Rusty Cat
nest ~ den ~ territory ~ litterbox ~ pawprint gallery🐾
| This is Rusty Cat's talk page, where you can send him messages and comments. |
|
Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10Auto-archiving period: 30 days  |
 | This user is aware of the designation of the following topics as contentious topics:
|
|
||||||||||
|
This page has archives. Sections older than 30 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 2 sections are present. |
Mentee FAQ
editHow do I upload an image?
editPictures under a license that allows reuse can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Once uploaded, they can be used here under the filename you chose when uploading.
Women in Red November 2024
edit
Online events:
Announcements from other communities
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 20:44, 29 October 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Concern regarding Draft:Warriors: A Vision of Shadows
edit
Hello, Rusty Cat. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Warriors: A Vision of Shadows, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:08, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Concern regarding Draft:Warriors: The Broken Code
edit Hello, Rusty Cat. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Warriors: The Broken Code, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:08, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
Technical news
- 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
Arbitration
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
Miscellaneous
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Question from Bharat negi spain (20:19, 3 November 2024)
editUp load photos --Bharat negi spain (talk) 20:19, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Bharat negi spain: What do you need help with? Rusty 🐈 20:19, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-45
editLatest 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. [1]
- 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. [2]
- 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. [3]
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.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
The Signpost: 6 November 2024
edit- From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
- In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
- Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
- Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?
Welcome to the drive!
editWelcome, welcome, welcome Rusty Cat! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
Question from Imdaanyel29 (15:29, 7 November 2024)
edithow do I even editt --Imdaanyel29 (talk) 15:29, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Imdaanyel29: Just press the "Edit" button in the top right! Rusty 🐈 15:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Taramayatamang (11:09, 8 November 2024)
editHello my recent draft was declined due to "Lots of unsourced claims and statements of fact". Could you please take a look and help me what are those instead of just sending me link about Notability. I want specific points and issues with the drafts so I can correct those. --Taramayatamang (talk) 11:09, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Taramayatamang: You seem to have improved the article's sourcing since the article was last declined 2-3 days ago. Wait until the reviewer gets back to you and you can ask me again then if it gets declined. Rusty 🐈 14:11, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hello there could you review my draftl Taramayatamang (talk) 05:07, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Taramayatamang No, I am not an draft reviewer. A reviewer will probably get to your draft soon. Rusty 🐈 17:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from SanchezGranddaughter (20:48, 9 November 2024)
editI want to attach a photo of my grandfather to a Wikipedia page.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/03fO69SIvAJ7ZaeBfIHhIciKw. I’m having trouble submitting --SanchezGranddaughter (talk) 20:48, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- I don’t want to use that link actually SanchezGranddaughter (talk) 20:50, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- @SanchezGranddaughter What is the specific issue you are facing? Rusty 🐈 17:29, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
BRFA
editI think you forgot about this BRFA, so I just wanted to bring it to your attention. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:46, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @DreamRimmer Thank you! Rusty 🐈 00:32, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-46
editLatest 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
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [4]
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [5]
Updates for technical contributors
In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase functiongetAllStatementschanged to behave likegetBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [6]- Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.
In depth
- Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [7]
Meetings and events
- 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
Question from Byrangerry (01:45, 14 November 2024)
editHi Rusty Cat. Do you review my edits as a newcomer? On one I edited a sentence said to be 'peacock prose' in an edit note. What happens to the edit note...is my edit reviewed and then the edit note is removed or should I be removing the edit note? Thanks --Byrangerry (talk) 01:45, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Byrangerry: Welcome to Wikipedia! I am your mentor, but that doesn't give me many special powers over anyone else; anyone can see and check there edits if they wish. If you're referring to the maintenance template by "edit note", you can safely remove it once you believe the issue has been rectified. Rusty 🐈 05:05, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from SaliaMalle (01:29, 15 November 2024)
editHow do i create an article about a church --SaliaMalle (talk) 01:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- @SaliaMalle: Hello! See Help:Your first article and WP:NBUILDING for information. Rusty 🐈 01:51, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Profile Photo
editHello rutty, how can i upload my profile photo — Preceding unsigned comment added by FresH NaijA dls (talk • contribs) 23:33, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- @FresH NaijA dls: First of all, my name is Rusty, not Rutty.
