User talk:Funandtrvl

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WikiProject Notre Dame Invite

Hey! I noticed you are a Notre Dame alumnus, hence I wanted to invite you to join our project. Also, I know you're already an active member of the project, but I just wanted to tell you that I'm currently in the effort to re-boot the project and make it more productive than ever.

Just out of curiosity, I know you're an alumnus, were you an undergrad? What dorm? Eccekevin (talk) 19:57, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I graduated in 1980 (B.A., Economics). I lived in Lewis Hall. My M.B.A. is from Loyola Chicago in 1982. It was before ND had a MBA program in downtown Chicago, otherwise I would have gone to ND for that also. At the time, they only had a full-time program in Indiana, and although I was accepted, I turned it down so I could move back to my hometown in the W. Suburbs and commute downtown to Loyola's Graduate School of Business. Cheers! Funandtrvl (talk) 20:54, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

That's great! I hope you get to visit often. Also, if you're interested, the current Lewis Hall section Hall is severly lacking. I found good sources , but I don't have time to work on it. If you want, that's definitely something that has to be done Archives[1]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eccekevin (talk • contribs) 05:39, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Notre Dame

Hi Funandtrvl!

I know that in the past you've been an active Wikiproject Notre Dame. I am currently revamping the project and I'm looking for other people interested in contributing. We are in dire need, since Notre Dame has so much to be covered, but very few editors on it. There is so much to do, either adding content, or editing, or assessing. If you wanted to collaborate, there is the updated to do list (you can find it in the invite box). Are you an alumnus/a of the University? Please feel free to ask me for anything!

Best,

Eccekevin (talk) 00:35, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Two years ago ...

refined templates fun
... you were recipient no. 897 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Three years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:47, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Funandtrvl (talk) 18:14, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

... and four! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you again! Funandtrvl (talk) 22:51, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

... and six! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

WPCleaner 2.0

Installer for WPCleaner

Hello Funandtrvl.

I would like to inform you that a new version of WPCleaner is available replacing the old version (v1.43) dating back to almost a year. Unfortunately, going from version 1.43 to 2.0 automatically isn't possible and will require a new installation. It's necessary to install version 2.0 to take advantage of updates and bug fixes. Version 1.43 will have to be uninstalled manually, as there are no more updates for it.

The installation procedure is described at Wikipedia:WPCleaner/Installation.

Note: for usage in Bot mode, I strongly advise to check the modifications to be sure that the tasks run correctly

--NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 20:26, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Okay, will do, thanks Funandtrvl (talk) 20:47, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Notre Dame

Hello Funandtrvl, I just wanted to thank you for your work for the WikiProject Notre Dame. I am currently making an effort to revamp it and improve all articles. I was wondering if you could help out, since any and all help is needed. If you want, you can check out the To Do list for the top priority, or take your own initiative and work on what's needed the most. The top priority articles in bad condition, like the colleges or the grotto, need a lot of help too. Additionally, photos or translation in other languages are also great.

Best and thank once more for your work on Wikipedia, Eccekevin (talk) 02:35, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

thanks- I will take a look at it! Funandtrvl (talk) 17:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Resources for finding county-level statistics

• Census QuickFacts
• Social Capital Variables Spreadsheet for 2014, PennState College of Agricultural Sciences, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
• Social Capital Project: Social Capital Index Data spreadsheet accompanying the U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Social Capital Project. “The Geography of Social Capital in America.” Report prepared by the Vice Chairman’s staff, 115th Cong., 2nd Sess. (April 2018)
• Religious statistics by county
• PeakVisor, search for "X County" to find high points in a county
• ebird, gives bird species lists for each county
• Midwest Herbaria, search to generate plant species lists for each county
• Mycoportal, search to generate fungus and bryophyte species lists
• NASS QuickStats database, gives agricultural figures by county for many data points
• bestplaces.net--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 21:42, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

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Happy New Year!

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  MMXX Lunar Calendar

Funandtrvl,
Have a great 2020 and thanks for your continued contributions to Wikipedia.

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Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2020}} to user talk pages.

