Haoreima

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		The Writer's Barnstar
		While going through the list of pages, I saw many pages that you created. This star is for creating pages on unique topics that were never covered on Wikipedia before.-BRP ever 01:30, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

		Great Contributor
		Thank you for your great works here on this wiki, we really appreciate your works here. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (ꯋꯥ ꯍꯥꯏꯐꯝ) ꯱꯸:꯳꯹, ꯲꯶ ꯅꯣꯚꯦꯝꯕꯔ ꯲꯰꯲꯱ (IST)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Nice work on the new polo articles you've created. They're quite an interesting read, so thank you for making them :) SHB2000 (talk) 22:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021 Barnstar
Hello Haoreima,
Thank you for your participation in 'Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021'. One or more of your submitted articles have been accepted in the contest. This barnstar is given to you as a reminder of appreciation for contributing to the acceleration of Wikipedia through writing articles at this event. We hope that your cooperation will continue in the future.

Stay wholesome and safe.
Regards,
Darkfrog24
Local Organizer, Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
20:28, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

	The India Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions to topics related to Manipur. Guides and topics related to North-east India are really lagging behind. Your hard work is seen and appreciated. 2006nishan178713t@lk 13:49, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Haoreima! I'm ImprovedWikiImprovment and an active editor here. Thank you for your changes. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions check out Wikipedia:Questions, or send me a message on my talk page. I like to help new people, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like Wikipedia and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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A Barnstar for You!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Your great work editing geographic articles. Thank you for your work. Please keep going! George (Kirkburn) (talk) 19:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for motivation! Haoreima (talk) 19:42, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Help with Wikidata and categories

Regarding guidance I can give you: my special focus is on making information accessible within and between WP projects. This includes:

• Wikidata items for pages, including connecting to equivalent pages in other WP language projects ("interwiki" links)
• Creating and populating categories for pages, maintaining hierarchies (subcategories) and interwiki links at the category level

This will involve my studying your edits till I get the scope of what exists. You can expect this will be somewhat systematic, with activity every day or so. If this seems suitable to you, I suggest we give it a trial. As the Users @Belwine: and @Auntof6: have already been helpful with your queries, and they're also highly active in the Simple English WP, here's my shout-out to them that I'm agreeable to picking up the task of upgrading Meitei pages with you here. NB: remember to indent your reply with a colon mark at the start of the line. -- Deborahjay (talk) 10:46, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Examine others' edits in Compare selected versions (View history)

Are you familiar with the "Compare selected revisions" feature of the "View history" tab? It shows you exactly what each next edit does.

• Select a pair of edits by clicking on two "radio buttons" at the start of those lines.
• This displays a pair of texts: pre- and post-edit with the changes highlighted (on the right). Below is the more recent page version.
• (Note: Be sure not to edit there in an old version!)
• If there are more edits after the pair you compare, you can view them by clicking on the right-facing arrows ("Newer diff").

I highly suggest you view these regularly if another editor (especially a more experienced one) is editing pages you've created and developed. -- Deborahjay (talk) 12:02, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Sure, thanks. I will try to follow your instructions as much as possible. Haoreima (talk) 17:27, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Learning Wikidata

Per our recent discussion on my Talk page: I consider learning the basics of Wikidata a valuable skill set for an active contributor as you are. Here are some suggestions to start:
1. View the edit history of d:User:Awangba Mangang. To do this:

• In Wikidata, go to your own Contributions.
• Open the downward-pointing arrow to the left of Search for contributions.
• Where your User name appears (as "IP address or username:"), substitute Awangba Mangang
• That name will appear with a gray background under where you entered it. Click on the gray-background name to confirm.
• Below, select Search (blue box with white letters). This allows you to study Wikidata items edited by User:Awangba Mangang

2. See that you have the ability to add interwiki links:

• Open the Wikidata item for Nongthang Leima (Q85789406).
• Underneath the sections titled "Statements" and "Identifiers" - do you have the section "Wikipedia" with links to three WP language projects (en, mni, simple)? If so, try each link.
  • Write your reply here: Yes / No

Once you've had some time to explore the first topic and have answered the second, we'll discuss further activities for you. -- Deborahjay (talk) 22:18, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

@Deborahjay: Well, thanks for your help. I will ping you as soon as possible when I set my work to wiki data. I am replying you right now so that you may not get mind with me that I am not responding. I will always accompany the helps you render. Haoreima (talk) 14:51, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

A present for you

I have given a 24 inch iMac to you. The iMac features a M1 processor, 16 GB of RAM and 1 terabyte of storage. Alcatel 144895534 (talk) 16:15, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

@Alcatel 144895534: Thanks for the present. It's a super brand, I am happy using it. Lol. Haoreima (talk) 11:37, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-29

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Sèvres Egyptian Service Please be bold and help translate this article! The Sèvres Egyptian Service is a name used for two sets of tableware made by the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres during the First French Empire. The first was produced between 1804 and 1806 for Napoleon I and was presented by him to Alexander I of Russia in 1808, as a diplomatic gift following the Treaties of Tilsit. It is now held in the State Museum of Ceramics in Russia. The second set was produced between 1810 and 1812. It was intended as a gift from Napoleon to Empress Joséphine. The service consisted of 72 plates with the wells depicting scenes from Egypt based on sketches made by Vivant Denon. Joséphine refused to accept the service, which she described as "too severe". It was returned to the factory and given as a gift to the Duke of Wellington by Louis XVIII in 1818, following the Bourbon Restoration. The service was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1979 and, except for one plate, was loaned to English Heritage to display at Apsley House, London, the former residence of the first duke. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:26, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-30

The winner this Translation of the week is en:La plus que lente Please be bold and help translate this article! La plus que lente, L. 121 is a waltz for solo piano written by Claude Debussy in 1910, shortly after his publication of the Préludes, Book I (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:45, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-31

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Abstract photography Please be bold and help translate this article! Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental or conceptual photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a natural scene in order to remove its inherent context from the viewer, it may be purposely staged to create a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects, or it may involve the use of color, light, shadow, texture, shape and/or form to convey a feeling, sensation or impression. The image may be produced using traditional photographic equipment like a camera, darkroom or computer, or it may be created without using a camera by directly manipulating film, paper or other photographic media, including digital presentations. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:28, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-32

