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Greetings.
We released a few weeks ago a new version of the ISA tool on the Test Server. The new version propose semi-automatic tagging of images, which seeks to assist community in identifying and labelling depicts statements for Commons files.
Now we are looking for feedback with regards to
This is why we are organizing an online workshop on Monday 12th of December, 16h-17h30 UTC+1 (on zoom). We will be very happy if you find the time to join us.
More information and sign-up : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool/Image_to_Concept#ISA_Workshop_-_Dec_12th
Thank you in advanceǃ
Anthere ( talk) 09:05, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
Good morning, I have created the article Queen Avery Coonley. Maybe it can interest you too. It to translate from italian Brunokito ( talk) 10:32, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi all. I'm not a very active wikipedian, and am probably posting in the wrong place - please forgive me and gently direct me to the correct forum :-) In today's redactle, for the Mariana Trench, I noticed that the pressure was stated as "1,987 bars". This is not according to convention: the proper way to specify a pressure would be "1,987 bar". When I went to edit the page to correct this, I found that this page text was produced by the code "convert|1086|bar|psi" - so I can't fix this, and it appears that this odd unit convention is probably present on many other pages that use the convert tag. Where would I go to have this addressed? Rob Lushgardener ( talk) 23:57, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
In an op-ed piece discussing the conflict-centric nature of most social media, Ezra Klein pivoted to a mention of, by contrast, Wikipedia:
— scs ( talk) 04:23, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hi everyone,
Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contest has started. Crowds, pages turning, drums, chimes, vocals, and the sound of keyboards typing. Wikimedia is alive with sound, music, and everything in between. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help identify the Sound of All Human Knowledge. Voting is open until 19 December, 23:59 UTC. Learn more on Diff.
On a related note, we would love to activate banners for the voting component of the sound logo project to ensure Wikipedians are notified. Would this be ok? We will be running banners on Commons and Meta-Wiki with fewer impressions than the submission phase. This has already been approved through the appropriate community means. Would extending the "vote now" banner to English Wikipedia be acceptable as well? Thank you. MPourzaki (WMF) ( talk) 16:32, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
There was a recent change to the
WP:DYK criteria which was
discussed at length on WT:DYK, but I'm noting it here to give it greater visibility to editors outside of the circle of DYK regulars. Previously, hooks were required to include a definite fact that is mentioned in the article and interesting to a broad audience
. The new criteria is that they should include a definite fact that is mentioned in the article and likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by a reader with no special knowledge or interest.
Reading between the lines of a current discussion, there seems to be consensus that already submitted hooks will be evaluated by the old wording, but new hooks will be judged by the new wording. My personal opinion is that this is quite a minor change, so it shouldn't be that big of a deal. However, I get the impression that reviewers are likely to start being more strict about just plain enforcing the "interestingness" criteria than they were before. I therefore want to make sure people were aware of this change as to not get caught by surprise.
Follow-up discussions should happen on Wikipedia talk:Did you know.
For those not familiar with DYK, the elevator pitch is that it's an easy way for authors of new (or newly improved) articles to get their work highlighted on the front page. There's some basic quality criteria that the article needs to meet, but it's really nothing that every decent article shouldn't meet already. So, if you write something new, please consider submitting it to DYK. We even relax some of the rules for first-time submitters to make it easier for new people. If you find the process intimidating, dropping a note on WT:DYK asking for help with your submission will get you the support you need.
And for those of you who have had a number of submissions accepted already, please consider getting involved in some of the back-end work. We need more people willing to do reviews and help build hook sets in the prep areas. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:43, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Transactions by the use of Cryptocurrencies has rapidly been adopted and are used by many people now. Hence, why I think it makes sense for Wikipedia to add crypto as a payment method for donations. I believe they will see a rise in donations as crypto users are far more used to making transactions with crypto in current day compared to users two years ago. MattTheXPat ( talk) 12:03, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
I thought I've seen most of the worst that Wikipedia had to offer, and then I see this mess: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 December 13/2014 Commonwealth Games table tennis. How was this allowed to happen? RPI2026F1 ( talk) 17:02, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello
The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
Thank you! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 12:59, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello
Hello community, we have some updates on the Private Incident Reporting System – The system is looking to make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
Our goal for the past months was to understand the problem space and your expectations of this project. Following the feedback submitted to date (thank you!), we have developed the next steps. We would like to invite you to read about the new proposed plans and offer further feedback on the project talkpage, if you have any. If you prefer to talk privately, please get in touch with Madalina Ana.
Best regards –– Trust & Safety Tools Team. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk • contribs) 15:47, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Is there a good way of dealing with text that is in broken English to the extent that it is incoherent? I mean in cases where it can't be corrected because the intended meaning is unclear. I don't have any specific example in mind. Jack Upland ( talk) 06:05, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC), we would like to thank everyone who has participated in our first community wide consultation period on the Movement Charter.
People from across the Movement shared their feedback and thoughts on the content of the Movement Charter. If you have not had the chance to share your opinion yet, you are welcome to do so still by giving the drafts a read and filling out the anonymous survey, which is accessible in 12+ languages. The survey will close on January 2, 2023. You are invited to continue to share your thoughts with the MCDC via email too: movementcharter(@)wikimedia.org.
What’s next?
The Movement Strategy and Governance team will publish the final report with the summary of the feedback received in January 2023. It will be shared with the MCDC and the communities via different distribution channels.
After receiving the final report, the MCDC will review the suggestions and communicate the changes by providing an explanation on how and why suggestions were or were not adopted in the next versions of the drafts. There will be additional ways to engage with the Movement Charter content in 2023, including early feedback on a proposed ratification process and new drafts of different chapters in the second quarter of 2023.
We invite you to sign-up to the MCDC monthly newsletter, it will be delivered to the Talk page of your choice. Monthly updates are available on Meta to remain updated on the progress of the MCDC.
Interested people can still sign-up to become a Movement Charter Ambassador (MC Ambassador) to support their community. The MC Ambassadors Program grant program will restart accepting applications from both individuals and groups ahead of the next round of consultations in the second quarter of 2023.
We thank you for your participation, time and effort in helping to build the Charter for our Movement!
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, MNadzikiewicz (WMF) ( talk) 12:48, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Who better to create a well governed space for the exchange of info and ideas than the Foundation? The world needs such a forum that provides the benefits without incurring the costs and risks of a free-for-all that are increasingly apparent.
Funding could be by direct appeal to those harvesting value for commerce (politicians, Government Agencies, Associations, businesses, and similar enterprise users could be asked for a "suggested" donation (starting at a very nominal level) with a "badge" or icon to show that they support the project. Same with individuals but the suggestion would be "whatever you think reflects the value you receive".
Such a forum seems very much in keeping with the Wikipedia Ethos. 104.218.174.130 ( talk) 23:26, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
fy:Wikipedy:Parseberjocht Mysha ( talk) 10:02, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Dear Wiki Community,
Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,
You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill in this Google form and mark a mail to support@wikilovesfolklore.org with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:23, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hi everyone. A reminder that the Wikimedia sound logo vote is still open. Voting ends today December 19 at 23:59 UTC. Thanks to many of you from around the world who have played a part in this project's success. MPourzaki (WMF) ( talk) 14:40, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
I have just logged into Wikipedia on Christmas Day 2022, and did not see any Christmas logos decorating the screen. I had been expecting the technologically sophisticated to have adorned the pages of Wikipedia with these logos, but there were none. Why is this? If the rationale is not wishing to offend people of non-Christian faiths, we could still have logos to celebrate festivals of other religions, such as Hanukkah or Eid al-Fitr, at the appropriate time of year. YTKJ ( talk) 15:27, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
FYI, there is a trending prank on Tiktok where users attempt to fool friends/family about the death of famous personalities. Fortunately, most of the Wikipedia biographies for highly-notable folks are in some form of protection, but in case you see an uptick in vandalism, this may be the reason:
It also helps that school is out of session for many, so there are not as many usual bored classroom vandals. - Fuzheado | Talk 15:45, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
@ General Ization, HJ Mitchell, Malcolmxl5, Ohnoitsjamie, and Widr: I am trying to determine the proper forum in which I can hold a discussion on this particular matter.
These are considerations:
Do any of you have suggestions as to the the proper place to discuss this? Peaceray ( talk) 22:04, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
There is an RfC at WP:RSN on reliability of 9to5Google as a source. [1] Only 3 opinions have been given in about 19 days. More would be appreciated. -- Yae4 ( talk) 15:20, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year from Serbia with love
"Health, celebration, lion heart" - Đorđe Balašević EmiliaITČA ( talk) 15:33, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year from Greece to all of us. -
Γιάννης Ευαγγελίου (
talk) 23:44, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
The release of ChatGPT to the public has startled me a bit with students already passing off its auto-generated text as their own while plagiarism software have no answer.
Has there been any WP/WM discussion with regards to how this might be tackled on Wikimedia projects (detecting patterns of AI generated texts, images etc.)? Also do we allow the uploading of artificial intelligence art: images, "art", videos et al created by AI (e.g. DALL-E); if yes who is considered its creator: the AI, the person who generated these images, or the AI's owners/creators?
Please point me to any discussions, posts, guidelines, policies that have happened or are happening on this topic. The last discussion, similar to this, that I am familiar with was at list of most expensive artworks by living artists, where NFTs where discluded.