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Thank you, Happy New Year! Funandtrvl (talk) 19:24, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

@CAPTAIN RAJU: Thank you! Funandtrvl (talk) 19:58, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Lee Fixel

My name is Jason and I'm currently attempting to improve the article for investor Lee Fixel on his behalf via PR agency Finsbury as part of my work with Beutler Ink. I noticed you're an active and experienced member of WikiProject Finance & Investment, and I was wondering if you might have a moment to review this request.

I've disclosed my conflict on interest on the article's talk page and submitted an initial request here to update the Early life and education section. I'm avoiding direct editing and seeking volunteer assistance to update the article on my behalf. So far I've asked for help at WikiProject Biography, WikiProject Finance & Investment, and WikiProject United States, but no editors have replied, which is why I thought to reach out to you.

Thanks for your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:14, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

@Inkian Jason: I can look at it, but it might be this evening or this weekend before I can do it. Thanks! Funandtrvl (talk) 21:17, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

No problem, and thank you! Inkian Jason (talk) 16:50, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello again! I'm still hoping you might have a moment to review this request at your convenience, but let me know if I should try to find other active editors to help. Thanks again! Inkian Jason (talk) 17:17, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I'm so sorry, I briefly looked at it, but I've been very busy at work. Maybe you can find someone at WP:BUSINESS project?

Thanks for the suggestion. I've posted a request for help at WikiProject Business, and will try to find an active editor here. If you don't mind, I may come back to you if another editor doesn't review these 2 sentences in the near future. Thanks again! Inkian Jason (talk) 15:51, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thank you for all your work on improving our London pub articles. Edwardx (talk) 12:02, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

@Edwardx: Thank you! I've been reminiscing at the same time that I've been reading & updating the navbox and articles! Funandtrvl (talk) 18:23, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Probably best to stick to virtual visits to London's pubs these days. At least we can still enjoy beer at home, even real ale in a bottle. Cheers. Edwardx (talk) 20:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Funandtrvl! Here from WikiProject Textile Arts

Hello! I've been editing textile-related articles for a few months and came across Wikipedia:WikiProject Textile Arts, where you contributed to the main page several years ago. A couple questions for you:

1) Would you mind if I made some changes to the project page? I'm attempting to follow some steps at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide#Revival in hopes of making the project more friendly, active and welcoming. I don't mean to intrude, just want to help.

2) Are you interested in participating in the project? We have a couple conversations starting over at the talk page.

I see from your user page that you are a major contributor to Wikipedia... wow! Thanks for your work here.

Enby (talk) 21:26, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Please update the project page with any new ideas!! I'll help as much as I can, thanks. Funandtrvl (talk) 18:35, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Infobox military unit doc

Hi Funandtrvl, I re-added |dates= to Template:Infobox military unit/doc. Over 20,000 articles use |dates= while only 800 use |start_date= and 100 use |end_date=.--Melbguy05 (talk) 03:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

@Melbguy05:, yes, that makes sense, thanks for fixing it! Funandtrvl (talk) 17:21, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Proposal to speedily rename categories

Please see my proposal to rename Category:Airlines in Alaska to Category:Airlines based in Alaska Category:Airlines of Hawaii to Category:Airlines based in Hawaii Hugo999 (talk) 09:40, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Lee Enterprises publications

You added the Independent Tribune to the category. I'm wondering if there are other newspapers that were part of the recent sale that have not been added.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:36, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

@Vchimpanzee:, I've added all of the ones that have WP articles to the category. I've compared them to the list of publications at the Lee Enterprises website. If there are more, please add! Funandtrvl (talk) 18:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

They said there were 30 of them. That's why I was hoping someone else was.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:17, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

I've updated the template too, at Template:Lee Enterprises. I believe that almost all of the publications are on there. Funandtrvl (talk) 19:19, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Plurality for infobox parameters

Re this edit, I think I've seen some infobox templates that adjust the label so that it produces Managing editor if |managing_editor= is used but Managing editors if |managing_editors= is used. It's hard to retroactively introduce that functionality once the (s) has been used for a while, so it might be better to set it up now if that works. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:16, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

@Sdkb: if you think that would be a better way, you or I can change it. Funandtrvl (talk) 06:27, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Funandtrvl, done here. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:38, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

@Sdkb: TYVM! I'd like your input at Template talk:Infobox newspaper#More updates to titles, regards Funandtrvl (talk) 21:25, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Why are you removing the WP:RECOG header?