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede Please be bold and help translate this article! The Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede was a steam powered velocipede made in France sometime from 1867 to 1871, when a small Louis-Guillaume Perreaux commercial steam engine was attached to a Pierre Michaux manufactured iron framed pedal bicycle. It is one of three motorcycles claimed to be the first motorcycle, along with the Roper steam velocipede of 1867 or 1868, and the internal combustion engine Daimler Reitwagen of 1885. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:29, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-33

The winner this Translation of the week is zh:祝融号火星车 (en:Zhurong (rover)) Please be bold and help translate this article! Zhurong (Chinese: 祝融; pinyin: Zhùróng) is China's first Mars rover, which formed part of the Chinese Tianwen 1 mission to Mars. It landed on May 14, 2021, to make China the second country to successfully soft land on Mars and establish communications from the Martian surface, after the United States. Zhurong was successfully deployed on 22 May 2021, 02:40 UTC (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 03:06, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-34

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Luna Park (Coney Island, 1903) Please be bold and help translate this article! Luna Park was an amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. Luna Park was located on a site bounded by Surf Avenue to the south, West 8th Street to the east, Neptune Avenue to the north, and West 12th Street to the west. Luna Park opened in 1903 and operated until 1944. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:39, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-35

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Independence Day (Philippines) Please be bold and help translate this article! Independence Day (Filipino: Araw ng Kasarinlán; also known as Araw ng Kalayaan, "Day of Freedom") is an annual national holiday in the Philippines observed on June 12, commemorating the declaration of Philippine independence from Spain in 1898. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:08, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

References

Hi there! So I fixed [[Haosi Namoinu]] to look right. You can take a look at all of the changes I made. I also would ask you read WP:Cite, particularly WP:Cite#Template with a focus on the WP:Cite#Common Templates and WP:Cite#Using refToolbar. Using bare references is not good and on this article all of the books were typed over and over, except the last one. To help prevent you from doing all of that, once you make the first citation, before you save it, give it a Ref name and then click on the preview to make sure there are no errors. Typically if you paste the URL into it, most of the information should be filled in for you. If you have any questions, please tag me on this page and I will help you. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 18:57, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

PotsdamLamb Things I generally do in wikipedia is to create articles and to put appropriate references so that these aren't deleted or merged (things I don't want) by other editors. But what you are asking me to do is very difficult for me because I seldom use desktop, I keep myself attached to mobile usages generally! So, I only expect edits for such decorations of links by others, because decorations or no decorations don't affect the existence of the article I created. In fact, what really matters is the presence of the appropriate reference links. So, help me for decorations! Haoreima (talk) 19:06, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi so these are not decorations as you state. The references are required and have to be in a certain format to be picked around the world and to provide more links to access the resources. Websites change all the time so if you only list a website it will more than likely be gone in a couple of years or so. You also need to provide access dates because all I can do on that is use the date I fixed it and not the actual date it was accessed.

When you create an article you have to include the references and not depend on others to do it for you. That is something you need to do. If you eliminate the m on the url (force desktop mode on your device) you will have access to the tool bar to do this appropriately. Having others do it for all of the articles you have created causes us to focus on those articles and fixing them instead of other things I need to do on other articles. Thanks! PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 19:20, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Inline source citations use tags in the form of <ref> reference information here </ref> . I, at least, perform this general norm from WP:Cite. Other than this, I don't know about usage of templates. So, it's better to do upto what I know well rather than to create errors in doing things I don't have knowledge. Haoreima (talk) 19:35, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) A feature that may be helpful is the "Cite" option in Visual Editor that is available also on mobile. Most citations will just work if you put the URL in the "Automatic" section, and the citation will be created for you. Sometimes, you do have to go through the manual option, which is slower. --Ferien (talk) 19:41, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ferien I have been explaining that but as he said he only uses mobile and he is only using a bare ref as he stated above. The problem is the references are all the same and a copy paste so it appears like 5-8 sources used, but when fixed, it drops down to 1 or 2 sources. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 20:24, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

That is why I pointed you to the correct way to do it. The in-line citation is also on that link. If you do just what you have been doing it becomes a mess and errors are prone to happen when you just list them like you did instead of a correct citation and giving it a name. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 20:12, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Reverted

Hi I just reverted your edit to the reference as that is not the correct title of the work. We cannot add words into a title. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 20:09, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @PotsdamLamb: I don't think rollback was appropriate for that edit, though. --Ferien (talk) 20:17, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

I didn't use rollback @Ferien. I undid it. The title of the work is A Human turning Harinongnang not A Human turning into Harinongnang. The word into does not fit into this statement of the title as they are not physically turning into something or any other definition of the word. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 20:22, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

PotsdamLamb, the tag here shows you rollbacked it. Also, the title of the page (the one that shows when you hover over the tab in a browser) is A Human turning into Harinongnang whilst on the actual page it says A Human turning Harinongnang, and if I recall correctly, those browser titles are used in the citations. Also, the link is a folk tale, I've read it and it seems that the human was "turning into Harinongnang". --Ferien (talk) 20:42, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

The tag shows that for all of them. I did not use the rights I have though. As far as the title of the work. If you look at the work title, it is without the "into" so we cannot change the title of something we did not create. See The work. The html in the page is different from the title of the work. The full title of the page is A Human turning into Harinongnang Taibang Meena Harinongnang Onba that is through the source coding. So it is either an error on webmaster or an error on the work creator. Typically in these kinds of situations I take the title of the source over the title of the webpage, as the work is what we are citing, not the title of the page through the code. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 20:52, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

PotsdamLamb One thing I really don't appreciate you to do is not to merge links because they are just from a single book. For example, see this one and this one are both from a single website. But Google Books website is really unique from other websites. That means with the mentioning of certain words in the links like "Haosi-Namoinu-only-daughter", links will appear like this one and when searching for "Haosi-Namoinu-cicada", results will appear like this one. And if you merged all those unique search results into one link, just because they are from the same web, then other reviewers will say that the latter links provided are not reliable. Haoreima (talk) 06:24, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

