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January 2022 Women in Red

Happy New Year from Women in Red Jan 2022, Vol 8, Issue 1, Nos 214, 216, 217, 218, 219 Online events: New: Climate (year-long initiative) | Women in business | US territories Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2021 Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month. Go to Women in RedJoin WikiProject Women in Red Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:03, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 28 December 2021

• From the editor: Here is the news

• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Misplaced Pages

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Thank you for volunteering as a Host at the Teahouse. Misplaced Pages is a community of people working together to make knowledge free. You are an important part of that effort! By joining as a Host, and by following our expectations, you are helping new users to get started here at Misplaced Pages, and aiding more experienced users who just have a question about how something works. We appreciate your willingness to help!

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Thanks Nick. User:Em-mustapha 20:21, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #501

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How to get Wikidata claims from Misplaced Pages sitelinks using Wikidata API ?
  • Videos
    • Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
  • Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
  • Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
    • External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
    • External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016
  • Query examples:
    • Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
    • Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
    • Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
    • Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
    • People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
    • Average height of people named Joe (Source)
    • Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2022-02

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

• A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
• Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget.
• Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages.
• Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS.
• At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees.
• The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed.
• Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows.
• The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Kaungkinlay on User:Kaungkinlay/sandbox (20:00, 13 January 2022)

I can't get Email conformation code with noti. --Kaungkinlay (talk) 20:00, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Kaungkinlay, welcome again, for you to get an email confirmation, your account must be connected to a valid functional email address, you can check your Preferences here to see what email is connected to your account and you can change it if it wasn't the one you are currently using. User:Em-mustapha 20:09, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Draft review

Can you assist with reviewing this draft please: https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Gohenry ? --92.21.152.68 (talk) 14:46, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Don't worry, a reviewer will review it shortly. It's just because we are having a backlog at the AFC but we will come to it. Are you the original creator of this draft? User:Em-mustapha 15:53, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Nafiu Bala Rabiu article

Hello sir, I saw your nomination for deletion on an article Nafiu Bala Rabiu that I created. Thank you very much for your contribution even though you said delete. Please can you help guide me on how to improve the article to avoid deletion? Also, how can I be a member of the Hausa wikipedian? I am also from the North, Taraba State. I speak and write in hausa too. Moshswacide (talk) 12:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Moshswacide, thanks for reaching out and I'm glad to see you here. I wasn't the nominator of the article but I supported it be deleted because the article subject is not notable and does not satisfies Misplaced Pages's Notability Guidelines, this is the basic criteria we follow to identify notable topics that are worthy of inclusion on Misplaced Pages. You can always use it whenever you want to start a new article. And regarding the Hausa Misplaced Pages, it's a free project as this one, you can take a look here Babban shafi and start contributing rightaway. You can also join us at Hausa Wikimedians User Group. User:Em-mustapha 17:09, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

@Em-mustapha Thank you very much for your guidance, I really appreciate. Will keep on working to improve my skills and knowledge here. Moshswacide (talk) 18:57, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03

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

Recent changes

• When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
• You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics".
• When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from WozzaHoad (00:52, 20 January 2022)

Hi I'm trying to draft my first Misplaced Pages page. Some blocks of my text are green hatched out in the Visual Editing mode. The error is "Sorry, this element can only be edited in source mode." Can you tell me how to remove this please? I have had a look around Google & Wiki help pages but not found the solution. Regards & thanks

WozzaHoad --WozzaHoad (talk) 00:52, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi WozzaHoad, welcome to Misplaced Pages. I just placed a welcome message on your talk which may help you understand more about the project, please get time to go through them. And regarding your question, yes you should change the editor to Source edit or read This page to know more about the editors and how you can switch from one to another. User:Em-mustapha 01:27, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Look at this Switching between the Visual and Wikitext editors. User:Em-mustapha 16:48, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Dziadlou (06:09, 24 January 2022)

How can I build a profile in Wiki? --Dziadlou (talk) 06:09, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, welcome to Misplaced Pages. Building a profile here on Misplaced Pages is very simple, just make sure that the topic or subject you'll write about meet Wiki's criteria for inclusion, follow this page on creating your first article. If you have any further questions please ask. Thanks User:Em-mustapha 17:29, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
• The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
• You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page.