With edits like [2]. These are usually there on purpose, because many people try to update these pages themselves, or wonder why an article is or isn't on the list. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} —Preceding undated comment added 02:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

@Headbomb: because when the content is within a sidebar, like this diff of WikiProject Indiana, it expanded the page almost 2 pages to the right. (it doesn't show now because I removed 4-5 of the mboxes from the featured content subpages). Funandtrvl (talk) 02:04, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

The solution in those cases is to wrap the banner in noinclude tags like this

<noinclude>
{{User:JL-Bot/Project content
...
}}</noinclude>

Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:08, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

@Headbomb: Okay, that was one of the options, that I thought about, but I wasn't sure that the noinclude tags would stay put, once the Bot makes its run. But, if the tags stay put, then that is the better solution. Thanks, Funandtrvl (talk) 02:12, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

The bot only edits the stuff between the two <!-- Start of content generated by JL-Bot --> / <!-- End of content generated by JL-Bot --> Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:15, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

thank you! Funandtrvl (talk) 02:16, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Naming of navbox categories

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates § Naming of navbox categories. —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:08, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Removing a task force

Hi, when you remove a task force from a WikiProject banner, as here, there is no need to renumber subsequent task forces - {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces}} and {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/tfnested}} both handle gaps in sequence without problems. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:37, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

@Redrose64: That's good to know, thanks. Is it in the WPBannerMeta instructions? Funandtrvl (talk) 21:40, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

It's implied by omission - the doc says the value of n is an integer between 1 and 10, it doesn't say that they need to be consecutive. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:38, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Renaming of category

Please see my proposal to rename several categories including Category:Florida infrastructure to Category:Infrastructure in Florida Hugo999 (talk) 23:07, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

--Thank you! Funandtrvl (talk) 19:56, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

MPT

https://web.facebook.com/thinoothinoo123 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.228.175.69 (talk) 22:23, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Verbal noun

Hi Funandtrvl, would be grateful if you could go in and fix up the formatting at the article Verbal noun. I cannot understand the intricacies of citations and why the don't turn out the way I want them to.

(Your previous correction resulted in an editing conflict, which resulted in the loss of editing in progress. Again, the instructions given to avoid losing my edit were largely impenetrable.)

Bathrobe (talk) 02:57, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

thanks for letting me know, I'll take a look at it soon. Funandtrvl (talk) 02:58, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

I don't have an appropriately shaped barnstar but just wanted to say thanks for all your good work in the portal namespace. I watch quite a few of its pages, mainly to counter vandalism, and most of the good edits that I skip over are yours. Certes (talk) 22:47, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

@Certes:, thank you for the kind message! I've tried to clean up pages, and fix the problems, as much as I can. Cheers Funandtrvl (talk) 00:03, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Sourcing

Since you are part of the WikiProject:Notre Dame, would you help me source some pages that risk being deleted/redirected, like Alumni Hall, Badin Hall, Carroll Hall, and Keenan Hall. I am trying to improve them to make sure they pass GNG. Thank you.Eccekevin (talk) 10:12, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

• Comment: Eccekevin, this clearly violates canvasing for votes at AfD. You are free to post to Wikiproject talk pages, but canvasing individual editors you feel will support your position is a significant violation.  // Timothy :: talk  10:26, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

India company templates category - requesting review and cleanup

Category:India company templates

Could you please review why there are so many company pages showing up in this category, which I guess is only for Templates related to Indian companies Tharun S Yadla (talk) 14:55, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

@Tharun S Yadla: Yes, the category was outside of the "noinclude" tags, so that would categorize every page that the template is transcluded on. I've fixed it by placing the category inside of the noinclude tags. It will take awhile before the category will empty out, due to caching. Funandtrvl (talk) 17:44, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Rename|Move "Lists of films by studio" by "Lists of Major Studios|Distribuors by Country".

