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As a note-we don't use Transfermarket as a ref

Thanks for trying to add refs, but as a note-we don't use that as a reliable source. Try to find some other ones. Thanks! Wgolf (talk) 21:58, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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I've seen this information on transfermarkt. So I tried it. SHISHIR DUA (talk) 02:07, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Numbers

Please do not add any numbers which are not supported by the source. Wait a week until they are official, Hazard won't hvae 50... Editing against the source is disruptive and i do not want to report you. Kante4 (talk) 10:56, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Trust me, he won't have 50 for the league. Players can only go 1 to 25 in Spain. Let's wait until Real announces anything. Kante4 (talk) 11:26, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

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Your recent edits

You have created a large number of articles about non-notable footballers. Please review WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL. A player needs to have played in a fully-professional league (being a squad member is not enough!) and/or receive significant coverage to be notable. GiantSnowman 09:22, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

No, for example, Juan Mera González has not played in a league listed at WP:FPL has he? You are either lying or mistaken - which is it? WP:CIR. GiantSnowman 11:38, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

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SHISHIR DUA: Hi, I'm pleased to see someone with so much enthusiasm. But I do agree with GiantSnowman that it's a bit early for you to be seeking adminship. I assume you have read the Advice for RfA candidates? Note there that six months is the absolute minimum length of time on Wikipedia that most editors expect a candidate to have, and that an admin is expected to be familiar with Wikipedia policy and conventions; an important part of the job is explaining it to others. You need to start signing all your posts on noticeboards and talk pages (either type four tildes, ~~~~, or click the symbol for signature), and since you have had a lot of articles either PRODded or nominated at AfD, your knowledge of our notability criteria appears to be weak; start with those and go from there in learning about how we do things and why. I suggest you then ask for advice at this page—also mentioned on the Advice for candidates page—experienced Wikipedians can advise you there on ways to improve your editing before running for adminship. Finally, I looked at your user page and I note your date of birth. This is a piece of information you may not want to have posted publicly for privacy reasons (if you want, an admin can delete it so that only other admins, or only those with the "suppress" right, can see it in the page history; just ask for whichever you want). In any case, we have a page of advice for younger Wikipedians; have you read it? Yngvadottir (talk) 16:43, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

How to add citation

Please go through WP:CS to get educated about citation and how to add a citation in an article. You recent edit at the ISL 2019-20 articles id shows not a proper way of citing source. I would ask you please go through the guidelines, it will help you in future editing. Thank you. Dey subrata (talk) 22:13, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

List of 2019–20 Indian Super League season roster changes

Hi Shishir Dua, I've removed your good article nomination from List of 2019–20 Indian Super League season roster changes. As a list, it is only eligible to be nominated as a featured list rather than a GA, thanks. Kosack (talk) 06:27, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Good work on the article, but you need to read more about featured articles before nominating it. Read about it on Wikipedia:Featured articles Coderzombie (talk) 08:23, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

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WikiProject India Newsletter – October 2019

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Newly recognized content

The month of October 2019 started with Gateway of India re-attaining its Good Article status and the Sanjay Dutt filmography was recognized as Featured List.

Newly nominated content

• List of international goals scored by Sunil Chhetri
• List of chief ministers of Jharkhand
• Bengal famine of 1943
• India national football team at the Olympics
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• Article India appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on October 2, 2019.
• Vijayadashami (pictured) has ended, which celebrates the victory of good over evil.
• There are a lot of high-quality images on Commons uploaded by Itsmalay which can be used on some India cultural monuments articles.
• Parinda is nominated to appear on the main page on November 3.

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• Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir) (26 October)
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Explaining my edit

Hi SHISHIR DUA, I wanted to explain why I reverted your edit here. The sentence in the Wikipedia article talked about an investigation from 2006 carried out by a Swiss bank, while the source you added described a different study. It might be relevant to add something about that study as well, because it is much newer (and it still includes Oslo), but the source you added can't be added to the article as it is written now. I hope that makes sense. Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 07:12, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

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2019–20 Serie A

As per WP:OVERLINK, your edit on the hat tricks section of the 2019–20_Serie_A page has been canceled. The no overlink policy applies also to players. RafaelS1979 (talk) 14:47, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

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Sources

Hi! Just wanted to point out that Geni and FindAGrave are unreliable user-generated sources, so we can't use them as sources. – Thjarkur (talk) 10:58, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

It perhaps goes without saying, but you should also be careful that the sources you consult refer to the person you're writing about. The Peder Mortensen that died in 1866 obviously was not publishing books in 1982. – Joe (talk) 11:52, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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note on your edit to Aldonza Alfonso de León

Hi SHISHIR DUA. I wanted to leave a note about reverting this edit you made to Aldonza Alfonso de León. It appears you had copied much of the content from the Spanish language article. I appreciate your attempt to improve the article, but it did break many templates, and looked quite messy. I welcome you to continue to contribute to the page, but please use the page preview before publishing any changes, to ensure nothing breaks when you add content.

