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Question from Teleost Wind (08:19, 10 February 2024)

Hi, nice to meet you. I just learned I can write articles on Wikipedia and edit the incorrect ones. So I wanted to give it a try. Is there anything I need to know before starting? --Teleost Wind (talk) 08:19, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Teleost Wind, and welcome to Wikipedia! You might want to see our Introduction, which helps you understand the fundamentals of editing Wikipedia. You can also try The Wikipedia Adventure, which is like a game for learning Wikipedia. When you are ready, you can find articles to edit and ask question on the Special:Homepage. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 23:29, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Thingstodoindubai (13:09, 12 February 2024)

Hey, how are you today? I have seen your details on my Wikipedia dashboard to check with you regarding my edit.

I have edited a minor change on Dubai page and added the attractions but its not edited yet.

Can you guide me if I am doing something wrong? --Thingstodoindubai (talk) 13:09, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2024-07

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 WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [1][2][3] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [4][5]

Problems

  • There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [6][7]
  • As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[8] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [9]

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Question from Vanessa hexagon (01:54, 16 February 2024)

Hi! I have a question - if I expand an article that's a stub, is there a way for me to save what I've done as a draft? Thanks :) --Vanessa hexagon (talk) 01:54, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Vanessa hexagon, if you mean an auto-save feature to save edits for later, an Edit-Recovery feature is available for testing but not on Wikipedias yet. If you mean starting a draft for an entirely new article, you can learn more at Help:Your first article. You may ask more questions on your Homepage. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 02:25, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Alamu Abdulrahman (07:42, 18 February 2024)

Hello, How can I publish a article on Wikipedia. Dear Mentor --Alamu Abdulrahman (talk) 07:42, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Alamu Abdulrahman, you might first want to check our What Wikipedia is not policy, which outlines what Wikipedia should not be used for.
You should also familiarize yourself with Wikipedia by editing existing articles, which you can learn how by going to the Wikipedia introduction, and find articles to edit using your Homepage.
When you are ready to create your own article, go to Help:Your first article, which outlines the process of writing and submitting an article draft.
If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask at the Wikipedia:Teahouse or on your Special:Homepage. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 16:25, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-08

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

  • If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [10]
  • There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
  • Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
  • The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [11]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [12][13]
  • Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
  • The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [14]

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Question from Jerich kay on Computer music (13:55, 20 February 2024)

Hello --Jerich kay (talk) 13:55, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Jerich kay, do you need help with editing or using Wikipedia? If so, you can ask a question at the Teahouse, or your Homepage. If you're new here, I suggest you check out our Introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 18:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jms brynt (03:34, 23 February 2024)

how do I change my username I made a mistake with it.

id like to change it to Jms Brynt --Jms brynt (talk) 03:34, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jms brynt, first, check the Wikipedia:Changing username#Must read page, which contains important information about changing your username. Then go to Special:GlobalRenameRequest to submit your new username, as well as a reason such as "change capitalization" or "fix typo". Your request will then be reviewed by a steward who will rename your account for you. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 03:54, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from JGopal01 on Palam, Parbhani (06:31, 24 February 2024)

I want to add tourism Section --JGopal01 (talk) 06:31, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @JGopal01, I have reverted your edit because it is related to another subject, there are a few capitalization errors, it does not conform to our Manual of Style, and it also needs some copyediting. A tourism section (and Wikipedia) is for encyclopedic information related to tourism, not a travel guide, which is best suited for our sister project, Wikivoyage:. You might want to learn how to edit in our Introduction, as well as learn about our style conventions on the Simplified Manual of Style. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 03:08, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-09

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 mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [15]
  • The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [16]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [17][18]

Future changes

  • The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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Question from Sonu kumar7857 (01:06, 1 March 2024)

Why ventilation is necessary for underground mining? --Sonu kumar7857 (talk) 01:06, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

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Question from Wkn96 (18:31, 1 March 2024)

Hi I would like to create a page for a celebrity. can you please guide the steps.Thanks --Wkn96 (talk) 18:31, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Wkn96, creating a new article is a complex process, and you should familiarize yourself by learning about editing through our introduction. After that, find some articles to edit on your Homepage or do some tasks at the Task Center. When you're ready, read everything on Help:Your first article, which contains important policies and guidelines on Wikipedia, such as conflict of interest. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 04:07, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Vraj P Trivedi (12:26, 2 March 2024)

hello i want to edit articles about major historical figurres but it says the article is protected --Vraj P Trivedi (talk) 12:26, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Vraj P Trivedi, you might first want to take a look at our introduction, which outlines policies and guidelines when editing Wikipedia. The article is protected because of things like vandalism and sanctions applied to controversial topics. The "What can I do?" section in the protection message when you click "View source" shows the steps you can take to discuss the article with others to reach consensus is reached and make an edit request so that a more experienced user can make the edit for you. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 17:07, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request

I'm a newbie,can you please tell me how do you write your talk page so beautiful?I want my talk page just as yours ,what can I do?Sheikbaba36524 (talk) 17:52, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sheikbaba36524: I use some templates such as {{Talk header}}, which is the same template that is used on some talk pages for high traffic articles. I also use ClueBot III to automatically archive old discussions on my talk page. I also use templates to give help for newbies and an arbitration enforcement template so experienced users know not to warn me about Arbitration Committee sanctions. If you want, you can use the Edit tab at the top of the page to take a look at my talk page's source code. ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 17:58, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from 78jjt5 (08:16, 3 March 2024)

Hi do you know why my submission was rejected? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Representative_Anthony_Ealy&oldid=1211126094 --78jjt5 (talk) 08:16, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @78jjt5, it seems that the draft was rejected because it is contrary to the purposes of Wikipedia. Articles must be written from a neutral point of view, any conflicts of interests must be disclosed (especially if you are being paid), and subjects must be notable to qualify for a Wikipedia article. You can ask for advice at the Articles for creation (AFC) help desk using the Ask for advice button in the rejection message. You may also want to see our introduction to learn about editing Wikipedia. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 08:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-10

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 Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [19]
  • Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
  • Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
  • Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [20]
  • A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [21]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [22][23]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [24]
  • The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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Question from Pablo paballo (10:03, 9 March 2024)

hello.how can i edit --Pablo paballo (talk) 10:03, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Pablo paballo! You can learn how to edit by following our Introduction, which lets you learn the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia, as well as the basics of the editing interface. If you have a conflict of interest, you should disclose that now, especially if you are being paid. After that, you can find articles to edit on your Homepage. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 17:40, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-11

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [25][26]
  • After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [27]
  • The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [28]
  • Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [29]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [30][31]

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Question from John cohams (16:51, 13 March 2024)

How fo I create a citation --John cohams (talk) 16:51, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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