Events

• You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
• You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Paradox Official (12:09, 26 January 2022)

Hey I need to add an Biography of the CEO of Paradox Enigma.. Can you pls help me? --Paradox Official (talk) 12:09, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for reaching out. I have read your question and I think the following will be helpful for you to read: As Misplaced Pages is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers, the subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. There is a venue where you can request articles at <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:REQ>, or if you wish to write your own, you can visit the Article Wizard at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WIZ>. If you already have content written that you would like to submit for a review you may want to try Articles for Creation <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:AFC> where you can have your text evaluated and worked on by other editors to ensure it meets Misplaced Pages's styles, policies, and guidelines for inclusion. Please note that although Misplaced Pages has many articles on companies and products, our website is not a business or web directory. For more information about why this is so, please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:NOTDIR>. You may also find it helpful to view our notability requirements at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Notability> (for the general guidelines), <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:CORP> (for organizations), <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:WEB> (for websites), or <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:MUSIC> (for guidelines about music, musicians, albums, songs, etc.). You should also be aware that the Misplaced Pages community strongly discourages articles written by individuals close to a subject because of the inherent problem of "conflict of interest"— this is the difficulty in writing objectively about your organization, your family, your work, or yourself. You can read more about the issues around conflict-of-interest editing here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:COI>, and about autobiography rules here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:AUTO>. Thank you again for contacting us with your question, and feel free to contact me if you have any additional concerns that you believe I may be able to answer. Good luck!

–User:Em-mustapha 22:43, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 January 2022

• Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment

• News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election

• Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"

• Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?

• Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion

• WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured

• Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021

• Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph

• Obituary: Twofingered Typist

• Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial

• Essay: The prime directive

• Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?

• In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing

• Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"

• Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years

• Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword

Abdullahi Haske Bashir article

Hi Em-mustapha, thanks for the review on this article Draft:Abdullahi Haske Bashir, really appreciate the swift response, however i believe there may have been a mistake with its rejection as it follows the notability guideline. I will also like to clarify its suitability with regards to the issue of reliable sources, as an article within the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Nigeria domain, i believe independent source such as Thisday, The Guardian (Nigeria), Vanguard (Nigeria), Reuters and Bloomberg News are reliable enough for this article. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you Richied3man (talk) 14:54, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

February with Women in Red

Women in Red Feb 2022, Vol 8, Issue 2, Nos 214, 217, 220, 221, 222 Online events: New: Black women | Hong Kong and Macau | Women in sport Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:11, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Tech News: 2022-05

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

Recent changes

• If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation).

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

• A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Krishnaveldi (10:24, 3 February 2022)

Hello I'd like to add a profile with little biography. --Krishnaveldi (talk) 10:24, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for reaching out. I have read your question and I think the following will be helpful for you to read: As Misplaced Pages is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers, the subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. There is a venue where you can request articles at <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:REQ>, or if you wish to write your own, you can visit the Article Wizard at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WIZ>. If you already have content written that you would like to submit for a review you may want to try Articles for Creation <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:AFC> where you can have your text evaluated and worked on by other editors to ensure it meets Misplaced Pages's styles, policies, and guidelines for inclusion. Please note that although Misplaced Pages has many articles on companies and products, our website is not a business or web directory. For more information about why this is so, please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:NOTDIR>. You may also find it helpful to view our notability requirements at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Notability> (for the general guidelines), <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:CORP> (for organizations), <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:WEB> (for websites), or <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:MUSIC> (for guidelines about music, musicians, albums, songs, etc.). You should also be aware that the Misplaced Pages community strongly discourages articles written by individuals close to a subject because of the inherent problem of "conflict of interest"— this is the difficulty in writing objectively about your organization, your family, your work, or yourself. You can read more about the issues around conflict-of-interest editing here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:COI>, and about autobiography rules here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:AUTO>. Thank you again for contacting us with your question, and feel free to contact me if you have any additional concerns that you believe I may be able to answer. Good luck! User:Em-mustapha 04:22, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06

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

• English Misplaced Pages recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
• Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month.