The URLs all point to the same book. If there is a certain page it’s on you need to cite the page or pages. You cannot list the same book numerous times as it doesn’t work like that. This is why I’m telling you to use the citation tool. There are certain things that have to be present in a citation. Again all you are doing is using bare references which again you should not be doing. If you can provide the page or pages that these are on I can update the citation to reflect that and it will go to that. By providing the page numbers it will divide them out but you did not do that on the originals. This will prove as reliable and handle everything. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 06:58, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

I understand what you mean! But the search results are totally different though they belong to the same book. But I don't know how to put the page no. in the citation styling. So, do that for me. I will learn that from how you did. Haoreima (talk) 07:01, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

No worries. Put the links on this conversation and the page or page numbers and I’ll update them. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 07:54, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bare_URLs#What_is_wrong_with_bare_URLs? PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 07:01, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

PotsdamLamb See! there's no bare URL in that page. Haoreima (talk) 07:03, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Because I fixed them already. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 07:55, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

PotsdamLamb I don't know where is the page number located! Help me in finding out the page numbers. Haoreima (talk) 08:07, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

So typically they will be located on the page you are looking at or you may have to count them. Typically the first few pages are in Roman language so you will see I, II, IV, etc. The numeric format most times will be centered on the bottom of the page or in the top corner (either right or left side based on what side of the book it is on for a physical book). If you can provide me a link I can look for you. I’m on my way to fire an officer right now so I’ll get to it shortly. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 09:25, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

PotsdamLamb Take care Jerry, don't let your aim missed! Lol! Haoreima (talk) 09:50, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Huh? PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 14:18, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

WLW South Asia 2021

I observe you are joining Wikiprojects. If you're looking for a place to apply that diligence that I see so praised, may I invite you to Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021 on the Simple English Wikipedia? There is a small cash prize for the person who writes the best articles about gender gap, women's empowerment, feminism and related subjects. Darkfrog24 (talk) 03:47, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Darkfrog24 I have participated there. But what is meant by "per language", as described there. Can this project exist in any languages of wikipedia? If so, what about Meitei Wikipedia? Haoreima (talk) 03:56, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Here is the list of Wikipedias in the contest. The rule is that any Wikipedia for a language spoken in South Asia may hold part of the contest. (The organizers say English counts, and Simple English Wikipedia writes for people who are not native speakers of English.) Meitei is spoken in India, so I think they will say yes if you want to start a contest on the Meitei Wikipedia. It's only one day in and might not be too late. The contest runs from September 1 to September 30. Darkfrog24 (talk) 04:40, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Animals

		Welcome to WikiProject Animals!
		Welcome to WikiProject Animals! Welcome new members. I hope you have a delightful time here and improve lots of articles on animals!. Also thank you for joining us and all ideas that can be used to develop this project further is welcome

Hello Haoreima, I would like to welcome you to WikiProject Animals and also thank you for joining because you can be of great help in creating articles about animals because if you look at simple wikipedia it doesn't have a significant number of articles about animals. But if you check the number of animals on Earth there are hundreds of thousands of them. If we create all of them we can contribute greatly to simple wikipedia. Also we have tasks at User:AJona1992/Wikiproject Animals and at the talk page you can make suggestions about how we can improve to achieve our goals. Thanks for reading and joining. Space chinedu (talk) 06:15, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Sorry about the red link I spelt the article wrong but you get the idea Space chinedu (talk) 06:16, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikiproject Agriculture

		Welcome to WikiProject Agriculture!
		Welcome to WikiProject Agriculture! I hope you have a delightful time here and improve lots of articles on agriculture! and all comments and thoughts on how to improve the Wikiproject is welcome in talk page. Once again thank you for joining.

Sorry I didn't respond sooner Space chinedu (talk) 12:20, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Space chinedu It's ok. And thanks for your warm words. Haoreima (talk) 15:26, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-36

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Flyby (spaceflight) Please be bold and help translate this article! A flyby (/ˈflaɪˌbaɪ/) is a spaceflight operation in which a spacecraft passes in proximity to another body, usually a target of its space exploration mission and/or a source of a gravity assist to impel it towards another target (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:40, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-37

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award (ko:황연대 성취상) Please be bold and help translate this article! The Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award is named after South Korean Dr. Whang Youn Dai, who contracted polio at the age of three. She devoted her life to the development of paralympic sport in Korea and around the world. At the 1988 Paralympic Summer Games in Seoul, Korea, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) recognized her lifelong contributions to the Paralympic Movement and established the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award (formerly the Whang Youn Dai Overcome Prize). Since then, this award has been presented at every Paralympic Games to one male and one female athlete who each "best exemplify the spirit of the Games and inspire and excite the world". (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:55, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Calling people "dear"

You might not know this, but calling someone "dear" is considered rude unless they are a relative or a close friend. I'm not telling you to stop, but you should be aware that people might have a negative opinion of you when you do that. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:11, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

@Auntof6: So, how should I address people? Haoreima (talk) 04:36, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Just by their user name would be fine. The reason using "dear" isn't good is that it can seem condescending or belittling. Probably no one has felt that way so far, but it's good to know that they might. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:12, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

@Auntof6: And what about you, ma'am? Is "ma'am" ok, or "aunt" for you? Haoreima (talk) 08:24, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

"Auntof6" is fine. Using terms like "ma'am" or "sir" can imply that the person using them is inferior to the person they're talking to—at least in American usage, which is what I use—and I prefer to think of everyone here as equals. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:11, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

@Auntof6: If possible, allow me to use "bro" or "sis" if I know the gender, because I think this will bring people in the wiki, closer among one another! Allow me please! Haoreima (talk) 09:16, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

You can call people whatever you want; I'm not telling you not to. I just wanted you to understand how people might take it. I don't think calling people bro or sis will make them feel closer. It would make me feel uncomfortable, and I'm sure there are others who wouldn't like it, either. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:04, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Why so uncomfortable on calling "sis"? Haoreima (talk) 11:49, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

I just wouldn't care to be called bro or sis. It implies a level of familiarity that I don't want here. Some people see their interactions here as working with friends. I see it more as working with colleagues. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:22, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Sorry to butt in here, but in some cultures calling someone "dear" is considered to be respectful. I have many foreign friends who call me "dear" all the time and they mean it to be respectful. They also call me "sir" and "boss" in a similarly affectionate way. Blissyu2 (talk) 15:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

