Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Current events

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:57, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Credibility bot
As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej (talk) 18:05, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

2023 Tenerife wildfire
2023 Tenerife wildfire. Hello, can someone create this article in English? I am creating it in Spanish, but I don't know how to speak English: Incendio forestal en Tenerife de 2023. 87.223.107.156 (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Proposed mergers at Talk:2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
Editors have proposed merging the articles Kidnapping of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Kidnapping of Noa Argamani into 2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis, and the latter is of interest to this WikiProject.

You are invited join the discussions at and .—Alalch E. 17:42, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Interest in testing a tool for Breaking News? Seeking feedback
My team at the foundation, WME, has developed a dashboard that tries to identify new articles related to global "newsworthy" events as they are being written about across Wikipedia language editions at any given moment. You can read more about it here. I'm seeking help to improve the feature.

Here is the direct link to the dashboard. (desktop only).

I'd appreciate if anyone that tries it out can surface any potentially missing templates from across language projects that would help us capture more results. Using the thumbs up and down buttons in the demo to confirm or deny if entries are accurately identified as breaking news, would help me in the long and medium-term in building a better, more accurate tool.

Although Enterprises' focus is not on creating editing tools or gadgets, we hope this can be of use to the community, too.

Thanks! FNavas-WMF (talk)

Merge discussion at Talk:Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
There is a requested merge discussion at Talk:Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Dan the Animator 22:24, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

New Pact on Migration and Asylum
I just created New Pact on Migration and Asylum which was agreed to today. Thriley (talk) 20:59, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Template talk:Current event editnotice § Encouraging more use
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Current event editnotice § Encouraging more use. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 01:16, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Portal talk:Current events § Centralizing talk spaces
You are invited to join the discussion at Portal talk:Current events § Centralizing talk spaces. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 01:21, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Historical portal talk tagging
I just noticed that less than 1% of Portal talk:Current events subpages are tagged with, e.g. Portal talk:Current events/2023 March 23. Is this on purpose or an omission? I'd like to either remove the existing tags, or add them to the remaining pages so that they are all uniformly tagged. This seems like an omission, but with such a disparity, I figured it best to ask. Pinging some frequent taggers I've seen in this area for inclusion:. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 02:08, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Will add WPCE soon per WP:SILENT, since all editors pinged have since edited.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  00:00, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Artists4Ceasefire
Dear all

I've just created an article for Artists4Ceasefire, any additions are very welcome.

Thanks very much

John Cummings (talk) 11:01, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 Crocus City Hall attack
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Crocus City Hall attack that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 Haitian jailbreak
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Haitian jailbreak that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:40, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Merger discussion for 2024 Lake Suviana explosion
An article which may be of interest to members of this project&mdash;2024 Lake Suviana explosion&mdash;has been proposed for merging with Lake Suviana. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. IgnatiusofLondon IgnatiusofLondon ( he/him • ☎️) 13:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:21, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Tax Day protests
Not an ongoing event, but hoping some project members might be interested in helping to flesh out Tax Day protests. I should note, there's an ongoing discussion re: page title on the talk page, and the image could use images, a map, and expansion in general. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:40, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 shooting at a Donald Trump rally
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 shooting at a Donald Trump rally that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 23:13, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

When is an article no longer 'current?'
I was contemplating learning how to set up an Assessment Table for this WikiProject because I think they're super handy, but Assessment Tables are aggregated by tagging Talk pages with the WikiProject's Importance. For most WikiProjects, this is fine, because once a topic is important to the WikiProject it will most likely stay that way indefinitely. But, the definition of the scope of Current Events has a unique parameter in that articles, once tagged as Current Events, will eventually no longer be valid Current Events, and will instead be taken over by other projects.

So, is it even worthwhile to use the WikiProject's tag on Current Events article Talk pages? Would it be worthwhile to set up an Assessment Table? Could we perhaps establish a protocol whereby the Current Events tag is removed after so much time, say by a timer, or by some sort of review process?

Or does the topic move so quickly as to defeat the purpose of tracking it altogether?

Looking forward to your thoughts. Baltarstar (talk) 18:07, 16 July 2024 (UTC)