Confounding and startling times ahead. Gotitbro ( talk) 15:22, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
When looking at the view count of a page, does it include the times you yourself have visited the page with your account? Xәkim ( talk) 18:12, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Was any decision made to remove the tag saying "This article is being heavily edited because its subject has recently died" from Wikipedia? I saw that David Gold (businessman) was recently in the category "Recent deaths", but did not see the tag heading the article on him. YTKJ ( talk) 18:09, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for these comments. I see the "Recent deaths" tag is still used, and currently heads the article on Gianluca Vialli. YTKJ ( talk) 21:36, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
I guess someone should create a template based on WP:NOTNEWS to be put on articles when there's a tsunami of persons editing trivial information. At 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, there are people editing the page for every single vote cast by a member. Like, a round of voting takes less than an hour, you can wait, there's no rush. Afterall, Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWS. — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 18:41, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
A few months ago, the 3rd Community Safety survey was conducted on your wiki. The results are now available on meta. We hope you will use this data to continue discussions about safety in your community.
The quarterly survey will be conducted again this month.
Your feedback and questions are welcome on our talk page.
Thank you!
- TAndic (WMF) ( talk) 18:55, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
Dear all,
Yesterday (31st of December), the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual banner fundraising campaign on English Wikipedia in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States finished. We run this campaign on an annual basis but this year’s campaign was truly unique. We would like to thank all of you who participated in shaping the messages and working together to better tell our story to readers and donors. Without you, the message would not have evolved and improved to where it is today.
Following the fundraising campaign, we will be in touch early in the new year to share more information about the campaign as well as ideas to carry the collaboration forward in the new year.
I am out of the office until the 16th of January and will answer any questions or comments after this.
Best, JBrungs (WMF) ( talk) 10:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Oh look, a (WMF) account claiming that because people have experience with fund raising, they have a better grasp of what is ethical and what isn't than other people. No idea why we pay for such "community relations" drivel. Fram ( talk) 09:26, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to say this, but kudos to whoever programmed the reply tool so that it adds my comments to the correct thread, even when I reply while viewing a diff. Serious thought obviously went into how stupid editors would be, and how to pre-empt them. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆ transmissions∆ ° co-ords° 21:59, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
;-)
Hello! This is just a general notice that thanks to some fine work (tracked at Phabricator T321740), the Internet Archive Bot is now functional again and can be accessed here. It had been broken/working highly inconsistently since at least October. However, it may still have some performance issues, so be aware. —Ganesha811 ( talk) 11:02, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
It is now 2023 and the pageant Miss World 2022 has yet to be scheduled as far as anyone can tell.
The article Miss World 2022 is kind of in a weird state, because there have been a number of announcements of contestants, but no announcements of the date nor location of the pageant itself. It comes across as a bit WP:CRYSTAL to me. For the sake of good encyclopedic content, I think one of these options could be explored:
Thoughts from the community? ☆ Bri ( talk) 19:16, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Sorry if this is not the correct place to put this but I've noticed a lot of recent edits on a page I was also editing in my free time. The page ( /info/en/?search=List_of_S%26P_600_companies), and related pages, has had a lot of edits by a user that has only had an account 4 months. They seem to be making a lot of drastic changes in a short space of time. Is this something unusual for a new user? Pearsejward ( talk) 15:02, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello all,
In mid-January 2023, the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows the March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s Community Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.
The volunteer-led Revisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.
The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed here, and a comparison of changes can be found here.
How to vote?
Beginning January 17, 2023, voting will be open. This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.
Who can vote?
The eligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.
What happens after the vote?
Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
JPBeland-WMF ( talk) 05:13, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Note: See Approval of Enforcement Guidelines without first approving a Code of Conduct. (link fixed, new section with revised question). Alsee ( talk) 04:28, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
I wasn't sure where to post this, sorry in advance if this is the wrong place to post. Is there a policy on the age of census data that should be in an article. I ask because Echols County, Georgia has a section with information from the 2000 Census. Mjrmtg ( talk) 01:03, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Unreviewed featured articles/2020 (URFA/2020) is a systematic approach to reviewing older Featured articles (FAs) to ensure they still meet the FA standards. A January 2022 Signpost article called "Forgotten Featured" explored the effort.
Progress is recorded at the monthly stats page. Through 2022, with 4,526 very old (from the 2004–2009 period) and old (2010–2015) FAs initially needing review:
Of the FAs kept, deemed satisfactory by three reviewers, or delisted, about 60% had prior review between 2004 and 2007; another 20% dated to the period from 2008–2009; and another 20% to 2010–2015. Roughly two-thirds of the old FAs reviewed have retained FA status or been marked "satisfactory", while two-thirds of the very old FAs have been defeatured.
Entering its third year, URFA is working to help maintain FA standards; FAs are being restored not only via FAR, but also via improvements initiated after articles are reviewed and talk pages are noticed. Since the Featured Article Save Award (FASA) was added to the FAR process a year ago, 38 FAs were restored to FA status by editors other than the original FAC nominator. Ten FAs restored to status have been listed at WP:MILLION, recognizing articles with annual readership over a million pageviews, and many have been rerun as Today's featured article, helping increase mainpage diversity.
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But there remain almost 4,000 old and very old FAs to be reviewed. Some topic areas and WikiProjects have been more proactive than others in restoring or maintaining their old FAs. As seen in the chart below, the following have very high ratios of FAs kept to those delisted (ordered from highest ratio):
and others have a good ratio of kept to delisted FAs:
... so kudos to those editors who pitched in to help maintain older FAs !
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Noting some minor differences in tallies:
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But looking only at the oldest FAs (from the 2004–2007 period), there are 12 content areas with more than 20 FAs still needing review: Biology, Music, Royalty and nobility, Media, Sport and recreation, History, Warfare, Meteorology, Physics and astronomy, Literature and theatre, Video gaming, and Geography and places. In the coming weeks, URFA/2020 editors will be posting lists to individual WikiProjects with the goal of getting these oldest-of-the-old FAs reviewed during 2023.
Ideas for how you can help are listed below and at the Signpost article.
More regular URFA and FAR reviewers will help assure that FAs continue to represent examples of Wikipedia's best work. If you have any questions or feedback, please visit Wikipedia talk:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/4Q2022. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:59, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
WP:WikiProject Years is plagued with infighting to the point where meaningful contributions to year articles are no longer possible. Virtually all aspects of year articles are heavily disputed in one form or another, and most changes in any direction are challenged by WikiProject members. Significant community input appears to be necessary, and any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated. Relevant discourse can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years as well as recent archives ( Archive 14 and Archive 15). Thebiguglyalien ( talk) 22:02, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
If anyone would like to see WikiProject Apple Inc. revived, or has any thoughts on how it should be organized, check out this discussion on that WikiProject's talk page.
It's far less active today than it was in 2010-2012, but the goal isn't to surpass MILHIST or WIR, just to make things easier for editors of Apple-related articles DFlhb ( talk) 05:20, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, everyone! Those interested in the subject of the American Civil War, Neo-Confederates and the Southern United States (or in some other related subject) might be interested in WP:NOCONFED as well, a closely related essay that was created relatively recently. — Sundostund mppria ( talk / contribs) 06:34, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Suggestions about pages applying the same exclusion principle to other groups such as communists or confederates have been roundly rejected on this very page, so this [so-called slippery slope] is not slippery at all.🌈WaltCip-( talk) 15:53, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
The new 2022 vector skin is horrible. The lack of a table of contents causes infoboxes to push images down, and the TOC on the left squeezes everything together. Who chose this? Was there an RfC I missed? ~ HAL 333 18:16, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
I think it's curious that in the RfC for Vector 2022, a slim majority of commenters opposed the change, but the RfC close was summarized with "Overall, there is a positive reception to the changes". It seems the closers misrepresented the oppose votes as "support after X" votes, which they most certainly were not. Thebiguglyalien ( talk) 23:24, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
The TOC on the left isn't too bad imo, but the subheadings of the TOC need to be indented more. Some1 ( talk) 03:59, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Does this new skin fix the issue with Wikipedia crashing Chromium based browsers, by eating up all memory and crashing the browser, or even the OS? -- 64.229.90.199 ( talk) 06:00, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
First, I want to be clear this is not intended as a criticism of any particular editor, it is more of an institutional bad habit that has developed over the past few years and went unnoticed and unquestioned.
Anyway, TL;DR, at some point a few years ago (nobody I talked to was able to figure out exactly how this started and what policy supports this), assessment categories related to inactive WikiProjects (ex. Category:Start-Class Popular Culture articles) started to be deleted as part of broadly understood "maintance". In addition to not being policy supported, this is not just unncessary make-work with zero purpose and benefit, but I argue that this is actively determintal to the project (hiding useful statistics and possibly even introducing errors into the main assessment statistics).
An example of the damage caused is visible in the following aspects:
Note that I've also reported this to the WikiProject Council (which ironically seems mostly inactive) and V 1.0 editorial team which deals with assessments, where my reading of the short discussion in which Kusma, Chipmunkdavis, Audiodude, CX Zoom and WhatamIdoing participated being that this is indeed not a best practice. I've also raised this at User_talk:Liz/Archive_8#Why_was_this_page_deleted? (also ping UnitedStatesian), where Liz said: "I just checked Wikipedia:WikiProject#Inactive projects, Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Dealing with inactive WikiProjects, Wikipedia:Content assessment and Wikipedia:Assessing articles and they don't seem to have any information about article assessments being altered, changed or removed when the WikiProject's status changes. It's stunning to think that something so fundamental as this could have been going on for years without a discussion about it. I'll check the Village Pump later today to see if there was any debate about this in the past". She also suggested this needs to be discussed at VP, and since other discussions seem to have pettered out, here we go.
