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Question from Saddekake (20:31, 16 September 2024)
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hi! hope you're doing well. is there any important information or tips you'd like to give me? --Saddekake (talk) 20:31, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240916203100","author":"Saddekake","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Saddekake-20240916203100-Question_from_Saddekake_(20:31,_16_September_2024)","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20240917060000-Saddekake-20240916203100"]}}-->
@Saddekake: Another editor has already added a welcome message on your talk page. Go through those links when you get the chance. I'd suggest that you start and complete WP:TWA and follow that up with trying some of the tasks at Wikipedia:Task Center. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:00, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240917060000","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20240917060000-Saddekake-20240916203100","replies":["c-Saddekake-20240917060800-MPGuy2824-20240917060000"]}}-->
thank you, and i will as soon as i get home from work. glad to be a part of the team! Saddekake (talk) 06:08, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240917060800","author":"Saddekake","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Saddekake-20240917060800-MPGuy2824-20240917060000","replies":[]}}-->
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [1]
References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [2]
It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [3]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [4]
Technical project updates
Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [5]
Tech in depth
The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
Hey MPGuy, and thanks for your contributions in the Developing Countries WikiContest! I've had to decline your submission of this FLC review as it is unfortunately too short to award points for. Please see the relevant section of the scoring rules for more information. However, it looks like the candidate has not yet received a source, image, or accessibility review, so your submission could be accepted if you conducted one. I hope you'll consider that, and please let me or another coordinator know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:47, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240919164700","author":"TechnoSquirrel69","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-TechnoSquirrel69-20240919164700-DCWC_submission_declined","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20240920024100-TechnoSquirrel69-20240919164700"]}}-->
@TechnoSquirrel69: There is no actual difference between a short review because it was done half-heartedly, and a thorough review that is short because there isn't much to nitpick about (prose-wise). I do understand that it is impossible for someone else to know which of the above cases is true. In any case, no worries: the inclusion/exclusion of these points aren't going to change my rankings in the contest much. On a side note, I hope this contest will be repeated next year too. I assume that you guys are going to write something about it in the Signpost once it concludes, which would serve as a recruitment ad for any future contests. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:41, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240920024100","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20240920024100-TechnoSquirrel69-20240919164700","replies":["c-TechnoSquirrel69-20240920162200-MPGuy2824-20240920024100"]}}-->
Thanks MPGuy; yes, we had the issue of short (but still probably comprehensive) reviews at FLC before, and the solution that the coordinators agreed on was to allow for resubmission with one of the technical aspects completed as well. We are indeed hoping to make the contest a repeating event as this year's participation and content improvement results were miles beyond what we were expecting! I'm planning on inviting the participants to a general reflection discussion after the contest is over so we can get some feedback about how to move forward with it in the future, which I hope you'll join in on — keep your eyes open for a talk page link in the mass message at the start of October. We hadn't actually discussed a Signpost article, but that makes perfect sense to me, so I'll talk to the other coordinators and see what we can do. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:22, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240920162200","author":"TechnoSquirrel69","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-TechnoSquirrel69-20240920162200-MPGuy2824-20240920024100","replies":[]}}-->
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
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [6]
Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [7][8]
The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
Just a word of thanks for all your hard work reviewing new redirects. It doesn't go unnoticed.
Best wishes, Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 10:30, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240926103000","author":"Jean-de-Nivelle","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Jean-de-Nivelle-20240926103000-Thank_you","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20240926103800-Jean-de-Nivelle-20240926103000"]}}-->
Thanks, Jean. There are other reviewers doing the same, but its possible that I might have reviewed a lot of the ones you created. Since you seem to be interested in them, do consider joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect. In any case, happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:38, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240926103800","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20240926103800-Jean-de-Nivelle-20240926103000","replies":[]}}-->
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سلام
من یک شهروند افغان هستم برای بورسیه در یک سایت خواندم دولت روسیه ۹ ماه آموزش زبان میدهد سپس آزمون زبان را میگیرد میخواستن در رشته موسیقی در دانشگاه روسیه تحصیل کرده و چگونه درخواست بورسیه بدهم؟ --Nastaran Ebrahimi (talk) 08:34, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240927083400","author":"Nastaran Ebrahimi","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Nastaran_Ebrahimi-20240927083400-Question_from_Nastaran_Ebrahimi_on_Saint_Petersburg_Conservatory_(08:34,_27_Sept","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20240927084700-Nastaran_Ebrahimi-20240927083400"]}}-->
@Nastaran Ebrahmi: Hi, I think you are confused. This is Wikipedia, which isn't related to any Russian university. I found this site, but I don't know how trustworthy it is. Good luck with your studies and your scholarship application.