@Blissyu2: I suggest people only use such words if an editor accepts, many of us do not live in such cultures, and dear is taken... differently in most places. 💠Ely - Talk💠 15:56, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

@Elytrian I am guessing that you are following this user talk page. I butted in and you double-butted in right back, and then butted in on something else below. Perhaps I should be careful not to butt in or else I will be double-butted in! Anyway, where was I? So anyway, I don't think that there is a policy banning the use of the word "dear" and I am a great believer that if the intention is good then we should treat it that way. Otherwise we are assuming bad faith, and I think that there is a policy on Wikipedia somewhere saying that we should not do that. Blissyu2 (talk) 16:12, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

There is not, but its just uncomfortable and creepy to most people here on the wiki (people here are mostly American and European due to their fluent English that is valued in writing pages). If the intention is good, let it be good. But a notice should be given. 💠Ely - Talk💠 16:26, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

I find it creepy that people watch other people's talk pages. I remember a time when that was banned, but it seems to be okay now. Blissyu2 (talk) 17:05, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

I'm not watching his talk page. I'm just checking new changes, and I saw this. Also the (talk page stalker) template is a joke relating to en wiki-jaguars (as part of their wiki fauna nonsense). 💠Ely - Talk💠 17:35, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Fair enough. Anyway, I think this is something from India, which is predominantly English-speaking, though other parts of South-East Asia also seem to have this kind of idea, from English-speaking countries. It's a culture thing, not a language thing. I am always wary to tell people to adopt our culture in preference to their own. As long as they mean well, I think they are good to go. Blissyu2 (talk) 04:03, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

@Elytrian: not everyone. We have numerous editors from Canada as well, and I'm neither American, Canadian nor European. SHB2000 (talk) 00:17, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

I'm giving a general overview. Most of our editors speak English as their native language, generally. 💠Ely - Talk💠 03:42, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

True, including myself even though I come from the Anglo-sphere. SHB2000 (talk) 05:11, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

No one, including me, said there was any kind of policy about this. I also know that it's different in some cultures. I wanted to make sure that Haoreima knew that, too, so that he'd know he might be offending people or making them uncomfortable. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:42, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Edit horror film decade sections on English Wikipedia

Dear friend I have a request can you edit horror film on English Wikipedia create a 1896-1919 section, a 1920-1959 section, 1960-1969 section, and a 1970-present section just like you have them on here. Horrorfan1000000 (talk) 14:57, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

The decade sections for Horror movie on here on Simple-English Wikipedia say 1896-1919, 1920-1959, 1960-1969, and 1970-present can you do the same for horror film on English Wikipedia create the exact decade sections 1896-1919, 1920-1959, 1960-1969, and 1970-present but on the horror film on English Wikipedia. Horrorfan1000000 (talk) 15:05, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

I know you were blocked from Wikipedia but what if you can create a whole new different account a different username and a different password. Horrorfan1000000 (talk) 15:24, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Horrorfan1000000 Hello I know you want me to develop the article but I am sorry for I can't help you till now. Only when I am able to edit en wikipedia, I might try. But I have seen someone had discussed about the similar topic at the talk page of Sakura emad with @Sakura emad, SHB2000, and Elytrian: Hope these guys might help you. Haoreima (talk) 16:21, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima i suggest you should not offer a single help until he/she decides to listen to us. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:25, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: I agree with Sakura. Please see the comment I made on @Horrorfan1000000's talk page, and @Sakura emad's talk page, and @Djsasso's talk page on this same topic. 💠Ely - Talk💠 16:28, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: i already told this user numerous of times

@Friday3jason.webp i will try my best to teach you the basics, the way you can get the best practices on wikipedia is that enough for you? right?
— User:Sakura emad

@Friday3jason.webp if you listen to me everything can be smooth and normal, i am not going to repeating myself Please listen otherwise i can't, if you're going to listen write "i will listen" so i can know you're showing improvement sign
— User:Sakura emad

the case was sockpuppetry and it was verified by a check user Please refrain from using multiple accounts unless you follow the rules
— User:Sakura emad

🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:29, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

i really don't know and would like to know what makes it so hard @Horrorfan1000000 to listen to us, for what we have to say, i told the user that what i am going to say is important for your future career on the entire wikimedia projects and the way you contribute, but idk why @Horrorfan1000000 choose to speak to different users on wikipedia while the results will be the same. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:33, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

@Sakura emad and Elytrian: Now, what shall we do? Haoreima (talk) 16:32, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Wait for block, J991 has already started a Vandalism In Progress report. 💠Ely - Talk💠 16:35, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: as i suggested Please do not offer a single help because the user is not listen to us, for them to get help, the very first step they should do is create a single and real account that solely belongs to them not anyone else, then secondly they should use {{User alternative account banner}} to link all other alternative accounts to the real account, that's a critical Point shouldn't be ignored in order to participate, third they should not engage in sockpuppetry never again in the future, if they wish to create another account they should use {{User alternative account banner}} again and explain the purpose of using alternative accounts in accordance with wikipedia's Policy WP:SOCKLEGIT. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:40, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Sakura emad Yes, you are right! I used to suspect the editing habits. But since it's not confirmed, I can't say that with full confidence. So, I pinged you, Ely and SHB! Haoreima (talk) 16:47, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

hope everything gets back to normal. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:55, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Sakura emad Yeah! Haoreima (talk) 16:57, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Your agree that there should be a 1896-1919 section, 1920-1959 section, 1960-1969 section, and a 1970-present section on horror film on English Wikipedia? Horrorfan1000000 (talk) 17:26, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps. Perhaps not. But first stop socking. 💠Ely - Talk💠 17:29, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Ok then just go to English Wikipedia and edit horror film and I'll stop. Horrorfan1000000 (talk) 17:33, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

