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Mentee FAQ

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How do I upload an image?

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Pictures under a license that allows reuse can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Once uploaded, they can be used here under the filename you chose when uploading.

Question from Sandu Oprea (17:29, 26 December 2024)

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Hello! I would like to create my page, and also to add a picture. Can you please, help? --Sandu Oprea (talk) 17:29, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sandu Oprea: To add a picture, upload it to Wikimedia Commons. To start a page, see Wikipedia: Articles for creation. Rusty 🐈 20:42, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User_talk:Rusty_Cat#c-Darnelllamar2-20241225213700-Question_from_Darnelllamar2_(21:37,_25_December_2024) Mc snt tropez (talk) 19:49, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from PamjMeson (10:28, 27 December 2024)

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Hi Rusty I'm Pam from Australia. I am planning to participate in an event to learn more about wikipedia and how to edit etc. It's not for another month or so what do you suggest Ai do in tge meantime to prepare? --PamjMeson (talk) 10:28, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PamjMeson: You could look at the Help:Introduction to begin to learn how to edit Wikipedia. Happy editing! Rusty 🐈 20:54, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from The2gingerman (11:09, 27 December 2024)

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Hello. I saw a link where, first of all, The link did not exist in the source. When purged, the link stayed. When deleted via visual editor, it stayed after publishing. When null-edited, it stayed. When clearing my browser cookies, it stayed. What should I do? --The2gingerman (talk) 11:09, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@The2gingerman: What article is this on? Rusty 🐈 15:31, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Someone else fixed it anyways, nevermind.
Thank you however! The2gingerman (talk) 10:00, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red January 2025

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Women in Red | January 2025, Vol 11, Issue 1, Nos 324, 326, 327, 328, 329


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Question from 31nyou851r (08:46, 31 December 2024)

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Hello Rusty Cat (and Ixtal) - thank you for kindly mentoring me. I have wanted to serve as a Wikipedia editor for quite some time - tonight I've finally started the process. The proximal cause is that I want to undo an edit which I think violates BLP and NPOV policy. I've read these policies carefully, and I think I can do this properly - if there are pitfalls to this kind of thing that a beginner like me should avoid, though, please let me know. Thank you! I hope to become an increasingly active editor in the coming year. --31nyou851r (talk) 08:46, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the 2025 WikiCup!

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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page.

For the 2025 WikiCup, we've implemented several changes to the scoring system. The highest-ranking contestants will now receive tournament points at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are now open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants will no longer be eliminated at the end of each round.

The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Carltonuba38 (12:37, 1 January 2025)

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Afternoon, I was wondering is it possible to get back my article page that was deleted/removed from Wikipedia? My name is Carlton Ubaezuonu and I’m a professional football player but I noticed my article with my history etc has been deleted? I’ve tried to contact who I believe may be responsible but I haven’t heard back. I’m not sure what steps to take? Thanks --Carltonuba38 (talk) 12:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Carltonuba38: Well, looks like you made a request for undeletion which it was accepted and the article was restored into a "Draft" article. To get the article accepted you must make sure that you can get the article to meet our policies, most importantly the general notability guideline. Rusty 🐈 01:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BAGBot: Your bot request RustyBot 2

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Question from The2gingerman (18:50, 3 January 2025)

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Hi, I feel that I am ready to create my first article and have found a notable subject that I am interested in which has yet to have a Wikipedia article.

Should I submit the draft whilst still in-progress or finish the draft in my sandbox and then submit the finished draft at AFD? --The2gingerman (talk) 18:50, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@The2gingerman: Finish the draft first. Rusty 🐈 23:44, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thank you! The2gingerman (talk) 11:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • 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.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Question from Freedomrings23 on User:Freedomrings23 (19:48, 6 January 2025)

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How do I make a page for my comedy career? --Freedomrings23 (talk) 19:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Freedomrings23: It seems that your page has been deleted under speedy deletion criterion U5: A non-contributor's misuse of Wikipedia as a web host. This doesn't mean you've done anything wrong, it's just that Wikipedia works differently from other websites.
Not anyone can just publish about themselves on Wikipedia – not only is doing so strongly discouraged, but there are strict inclusion criteria. In the words of the autobiography policy (linked above under the words "strongly discouraged"), [i]f your life and achievements are verifiable and genuinely notable, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later, but creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged[...]
I'm sorry if you're trying to get yourself published or "make a page," as you put it, about yourself on Wikipedia, but this isn't the right place for you.
Rusty 🐈 00:33, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 01:11:08, 7 January 2025 for assistance on AfC submission by MoonsLion

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What do you deem to be a reliable source? I would appreciate some help with this.

MoonsLion (talk) 01:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MoonsLion: I provided a link to the policy in my decline message. In short, independence from the subject and significance of coverage of the subject were two main factors when I was looking at your sources. For example, the YouTube channel about is obviously not independent, and I didn't think the news sources were significant enough about the channel itself, but rather about MFI/the members who were arrested. I might be wrong about the news sources though, as I only did a quick skim. Rusty 🐈 01:46, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sunshine sauce (11:07, 12 January 2025)

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what if someone did wrong editing --Sunshine sauce (talk) 11:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sunshine sauce: If you think someone did something wrong, you can undo it and let them know! You can message someone using their "talk" page. Rusty 🐈 15:25, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Zayne Nel on User:Zayne Nel (21:53, 12 January 2025)

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Hello, how do I post a photo on a created page? --Zayne Nel (talk) 21:53, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-03

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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.