As for the practical aspects, i.e. what needs to be done - it's relatively simple. All assessment categories and associated pages of inactive WikiProjects need to be restored, and they should not be deleted without a consensus at VP or MfD. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:46, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
@ Aymatth2 @ CX Zoom @ Caeciliusinhorto @ Chipmunkdavis @ Donald Albury @ Johnbod @ Kusma @ WhatamIdoing The consensus seems pretty clear we want this stoped and done otherwise, but how do we get it done and enforced? @ Liz @ UnitedStatesian Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:58, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
WPBannerMeta/inactive
instead of WPBannerMeta
.This template is within the scope of WikiProject, a project which is currently considered to be inactive |
Are you ok with numerous former assessments being effectively deleted, with no policy supporting depreciating assessments done by formerly active wikiprojects?I think WikiProjects are mainly administered through common practice, and not some written rules?
@ Aymatth2 Do we need a vote for that? I totally support the idea, but generally we have a consensus here (for restoring assessments and for moving the quality ones into a single wikiproject-independent template), but how do we implement that?
However, I'll note that even if the quality assessments are split, they should still be connected to WikiProjects, as the active ones like milhist or med certainly care to know how many articles of what quality exist within their sphere. I am sure members of such project would oppose any split that would affect how the system works on their end.
So perhaps the way to do it is to keep the current system, but add a master template that copies an existing assessment if one exists, and if not, it can still host a quality assessment. This way we would avoid the trouble with upsetting the system that works for active WikiProjects, and solve the problem of assessments for articles that are not within the scope of any WikiProject (or active one). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:49, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
{{WikiProject banner shell |class=GA |1=
{{WikiProject Biography|core=yes|living=n|listas=Churchill, Winston}}
{{WikiProject British Empire|importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Conservatism|importance=top}}
}}
Just as an example, see Talk:Predator (film) which is now displaying its class but not categorising. You can check that it records in the PageAssessments database by checking [5] — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:34, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Category:C class Ruritania articles
is more useful than Category:C class articles
. It may be hard for a generic template to capture a quality assessment and pass it transparently to all the project templates so they can add project-specific categories. But there must be a solution.
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talk) 14:47, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
I have drafted an RfC question at User:MSGJ/Sandbox/4. Any comments or copyedits would be welcome — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:31, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Just came across an IP who seems to be in a mission to add voice acting (VA)/ dubbing credits into the articles of multiple Mexican actors and celebrities, while I know this is normal practice for American actors to include VA credits in their filmographies, I'm not sure if this is also allowed for actors from other countries who have VA in languages other than English (afterall, this is enwiki). And if this is allowed, we would then have to start adding VA credits for any celebrity of any nationality who has done VA in any language?
My personal perception was that you could maybe mention these credits in their Career section rather than add it to the filmography, I couldn't find any relevant guidelines in WP:FILMBIO - Gouleg🛋️ harass/ hound (she/her) 16:54, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
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For the past week or so, the top read articles have included Index, Index, Washington, and Index (economics), among others. Clearly, an automated service is spamming searches with the word 'index;' perhaps some piece of badly written zombie code trying to fetch an index page? Does anyone know for certain? If not, is there some way to identify the source of this traffic? Ngcouch ( talk) 02:50, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Would it be practical to have a 'select pages for which one's last contribution is the current one' be feasible? (Would be useful for longer term contributors - I ).have some from 2006.) Jackiespeel ( talk) 18:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
There is a systematic problem that appears in many Wikipedia articles concerning many US cities. I do not have sufficient technical knowledge to propose the solution, but I am sure that there are many within the Wikipedia community who do, once the problem is realized.
As you know, Congressional redistricting occurs after each decennial census. It often is the case that a city that was in one Congressional District will, after redistricting, be assigned to a different Congressional District. Apparently, the current default practice for many Wikipedia articles concerning cities is automatically to show the current elected Representative for whatever Congressional District is shown. The problem that arises is that this process often (typically ?) takes place without an updating, when necessary, of the fact that the particular city has now been assigned to a different Congressional District. The result then is that the article automatically updates to show as that city's Congressional Representative a politician who does not represent that city, but rather represents a District that the city had formerly been assigned to, but is no longer included within. I have in 2023 (now that redistricting under the 2020 census has occurred) edited (after confirming with local elections offices, the Wikipedia articles on Dinuba and Mendota, both cities in California, in Tulare and Fresno Counties, respectively. However, I suspect that this problem has created misinformation for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Wikipedia articles about US cities.
Is there a survey or editing tool that could determine whether a particular article needs such a fix? I have a suggestion that might lead to a solution. I will illustrate with the Mendota article. After the 2010 census, Mendota was assigned to the 21st District pf California. That change was made in the article, with a Footnote 6 illustrating the appropriate 2013 website. (The new districting takes effect in the Congress commencing with the 3rd year of the decade following the census.) In the 117th Congress, David Valadao represented the 21st District, including Mendota, and was shown as Mendota's US Congressional Representative. Prior to my editing of this article, the 2023 version of the article showed Jim Costa as representing Mendota in Congress. This was incorrect. It happened because beginning in January 2023 Mr. Costa did indeed represent the 21st District and so the formula applied by Wikipedia automatically "updated" the "Mendota" article to show the current Representative of the 21st District, which is now Mr. Costa, and no longer Mr. Daladao. Om fact. the actual Representative now representing Mendota is John Duarte. The problem arose because the District that Mendota is now part of was renumbered from 21 to 13, and Mr. Duarte is the current Representative for the 13th District. The current practice of Wikipedia is to "update" the politician who currently represents a District with a particular number, without ascertaining whether there should also be an update as to whether the particular city still is within a Congressional District that is labeled with the same or a different number.
Thanks for considering this problem and a possible solution.
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Prompted by the immediately preceding item, I took a look at the NYPL on-line catalog. I didn't find USN&WR, but I did find an interesting project they're doing to provide a catalog of freely licensed research materials, available without the need for a NYPL library card. I haven't explored it yet, but mentioning it here because it looks like it might be useful to a lot of editors researching articles. https://digital-research-books-beta.nypl.org/about -- RoySmith (talk) 02:15, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
I found this is Special:UserGroupRights. It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. Is there a need for this? Is there anywhere this could be useful? If so, should there be any policies/guidelines on it? It's not even mentioned on WP:User access levels 137a ( talk • edits) 16:00, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:2022 § RFC on the inclusion of Barbara Walters in Deaths (Result:) to determine if Barbara Walters' death should be mentioned on the 2022 year page.
I'm posting this general notification here, as the RFC only shows as a generic "Talk:2022" on the RFC dashboard; more people might have input if they know the RFC topic is about a specific person, not a generic year. Thanks in advance. — Bagumba ( talk) 05:28, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
I am tired of poking around the internet and just thought I'd ask here... Are past US News & World Report articles available anywhere online? I do not have access to EBSCO, I do have Newspapers.com and some access through stuff at Wikipedia Library. I am trying to find an easily-accessible online source for the May 2, 1988 edition, an article with the title ""Racial tensions, drugs and poverty—an explosive mix in rural North Carolina; There's trouble in Robeson County" by Joseph Shapiro & Ronald Taylor. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 23:50, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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For some time now, inspired by articles like Mikhail Gorbachev, Tim Pool, and Vaush, I have been adding audio excerpts to various Wikipedia biographies. Whereas it has largely been received with indifference, my addition of an audio excerpt to Jenna Ortega has appeared to cause some stirr amongst some editors (see Jenna Ortega: Revision history and Talk:Jenna Ortega). Admittedly, there has been very little discussion on Wikipedia in regards to audio files, even with somewhat prominent articles like Richard Dawkins and Jimmy Wales having them, so I seek to initiate a discussion that will hopefully initiate further insight and WP:Consensus. Knightoftheswords281 ( talk) 22:49, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the various pings. Yes, we should aim to include the voice of the subject of all biographies, where that is possible, and we have ten years of precedence for doing so. Ideally, they would be saying their own name (so we have the correct pronunciation), but otherwise at least demonstrating what they sound(ed) like. As with images, high quality is preferable to low quality, but we must work with what we have. And, as with the main image, the infobox is the place to put it. WP:WikiVIP refers, and c:Commons:Voice intro project explains in more detail why we should do this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:33, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I came across this sentence: The removal of cataracts was a common surgical procedure in Djenné[35] (as in many other parts of Africa[36]). on the article Cataract_surgery#West_Africa. It made me think if these references were in a good place according to manual of style but I couldn't find it so quick. Doesn't it have to be "The removal of cataracts was a common surgical procedure in Djenné[35] (as in many other parts of Africa).[36]" ? Thanks Coldbolt ( talk) 09:27, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
does a tool exist, given a user, list users/ip that have edited the same pages with the given user in the past x days? like, given my username and 10 days, the tool will check all pages i edited in the past 10 days, identify users that also edited the same pages in the past 10 days, and list these users by the number of pages for each.
the use of this is, currently i found two accounts operated by the same person (because they edited some pages one after another), but i dont know if other accounts exist, so if a tool like this exists, i can detect and check anomalous related edits. RZuo ( talk) 17:10, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
I am back to post a brief follow up message to my November note. Following the close of the RfC, the Wikimedia Foundation set up a co-creation page to seek input from community members on proposed messaging for banners. We posted regular updates on the campaign's performance to this page. In brief, over 450+ banners were tested during this year's campaign, and $24.7M of revenue was raised against an original $30M goal (a shortfall of $5.3 million). During the first few days the new banners resulted in about 70% less revenue than on the corresponding days in the prior year. Additional information on the campaign results are posted here. Next year, the fundraising team will continue to engage with the community on banner messaging. We look forward to building on the process we created this year.