R-U-S-T-Y. Second, Wikipedia is not like Facebook or other social media. We are creating an encyclopedia here. Rusty 🐈 00:12, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Kelleycatholic on Charles Mullins (pediatric cardiologist) (17:18, 18 November 2024)
editHow do I add an image? --Kelleycatholic (talk) 17:18, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Kelleycatholic: You seem to have successfully added one. Rusty 🐈 00:04, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- But it was my own personal photo. Don’t I need to add one from a published source? 174.170.77.221 (talk) 01:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 18 November 2024
editArbCom 2024 Elections voter message
edit Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-47
editLatest 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
- Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [8]
- View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [9]
Updates for technical contributors
- On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [10][11]
In depth
- There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
Meetings and events
- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
- Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
- A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
Question from The2gingerman (16:13, 19 November 2024)
editDo all edits require discussion? --The2gingerman (talk) 16:13, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- @The2gingerman: not necessarily, there are many types of edits that have been agreed upon by the community to be non-controversial. However, if you think an edit may be controversial it may be best to discuss the edit first, or state your intents when making the edits on the talk page. Rusty 🐈 19:08, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! The2gingerman (talk) 19:12, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- @The2gingerman: It's a pleasure to help! Rusty 🐈 01:01, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! The2gingerman (talk) 19:12, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Eeveegirl1221 (18:57, 21 November 2024)
edithi how do i make my own artical --Eeveegirl1221 (talk) 18:57, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Eeveegirl1221: If you want to make an article about yourself, that may not be possible. If you want to write an article about someone else, see Help:Your first article. Rusty 🐈 21:49, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Boemo "Status B99" Mosese on TECO Electric and Machinery (15:34, 22 November 2024)
editHow can I mention a location for people to search on Google? --Boemo "Status B99" Mosese (talk) 15:34, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Boemo "Status B99" Mosese: Can you clarify? Thanks. Rusty 🐈 16:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Taramayatamang (10:20, 24 November 2024)
editMy article has under review for a long time now, how do i get some one to review it ? --Taramayatamang (talk) 10:20, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Taramayatamang: You don't. The message at the top of the draft tells you that it may take a long time since drafts aren't reviewed in a specific order. Just wait and eventually someone will get to the draft. Rusty 🐈 14:48, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
- oh okay, also how do I delete draft ? Taramayatamang (talk) 15:02, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Taramayatamang: If you want to delete a draft you created, insert the template {{db-author}} at the top of the page. Rusty 🐈 15:06, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
- oh okay, also how do I delete draft ? Taramayatamang (talk) 15:02, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from AlBadareenYazeed (20:04, 24 November 2024)
editHello
Thank you for your support and dedication. Two months ago, I updated Rabdan Academy wikepedia page. I am checking everyday but changes still not reflected yet. Is there any issue needs my attention please? --AlBadareenYazeed (talk) 20:04, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
- @AlBadareenYazeed: You seem to be undoing your own edit each time you make one to an article. I don't know why that would happen, but it did. Rusty 🐈 21:41, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
In editing, am I allowed to remove any content? For example, in the intro section of the Wikipedia page about a company it has a link to a negative press item. It make no sense there. Could I just remove it, or do I need to move it further down the page more as a note? --TwoAlbert (talk) 19:50, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-48
editLatest 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
A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.- The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such
Ctrl+Bfor bold andCtrl+Ifor italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [12] - Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.
Updates for technical contributors
- The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing
Ctrl+,and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion". - Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [13]
- The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [14]
Meetings and events
- A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
Women in Red December 2024
edit
Online events:
Announcements from other communities
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 18:46, 29 November 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Question from Leon sun 90 (11:31, 1 December 2024)
editHello, mentor. I am a loyal user and enthusiast of Wikipedia from mainland China. I hope to obtain IP block exemption. I hope the processing staff will grant me IP block exemption. Thank you. I will definitely abide by the community rules and actively create valuable content. leon --Leon sun 90 (talk) 11:31, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Leon sun 90: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! The page on IP block exemption is Wikipedia:IP block exemption. Since you were able to post your question, that means you are able to make an edit and don't need it. Rusty 🐈 14:33, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-49
editLatest 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
- Two new parser functions were added this week. The
{{#interwikilink}}function adds an interwiki link and the{{#interlanguagelink}}function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning withMOS:on English Wikipedia conflict with themoslanguage code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia. - Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [15]
- Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [16]
- This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [17]
Updates for technical contributors
- In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
Administrators' newsletter – December 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
- Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.
Technical news
- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
- An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.