HI ! I'm new and I don't have the required access to move a page. Can you move|rename a page ? Because the one who have created it was in public account : only the IP Address appears so impossible to contact.

The Page is "Lists of films by studio" AND Should be renamed as "Lists of Major Studios|Distribuors by Country". Also the Page Should Stay in the current Categories which are good like that ! ACI99-0001 (talk) 04:29, 19 March 2021 (UTC)ACI99-0001

@ACI99-0001: thanks for contacting me! The piping (|) in the article title will be a problem, and usually things are not capitalized in the titles, per WP's MOS:TITLES. So, I won't move this page at this time. I would suggest that you contact WT:FILM, the WikiProject about films, to see if there is a consensus to move the page title. Thanks, Funandtrvl (talk) 19:45, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

OK ! Thank for your answer ! ACI99-0001 (talk) 04:10, 20 March 2021 (UTC)ACI99-0001

Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:29, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: many thanks! --Funandtrvl (talk) 22:35, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

may you help us¿

My name is Peter and want to edit the section of tourism security, I added some comments about Emerald group publishing which is the first publisher which created a series in this theme, my edits have been reverted by Mrollie saying that it is a predatory or vanity press. It is an error, Emerald has an entry in Wikipedia. Peter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.170.101.27 (talk) 12:35, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I haven't yet had a chance to look, however, the concept of tourism security & its impact probably would be best added to the Impacts of tourism article, or something more closely related to security when traveling, maybe travel warning? If your edit was reversed due to its sources, you may want to review WP:RS, before adding it back to the article. --Funandtrvl (talk) 18:25, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

probably I will try.

I did as noted, but Mrollie again reversed the material!!!! it is very hard to deal with this user.. may you help us?

Do you work for the company that you are writing about? I have read the paragraphs that were reverted, and it can be considered to be promotional for the publishing firm. The paragraphs will need to be re-written, following the advice in WP:PROMOTION. --Funandtrvl (talk) 17:00, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

This is part of a long term campaign to promote one of the editors of the book series. This has been going on for a long time, see for example [3], [4], [5] among others, and note that Maximiliano Korstanje has been create protected because of persistent sock puppetry. MrOllie (talk) 21:10, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Portal:Africa/Featured picture

Thank you for your edits at Portal:Africa/Featured picture. Removing Template:POTD/2008-09-27 from the list is great, because it is a duplicate of Portal:Africa/Featured picture/23, which I overlooked. However, I don't quite understand the reason for removal of Template:POTD/2011-12-15 and Template:POTD/2021-01-08, both of which seem perfectly fine featured pictures, which are on topic for Portal:Africa. Could you please clarify that? —⁠andrybak (talk) 08:50, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

@Andrybak: thank you for letting me know, I'm going to take a look at it to see if I can rectify the edits. I'll get back to you soon, thanks! --Funandtrvl (talk) 04:51, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

@Andrybak:, I believe it's fixed now, there are the 2 POTD's and the 40 subpages that are displaying. Thanks for letting me know! --Funandtrvl (talk) 20:00, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency, Template:Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency, Template:Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency, Template:Infobox state assembly constituency and Template:Infobox Indian state legislative assembly constituency

Template:Infobox Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency, Template:Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency, Template:Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency and Template:Infobox state assembly constituency has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox Indian state legislative assembly constituency. You are invited to comment on the discussion at wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 July 14#Infobox Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency. Thank you. 122.167.185.249 (talk) 13:17, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Can you look at the Glenn Dubin article?