@Horrorfan1000000 Stop evading your global lock and socking. SHB2000 (talk) 04:06, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hi. I noticed you on the RfD comments as someone who seems to create a lot of articles that are then nominated for deletion. Why not just contribute to existing articles? It's a lot less stressful! I note in particular that you are getting into conflict with one user, SHB2000, who has been writing "delete per nom" and not explaining why he thinks that an article should be deleted. You should note that RfD is not a vote and someone who writes "delete per nom" is usually ignored by the closing admin. If the article is notable and can prove it, then it is kept, otherwise it is not. As a note, for the most part the Simple Wikipedia is meant to reflect existing Wikipedia entries but is made simpler. Thus the articles should generally be more notable here than the requirements in other Wikis. Our aim is to simplify existing topics for non-native English speakers, not to create new topics that don't exist anywhere else. Blissyu2 (talk) 15:50, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

@Blissyu2: SHB2000 explains it very clearly, not notable means not notable, and bad sourcing means bad sourcing. SHB is quite experienced, and until recently I have suspected you are part of a sockfarm. I've explained on some of his deletion requests as well. Simple wiki does not have higher notability standards too. You are quite confused. See Wikipedia:Notability. 💠Ely - Talk💠 15:59, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

@Elytrian okay. I thought it did have higher standards. I will delete my comment then. My apologies. Why are you accusing me of being a sockpuppet? I had those accusations on En-wiki years ago. Quite untrue I'm afraid. Some people were playing politics. I'm not sure who the other people were. I worked out who some were but most were a mystery. It all got quite silly really. Just because I criticised Wikipedia and highlighted some of their mistakes they decided to make up claims that I had created multiple accounts and been a vandal and all of these other silly things. What happened was that I had an alternating IP that was shared by thousands of people on different days. It was a case of mistaken identity and a presumption that we were all one person when there were actually many people doing very different things to each other. Blissyu2 (talk) 16:05, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Not that. It was just your early behaviour relating to Dc Themmie. 💠Ely - Talk💠 16:18, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. I don't think I've edited Dc Themmie at all and the only thing I can find is my comment on the Deletion Review for that article, in which I opposed it being recreated [1]. Is that bad behaviour? Blissyu2 (talk) 13:03, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

@Elytrian: Not notable means not notable indeed, but you really need to explain why. RfD is not RfA; !votes should never be "per nom" and people are discouraged from just saying "not notable". --Ferien (talk) 16:12, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

SHB has explained, but I'm stating a fact that 'not notable' clearly shows annoyance to why it wasn't a QD. As for @Haoreima's topics, he uses Google books as a source, which is not reliable, (even though policies say its recommended, I suggest we change that) and the book from it shows no case of a distinguished expert or trying to persuade notability. His topics aren't notable from even a regional point of view (from my point of view on the regional point of view). Votes are never per nom, but I'm leaning towards the deletionist's side in my behaviour. 💠Ely - Talk💠 16:22, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

@Ferien: Hello pal! I have something I forgot to ask you for many times back. In the last edit of yours here in this section, once you reverted someone's edit, and at the very same reverting edit, you write your reply (your own wordings were added). How were such actions done? I only know just reverting in one edit and saying subsequent words in later edits! Please explain me the steps! I am talking about this! :) Haoreima (talk) 02:31, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello Haoreima. I just pressed undo like normal but then added my reply in the text box, just like a normal edit. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 16:33, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Elytrian, not really. "Not notable" doesn't show annoyance as to why it wasn't a QD. It just says that: "Not notable". No-one is going to read anyone else's mind or think of what someone usually puts on an RfD, they are just looking at that one comment. "Not notable" does not translate to "QD should have been used". In most cases, QD A4 is used when it shouldn't be and RfD is used too little for non-notable topic, in my opinion.

About Google Books not being reliable, we can't just judge millions of books in an instant. Sometimes a book shows notability about a topic, sometimes it doesn't.

Of course, you can identify as a deletionist or an inclusionist – I am somewhere between the two – but lots of "per nom" or "not notable" comments aren't really useful comments to add to an RfD and when I was closing RfDs at that time, just made it more difficult to close RfDs. --Ferien (talk) 16:42, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-39

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Behavior-altering parasite Please be bold and help translate this article! Behavior-altering parasites are parasites with two or more hosts, capable of causing changes in the behavior of one of their hosts to enhance their transmission, sometimes directly affecting the hosts' decision-making and behavior control mechanisms. They do this by making the intermediate host, where they may reproduce asexually, more likely to be eaten by a predator at a higher trophic level which becomes the definitive host where the parasite reproduces sexually. Examples can be found in bacteria, protozoa, viruses, and animals. Parasites may also alter the host behaviour to increase the protection to the parasites or their offspring. The term bodyguard manipulation is used for such mechanisms. Among the behavioral changes caused by parasites is carelessness, making their hosts easier prey. The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, for example, infects small rodents and causes them to become careless and may even cause them to become attracted to the smell of feline urine, both of which increase their risk of predation and the parasite's chance of infecting a cat, its definitive host. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:02, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Images

Haoreima, all your articles have images that are too large and placed incorrectly. As per the manual of style, most images should be the default size (in the visual editor, idk about source) and aligned to the right. Most of your articles have these issues. I went ahead and fixed Meitei festivals as an example. 💠Ely - Talk💠 10:44, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Elytrian Thanks for help. And sorry for those. It's because I generally use mobile version view instead of desktop version view while using wikipedia. So, in mobile views, every images appear normal to me. Haoreima (talk) 11:21, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

We do have some examples where it would be better off at the centre, like Walls of Jerusalem National Park but that's an odd exception SHB2000 (talk) 11:44, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Sorry I don't speak Meitei and Google isn't offering me a translation

