Hello there, 'tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! A big thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia in 2024! Wishing you a Very happy and productive 2025! ♦ Maliner (talk) 02:25, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
hello,I am new to Wikipedia editing ,I want to create a page on "List if Notable bhumihars".In case you don't know,bhumihar is a caste in bihar and some parts of up,mp,delhi,jharkhand,nepal.I have a list of around 12 subtopics ready(example-journalist,freedom fighters,holders of high constitutional offices,etc.) and each of them will have have average of 5 names.I can send you the whole list if you want but I need your help to create the page, put the name and references,etc.I will forever be in your debt if you help me achieve this.In the worst case scenario if you cant help me due to some reason, is there any way you can connect me to any of your friends who can help me acheive this.--Thatonewikipediadude (talk) 08:02, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Thatonewikipediadude: You don't really need my help. You should start a draft at Draft:List of Bhumihars and submit it via WP:AFC. There is no particular need to mention "notable" in the title as only wiki articles that already exist would be welcome in such a list. Please note that references should be reliable. You've already been informed about WP:CASTEID, so keep that in mind while searching for sources. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I wanted to call to your attention that on the Micronesian Megapode wikipedia page it says that the females are the ones who build the mounds during breeding. To my knowledge and research it is the male megapode that builds the mounds to attract females to lay their eggs in their mounds. That is all 140.211.214.194 (talk) 18:23, 9 January 2025 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.211.214.194 (talk) 18:08, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd suggest that you find a reliable source which says this and then correct the information on the page while adding the reference. If undoes your edit after that, then you can start a conversation with them on the article's talk page. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As I am dyslexic, I am not good at correcting gramer or punctuation. My strength is in knowledge I own and reading 4 languages. Do I need to edit the suggested things or can I do what I like? --Coraevas (talk) 20:55, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Coraevas: Welcome to Wikipedia. Its nice to know someone that acknowledges their limitations. Since you can read 4 languages, I would have suggested some work in translation, but there too grammar would come into play. Can you tell me what field you are most interested in? A field of study (e.g. biology) or a geographical area (e.g. Egypt) would be good here. May you could help with finding references for articles that need it? Alternatively, you can take a look at Wikipedia:Task Center: "Fact-Checking" and "Categorization" seem like things you might be interested in. Try out a few different things, go slow so that folks can give you feedback if you are doing something wrong. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:34, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Tech News: 2025-03
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [1]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [2]
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [4]
Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [5]
Hey, just a note that Otis's recent redirects, which you have just reviewed, seem dubious in general. I see no reference, for example, that Max is derived from Maximillian. As such, I'm unreviewing your reviewed redirects for now until the community at RfD can take a look at some of their other redirects up for discussion. Iseult Δx talk to me06:22, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I sent them notes about a few of the other redirects that they created. I agree with your unreviewing those, but another reviewer has marked them as reviewed after that. I see Torpedo Theodore is at RfD. I'll keep an eye on that one. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:24, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Well, Otis has replied to my note saying that these are test edits, so a bundle RfD might be in order. I’m currently out for the day, but will get to that if someone else doesn’t. What do you think? Iseult Δx talk to me18:54, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Tech News: 2025-04
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [6]
On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [7]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [8]
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
Thanks for notifying me. They seemed like a good enough disambiguations, with my limited knowledge of Japanese culture. They seem to shorten phrases in that way. I've watchlisted the discussion, but don't plan to !vote. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:00, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Question from UmutYilmaz1 (15:14, 24 January 2025)
Hi, I have been waiting for more than six months for my first draft and have not received good feedback. Everything was good in the first submission, but I resubmitted again yesterday, and I hope I will have good feedback now. Thanks for your assistance.
Umut --UmutYilmaz1 (talk) 15:14, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. I'm not sure what your question to me is though. The first review of the draft came about 1.5 months after you submitted it, not 6 months. It was judged to be WP:TOOSOON given that he is an assistant professor as yet. Hopefully, you have taken the other feedback from the first review and fixed at least those problems in the draft. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A barnstar for you!
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thank you for your excellent contributions to Wikipedia. Your hard work and dedication are truly appreciated, and they make Wikipedia a better place! NK7411 (talk) 07:32, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Nahid! I've replied on your talk page about the speedy deletion tag and the draft. Please make sure that you read WP:GNG before submitting the draft for review. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:49, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Now, I would consider myself generally experienced since i have more than 850 edits and have been here for about 4 years, but since I switched on newcomer options (for fun)..., I automatically got assigned you as a mentor. So how long does this process take (to nominate mentors)...? --☢️SCR@TCH!NGH3@D (talk) 15:22, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hehe, I too tried switching on the newcomer options a year or so back and got assigned a mentor. I think it is random and you don't necessarily get a mentor who created their account before you.
I'm not sure what you mean by "how long does this process take (to nominate mentors)", but if you want to become a mentor, you can just go to Special:EnrollAsMentor.