Hi. I noticed that you are a member of several Wiki projects connected to business, finance and investments, so perhaps you would be interested in helping out with edits on the Glenn Dubin page. I recently made an edit request on that article's talk page, and I am hoping you can take a look there and implement those edits. I would also like to point out, that since the date that I made that request there have been additional edits to the introduction, making the "undue weight" issue even more urgent, basically accusing Dubin of crimes which he is not being investigated for and which there is no evidence for. I hope you can look at and edit this so the result will be an introduction that is NPOV. Thanks so much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AP for Dubin (talk • contribs) 14:01, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I'll take a look at it, but I haven't been following the article & its history, so I'm not up-to-date with the problems. ---Funandtrvl (talk) 18:30, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Funandtrvl. Thanks for taking a look at Glenn Dubin's article and my edit requests. I have since answered your concerns at Talk:Glenn Dubin. I hope my answers are sufficient for you to now make my requested edits. In addition, please let me know if there is any other information you need to help you implement the requests. Thanks so much. AP for Dubin (talk) 18:30, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes, thank you! I've been so busy with work, I don't know when I'll be able to continue the edit, but I will try. --Funandtrvl (talk) 18:36, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks again for your assistance so far with Glenn Dubin's article. I know you indicated how busy you are and I just wanted to circle back a few weeks later and see if you have time to look at the talk page suggestions and clarifications I made. Thanks so much for any help you can offer! AP for Dubin (talk) 13:11, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi again, I hope all is well and that you can take a look soon at my most recent requests on the Glenn Dubin talk page. Your help is highly appreciated. AP for Dubin (talk) 13:10, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

WP Met

Just so you are aware, WP Met is being superseded by WP Weather. It isn't the parent project of weather. Noah^Talk 15:56, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Missing categories?

Hey F, I saw you added the topics to {{WikiProject Weather/class}}; do you plan to create all the assessment categories that are now required as a result of those additions? Thanks in advance, UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:38, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

@UnitedStatesian:, yes, I've been working on that project and Meteorology trying to straighten it up, as soon as I have some spare time, I'll review it, thanks --Funandtrvl (talk) 21:28, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Transport in Scotland

Hi, re this edit. Not all transport in Scotland is rail - there are roads too, and waterways. To quote from WP:TIS, focussing on, for example, rail, air, rapid transit, ferries etc., their associated features and anything else that is applicable. So slapping {{WikiProject Trains}} on e.g. Talk:Caledonian Canal is not appropriate. Compare Talk:David MacBrayne. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:04, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

You've also been causing a lot of duplication and miscategorisation - for example, in this edit it's set |importance=high and left |Scotland-importance= blank, with the effect that the page is now in both Category:Mid-importance rail transport articles and in Category:High-importance rail transport articles, besides being in Category:Unknown-importance Scotland Transport articles instead of in Category:High-importance Scotland Transport articles. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:40, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

@Redrose64: The Transport in Scotland total articles are now at 2,281+, whereas yesterday, they were at 489 articles. In trying to salvage the TF by assigning it to one of its main projects, there will always be problems. Transport in Scotland is drawing tags from Template:WikiProject Scotland and Template:WikiProject Buses, in addition to Template:WikiProject Trains. Would it be better to have it be a wrapper for WP Scotland? Also, I can go through the 2,200 articles and remove the duplicate tags. Or is there a better way to do that? --Funandtrvl (talk) 18:21, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Where were all these changes/merges discussed? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:47, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Following up on this, this change has lead to strange outcomes like Talk:List of motorways in the United Kingdom categorized within WikiProject Trains, which isn't right at all (see [6]). Mackensen (talk) 11:10, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

• @Redrose64 and Funandtrvl: I've extracted from AnomeBot's contributions a rough list of the affected article talk pages: User:Mackensen/Transport in Scotland articles. Mackensen (talk) 22:59, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

what tool is the best to go and update this talk pages? Does AWB work, or is there another tool? --Funandtrvl (talk) 18:21, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

I used WP:JWB, which is the same idea. Even then, I was manually checking each page to verify banners. I finished it up last night so I think we're sorted. If there were articles substed after that initial run then I missed them, but I doubt there are many, and a fair number were fixed by other editors. Mackensen (talk) 18:48, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! --Funandtrvl (talk) 19:53, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Companies based in Colima

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Happy Birthday!