Hi Haoreima. Thank you for your welcome message for me on the Meitei Wikipedia. Sadly, I only speak very limited amounts of about 10 languages and that does not include Meitei. The closest language I speak even a little bit of to that is probably Japanese or Indonesian, and they are not very close at all! I do not know what you said! It just shows as little boxes on my screen! Thank you for your welcome message, though, but I don't think I will contribute to that wiki, as I do not want to make things worse. I will leave the contributions to native speakers. Blissyu2 (talk) 11:02, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Blissyu2 No worries! I always try to give a welcome message to everybody who created their user accounts there in the mni wikipedia automatically after logging in there. In fact, I am acting like a bot, when there's no bot working in the mni wikipedia. Btw, if you are worrying about machine translation, don't worry. Google Translate has already put Meitei language (aka. Manipuri language) in the beta translation service. So, within a few months or at least one year, Meitei (aka. Manipuri) will appear in the Google Translate public usage facility. Thanks! Haoreima (talk) 11:13, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Haoreima I registered Blissyu2 on the meta wiki some years ago so I didn't have to personally create a Meitei Wikipedia account as this is my global account. I did this to prevent those silly claims of sockpuppeting. It automatically logs me in whenever I view a new wiki's page. It does have the unfortunate side effect of sometimes automatically logging me out sometimes too but that's just how it goes. I must have looked at a Meitei wiki article at one stage and it automatically created an account for me. Blissyu2 (talk) 13:00, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, there's no harm in that being done. Looking at Special:CentralAuth/SHB2000, I must've visited 570 different wikis, although most were probably me using SWViewer. SHB2000 (talk) 13:10, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

@Blissyu2 and SHB2000: Actually, I feel something like loneliness when I visit other languages' wikis, when no one welcomes me or put anything on my talk page. Even when I was very active in some wikis, my talk page remains always blank. This upsets me. So, I don't want other people to have such feelings. That is why I put welcome message to everyone, whether they know Meitei language or not. This case is exceptional to those guys who put redirect to other wikis on their mni talk page, like that of SHB2000. Regards! Haoreima (talk) 17:38, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

@Blissyu2 and SHB2000: Friends! Yesterday, Google Translate has approved Meitei language (Manipuri language). So, you guys can come at Meitei wikipedia & Meitei wiktionary. 😃 After a long time of hard work in Google Translate community translation platform, the result is sweet. But some of the translations aren't accurate, but most of them are correct! I will try to fix the inaccurate ones with my friends there! :-) :-) --Haoreima (talk) 10:56, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Are you using translate.google.com? I'm still not getting an option for Manipuri. Could it be a regional feature only available in India? SHB2000 (talk) 10:59, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

No, it's global feature. GT authority approved it. In the link, I had posted citing sources from the news sites. And in USA & Canada, it's almost ok. My friends told me. A few hours back, there was some problem in India. But now, the problem is almost nullified little by little. And as you are in Australia, I think the problem will be nullified either before or after or simultaneously, but I don't think the speed will be exactly similar to India or any other nations. When I went to Meitei language websites, and press the translate section in the website, it's automatically detecting the passages and translating them into English language! --Haoreima (talk) 11:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Strange. I tried using a VPN to access it from a Canadian IP address, and it seemed to work, while it didn't from a French IP address. It could be that Google features usually take a few days to be implemented in Australia and NZ (and this would be no exception), but I'm quite surprised that Assamese, a major language of 25m speakers didn't have a Google Translate option until now. SHB2000 (talk) 11:21, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

SHB2000 Assamese (a language with speakers of big population) & Sanskrit (Latin of the East) are also announced to be approved simultaneously with Meitei language. Regarding the irregularities among the countries in the world about the accessibility of the Translate tool, I asked to the GT team. They replied to me here, that it will take some time. --Haoreima (talk) 11:28, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

google translate

Don't know why it thinks it's Shanghai... Once google translate gave a translation of 17h30 in Portuguese to 17:30pm in English. Strange algorithm. SHB2000 (talk) 13:30, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 I am active in Espanol and Fracais Quoras, besides English. There, people use "3,8 k" instead of "3.8 k" for 3800. I think this is due to different cultures of different places. And coming back to Sangai and Shanghai, Bengali, Hindi and other Indian languages' GT machine translations as well as transliterations wrongly interpret "Meitei" as "Meity" or "Meeti". In fact, these two "Meity" and "Meeti" literally means "Peter" in Meitei language. Lol! It's very odd to us, seriously. Haoreima (talk) 13:41, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

That was one of the few things I found unusual when I was learning French. So 1.5 in English is 1,5. Probably something with southern European languages? And GT giving "Peter"? Much more unusual than 17:30pm (I've once seen 23:30PM in Thailand once before so it's not completely unusual) SHB2000 (talk) 13:44, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 Though I don't know much about Europe, I think those languages evolved from Latin, for example, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, etc. might have different cultures from those of English-German party. And again, Celtic/Gaelic party might have different culture. That might be the reason! And are you asking me something by using 2 question marks "?" in your last talk? I can't understand your 2nd "?"! Can you please elaborate it? Haoreima (talk) 17:33, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

You've got new messages!

Hello, Haoreima. You have new messages at Prajjwal3959's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

💠Ely - Talk💠 18:15, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Welcoming

Hi Haoreima, thanks for welcoming new users. Remember to substitute the welcome template by putting subst: before welcome, so it appears like {{subst:welcome}}. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 20:59, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Ferien Yeah, but I still have a confusion. That's what is the difference between {{subst:welcome}} and {{welcome}} in their purposes? Haoreima (talk) 04:24, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Using {{welcome}} will transclude Template:welcome to the user talk page you're posting to, but if you substitute it will put the wikitext from the template on the user talk page. --Ferien (talk) 06:20, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

The main reason is that it somewhat hides the fact that it's a template and it looks more like the welcomer actually wrote that entire message. SHB2000 (talk) 07:07, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 Then, it's a good trick. Lol Haoreima (talk) 07:28, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

It sure is (-: Also the same reason why we substitute warnings and notices which are actually templates. The only place I think where substituting isn't done is Commons because it needs to be autotranslated. SHB2000 (talk) 07:31, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 Unlike other wikis, in Hindi Wikipedia, they use direct template, like I did here before. So, imitating their way, I used welcome template directly in more than 700 user talk pages in Manipuri/Meitei Wikipedia. Lol! See hi:User talk:Haoreima Haoreima (talk) 07:37, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

I think they do something like that on the Italian Wikipedia as well, but I'm not sure because my only activity there is reverting vandalism on my own talk page SHB2000 (talk) 07:40, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 Hey SHB2000! I have a question! Do you have any knowledge about which is the fastest growing wikipedia in the WMF? Regarding the number of articles. I don't know which one it is exactly. But for mni wiki, it's created in February, 2021, and now it exceeded 5000+ articles. So, I was thinking about this! :) :-) Haoreima (talk) 07:53, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm not too sure what it is, but I think it's the English Wikipedia. They get about a hundred new articles every day. But if you look at all WMF sites, including sister projects, that would probably be the English Wiktionary. SHB2000 (talk) 07:56, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 I think Cebuano Wikipedia might soon become the largest wiki. Now, it's 2nd. And, once I have heard that there's a man who used bot to create 10,000 articles everyday for the Cebuano Wikipedia. Most of the articles are stubs. Haoreima (talk) 07:59, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

