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Question from RAPTOR7762 (16:01, 4 May 2025)

Hi, I need help with using the version template for the Fritzing wiki, release history existing table --RAPTOR7762 (talk) 16:01, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I don’t quite understand what you mean. Please could you explain. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 09:04, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

In the Fritzing article(release history section) I would like to classify the versions, and colour coding the table cells (e.g. BETA version is red, stable is light blue, latest is green, under development is grey RAPTOR7762 (talk) 14:37, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from Abeyam (19:08, 5 May 2025)

I have a conflict of interest regarding Cipriani S.A. I am contributing to the article in a transparent manner in accordance with Wikipedia’s COI and paid editing policies. My edits were flagged, despite being unbiased and properly sourced (my updates were to company history). Can you let me know what edits I need to make in order to get the flag removed? --Abeyam (talk) 19:08, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi there. I have looked at the edits you made and there were some problems with WP:NPOV. We also don’t tend to add external links to the body of the article. I’m not sure what that IP was doing however as that tag is irrelevant to the edits that you made. They should have just reverted your edits. For COI edits, we tend to recommend leaving an edit request on the articles talk page with the Template:Edit COI template. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 06:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

I have taken the article to how it was before. I would recommend asking for the edits on the talk page. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 06:06, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm going to go the route of asking for edits on the talk page. Quick question - if I was able to share my edits with you, after cleaning up any remnants of bias, is it possible to have you submit these changes directly, as an editor? Abeyam (talk) 13:10, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

If you set up the edit request and sent me a message here to notify me, I would be willing to look at it and if it is good, then add it to the article. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 13:54, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @ScrabbleTiles, appreciate your time! I've set up the edit request in the talk section of the article. Let me know if you have any additional feedback, as this is not intended to be biased, just a beefed-up history of the brand.

Talk:Cipriani S.A. Abeyam (talk) 14:17, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @ScrabbleTiles, thanks for your attention. I just left a response in the article talk section. Abeyam (talk) 15:04, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @ScrabbleTiles, I hope you're doing well! I circled back to the Cipriani S.A article to make additional changes, understanding your recommendations above. I would really appreciate if you could take a look at the proposed changes. Abeyam (talk) 14:28, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from Wehrkoen (16:33, 10 May 2025)

Hello dear mentor,

please help me how to get a draft article from my sandbox to an online article. Thank you.

Yours, Rüdiger --Wehrkoen (talk) 16:33, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Meanwhile I have found out that I am not yet qualified to publish an article because of the 10 edit and 4 days waiting rule. Please discart the question above.

Question from Anubhawiladka (16:52, 12 May 2025)

Okay! Thanks for asking. --Anubhawiladka (talk) 16:52, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-20

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 "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
• Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
• The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
• The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

Meetings and events

• The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
• The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.

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Question from Afolabi Oladale (16:21, 13 May 2025)

Hey --Afolabi Oladale (talk) 16:21, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi ScrabbleTiles (talk) 07:05, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

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Question from Shanetheaussie (14:04, 16 May 2025)

HI - i need to createan article on me --Shanetheaussie (talk) 14:04, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

We don’t generally encourage writing autobiographies. Why do you think that you are notable for one? ScrabbleTiles (talk) 10:39, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from MD jatori on Wikipedia:About (22:32, 18 May 2025)

Traffic congestion at post office roundabout Maiduguri --MD jatori (talk) 22:32, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, is this relevant to Wikipedia? ScrabbleTiles (talk) 10:39, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from GeonGood (11:40, 19 May 2025)

Hello, I'm interested in editing historical articles. I have come to notice that article prefer to use directly quote from primary sources rather than secondary source interpretation. To me, this does not seem like the best way to present history, as secondary sources take hundreds of primary sources into consideration. Is this a feature of Wikipedia because of the Neutral POV stance, as viewers are to draw their own interpretations from the primary sources? And when I edit articles should I follow this culture, or should I do what I think works better? --GeonGood (talk) 11:40, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

I think that you should do what you think is best, and then see what other editors say about it. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 10:40, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-21

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 Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

• From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
• Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Special:Block?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information. [1]
• Later this week, the Special:SpecialPages listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. [2]
• The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
• Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
• Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Special:Block may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page. [4]
• The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [5]
• User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.

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Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello ScrabbleTiles:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in June!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 1 month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 June 2025 through 30 June 2025.

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 3200 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

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