سلام فکر کنم گیج شدی این ویکی پدیا است که به هیچ دانشگاه روسی مربوط نمی شود. من سایت رو پیدا کردم ولی نمیدونم چقدر قابل اعتماده. در ادامه تحصیل و درخواست بورسیه موفق باشید. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:47, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240927084700","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20240927084700-Nastaran_Ebrahimi-20240927083400","replies":[]}}-->
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Question from Ancient seekr (02:49, 29 September 2024)
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I have edited and article that was misleading and gave source to every piece of information but an editor keeps reverting it giving baseless reasons. How do i got about this? --Ancient seekr (talk) 02:49, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240929024900","author":"Ancient seekr","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Ancient_seekr-20240929024900-Question_from_Ancient_seekr_(02:49,_29_September_2024)","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20240929025800-Ancient_seekr-20240929024900"]}}-->
@Ancient seekr: Welcome to Wikipedia. The usual way to avoid an edit war is to bring up the issue on the concerned article's talk page and discuss it with the other editor(s) there. In this case, a third editor has already started the topic. You should make your case there on why certain sources and their points of view should be added to the article, in a civil manner. Try to remain polite, even if you think that you are instigated. Hopefully, you can come to some sort of consensus with the help of the third editor. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:58, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240929025800","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20240929025800-Ancient_seekr-20240929024900","replies":["c-Ancient_seekr-20240929050300-MPGuy2824-20240929025800"]}}-->
@MPGuy2824 Thank you. I have added information with clear citations to enhance the article's content. While I am open to suggestions and improvements from other editors, including the addition of "citation needed" templates, I believe the recent revert was unjustified. The reverted edit lacked proper structure, lacked citations for even existing information, and displayed a clear POV push. Despite the other editor's seniority, their reason for the revert appears baseless. I have expressed my concerns on the article's talk page and am waiting for their response. Ancient seekr (talk) 05:03, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240929050300","author":"Ancient seekr","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Ancient_seekr-20240929050300-MPGuy2824-20240929025800","replies":[]}}-->
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Hi!
Thanks for editing the last changes.
I only wanted to set the page back into draft mode, as some previous changes were not correct and some legal issues need to be sorted out first before the changes can be published. Stating the correct information in this article is very essential to the club and the FA.
If there was an error setting this article back into draft mode, could you maybe correct this? I was not aware of this namespace issue and just followed the instructions.
Thanks a lot. StrangeBrotherhood (talk) 15:29, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240929152900","author":"StrangeBrotherhood","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-StrangeBrotherhood-20240929152900-Gibraltar_Wave_FC_-namespace","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20240930053200-StrangeBrotherhood-20240929152900"]}}-->
StrangeBrotherhood, when you draftified Gibraltar Wave FC, you were also supposed to "Nominate the resulting cross-namespace redirect for deletion using {{db-r2}}", as per the instructions in WP:DRAFTIFY. No worries, not a big issue. An admin has deleted the redirect now. Please keep this in mind, during any future draftifications that you do. You could also install the script mentioned at the beginning of WP:DRAFTIFY (Disclosure: I maintain it). It would take care of all the required steps for you. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:32, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240930053200","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20240930053200-StrangeBrotherhood-20240929152900","replies":[]}}-->
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Hello, You redirected Pojp, Finland to Pohja. The problem with that redirection is that Phja is not the curretn interantinal name but Pojo is the name to be used in interantional texts. There was a period for a couple of decades that this area was internatinally Pohja, but previous to that it was Pojo since 1200/1300 - 1974/5 something, and now it is back again to Pojo. So If there is this Wiki Pohja -article ithe information should just censern those specific decads and there has to be an article that refers to the current name. I do understand the problems with links but there will be more problems if wikipedia dosen't use current names. KaGr (talk) 07:55, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240930075500","author":"KaGr","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-KaGr-20240930075500-Problem_with_Pojo,Finland_to_Pohja","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20240930083100-KaGr-20240930075500"]}}-->
