User talk:Rusalkii/Archives/2024/April

Question from Shipo0nAli (13:47, 30 March 2024)
Can i change my account in another language. Coz my mother language is Bengali, so i need too contribute my language. --Shipo0nAli (talk) 13:47, 30 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @Shipo0nAli you should be able to use this account in the Bengali wikipedia. If you go to https://bn.wikipedia.org/ and try to log in with your current username and password, does that work? Rusalkii  (talk) 18:11, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Alberony Denis (05:01, 2 April 2024)
Hey how you doing. How do I edit a specific article or page in Wikipedia. --Alberony Denis (talk) 05:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @Alberony Denis! There should be a "Edit" button in the top right of the page. Make the changes you want to the page and then hit the blue "Publish changes" button in the top right. You can see Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Editing for the first time and Help:Editing for more. Rusalkii  (talk) 22:20, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello ,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

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Question from Etherealmaya (13:27, 5 April 2024)
Can I create an article? --Etherealmaya (talk) 13:27, 5 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @Etherealmaya yes, you can. You can see Help:Your first article for a detailed tutorial. Just make sure that you have several reliable sources that are independent of the article subject -- Wikipedia policies require there to be a couple high quality sources so we can be sure that we're covering the subject fairly and accurately. Books, newspaper articles, and published papers are usually a good bet.
 * As a new user you'll need to submit your article for review at WP:Articles for Creation, which means an experienced editor will go over it and either accept it or let you know what needs to be improved. Rusalkii  (talk) 18:22, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from CylinBusbyRoss (17:12, 8 April 2024)
Hi! I'd like to update the author photo on my own Wiki page--it's out of date. I've just created an account. I'll try to do it on my own, but might need some help. If you have any other suggestions for editing my page, please let me know. I appear as "Cylin Busby" Thanks!! --CylinBusbyRoss (talk) 17:12, 8 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @CylinBusbyRoss! You'll want to follow the instructions at File upload wizard to upload the file to Commons, and then replace the file name currently on the page ("Cylin Busby.jpg") with the new file name. Note that you'll be releasing the photo under a Wikipedia-compatible license, which means it needs to be your own work. If it's taken by another photographer, they have the copyright and they'll need to be the ones to release it.
 * If you're editing your own page, you need to follow the conflict of interest policies, which means at minimum declaring the conflict of interest on your user page (User:CylinBusbyRoss). If you're just uploading a new picture don't worry about anything else, but if you're making any other edits you should read WP:COIE. If you're going to non-trivial edits you should make them through an edit request rather than editing the page directly. Rusalkii  (talk) 17:24, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I think it worked. CylinBusbyRoss (talk) 17:40, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yep, I see it! I've moved it into the infobox for you. Rusalkii  (talk) 17:47, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I didn't know how to do that so I just deleted the old photo that had been up for years. Appreciate your help :) CylinBusbyRoss (talk) 17:49, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Samuel okwong (04:09, 9 April 2024)
Hello,how do I create Citation --Samuel okwong (talk) 04:09, 9 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @Samuel okwong in the editor, there should be a "Cite" button in the middle of the top bar. Once you click on that, it'll give you the option to automatically generate one from a URL or fill out the form to create one manually. There's a tutorial at Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/2. Rusalkii  (talk) 04:23, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Nathan ibuti (11:12, 14 April 2024)
Je suis nouveau dans le site et j'aimerais connaître le but principal de ce site et comment sa fonctionne.. --Nathan ibuti (talk) 11:12, 14 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Salut! Vous voudrez peut-être demander sur Wikipédia français, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Accueil. (Désolé pour la mauvaise grammaire, je ne parle pas bien français et j'utilise Google Translate) Rusalkii  (talk) 18:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lenimsa on User:Lenimsa (14:05, 19 April 2024)
Hello sir, I want to now that can I post some funny side stories on my page? --Lenimsa (talk) 14:05, 19 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Which page? Usually we don't put side stories on wikipedia pages, unless there is a reliable source which talks about them and they're important to understand the topic. If the page is about you you should usually not edit it. Rusalkii  (talk) 16:39, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mgd1230 on Deletion review/Log/2024 April 21 (21:38, 20 April 2024)
مرحبا --Mgd1230 (talk) 21:38, 20 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi! I have no idea what you're asking. Rusalkii  (talk) 02:53, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mehnud (15:25, 24 April 2024)
Hello Rusalki, I want to fix the Uzbek alphabet, I want to create Unicode and write a new text, but I need your help for this, how would you recommend, the Uzbek language alphabet is very outdated, I need a new version, thanks for the answer --Mehnud (talk) 15:25, 24 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Mehnud, I don't know anything about the Uzbekn alphabet, sorry. I can help answer questions about editing Wikipedia. Rusalkii  (talk) 16:08, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * If you mean adding Unicode to the page Uzbek alphabet, if you open the editor there's a button to insert special characters. Rusalkii  (talk) 16:13, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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