I wanted to provide further updates on a few other issues that were raised:
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During the first few days the new banners resulted in about 70% less revenue than on the corresponding days in the prior year.Interesting. So do I take this to mean that the new banners that the community specifically suggested, or at least collaborated with the WMF on, actively resulted in less revenue being pulled in? If so, hmm. -- 🌈WaltCip-( talk) 14:17, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
The Foundation’s annual planning this year is being led by the needs of our Product & Technology departments. This will be the first time since about 2015 that these two departments will undertake joint planning.It sounds like WMF is shifting its Annual Plan to focus on software and technology more? I missed this on the first reading, but if so, this is an exciting development. I think the idea of WMF shifting funds towards software will be well-received. Feel free to emphasize this more in your communications. I think volunteers will really like this.
We are working with the community to make Vector 2022 the default skin, after 3 years of development work, feedback and iteration with wiki communities.This is a not-so-exciting development. The Vector 2022 deployment on enwiki has not gone well, and has arguably been against community consensus. This might be a good issue to backpedal a bit on.
Please note that Ross Gillespie died on 31 january according to Google. Thank you. 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 09:14, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Is there a debate or survey anywhere about English Wikipedia's new layout, where I can say how much I hate it, and why? SergeWoodzing ( talk) 10:36, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
A friend, a Wikipedia novice, asked how to use Alexa to access Wikipedia. I am unfamiliar with Alexa, but Googled and found a couple of tips. I have summarised them at Wikipedia:Amazon Alexa, but input from someone more familiar with Alexa would be appreciated.
We should probably make similar pages for Siri and other digital assistants; and add a note about privacy. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:49, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
Already article 2022–2023 Pakistan economic crisis is not in good updated condition, moreover recently WP has been censored in Pakistan. The article seem to need article expansion help to keep adequately updated.
~~~~ Bookku ( talk) 07:28, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
I hadn't seen this noted or discussed elsewhere so thought I should note it somewhere: the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has blocked Wikipedia over a dispute about 'blasphemy'. BBC article: [7] -- (loopback) ping/ whereis 06:01, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
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The Crown Heights riot is considered a Black American riot. It has nothing to do with Black Americans. This type of slander happens everyday. Two South American children were hit by a Jewish man's car. A Jewish ambulance assisted the Jewish driver and passengers. The SOUTH AMERICAN children were left under the car dying. This caused an IMMIGRANT from TRINIDAD to be angry and seek revenge by killing an innocent Jewish man with no relationship to the accident. The media knew Gavin CATO was a South American boy. Guyana is not America's 51st state. How is he Black American? It's a Caribbean and South American versus Jewish riot. The facts did not fit the narrative of Black Americans attacking Jewish people. How do we correct fake news? 2600:8802:3A12:E700:CD98:4710:36DD:848C ( talk) 05:06, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
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I contact you, hoping it is the right space, because with various colleagues we would like to survey the Wikipedia users on how they consider, use the information provided by Wikipedia, according to the context (professional, personal, etc.) We would also ask the contributors specific questions about their participation and their involvement. The project is managed by a group or researchers from several public research institutions, mainly French, coordinated by the research network Marsouin with, we hope, collaboration with the different language communities. More precisely, the survey aims at addressing the following questions (open list):
This questionnaire will rely on and expand the one done in 2019 by the WMF and surveys the same team has done (but only with the French wikipedia users) in 2015 and in 2011. See the results of the former surveys (in French: 2011, 2015).
Any help for defining some concerns of the En-Wikipedia community that we could survey, and for the test of the questionnaire would be greatly appreciated!
If you think it would be a good idea to translate the survey in other languages (French, Italian and Turkish are already taken care of), and are able to help for that, it would be just great!
Last but not least, we plan to launch the survey some times in April, for two weeks. Jullienn ( talk) 08:48, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
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Starting in January of this year, something happened to the formatting of my user talk page. Instead of paragraph format, it became all-centered format. This doesn't seem to have happened to other people's talk pages so I probably did something stupid - or somebody posting on my page did something that changed it. How do I change it back to paragraph format? MelanieN ( talk) 02:42, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
• Full text of Haaretz article [8]
• Full text of the scholarly article upon which the Haaretz article is based [9]
The authors claim poor sources and sometimes no sources are used to distort the history of the Holocaust in Poland. Is this being addressed or discussed somewhere on Wikipedia? Anthonyhcole ( talk) 09:13, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
For those of you who have been bedeviled by those annoying numeric ref names generated by the Visual Editor such as ":0", ":1" and so forth, it's my honor to announce a new script created by User:Nardog.
Script RefRenamer converts all VE numeric names on a page to useful named references (default: Lastname-YYYY). There are many addditional options to customize how you want it done. This has worked flawlessly on pages containing more than a hundred numeric references; here's an example where it made about 136 changes at Generation Z ( diff).
The script doesn't stop the VE problem from occurring, but it is a complete solution for converting one page that you're working on to reasonable ref names. Powerful and effective; kudos! Mathglot ( talk) 21:50, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Доброе, коллеги! Кавалер высшей награды всемирной общественной организации является ли значимой персоной в английском разделе Википедии?
Good morning, colleagues! Is the holder of the highest award of the world public organization a significant person in the English section of Wikipedia? ----
Рөстәм Нурыев (
talk) 05:46, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
Determinans and Determinatum have been stub articles with zero activity since 2004. Currently, they're both just definitions (see also: Wiktionary:determinans#English, Wiktionary:determinatum#English).
I think they should be either:
1. Deleted. Nobody's cared to touch them in 20 years, a DDG search didn't give me any obvious evidence that these terms are in widespread use, but I'm not a subject-matter expert.
2. Merged together. The concepts closely complement each other.
3. Merged into a major article as a section, e.g. Part of speech.
I've looked at a few policy articles, e.g. WP:N, WP:DEL, WP:Merging, and Template:Expert needed, but it still wasn't clear to me what should be done; perhaps nothing needs to be done at all. I'd appreciate it if a more experienced editor could suggest what to do. Thanks. JamesTMartin ( talk) 17:06, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I wrote this article by a multi-faceted New York artist that is now in draft format: Draft:David Gonzalez (multi-disciplinary artist)
The article is part of Wikiproject arts, WikiProject Children's literature, and WikiProject Biographies.
I respectfully ask if anyone can help me in making the wording neutral. The most important reference is an article from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/12/movies/orpheus-as-a-charmer-with-a-sax.html can also be viewed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/backstage-in-man-of-the-house-gonzalez-deals-with-absent-dad-teen-hardships/2013/10/29/ef5fdb3e-40c1-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_story.html Thank you very much Miskito89 ( talk) 15:16, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
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The message about language links in the main menu is long and out of date. A proposal to update it:
– SJ + 18:06, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
This edit looks it's been done using machine learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Washing_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1138836409
I've fixed a few mistakes, including "This was largely because of the economic impact" being replaced by "This was large because of the economic impact".
Are these kind of edits common? The RedBurn ( ϕ) 13:49, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the
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Ukrainian Institute, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive
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This user page was not created by the user, who never edited it moreover (see the page's history). 176.128.237.169 ( talk) 16:06, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
I brought up Wikipedia on my smartphone, using Google Chrome (not an app) in desktop mode, and looked briefly at the featured article. Then I clicked to display the whole page of the featured article. The preview of the featured article and the lede paragraph of the real article did not match. The preview isn't the beginning of the article. It may be an old beginning of the article; I haven't checked the history. Why are we displaying a teaser of the featured article that isn't the beginning of the featured article? Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:36, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
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I don't know where else to put this, but I just want to say that the new webpage design is absolutely, irredeemably awful. I genuinely think that I will stop using this website, and that many others will too, if it is not quickly changed back, because the amount of blank space at the sides of the redesigned page layout is simply obnoxious, not to mention all the other awful features of this sudden and un-asked for change. I highly, HIGHLY suggest at the very least a "legacy mode" option that can be used to return to the previous user interface, because as it is this website frankly looks like trash. (Duplicated because I realized I posted this in the wrong place before) 2601:405:4400:9420:DC22:E380:D2EE:15A9 ( talk) 03:27, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
How does one make this garbage just go away ? (Asking for a friend.) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 12:56, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it! Thought I'd get used to it, but nope, It really disgusts me. -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 10:39, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
All these kilobytes spent on arguing about Vector 2022 in that RFC, and here I am just happily using it, as I have been for the past month. I get used to it more and more every day. -- ⛵ WaltClipper -( talk) 19:05, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
@ Whatamidoing (WMF): On a page I am working on in my sandbox, there is a box on the left under "Languages" that says: "On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Go to top." I have nothing against the new UI, and I use it so that, as a content creator, I know what the readers are seeing. But I am curious as to why we have a "Languages" heading on the left when the languages are not there. (And do we really need languages at all on a page in the user space?) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:26, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
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Greetings.
We released a few weeks ago a new version of the ISA tool on the Test Server. The new version propose semi-automatic tagging of images, which seeks to assist community in identifying and labelling depicts statements for Commons files.