Problems

• A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Question from خشکبار نفیس (11:33, 10 February 2022)

سلام من چگونه این سایت راندازی کنم --خشکبار نفیس (talk) 11:33, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

درود بر Em-mustapha، به ویکی‌پدیا خوشامدید! ما همواره مشارکت مفید کاربران را تحسین می‌کنیم اما مشارکت‌های شما به زبان انگلیسی نیست. به نظر می‌رسد شما به زبان فارسی آشنایی دارید، آیا ویکی‌پدیای فارسی را دیده‌اید؟ شاید ترجیح دهید آنجا فعالیت کنید. در هر حال به ویکی‌پدیا خوش‌آمدید، از تلاش‌هایتان متشکریم!

User:Em-mustapha 13:41, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Welcomeen-ha/doc

Template:Welcomeen-ha/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:50, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07

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

• Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

• AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
• The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Come edit with Black Lunch Table!

We haven't seen you in a while! There's many opportunities to get reacquainted with us during through our upcoming programming. You are invited to play our bimonthly BINGO and win exciting prizes! Find the card, rules and more information here. Other upcoming events during Winter 2022 include: February 20: Office Hours on Zoom at noon EST; February 27: BLT: Live with Anisa Olufemi on IG Live at noon EST; February 27: Afrofuturist Period Room closing event online at 1PM EST; March 6: BLT: Live with Daonne Huff on IG Live at noon EST; Futurism Bingo until Feb 28th. See you soon! Nikitag94 (talk) 04:10, 18 February 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-08 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 Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, ]. There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator. Events Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar). Future changes The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC) Question from I swear to god i want a username (21:34, 25 February 2022) Hi, i was wondering, what can i actually write about? There is so many things on wikipedia. --I swear to god i want a username (talk) 21:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC) I swear to god i want a username, We appreciate your kind words and thrilled that you come to Misplaced Pages. We hope to continue to live up to your expectations and that you continue to find the site a useful resource. If you are interested in becoming involved in the site yourself, please see our tutorial at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Tutorial>, which contains all the help you need to get started. User:Em-mustapha 23:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC) March editathons Women in Red Mar 2022, Vol 8, Issue 3, Nos 214, 217, 222, 223, 224, 225 Online events: New: Women's History Month Art+Activism | Feminism and Folklore | Dutch Caribbean Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman | Women in sport (Feb/Mar) Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter --Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:38, 27 February 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging The Signpost: 27 February 2022 From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine Opinion: Why student editors are good for Misplaced Pages Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Misplaced Pages In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results WikiProject report: 10 years of tea Featured content: Featured Content returns Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate By the numbers: Does birthplace affect the frequency of Misplaced Pages biography articles? Gallery: The vintage exhibit Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles Humour: Notability of mailboxes * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:20, 27 February 2022 (UTC) Tech News: 2022-09 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 When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP. Problems The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar). Future changes Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Misplaced Pages. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features. If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC) Question from Gaiacono (23:49, 3 March 2022) Hello. I just finished my first draft in my sandbox. How can I submit this draft to be reviewed for publication? --Gaiacono (talk) 23:49, 3 March 2022 (UTC) @Gaiacono I noticed your question to your mentor has not yet been answered for a couple of days, so I thought I'd drop by and help you out. Right now, User:Gaiacono/sandbox would be rejected as you have not included any references to help a reviewer assess whether this person meets our Notability criteria - especially this one on artists or this one on academics. If you either are, or know, Francine Harris, then you need to declare your WP:COI. If they gave you the image to uplpoad and are remunerating you to create this article, you are obliged to declare that on your userpage under WP:PAID. You can get further advice on creating and submitting an new article for review at this page on Articles for Creation. Oh dear - in trying to helpfully answer your question, I have just spotted that you simply pasted in copyrighted content from this page. Doing this is a very serious breach of our rules (see WP:COPYVIO, and I will now have to spend time deleting it from Misplaced Pages. In future, you must always write in your own words. Or, if these are your words and that that is your website, then you must ensure that website contains an appropriate Creative Commons licence allowing commercial re-use. It does not at this time, so must be removed. Hope this helps, and I'm sorry your first outing on Misplaced Pages has not gone as smoothly as you'd hoped. Nick Moyes (talk) 12:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC) Thanks Nick! User:Em-mustapha 13:47, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

