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Spare some time?

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Hi, there is a move discussion at Talk:Public Sector Undertakings in India which is receiving less participation and is likely to be closed without a clear consensus. I would greatly appreciate if you could spare some time and leave your valuable opinion. Thank you. Have a great day. 2409:4073:104:92C2:9939:2182:D47D:646F (talk) 16:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Lokiverse 2.0 song cover.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:24, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-27

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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

  • Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [1]
  • Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [2]
  • If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [3][4]
  • Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [5]
  • Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [6]

Problems

  • Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [7]

Future changes

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

Your GA nomination of 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Magentic Manifestations -- Magentic Manifestations (talk) 13:02, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final

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The article 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Magentic Manifestations -- Magentic Manifestations (talk) 13:40, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Vestrian24Bio Hi! I had taken this as a review and provided comprehensive comments on it. If you require any clarification or want to engage in a discussion, ping me as required. With the required modifications and some time for stability, the article might be good to go. As a suggestion, I can still see a lot of edits on this happening, if there are non-constructive, you should probably seek a page protection again as it might hamper your efforts to take it to a GA. All the best! Thanks! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 08:36, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About your DCWC submisison

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Hey Vestrian24Bio! This is about your (potential) submission 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final. For points tracking purposes, please make sure you're submitting articles under a single country, even if they qualify under more than one. The same applies for the reviews request sidebar, where horizontal space is a rapidly diminishing commodity and too many flags can be distracting. Let me know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 23:06, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At first, I didn't even know this article qualified for DCWC, until someone listed it on Eligible reviews; I just copied what was there, that's all. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:17, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for R. Sampanthan

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On 3 July 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article R. Sampanthan, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 22:49, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of List of Women's Premier League (cricket) captains for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Women's Premier League (cricket) captains is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Women's Premier League (cricket) captains until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Joseph2302 (talk) 08:18, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the DCWC!

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See a    "developing" or    "least developed" country? Write about it to earn points!

Welcome to the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest, Vestrian24Bio! The contest is now open for submissions. List your work at your submissions page to earn points. If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

  • Got open nominations? List them at review requests.
  • Looking for a topic to work on? Check out suggested articles and eligible reviews.
  • Not sure if your article qualifies? See the guidelines for more information or contact a coordinator for verification.
  • New to Wikipedia? Many experienced editors are part of this contest and willing to help; feel free to ask questions about the contest on the talk page.
  • Know someone else who might be interested? Sign-ups remain open until 15 July, so don't hesitate to invite other editors!

On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you good luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to see you go, Vestrian24Bio; thanks for your contributions to the contest to this point! I have processed your withdrawal, and you can let me know if you'd like to unsubscribe from further messages about the DCWC. See you around, and I wish you the best with your off-wiki endeavors in the meantime. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 08:11, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-28

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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

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:30, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-29

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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Recent changes

  • Advanced item 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

Future changes

  • Advanced item 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. [8]
  • 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 01:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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July 2024

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Information icon Hi Vestrian24Bio! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of an article several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. Thank you. Trailblazer101 (talk) 18:31, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Teamwork Barnstar
For continuous collaboration with the WP:TOP25, particularly in helping with the South Asian perspective that is frequently necessary. igordebraga ≠ 19:30, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-30

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature News

  • Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
  • Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [9]
  • Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [10]
  • Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
  • Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [11]

Project Updates

  • Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

  • Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
  • How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-31

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

  • Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

  • Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
  • Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
  • There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [12]

Learn more

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

JSON coding

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Hi! I have a JSON coding from XTools which is supposed to generate a table; Is there any possible way to add the coding to wikitext. I currently have the coding here. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 15:04, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can write a lua module (if this is only for you, put it in <module name> sub spage of Module:Sandbox/Vestrian24Bio/). Use a Sribunto JSON function to get the data from JSON into a Lua table (mw.loadJsonData(), mw.text.jsonDecode()). Use the html library functions to create an html table from the Lua table.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Created a module here; but it prints this error message... Can someone please help me fix it. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:11, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A modified module here; but same error message... Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:22, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Trappist the monk after your change; the JSON you added appears; but, how do I add a custom JSON do I have to change it in the module directly??? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:14, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That is why I added the comment: IRL this could be replaced or the real JSON could be kept in this module's doc page. Were it me, I would put the JSON in the ~/doc page or perhaps a subpage of the module (with nothing else) and then have the module fetch the content of the your chosen page. Of course, the simpler way is to just put your 'real' JSON in the module in place of the test JSON.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:23, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:25, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
One other possibility, you might could leave the JSON where it is and wrap it with the invoke so that the JSON is the first positional parameter:
{{#invoke:Sandbox/Vestrian24Bio/JSON table 2|jsonToHtmlTable|<JSON goes here>|}} – the extra trailing pipe may not be needed; I didn't test for that condition
Then change the module to fetch jsonTable from the frame:
local jsonTable = mw.text.jsonDecode (frame.args[1]);
—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
tried now; but gives an error Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:41, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Because frame is out of scope there. If we are going to continue this conversation it would probably be better to have it on your talk page.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:47, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the discussion to my talk page now. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:50, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Trappist the monk: How do I fix this error? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:38, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What error where?
—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:57, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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