User talk:Blaze Wolf/Archive 16
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dump, theanonymous
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Question about how to fill out
Hi.
Some time ago I found an article with a problem in one of the sources that wouldn't open.
I reported it on the discussion page, and now after so much time I saw that it had been changed, but the |url-status is filled in as "live", but the original site doesn't open where it should, it gives a 404 error.
Is this correct? Shouldn't it be |url-status=dead ?
The target is Olivia Holt. Elder N (talk) 22:19, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Elder N: Hello Elder N! Apologies for the delay, I am no longer very active on Wikipedia. Yes you can change it to be "|url-status=dead" however I would also recommend adding the archive of the source from before it died to the citation as well. WP:DEADREF can give you more details as to what to do in this situation. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 05:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you. And in this case, the link to the source file already exists. I reported this on the article's discussion page when I translated this article into Portuguese. Only now, after so long, I came to see how it was and checked whether the link had already been inserted by someone else and I saw what I questioned here. Elder N (talk) 13:45, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
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<code>
tags using a new toolbar button.[7] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements. - Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
to include entries forpreprint
,standard
, anddataset
; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. - (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID
,identifier
,repository
,organization
,repositoryLocation
,committee
, andversionNumber
. [8]
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
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w:knc:
) [9] View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [10]
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