Now we are looking for feedback with regards to
This is why we are organizing an online workshop on Monday 12th of December, 16h-17h30 UTC+1 (on zoom). We will be very happy if you find the time to join us.
More information and sign-up : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool/Image_to_Concept#ISA_Workshop_-_Dec_12th
Thank you in advanceǃ
Anthere ( talk) 09:05, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
Good morning, I have created the article Queen Avery Coonley. Maybe it can interest you too. It to translate from italian Brunokito ( talk) 10:32, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi all. I'm not a very active wikipedian, and am probably posting in the wrong place - please forgive me and gently direct me to the correct forum :-) In today's redactle, for the Mariana Trench, I noticed that the pressure was stated as "1,987 bars". This is not according to convention: the proper way to specify a pressure would be "1,987 bar". When I went to edit the page to correct this, I found that this page text was produced by the code "convert|1086|bar|psi" - so I can't fix this, and it appears that this odd unit convention is probably present on many other pages that use the convert tag. Where would I go to have this addressed? Rob Lushgardener ( talk) 23:57, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
In an op-ed piece discussing the conflict-centric nature of most social media, Ezra Klein pivoted to a mention of, by contrast, Wikipedia:
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Hi everyone,
Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contest has started. Crowds, pages turning, drums, chimes, vocals, and the sound of keyboards typing. Wikimedia is alive with sound, music, and everything in between. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help identify the Sound of All Human Knowledge. Voting is open until 19 December, 23:59 UTC. Learn more on Diff.
On a related note, we would love to activate banners for the voting component of the sound logo project to ensure Wikipedians are notified. Would this be ok? We will be running banners on Commons and Meta-Wiki with fewer impressions than the submission phase. This has already been approved through the appropriate community means. Would extending the "vote now" banner to English Wikipedia be acceptable as well? Thank you. MPourzaki (WMF) ( talk) 16:32, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
There was a recent change to the
WP:DYK criteria which was
discussed at length on WT:DYK, but I'm noting it here to give it greater visibility to editors outside of the circle of DYK regulars. Previously, hooks were required to include a definite fact that is mentioned in the article and interesting to a broad audience
. The new criteria is that they should include a definite fact that is mentioned in the article and likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by a reader with no special knowledge or interest.
Reading between the lines of a current discussion, there seems to be consensus that already submitted hooks will be evaluated by the old wording, but new hooks will be judged by the new wording. My personal opinion is that this is quite a minor change, so it shouldn't be that big of a deal. However, I get the impression that reviewers are likely to start being more strict about just plain enforcing the "interestingness" criteria than they were before. I therefore want to make sure people were aware of this change as to not get caught by surprise.
Follow-up discussions should happen on Wikipedia talk:Did you know.
For those not familiar with DYK, the elevator pitch is that it's an easy way for authors of new (or newly improved) articles to get their work highlighted on the front page. There's some basic quality criteria that the article needs to meet, but it's really nothing that every decent article shouldn't meet already. So, if you write something new, please consider submitting it to DYK. We even relax some of the rules for first-time submitters to make it easier for new people. If you find the process intimidating, dropping a note on WT:DYK asking for help with your submission will get you the support you need.
And for those of you who have had a number of submissions accepted already, please consider getting involved in some of the back-end work. We need more people willing to do reviews and help build hook sets in the prep areas. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:43, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Transactions by the use of Cryptocurrencies has rapidly been adopted and are used by many people now. Hence, why I think it makes sense for Wikipedia to add crypto as a payment method for donations. I believe they will see a rise in donations as crypto users are far more used to making transactions with crypto in current day compared to users two years ago. MattTheXPat ( talk) 12:03, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
I thought I've seen most of the worst that Wikipedia had to offer, and then I see this mess: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 December 13/2014 Commonwealth Games table tennis. How was this allowed to happen? RPI2026F1 ( talk) 17:02, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello
The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
Thank you! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 12:59, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello
Hello community, we have some updates on the Private Incident Reporting System – The system is looking to make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
Our goal for the past months was to understand the problem space and your expectations of this project. Following the feedback submitted to date (thank you!), we have developed the next steps. We would like to invite you to read about the new proposed plans and offer further feedback on the project talkpage, if you have any. If you prefer to talk privately, please get in touch with Madalina Ana.
Best regards –– Trust & Safety Tools Team. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk • contribs) 15:47, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Is there a good way of dealing with text that is in broken English to the extent that it is incoherent? I mean in cases where it can't be corrected because the intended meaning is unclear. I don't have any specific example in mind. Jack Upland ( talk) 06:05, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC), we would like to thank everyone who has participated in our first community wide consultation period on the Movement Charter.
People from across the Movement shared their feedback and thoughts on the content of the Movement Charter. If you have not had the chance to share your opinion yet, you are welcome to do so still by giving the drafts a read and filling out the anonymous survey, which is accessible in 12+ languages. The survey will close on January 2, 2023. You are invited to continue to share your thoughts with the MCDC via email too: movementcharter(@)wikimedia.org.
What’s next?
The Movement Strategy and Governance team will publish the final report with the summary of the feedback received in January 2023. It will be shared with the MCDC and the communities via different distribution channels.
After receiving the final report, the MCDC will review the suggestions and communicate the changes by providing an explanation on how and why suggestions were or were not adopted in the next versions of the drafts. There will be additional ways to engage with the Movement Charter content in 2023, including early feedback on a proposed ratification process and new drafts of different chapters in the second quarter of 2023.
We invite you to sign-up to the MCDC monthly newsletter, it will be delivered to the Talk page of your choice. Monthly updates are available on Meta to remain updated on the progress of the MCDC.
Interested people can still sign-up to become a Movement Charter Ambassador (MC Ambassador) to support their community. The MC Ambassadors Program grant program will restart accepting applications from both individuals and groups ahead of the next round of consultations in the second quarter of 2023.
We thank you for your participation, time and effort in helping to build the Charter for our Movement!
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, MNadzikiewicz (WMF) ( talk) 12:48, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Who better to create a well governed space for the exchange of info and ideas than the Foundation? The world needs such a forum that provides the benefits without incurring the costs and risks of a free-for-all that are increasingly apparent.
Funding could be by direct appeal to those harvesting value for commerce (politicians, Government Agencies, Associations, businesses, and similar enterprise users could be asked for a "suggested" donation (starting at a very nominal level) with a "badge" or icon to show that they support the project. Same with individuals but the suggestion would be "whatever you think reflects the value you receive".
Such a forum seems very much in keeping with the Wikipedia Ethos. 104.218.174.130 ( talk) 23:26, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
fy:Wikipedy:Parseberjocht Mysha ( talk) 10:02, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Dear Wiki Community,
Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,
You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill in this Google form and mark a mail to support@wikilovesfolklore.org with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:23, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Hi everyone. A reminder that the Wikimedia sound logo vote is still open. Voting ends today December 19 at 23:59 UTC. Thanks to many of you from around the world who have played a part in this project's success. MPourzaki (WMF) ( talk) 14:40, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
I have just logged into Wikipedia on Christmas Day 2022, and did not see any Christmas logos decorating the screen. I had been expecting the technologically sophisticated to have adorned the pages of Wikipedia with these logos, but there were none. Why is this? If the rationale is not wishing to offend people of non-Christian faiths, we could still have logos to celebrate festivals of other religions, such as Hanukkah or Eid al-Fitr, at the appropriate time of year. YTKJ ( talk) 15:27, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
FYI, there is a trending prank on Tiktok where users attempt to fool friends/family about the death of famous personalities. Fortunately, most of the Wikipedia biographies for highly-notable folks are in some form of protection, but in case you see an uptick in vandalism, this may be the reason:
It also helps that school is out of session for many, so there are not as many usual bored classroom vandals. - Fuzheado | Talk 15:45, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
@ General Ization, HJ Mitchell, Malcolmxl5, Ohnoitsjamie, and Widr: I am trying to determine the proper forum in which I can hold a discussion on this particular matter.
These are considerations:
Do any of you have suggestions as to the the proper place to discuss this? Peaceray ( talk) 22:04, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
There is an RfC at WP:RSN on reliability of 9to5Google as a source. [1] Only 3 opinions have been given in about 19 days. More would be appreciated. -- Yae4 ( talk) 15:20, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year from Serbia with love
"Health, celebration, lion heart" - Đorđe Balašević EmiliaITČA ( talk) 15:33, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year from Greece to all of us. -
Γιάννης Ευαγγελίου (
talk) 23:44, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
The release of ChatGPT to the public has startled me a bit with students already passing off its auto-generated text as their own while plagiarism software have no answer.
Has there been any WP/WM discussion with regards to how this might be tackled on Wikimedia projects (detecting patterns of AI generated texts, images etc.)? Also do we allow the uploading of artificial intelligence art: images, "art", videos et al created by AI (e.g. DALL-E); if yes who is considered its creator: the AI, the person who generated these images, or the AI's owners/creators?
Please point me to any discussions, posts, guidelines, policies that have happened or are happening on this topic. The last discussion, similar to this, that I am familiar with was at list of most expensive artworks by living artists, where NFTs where discluded.