Wishing Funandtrvl a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:38, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Comment request

Any chance you could comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Lists#List_of_largest_cities_by_U._S._state_historically.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-14

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

Problems

• For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [10]
• Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15

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

Recent changes

• There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
• On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [11][12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [13]
• Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

• Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [14] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [15] [16] [17]

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23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17

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

Recent changes

• On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [18][19]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [20]

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on military logistics and rebuilding Nagasaki

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Tech News: 2022-18

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

Recent changes

• On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [21][22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
• Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [23] [24]
• If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [25]
• Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

May 2022 WikiProject Finance & Investment Newsletter

WikiProject Finance & Investment May 2022 Newsletter Hi! Welcome to the May newsletter of WikiProject Finance & Investment. This is our second regular newsletter. You have received this because you have been added to the mailing list; see below for instructions on how to unsubscribe. April Drive finished: The month-long April Content-creation Drive has now concluded. Our first content drive was a great start for what will be a regular feature of our Wikiproject. We will be doing them every other month, so there's none for May, but I look forward to seeing you sign up for the June edition. The drive's target was to improve Wikipedia's coverage of financial markets. Awards were given to those who participated. June Drive topic for discussion: We're currently brainstorming topics for our June Content-creation Drive. Join the discussion here. Content work: Two articles in our purview have received DYK nominations. Real Estate Bank of Arkansas was created and nominated by Hog Farm and Ranchlander National Bank was created and nominated by Sammi Brie. They're currently running in the WikiCup, so good luck to them! UBS has been nominated for a Good article reassessment. If you wish to help, leave comments in the nomination. Thank you for participating in the WikiProject. — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Join WP:FINANCE! 10:22, 29 April 2022 (UTC) To unsubscribe to this newsletter please go to the mailing list page.

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Tech News: 2022-19

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

Recent changes

• You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [26]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [27]
• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [28]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [29]
• Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
• The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20

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

Changes later this week

• Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [30]
• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [31]

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18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21

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

Recent changes

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [32]
• The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [33]

Problems

• The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [34]
• Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [35]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

• Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [36]

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on a World War II summit and the American space program

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 15:55, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22

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

Recent changes

• In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [37]
• The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [38][39]
• The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [40]
• A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [41]

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 50

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 50, March – April 2022

• New library partner - SPIE
• 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

Read the full newsletter

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WikiProject Finance & Investment June 2022 Newsletter

WikiProject Finance & Investment June 2022 Newsletter Hi! Welcome to the June newsletter of WikiProject Finance & Investment. This is our third regular newsletter. You have received this because you have been added to the mailing list; see below for instructions on how to unsubscribe. June Drive: The month-long June Content-creation Drive is now underway. The drive's target is to improve Wikipedia's coverage of stock exchanges. Awards will be given to everyone who improves or creates at least one article in the topic area. Sign up here! Content work: Two articles in our purview have received DYK nominations. Google Wallet was created and nominated by InfiniteNexus and George D. Gould was created and nominated by Ktin. Ktin is currently running in the WikiCup, so good luck to him! UBS's Good Article Reassessment is still ongoing. If you wish to help, leave comments in the nomination. Cheque was selected as an Article for improvement on May 16 for one week. You can see the improvement during that period here. Thank you for participating in the WikiProject. — — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Join WP:FINANCE! 07:53, 1 June 2022 (UTC) To unsubscribe to this newsletter please go to the mailing list page.

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Tech News: 2022-23

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
• A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [42]

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02:44, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24

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

Recent changes

• All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [43][44]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [45]
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Aramaic Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [46]
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [47][48]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

• By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

You're invited! Wiki Loves Pride in Indianapolis

Upcoming Indianapolis event - June 21: Wiki Loves Pride Indy
	You are invited to join us at IUPUI University Library for a Wiki Loves Pride editathon—hosted by IUPUI University Library, and supported by the Central Indiana Community Foundation—where both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on this theme: Tuesday, June 21: Wikipedia:Meetup/Indianapolis/Wiki Loves Pride 2022 (RSVP), focusing on Indiana LGBT history and culture. 11am–4pm at IUPUI University Library, Ashby Browsing Room. We hope to see you there! Sincerely, Dominic & Jere

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