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WikiProject India Newsletter – November 2019

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Newly recognized content

November 2019 recognized content includes: List of international goals scored by Sunil Chhetri List of chief ministers of Jharkhand Hindi Medium.

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• K.G.F: Chapter 1
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• India Search Result is a bot-generated page that tracks newly created articles related to India. It is a place to look out for new page pages. The page is updated daily and make sure to add it to your watchlist.

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• There are 14 Did You Know nominations, 25 Good Article nominations, 2 Featured Articles candidates, and 1 Featured List candidate to be reviewed.
• The Swaminarayan Sampraday and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are opened for requested comments.
• You can review these article: Mouna Ragam, Everest (Indian TV series), Arjun Sarja filmography and Mullum Malarum for a peer review.

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WikiProject India Newsletter – December 2019

WikiProject India

Newly recognized content

December 2019 recognized content includes:

• List of India national football team hat-tricks
• Blue Pilgrims

Newly nominated content

• Chandrayaan-2
• Surat
• Golaghat

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• The holiday season has begun. WikiProject India Wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade. We look forward to working with you in 2020!
• Editor Uanfala started a conversation about Lists of notable people in articles about places back in November and it still needs more editor's opinion on the subject.
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GA nom

Hi, as I pointed out the first time you nominated it, List of 2019–20 Indian Super League season roster changes should be nominated as a featured list not a good article if you wish to seek promotion as this is a separate criteria for list articles. However, I would ensure you understand the criteria before doing so, in its current form I don't believe it would pass. You have next to no actual prose included. Kosack (talk) 07:04, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Alright guy thanks for pointing out the requirements of article SHISHIR DUA (talk) 09:43, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

I have reverted your talk page edit for the same reason Dey Subrata did. Please do not remove other user's talk page comments without their consent. Also, please ensure you understand the importance rating criteria of the relevant WikiProjects, for example the article would not be considered a high importance rating in the Football and Indian WikiProjects. Thanks. Kosack (talk) 07:15, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Cricket infoboxes

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Greek professional footballers

Thank you for the page Panagiotis Zonas that you created today. If you can, please create more pages of Greek footballers from the same League (Football League) or highest leagues and i will help you with the informations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRanemos1 (talk • contribs) 15:31, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Yes, there are Greek pages like Alexis Seliniotakis (captain), Alexandros Arnarellis, Fotis Koutzavasilis, Alexandros Kontos, Aristotelis Karagiannidis (captain), Stefanos Kapias, Alexandros Tsoutsis, Pantelis Theologou, Filoxenos Toursidis, Theofilos Profyllidis, Apostolos Koulpas, Marios Kostoulas, Vangelis Nousios, Alexandros Bimai, etc.

Also, players from Football League Greece that they are captains of their team: Stathis Provatidis, Giannis Tzelepis, Giannis Gotsoulias, Vasilis Gavriilidis, Charilaos Bikas and Giannis Milkoudis.

Also: Andreas Tsipras, Dimitris Sandravelis, Christos Niaros, Vasilis Pelkas (cousin of Dimitris), Lazaros Eleftheriadis, Kostas Tegousis, Orestis Grigoropoulos, Alexandros Bitsakos, Vasilis Poghosyan, Giorgos Kornezos, Alexandros Smyrlis, Panagiotis Anyfantakis, Vangelis Anastasopoulos, Themistoklis Tselios, Stathis Lamprou, Angelos Stamatopoulos, Pavlos Laskaris, Pavlos Makrygiannis, Serafim Maniotis, Lampros Tairis, Angelos Piniotis, Vangelis Patsarouchas, Stathis Syriopoulos, Pavlos Katharios, Thomas Tsimpoukas, Apostolos Tsiolis, Serafim Papaioannou, Manolis Fazos, Christos Kollas, Panagiotis Kontoes, Konstantinos Koltsidas, Giannis Voskopoulos, Savvas Kyriakidis, Konstantinos Kardaris (current player of Niki Volou FC), Konstantinos Kyriakidis, Manolis Aliatidis, Giorgos Barbarousis, Antonis Athanasiou, Vasilis Koutsoumpas, Giorgos Dimizas, Giannis Kazantzidis, Vangelis Kerthi, Giorgos Maidanos, Dimitris Thomaidis (from Kavala F.C.), Vasilis Ioannidis, Giorgos Magakis, Giorgos Tsaftaridis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRanemos1 (talk • contribs) 17:09, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