The bot issue has been a long issue on both the Cebuano and the Waray Wikipedias where 90% of the articles are written by bots. To be fair, I'm not even sure if the bot's articles even grammatically make sense or not though. SHB2000 (talk) 08:01, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 Yeah, but to have such fame for being big, sometimes, I wish to use bots for mni. But the only problem is that I don't have any knowledge about the operation of bot. :) :-) Haoreima (talk) 08:04, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

The bot path however, is very risky, unless there's a similar large regional language (something like Bengali or Nepali but it can be dead languages too like Sanskrit or Pali) that uses the same formatting and language conventions as Meitei. Even if that was the case, we also don't want another Scots Wikipedia incident where Scots is very similar to English SHB2000 (talk) 08:10, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 I have the native level knowledge in Hindi, Manipuri & near native in Urdu, Bengali & basic in Assamese & Arabic (probably MSA) too! And, currently trying to learn Iraqi Arabic! Will this make me ok for using bots? And I don't know how that boy gains the admin rights when he doesn't know Scots! It's also the faults of those who voted him in the RFA! Haoreima (talk) 08:30, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

It's not really an issue with your knowledge, but I'm concerned if the bot makes grammatical errors and all that (even google translate does this, and it's much easier to translate things with Google Translate). And re the Scots Wikipedia incident, the issue there was that there were no native Scots speakers over there so all the admins there don't know how to speak Scots. But I think after the incident, while several articles were deleted, it did bring the attention of numerous native Scots speakers to fix those issues up. SHB2000 (talk) 08:37, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 Wow! Then, I wish to become admin for Scots. :) :-) :-) As far as I know, google translate offers only Scots Gaelic language, and not for Scots language and Scottish language. So, I don't know how they manage to edit Scots language Wikipedia. Haoreima (talk) 08:41, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

And then there's Bot-Jagwar, a bot that has basically created so many entries on the Malagasy Wiktionary + a lot of other wikis as well with large amounts of factual errors. Oh and did I forget, there's Bot-Jagwar II as well. And you know what, there's a third bot as well, run by the same person Ikotobaity. I think there's a fourth one, but I'm not too sure. There's a discussion going on about this on m:Requests for comment/Large-scale errors at Malagasy Wiktionary about these few bots. SHB2000 (talk) 12:31, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000 Wow, the meta page you show me is recommended for translation. It's the first time I am experiencing such RfC like stuffs for translations. :) :-) So, I did it for mni too like this m:Requests for comment/Large-scale errors at Malagasy Wiktionary/mni (m:ꯑꯅꯤꯡꯕ ꯐꯣꯡꯗꯣꯛꯂꯛꯅꯕ ꯍꯥꯢꯖꯕ/ꯆꯥꯡ ꯌꯥꯝꯅ ꯁꯣꯢꯕꯁꯤꯡ ꯃꯦꯂꯦꯒꯦꯁꯤ ꯋꯤꯛꯁꯟꯅꯔꯤꯗ) just now. And another thing, yes, whatever you are saying about the bots might be true. It's due to some bad bots that defame people's view towards bots. However, not all the bots are improper. Many are also doing good. So, I am planning about one such after some time. Can you tell me from where shall I request for such privilege? Haoreima (talk) 14:50, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Most bots out there are good, but there's some bad ones as well. But yet the worst one I have seen is Babel AutoCreate, much worse than Jagwar's bots. SHB2000 (talk) 01:07, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-41

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Proclamation Day of the Republic of Latvia Please be bold and help translate this article! Proclamation Day of the Republic of Latvia is celebrated annually on 18 November. It marks the anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence of Latvia by the People's Council of Latvia in 1918. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:04, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-42

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Juice jacking (fr:Juice jacking) (de:Juice jacking) Please be bold and help translate this article! Juice jacking is a type of cyber attack involving a charging port that doubles as a data connection, typically over USB. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:16, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-43

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Cape Kidnappers Please be bold and help translate this article! Cape Kidnappers / Te Kauwae-a-Māui is a headland at the southeastern extremity of Hawke's Bay on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island and sits at the end of an 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) peninsula which protrudes into the Pacific Ocean. It is 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-east of the city of Napier. Access to the Cape by road stops at Clifton, which is the departure point for many tourists. The Cape Kidnappers Golf Course lies between the headland and the nearby coastal community of Te Awanga. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:05, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Women 2021

After careful consideration, it seems that third prize is a tie. Congratulations on your win and thank you for bringing such fine articles to the Simple English Wikipedia! Darkfrog24 (talk) 19:50, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Darkfrog24 Thanks! :) Haoreima (talk) 03:11, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-44

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Islamic ornament Please be bold and help translate this article! Islamic ornament is the use of decorative patterns in Islamic art. They can be broadly divided into the arabesque, using curving plant-based elements, geometric patterns with straight lines or regular curves, and calligraphy, consisting of religious texts with stylised appearance, used both decoratively and to convey meaning. All three often involve elaborate interlacing. The three types of ornament are often used together. Islamic decoration has had a significant influence on European decorative artforms, especially as Western arabesque. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:08, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Image removed

Hi there - please forgive me, I was working on a large number of pages at the same time and deleted the image from the page as it was blocking most of the article text. I was going to restore it when I had finished the pages I was working on but I will restore it now - thank you for letting me know. Bobo. 11:56, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-45

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Southern Crab Nebula Please be bold and help translate this article! The Southern Crab Nebula (or WRAY-16-47 or Hen 2-104) is a nebula in the constellation Centaurus. The nebula is several thousand light years from Earth, and its central star is a symbiotic Mira variable - white dwarf pair. It is named for its resemblance to the Crab Nebula, which is in the northern sky. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:13, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Writer's Barnstar
		While going through the list of pages, I saw many pages that you created. This star is for creating pages on unique topics that were never covered on Wikipedia before.-BRP ever 01:30, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

