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Question from Patrick Welsh (test account) (16:41, 17 May 2025)

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Hey there,

Thanks for volunteering your time to mentor new editors! As you can see from my username, this is a test account created to help me better understand the scripts that I have installed without causing disruption.

But what is the preferred way to note oddities or suggest improvements to features geared towards new users?

Cheers, --Patrick Welsh (test account) (talk) 16:41, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Patrick Welsh (test account) Thanks for your post, though I am not sure I understand what you are asking. Do you want to know the best way new editors can reach out for help or ways mentors can reach out about the system functioning, or something else? FULBERT (talk) 17:18, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I was not clear. The answer is "something else". The way that experienced editors such as yourself make themselves directly available as real individuals is fantastic. No notes.
The "Wikipedia Adventure", however, has room for improvement. I made suggestions here[1] and (although maybe too article-specific to be useful) here[2].
My question is whether this is a good way to proceed, or if any further comments should be posted to the talk page at WT:GTF (or somewhere else entirely).
Cheers, Patrick 🐈‍⬛ (talk) 17:59, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Patrick Welsh Thank you and glad this is receiving attention. I remember when I did the Wikipedia Adventure years ago, I was really not sure what it was or if I did it correctly because I missed the intro to what it is and what it was intended to help me do. FULBERT (talk) 11:31, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2025)

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Hello, FULBERT. The article for improvement of the week is:

Headquarters

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Pneumatics • Motherboard

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Wikidata weekly summary #680

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #679.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata-Taxonomy is a Command-line tool and library to extract taxonomies from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • We are improving and expanding our Help and documentation pages, please tell us what you think: Parser Functions

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • UI: We are putting the finishing touches on the new search box that will make it easier to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well (phab:T321543)
  • Dark mode: We fixed the last known issues and are getting ready to roll it out
  • Mobile statement editing: We are refining prototypes for testing and started technical investigations
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on simple search, focusing on phrase matching now (phab:T389011)
  • Query Service: We are working on a small experiment to show a notification for simple queries that are better run on other APIs (phab:T391264)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Articles for Creation backlog drive

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Hello FULBERT:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in June!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 1 month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 June 2025 through 30 June 2025.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 3200 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Maxim5789 on Mengistu Haile Mariam (13:33, 21 May 2025)

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Mengistu turned 88 today, so it's wise to change his age. --Maxim5789 (talk) 13:33, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Maxim5789 OK, so edit is and cite a reliable source as needed. FULBERT (talk) 13:36, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Antoss090909 (19:22, 22 May 2025)

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Hello! I would like to create on wikipedia about one of my books, could I? --Antoss090909 (talk) 19:22, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Billtrushel (12:55, 23 May 2025)

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I noticed that some of the early history of radio station WNUF in New Kensington, PA and also the early history of WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh, PA that used to be there has been deleted. Why was this done and who did it? Any information you can provide will be helpful. Thank you, Bill Truwhel --Billtrushel (talk) 12:55, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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