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Problems

• There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Draft: Dabon Dambazau

Hi, I really appreciate your attention to this article. I'm really at lost that the sources and citations provided where not considered by you to be *Reliable sources". The citations provided were in accordance with what the Reliable source page https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources If M.G. Smith, H.A.S. Johnston, and J. N. Paden are not reliable sources when it comes 19th-20th century history of Northern Nigeria I can't see any other sources that are more reliable. You may be weary of the Hausa sources provided because may be you can't have means to verify them but still Misplaced Pages said they accept sources in other Language.That said, I would like you guide me as to the sources that are not reliable so that I can try my best to effect correction. Only then I would know that according to your perspective my sources are not reliable, hence I would gladly delete my draft knowing well that my article is not good enough to feature on the Misplaced Pages mainspace. Thanks. Baaballiyo (talk) 22:03, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Baaballiyo, I'm not saying the sources you provided aren't reliable but they are inadequate to verify many contents from the article. So to keep Misplaced Pages safe from promotion and to make sure articles are written in a neutral point of view, that's why I declined your submission requiring more reliable sources as a prior search on Google of the article subject return no or very less coverage. Thank you for following up. User:Em-mustapha 11:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

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Recent changes

• In the Misplaced Pages Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode.

Problems

• There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
• There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
• When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history".
• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page.
• On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
• The Misplaced Pages Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages.

Events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Sandylou76 on Supernanny (23:54, 16 March 2022)

How do I get help with Supernanny --Sandylou76 (talk) 23:54, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Sandylou76, thank you for contacting me for assistance. However, I am unable to understand what kind of help you wanted on supernanny? User:Em-mustapha 01:12, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Athadus (17:21, 20 March 2022)

How can I make an article by myself --Athadus (talk) 17:21, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Athadus, Thanks for reaching out. I have read your question and I think the following will be helpful for you to read: As Misplaced Pages is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers, the subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. There is a venue where you can request articles at <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:REQ>, or if you wish to write your own, you can visit the Article Wizard at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WIZ>. If you already have content written that you would like to submit for a review you may want to try Articles for Creation <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:AFC> where you can have your text evaluated and worked on by other editors to ensure it meets Misplaced Pages's styles, policies, and guidelines for inclusion. Please note that although Misplaced Pages has many articles on companies and products, our website is not a business or web directory. For more information about why this is so, please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:NOTDIR>. You may also find it helpful to view our notability requirements at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Notability> (for the general guidelines), <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:CORP> (for organizations), <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:WEB> (for websites), or <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:MUSIC> (for guidelines about music, musicians, albums, songs, etc.). You should also be aware that the Misplaced Pages community strongly discourages articles written by individuals close to a subject because of the inherent problem of "conflict of interest"— this is the difficulty in writing objectively about your organization, your family, your work, or yourself. You can read more about the issues around conflict-of-interest editing here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:COI>, and about autobiography rules here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:AUTO>. Thank you again for contacting us with your question, and feel free to contact me if you have any additional concerns that you believe I may be able to answer. User:Em-mustapha 14:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12

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New code release schedule for this week

• There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

• You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022.
• The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface.

Future changes

• Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English.

