User talk:K6ka/Archives/2023/January
The Signpost: 1 January 2023
- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2023)
 Scarves in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Summer Palace of Peter the Great • Central Bosnia Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 2 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Happy New Year, K6ka!
K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 04:38, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 04:38, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
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LilyPichu (talk) | Add sources |
| 38 |
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Greek refugees (talk) | Add sources |
| 76 |
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Driver's education (talk) | Add sources |
| 61 | 
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The Richard Pryor Show (talk) | Add sources |
| 243 |
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Sweet Anita (talk) | Add sources |
| 29 |
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Gambhir River (Rajasthan) (talk) | Add sources |
| 92 |
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Administrative divisions of Haryana (talk) | Cleanup |
| 284 |
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Ottoman Empire in World War I (talk) | Cleanup |
| 153 | 
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Mike Knox (talk) | Cleanup |
| 153 |
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Water resources in India (talk) | Expand |
| 415 |
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Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (talk) | Expand |
| 383 |
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Abyss (wrestler) (talk) | Expand |
| 67 |
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Two-lane expressway (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 1,369 |
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Nigga (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 45 |
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Brighton Dome (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 22 |
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Logic Express (talk) | Merge |
| 272 |
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Types of road (talk) | Merge |
| 409 |
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Logic Pro (talk) | Merge |
| 271 |
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Stevie Richards (talk) | Wikify |
| 120 |
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Sibelius (scorewriter) (talk) | Wikify |
| 9 |
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Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport (talk) | Wikify |
| 3 |
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Soundart Chameleon (talk) | Orphan |
| 4 |
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Growing Underground (talk) | Orphan |
| 6 |
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Mo Alexander (talk) | Orphan |
| 26 |
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Carter's Army (talk) | Stub |
| 8 |
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Conrad Ross (talk) | Stub |
| 21 |
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Zaw Min Tun (general) (talk) | Stub |
| 25 |
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Vach (talk) | Stub |
| 18 |
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Lokotunjailurus (talk) | Stub |
| 26 |
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Batteries in space (talk) | Stub |
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.
Arbitration
- Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
- The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
- Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
Happy Sixth Adminship Anniversary!
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
| Happy adminship anniversary! Hi K6ka! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:38, 7 January 2023 (UTC) |  |
This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2023)
 The start line of the Canberra Marathon in 2006
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Scarf • Summer Palace of Peter the Great Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 9 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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| 30 |
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Transport in Belgium (talk) | Add sources |
| 760 |
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Treaty of Sèvres (talk) | Add sources |
| 96 |
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Street hierarchy (talk) | Add sources |
| 116 |
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Space medicine (talk) | Add sources |
| 18 |
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Washout (erosion) (talk) | Add sources |
| 10 |
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Real Time AudioSuite (talk) | Add sources |
| 73 |
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Timeline of African-American history (talk) | Cleanup |
| 88 |
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Japanese hip hop (talk) | Cleanup |
| 145 |
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Expressways of China (talk) | Cleanup |
| 205 |
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Minecraft modding (talk) | Expand |
| 387 |
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Primeval (film) (talk) | Expand |
| 50 |
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Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station (talk) | Expand |
| 66 |
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Writing in space (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 6,874 |
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Terrell Owens (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 96 |
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Vico C (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 24 |
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Backroad (talk) | Merge |
| 22 |
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Country lane (talk) | Merge |
| 75 |
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Cakewalk by BandLab (talk) | Merge |
| 6 |
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Barbara Parker (politician) (talk) | Wikify |
| 29 |
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Midway High School (talk) | Wikify |
| 7 |
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DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport (talk) | Wikify |
| 2 |
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Anselmus Ephorinus (talk) | Orphan |
| 2 |
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Badli, Shahkot (talk) | Orphan |
| 2 |
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Barbara Sierakowska (talk) | Orphan |
| 2 |
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Pyotr Isakov (talk) | Stub |
| 3 |
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Bishopville High School (talk) | Stub |
| 21 |
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Green Bay Press-Gazette (talk) | Stub |
| 4 |
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Paul Mooney: Analyzing White America (talk) | Stub |
| 31 |
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Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (film) (talk) | Stub |
| 25 |
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Wild Wild West (Kool Moe Dee song) (talk) | Stub |
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Tech News: 2023-02
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
- You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
- Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
- You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
- A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
- Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use
matrix:to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4] - You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]
Changes later this week
- Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2023)
 A kiddie ride is a coin-operated amusement ride for young children.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Canberra Marathon • Scarf Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 16 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 16 January 2023
- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
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| 230 |
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| 712 |
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| 37 |
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Third Battle of Oituz (talk) | Add sources |
| 981 |
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Sinking of the RMS Lusitania (talk) | Add sources |
| 55 |
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Living street (talk) | Cleanup |
| 19 |
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Timeline of the Turkish War of Independence (talk) | Cleanup |
| 42 |
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Hebron High School (Texas) (talk) | Cleanup |
| 1,684 |
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Turkish War of Independence (talk) | Expand |
| 249 |
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Highways in Poland (talk) | Expand |
| 13 |
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Heritage High School (Frisco, Texas) (talk) | Expand |
| 65 |
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Siam in World War I (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 16 |
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Motorcycle lane (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 322 |
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Separate but equal (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 12,585 |
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COVID-19 pandemic (talk) | Merge |
| 118 |
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Health threat from cosmic rays (talk) | Merge |
| 30 |
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Effects of ionizing radiation in spaceflight (talk) | Merge |
| 705 |
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Dream SMP (talk) | Wikify |
| 41 |
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Continuous-flow intersection (talk) | Wikify |
| 46 |
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Single-track road (talk) | Wikify |
| 3 |
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Christopher Hurn (talk) | Orphan |
| 4 |
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Adriano (footballer, born December 1987) (talk) | Orphan |
| 2 |
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Ashton Cyrillien (talk) | Orphan |
| 77 |
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Banas River (talk) | Stub |
| 28 |
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Bleeding (roads) (talk) | Stub |
| 2 |
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Potawatomi Wildlife Park (talk) | Stub |
| 25 |
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F-shape barrier (talk) | Stub |
| 3 |
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Bourbon Community Building-Gymnasium (talk) | Stub |
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Stamped asphalt (talk) | Stub |
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Tech News: 2023-03
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID]in place ofdiff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
- Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on
Talk:andUser talk:namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such asWikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, includingWikipedia:pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7] - On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
- The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.
