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Revisions to Cell 16 page and Mary Ann Weathers page

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Hi Andy,

I attempted once again on October 5 to make revisions to both pages mentioned in the subject line.

I am trying to add on the Mary Ann Weathers page in external links, that the article, "An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force" is also available in my book, "Inside the Second Wave of Feminism." I clicked "edit source" and added this information and then clicked "publish changes." But nothing has appeared. Please advise.

Also revised the same thing on the Cell 16 page under "Further reading" that the above mentioned article by Weathers is also available in my book.

Thanks for any help. Liberationfemale (talk) 14:59, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am stumped, especially as you can make edits here.
There are a few things you could try:
* Make only a very small edit to the article (just one or two words; no links to anything)
* Log out and make a small edit to the article
* Log in on another machine and make a small edit
Let me know which of those work. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:16, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't appear that either works. OMG!
I tried to add that Weathers was also a member of Boston Female Liberation. I clicked on "edit source" and then added this. Was that correct? I did it both on a laptop and then on a desktop and neither registered the change.
Thanks for your help. Liberationfemale (talk) 15:55, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In each case, did you enter an "edit summary"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:17, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes! And, I just did that again. Liberationfemale (talk) 16:23, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can only suggest two things; if you are in a big city or near a university and there are local Wikipedia meetups, take your laptop and show someone. Or ask at WP:VPT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:07, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Andy. Turns out there is a meetup that I will be attending later this month. Liberationfemale (talk) 19:16, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Have fun! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:28, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: September 2024

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CS1 error on The Canal Museum

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Wikidata weekly summary #649

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #648

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: [1]
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Elemwala (এলেমওয়ালা) (https://elemwala.toolforge.org): is a proof-of-concept interface that allows you to input abstract content and get natural language text in a given output language. There may well be errors with particular inputs, and the text may not be quite as natural as you might expect, but that's where your improvements to your language's lexemes, other Wikidata items, and the tool's source code come in!
  • mlscores: Tool for calculating multilinguality score of Wikidata items (including properties). E.g. for Wikidata (Q2013), the scores are - en: 99.66%, fr: 89.49%, es: 84.07%, pt: 68.47%. For instance of (P31), the scores are - en: 99.86%, fr: 87.12%, es: 80.83%, pt: 61.37%.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Launch of WikiProject Deprecate P642: The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642). Currently, of (P642) is labeled as "being deprecated", meaning its use is still allowed, but discouraged. From a peak of around 900,000 uses, the property now has around 700,000 uses (see status here). Our goal is to reduce that as much as possible in a systematic way, while ensuring that appropriate properties exist to replace all valid uses of of (P642). The latter is key to officially deprecating the property. Before removing the property, we want to get as close to zero uses as possible.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to find an EntitySchema by its label or aliases when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement (phab:T375641)
  • Design system: We are continuing the work on migrating the Query Builder from Wikit to Codex
  • REST API: We finished the work on language fallback support in the REST API (phab:T371605)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-42

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

Updates for editors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [2][3]
  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [4]
  • View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [5]
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [6]
  • Advanced item Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [7]

In depth

  • The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:18, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Twenty-one years

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Happy First Edit Day!

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story · music · places

Congratulations! 2003!! - I made Leif Segerstam my big story today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:31, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for improving articles on October! - My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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Happy First Edit Day!

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Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 01:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 October 2024

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William Joseph Williams (singer)

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Hi, this article has been hijacked, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japansonglove for the long history of article hijacking. The new accounts should be reported to the above sock puppet report.

I'm not sure what the original page was? Disambiguation page. Hope this helps. Knitsey (talk) 13:23, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, it hasn't. It is a fork from the (or one of the) hijacked article (William Joseph Williams), in order to provide a home for the material added by the hijacker. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:35, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oph, how is that done? Knitsey (talk) 13:38, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
See WP:HISTSPLIT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:31, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #650

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #649

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Addshore (RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2024 18:03 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • CarbonBot - (1) Add default mul labels to given and family names when the item has an existing default label with a mul language (2) Remove duplicated aliases matching the items mul label, when the item has a native label in with a mul language. As mul has not been fully adopted, a limited of aliases would be modified each day to ensure existing workflows are not disrupted. It is expected that these tasks will apply to roughly 800,000 given and family names.
    • So9qBot 10 - Add first line (P1922) with the first line of the paper to all scientific papers which has a full text link or where the abstract is available.

Events

  • Upcoming: We are getting ready for Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday on the 29th October. We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to (1) create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc. (2) add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule
  • Past:

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Ainali/PreViewStats.js - is a Userscript that gives a quick glance at the pageviews in the header (and links to the full views). If you install it on your global.js on meta, it works on all projects).
  • Wikidata:ProVe - (Automated PROvenance VErification of Knowledge Graphs against Textual Sources) - is a tool for helping editors improve the references of Wikidata Items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Deepesha Burse joins WMDE as Developer Advocate for Wikibase Suite
  • Wikibase Suite: Patch releases as the first round of patch releases for all Wikibase Suite products, including all WBS Images as well as WBS Deploy
  • The CampaignEvents extension is now live on Wikidata! This means that if you are an event organizer, you can use several new tools to help manage your events more easily. By getting the Event Organizer right, you can:
    • Use simple on-wiki registration for your events.
    • Integrate Outreach Dashboard with your event registration page. (see demo)
    • Communicate more easily with your registered participants. (see demo)
    • Make your events more visible to other editors through the Special:AllEvents page.
    • Find potential participants for your next events. (see demo), and much more!
    • With this extension, you can also see all global events (past, present, and future) on the Special:AllEvents page, but only events using the event registration feature will appear there. If you are an organizer and want to use these new tools, follow the instructions on the Wikidata:Event_Organizers page to request the Event Organizer right.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Vector 2020: We’re working on improving Wikibase’s dark mode support somewhat (phab:T369385)
  • We polished the automatic undo/redo messages to make them more useful (phab:T194402)
  • Design system: We’re close to finishing migrating Special:NewLexeme to the Codex design system
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on searching EntitySchema values by label and alias (phab:T375641)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-43

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

Weekly highlight

  • The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

  • Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
  • Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
  • View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [8][9][10][11][12]
  • It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "24 October 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [13][14]
  • Advanced item Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [15]
  • The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [16]

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
  • The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Review: Wikipedia Draft of Muhammad Ali Swati

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I’ve created a draft for Muhammad Ali Swati on Wikipedia: Draft:Muhammad Ali Swati. Could you please review it to check if it adheres to Wikipedia’s policies and standards? I would appreciate any suggestions or changes you might recommend. Imhussainkhan (talk) 10:58, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to participate in a research

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