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Next Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Volunteers' Corner will be on December 9

Hi, we remind you that, if you have questions or ideas to discuss about Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia, you can participate to the next Volunteers' Corner, that will be held on December 9, at 15:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

We hope to see you there! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:46, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you no longer want this newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist. Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure nearly everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor to be a Guild coordinator (with their permission, of course) until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June. Drive: In our September Backlog Elimination Drive, 67 editors signed up, 39 completed at least one copy edit, and between them they edited 682,696 words comprising 507 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: The October Copy Editing Blitz saw 16 editors sign-up, 15 of whom completed at least one copy edit. They edited 76,776 words comprising 35 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: In our November Backlog Elimination Drive, 432,320 words in 151 articles were copy edited. Of the 54 users who signed up, 33 copy edited at least one article. Barnstars awarded are posted here. Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 15 December (UTC) and will end on 21 December at 23:59. Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 22:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 333 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,401 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To stop receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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HBC (yacht) / C2 (yacht)

Hi, CFA, please could you undo the move of the page, as seen with Thewolfchild ?! Many thanks and best regards from France ! Mitchosaure (talk) 23:30, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done. C F A 23:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you ! 😉 Mitchosaure (talk) 23:59, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from This Video Has 73M Views (23:35, 7 December 2024)

Hello CFA, thanks for mentoring me. I have a question about fixing NPOV violations. I found an NPOV issue on the Gutmann method page. The last paragraph in the article stated unattributed opinions as facts. (There was a citation as the end of the paragraph, but this appeared to only apply to the last claim of the paragraph.) I rewrote the paragraph to be new more neutral, but I couldn't find a source for the opinions, and the topic was bit too far beyond my areas of expertise to properly research. In order to be neutral I ended up resorting to using weasel words with a by whom? tag. In the future how should I fix biased unattributed opinions. --This Video Has 73M Views (talk) 23:35, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi This Video Has 73M Views. A tag is perfectly fine in this case because it will alert other editors (who may be more equipped) of the issue. If, in the future, you are unable to find a source for something, you can tag it with {{citation needed}} or remove it altogether. You could also use {{disputed inline}} and start a discussion on the talk page, where other interested editors who are watching the page can join in. WP:WIKIVOICE has some advice on this topic — but, yes, normally you should attribute opinions directly to sources (e.g. [source] believes that... [citation]). Let me know if you have any other questions. Happy editing! C F A 23:59, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of The Rizzler for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Rizzler 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/The Rizzler 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.

UtherSRG (talk) 23:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2024)

Hello, CFA. The article for improvement of the week is: Gulf Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Volt • Diurnality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 December 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Request for Adoption

Hi, I'm somewhat new to Wikipedia editing and I've started a few pages of my own. I want to improve the quality of these pages and get them to higher ratings, as well as learning more about the ins and outs of Wikipedia as a whole. Would you be interested? Tylermack999 (talk) 14:50, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Tylermack999. Sure. I've set myself as your mentor. Don't hesitate to leave a message or ping me if you have any questions. Happy editing! C F A 01:39, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-50

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

• Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [1]
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [2]
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [3]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [4]
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [5]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [6][7]

Updates for technical contributors

• Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [8]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
• The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [9]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

William Coulson

Hi CFA, could you take a look at William Coulson? I'm unsure whether the surgeon is the primary topic, given that the entire article is built on a singular reference, but I don't think the mining engineer, military officer and footballer are worthy candidates either. I feel that creating a disambiguation page would be the best option. APM (talk) 18:51, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Why can't I move my draft to mainspace?

@CFA: I have a draft that I'm trying to move to mainspace, but I keep getting an error saying "The page could not be moved: a page of that name already exists, or the name you have chosen is not valid."

Why am I getting this? I know there is a redirect page under the name of my article that redirects to the plane's successor, so maybe that's it? Tylermack999 (talk) 23:00, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Tylermack999: That was the case - I've gone ahead and moved it for you. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 01:38, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@The Bushranger Thanks a ton! Tylermack999 (talk) 02:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC)