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Thank you for reviewing the page I have created for 75 Medium Regiment (India). I have already provided citations; which include 2 Gallantry awards and 3 Killed in Action. The other citations are on the "Battle of Basantar" page under the section "75 Medium Regiment at the Battle of Basantar" and in continuation under sub-section "75 Medium Regiment in direct support of 16 (Independent) Armoured Brigade", which include 3 Mentioned-in-Dispatches. I have also placed citations for the Regiment on the "Operation Meghdoot" page; para 2 of the section "The Operation - Cause of conflict" has citation for Brig KN Thadani VSM leading a military expedition to the Siachen Glacier and in the section "Aftermath" para 3 for Capt Pratap Singh and the action at Bana Post.
I believe these additions to the main Wikipedia pages on "Battle of Basantar" and "Operation Meghdoot" alongwith the citations have added value to them. I would prefer not to remove this content from the main pages; and overload the page for 75 Medium Regiment (India). Of course, I have provided out-bound links from the 75 Medium Regiment (India) page to these main pages; and inward bound links to the page for 75 Medium Regiment (India) from these main pages. There is also an inward bound link from the Vir Chakra page.
75 Medium Regiment (India) although awarded a Battle Honour "Basantar River" is a military unit, and is unlikely to show up in the news, newspapers, etc. Despite this as and when I am able to find reasonably reliable and verifiable citations/references; I shall suitable update the page.
In view of the above, it is requested that the "additional citations required" box be removed in the interim. Although, I am aware that I just need to remove one line of code; I prefer that you allow me a little space by removing it. After all we are talking about a military unit.
Look forward to an early resolution to this matter.
Akash139, per WP:V, any unsourced material can be challenged. Except for the award winners from the Regiment, most of the text is unreferenced. e.g. raising date, first commander, etc. You got the information from somewhere, so you can add that as a reference. You can also search for mentions of the regiment in google books or google scholar. Once you add a few reliable sources, you can remove the maintenance tag yourself. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:08, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
MPGuy2824,
Thank you for your early response and guidance.
Well, I am in contact with the Regiment and have visited it. In fact, my father commanded the Regiment during the Indo-Pak War 1971 (Op: Cactus Lily) and they were awarded a Battle Honour for the war effort. So, I know the Raising Day, the first Commander, and other related particulars of the regiment. However, none of this is in the public space let alone the internet. Further, the archives of the Defence ministry have not been made public particularly for the wars we have fought. You would find this link of some interest:
In fact, my present effort of creating the Wikipedia page for the Regiment is based of the fact that other Regiments of the Indian Artillery have their pages. I had sent a talk message to Akk7a who has been doing this wonderful job of creating pages for the various Regiments. In my interaction with the present CO, I had told him that online verifiable citations would be needed for this effort; and these I have already provided. The rest I leave to the present and future Operations and their subsequent online verifiability.
Giving due regard to your guidance, I shall check for more online citations. Let's see if I can find more online verifiable citations from reliable sources.
Thank you once again for your guidance; and have a great day.
In fact, my father commanded the Regiment during the Indo-Pak War 1971 Given this, you should read WP:COI and follow the instructions there. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:17, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello MPGuy2824,
WP:COI. Of course not, this is a good Samaritan action and there is nothing to hide. I would probably request Akk7a and you to keep a watch over the Regiment's page in the long run.
Getting to the point now, I have added 5 more references 2 for the Regiment and 3 Mentioned-in-Dispatches. I have 2 more for Captain Pratap Singh from Twitter and Facebook, but they are the ADG PI condolences and are unlikely to add any value to the page. I have spoken to the CO of the Regiment in this regard. The Regiment would be launching their APO Postal Cover in 2025, then the 5 Commendation Cards would all become citations. But for that we have to wait.
Do review the page again and let me know if I can remove the "Additional Citations Required" box from the top of the page.
As stated on WP:COI, Determining that someone has a COI is a description of a situation. It is not a judgment about that person's state of mind or integrity. Given this, I'm placing a connected-contributor tag on the article's talk page. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:52, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello Again MPGuy2824,
I shall be removing the "Additional Citations Required" box from the top of the Regiment's page. You may review it and let me know if there is anything else I can do to improve the content of the article.
Like i said, anyone can remove that, but since there are still facts in the article that need citations, I'll have to add some citation-needed tags. Please try to find sources for them and add them to the article when you can. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:40, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. I appreciate your guidance and advise. Have updated the Class Composition. For the "citations required", I have asked the CO to check, confirm and let me know. Shall update for these citations once I have the updates. Regards, Akash139 (talk) 07:07, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Good morning MPGuy2824,
I saw the citation tags you placed on the Regiment's page regarding the "Raised at" and the "first Commanding Officer". I spoke to the present CO regarding this again.