Future changes
- The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.
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Your block of 207.195.80.0/24 range
New vandal whose first edit was WikiLove for an an address in that range is pretty suspicious. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 17:44, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2023)
 Side one of a 1930 brochure for the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Kiddie ride • Canberra Marathon Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 23 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Avid Audio (talk) | Add sources |
| 31 |
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| 825 |
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ATX (talk) | Add sources |
| 88 |
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Columbus Metropolitan Airport (talk) | Add sources |
| 980 |
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Maya peoples (talk) | Add sources |
| 2,262 |
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Jim Varney (talk) | Add sources |
| 126 |
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Haitian diaspora (talk) | Cleanup |
| 15 |
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Chamblee High School (talk) | Cleanup |
| 20 |
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Denton High School (talk) | Cleanup |
| 67 |
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Option ROM (talk) | Expand |
| 38 |
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Dell Inspiron desktop computers (talk) | Expand |
| 129 |
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Dell monitors (talk) | Expand |
| 317 |
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Computer fan (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 58 |
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Enthusiast computing (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 25 |
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Astronautical hygiene (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 1,918 |
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Intel Core (talk) | Merge |
| 576 |
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Space colonization (talk) | Merge |
| 8,000 |
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Proprietary software (talk) | Merge |
| 54 |
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Apple–Intel architecture (talk) | Wikify |
| 28 |
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Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (talk) | Wikify |
| 145 |
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Pensacola International Airport (talk) | Wikify |
| 5 |
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Stacy Ritter (talk) | Orphan |
| 39 |
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Atraumatic restorative treatment (talk) | Orphan |
| 2 |
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Adam Jastrzebski (talk) | Orphan |
| 59 |
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John R. Cherry III (talk) | Stub |
| 3 |
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Stone Mountain Airport (talk) | Stub |
| 2 |
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Dennis High School (talk) | Stub |
| 6 |
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Aleksandr Laveykin (talk) | Stub |
| 4 |
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Laurence Manning Academy (talk) | Stub |
| 4 |
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Calhoun Academy (South Carolina) (talk) | Stub |
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Tech News: 2023-04
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
- If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [10][11]
- The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.
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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2023)
Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Brochure • Kiddie ride Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 30 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Dell Vostro (talk) | Add sources |
| 2,893 |
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Turmeric (talk) | Add sources |
| 10 |
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West Long Beach (talk) | Add sources |
| 166 |
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Silicon on insulator (talk) | Add sources |
| 232 |
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Lavalier microphone (talk) | Add sources |
| 33 |
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IdeaPad Y series (talk) | Add sources |
| 20 |
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Plug-in electric vehicles in Canada (talk) | Cleanup |
| 88 |
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BAIC Motor (talk) | Cleanup |
| 71 |
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Plug-in electric vehicles in Europe (talk) | Cleanup |
| 1,979 |
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Electric vehicle (talk) | Expand |
| 152 |
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Falcon 9 Full Thrust (talk) | Expand |
| 890 |
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Electric car use by country (talk) | Expand |
| 154 |
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Electric truck (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 43 |
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HP Pavilion dv9500 series (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 779 |
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GeForce (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 170 |
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Green retrofit (talk) | Merge |
| 426 |
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Soviet space dogs (talk) | Merge |
| 7 |
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Biblioteca Oliveriana, Pesaro (talk) | Merge |
| 7 |
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Thomas Heyward Academy (talk) | Wikify |
| 227 |
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Dell Inspiron laptop computers (talk) | Wikify |
| 258 |
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Plug-in electric vehicle fire incidents (talk) | Wikify |
| 7 |
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Billy Taylor House (talk) | Orphan |
| 3 |
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A Boy Named 68818 (talk) | Orphan |
| 1 |
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Alf Sheldon (talk) | Orphan |
| 4 |
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Wylliesburg, Virginia (talk) | Stub |
| 18 |
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Reza Yazdani (talk) | Stub |
| 4 |
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Rahim Aliabadi (talk) | Stub |
| 3 |
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Natsagsürengiin Zolboo (talk) | Stub |
| 3 |
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Aboutaleb Talebi (talk) | Stub |
| 48 |
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Audio Units (talk) | Stub |
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Tech News: 2023-05
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [12]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).
Future changes
- Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.
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Growth team newsletter #24
Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!
Newcomer experience projects
The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:
- Thank you pages & banners - Encourage donors to create accounts through thank you pages and banners.
- Marketing experiment - Run ads on-wiki and off-wiki to see how this impacts account activation.
- "Add an image" GLAM events - Host GLAM events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.
- Welcome emails - Experiment sending welcome emails to newly created accounts.
Newcomer tasks
- Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [13]
- The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [14]
Mentorship
- When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [15]
- Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [16]
- Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by signing up to be a Mentor?
- Please visit Special:MentorDashboard to check on the conditions to be a mentor, and sign up.
- If your wiki does not have Mentorship enabled, consider setting it up. The Growth team can provide advice and assist as needed. Please ping Trizek (WMF) for assistance.
Other news
- In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [17]
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14:44, 31 January 2023 (UTC)