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Question from Danielle.ihde (20:57, 25 September 2024)

Hello I need to download a wiki as a pdf with the date and my editorial Wiki handle on the pdf for my college class how do I do this? --Danielle.ihde (talk) 20:57, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Danielle.ihde, to download a wikipedia page as a PDF please follow these instructions. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 21:30, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Cosmose787 on Spiraea salicifolia (21:22, 25 September 2024)

Dzień dobry. Zrobiłem parę ciekawych zdjęć tuławy wierzbolistnej .Czy mogę je dołączyć do opisu rośliny na stronie Wikipedii? --Cosmose787 (talk) 21:22, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Cosmose787, welcome to the English Wikipedia. Please note that all conversations in here should be done in English only. Using Google Translate to understand your message, you can follow these instructions to add a picture. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 21:32, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-40

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

Updates for editors

  • Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [1]
  • For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [2]
  • The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
  • View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

  • The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [3]

Meetings and events

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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

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Question from Real yeba (21:57, 6 October 2024)

Hello, am I allowed to make an article about a close friend of mine? --Real yeba (talk) 21:57, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Real yeba, thank you for asking about this! You are allowed, but it is strongly discouraged for beginners on Wikipedia. See this help topic for more info! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:31, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

September 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

The Invisible Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to Cocobb8 for accumulating at least 5 points during the September 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 19,000+ articles and 35,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 26,884.6 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:35, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment

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Tech News: 2024-41

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

Weekly highlight

  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [4]

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [6]
  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [7]
  • Advanced item Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
  • Advanced item Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
  • Five new wikis have been created:

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Question from SerkZex (16:08, 8 October 2024)

Why cannot i change anymore.. Do wiki have any limit of number of times i could update a draft page? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:First_draft_of_Redot_(Game_engine)

"As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit." --SerkZex (talk) 16:08, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

@SerkZex, what action specifically were you trying to do? Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:48, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Romanlove73 on XHamster (17:03, 8 October 2024)

Chrome --Romanlove73 (talk) 17:03, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

@Romanlove73, I'm not sure what you are asking for here. If you have any questions about editing Wikipedia, do let me know! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:49, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: History and geography request for comment

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Question from Liam9287 (21:48, 11 October 2024)

Hi, I've wanted to help contribute to Wikipedia for a long time and now I am! I have made 7 total edits to the articles: Aeroflot Flight 11 and Chiaphua Components Group. I am excited to do more. The thing I've wanted to do most is create articles on food dishes that have not yet been added. I need some help with creating an article. The Wikipedia guide is very long and I wanted a summarization. Thank you! --Liam9287 (talk) 21:48, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Liam9287! Sorry for the delay in getting you a response :). Welcome to Wikipedia! While it would be hard to summarize anything for you as Wikipedia is very vast in its scope, this short tutorial should give you a quick sense of what the encyclopedia is all about. Cheers! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 19:47, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
Okay, thank you! Liam9287 (talk) 20:30, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
No worries :) Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 20:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Dr E Malese (22:28, 13 October 2024)

Hi,

How do i create an article --Dr E Malese (talk) 22:28, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Dr E Malese, and sorry for the delay in getting you a response! Please follow this guide for complete instructions, and let me know if you have any questions! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 19:47, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-42

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

Updates for editors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [13][14]
  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [15]
  • View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [16]
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [17]
  • Advanced item Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [18]

In depth

  • The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karin Van Der Laag (2nd nomination)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karin Van Der Laag (2nd nomination). You've been invited because you took part in the first AfD discussion. Bobby Cohn (talk) 13:03, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Liam9287 (23:07, 16 October 2024)

Hi, I have a question. I wanna add company logos to articles that lack it, but I don't know if I will get in trouble for copyright. Am I able to add them? --Liam9287 (talk) 23:07, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Liam9287,
You might benefit from taking a look at this help topic, which goes in depth about copyright questions when talking about logos specifically. For company logos, there are some exceptions if they consist of geometric shapes etc. which can be considered fair use for the purpose of an encyclopedia. But you should refer to the help topic linked first.
Cheers! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 21:44, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Hi I actually had this, and the question below, answered in the Teahouse. But I will check this out, thank you! Liam9287 (talk) 21:50, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Awesome! Sorry if I took a while to get back to you :) Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 21:52, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
It's ok! :) Liam9287 (talk) 21:59, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Hectorinaaa (01:47, 18 October 2024)

Is this draft alright? Draft:Anne Marie Vasa. --Hectorinaaa (talk) 01:47, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Hectorinaaa, I took a look at the draft. Can you explain how you think she is notable? This is the comment that the previous draft reviewer left, and at this point it cannot really be said that she passes the notability criteria for a biography on Wikipedia. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 22:33, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
How can I make it notable, In other words, what can I add? Hectorinaaa (talk) 00:07, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
@Hectorinaaa, you cannot make someone notable. On Wikipedia, a person is presumed to be notable if the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability.
Note that there are some additional criteria that could show the notability of someone on Wikipedia even if the above is not met:
  • The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times; or
  • The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in a specific field; or
  • The person has an entry in a country's standard national biographical dictionary (e.g. the Dictionary of National Biography).

More information here! Let me know if you have any other questions, Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 14:37, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
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