Weekly highlight

  • The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

  • On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [1]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [2]
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
  • Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
  • Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [4]
  • Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [5]

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Question from MischiefMyster (20:23, 14 January 2025)

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Hi Rusty Cat I would love to know if you could give me a step by step explanation on how to edit in Wikipedia because I would love to help others with projects and don't want them to have the wrong information --MischiefMyster (talk) 20:23, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MischiefMyster: In my opinion, Wikipedia is not as simple as just a step-by-step guide, but I'd be more than happy to provide you with some information! Also, there's nothing wrong with making a mistake--Be bold!
Wikipedia is built on five pillars, which most of our policies are built around.
We have an introduction which you might want to check out. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask me; I tend to answer specific questions better than general ones like "how to edit Wikipedia."

Rusty 🐈 00:52, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Jaysdoeswhat on Wikipedia talk:Short description (03:16, 18 January 2025)

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Hey how do I make an page so I can use my fun facts there --Jaysdoeswhat (talk) 03:16, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jaysdoeswhat: Sorry, but Wikipedia isn't a place for "fun facts." We only accept content that cites sources. Rusty 🐈 16:16, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This might help you Jaysdoeswhat (talk) 17:39, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jaysdoeswhat on China XD Group (18:26, 19 January 2025)

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Hey bro can you check where the errores are I can’t find them --Jaysdoeswhat (talk) 18:26, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jaysdoeswhat: If you're talking about the issues, they have links on them for information. Rusty 🐈 19:45, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh ok Jaysdoeswhat (talk) 19:47, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Policydumby (17:50, 20 January 2025)

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how do i publish a page --Policydumby (talk) 17:50, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You certainly don't write AI-generated slop as you did at User:Policydumby/sandbox, @Policydumby. Please don't do that again. Have a look at Wikipedia:Large language models as to why writing with an AI chatbot is a really bad idea on Wikipedia.
If you wanted to starting writing a new article, please go through the Wikipedia:Article wizard process. qcne (talk) 18:14, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from PerpetualStudent2000 (20:00, 20 January 2025)

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Hey! I think a professor/author that I know really ought to have a wikipedia page but don't know how to gauge that officially. Could you help me? I'm talking about Marcelle Clements. Many other NYU professors/authors with less relevance have wikipedia pages so I don't see why not but I want to follow the rules. --PerpetualStudent2000 (talk) 20:00, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@PerpetualStudent2000: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! The criteria for determining whether a subject may have an article on Wikipedia (known as the notability guidelines) state that a topic "...is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." In other words, there have to be news sources that discuss the subject in-depth for it to merit a Wikipedia article. After a quick Google search for "Marcelle Clements," not much comes up. Rusty 🐈 20:40, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the help! 108.30.49.186 (talk) 20:46, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Of course! By the way, you seem to have been logged out. You may want to log back in, as accidentally editing logged out links your account name with your IP address and location. Rusty 🐈 01:35, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
got it! PerpetualStudent2000 (talk) 12:54, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-04

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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.

Updates for editors

  • Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [6]
  • On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [7]
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [8]
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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Question from Asennett (19:15, 22 January 2025)

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Hi! I was wondering, I have made a COI edit request for Hilary Harkness but have not received a response yet. Is there anyone I could ask about it's status? --Asennett (talk) 19:15, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Asennett: If you have not received a response yet, someone will eventually get to your request. Some processes on Wikipedia can take time. Rusty 🐈 23:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Rusty, thank you. My first edit attempts were responded to incredibly fast, so the week long period of no response had me worried. Asennett (talk) 16:17, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from SomeoneStupid0101 (08:24, 25 January 2025)

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Hi, how can I make a new Wikipedia page for JCCYSHOP --SomeoneStupid0101 (talk) 08:24, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@SomeoneStupid0101: To start an article, you can create a draft through our Articles for Creation process. Rusty 🐈 15:37, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Mc snt tropez (10:30, 25 January 2025)

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What type of article can be adited and how --Mc snt tropez (talk) 10:31, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mc snt tropez: You seem to be confused; most articles can be edited unless they are "protected" for one reason or another (for example, to combat spam). The question here is not whether you can edit an article, but whether that edit is regarded as helpful or harmful by the community. Rusty 🐈 15:40, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Mc snt tropez (19:57, 25 January 2025)

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Hii text me on whatsapp (Redacted) --Mc snt tropez (talk) 19:57, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mc snt tropez: Why? Rusty 🐈 20:55, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red February 2025

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Women in Red | February 2025, Vol 11, Issue 2, Nos. 326, 327, 330, 331


Online events:

Announcements from other communities:

  • Wiki Loves Ramadan begins on 25 February - a great opportunity to focus on women from Islamic history

Tip of the month:

Suggestion:

Other ways to participate:

Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Tech News: 2025-05

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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.

Weekly highlight

  • Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.

Updates for editors

  • iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
  • Wishlist item Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [9]
  • Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [10]
  • Advanced item Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [11]
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [12]

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Question from Gray Pxgh on Draft:Ryōmen Sukuna (Japanese Folklore) (21:42, 29 January 2025)

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Hello. I’m new to Wikipedia and I recently posted a page. When I try to edit the source code, Wikipedia won’t allow it. I am only allowed to edit the text. Is there a reason for this, and if so, is it linked to the page being newly published? Thanks --Gray Pxgh (talk) 21:42, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gray Pxgh: What you're describing sounds like the "Visual Editor". If you want to go back to source code editing, there is a pencil icon in the top right of the editor that allows you to change between editing modes. If you prefer to edit in source code mode, you may specify an editor preference in your preferences (top right, "profile" icon, preferences) ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:46, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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