Confounding and startling times ahead. Gotitbro ( talk) 15:22, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
When looking at the view count of a page, does it include the times you yourself have visited the page with your account? Xәkim ( talk) 18:12, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Was any decision made to remove the tag saying "This article is being heavily edited because its subject has recently died" from Wikipedia? I saw that David Gold (businessman) was recently in the category "Recent deaths", but did not see the tag heading the article on him. YTKJ ( talk) 18:09, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for these comments. I see the "Recent deaths" tag is still used, and currently heads the article on Gianluca Vialli. YTKJ ( talk) 21:36, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
I guess someone should create a template based on WP:NOTNEWS to be put on articles when there's a tsunami of persons editing trivial information. At 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, there are people editing the page for every single vote cast by a member. Like, a round of voting takes less than an hour, you can wait, there's no rush. Afterall, Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWS. — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 18:41, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
A few months ago, the 3rd Community Safety survey was conducted on your wiki. The results are now available on meta. We hope you will use this data to continue discussions about safety in your community.
The quarterly survey will be conducted again this month.
Your feedback and questions are welcome on our talk page.
Thank you!
- TAndic (WMF) ( talk) 18:55, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
Dear all,
Yesterday (31st of December), the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual banner fundraising campaign on English Wikipedia in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States finished. We run this campaign on an annual basis but this year’s campaign was truly unique. We would like to thank all of you who participated in shaping the messages and working together to better tell our story to readers and donors. Without you, the message would not have evolved and improved to where it is today.
Following the fundraising campaign, we will be in touch early in the new year to share more information about the campaign as well as ideas to carry the collaboration forward in the new year.
I am out of the office until the 16th of January and will answer any questions or comments after this.
Best, JBrungs (WMF) ( talk) 10:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Oh look, a (WMF) account claiming that because people have experience with fund raising, they have a better grasp of what is ethical and what isn't than other people. No idea why we pay for such "community relations" drivel. Fram ( talk) 09:26, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to say this, but kudos to whoever programmed the reply tool so that it adds my comments to the correct thread, even when I reply while viewing a diff. Serious thought obviously went into how stupid editors would be, and how to pre-empt them. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆ transmissions∆ ° co-ords° 21:59, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
;-)
Hello! This is just a general notice that thanks to some fine work (tracked at Phabricator T321740), the Internet Archive Bot is now functional again and can be accessed here. It had been broken/working highly inconsistently since at least October. However, it may still have some performance issues, so be aware. —Ganesha811 ( talk) 11:02, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
It is now 2023 and the pageant Miss World 2022 has yet to be scheduled as far as anyone can tell.
The article Miss World 2022 is kind of in a weird state, because there have been a number of announcements of contestants, but no announcements of the date nor location of the pageant itself. It comes across as a bit WP:CRYSTAL to me. For the sake of good encyclopedic content, I think one of these options could be explored:
Thoughts from the community? ☆ Bri ( talk) 19:16, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Sorry if this is not the correct place to put this but I've noticed a lot of recent edits on a page I was also editing in my free time. The page ( /info/en/?search=List_of_S%26P_600_companies), and related pages, has had a lot of edits by a user that has only had an account 4 months. They seem to be making a lot of drastic changes in a short space of time. Is this something unusual for a new user? Pearsejward ( talk) 15:02, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello all,
In mid-January 2023, the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows the March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s Community Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.
The volunteer-led Revisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.
The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed here, and a comparison of changes can be found here.
How to vote?
Beginning January 17, 2023, voting will be open. This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.
Who can vote?
The eligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.
What happens after the vote?
Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
JPBeland-WMF ( talk) 05:13, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Note: See Approval of Enforcement Guidelines without first approving a Code of Conduct. (link fixed, new section with revised question). Alsee ( talk) 04:28, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
I wasn't sure where to post this, sorry in advance if this is the wrong place to post. Is there a policy on the age of census data that should be in an article. I ask because Echols County, Georgia has a section with information from the 2000 Census. Mjrmtg ( talk) 01:03, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Unreviewed featured articles/2020 (URFA/2020) is a systematic approach to reviewing older Featured articles (FAs) to ensure they still meet the FA standards. A January 2022 Signpost article called "Forgotten Featured" explored the effort.
Progress is recorded at the monthly stats page. Through 2022, with 4,526 very old (from the 2004–2009 period) and old (2010–2015) FAs initially needing review:
Of the FAs kept, deemed satisfactory by three reviewers, or delisted, about 60% had prior review between 2004 and 2007; another 20% dated to the period from 2008–2009; and another 20% to 2010–2015. Roughly two-thirds of the old FAs reviewed have retained FA status or been marked "satisfactory", while two-thirds of the very old FAs have been defeatured.
Entering its third year, URFA is working to help maintain FA standards; FAs are being restored not only via FAR, but also via improvements initiated after articles are reviewed and talk pages are noticed. Since the Featured Article Save Award (FASA) was added to the FAR process a year ago, 38 FAs were restored to FA status by editors other than the original FAC nominator. Ten FAs restored to status have been listed at WP:MILLION, recognizing articles with annual readership over a million pageviews, and many have been rerun as Today's featured article, helping increase mainpage diversity.
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But there remain almost 4,000 old and very old FAs to be reviewed. Some topic areas and WikiProjects have been more proactive than others in restoring or maintaining their old FAs. As seen in the chart below, the following have very high ratios of FAs kept to those delisted (ordered from highest ratio):
and others have a good ratio of kept to delisted FAs:
... so kudos to those editors who pitched in to help maintain older FAs !
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Noting some minor differences in tallies:
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But looking only at the oldest FAs (from the 2004–2007 period), there are 12 content areas with more than 20 FAs still needing review: Biology, Music, Royalty and nobility, Media, Sport and recreation, History, Warfare, Meteorology, Physics and astronomy, Literature and theatre, Video gaming, and Geography and places. In the coming weeks, URFA/2020 editors will be posting lists to individual WikiProjects with the goal of getting these oldest-of-the-old FAs reviewed during 2023.
Ideas for how you can help are listed below and at the Signpost article.
More regular URFA and FAR reviewers will help assure that FAs continue to represent examples of Wikipedia's best work. If you have any questions or feedback, please visit Wikipedia talk:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/4Q2022. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:59, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
WP:WikiProject Years is plagued with infighting to the point where meaningful contributions to year articles are no longer possible. Virtually all aspects of year articles are heavily disputed in one form or another, and most changes in any direction are challenged by WikiProject members. Significant community input appears to be necessary, and any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated. Relevant discourse can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years as well as recent archives ( Archive 14 and Archive 15). Thebiguglyalien ( talk) 22:02, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
If anyone would like to see WikiProject Apple Inc. revived, or has any thoughts on how it should be organized, check out this discussion on that WikiProject's talk page.
It's far less active today than it was in 2010-2012, but the goal isn't to surpass MILHIST or WIR, just to make things easier for editors of Apple-related articles DFlhb ( talk) 05:20, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, everyone! Those interested in the subject of the American Civil War, Neo-Confederates and the Southern United States (or in some other related subject) might be interested in WP:NOCONFED as well, a closely related essay that was created relatively recently. — Sundostund mppria ( talk / contribs) 06:34, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Suggestions about pages applying the same exclusion principle to other groups such as communists or confederates have been roundly rejected on this very page, so this [so-called slippery slope] is not slippery at all.🌈WaltCip-( talk) 15:53, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
The new 2022 vector skin is horrible. The lack of a table of contents causes infoboxes to push images down, and the TOC on the left squeezes everything together. Who chose this? Was there an RfC I missed? ~ HAL 333 18:16, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
I think it's curious that in the RfC for Vector 2022, a slim majority of commenters opposed the change, but the RfC close was summarized with "Overall, there is a positive reception to the changes". It seems the closers misrepresented the oppose votes as "support after X" votes, which they most certainly were not. Thebiguglyalien ( talk) 23:24, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
The TOC on the left isn't too bad imo, but the subheadings of the TOC need to be indented more. Some1 ( talk) 03:59, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Does this new skin fix the issue with Wikipedia crashing Chromium based browsers, by eating up all memory and crashing the browser, or even the OS? -- 64.229.90.199 ( talk) 06:00, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
First, I want to be clear this is not intended as a criticism of any particular editor, it is more of an institutional bad habit that has developed over the past few years and went unnoticed and unquestioned.
Anyway, TL;DR, at some point a few years ago (nobody I talked to was able to figure out exactly how this started and what policy supports this), assessment categories related to inactive WikiProjects (ex. Category:Start-Class Popular Culture articles) started to be deleted as part of broadly understood "maintance". In addition to not being policy supported, this is not just unncessary make-work with zero purpose and benefit, but I argue that this is actively determintal to the project (hiding useful statistics and possibly even introducing errors into the main assessment statistics).
An example of the damage caused is visible in the following aspects:
Note that I've also reported this to the WikiProject Council (which ironically seems mostly inactive) and V 1.0 editorial team which deals with assessments, where my reading of the short discussion in which Kusma, Chipmunkdavis, Audiodude, CX Zoom and WhatamIdoing participated being that this is indeed not a best practice. I've also raised this at User_talk:Liz/Archive_8#Why_was_this_page_deleted? (also ping UnitedStatesian), where Liz said: "I just checked Wikipedia:WikiProject#Inactive projects, Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Dealing with inactive WikiProjects, Wikipedia:Content assessment and Wikipedia:Assessing articles and they don't seem to have any information about article assessments being altered, changed or removed when the WikiProject's status changes. It's stunning to think that something so fundamental as this could have been going on for years without a discussion about it. I'll check the Village Pump later today to see if there was any debate about this in the past". She also suggested this needs to be discussed at VP, and since other discussions seem to have pettered out, here we go.