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

April Editathons from Women in Red

Women in Red Apr 2022, Vol 8, Issue 4, Nos 214, 217, 226, 227, 228 Online events: New: Gender studies | French overseas territories New Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:46, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Internet Archive Scholar vs. JSTOR

Hello, I see on your user page that you use JSTOR and I'd like to know more about your experience. By my calculations, a good 70 % of the main JSTOR content is now available for everyone at Internet Archive Scholar, with full text search provided e.g. at https://scholar.archive.org/ . The service is still in beta, but I've used it for some source-finding and it seems quite usable to me; I wonder whether that's just my experience. If you have a chance, the next time you'd be looking for a source on Google Scholar or JSTOR or similar, to perform the same search on IA scholar instead, I'd be curious to hear how it ends up. Thanks, Nemo 19:06, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: thanks for the recommendation, I will try and see how it works and get back with my feedback. User:Em-mustapha 22:59, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Nemo 16:36, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Reviewing my drafts

Hello Sir!!! My friend asked me to approach you for reviewing my drafts Draft:Chahat Pandey, Draft:Zaan Khan and Draft:Bhavika Sharma. Sir can you please review these drafts? Commonedits (talk) 05:09, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Commonedits, thank you for your interest in getting an article published on Misplaced Pages.

I would like to let you know that after you submit your draft articles for review by other editors as a part of the "Articles for Creation" project (<https://en.wikipedia.org/WP:AFC>). The members of this project are experienced editors, though there is much greater demand for their services than there is supply, so you may need to wait a while before your draft is reviewed.

Once you submit your draft, it will be placed into a category where it will be open for review by anyone who reviews submissions. If your submission is approved (which may take more than a month because of the current backlog) then an editor will accept it and you will be notified of the article's creation. If your submission is not accepted, a note will be left on the page describing what can be improved, and you will be notified of this via a message on your "Talk" page.

Note that if you are interested in the publication of an article to which you are very close (e.g., an article about a member of your family, your business, your club/organization/ school, or yourself) you probably have a conflict of interest: if so, it will be absolutely critical that you disclose this when you create the article. Please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest> for information about doing so properly. If you do not do this, your user account may become permanently blocked and the article may be deleted.

Let me know if you have further questions. Thank you for your interest in Misplaced Pages, and welcome to the community! Good luck! User:Em-mustapha 09:43, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Em-mustapha Thank you so much Sir for your detailed information!!! ❤️😍💝 I am basically an Indian television addict who creates and edits pages of actors, actresses, shows associated with Indian tv shows. Honestly, I would love to work in the industry but right now I am just a "commoner" or rather a "fan" who watches tv shows and writes subjects related to them. Good luck to you too Sir!!! My friend said you are one of the most kindest individuals in Misplaced Pages.😊😊Commonedits (talk) 10:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words Commonedits about our effort on free knowledge. It’s wonderful to know our efforts are paying off. Happy editing. Regards User:Em-mustapha 17:16, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For reverting Vandalism in a matter of seconds. Emir Shane (talk) 17:57, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Emir Shane for noticing, this makes my day! Regards User:Em-mustapha 18:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Haha no problem. I also wanted to ask you, can you teach me how to design userboxes. I requested an idea at Misplaced Pages talk:Userboxes/Ideas but received no response, and there are other people waiting too, so if I can learn how to design one, I can help them too. Can you teach me please? Emir Shane (talk) 18:09, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes, of course I can. Let me show you some examples of how it works. User:Em-mustapha 18:14, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Emir Shane take a look at this how to create a new Userbox and if you get stuck along the way, ask me again. Good luck. User:Em-mustapha 18:24, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

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• Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks

• In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff

• Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures

• Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond

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• Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon

• Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors

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Reverting of message

Hello there

I see you have reverted my message towards the user Sergecross73. I get that my edit towards the Walking with Dinosaurs article was really unnecessary and not very useful (in fact it was unsourced but originated from a particular dub of the show), but I don't understand how bad my question was in regards to asking about account creation was? I have been meaning to have sent that for a while and I completely understand if you thought it was in reaction to that poor edit, but I can assure you that there was no relation towards that poor edit aside from the timing.