Hi KaGr, I haven't created either of those, but I did mark the redirect from Pojo, Finland to Pohja as reviewed. If I understand you correctly, you now think that Pohja should be the redirect. while the article should be moved to "Pojo, Finland" (or some variant). If so, you should look at Wikipedia:Requested moves and see if it is applicable to your situation. If I'm mistaken, then please explain the issue in more detail so that I can direct you to the right place for the solution. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:31, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240930083100","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20240930083100-KaGr-20240930075500","replies":[]}}-->
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For reviewing a number of new pages, I appreciate your support here! Nayyn (talk) 09:03, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240930090300","author":"Nayyn","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Nayyn-20240930090300-Thank_you_2","replies":[]}}-->
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
Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [9]
For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [10]
The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [11]
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Question from Mark Arnheim (22:52, 30 September 2024)
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I submitted a new page and unsure if I have submitted correctly? --Mark Arnheim (talk) 22:52, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240930225200","author":"Mark Arnheim","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mark_Arnheim-20240930225200-Question_from_Mark_Arnheim_(22:52,_30_September_2024)","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20241001095700-Mark_Arnheim-20240930225200"]}}-->
@Mark Arnheim: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've put up a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Take a look at the ones that seem interesting when you get the time. Now regarding your question: You are obviously talking about User:Mark Arnheim/sandbox. You should read and follow the steps in Help:Your first article to submit your article for publication. I also have feedback about the draft, but I'll post that later on your talk page and we can continue this conversation there. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:57, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241001095700","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20241001095700-Mark_Arnheim-20240930225200","replies":[]}}-->
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Yes --FAIZAN4554! (talk) 11:40, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241002114000","author":"FAIZAN4554!","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-FAIZAN4554!-20241002114000-Question_from_FAIZAN4554!_(11:40,_2_October_2024)","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20241002132300-FAIZAN4554!-20241002114000"]}}-->
@FAIZAN4554!: Welcome to Wikipedia!. I've left you a message with a bunch of links of your talk page. I recommend that you start with WP:TWA. Feel free to ping me if you have any issues. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 13:23, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241002132300","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20241002132300-FAIZAN4554!-20241002114000","replies":[]}}-->
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How do I remove content from a wikipage that isn't true information --Qwert001100 (talk) 03:27, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241003032700","author":"Qwert001100","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Qwert001100-20241003032700-Question_from_Qwert001100_on_Aneel_Mussarat_(03:27,_3_October_2024)","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20241003060000-Qwert001100-20241003032700"]}}-->
@Qwert001100: Welcome to Wikipedia. Take a look at WP:BRD, which seems to fit your situation. The Bold and Revert steps are already over. The next step is to discuss the issue with the reverting editor, on the article's talk page. One of the sources that you removed is from a newspaper though, and it'll be tough to find someone else that agrees with you about its removal. If you have newspaper/other sources that provide an opposing point of view then bringing those into the discussion should help. Also, do you have a WP:COI with this builder? If so, then make sure that you follow the instructions at WP:DISCLOSE. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:00, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241003060000","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20241003060000-Qwert001100-20241003032700","replies":[]}}-->
The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has come to a close! After a thrilling finish to the event with a slew of submissions on the final day, we have our winners. With 608 points, Thebiguglyalien (submissions) comes in third with his series of Kiribati and Botswanan submissions; BeanieFan11 (submissions) flies into second place at the last second with 771 points after a string of good articles about sportspersons; and after leading for much of contest's three months, Generalissima (submissions) finishes with a whopping 798 points to take home the Gold Belt Buckle. Congratulations to our winners!
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The results of the contest have far exceeded any expectations the coordinators had for it at the beginning: among the submissions to the event were 3 FAs, 10 FLs, 88 GAs, dozens of article reviews of every kind, and more Did you know? submissions than we can count! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...