As for the practical aspects, i.e. what needs to be done - it's relatively simple. All assessment categories and associated pages of inactive WikiProjects need to be restored, and they should not be deleted without a consensus at VP or MfD. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:46, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
@ Aymatth2 @ CX Zoom @ Caeciliusinhorto @ Chipmunkdavis @ Donald Albury @ Johnbod @ Kusma @ WhatamIdoing The consensus seems pretty clear we want this stoped and done otherwise, but how do we get it done and enforced? @ Liz @ UnitedStatesian Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:58, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
WPBannerMeta/inactive
instead of WPBannerMeta
.This template is within the scope of WikiProject, a project which is currently considered to be inactive |
Are you ok with numerous former assessments being effectively deleted, with no policy supporting depreciating assessments done by formerly active wikiprojects?I think WikiProjects are mainly administered through common practice, and not some written rules?
@ Aymatth2 Do we need a vote for that? I totally support the idea, but generally we have a consensus here (for restoring assessments and for moving the quality ones into a single wikiproject-independent template), but how do we implement that?
However, I'll note that even if the quality assessments are split, they should still be connected to WikiProjects, as the active ones like milhist or med certainly care to know how many articles of what quality exist within their sphere. I am sure members of such project would oppose any split that would affect how the system works on their end.
So perhaps the way to do it is to keep the current system, but add a master template that copies an existing assessment if one exists, and if not, it can still host a quality assessment. This way we would avoid the trouble with upsetting the system that works for active WikiProjects, and solve the problem of assessments for articles that are not within the scope of any WikiProject (or active one). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:49, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
{{WikiProject banner shell |class=GA |1=
{{WikiProject Biography|core=yes|living=n|listas=Churchill, Winston}}
{{WikiProject British Empire|importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Conservatism|importance=top}}
}}
Just as an example, see Talk:Predator (film) which is now displaying its class but not categorising. You can check that it records in the PageAssessments database by checking [5] — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:34, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Category:C class Ruritania articles
is more useful than Category:C class articles
. It may be hard for a generic template to capture a quality assessment and pass it transparently to all the project templates so they can add project-specific categories. But there must be a solution.
Aymatth2 (
talk) 14:47, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
I have drafted an RfC question at User:MSGJ/Sandbox/4. Any comments or copyedits would be welcome — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:31, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Just came across an IP who seems to be in a mission to add voice acting (VA)/ dubbing credits into the articles of multiple Mexican actors and celebrities, while I know this is normal practice for American actors to include VA credits in their filmographies, I'm not sure if this is also allowed for actors from other countries who have VA in languages other than English (afterall, this is enwiki). And if this is allowed, we would then have to start adding VA credits for any celebrity of any nationality who has done VA in any language?
My personal perception was that you could maybe mention these credits in their Career section rather than add it to the filmography, I couldn't find any relevant guidelines in WP:FILMBIO - Gouleg🛋️ harass/ hound (she/her) 16:54, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello all,
The voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now open! Voting will be open for two weeks and will close at 23:59 UTC on January 31, 2023. Please visit the voter information page on Meta-wiki for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.
For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our previous message.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
JPBeland-WMF ( talk) 00:13, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
For the past week or so, the top read articles have included Index, Index, Washington, and Index (economics), among others. Clearly, an automated service is spamming searches with the word 'index;' perhaps some piece of badly written zombie code trying to fetch an index page? Does anyone know for certain? If not, is there some way to identify the source of this traffic? Ngcouch ( talk) 02:50, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Would it be practical to have a 'select pages for which one's last contribution is the current one' be feasible? (Would be useful for longer term contributors - I ).have some from 2006.) Jackiespeel ( talk) 18:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
There is a systematic problem that appears in many Wikipedia articles concerning many US cities. I do not have sufficient technical knowledge to propose the solution, but I am sure that there are many within the Wikipedia community who do, once the problem is realized.
As you know, Congressional redistricting occurs after each decennial census. It often is the case that a city that was in one Congressional District will, after redistricting, be assigned to a different Congressional District. Apparently, the current default practice for many Wikipedia articles concerning cities is automatically to show the current elected Representative for whatever Congressional District is shown. The problem that arises is that this process often (typically ?) takes place without an updating, when necessary, of the fact that the particular city has now been assigned to a different Congressional District. The result then is that the article automatically updates to show as that city's Congressional Representative a politician who does not represent that city, but rather represents a District that the city had formerly been assigned to, but is no longer included within. I have in 2023 (now that redistricting under the 2020 census has occurred) edited (after confirming with local elections offices, the Wikipedia articles on Dinuba and Mendota, both cities in California, in Tulare and Fresno Counties, respectively. However, I suspect that this problem has created misinformation for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Wikipedia articles about US cities.
Is there a survey or editing tool that could determine whether a particular article needs such a fix? I have a suggestion that might lead to a solution. I will illustrate with the Mendota article. After the 2010 census, Mendota was assigned to the 21st District pf California. That change was made in the article, with a Footnote 6 illustrating the appropriate 2013 website. (The new districting takes effect in the Congress commencing with the 3rd year of the decade following the census.) In the 117th Congress, David Valadao represented the 21st District, including Mendota, and was shown as Mendota's US Congressional Representative. Prior to my editing of this article, the 2023 version of the article showed Jim Costa as representing Mendota in Congress. This was incorrect. It happened because beginning in January 2023 Mr. Costa did indeed represent the 21st District and so the formula applied by Wikipedia automatically "updated" the "Mendota" article to show the current Representative of the 21st District, which is now Mr. Costa, and no longer Mr. Daladao. Om fact. the actual Representative now representing Mendota is John Duarte. The problem arose because the District that Mendota is now part of was renumbered from 21 to 13, and Mr. Duarte is the current Representative for the 13th District. The current practice of Wikipedia is to "update" the politician who currently represents a District with a particular number, without ascertaining whether there should also be an update as to whether the particular city still is within a Congressional District that is labeled with the same or a different number.
Thanks for considering this problem and a possible solution.
Ray Glock-Grueneich 2601:647:CB03:2A60:EC16:62D4:9A79:1374 ( talk) 18:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Prompted by the immediately preceding item, I took a look at the NYPL on-line catalog. I didn't find USN&WR, but I did find an interesting project they're doing to provide a catalog of freely licensed research materials, available without the need for a NYPL library card. I haven't explored it yet, but mentioning it here because it looks like it might be useful to a lot of editors researching articles. https://digital-research-books-beta.nypl.org/about -- RoySmith (talk) 02:15, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
I found this is Special:UserGroupRights. It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. Is there a need for this? Is there anywhere this could be useful? If so, should there be any policies/guidelines on it? It's not even mentioned on WP:User access levels 137a ( talk • edits) 16:00, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:2022 § RFC on the inclusion of Barbara Walters in Deaths (Result:) to determine if Barbara Walters' death should be mentioned on the 2022 year page.
I'm posting this general notification here, as the RFC only shows as a generic "Talk:2022" on the RFC dashboard; more people might have input if they know the RFC topic is about a specific person, not a generic year. Thanks in advance. — Bagumba ( talk) 05:28, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
I am tired of poking around the internet and just thought I'd ask here... Are past US News & World Report articles available anywhere online? I do not have access to EBSCO, I do have Newspapers.com and some access through stuff at Wikipedia Library. I am trying to find an easily-accessible online source for the May 2, 1988 edition, an article with the title ""Racial tensions, drugs and poverty—an explosive mix in rural North Carolina; There's trouble in Robeson County" by Joseph Shapiro & Ronald Taylor. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 23:50, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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For some time now, inspired by articles like Mikhail Gorbachev, Tim Pool, and Vaush, I have been adding audio excerpts to various Wikipedia biographies. Whereas it has largely been received with indifference, my addition of an audio excerpt to Jenna Ortega has appeared to cause some stirr amongst some editors (see Jenna Ortega: Revision history and Talk:Jenna Ortega). Admittedly, there has been very little discussion on Wikipedia in regards to audio files, even with somewhat prominent articles like Richard Dawkins and Jimmy Wales having them, so I seek to initiate a discussion that will hopefully initiate further insight and WP:Consensus. Knightoftheswords281 ( talk) 22:49, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the various pings. Yes, we should aim to include the voice of the subject of all biographies, where that is possible, and we have ten years of precedence for doing so. Ideally, they would be saying their own name (so we have the correct pronunciation), but otherwise at least demonstrating what they sound(ed) like. As with images, high quality is preferable to low quality, but we must work with what we have. And, as with the main image, the infobox is the place to put it. WP:WikiVIP refers, and c:Commons:Voice intro project explains in more detail why we should do this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:33, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I came across this sentence: The removal of cataracts was a common surgical procedure in Djenné[35] (as in many other parts of Africa[36]). on the article Cataract_surgery#West_Africa. It made me think if these references were in a good place according to manual of style but I couldn't find it so quick. Doesn't it have to be "The removal of cataracts was a common surgical procedure in Djenné[35] (as in many other parts of Africa).[36]" ? Thanks Coldbolt ( talk) 09:27, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
does a tool exist, given a user, list users/ip that have edited the same pages with the given user in the past x days? like, given my username and 10 days, the tool will check all pages i edited in the past 10 days, identify users that also edited the same pages in the past 10 days, and list these users by the number of pages for each.
the use of this is, currently i found two accounts operated by the same person (because they edited some pages one after another), but i dont know if other accounts exist, so if a tool like this exists, i can detect and check anomalous related edits. RZuo ( talk) 17:10, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
I am back to post a brief follow up message to my November note. Following the close of the RfC, the Wikimedia Foundation set up a co-creation page to seek input from community members on proposed messaging for banners. We posted regular updates on the campaign's performance to this page. In brief, over 450+ banners were tested during this year's campaign, and $24.7M of revenue was raised against an original $30M goal (a shortfall of $5.3 million). During the first few days the new banners resulted in about 70% less revenue than on the corresponding days in the prior year. Additional information on the campaign results are posted here. Next year, the fundraising team will continue to engage with the community on banner messaging. We look forward to building on the process we created this year.