I had just reminded myself about what my question, and for some reason it kind of just sparked out of nowhere. And no, it wasn't out of retaliation or anything, it's a lot more simpler than it sounds or how I'm describing it.

Again my apologies for this, but I hope you understand. 71.59.205.114 (talk) 21:04, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Apologies! It was a misclick from my side, It's been rrestored already. User:Em-mustapha 21:26, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Please warn users after reverting

Hi Em-mustapha, please warn users when reverting their edits. I was surprised that Aleby237 had no talk page when I noticed their problematic editing that had already been reverted by you multiple times. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Alright thanks for the reminder ToBeFree. User:Em-mustapha 10:30, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

No worries, thank you for dealing with these! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:20, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

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

• There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

You’re rude

You’re so rude. You just revert edits with no explanation. I literally just made something consistent with all other suburbs in the Ku-ring-Gai region and here you are trying to make out Pymble isn’t in that region but whatever…. 58.110.245.204 (talk) 13:35, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Hey! What's rude about that! Nothing that you made consistent there, look at my revert diff here you inserted a promotion calling the place an affluent. User:Em-mustapha 14:22, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	For your efforts in keeping the vandals away. Keep it going! Volten001 12:57, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Volten001 for this recognition. I appreciate it. User:Em-mustapha 13:39, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

You're most welcome... and glad you liked it Volten001 13:42, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

PROD removal/objection on Brady R. Allred

Please see WP:PROD, in particular the portion in the lead section I actually quoted directly in my "unexplained AFD template removal", and WP:DEPROD. The difference between AfD and PROD is key here. Might you revert your edit, please? Thanks. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 12:50, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Much obliged! 109.255.211.6 (talk) 12:55, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-14

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

• For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities.
• Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from Malcolm Yakka (00:53, 6 April 2022)

hi hello, may you help me how to upload pictures and images with descriptions --Malcolm Yakka (talk) 00:53, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Malcom Yakka, welcome to Misplaced Pages and thank you for your interest in uploading files with descriptions on Misplaced Pages. You should first keep in mind that images and media must be licensed under a free content license of some kind. Acceptable licenses are discussed at <Commons Licensing >; images and media without source information or clear license status will be deleted.

To upload a picture:

1. Login (or create a username if you don't have one) 2. Click on "upload file" in the sidebar (Upload Wizard ) 3. Select the file from your computer that you want to upload 4. Select the appropriate license for the file 5. Enter a descriptive name for the image

To add the picture to a page:

1. Edit the page you want the image to appear on, and include in the place you want the image to appear:

File:(Filename you chose in step 4).(extension of file, case sensitive) Caption text 2. Save the page with an edit summary that describes what you did (e.g. "added image")

You might also find our editing instructions (<Help:Editing>) and tutorial on using images (<Misplaced Pages Picture Tutorial>) helpful. User:Em-mustapha 03:33, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15

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

• There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
• On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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Tech News: 2022-16

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 19 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project.
• Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

• Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated.

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23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from Priypjs (22:39, 18 April 2022)

Hi! I don't know how to add a lead to the page I created, and everywhere I look is showing me how to add "lead missing" to a page. How can I add a lead to the page I made so that it can be published? --Priypjs (talk) 22:39, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Priypjs, welcome to Misplaced Pages and thanks for reaching out on this! First of all, the lead section of a Misplaced Pages article is the section that serves as an introduction to the article and a summary of its most important contents. It's usually in the first paragraph, you just need to click on the edit button and briefly summarise the whole page, that's the Lead. You can find more information about it here LEAD SECTION. I hope this helps. User:Em-mustapha 23:41, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from Ashishrawat1234 (15:46, 20 April 2022)

Hello i am an artist from india wanted to create my wikipedia page --Ashishrawat1234 (talk) 15:46, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

As you may already know, Misplaced Pages is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers. The subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. While there is a venue where you can request articles, a request for an article creation on oneself is likely to be declined. You can visit our 'requests for articles' page at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requested_articles>.