P.K. Mohammed

Please note you are already nominating an article that has an WP:AFD discussion. Find the discussion and link it to that. I will try to help you. Suffusion of Yellew (talk) 11:05, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

It's all fixed up. And make sure you're editing the correct discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/P.K. Mohammed, not this one, thanks. Suffusion of Yellew (talk) 11:10, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Ways to improve Jone Pinto

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Jone Pinto has left Aspropyrgos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.210.44.243 (talk) 21:57, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Greek football

Hello sir! Thank you that you create pages for Greece! I have some pages that they need creation like: Konstantinos Psychogiannis, Michalis Zacharopoulos, Konstantinos Panagou, Anastasios Christofileas, Konstantinos Iliopoulos, Giannis Bourlakis, Antonis Athanasiou, Theodoros Petrakis, Andreas Mastrantonakis, Apostolos Androutsos, Theodoros Chiritrantas, Angelos Chimonettos, Konstantinos Chimonettos, Anastasios Pagonis, Giannis Giorgou, Michalis Agrimakis, Stergios Kalaitsidis, Andreas Kokas, Grigoris Kiourtzidis, Georgios Tsirlidis, Lefteris Chatziadamidis, Giannis Kammenis, Christos Nonis, Alexandros Zourkos, Grigoris Efthymiadis, Giannis Dounga, Avraam Koulpalidis, Giannis Kalaitzidis, Anastasios Kourepinis.

I will help if you create them! Thanks a lot!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.210.44.243 (talk) 21:57, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Can you create any of them? GRanemos1 (talk) 08:08, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Greek football clubs emblems

Hello friend.

Thanks for all the help until now. I wanna ask one more help because i don't know how to fix it. I update good quality emblems for some teams but Bots change their pixels and they spoiled the quality of images.

If you can please update these images that i update to Greek wikipedia:

• Trikala F.C. emblem: Τρίκαλα
• Olympiacos Volou 1937 F.C. emblem: Ολυμπιακός Βόλου
• Egaleo F.C. emblem: Αιγάλεω
• Platanias F.C. emblem: Πλατανιάς
• Apollon Smyrni F.C. emblem: Απόλλων Σμύρνης
• GAS Ialysos 1948 F.C. emblem: Ιάλυσος
• A.E.K. (sports club) emblem: Α.Ε.Κ.

Thank you very much!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRanemos1 (talk • contribs) 15:15, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I'll do it pretty soonSHISHIR DUA (talk) 15:16, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

You are awesome! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRanemos1 (talk • contribs) 15:41, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

You do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRanemos1 (talk • contribs) 08:52, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Absolutely SHISHIR DUA (talk) 09:02, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Today? Will you share them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRanemos1 (talk • contribs) 10:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Friend i didn't see anything fixed to those emblems in english wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRanemos1 (talk • contribs) 16:37, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

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Super League 2 Greece

Please fix pages for all Greek players of PAE Kerkyra and Apollon Pontou FC that they don't have yet. Also, fix the name of Super League Greece 2 and do it Super League 2 Greece. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRanemos1 (talk • contribs) 16:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

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Request

Will uh make my page please? Savindhar pillai (talk) 16:48, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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Adding non licensed photos

It would be really a contribution if you add photos of Indian footballers in wikimedia.As we can see ,for current Indian Nationals,only Sunil Chetri have a photo in his wikipedia page.Since you are a contributor in wikimedia I hope you can find a solution to this. Shahoodu (talk) 05:07, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Bo Augustsson

Hi SHISHIR DUA, thank you for creating the article Bo Augustsson a few months ago! Unfortunately, there were some factual errors in the article – some that were probably caused by automatic translations from the Swedish article, or misunderstandings of what that article said, and some that were a bit odd. For instance, where does the information that he was born in Gärds Köpinge come from? It is a very tiny little village in the same region of Sweden (but not the same municipality) as Mala, where several different sources sources say he grew up – but none of them mention Gärds Köpinge at all. I have spent some time looking for other sources for this, but can't find a single one, other than websites copying their info straight from Wikipedia. I also wonder where you've seen his birth date, which has no source – unless it is in the hd.se source which I don't have access to. Anyway, I've fixed the errors, removed some unsourced claims and added some other sourced information, so other than the birth date I don't think the article has any particular issues right now. Happy editing, --bonadea contributions talk 14:20, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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• All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [18]
• Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [19]
• There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [20]
• A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [21]

