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== Mentee FAQ ==

How do I upload an image?

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Pictures under a license that allows reuse can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Once uploaded, they can be used here under the filename you chose when uploading.

Thanks and...

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@Rusty Cat: I know you're away at school right now. Not sure where you are or what level you're at, but I noticed you edited my userpage. I've been editing since 2007. Been active since 2016. I have my students edit Wikipedia at the University at Albany in New York State. I wanted to let you know that it's NOT usually ok to edit other people's userpage. It's like editing another person's Facebook posts. Instead you make suggestions on their talk page only. But I appreciated you fixing the links about my ancestors and their escape on the Underground Railroad. sheridanford (talk) 21:12, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SheridanFord: I see. You're welcome! Rusty 🐈 14:45, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Wayne dobson actor (00:31, 13 October 2024)

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Can I make a wiki page for myself I'm a up and coming actor from the uk --Wayne dobson actor (talk) 00:31, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wayne dobson actor: Unfortunately, that is not possible. However, a page about you may be created by others if you meet the standards for inclusion. Rusty 🐈 01:24, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-42

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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. [1][2]
  • 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. [3]
  • 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. [4]
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [5]
  • 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. [6]

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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Upcoming expiry of your patroller right

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Hi, this is an automated reminder as part of Global reminder bot to let you know that your permission "patroller" (New page reviewers) will expire on 00:00, 23 October 2024 (UTC). For most rights, you will need to renew at WP:PERM, unless you have been told otherwise when your right was approved. To opt out of user right expiry notifications, add yourself to m:Global reminder bot/Exclusion. Leaderbot (talk) 06:09, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Kpetere (10:58, 17 October 2024)

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hello how an i start editing my biography --Kpetere (talk) 10:58, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kpetere: Writing about yourself is generally discouraged. But you can start editing through suggested edits in the homepage. Rusty 🐈 13:09, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Maelleduranleau on User:UnkownArchitect/Terence Conran/Maelleduranleau Peer Review (21:26, 17 October 2024)

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Hi, everytime I try to publish my peer review it tells me; No stashed content found for 0/aa2f1679-8735-11ef-b6b8-05180039c600

Can you hepl me ? --Maelleduranleau (talk) 21:26, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Maelleduranleau: Sorry, I can't help you, but posting at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) may get you a response. Rusty 🐈 00:21, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 October 2024

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Tech News: 2024-43

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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

  • The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

  • Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
  • Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 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. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
  • View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [7][8][9][10][11]
  • It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "11 November 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [12][13]
  • Advanced item Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [14]
  • The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [15]

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
  • The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

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Growth News, October 2024

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Current work

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Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on our pilot wikis. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn how to configure the Community Updates module, or share your thoughts on the project's talk page.

One design concept aimed to increase constructive activation

Constructive activation experimentation

After showcasing early design ideas at Wikimania, we conducted user testing of design prototypes. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.

Community Configuration

This Community Configuration extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs. The Growth team is now helping other Wikimedia Foundation teams make their products configurable:

  • The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for Automoderator. (T365046)
  • Certain Babel extension settings will be configurable soon. (T328171)

Future work

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As part of the Growth team annual plan, we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the Metrics Platform.

Community events

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  • Growth team members presented Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together at Wikimania (slides). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin and Martin Urbanec answered audience questions.
  • Habib Mhenni gave a presentation of how mentorship works at WikiIndaba 2024. The recording is available.

Stay informed

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Trizek_(WMF), 15:43, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:EMulate Therapeutics

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Hello, Rusty Cat. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "EMulate Therapeutics".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 23:00, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Davidenkosrg (14:31, 26 October 2024)

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Hello! how could I change from English to Romanian to make it easier for me to edit ? --Davidenkosrg (talk) 14:31, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davidenkosrg: If you want to change the language of the Wikipedia interface (like buttons and menus) to Romanian you can do so in your preferences. The articles will still be in English, and you will still have to learn how to edit Wikipedia in English. If you want to edit in Romanian, I would recommend checking out the Romanian version of Wikipedia, which has both the interface and articles in Romanian. Rusty 🐈 15:14, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Davidenkosrg (17:51, 27 October 2024)

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Hello! I can't do it on the Romanian version. can you help me ? --Davidenkosrg (talk) 17:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davidenkosrg: What problem are you having? What can you not do? Rusty 🐈 19:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Librari minish (10:53, 28 October 2024)

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Hi Rusty, I created this account so I could update the European XFEL's company logo of their wiki page since it is quite old. I have uploaded a svg version of the logo in commons, with the proper name. Not sure if I have to take more steps so the changes take effect.