I have updated for the Raised at, from "New Delhi" to "Delhi Cantonment".
It is requested that, if you have these related citations available; kindly suitably update the Regiment's page.
If I had references for the two facts I would have added them already to the article. I know it doesn't look as good as an article without maintenance tags, but Wikipedia is a work in progress. Somebody in the future could find such references and add them to the article. Even the fact that the regiment was raised at Delhi Cantonment requires a citation. Please add that tag back after the relevant sentence. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:11, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
1. I have added a citation for "Raised at New Delhi".
2. I have left the "citation required" tag as is for the "first Commanding Officer".
Request, that you review the Regiment's page again.
I have order this book, "Indian Army: A Reference Manual" by G Sharma. Of course, I found a Google Books reference; and maybe it will have a citation or two and I can give a page reference. The book should reach me in a few days. Let's see how it goes.
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@Bumblebirb123: Welcome to Wikipedia. I looked over some of your edits and they seem good. Ideally you should leave an edit summary for every edit that you do though.
Wikipedia is a huge project and you don't have to figure out everything in one go. Take it slow. If you want you can do WP:TWA, which would help you to get used to editing and collaborating with other editors. Are you interested in a particular subject or geographical area? If so, I can point you to places where you could help improve articles in those areas. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
It is frowned upon to not add the edit summary. It enables folks that are looking at edits later to immediately figure out what the editor intended to do. Most of the time you don't need to create long summaries: "ce" for copyedit, typo, or "added a ref" are good enough in those particular situations. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:07, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
@Kamran11567: I'm sorry but I don't know how to make sure that only you win in online games. If you are interested in editing Wikipedia, then I've left you a list of links on your talk page. If you are more comfortable editing in Hindi, then the Hindi Wikipedia might be for you. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:43, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
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Good day MPGuy2824. Hope you are doing well.
I want your help. I want to know what should we do if a person keeps reverting and changing data we enter. there is a person name sherifisin town which is keep reverting my edits for no reason. Instead of cooperating in working on adding election boxes of 859 constituencies(266NA, 297PA, 130PS, 115PK and 51PB) of Pakistan he is continuing to revert my edits for no reason. I even talked to him to stop this but he is still continuing to create disturbance. I want to know What should I do in whis situation.
You are also witness that no one did any thing to update these pages of Pakistan. I worked day and night to update them but instead of appreciating or cooperating, he is creating disturbance. Saad Ali Khan Pakistan (talk) 17:23, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Saad, I'm sorry that you are having trouble with one editor. That said, you did the right thing by starting a conversation with them. I've seen their talk page and (at least at first glance) they might have some points. I've subscribed to that discussion so that I'm updated of further developments. Hopefully, both of you are able to come to an agreement. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:53, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
All constituencies are added in List of constituencies of Pakistan article. I was thinking of making separate pages. What do you think? single article is better or separate ones like Indian States constituencies articles?
I was thinking of making separate pages. What do you think? I think it is quite cluttered as a single article. Split off the state lists one at a time, leaving just a link to the new list in the original article.
I want to contact you with email I'd rather not correspond via email, which is why you don't see the "Email this user" link when you are on my user page. I'm happy to chat via Discord if you'd like. I'm usually online there when I'm editing. Hope to see you there. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:12, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, I've added a few more references to the compression point article, and removed the notability tag, hope that's ok? There's 1000s of possible references. I guess the last one needs incorporating into the text or somehow listing into the article properly.Lionfish0 (talk) 08:48, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
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I specifically made the redirect ISO 3166-2:RU-PER because it's automatically used for some of Wiki's coordinate stuff as a subpart of the ISO 3166-2:RU tag, and if you don't have it would point at nothing. It pointing to the location is worse than nothing. This is how it is for most of the US tags, for example ISO 3166-2:US-TX. Hence my revert. PARAKANYAA (talk) 18:57, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Perfectly fine to revert since it is now more consistent with other similar redirects. For my own education, could you point me to resources about how this is used with "Wiki coordinate stuff", as you put it. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:57, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
For the specific article that lead me to make this, here (warning, bit morbid). Clicking on the coordinates in the top right leads you to GeoHack. In the top right of that you see the tag under "region", which clicking takes you to the respective article - the redirect I created. This is set through the region parameter in the coordinate template. With some tags there are specific map resources that are accessed if you use them in the parameter. PARAKANYAA (talk) 06:29, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I think I get it. Although, it still feels like redirecting to the territory of Perm makes sense. Not gonna be switching it though. Even if the target of ISO_3166-2:RU is right, it might make a little more sense to create an anchor at the list entry of the perm territory and redirecting there. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:04, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
I think it would make sense in other contexts, but given it's mostly used in the navigational way related to country codes, I think it makes the most sense, since the codes are more specific and less known. And yeah I might do an anchor later that's a good suggestion. PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:10, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
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Draft page " Rampura Dabri" is sourced & links are fixed, so don't need a draft page, publish the page and remove it from draft Saambha (talk) 08:49, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
