User talk:CrafterNova/Archive/March 2022

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Thanks for Updating Change.org!
Hi CrafterNova,

Thanks so much for your updates to the Change.org wikipedia page, especially the key people in the info box. I noticed that you specified it as an "American" petition site, but Change.org is actually a global organization with local offices in more than 25 countries. Change.org also has more that half a billion users across 196 countries. That said, a "global" or "worldwide" petition platform would be more accurate.

I have actually proposed edits to the opening section on the Change.org talk pages (currently the last set of suggestions at the bottom of the talk page under "Updates to General Overview Box & Introductory Overview"). While it only reflects updates for the opening section and the overview box, I will be reviewing all the content on the Change.org wikipedia page for accuracy and proposing any needed adjustments over the next few weeks. I would be happy to have you take a look at that to verify my proposed updates and make the actual edits to the page as you deem appropriate.

Thanks so much for being a part of the Wikipedia editing community!

ElleLinElle (talk) 17:23, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

[Disclosure: Change.org Employee]


 * I think it would be better if the lead sentence specifies Change.org as a global organization that originated in USA. I will try to update the rest in few days. Welcome and thank you ;) &mdash; CrafterNova [ TALK ]  [ CONT ] 06:35, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

HTTPS
Please don't change http to https in URLs without first checking to see if the target website supports https. Some websites don't, and changing to https breaks the links in such cases. Thanks, Biogeographist (talk) 22:26, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

I realized this issue 4 days ago. Now if possible I will try to check whether all URLs in an article support HTTPS or not, and then to try to find sources that support HTTPS.

However, at least 4 million Wikipedia articles have more than 1.6 billion links so this is a very tedious regular maintenance task that would be better done by bots. And that means we need many more bots. Users who write bots need to be requested for doing so. &mdash; CrafterNova [ TALK ]  [ CONT ] 16:17, 16 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes, this task certainly needs to be scripted, it shouldn't be done by hand (although I did it manually on the two pages that I reverted); there are already packages in the major scripting languages that can check this, so it would not be difficult to automate. Biogeographist (talk) 17:38, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

April Editathons from Women in Red
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