the English Wikipedia last year. In our A/B tests we found – as expected – that when the feature is enabled, readers will open pages in their browser slightly less often (a decrease of around 3–5% in regular pageviews). But on the other hand, they interact with a lot more different pages when one counts both the seen page previews and the regular pageviews (an increase of around 20–22% in the number of distinct pages interacted with via either method). In addition, the option to deactivate the feature was used very rarely (disable rates were around 0.01%). This leads us to believe that Page Previews is a welcomed feature that is helping readers learn more during their visits.
Based on these results and on feedback we’ve heard so far, we plan on continuing with the next step of rollout here on the English Wikipedia, which is turning the feature on by default for logged-out users. This will mean no changes for logged-in users. The feature will be off by default for logged-in editors, unless currently enabled. If you would like to enable it, it is available in your Preferences under “Appearance”. If you have the feature enabled already, it will stay on. We plan on implementing these changes within the next couple of weeks.
In terms of future changes for logged-in users, we have a few options we’d like to request some feedback on:
What do you think the next step should be in terms of behavior for existing logged-in users?
Yours, OVasileva (WMF) ( talk) 14:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC) (Product manager, Readers web team, Wikimedia Foundation)
Thank you for your feedback! It seems the preferred way forward is to deploy Page Previews as on by default for logged-out users and new accounts and off for current editors (the feature can be enabled via user preferences). As a result, we plan on making the following changes:
Since we haven’t had any comments over the past few days, we’re planning for making the first change next week. Let us know if you would like more time for discussion. OVasileva (WMF) ( talk) 13:53, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, We got a mail in OTRS saying that this image, initially claimed to be Augusta Savage is actually Georgette Seabrooke. I don't understand how we got this confusion, as the initial source shows a different image. May be it was changed there? The good news is we didn't have any good image of Georgette Seabrooke. The bad news is that this picture was promoted as Featured picture, and then appeared on the Main page on 2018-02-28. I renamed the picture, and removed it wherever it was wrongly used. What do we do now with the FP nomination ? Already posted here, but no answer. Regards, Yann ( talk) 17:30, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
What is the distinction between a city and a town in Algeria? I have seen several places which are described in English Wikipedia as 'town and commune' (e.g. Khemisti), while in Commons, they are categorized under 'Cities in XY province' - Khemisti. JiriMatejicek ( talk) 07:40, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I see a warning message on the config page for a bot I help run. The warning message is incorrect. That code does not run when the page is previewed, nor do the users have to bypass their cache. It's also impossible for the code there to compromise the user account. The warning message is recent and I'm wondering if I can help tweak it or have it removed from that page. Thanks. -- Niharika ( talk) 07:24, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
I requested comments regarding the application of WP:CALC at Talk:List of countries by firearm-related death rate. Please comment. Thinker78 ( talk) 05:57, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I plan to sketch a new logo for the Wikipedia Asian Month, but since I am an asian, I don't want to be too biased to my own culture. What do you think is the best symbol for Asia? Or what can remind you about Asia as an entity, instead of a specific asian country?-- 燃灯 ( talk) 17:41, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Since the beginning of May, multiple attempts have been made to crack my password. I have a committed identity. I would like to know what the procedure is in case my account should get hacked? How do I get it back? Debresser ( talk) 16:11, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
What I see it says at Wikipedia:Compromised accounts is: "A typical result of having your account compromised is to have the account either blocked or locked (a lock is a global block from all Wikimedia projects) to prevent further discruption. Although administrators on Wikipedia may be able to help, the WMF Support and Safety team and stewards may also be contacted." So how would I do this? Debresser ( talk) 07:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
I've been around many years, and I know that there always have been some battles and vandalism on Wikipedia. But it used to still be possible to take them with a dose of humor. (See WP:BJAODN). Now we have reached a state of collective hysteria. The word "has become an emotional label for people, the equivalent to the word "communist" in the McCarthy era. (This is of course not meant to diminish the efforts of the many hard wirking people fighting Wikipedia:Vandalism. Part of the problem is that the term "vandal" allows to replace the very specific matter-of-fact definition of our policy to such an emotionally loaded personal label. McCarthy probably would not have been as successful if he had focussed on a specific definition of "communism", instead of speaking of "the Reds".)
