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Heya, I found a page with grammar that is not so good. I have an app called Grammarly which can correct grammar for you. I was curious if I could use it for the article to fix the grammar, or if it isn't allowed. --Liam9287 (talk) 18:00, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
@Hectorinaaa, overall, great job, but I'd like to see more references, especially for those statements (sentences) that are not referenced. How can you show that this is true? His gravestone was erected by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albani (later known as Pope Clement XI) the gravestone was placed for him in the walls near the entrance of the Sacristy of the Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:27, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-43
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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.
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
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 "14 January 2025". 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. [6][7]
Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [8]
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. [9]
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.
20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on our pilot wikis. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn how to configure the Community Updates module, or share your thoughts on the project's talk page.
One design concept aimed to increase constructive activation
After showcasing early design ideas at Wikimania, we conducted user testing of design prototypes. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.
This Community Configuration extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs. The Growth team is now helping other Wikimedia Foundation teams make their products configurable:
The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for Automoderator. (T365046)
Certain Babel extension settings will be configurable soon. (T328171)
Future work
As part of the Growth team annual plan, we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the Metrics Platform.
Community events
Growth team members presented Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together at Wikimania (slides). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin and Martin Urbanec answered audience questions.
Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
Guidance on How To Edit My Proposed Company Profile
Hi,
I'm trying to understand how the company profile I wrote can be edited to make it sound more Encyclopedia-like. This draft was quickly rejected without any specific quidance, so any thoughts on how I can improve it will be greatly appreciated:
Guys With Rides® is a dealer-free online community and marketplace for classic and collector car enthusiasts. The husband and wife team Rudy and Nancy Samsel, co-founded the company as a minority-owned New Jersey Limited Liability Corporation under the name Guys With Rides Exchange LLC in October 2018. They manage the online-only business as an LLC from their residence in Raritan Township, New Jersey. In addition to hosting dealer-free auctions, the GuysWithRides.com website offers a variety of classic and collector car-related content. Complementing the company’s website is the Guys With Rides YouTube Channel, which hosts a variety of short- and long-form video content as well as the Guys With Their Rides Podcast which interviews classic car owners with interesting stories to share.
History
Rudy Samsel initially came up with the idea for GuysWithRides.com in October 2018 as a way for him to expand his analytical skill set into online digital marketing. At the time, Samsel worked as a Senior Director of Analytics at Cencora, Inc. (formerly known as AmerisourceBergen). Sensing he might be laid off as part of an upcoming restructuring, Samsel created the GuysWithRides website and social media accounts to learn Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”) and digital marketing, as well as Google Analytics and online advertising.
Samsel grew the site in his spare time, blogging about interesting classic cars for sale he spotted on Craigslist. "When I saw the writing on the wall, I just started blogging about cars, much like the way Bring a Trailer started," he continued. "About a year and a half ago, I felt comfortable enough that I had, I think, enough people looking at it. And I have enough discipline in the search engine optimization on the website that if somebody Googles a particular car, they find my site more often than not."
When Cencora's restructuring eliminated his position at the end of May 2019, Samsel elected to devote his energy full-time to growing the GuysWithRides website and social media presence. The website grew exponentially in the spring of 2020, when the COVID-19 lockdowns forced home-bound automotive enthusiasts to search the web for interesting and informative content.
Recognizing the need to protect intellectual property and branding, Samsel received U.S. Trademark approval for the phrase “Guys With Rides” and the company’s logo on October 20, 2020.
Leveraging the website's rapid organic growth at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, Guys With Rides began offering an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of classic and collector cars in December of that year, which continues today. “GuysWithRides.com is a little different from other online collector-car auctions. The site doesn’t allow dealers to buy or sell on their platform.”
During that time, at least one dozen competitive websites launched, hoping to capitalize on the success of the growing online classic car website BringaTrailer.com and capture buyers and sellers from traditional auction houses such as Mecum. In addition to ensuring his website remained dealer-free, Samsel sought to further differentiate GuysWithRides.com from the others by offering a Toll Free Number for buyers and sellers to call him directly with questions. “We have found a way to integrate technology into the car-buying process to make a streamlined experience for classic car buyers and sellers that saves time, money, and frustration on all sides."
Auction Overview
GuysWithRides.com focuses primarily on offering dealer-free auctions for interesting classic cars, muscle cars, and sports cars. The site also provides survivor-quality vintage cars with interesting histories, allowing private party enthusiasts to buy and sell vintage vehicles online.
Motivating Samsel to create the site was his experiences with other online auction sites, which he felt were skewed toward dealers and employed manipulative auction practices.
As of 2024, GuysWithRides remains a small niche player in the classic and collector car auction space, offering approximately one hundred fifty vehicles annually. Samsel prefers offering unique and rare classic cars that will generate interest from potential buyers to visit the website.
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
Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [10]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [11]
Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [12]
Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
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
Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [13]
Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [14]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [15]
In depth
Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