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• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [22]
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• In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
• Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [24]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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Hello

Hi greetings, you may remember me. We talked a few months ago. On that time you told me about using tools and privilege in wikis. Here there is a page which may help you testwiki:Wikipedia:Requests/Tools. Thank you.--PATH SLOPU 13:36, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

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• FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [25]

Problems

• The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [26]

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Future changes

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• If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [29]
• The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [30]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

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20:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

atk mb/mb

please fix both football infoboxes differences (linking, founding format, second jersey, useless discussion title etc) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.131.94.128 (talk) 11:19, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

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Your vocabulary

Hi. I have seen your comments here-and-there, and I wanted to ask this earlier but couldn't. Do you use some sort of software for grammer/vocabulary? Like a thesaurus?

Also, even though not mandatory, we try to keep conversations on English wikipedia formal, and "global", in a way that would be understood by the editors all around the world. Some of your sentenses/comments are over the top. If possible, kindly try to use formal/plain English. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 22:25, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2020 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
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A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thank you for fixing grammar and generally being good at correcting errors! ◊PRAHLADbalaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 01:19, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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Changes later this week

• Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [35]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
• All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [36]

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• The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
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• The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [38][39]
• Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
• Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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What should I do

You said something to me yesterday.Actually I dont know to procees with that.If you can explain the steps I can surely help Shahoodu (talk) 12:29, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-38

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Problems

• The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [40][41]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Any updates

Any updates regarding adding the pronounciation and audio? Shahoodu (talk) 06:36, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

@Shahoodu: plz tell me the pages where to do so.

SHISHIR DUA 10:30, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

I added the prounounciation in the Kerala Blasters .Now can you add the pronounciation as an audio.I actually dont know to do that. I am working on the article for making it as a good article.So I request your help. Shahoodu (talk) 14:19, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

@Shahoodu: I'll

SHISHIR DUA 18:36, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Tech News: 2020-39

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

• There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [42][43]

Changes later this week

• The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [44]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

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

• Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [45]
• Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [46]

Problems

• Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [47]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
• The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
• In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [48]
• You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
• You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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Tech News: 2020-41

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

• There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
• You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [49]

Problems

• There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [50]
• Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [51]
• Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
• Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [52]

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [53]

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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [54][55][56]

Changes later this week

• Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [57][58]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

• A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [59]

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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

October 2020

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for WP:CIR concerns, please see Special:permalink/983187059#Over exhaustive and indecent behaviour.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.   --Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:24, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

SHISHIR DUA (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I profoundly apologize for inconvenience and absurd thing so caused. I solemn to abide by the policies and regulations stipulated by Wikipedia. I vow you to eliminate all of these in future. Please for the last time unblock me. This time I mean it. Please for the sake of Jesus uplift it for the last time. I solemn to eliminate vandalism and disruption if caused earlier. Please don't take my other issues into account as I worked on most of them if left I'll. Conclusively, Please endow a last chance.

Decline reason:

This reads like you're using Google Translate. You might consider working on Wikipedia in your native language, where you'll probably have an easier time understanding the policies and writing coherently. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 15:06, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Sir, English is indeed my native language as I've spent my childhood in the US. Also I don't Google translate a decent translator at all. Sir please endow me with unblock at once. SHISHIR DUA 16:42, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

I'd really like to unblock you, but you really need to tell us how your editing was disruptive and how you would do things differently. And with simple unornamented English. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:25, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Sir I'll use simple language I promise. I was considering my edits disruptive otherwise won't have blocked. Please unblock me. SHISHIR DUA 02:53, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

So far is the disruption is concerned, I did a little to wikipedia. Sir, I've gone through WP:CIR and WP:Block. Now I solemn that I've developed competence on the advice of you and other wikipedians. Sir please unblock me.

SHISHIR DUA 05:15, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [60]
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [61]
• Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

UTRS

This user has been abusing WP:UTRS and has been unwilling to follow the simple directions provided there. This should count against any future unblock request. --Yamla (talk) 12:38, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Sir this action isn't intended to abuse. I've gone through advice many-a-decent editors and I now really know what competence mean, I really wanna apologize for actions and wanna be unblocked now since I possess many a decent contributions to wikipedia. Please unblock me, its my earnest request.

I've also read WP:Block.

SHISHIR DUA 05:12, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

UTRS 36164

UTRS appeal #36164 is now close. My response is copied below.

