User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2020/August

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DYK for The Tolhouse

On 31 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Tolhouse, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that British 19th-century prison visitor Sarah Martin criticised living conditions at The Tolhouse jail, and objected to the fact that the inmates had no access to a church or chaplain? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Tolhouse. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Tolhouse), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Guerillero | Parlez Moi 12:03, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2020

Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

In the media: Dog days gone bad

Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

Traffic report: Now for something completely different

Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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"Wikipedia:DAILYMAIL" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikipedia:DAILYMAIL. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 3#Wikipedia:DAILYMAIL until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. A a s i m 06:41, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Awesome Aasim Thanks, replied there. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:35, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

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

Problems

All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [1]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [2]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [3]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [5]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [6]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [7]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Georgia Adams

On 4 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Georgia Adams, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Georgia Adams is the captain of the Sussex Women cricket team, and her father Chris is a former captain of the Sussex men's team? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Georgia Adams. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Georgia Adams), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 12:03, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Recommendations

Hi Joseph2302! Thank you for your feedback on my article draft for football freestyler Tom Nolan, I just wanted to reach out to ask if you had any other feedback as an experienced editor to improve this page it would be much appreciated for me to take notes from. The link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Tom_Nolan_(freestyle_football) Tnfan99 (talk) 12:53, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Very helpful feedback! Tnfan99 (talk) 13:01, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Language localisation

Please see the discussion on my talk page for language localisation codes User_talk:FozzieHey#Re:_Language_localisation_unnecessary?, if you still feel it's unnecessary then I'm happy to have a discussion here or continue the discussion in that section, thanks! FozzieHey (talk) 22:56, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Just saw it, and whilst I don't agree that we should be adding lang=en to "help other wikis" (because that isn't our problem, and it clutters up English wiki), I understand that people have decided we should apparently do that. I've self reverted. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:59, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Re: Clap For Our Carers edits

Hello Joseph

Thank you for your comments and apologies if you believed I was spamming. This was just plain ignorance on my part.

However I believe that the immediate revocation of my edits is unnecessary and causing inaccuracies.

This discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

What was an award nomination has since become an award win for example, so by undoing my changes you have immediately made the article out of date, whereas I was updating the information to be most current.

I did not mean to spam links, I only believed that I was adding citations to back up the updated information regarding the award that Clap for Our Carers has now won (that it currently says they were only nominated for).

Please see these independent, respected links as evidence of this:

https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/third-sector-digital-awards-%E2%80%93-best-online-awareness-campaign-creative-clinic-clapforourcarers/article/1690746

https://www.thirdsectordigitalawards.com/results-2020/

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/community-agency-behind-clap-for-carers-initiative-wins-award/

I was also adding factual evidence that proves the impact and success of the campaign. This must surely be of value from a perspective of news and information relating to the campaign?

In particular this: "Why did it win? By 30 June 2020, the social media reach of the #ClapForCarers campaign included more than 413 million views on TikTok; 553,000 impressions on Instagram; and 1.4 million impressions on Twitter. Leading figures in public office supported the campaign, including the Queen, the Prime Minister and the Mayor of London, and the campaign also benefited from celebrity support, from the Beckhams to Daniel Craig. The campaign was hugely successful in raising awareness of, and pride in, the vital roles that frontline NHS and key workers played across the coronavirus pandemic, with the weekly round of applause becoming a focal point of the initial crisis. The BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Sky News / Sky One broadcasted the applause live for nine weeks."

and also this: "What did the judges say? This work hit at the right time and the right place and people were ready for it,” judges said, praising the coordinated effort to promote Annemarie’s initiative. “The response and reach was massive and powerful. the most effective work here. The Clap for Carers has become part of our culture."

I hope this will allay your concerns and that you are able to accept at least some, if not all of these suggested edits. If not are you able to help with creation of the entry in such a way as to be acceptable?

Many thanks for your consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam Selwyn (talk • contribs) 18:07, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Replied on your talkpage. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:20, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Request on 12:51:03, 9 August 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Donsolomon

Donsolomon (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Jorge Sikora (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Donsolomon (talk) 12:51, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi. Re the Jorge Sikora article, which you have declined on the grounds that he has not played a first team game. Please read the article carefully - it clearly states he appeared professionally for the Bradford City first team in the EFL Trophy. As a professional footballer for Bradford City, he certainly meets notability guidelines. Donsolomon (talk) 12:51, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Donsolomon He played 24 minutes in a cup game, but the cup game was against Man City U-21s, who are not a fully professional side (as they are the reserve team). Therefore, he doesn't pass WP:NFOOTY, and he certainly doesn't pass Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Joseph2302 (talk) 19:52, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Przemysław Płacheta

On 10 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Przemysław Płacheta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when footballer Przemysław Płacheta signed for Norwich City from Śląsk Wrocław in 2020, he was Śląsk's record sale and Norwich's first-ever Polish player? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Przemysław Płacheta. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Przemysław Płacheta), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Wug·a·po·des 01:20, 8 August 2020 (UTC) 00:01, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Help

Hello! :) I translated an article from the Russian Wikipedia. Please, if it does not bother you, check it and remove the machine translation if there is one. Article: Fyodor Samokhin Respectfully, Урыл (talk) 11:11, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Requested technical move

Done Thanks for your request to move Instituto Politécnico Loyola - this has now been done. If you can format the article with the new name then that would be great. (closed by non-admin page mover)   Kadzi   (talk) 14:11, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Dr._Kadzi Thanks, done. Joseph2302 (talk) 14:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33

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

FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [8]

Problems

The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [9]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10][11]

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Charrandas Persaud

Hello! Your submission of Charrandas Persaud at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:11, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

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

Recent changes

If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [12]
The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [13]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [14][15]

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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:58, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 22

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Abbas (name), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Muhammad Abbas.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:09, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

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 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy

On 29 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, which starts today, was created to allow English domestic women's cricket to be played in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 00:01, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Charrandas Persaud

On 29 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charrandas Persaud, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2018, Guyanese politician Charrandas Persaud voted against his own government coalition in a no-confidence motion, causing the coalition to fall by one vote? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charrandas Persaud. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Charrandas Persaud), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.