You should either make it a page about the tehsil OR the village (if there is a single village of that name). Also, if possible you should add a link for the population of the tehsil/village from the official Indian census site. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:54, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello MPGuy2824, I was hoping to shoot you an email through Wikipedia's email system, but I noticed you've got email notifications turned off. I'm sorry for bothering you, but do you have another preferred way for me to get in touch? – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:23, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
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@MPGuy2824 please i do not understand what you mean actually, please elaborate more. I moved the article to Draft namespace @Draft:Xu Ruo Han because I wanted to expand it more before considering if its even qualified to be in the Article namespace. Thisasia (talk) 11:47, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) @Thisasia, when you moved this article into draftspace, it created a redirect from articlespace to draftspace. Directing our readers to draftspace isn't ideal because it's intended for developing content that isn't ready for articlespace yet. That's why MPGuy2824 nominated this redirect for deletion. For more information, you can check out WP:R2. Just to clarify, nothing has changed for your draft, Draft:Xu Ruo Han. You can continue to improve it as before. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:29, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Oww I understood now. Sorry I wasn't aware of that before hence I got no problem if it should be deleted as you highlighted, but what will happen in the future after the drafted article got qualified to be in the same Article namespace? Won't it be a repetitive creation? Thisasia (talk) 12:40, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Don't worry about it. Whenever you feel like the draft is ready for articlespace, you can move it there without any hesitation. But if you find yourself in a situation where you have a conflict of interest with the subject, it's best to submit it through the AfC process. A reviewer will then give it a thorough look. If they believe it's suitable for articlespace, they'll handle the move for you. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:04, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
The other ones look different from each other, and so you can create new articles for them as they would pass our notability guidelines. I'm not sure about "Agartala Town" v/s "Agartala". You'll have to look at the actual areas covered to see if there is a lot of overlap. I would suspect that they are quite different from each other. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
You can split the content for Dharmanagar North and South constituencies from the Dharmanagar constituency if you want. Same for Sonamura. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:18, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi there, MPGuy2824, and thank you for your review of Christel Riemann-Hanewinckel. I was however rather surprised to see you tagged the article "Rough translation" as it seems to me that the actual quality of translation is high. What reveals it as a translation is above all the number of red links transposed from links in the German version. Alperen is one of our most proficient translators of articles from other language versions of Wikipedia. Over the past six weeks he has created some 90 new articles based on pages in other languages. The quality of the English is in general pretty good but some adaption is usually necessary, particularly in connection with categories, defaultsort and DOB and DOD in the first line of the article. You might consider removing the "rough translation" tag as I don't think those fluent in both languages (like me) could make significant improvements to the quality of the translation. And while I'm here, thank you for your consistently useful work on new pages. I see you are among the most active reviewers. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 09:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Ipigott, it looks like another reviewer added that template. I added the more-refs-needed tag since the only ref currently, leads to a 404 page. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:45, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) @Ipigott, I've fixed the grammar and translation, along with addressing some other issues. MPGuy2824's talk page is on my watchlist, so when I saw your message, I thought I could help since I enjoy editing articles on German topics. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:31, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [40][41]
After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [42]
The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [43]
Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [44]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [45][46]
This is an archive of past discussions with User:MPGuy2824. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
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The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [47]
IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [48]
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [49][50][51]
RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [53]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [54][55]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [56][57]
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An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [58][59]
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Recent changes
Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [60]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [61][62]
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
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Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [65]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [66][67]
New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [68]
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Problems
Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [69][70]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [71][72]
Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [73]
A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [74]
Future changes
Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [75]
IMO this "intersection topic" is not wp:notable per se. (no GNG source coverage) Looks like a good paragraph of material for an article somewhere; suggest merging into another article.
To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|North8000}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)
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You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [77][78]
Future changes
This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [79]
Draft: List of siblings of presidents of the United States
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.
