User talk:MPGuy2824
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Draft: List of siblings of presidents of the United States[edit]
I and JimmyCarterLover1 have finished a large chunk of this draft (I am aware that you know of said draft because you were responsible for converting the initial page into one). However, it would be suitable to have help from other editors considering the collaborative nature of Wikipedia. I also anticipate work on this draft stalling without the support of more people as one person cannot simply draft an entire article by themselves (and, not to discount the contributions of JimmyCarterLover1, I feel as if this draft has turned into my personal project because I have been responsible for so much of it). In short: help is needed, and I encourage you to help us with this. ApplePieGuy95 (talk) 00:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- The subject of this list isn't a particular interest of mine, but looking at the draft, I'd suggest the following:
- Write up a two-three sentence lead paragraph for the list. Find and add enough references that talk about the list as a whole and not just individual people in the list. Read and make sure that the list meets WP:NLIST. Do this before improving other aspects of the draft.
- Merge the individual tables for each president into one large table.
- Many of the entries in the "Notes" cell can be made into notes that will be shown at the end of the list. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:59, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-18[edit]
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
- The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [1]
- Seven new wikis have been created:
- You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [9]
- Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.
Problems
- Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using
mapstyle="osm"
. This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [10]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [11][12]
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Question from ViennaMoka (09:54, 1 May 2024)[edit]
Hello there! How do I publish edits to an ECP page on behalf of the concerned person? (Craig Mokhiber) Thank you. --ViennaMoka (talk) 09:54, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- @ViennaMoka: I assume you mean that someone has asked you to do a few changes to an edit-confirmed protected page. The problem is that you haven't got that right (yet). You can use Template:Edit extended-protected to post a message to the talk page of the relevant article. Hope this helps. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:11, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-19[edit]
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
- The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [13][14]
- Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the
SiteAdminHelper
. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [15] - Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [16]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [17][18]
- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [19]
Future changes
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [20]
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Promotion of Turing Award[edit]
TFL notification[edit]
Hi, MPGuy2824. I'm just posting to let you know that Turing Award – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for June 3. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 01:34, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
I need to do a new page --Bettertv5 (talk) 19:26, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Bettertv5: you should visit Wikipedia:Articles for creation which explains a lot about the process of starting a new article. I see that you've started an article in your sandbox. I've watchlisted it to see what improvements you make. I suggest that you start with finding reliable, independent sources that talk about the tv station in depth. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:16, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Nomination of List of constituencies of Gujarat for deletion[edit]
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of constituencies of Gujarat 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.Notifying you as you converted the redirect to a disambiguation page, and you don’t appear to have been notified yet of this discussion. All the best, —a smart kitten[meow] 08:54, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you![edit]
The Original Barnstar | |
For all the good work on the Featured List of constituencies of the Tripura Legislative Assembly. :)
Ashwin147 (talk) 05:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2024-20[edit]
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
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [21] - If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [22]
- Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to thealt=
attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [23] - The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [24]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [25][26]
- The Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [27]
Future changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [28]
- Two columns of the
pagelinks
database table (pl_namespace
andpl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the newlinktarget
table instead (lt_namespace
andlt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:- Replace
JOIN pagelinks
withJOIN linktarget
andpl_
withlt_
in theON
statement - Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [29][30]
- Replace
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