I'm sorry, but as you have repeatedly inadequately addressed the reasons for your block, and by a consensus of reviewing admins, you are now ineligible for consideration at UTRS until six months from now. This has been an open-book test. All the policies and guidelines relating to correcting the problems you encountered and created are there for the reading. Even so, I see no indication of you actually understanding what to do and what to not do. It comes across that you don't really understand the manner in which your edits were wrong, so you cannot help but repeat them. Please consider spending that time constructively and collegially editing other Wikimedia projects and other versions of Wikipedia. Please do not evade your block or use sock puppets. After at least six months of constructive, collegial editing have passed, you may again request unblocking. Please describe in greater detail how your editing was unconstructive and how you would edit constructively if unblocked Please read Wikipedia's Guide to appealing blocks for more information. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_appealing_blocks)

--Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:28, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra: Sir, The disruption I caused was in the manner that I added a player who was sign'd according to unofficial sources and this resulted in disruption. Now I'll be careful of it. But also wanna furnish ESPN [62] is a decent stuff a/c to which I added adam le fondre on ISL page which resulted into threats to block me and he was signed later [63] ,when I cited this, for decent reasons,I was blocked. I profoundly admire the decision of yours. All I cited was the disruption. Now I solemn that I've developed competence on the advice of you and other wikipedians. Sir please unblock me. Please for the last time unblock me. This time I mean it. Please for the sake of Jesus uplift it for the last time. I solemn to eliminate vandalism and disruption if caused earlier. Please don't take my other issues into account as I worked on most of them if left I'll. Conclusively, Please endow a last chance. SHISHIR DUA 04:20, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Like I had said in the recent ANI, I am still leaning towards supporting your unblock. But the block was not implemented for one instance of citing unreliable sources. The block was placed for overall behaviour. You have to explain why were you blocked, and if unblocked, how would you edit differently. Like Deepfriedokra said in the UTRS response, you should explain it in detail. "I have deceloped competence" is not a good explanation at all. A hint: the answer can be found in the recent ANI thread (special:permalink/983187059#Over exhaustive and indecent behaviour), and in my advice at special:diff/984270539. —usernamekiran (talk) 06:48, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran: The block was intended to counter my indecent edits, I know, Sir I won't edit without any reliable sources, won't pick up quarrel and won't be involved in 3 revert rule. Furthermore, I vow to talk decently with users and also work on prev. issues like WP:Canvassing and WP:IDHT or hat-collecting.I won't gather indecent or immoral support. I've confessed everythin' Please suggest me the way.Now, for the sake of heaven, Lift your block. I mean this time. SHISHIR DUA 07:42, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra: The block was intended to counter my indecent edits, I know, Sir I won't edit without any reliable sources, won't pick up quarrel and won't be involved in 3 revert rule. Furthermore, I vow to talk decently with users and also work on prev. issues like WP:Canvassing and WP:IDHT or hat-collecting.I won't gather indecent or immoral support. I've confessed everythin' Please suggest me the way.Now, for the sake of heaven, Lift your block. I mean this time. SHISHIR DUA 08:22, 27 October 2020 (UTC) @Deepfriedokra: Please reply.SHISHIR DUA 14:30, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Indecent edits? No that wasn't it. You accused someone else of indecent edits. You say you will work on things without showing you know what you did wrong and what you would do differently. You're just parroting and rephrasing. It's pretty clear you don't understand the problems you need to overcome to be unblocked. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:44, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra: Please check the activity of removin' me as a participant 'gainst my will by User:Drat8sub [64] He is revealin' indecency once 'gain. Please explain what needs to be done. All he is tryin' to do is takin' advantages of me bein' block'd. My earnest request is to stop his nasty behaviour. With profound regards SHISHIR DUA 07:33, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra: and @Usernamekiran: W.r.t. your advice indefinite WP:CIR block is imposed on me due to WP:CIR, WP:Canvassing , my En accent, WP:NOTHERE and WP:IDHT Sire, It was a decent Wiki-break and I'm now embedded with the WP policies and amendment required. I religiously followed your advice, extend my respect and gratitude towards you to pave a fab way to make the desired impact and amendments in me. It's my earnest request, Please unblock me. Furthermore, I've worked on other wikiprojects please have a glance at [65]. SHISHIR DUA 19:51, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [66]
• Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [67]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [68]
• There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [69]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [70]

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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

—== UNblock discussion ==

• If any other admin thinks it's OK to unblock, please do so.
• @SHISHIR DUA: Please don't ping me anymore. Please place the following at the bottom of your talk page, filling in "Your reason here "

