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Question from DoogieDoo (07:15, 9 March 2023)
Hi, I made my first edit to an article and referenced an episode of a TV show. It got rejected because it said there wasn't a reliable source cited. The TV show episode itself is the source. Can you assist me in learning how to cite a TV show episode? --DoogieDoo (talk) 07:15, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

which describes you should use secondary sources, not the show itself. We require information on Wikipedia to be Notable and cited in Independent reliable sources. To help you cite when you do have a source, see the other page User:Doniago linked: Help:Referencing for beginners. Happy Editing-- IAm Chaos  00:27, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi User:DoogieDoo. I would refer you to the message left on your own talk page by User:Doniago, who provided a link to a great resource on sourcing. I would encourage you to read The link he left, and particularly the third paragraph: "Although some references may be plainly verified by primary sources, this does not demonstrate the significance of the reference. Furthermore, when the primary source in question only presents the reference, interpretation of this may constitute original research where the reference itself is ambiguous. If a cultural reference is genuinely significant it should be possible to find a reliable secondary source that supports that judgment."
 * I guess I'm not following... Why can't the original source material be cited as the reference? The detail that I mentioned in my edit may have not been noticed by anybody previously but me, thus there won't be any other sources citing it. For instance, if somebody makes an edit that says "At the end of Star Wars the Death Star explodes", wouldn't the movie itself be the reference? Why do we need to find someplace else that mentions the Death Star exploding when anybody can simply watch the movie to see that that information is true? DoogieDoo (talk) 04:28, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Boronij (00:13, 23 March 2023)
Hello! I just want to confirm if it is okay for me to edit things. I am not the person that goes around ruining pages, I just maybe want to fix grammar or something. If someone else already does this, I will not edit things. Thank you! --Boronij (talk) 00:13, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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Just a friendly heads-up in case you weren't already aware, since it's installed on your common.js: Careless use of ReferenceExpander has caused serious problems. It's currently at MFD, and a large cleanup project is underway to repair the citations damaged by the script. I and several other users have !voted that the script be deleted or disabled, and I wouldn't recommend using it at all unless you thoroughly check every reference it modifies against the previous revision. If you're interested in a more detailed explanation of the script's issues, has provided an excellent summary at the MFD. — SamX &#91;talk · contribs&#93; 05:15, 1 June 2023 (UTC)


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Question from Gabrielthethinker (14:51, 11 July 2023)
Can I change the name of a page to disambiguate the page? --Gabrielthethinker (talk) 14:51, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


 * done1 Gabrielthethinker (talk) 14:58, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive
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I am new here please guide me to research and edit an article --Vinusclick (talk) 15:13, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

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Question from CalebCuebas (20:09, 16 October 2023)
can I create a wiki for this 1 YouTuber --CalebCuebas (talk) 20:09, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Fanofwikii (09:17, 17 October 2023)
Hello boss I hope I’m writing this in right talk box I just had one question my article I wrote went into draft how can I have someone review it and approve it? Thank you --Fanofwikii (talk) 09:17, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Sky9183 on User:Rhododendrites (18:05, 17 October 2023)
Cine este Sebastian Trifu? --Sky9183 (talk) 18:05, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

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November Articles for creation backlog drive
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WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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Question from JenGaudet93 (14:22, 14 November 2023)
Hi there! I just submitted a draft page for Wanda Lefurgey Wyatt, a historic person here in my home province in Canada. I've been wanting to create a page for her for a long time. She was super influential here. Her father has had a wiki page for a long time, but she has never had one that I can see. It's my first time submitting a page, please let me know if there are any issues with it, I'd love to learn! I plan to add more to the page once it is published. Thanks! :) - Jenna --JenGaudet93 (talk) 14:22, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hi IAMChaos,I just dove into my sandbox and built an article from scratch that I'd drafted offline first not realizing how user friendly the creation would be in Wikipedia. Anything I needed to do after clicking Publish from the Sandbox? Will additional Wikipedia editors take it from here or is the sandbox a true dry run and I need to copy/paste my sandbox article elsewhere to publish it live on Wikipedia? Thanks in advance for your guidance. --3XYEMaj (talk) 22:54, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from 1984ngr (17:52, 26 November 2023)
hi i can't find my article --1984ngr (talk) 17:52, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