It's also important to realise that Misplaced Pages strongly discourages articles written by the subjects themselves or by others close to a subject because of the difficulty in writing objectively about yourself, your family, or your work. Please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Autobiography> for our guidelines on writing about yourself or topics you are personally involved with. While keeping in mind conflict of interest issues, please note that if someone does create an article about you, you should feel more than welcome to edit the article to ensure that each piece of information is factual and complying with our "Biography of Living Persons" policy. This policy can be viewed at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons>.

You may also like to read <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)> for a guideline on the type of articles that are generally accepted.

Thank you for your interest in Misplaced Pages and feel free to get back in touch with us with any further comments or questions. User:Em-mustapha 15:56, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 April 2022

• News and notes: Double trouble

• In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Misplaced Pages

• Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)

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Tech News: 2022-17

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

• On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older.

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Reversion of edit in 'Cat and mouse (playground game)'

Why did you revert my edit in Cat and mouse (playground game)? I posted this on the talk page also. TypistMonkey (talk) 23:26, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

This was restored. User:Em-mustapha 02:28, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

May 2022 at Women in Red

Women in Red May 2022, Vol 8, Issue 5, Nos 214, 217, 227, 229, 230 Online events: New: Women in the Ancient World | British Overseas Territories Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest (second month) Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman See also: Wikimedia District of Columbia: 100 DC Women contest The Misplaced Pages Library: #1Lib1Ref Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Tech News: 2022-18

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

• On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on talk pages in the Misplaced Pages app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
• Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode.
• If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme.
• Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

eNaira Misplaced Pages page

Hello,

It has come to the notice of the Central Bank of Nigeria that you created a wikipedia page for eNaira (https://en.wikipedia.org/ENaira) and we would like to have your email address or phone number so we can reach out appropriately. Thank you 11:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)11:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Central Bank of Nigeria (talk • contribs)

Yes, I did create it but I can't give out my contact because I don't own the page or can do anything about it here. All the information provided on the page are secondary no original research etc, you can go through the sources at the reference section to verify for yourself. And still reminding you to change your username as it's a misleading name which goes contrary to Misplaced Pages's username policy. User:Em-mustapha 15:00, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

I've blocked this account as I really doubt it is the Central bank of Nigeria. Don't give them any personal information. Secretlondon (talk) 16:06, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Secretlondon, of course, I will never. User:Em-mustapha 17:52, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Noting it was I who reported them that led to this the username violation. Em, anytime you come across a blatant username violation just report them. Celestina007 (talk) 23:05, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Aha! Celestina007, thanks for this. User:Em-mustapha 13:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

I’ve missed interacting with you buddy. Hope you doing good? Celestina007 (talk) 16:01, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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 now see categories in the Misplaced Pages app for Android.

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed.
• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
• The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Question from Muhammadchand (07:44, 14 May 2022)

Please I want to create my profile on Misplaced Pages a detailed article of myself on my biography. --Muhammadchand (talk) 07:44, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi Mohammed, welcome to Misplaced Pages and thanks for asking me about this. As you may already know, Misplaced Pages is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers. The subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. While there is a venue where you can request articles, a request for an article creation on oneself is likely to be declined. You can visit our 'requests for articles' page at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requested_articles>.

It's also important to realise that Misplaced Pages strongly discourages articles written by the subjects themselves or by others close to a subject because of the difficulty in writing objectively about yourself, your family, or your work. Please see <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Autobiography> for our guidelines on writing about yourself or topics you are personally involved with. While keeping in mind conflict of interest issues, please note that if someone does create an article about you, you should feel more than welcome to edit the article to ensure that each piece of information is factual and complying with our "Biography of Living Persons" policy. This policy can be viewed at <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons>.