   {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}

  so that a fresh admin can decide if you are ready to be unblocked. Thanks, --Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:49, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

SHISHIR DUA (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

The block was intended to counter my indecent edits, I know, Sir I won't edit without any reliable sources, won't pick up quarrel and won't be involved in 3 revert rule. Furthermore, I vow to talk decently with users and also work on prev. issues like WP:Canvassing and WP:IDHT or hat-collecting.I won't gather indecent or immoral support. I've confessed everythin' Please suggest me the way.Now, for the sake of heaven, Lift your block. I mean this time SHISHIR DUA 12:02 am, Today (UTC−5) 

Decline reason:

Having read through your case, I'm going to have to decide against unblocking at this time. The issue isn't that you have made insufficient confessions, but rather that you haven't demonstrated a clear understanding of what you did wrong beyond name dropping a few policies that were quoted at you. At this point, I would suggest that you take the standard offer and come back to request an unblock after 6 months. You can increase your chances of the unblock request being accepted at that point by contributing constructively to other WMF projects in the meantime. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:39, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Sir, is there any other way SHISHIR DUA 05:17, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

They've suggested what you need to do. Wait six months, then ask for the standard offer linked above. Also, stop constantly referring to other editors as sir; hell, the responding admin's user page tells you to use they pronouns. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 11:56, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

November edith-a-thons from Women in Red

Women in Red | November 2020, Volume 6, Issue 11, Numbers 150, 173, 178, 180, 181 Online events: New: Textile arts | Stage+Screen+Radio+Podcast Continuing initiatives: #1day1woman | BLM/Anti-discrimination Contest (Oct-Nov-Dec): Women in Asia Help us plan future events: Virtual Ideas Cafe Join the conversation: Women in Red talkpage Stay in touch: Join WikiProject Women in Red | Opt-out of notifications Social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2020

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Tech News: 2020-45

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

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [71]
• There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [72]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
• Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [73]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [74]

Future changes

• A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [75]
• In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 November newsletter

The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
• Rhododendrites (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:39, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [76]
• From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [77][78]

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15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue X, October 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wikipedia in African Libraries Project Brazil report: Abre-te Código hackathon, Wikidata related events and news from our partners Finland report: Postponed Hack4FI GLAM hackathon turned into an online global Hack4OpenGLAM France report: Partnership with BNU Strasbourg Germany report: Coding da Vinci cultural data hackathon heads to Lower Saxony India report: Mapping GLAM in Maharashtra, India Indonesia report: Bulan Sejarah Indonesia 2.0; Structured data edit-a-thon; Proofreading mini contest Netherlands report: National History Month: East to West, Dutch libraries and Wikipedia New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large Norway report: The Sámi Languages on wiki Serbia report: Many activities are in our way Sweden report: Librarians learn about Wikidata; More Swedish literature on Wikidata; Online Edit-a-thon Dalarna; Applications to the Swedish Innovation Agency; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Librarians and Projekt HBTQI; GLAM Statistical Tool UK report: Enamels of the World USA report: American Archive of Public Broadcasting; Smithsonian Women in Finance Edit-a-thon; Black Lunch Table; San Diego/October 2020; WikiWednesday Salon Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2020-47

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

• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [79][80]

Changes later this week

• If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [81]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:35, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

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

• Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [82]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [83]

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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

December with Women in Red

Women in Red | December 2020, Volume 6, Issue 12, Numbers 150, 173, 178, 182, 183 Online events: New: Women who died in 2020 | Philanthropists Continuing initiatives: #1day1woman | BLM/Anti-discrimination Contest (Oct-Nov-Dec): Women in Asia Other ways to participate: Help us plan future events Join the conversations on our talkpage Become a member Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Tech News: 2020-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

• The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [84][85]
• The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [86]

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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2020

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16:28, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [87][88]

Changes later this week

• Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [89][90]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now. Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive. October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz. November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests. Other news Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above). Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XI, November 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Launch of Wikipedia in African Libraries Project Pilot Cohort Brazil report: Accessibility through audio descriptions, GLAM tutorials, WikidataCon 2021 and more updates on Brazilian GLAMs Canada report: Taking a tour of CAPACOA workshops and some recent example sets from commons Germany report: German symphony orchestra releases audio samples under free license India report: Re-licensing of content on water & rivers in India Indonesia report: #WikiSejarah WPWP Campaign Netherlands report: Wikipedia and Education, Funding granted for two projects in 2021, KB completes collection highlights project Serbia report: GLAM in Serbia makes important steps in the digitization of cultural heritage Spain report: Edit-a-thons on women scientists and painters Sweden report: Music, UNESCO and Wikidata UK report: Hundreds of Khalili images USA report: Black Lunch Table & Museum Computer Network Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2020-51