I wanted to provide further updates on a few other issues that were raised:
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During the first few days the new banners resulted in about 70% less revenue than on the corresponding days in the prior year.Interesting. So do I take this to mean that the new banners that the community specifically suggested, or at least collaborated with the WMF on, actively resulted in less revenue being pulled in? If so, hmm. -- 🌈WaltCip-( talk) 14:17, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
The Foundation’s annual planning this year is being led by the needs of our Product & Technology departments. This will be the first time since about 2015 that these two departments will undertake joint planning.It sounds like WMF is shifting its Annual Plan to focus on software and technology more? I missed this on the first reading, but if so, this is an exciting development. I think the idea of WMF shifting funds towards software will be well-received. Feel free to emphasize this more in your communications. I think volunteers will really like this.
We are working with the community to make Vector 2022 the default skin, after 3 years of development work, feedback and iteration with wiki communities.This is a not-so-exciting development. The Vector 2022 deployment on enwiki has not gone well, and has arguably been against community consensus. This might be a good issue to backpedal a bit on.
Please note that Ross Gillespie died on 31 january according to Google. Thank you. 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 09:14, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Is there a debate or survey anywhere about English Wikipedia's new layout, where I can say how much I hate it, and why? SergeWoodzing ( talk) 10:36, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
A friend, a Wikipedia novice, asked how to use Alexa to access Wikipedia. I am unfamiliar with Alexa, but Googled and found a couple of tips. I have summarised them at Wikipedia:Amazon Alexa, but input from someone more familiar with Alexa would be appreciated.
We should probably make similar pages for Siri and other digital assistants; and add a note about privacy. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:49, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
Already article 2022–2023 Pakistan economic crisis is not in good updated condition, moreover recently WP has been censored in Pakistan. The article seem to need article expansion help to keep adequately updated.
~~~~ Bookku ( talk) 07:28, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
I hadn't seen this noted or discussed elsewhere so thought I should note it somewhere: the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has blocked Wikipedia over a dispute about 'blasphemy'. BBC article: [7] -- (loopback) ping/ whereis 06:01, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
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The Crown Heights riot is considered a Black American riot. It has nothing to do with Black Americans. This type of slander happens everyday. Two South American children were hit by a Jewish man's car. A Jewish ambulance assisted the Jewish driver and passengers. The SOUTH AMERICAN children were left under the car dying. This caused an IMMIGRANT from TRINIDAD to be angry and seek revenge by killing an innocent Jewish man with no relationship to the accident. The media knew Gavin CATO was a South American boy. Guyana is not America's 51st state. How is he Black American? It's a Caribbean and South American versus Jewish riot. The facts did not fit the narrative of Black Americans attacking Jewish people. How do we correct fake news? 2600:8802:3A12:E700:CD98:4710:36DD:848C ( talk) 05:06, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello,
I contact you, hoping it is the right space, because with various colleagues we would like to survey the Wikipedia users on how they consider, use the information provided by Wikipedia, according to the context (professional, personal, etc.) We would also ask the contributors specific questions about their participation and their involvement. The project is managed by a group or researchers from several public research institutions, mainly French, coordinated by the research network Marsouin with, we hope, collaboration with the different language communities. More precisely, the survey aims at addressing the following questions (open list):
This questionnaire will rely on and expand the one done in 2019 by the WMF and surveys the same team has done (but only with the French wikipedia users) in 2015 and in 2011. See the results of the former surveys (in French: 2011, 2015).
Any help for defining some concerns of the En-Wikipedia community that we could survey, and for the test of the questionnaire would be greatly appreciated!
If you think it would be a good idea to translate the survey in other languages (French, Italian and Turkish are already taken care of), and are able to help for that, it would be just great!
Last but not least, we plan to launch the survey some times in April, for two weeks. Jullienn ( talk) 08:48, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
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Starting in January of this year, something happened to the formatting of my user talk page. Instead of paragraph format, it became all-centered format. This doesn't seem to have happened to other people's talk pages so I probably did something stupid - or somebody posting on my page did something that changed it. How do I change it back to paragraph format? MelanieN ( talk) 02:42, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
• Full text of Haaretz article [8]
• Full text of the scholarly article upon which the Haaretz article is based [9]
The authors claim poor sources and sometimes no sources are used to distort the history of the Holocaust in Poland. Is this being addressed or discussed somewhere on Wikipedia? Anthonyhcole ( talk) 09:13, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
For those of you who have been bedeviled by those annoying numeric ref names generated by the Visual Editor such as ":0", ":1" and so forth, it's my honor to announce a new script created by User:Nardog.
Script RefRenamer converts all VE numeric names on a page to useful named references (default: Lastname-YYYY). There are many addditional options to customize how you want it done. This has worked flawlessly on pages containing more than a hundred numeric references; here's an example where it made about 136 changes at Generation Z ( diff).
The script doesn't stop the VE problem from occurring, but it is a complete solution for converting one page that you're working on to reasonable ref names. Powerful and effective; kudos! Mathglot ( talk) 21:50, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Доброе, коллеги! Кавалер высшей награды всемирной общественной организации является ли значимой персоной в английском разделе Википедии?
Good morning, colleagues! Is the holder of the highest award of the world public organization a significant person in the English section of Wikipedia? ----
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Determinans and Determinatum have been stub articles with zero activity since 2004. Currently, they're both just definitions (see also: Wiktionary:determinans#English, Wiktionary:determinatum#English).
I think they should be either:
1. Deleted. Nobody's cared to touch them in 20 years, a DDG search didn't give me any obvious evidence that these terms are in widespread use, but I'm not a subject-matter expert.
2. Merged together. The concepts closely complement each other.
3. Merged into a major article as a section, e.g. Part of speech.
I've looked at a few policy articles, e.g. WP:N, WP:DEL, WP:Merging, and Template:Expert needed, but it still wasn't clear to me what should be done; perhaps nothing needs to be done at all. I'd appreciate it if a more experienced editor could suggest what to do. Thanks. JamesTMartin ( talk) 17:06, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I wrote this article by a multi-faceted New York artist that is now in draft format: Draft:David Gonzalez (multi-disciplinary artist)
The article is part of Wikiproject arts, WikiProject Children's literature, and WikiProject Biographies.
I respectfully ask if anyone can help me in making the wording neutral. The most important reference is an article from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/12/movies/orpheus-as-a-charmer-with-a-sax.html can also be viewed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/backstage-in-man-of-the-house-gonzalez-deals-with-absent-dad-teen-hardships/2013/10/29/ef5fdb3e-40c1-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_story.html Thank you very much Miskito89 ( talk) 15:16, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
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The message about language links in the main menu is long and out of date. A proposal to update it:
– SJ + 18:06, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
This edit looks it's been done using machine learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Washing_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1138836409
I've fixed a few mistakes, including "This was largely because of the economic impact" being replaced by "This was large because of the economic impact".
Are these kind of edits common? The RedBurn ( ϕ) 13:49, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the
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This user page was not created by the user, who never edited it moreover (see the page's history). 176.128.237.169 ( talk) 16:06, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
I brought up Wikipedia on my smartphone, using Google Chrome (not an app) in desktop mode, and looked briefly at the featured article. Then I clicked to display the whole page of the featured article. The preview of the featured article and the lede paragraph of the real article did not match. The preview isn't the beginning of the article. It may be an old beginning of the article; I haven't checked the history. Why are we displaying a teaser of the featured article that isn't the beginning of the featured article? Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:36, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
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I don't know where else to put this, but I just want to say that the new webpage design is absolutely, irredeemably awful. I genuinely think that I will stop using this website, and that many others will too, if it is not quickly changed back, because the amount of blank space at the sides of the redesigned page layout is simply obnoxious, not to mention all the other awful features of this sudden and un-asked for change. I highly, HIGHLY suggest at the very least a "legacy mode" option that can be used to return to the previous user interface, because as it is this website frankly looks like trash. (Duplicated because I realized I posted this in the wrong place before) 2601:405:4400:9420:DC22:E380:D2EE:15A9 ( talk) 03:27, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
How does one make this garbage just go away ? (Asking for a friend.) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 12:56, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it! Thought I'd get used to it, but nope, It really disgusts me. -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 10:39, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
All these kilobytes spent on arguing about Vector 2022 in that RFC, and here I am just happily using it, as I have been for the past month. I get used to it more and more every day. -- ⛵ WaltClipper -( talk) 19:05, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
@ Whatamidoing (WMF): On a page I am working on in my sandbox, there is a box on the left under "Languages" that says: "On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Go to top." I have nothing against the new UI, and I use it so that, as a content creator, I know what the readers are seeing. But I am curious as to why we have a "Languages" heading on the left when the languages are not there. (And do we really need languages at all on a page in the user space?) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:26, 26 February 2023 (UTC)