I think we've experienced a similar hardening as has happened in countries under the threat of war, which often ends just with what they dreaded most. Wars often begin with an escalation: Some people act with violence. Others are outraged and feel they must do something against it. An arms race ensues. Specialized warriors come to power, recruiting more and more people and resources. People who question the violence get branded as "unpatriotic", "traitors", or even as non-humans, which solidifies the warrior groups. The warriors on both sides are united in threatening the remaining reasonable people. Eventually, even honest, thoughtful people feel forced to align themselves with one side. I wrote about this regarding an ethnic conflict back in 2007.
A similar situation happened in the last decade here at Wikipedia, between righteous editors and readers who distrust what they read. If someone from the latter group does something rash, the warriors quickly come up with their war cry WP:DENY!, ultimately denying the offendors one of the basic rights of humanity, the right to speak about their needs and grieves. What happened of our cherished ideal and self-image of "The Free Encyclopedia"?
I believe it is the obligation of those of us who are more fortunate to help those who are in a situation of strife, most often due to no fault on their part. Eleven years ago, that was still possible here. But since then, the warrior class here has grown and harded to the point where they question anyone's integrity who tries to reasonably speak with a "vandal", and use all weapons they can to obviate any chance for compassionate communication.
This is what I experienced in a recent case. Apparently a reader got upset about something they read or missed here because it violated some of their core beliefs, in this case apparently something that has to do with genocides they attributed to the white "man". ThEy reacted in ways that apparently made it easy for the warriors to summarily disregard their grievances. The term "vandal" was applied, and from then on there was no way out of the mess. The last thing they was allowed to write was a message on my talk page. It was, just like the angry posts before, a desperate attempt to find someone who compassionally listens. This last message also contained an attempt to understand what was going on. In addition to repeating some of the things they wrote before, the last message contained elements of gratitude, of introspection, and the legitimate question "How is it possible to provide a contratry view in Wikipedia." I saw those as signs of hope, and my plan was to, after calming down the reader, explain to them why they ran afoul with Wikipedia, that it's not because of some conspiracy and, if we get so far, the importance of reliable sources. I've done such things successfully in the past, when I helped some people not unlike this disgruntled reader transform in some cases even into reasonable editors. Sadly, this chance to educate a reader was thwarted by cutting off the only communication channell we had, when the reader was blocked with a punitive block.
If we had a more compassionate way of dealing with disgruntled readers, we would have less problems with them. It would be one way to reduce the problem of vandalism, which the warrior's attempts of the last decade have only exacerbated. ◄ Sebastian 14:56, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello!
I would like to share my deepest gratitude for everyone who responded to the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors Survey. The survey has closed for this year.
The quality of the results has improved because more people responded this year. We are working on analyzing the data already and hope to have something published on meta in a couple months. Be sure to watch Community Engagement Insights for when we publish the reports.
We will also message those individuals who signed up on the Thank you page or sent us an email to receive updates about the report.
Feel free to reach out to me directly at egalvez@wikimedia.org or at my talk page on meta.
Thank you again to everyone for sharing your opinions with us! EGalvez (WMF) ( talk) (by way of Johan (WMF) ( talk)) 09:05, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
A lot of Tongan names here are written with just an apostrophe rather than a fakauʻa (which is officially formalized in Tonga). I understand that through WP:COMMONNAME the apostrophe might be better because most publications don't use the fakauʻa. However, this is a small change which wouldn't confuse readers so long there are hard redirects from the apostrophe page to the fakauʻa page.