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

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [91]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 11 • November 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Celebrating 10 years of student editing in the United States and Canada Cooperation in digital education – Wikimedia Polska conference Education Team 2020 Year End Review Featured education community members of 2020 Fifteen years of implementation of the Wikipedia Education Program in Serbia Hablon User Group and UP Internet Freedom Network Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Online trainings on Wikipedia with high school students of Kosova Photographics and free culture training in Cameroon and Switzerland The article about Wiki-education in the science magazine The first Online EduWiki Camp in Serbia Wikimedia Mexico’s Education Program celebrates Open Access Week 2020 Wikipedia as a Tool to Educate and to Be Educated

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Tech News: 2020-52

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

• The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [92]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
• Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [93]
• Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [94]

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20:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

A New Year With Women in Red!

Women in Red | January 2021, Volume 7, Issue 1, Numbers 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188 Online events: New: Climate and environment | Public domain Contest (Jan-Feb-Mar): Africa contest Year-long initiative: Women's rights Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2020 Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2021

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Tech News: 2021-02

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

• You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [95]
• You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [96]
• Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
  • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [97]
  • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [98]
  • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
• There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [99]
• Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [100]
• Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [101]
• CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [102]
• There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XII, December 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wrap up of the Wikipedia in African Libraries project pilot cohort Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters New Zealand report: Māori Women Weavers Edit-a-thon Serbia report: GLAMorous end of 2020 Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments submissions livestreamed; Nordiska museet uploads; Sjung med oss, Mamma! UK report: Wales, Women in Leeds, and the Hajj USA report: WikiConference North America and Salons WMF GLAM report: The GLAM & Culture office hours Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: December 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue XII, December 2020 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wrap up of the Wikipedia in African Libraries project pilot cohort Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters New Zealand report: Māori Women Weavers Edit-a-thon Serbia report: GLAMorous end of 2020 Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments submissions livestreamed; Nordiska museet uploads; Sjung med oss, Mamma! UK report: Wales, Women in Leeds, and the Hajj USA report: WikiConference North America and Salons WMF GLAM report: The GLAM & Culture office hours Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2021-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

• The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [103]
• MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 1 • January 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Featured education community member of January 2021 Open Education Global 2020 Conference Reading Wikipedia in Bolivia The impact of war on young Wikimedians in Stepanakert The Possibility of Open-Access Learning Portals in the Philippines Training Resources about Author’s Rights published by Wiki in Africa

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This Month in Education: January 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 1 • January 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Featured education community member of January 2021 Open Education Global 2020 Conference Reading Wikipedia in Bolivia The impact of war on young Wikimedians in Stepanakert The Possibility of Open-Access Learning Portals in the Philippines Training Resources about Author’s Rights published by Wiki in Africa

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Tech News: 2021-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [104][105]

Changes later this week

• Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [106]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2021

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Tech News: 2021-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [107]

Changes later this week

• You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [108]
• Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [109][110]
• Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [111]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [112][113]
• Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [114]

Changes later this week

• You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [115]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

• When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [116][117]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [118]
• Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [119]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue I, January 2021 Headlines Belgium report: The Public Domain Tool; Data Donations; Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium 2020 Brazil report: Heading 2021 with new (and renewed!) GLAM-Wiki projects Colombia report: Public domain day in Colombia Finland report: AvoinGLAM France report: #1lib1ref; Training courses; What's next ?; Wikidata and archaeology vocabulary Germany report: Coding da Vinci Niedersachsen wraps up Serbia report: A month in the spirit of references Sweden report: Record numbers of digital museum visits UK report: Protests & Suffragettes - Wikipedia work in 2020; Khalili Collections USA report: Wiki 20 WMF GLAM report: Digital Public Library of America makes an impact in 2020 Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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I've gone through advice many-a-decent editors and I now really know what competence mean, I really wanna apologize for actions and wanna be unblocked now since I possess many a decent contributions to Wikipedia. Please unblock me, its my earnest request. Now I solemn that I've developed competence on the advice of you and other wikipedians. Sir please unblock me. Please for the last time unblock me. This time I mean it. I went to thread to read and reconsolidate what is required [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=983187059#Over_exhaustive_and_indecent_behaviour. I've attempt'd every sorta of indecency caused in the context of hat collecting behavior. inappropriate talk page messages to female editors ,canvassing and confront'd with it. I went to WP:CIR, WP:NOTHERE, WP:NOTNOTHERE and nurtured myself to improve and become a mature editor. 've gone through advice many-a-decent editors and I now really know what competence mean, I really wanna apologize for actions and wanna be unblocked now. I've abolish'd all my erroneous I approaches and I really apologize for self-nomination and extractin' support. I will abide by consensus. I Solemn not to initiate rivalry, not add copyrighted text/images and not to edit or remove comments by others without their consent. W.r.t. your advice indefinite WP:CIR block is imposed on me due to WP:CIR, WP:Canvassing , my En accent, WP:NOTHERE and WP:IDHT It was a decent Wiki-break and I'm now embedded with the WP policies and amendment required. I religiously followed your advice, extend my respect and gratitude towards you to pave a fab way to make the desired impact and amendments in me. It's my earnest request, Please unblock me. Furthermore, I've worked on other wikiprojects please have a glance at [122]. With profound regards, SHISHIR DUA 08:55, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Decline reason:

