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Question from Hestatus24 (01:03, 27 May 2024)

Hello! For semi-protected pages, what would be the best way to go about making edits to gain experience and be able to edit them? Also, how does one enter a "Talk" section? Thank you for your time. --Hestatus24 (talk) 01:03, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Hestatus24:! You're looking for Wikipedia:Edit requests. The talk page is accessed at the top of the article by clicking on the "Talk" link. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 23:17, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
• In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
• Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [1][2]
• When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [3]

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Question from Logan is mad (21:37, 28 May 2024)

hey, how do i make an article --Logan is mad (talk) 21:37, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Logan is mad:! You are probably looking for this guide. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [4]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [5]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [7][8]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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DYK nomination of I Am Human (film)

Hello! Your submission of I Am Human (film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:50, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [9]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [10]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [12][13]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [14]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [15]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Taino67 on Carmen Jovet (19:34, 15 June 2024)

Saludos como puedo editar una fecha de nacimiento erronea --Taino67 (talk) 19:34, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

@Taino67: What should the date be? How do you know this? (¿Cuál debería ser la fecha? ¿Cómo sabes esto?) TheSandDoctor ^Talk 23:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain

On 16 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a 2018 documentary film explores blockchain as a means to give stateless refugees official identities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [16]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [17][18]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [19]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [20]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [21]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [22][23]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [24]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [25]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Gravity Blanket

On 19 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gravity Blanket, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Pizza Hut’s most expensive pizza was a weighted blanket? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gravity Blanket. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gravity Blanket), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 19,145 views (797.7 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of June 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for I Am Human (film)

On 22 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article I Am Human (film), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the documentary film I Am Human has been the conversation starter for neuroscience panel discussions at universities such as Harvard? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/I Am Human (film). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, I Am Human (film)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:36, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Dear User:Crystallizedcarbon and User:TheSandDoctor, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to bring to your attention several disruptive edits made to the Wikipedia page of Gurbaksh Chahal. These edits have altered the content significantly, adding undue negative emphasis and removing positive information that balanced the article. I kindly request your intervention to revert the page to the version as of July 31, 2022, which represented a balanced view reached through consensus.

• cur prev 19:21, 31 July 2022‎ Crystallizedcarbon (talk | contribs)‎ 57,904 bytes −1,185‎ Restored an old revision of this page, as edited by Vanisaac (talk | contribs) at 21:28, 27 July 2022. The status quo version was a hard to reach consensus that required very long discussions. Any change to this highly controversial point must also be reached by consensus first on the talk page. Tag: Manual revert.

Summary of Negative Edits Added:

Infobox:

• 2022 Version: Did not include "Criminal charges: Domestic violence battery."

Lead Section:

• Legal issues involving violence against women were introduced prominently in the opening lines, giving undue weight to these aspects.

Domestic Violence Section:

• Detailed and graphic descriptions of the alleged incidents of domestic violence were added after already being reversed by User:TheSandDoctor and others.

BNN Breaking Section:

• A dedicated section to BNN Breaking was added, giving undue prominence to this event while creating its own Wikipedia page.

Detailed Chronological Changes:

November 20, 2022 - Edits by User: Chisme

Removed Positive Content:

• Gravity4: Simplified details about the company's achievements and innovations.
  • Removed Content: "Gravity4's main area of business was gathering useful customer data regarding their user experience to allow marketers to improve their ad targets. This company also started working in the AI sector and launched a marketing cloud for blockchain."

Added Negative Content - Edits by User: Chisme

• Domestic Violence Section:
  • Added specific details about the number of times Chahal allegedly hit his girlfriend and the inadmissible video footage.
    • Added Content: "Video footage of the assault, taken by a camera in Chahal's bedroom ceiling, showed Chahal smothering the woman with a pillow and hitting and kicking her 117 times over a half-hour period."

March 2, 2024 - Edits by Users: Hemiauchenia, Belbury, Amigao, Gråbergs Gråa Sång

Added Negative Content:

• BNN Breaking Section:
  • Dedicated a section to BNN Breaking, separate already from its negative Wikipedia page created.
    • Added Content: "In 2022, Chahal founded the now-defunct news website and aggregator BNN Breaking in Hong Kong. The website was subject to several controversies regarding the accuracy of its reporting, and all of its accounts were suspended from Twitter in June 2022 for violations of the site's policy on spam and platform manipulation. As of March 2024, Google appeared to no longer show search results for the website. The BNN website was deleted and moved to the website TrimFeed. Trimfeed was closed after The New York Times informed Chahal they were doing a report on BNN."

March 2, 2024 - Edits by Users: Amigao

Added Negative Content:

• Infobox
  • Added Criminal charges: Domestic violence battery to Infobox
    • Added Content: "In 2022, Chahal founded the now-defunct news website"

June 6, 2024 - Edits by User: Gråbergs Gråa Sång

Added Negative Content:

• Lead Section:
  • Introduced legal issues involving violence against women prominently in the opening sentences.
    • Added Content: "However, legal issues involving violence against women have resulted in his removal from two of his businesses.."

June 6, 2024 - Edits by User: Gråbergs Gråa Sång

Added Negative Content:

• BNN Breaking Section:
  • Updated the section with details about controversies and the suspension of Twitter accounts.
    • Added Content: "The website was subject to several controversies regarding the accuracy of its reporting, and all of its accounts were suspended from Twitter in June 2022 for violations of the site's policy on spam and platform manipulation."

Positive Content Removed: Edits by User: Chisme

Gravity4:

• 2022 Version: "Gravity4's main area of business was gathering useful customer data regarding their user experience to allow marketers to improve their ad targets. This company also started working in the AI sector and launched a marketing cloud for blockchain."
• 2022 Version: "The company further launched two main applications named MonaChain and MonaBrowse that aimed to target fraud and ad blockers."

Philanthropy and Honors: Edits by User: Chisme

• 2022 Version: "In 2012, after the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, he committed US$1 million to found BeProud (since renamed to Chahal Foundation), a charitable foundation that supports the families of hate crime victims and combats child trafficking in India."

Specific Other Negative Edits Added To Date:

Domestic Violence Section Edits by User: Chisme

• Added detailed and graphic descriptions of the incidents.
  • Added Content: "Video footage of the assault, taken by a camera in Chahal's bedroom ceiling, showed Chahal smothering the woman with a pillow and hitting and kicking her 117 times over a half-hour period."

Given these changes, it is clear that there has been a pattern of disruptive editing aimed at highlighting negative aspects of Gurbaksh Chahal's life while removing or minimizing his career achievements and contributions. I kindly request that the page be reverted to the version as of July 31, 2022, which can be found here: July 31, 2022 version. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for your efforts in maintaining the integrity and neutrality of this Wikipedia page.

DYK for SkyBridge Alternatives Conference

On 23 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference has been called the "Super Bowl of hedge funds"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/SkyBridge Alternatives Conference. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, SkyBridge Alternatives Conference), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [26]
• The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [27]

Problems

• You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [28]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [29][30]
• Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [31]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Gulnarhaciyeva on Ad blocking (01:09, 26 June 2024)

Spam --Gulnarhaciyeva (talk) 01:09, 26 June 2024 (UTC)