Apologies for such a beginners' question, thanks in advance for your help. --Librari minish (talk) 10:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Librari minish: No worries; we all start somewhere. The previous version of the logo in Commons was a png, so you will need to go into the XFEL article on Wikipedia and change the filename from ending in ".png" to ".svg". Rusty 🐈 13:48, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Prof. Stefan Leucht (14:17, 28 October 2024)

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Dear Rusty, I would like to publish a Wikipedia page on my university professor. So, i would like to know the process. --Prof. Stefan Leucht (talk) 14:17, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Prof. Stefan Leucht: Please see Help:Your first article for information. Thank you. Rusty 🐈 23:54, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2024-44

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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

Updates for technical contributors

  • Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [17]
  • Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [18]

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Question from Triplets in God music (12:42, 29 October 2024)

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How to upload my information,Music and photos --Triplets in God music (talk) 12:42, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Triplets in God music: If you are looking to promote or publish about yourself on Wikipedia, Wikipedia is not the right place for you. Rusty 🐈 14:32, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New page reviewer granted

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Hi Rusty Cat, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the new page reviewer user right to your account. This means you now have access to the page curation tools and can start patrolling pages from the new pages feed. If you asked for this at requests for permissions, please check back there to see if your access is time-limited or if there are other comments.

This is a good time to re-acquaint yourself with the guidance at Wikipedia:New pages patrol. Before you get started, please take the time to:

You can find a list of other useful links and tools for patrollers at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Resources. If you are ever unsure what to do, ask your fellow patrollers or just leave the page for someone else to review – you're not alone! signed, Rosguill talk 17:40, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red November 2024

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Women in Red | November 2024, Vol 10, Issue 11, Nos 293, 294, 321, 322, 323


Online events:

Announcements from other communities

Tip of the month:

Other ways to participate:

Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Concern regarding Draft:Warriors: A Vision of Shadows

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Information icon Hello, Rusty Cat. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Warriors: A Vision of Shadows, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:08, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Warriors: The Broken Code

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Information icon Hello, Rusty Cat. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Warriors: The Broken Code, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:08, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversighter changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Question from Bharat negi spain (20:19, 3 November 2024)

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Up load photos --Bharat negi spain (talk) 20:19, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bharat negi spain: What do you need help with? Rusty 🐈 20:19, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-45

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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

  • Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [19]
  • Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
  • The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [20]
  • View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

  • XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [21]

In depth

  • Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
  • The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

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  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

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Welcome to the drive!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome Rusty Cat! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 03:39, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Imdaanyel29 (15:29, 7 November 2024)

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how do I even editt --Imdaanyel29 (talk) 15:29, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Imdaanyel29: Just press the "Edit" button in the top right! Rusty 🐈 15:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Taramayatamang (11:09, 8 November 2024)

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Hello my recent draft was declined due to "Lots of unsourced claims and statements of fact". Could you please take a look and help me what are those instead of just sending me link about Notability. I want specific points and issues with the drafts so I can correct those. --Taramayatamang (talk) 11:09, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Taramayatamang: You seem to have improved the article's sourcing since the article was last declined 2-3 days ago. Wait until the reviewer gets back to you and you can ask me again then if it gets declined. Rusty 🐈 14:11, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there could you review my draftl Taramayatamang (talk) 05:07, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from SanchezGranddaughter (20:48, 9 November 2024)

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I want to attach a photo of my grandfather to a Wikipedia page.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/03fO69SIvAJ7ZaeBfIHhIciKw. I’m having trouble submitting --SanchezGranddaughter (talk) 20:48, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t want to use that link actually SanchezGranddaughter (talk) 20:50, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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