You may also like to read <https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)> for a guideline on the type of articles that are generally accepted.

Thank you for your interest in Misplaced Pages and feel free to get back in touch with us with any further comments or questions. User:Em-mustapha 06:47, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20

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

• Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Misplaced Pages, Hebrew Misplaced Pages, Hindi Misplaced Pages, Korean Misplaced Pages, Norwegian Bokmål Misplaced Pages, Portuguese Misplaced Pages, Simple English Misplaced Pages, Swedish Misplaced Pages, Ukrainian Misplaced Pages. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons.

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18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Question from Misosoup-0 (11:11, 18 May 2022)

hello em-mustapha,

Could you tell me how to create a new language page for an article?

regards Misosoup-0 --Misosoup-0 (talk) 11:11, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi Misosoup-0, welcome to Misplaced Pages and thanks for asking me about this. A good start is at translations or Content translation tool. There you can read up on ways that you can assist in providing free content as well as working on language skills. I hope this helps. User:Em-mustapha 15:13, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21

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

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
• The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

Problems

• The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all.
• Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

• Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers.

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 May 2022

• From the team: A changing of the guard

• News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections

• Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections

• Opinion: The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency

• In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more

• Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

• In focus: Measuring gender diversity in Misplaced Pages articles

• Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited

• Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis

• Featured content: Featured content of April

• Interview: Misplaced Pages's pride

• Serendipity: Those thieving image farms

• Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed

• Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Misplaced Pages

• Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows

• News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced

• News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?

• Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing

• Gallery: Diving under the sea for World Oceans Day

• From the archives: The Onion and Misplaced Pages

• Essay: How not to write a Misplaced Pages article

• Humour: A new crossword

January 2020 at Women in Red

January 2020, Volume 6, Issue 1, Numbers 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153 Happy Holidays from all of us at Women in Red, and thank you for your support in 2019. We look forward to working with you in 2020! Online events: New: Activists / Public domain / Geofocus: Central America / Year-long campaign: Sports! Continuing: 2019 deaths / #1day1woman Editor feedback: Help us plan our future events at the Ideas Cafe Join the conversations on our talkpage Social media: Facebook / Instagram / Pinterest / Twitter Stay in touch: Join WikiProject Women in Red / Opt-out of notifications

 Done User:Em-mustapha 20:49, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

 Done User:Em-mustapha 20:49, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

 Done User:Em-mustapha 20:50, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Vandalism and deletion of extended revisions on the Morchella dunalii page without any justification whatsoever.

Excuse me, but why have you deleted all the extended additions and revisions to the Morchella dunalii page? I have been working on this page for over two days now to bring it up to a good standard which you have all deleted without any reason whatsoever. Why? Are you an idiot?

 Done User:Em-mustapha 20:50, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

African Popular Music

You're a Nigerian? So am I! Do you know of any Nigerian music genres to add to the template Genres of African Popular Music?

 Done User:Em-mustapha 20:51, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22

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

• In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
• The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.
• The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit.
• A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates.

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

June events from Women in Red

Women in Red June 2022, Vol 8, Issue 6, Nos 214, 217, 227, 231, 232, 233 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ women | Greenland and the Faroes | Women in music Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest (third and last month) Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 09:22, 31 May 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Tech News: 2022-23

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
• A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression.

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02:44, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24

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

• All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Misplaced Pages, Achinese Misplaced Pages, Adyghe Misplaced Pages, Afrikaans Misplaced Pages, Akan Misplaced Pages, Alemannisch Misplaced Pages, Amharic Misplaced Pages, Aragonese Misplaced Pages, Old English Misplaced Pages, Syriac Misplaced Pages, Egyptian Arabic Misplaced Pages, Asturian Misplaced Pages, Atikamekw Misplaced Pages, Avaric Misplaced Pages, Aymara Misplaced Pages, Azerbaijani Misplaced Pages, South Azerbaijani Misplaced Pages). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

• By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)