Should the pages be moved or otherwise changed? I'm pretty new here; let me know if I'm just not aware of a policy regarding this. Thanks, – Gormflaith ( talk) 13:03, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
On April 17, I was part of a conference which was held at the Centre Saint-Louis in Rome. Three Catholic clerics, myself included (I'm a priest), presented on the topic of "The Church on Wikipedia." Some French-language articles on the conference gave it the title "Wikipedia and Evangelization," which ended up hitting the French equivalent of this Village Pump and causing a bit of a ruckus. Not being Francophone myself, I didn't see it as my place to jump into that discussion, and frankly most of what I saw seemed to be fuelled by vague panic that a concerted group of Catholic priests might be attempting to skew NPOV on Catholicism-related articles. That was not at all the goal of the conference, of course. My presentation was a layman's introduction to the core content policies and a reflection on how these might be not merely respected, but truly assimilated and appreciated while pursuing editing on Wikipedia as a Christian. (I did conclude that editing can be a form of evangelization, but I was very clear that such evangelization is entirely passive... it's about contributing expertise to theologically-related articles and creating articles for underrepresented topics, not proselytism. If people want to know my thoughts on this matter, I can publish my remarks as an essay within my userspace.) A second presentation was from a priest who is an accomplished linguist, merely attesting to the quality and value of Wikipedia's coverage on what would otherwise be obscure linguistic topics. The final presentation was a friendly introduction to entire Wiki project, aimed at the uninitiated "Christian editor." This last presentation was just recently published in English, which is why I am initiating this discussion — firstly, to make people aware of who the editors involved here are (because in the French discussion of this topic, many immediately assumed, among other things, that we were newbie editors); secondly because I want to be preemptively clear about what this conference presented, especially since a few more English-language pieces on the conference remain to be published; and finally to hone my own thoughts on the matter. If you have concerns I would like to hear them. — AJDS talk 22:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, per this edit, a user reverts an article I had rearranged to feature chronological order. As the user comes with various accusations against me, I would prefer a third opinion. This has debated here before, but this time the discussion concerns the practical application of principle. AadaamS ( talk) 12:37, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
The name Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area is not the correct name for this Dutch metropolitan region. I looked it up on the offical website, where on the English language page they write Metropolitan region Rotterdam The Hague. I have corrected the name inside the article already (including reference), but felt I should not change the article title without consulting the community. Not to offend anyone. -- oSeveno ( User talk) 10:16, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
I discovered this on https://unicode.org/policies/logo_policy.html:
Use the ® symbol to indicate that the Unicode Mark is a registered trademark.
Does it mean that most of the usages of the word Unicode on Wikipedia should be replaced with Unicode®? Coeur ( talk) 10:56, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello all,
The Anti-Harassment Tools team made improvements to Special:Block to have a calendar as datetime selector to choose a specific day and hour in the future as expire time. The new feature was first available on the de.wp, meta, and mediawiki.org on 05/03/18. For more information see Improvement of the way the time of a block is determined - from a discussion on de.WP or ( phab:T132220) Questions? or want to give feedback. Leave a message on meta:Talk:Community health initiative/Blocking tools and improvements, on Phabricator, or by email. SPoore (WMF), Trust & Safety, Community health initiative ( talk) 18:01, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
St._Simons,_Georgia#Cotton_production has two paragraphs that seem uncertain. There was some material about slaves but someone went in and called the stories false. I could not determine which edits those were and I don't know what is correct. Is there a way to get someone who knows the history to straighten it out? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 20:13, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
When I clicked the edit button while not being logged into my Wikipedia account, I was able to see a long list of hidden categories at the bottom.
I prefer to have my username and not my IP address as the editor's identity. So I proceeded to log in but now those same hidden categories have disappeared.
