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Question from Emet5784 (18:03, 21 July 2024)

Hello How do I start building my own articles or wikipedia pages? --Emet5784 (talk) 18:03, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi, go through this link creating my first article. User:Em-mustapha ^talk 07:29, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Chika Ikejimba Eze (12:10, 26 July 2024)

I would like to know more about Wikipedia and how it works --Chika Ikejimba Eze (talk) 12:10, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

I just dropped a note on your talk page, go through it and you will learn more about Wikipedia or visit these links About Wikipedia and Help editing. User:Em-mustapha ^talk 07:27, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-31

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

Feature news

• Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

• Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
• Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
• There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [1]

Learn more

• There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
• There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
• Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty third newsletter, covering July 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 10, 13, and 16.

User group news

• User group meeting held in July, minutes
• Next user group meeting will be 18 August

Other news

• Climate change editahon and workshop in Macedonia (SDG 13)
• WikiForHumanRights in Nigeria 2024 Campaign Virtual Launch (SDG 10&16)
• What we Learned from Wiki Women In Red @8 Campaign 2023 Women for Sustainability Africa (SDG 5)
• Ghanaian Wikipedians set to educate students on Open Climate (SDG 13)
• Using Wikipedia as a Tool for Climate Action (SDG 13)

Events

• 5th August, m:Event:Wiki-Green_Conference_2024 Wiki-Green Conference (SDG 13)
• 7-10 August, Wikimania - All SDG related sessions
• 7-9 November, Justicia climática, voces indígenas y plataformas Wikimedia (SDG 13)

Participate

• Share an example of a successful WikiProject or topical collaboration in this on-wiki survey

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Tech News: 2024-32

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

Feature news

• Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [2][3]
• Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
• The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

• Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
• The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

• There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.

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