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I came across this award reviewing a draft and it appears to be a notable award mentioned in several articles. Thought you might be interested in creating an article. See also es:Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. S0091 (talk) 16:09, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hm, it has an entry in 8 language wikis. Definitely seems worth investigating, thanks! Valereee (talk) 17:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2024)
Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Currency of Spain • Human geography Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 October 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-41
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
- Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [1]
Updates for editors
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [2]
- View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
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- It is now possible for
<syntaxhighlight>code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if thecopy=1attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [3] - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [4]
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:35, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Can I request rev/del please?
[10] (if you think it warrants it. Thank you. Knitsey (talk) 13:20, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ops, I've just noticed you're not on the rev/del list, sorry! I will find another admin. Thanks, Knitsey (talk) 13:24, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- No worries, I did it and blocked the user. I'm not on the list only because I tend to forget the details of how to do it in between times. :) Valereee (talk) 13:35, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Well that sounds like the story of my life. Thank you so much. Knitsey (talk) 13:42, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- No worries, I did it and blocked the user. I'm not on the list only because I tend to forget the details of how to do it in between times. :) Valereee (talk) 13:35, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
Could I have advice please?
Yesterday, I reverted some edits at Mark Cross (brand) as over promotional by Markcross1845 (talk · contribs) and left them a welcome message with COI details. They ignored it and carried on editing so I left them a warning message.
Today Mc1845 (talk · contribs) is editing the article. I left them a COI welcome message but they've ignored it. What do I do next? Thanks for any advice you can give. Knitsey (talk) 15:07, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- lol looks like Writ Keeper got there first. Valereee (talk) 15:11, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Flippin 'eck, it has been sorted already by @Writ Keeper:. Knitsey (talk) 15:11, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)x2 I've blocked both accounts. Generally speaking, if an account has been making obviously promotional/spam edits, and has an obvious username to match, it can simply be reported to the Usernames for Admin Attention board, where it'll be handled. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:12, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Writ Keeper, thanks for sorting it out. A while ago I had something similar and used UAA but was advised it was COI. I admit, being fairly new at the time, I just shrugged my shoulders and left it as I had no idea where to take it other than UAA. Knitsey (talk) 15:15, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's totally fair; it can be a bit wiggly whether something is appropriate for UAA or not. But you could probably use the original Markcross1845 account as the definitive example for "promotional accounts that UAA was made to handle." :) Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:18, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- OK, thanks you for that. And for blocking.
- @Valereee, I promise to choose someone else to bother with my next question! Knitsey (talk) 15:22, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- No worries, that's the point of having tools. :) Valereee (talk) 15:25, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's totally fair; it can be a bit wiggly whether something is appropriate for UAA or not. But you could probably use the original Markcross1845 account as the definitive example for "promotional accounts that UAA was made to handle." :) Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:18, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Writ Keeper, thanks for sorting it out. A while ago I had something similar and used UAA but was advised it was COI. I admit, being fairly new at the time, I just shrugged my shoulders and left it as I had no idea where to take it other than UAA. Knitsey (talk) 15:15, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)x2 I've blocked both accounts. Generally speaking, if an account has been making obviously promotional/spam edits, and has an obvious username to match, it can simply be reported to the Usernames for Admin Attention board, where it'll be handled. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:12, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
More India
This video [11] is about the current court-thing, but at ca 12:50 he (Nikhil Pahwa) mentions the older "map-thing", I thought it was interesting. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:06, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- I've been really interested in that case. If the choice is between identifying editors and being blocked by India, I'd choose being blocked by India every time. Is Asian_News_International#Lawsuit_against_Wikipedia really all we have on that? Seems like it ought to be an article. Valereee (talk) 12:39, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Per "This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:" on the talkpage, you can probably make an article about it. Perhaps the topic fits at Censorship of Wikipedia? I don't remember if some minister threatened blocking about the map. And yes, if they want to block, let them block. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:48, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Like I said in 2020:[12] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:53, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:ANI vs. Wikipedia. Unfortunately many of the sources are behind paywalls for me, but if you can get to them, feel free! Valereee (talk) 12:56, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Now we're waiting for media-coverage on that article... Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:41, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, and hoping we don't get some judge demanding WMF tell ANI who I am so they can sue me. :) Valereee (talk) 16:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- YES!!! Wasn't really expecting Delhi High Court-coverage, though. Interesting. That was a crazy idea for an article you had, I obviously had nothing to do with it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:48, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- [13]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:49, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- ANI has accused you of "pressurising the Ld. Single Judge". And, the Chief Justice of the Court appears to be quite sympathetic to the accusation. TrangaBellam (talk) 15:03, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, and hoping we don't get some judge demanding WMF tell ANI who I am so they can sue me. :) Valereee (talk) 16:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Now we're waiting for media-coverage on that article... Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:41, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:ANI vs. Wikipedia. Unfortunately many of the sources are behind paywalls for me, but if you can get to them, feel free! Valereee (talk) 12:56, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: September 2024
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Good morning.
The only sources for this article are recipes; maybe I should start a deletion procedure, what do you think? JacktheBrown (talk) 10:53, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- Not having good enough sources is not a reason to assume you should go straight to AfD. If a dish is traditional to an area, and there is an RS saying so, we arguably can include it somewhere even if we can't show independent notability of the dish.
- First, try to see if you can show independent notability by looking for sources. Do you have access to Italian reference works about Italian food? Or books about the cuisine of Abruzzo? High-quality modern cookbooks often include significant coverage of traditional dishes as an introduction to recipes. Does the dish every go by any other name? If so, search for all names.
- If you can't show independent notability, try to see if there's another place for the information. Could it be merged/redirected to Cuisine of Abruzzo or L'Aquila saffron or List of mussel dishes?
- I found one source that references a 1998 book, Food and Memories of Abruzzo, that mentions the dish with a description. I've added it and ordered the 1998 book from my library. I don't know much about Italian sources for Italian food. Does Italy have the kind of food journalism and academia that is present in English-speaking countries? It's the place Slow Food started, I would think you'd have both. Valereee (talk) 13:00, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- "I found one source that references a 1998 book, Food and Memories of Abruzzo, that mentions the dish with a description. I've added it and ordered the 1998 book from my library." Thank you very much. JacktheBrown (talk) 14:43, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2024)
Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Navy • Currency of Spain Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 October 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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