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How to make ur bio like native of a state --JUPITER332 (talk) 21:24, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241003212400","author":"JUPITER332","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-JUPITER332-20241003212400-Question_from_JUPITER332_(21:24,_3_October_2024)","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20241004062000-JUPITER332-20241003212400"]}}-->
@JUPITER332: Welcome to Wikipedia. I see another editor has already added a welcome message on your talk page. Do go through the links when you can. I suggest that you start with WP:TWA. I don't think I understood your question well. Are you interested in creating an article about yourself on the wiki? If so, you should look at Help:YFA. Do clarify if I'm wrong and happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:20, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241004062000","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20241004062000-JUPITER332-20241003212400","replies":[]}}-->
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Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, IEEE Medal of Honor, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241006002500","author":"FACBot","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-FACBot-20241006002500-Promotion_of_IEEE_Medal_of_Honor","replies":[]}}-->
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Yo bro, Why do you really have to delete the bfdi character names on the surname pages? Litterally, i have to CREATE AN ARTICLE OF IT! And i created one, BUT IS WAS DELETED BECAUSE SOME PARTS WERE STOLEN WHICH IS TRUE, Its because YOU ARE ASKING ME THAT I HAVE TO CREATE A WHOLE PARAGRAPH, WHOLE PARAGRAPH! LIke your mean bro. Dont even dare DELETE IT AGAIN if i put it back. >:( Frenchybal (talk) 12:55, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241006125500","author":"Frenchybal","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Frenchybal-20241006125500-Comment_from_Frenchybal","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20241006130900-Frenchybal-20241006125500"]}}-->
@Frenchybal: Please provide some context for whatever you are trying to say. Also, try to avoid using all caps. Looking through your contributions, I feel that it would be useful for you to start and complete WP:TWA. At the end of it you'll know if editing Wikipedia is for you or not. Good luck. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 13:09, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241006130900","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20241006130900-Frenchybal-20241006125500","replies":["c-Frenchybal-20241006154600-MPGuy2824-20241006130900"]}}-->
ok then. Frenchybal (talk) 15:46, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241006154600","author":"Frenchybal","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Frenchybal-20241006154600-MPGuy2824-20241006130900","replies":[]}}-->
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September 2024 NPP backlog drive – Most redirects reviewed
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Redirect Ninja Master Award
This award is given in recognition to MPGuy2824 for reviewing 14,197 redirects during the September 2024 NPP backlog drive, the most of any participant. Your contributions played a key part in the 35,000+ redirects reviewed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 14:40, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007144000","author":"Hey man im josh","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Hey_man_im_josh-20241007144000-September_2024_NPP_backlog_drive_\u2013_Most_redirects_reviewed","replies":["c-DreamRimmer-20241007144200-Hey_man_im_josh-20241007144000"]}}-->
Big thanks, MPGuy2824, for all your amazing work in this backlog drive! – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:42, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007144200","author":"DreamRimmer","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-DreamRimmer-20241007144200-Hey_man_im_josh-20241007144000","replies":["c-MPGuy2824-20241007144400-DreamRimmer-20241007144200"]}}-->
Thanks, both of you. It was nice watching the graph line going down rapidly. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 14:44, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007144400","author":"MPGuy2824","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-MPGuy2824-20241007144400-DreamRimmer-20241007144200","replies":[]}}-->
This award is given in recognition to MPGuy2824 for accumulating at least 500 points during the September 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 19,000+ articles and 35,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 26,884.6 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:15, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007151500","author":"Hey man im josh","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Hey_man_im_josh-20241007151500-September_2024_NPP_backlog_drive_\u2013_Points_award","replies":[]}}-->
This award is given in recognition to MPGuy2824 for accumulating at least 150 points during each week of the September 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 19,000+ articles and 35,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 26,884.6 points) during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:37, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007153700","author":"Hey man im josh","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Hey_man_im_josh-20241007153700-September_2024_NPP_backlog_drive_\u2013_Streak_award","replies":[]}}-->
Thank you and pls give any feedbacks! LaraKapoor (talk) 16:33, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007163300","author":"LaraKapoor","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-LaraKapoor-20241007163300-Page_approval","replies":[]}}-->