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Guideline and policy news
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Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
 * The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
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Question from GennⒶrinoRosso (10:30, 25 December 2023)
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In regards of my first edit: I thought that, given that the sources there are already verified for the italian wikipage about Oilvetti, is it a problem if I directly and carefully translate while using links to implement speed of reading and connections? --GennⒶrinoRosso (talk) 10:30, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Cscr-featured.svg Featured script

 * RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".

Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Updated scripts

 * Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
 * User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
 * User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
 * User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
 * AutoEd/unicodehex.js will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.



Ambox important.svg Improve a script

 * Many of our favorite scripts such as User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
 * User:Elominius/gadget/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
 * To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
 * We want...
 * ...a mark-as-read button for Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
 * ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to User:TheJJJunk/ARA
 * ...a fix/fork of User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js to make it work

1009Clock.jpg Requested scripts

 * A WP:3O requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool
 * A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page
 * A review tool for WP:proposed deletions
 * Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in WP:RFP/A
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Gnome-colors-list-add.svg New scripts

 * Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
 * Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
 * User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
 * Chlod:
 * Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
 * Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than copied ones.
 * Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Copyright problems noticeboard.
 * User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
 * Enterprisey
 * diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink
 * archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
 * /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.
 * User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.
 * User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering supports for "esoteric" languages.
 * User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible (or else).
 * User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure away!
 * Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
 * User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
 * Nardog
 * /CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with ]])

Problems
 * Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team.

Future changes
 * Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 July 2024
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Elli · HouseBlaster · Pickersgill-Cunliffe
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Brianga · De728631 · Georgewilliamherbert · Hyacinth (deceased) · ProveIt · The Night Watch

Technical news
 * Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki.

Miscellaneous
 * The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-28
<section begin="technews-2024-W28"/> 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
 * At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
 * The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
 * Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
 * Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems
 * A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes
 * The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

Tech News survey
 * Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 1 more week. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

A step-by-step help please!
Hello:

I hope you are doing great. I'm currently exploring a keen interest in creating articles on Wikipedia. Suffice to say, I've read almost through all the help pages and 'tutorials'. It's been several months now. However, I'm unable to follow the convoluted link-back-and-forth help content! Is there any way you can help me with a step-by-step tutorial of the actual technical steps to creating pages or articles?

For instance, I was thinking if there might be like a Blogger/Blogspot-like post creation interface or a Wordpress page creation page with the corresponding instructional to each element, whether it's about where to insert the textual content, or linking, referencing, or inserting multimedia.

I understand that you will be busy but I really had to resort to writing to you when your name popped up as my mentor her.

Thank you for reading this rather long email.

Audre AudreyLexi22 (talk) 07:45, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

A step-by-step help please!
Hello:

I hope you are doing great. I'm currently exploring a keen interest in creating articles on Wikipedia. Suffice to say, I've read almost through all the help pages and 'tutorials'. It's been several months now. However, I'm unable to follow the convoluted link-back-and-forth help content! Is there any way you can help me with a step-by-step tutorial of the actual technical steps to creating pages or articles?

For instance, I was thinking if there might be like a Blogger/Blogspot-like post creation interface or a Wordpress page creation page with the corresponding instructional to each element, whether it's about where to insert the textual content, or linking, referencing, or inserting multimedia.

I understand that you will be busy but I really had to resort to writing to you when your name popped up as my mentor here.

Thank you for reading this rather long email.

Audre AudreyLexi22 (talk) 07:54, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-29
<section begin="technews-2024-W29"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News survey
 * Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
 * Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
 * Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week
 * This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
 * Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:28, 16 July 2024 (UTC)