This unblock request is a mess, and I'm afraid rather reinforces the block instead of justifying that you should be unblocked. Let me limit my criticism to a single point. You indicate that you've worked on other wikiprojects, but since 2020-10-12 when you were blocked here, I see no substantial set of contributions to another project, there. A few edits, but nothing substantial. Maybe I missed a substantial set of edits, and you can point us to this set of constructive edits? Yamla (talk) 19:52, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

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@Rosguill:, @Usernamekiran: and @Deepfriedokra: 

Furnishin' 33 edits in Español [120], 27 at हिन्दी [121] 10 at Czech [122],17 at Nederlands [123] 5 at Outreach, 3 at Deutsche [124], over 136 at Français [fr.wikipedia.org], 1 at 한국어 [ko.wikipedia.org] I've organized an event on Wikimedia to commemorate Wikipedia 20 [125]. I've done lot of translations which can be accessed here [126] so that every linguistic communities have access to info. I've joined and working with SWAN at Wikimedia and maths project [127],WikiDonne Now I'm co-ordinatin' m:Wiki Loves Sport, m:Wiki Loves Fashion and other decent edits can be accessed here[128] . Furthermore, participated in fab no. of meeting across various project to enhance and enrich my skills and comprehended professionalism to edit the platforms .I'd like to endow you with the translations [129] for Wikicon Italy.

I've recently created a French article [130] Please check this out and a profound request to unblock. I'm exaggeratedly fluster'd with this block as I've a humongous no of projects to work on.

Profound regards SHISHIR DUA 08:59, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

SHISHIR, do you speak French? Because the article you wrote appears to be an unattributed machine translation of Csaba László – at least it's identical to what I get when I put that page through Google Translate. Blablubbs|talk 16:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Addendum: I just attributed the translation for you. Blablubbs|talk 16:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

She self-reverted, but Praxidicae is also correct that this is evidently an unattributed machine translation of this. Blablubbs|talk 16:29, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

@Blablubbs:Thanks for pointin' that out it'll be corrected super decently within quite a day or so. Profound appologies for this mess but please rectify the error if you feel so at French article. I'm non-native French speaker and will attempt to enhance French within time bein'.SHISHIR DUA 08:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Profound regards

SHISHIR DUA 08:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07

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Problems

• There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [131][132]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [133]

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• The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [134]
• The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [135]

Problems

• Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [136]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

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Tech News: 2021-09

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Recent changes

• Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
• A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

• There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [137]
• Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [138]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).

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Regarding Article verification

Can you help me in getting this Draft Published the Subject is a professional football coach from Kashmir, india. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Muzamil_Mahmood Dar zubair 08:15, 1 June 2021 (UTC) @Darzubair: Absolutely, I'll

SHISHIR DUA 09:12, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
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• Diversity winner - $100
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• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
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  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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Add player information on Wikipedia

Hi, I already have players draft on Wikipedia but I need help to publish it. There is player Omkar Landge who plays in FC Goa. Can you publish that draft. Khelsport (talk) 09:16, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Add player information on Wikipedia

Hi, I already have players draft on Wikipedia but I need help to publish it. There is player Omkar Landge who plays in FC Goa. Can you publish that draft. Khelsport (talk) 09:16, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Add player information on Wikipedia

Hi, I already have players draft on Wikipedia but I need help to publish it. There is player Omkar Landge who plays in FC Goa. Can you publish that draft. Khelsport (talk) 09:16, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

@Khelsport: Hi, to qualify for a football biography article he needs to pass WP:NFOOTY. Please refer to it. It ain't possible at this moment.

Regards SHISHIR DUA 09:23, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

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