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Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
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. [80]
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. [89]
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). [90][91]
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
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Recent changes
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
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. [92][93]
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. [94]
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. [95]
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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). [96][97]
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". [98]
Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, Turing Award, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:26, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
TFL notification
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)
@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)
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)
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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. [100]
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. [101]
Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [102]
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. [103]
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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). [104][105]
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. [106]
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. [107]
Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)
I nominate MPGuy2824 to be Editor of the Week. MPGuy is a multitalented editor working in several areas such as New Pages Patrol, content work and script development. His MoveToDraft script has helped many editors during their NPP work - it made easier work of the repetitive process of draftifying, tagging the redirect to the draft for R2 CSD and then notifying the user whose page was draftified. He also does helpful wikignoming here and there on articles about Indian constituencies and has 1 GA, 1 DYK and 1 FL credit with another FLC "in the works". A talented technical editor and friend that is always there to lend a hand and treat everyone with kindness and respect. Seconded by User:Novem Linguae, User:Hey man im josh and User:DreamRimmer.
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
A multi-talented editor working in New Pages Patrol, content work and script development. His MoveToDraft script helps many do their NPP work making easier work of the repetitive process of draftifying, tagging the redirect and then notifying the user whose page was draftified. A wikignome here and there on articles about Indian constituencies and has 1 GA, 1 DYK and 1 FL credit with another FLC "in the works".
Wow!. Thanks for the nominating and the seconding statements. Looking at the citations for other folks on that list is quite humbling. I don't know most of them, but I wish I did. Its quite a good feeling receiving this and I have watchlisted the EotW nom page, so that I can at least start seconding deserving nominations. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the wikilove. It always means a bit extra when a non-standard image is used for these. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:56, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
@Awais mastoi: I think you misunderstand what Wikipedia is for. I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Please go through them and continue with editing Wikipedia only if you think it is still for you. If you are more comfortable contributing in Hindi, then the Hindi Wikipedia would be happy to accept you as an editor. Cheers! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 12:25, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-21
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The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [110]
New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [111][112]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [113][114]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
@Mnationonly: The article that you started, Goya Menor, is a musician's biography. I'm not an expert at those and will be leaving it for another reviewer to handle. That said, I've left you a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Please go through them when you get the time. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 14:09, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Mnationonly, if you see the top of Wikipedia:New pages patrol, you'll notice that our backlog is over 9500 articles. We are running a backlog drive right now, and there is a good chance that a reviewer will get to the article before the drive ends. Please be patient. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:05, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
You recently created this article and included the {{taxonbar}} template. However, you didn't provide it with a "from" parameter. If the "from" parameter is not present, the template attempts to look up the appropriate QID using the article's title. If there is no match, then it fails and the taxonbar isn't displayed, like in this case. The Wikidata item is named with the scientific name, which is not how the article is titled. So, the from field is required to make it work. (Frankly, you should always use the "from" fields, even if the bar finds the right item, as it helps prevent disconnects.) Anyway, just thought I'd share that bit of knowledge for your future endeavors. - UtherSRG(talk)11:16, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
YRG Care This is the article. The officially accepted name according to our brand guidelines is YRGCARE, so I want to change the title, that's why I am requesting your help. I will go through the page you asked me to check out. Thank you! Priyamvada Rajan (talk) 10:12, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, List of chief justices of India, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:25, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-22
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Recent changes
Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [115][116]
When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [117]
Is there any Indian admin on EnWiki? My question is because it would be helpful to explain any India-related matters to him and get good replies, as an Indian would better understand Indian-related issues. I am not saying that other admins don’t understand, but it would be better. GrabUp - Talk10:46, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Titodutta became an admin in 2015, and there may be others. But more competent admins (of any region) is a good thing. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:08, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
I am looking for an Indian admin because I tagged other admins, but they didn’t respond. I am unable to give the user sufficient reasons for this on Wikipedia nor I found sufficient reason. I mentioned Dutta there. GrabUp - Talk11:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
There is no disagreement between us. I just want to know and share with the editor, from some more experienced editors like admins, the reason they didn’t count it as per the Government of India. Maybe there was some discussion. GrabUp - Talk11:25, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
I don't think you have a problem here. The nom has 2 supports (+PresN's support since you've fixed the issues that he's pointed out). It also has a source review support. The list should get promoted in the next round (whenever the coords get to it). If it doesn't, I'm happy to take a look at it. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
@Svana Svana: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Go through them when you get the time. To start with, I'd suggest TWA. It should teach you the basics for Wikipedia collaboration. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:53, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-23
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It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [118]
The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [119]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [121][122]
Future changes
Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.
Hi, why is the parameter 17th lok sabha appears in infobox of all lok sabha constituency and how to remove it. Here Karakat Lok Sabha constituency, I changed the name and party of MP,but can't find in infobox the term 17th lok sabha in edit window. But it appears on page. Admantine123 (talk) 16:05, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [2][3]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [7]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the 
Fixed Switched to Evad's version. Thanks for informing. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:34, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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