What were they? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeldamaniac44 ( talk • contribs) 20:26, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
I keep seeing boxes saying that an article can be expanded by translating content from the same article on a non-English Wikipedia. Initially this looks like an easy win, particularly for a topic where there isn't an article on the English wikipedia yet. However, I keep looking at such pages and finding content that I don't want to translate. Often the articles I see aren't referenced very well, and often don't sound very encyclopaedic to me. In one recent case an article seemed to be full of overly detailed trivia and didn't really give a solid biography of the subject. I'm confident enough to read Wikipedia articles in (sadly only) one other language, but I certainly wouldn't want to offer an opinion on how the articles should be on the non-English Wiki. That's for another community to decide. But, I'm not finding the expected treasure trove of new content for English wiki. It's not all the articles that are bad, but it seems to happen quite often for articles on subjects that I am interested in. So, I suppose I'll keep on writing articles from scratch. This isn't really a question; I'm just curious if other people have had similar experiences or general thoughts on this matter. Ross-c ( talk) 10:03, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Dear all Over the past year or so I've been working quite a lot on Wikidata documentation and have been thinking more about the needs of different kinds of user. I feel that currently Wikidata can be difficult to understand (what it does, how to contribute, what issues there are and what is being done to address them etc) even for experienced Wikimedia project contributors. To help address this I've started an RFC to try and collate this information together. It would be really helpful if you could share your thoughts, especially if you find Wikidata hard to understand or confusing, you can just share your thoughts on the talk page and we will synthesize them into the main document. Wikidata:Requests for comment/Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user Thanks very much John Cummings ( talk) 12:54, 18 May 2018 (UTC) |
Is it customary to remove other people's comments from discourse pages?- Inowen ( talk) 01:55, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
In the article Coast, after the Table of Contents, section 1, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence, this word appears. Now, I don't claim to know every word in the English language, but I do know how to use a dictionary. I have some facility with search engines. I don't believe this word exists. Furthermore, neither does the OED or Wiktionary. A Google search produces the exact sentence from this article MANY times, from MANY sources, and many of them are otherwise nonesense aggregations of words (lorem ipsum) that I had the presence of mind NOT to open. There is new malware at large which activates as soon as you visit a site or open a PDF. The sentence ends " and areas with lower tidal ranges produce deprossosition at a smaller elevation interval." A Google or other search will find this sentence repeatedly, in articles and sources with no possible relation to coast, tides, erosion, etc.
If you are familiar with deprossosition, please explain something of etymology, derivation, or at least citeable sources. I don't believe the sky is falling, but this article and WP may have been salted with clickbait to facilitate malware. ALERT!
(I have posted this info on the Coast talkpage, but I am sufficiently concerned to repost here. If this is overreaction on my part, o.k. I've had egg on my face before.) rags ( talk) 13:17, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, folks. It's sure spread across the net. rags ( talk) 13:41, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello!
Let's look e.g. at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileLanguages/Crime_Traveller
We see "2 languages" there meaning "2 additional languages" actually (total is 3).
It seems somewhat strangely to see on language switch page that "... is available in 2 languages" whereas "2 additional languages" is correct.
Maybe, for equality of displaying show there all language links (not touching that "Return" link).
Crime Traveller is available in 3 languages.
Return to Crime Traveller. < not remove this link
Languages
English < and display also here the "current" language
polski
русский
I hope this idea is reasonable.
Serge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.149.44.203 ( talk • contribs)
Editors regularly ignore key policies such as WP:commonname or delete sourced content etc. Is there a speedy way of countering such violations, rather than lengthy RFC's etc.? Thylacoop5 ( talk) 12:33, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I dont know how to deal with this being less familiar with procedures on the anglophone Wikipedia. Marion Maréchal-Lepen has been recently renamed to Marion Maréchal, but the contributor who initiated this change (virtually everywhere) has been blocked on the francophone wikipedia, and the change reverted at least on the French version. See here for more details (fr). I also left a note on the article talk page. To me it seems this renaming is a little premature and the page should move back to Marion Lepen-Maréchal.-- Nattes à chat ( talk) 19:45, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Is there any purpose to this kind of edit? Oh, now I see Wikipedia:Short description--I'm always the last one to get the news. Drmies ( talk) 18:47, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
taipei has been added to China several times. Can any disability be dealt with in relation to this type of editorial activity that is cheap? ( for example) Zenk0113 ( talk) 16:22, 26 May 2018 (UTC)