@BRPever: Thank you so much, Sir! Have a good day! :) Haoreima (talk) 02:25, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-46

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Netto Question Please be bold and help translate this article! The Netto Question (Portuguese: Questão Netto) was the largest collective action for the liberation of slaves in the Americas. The lawsuit is related to the liberation of 217 slaves in Brazilian lands in the 1870s. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:08, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

WLWSA-2021 Newsletter #6 (Request to provide information)

Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
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Thank you for participating in the Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021 contest. Please fill out this form and help us to complete the next steps including awarding prizes and certificates.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out the organizing team via emailing @here or discuss on the Meta-wiki talk page

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07:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-47

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Casa Grande del Pueblo Please be bold and help translate this article! The Casa Grande del Pueblo (English: Great House of the People), is the Bolivian presidential residence that replaced the Palacio Quemado in 2018. Inaugurated on 9 August 2018 during the presidency of Evo Morales as the official residence of the President of Bolivia, the interim government of Jeanine Áñez reverted to occupying the Palacio Quemado from 2019 to 2020. Following the inauguration of Luis Arce on 8 November 2020, it has again become the residence of the president. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:34, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-48

The winner this Translation of the week is en:William Morrison (chemist) Please be bold and help translate this article! William Morrison (23 August 1855 – 29 August 1927) was a Scottish chemist. His background in chemistry piqued his interest in improving storage batteries. He concentrated on how to produce the most available energy for a unit of weight for efficiency in the working of an individual battery cell. Eventually, he developed storage batteries far more powerful than what had then been available. To demonstrate his batteries, Morrison installed 24 of them on a common horse-drawn carriage and attached an electric motor to the rear axle to be powered by them. Through various innovations, he developed the controls for the power used and the vehicle's steering so that the driver had complete control. Morrison invented the first practical self-powered four-wheeled electric carriage in the United States. His electric vehicle was the first to be driven in Chicago and in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. This electric horseless buggy of the late 19th century helped pave the way for the hybrid electric automobile of the 21st century. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 00:54, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-50

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Phromnia rosea Please be bold and help translate this article! Phromnia rosea, the flower-spike bug or the flatid leaf bug, is a species of planthopper in the family Flatidae. It is found in dry, tropical forests in Madagascar, and the adult insects are gregarious, the groups orienting themselves in such a way that they resemble a flower spike (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:44, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

articles

Hi, I am on the fountain tool and I don't see your article up for judging, can you double check to see if it's been judged already or if you have resubmitted it? Tsugaru let's talk! :) 23:11, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

@つがる: I saw it. It's judged already as not accepted. The article is Four Beauties. I saw it like this:

Four Beauties 6 Dec 6:30 AM 0 つがる: 0 not accepted please see talk page of the article. thanks!

I just want you to please review it again as I improved it again according to your suggestions in the article's talk page. :) Haoreima (talk) 04:26, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Yep, I can totally do that. What I just need is for your to resubmit to the fountain, otherwise I can't judge it. Thanks, --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 01:58, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

@つがる: Articles once submitted (no matter if rejected or accepted once) can't be resubmitted again. Whenever tried to resubmit, the fountain mechanism automatically shows a "red cross❌" sign not to do that! Besides, the submission timing is already over, no one can submit any article now! So, please review the article, and if you found it eligible to be accepted, please accept it like you did before to other articles. :) Regards! Haoreima (talk) 02:57, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

You and User:Camouflaged Mirage used to reaccept declined articles before! Please do the same this time too! Haoreima (talk) 02:59, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

I can't remember how we did it last year, I am not too fimilar with how the articles work on the fountain tool, besides that I can either, comment, accept, or decline them. That being said, I will take a look once again and see what I can do. --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 20:42, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't find it in the Queue... I will keep trying. Please hold tight --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 20:43, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

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Hi, Haoreima, I promise I am not playing any tricks on you here, I would never do such a thing, but I am really sorry, I cannot find that article in the Queue when I press "Judge". So unfortunately, I can't re-judge the article for now. Camouflaged Mirage does it work on your end? (Camouflaged Mirage - Also so sorry I was unable to do more judging this year, I was busy with school at the time when the articles were up for judging. I thank you so much for your role!) --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 20:52, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Four Beauties

Hi, Haoreima, I do appreciate the efforts you put into the article, however if I were to judge it now (I got the issue fixed) I still can't accept it due to the language still not being simple enough. I know it can be hard to write in Simple English, but you are doing such a great job. Would you like an example of where I see some complex language? Thanks ;) Tsugaru let's talk! :) 01:40, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for spamming you talkpage, but I went through the article again, and after the linking, I think it is enough to be accepted. Good work and thanks for putting up with my slowness and confusion. --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 01:56, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

@つがる: Thanks for your understanding! Sometimes, to err is human. And to forgive is divine! :) Haoreima (talk) 02:42, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

:) --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 03:21, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-51

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Great Meadow National Nature Park Please be bold and help translate this article! Great Meadow National Nature Park (Ukrainian: Великий Луг (національний природний парк)) (also, Velykyi Luh) covers historic steppe terrain in southeast Ukraine. It is on the south bank of the Dnieper River's Kakhovka Reservoir, which was created by the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. The meadows and reed beds on the shore support one of the largest transmigration spots for birds in Eastern Europe (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:15, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Polo articles

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Nice work on the new polo articles you've created. They're quite an interesting read, so thank you for making them :) SHB2000 (talk) 22:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000: Thank you for the barnstar! Have a good day! :) Haoreima (talk) 04:08, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Same to you :) SHB2000 (talk) 04:10, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy holidays

Hello Haoreima: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, --Ferien (talk) 17:26, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Happy Holidays to you too

Hello Haoreima: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:05, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Returning the favor from meta :) Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:05, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

New categories

Thank you for creating Category:Christmas WikiLove templates and Category:Happy holidays and seasonal greetings WikiLove templates. When you create a category, please be sure to categorize it appropriately. Neither of these categories is categorized. Thanks!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Auntof6 (talk • contribs) 01:15, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Oh, sorry for late response! Actually, I don't know what to categorize. Sometimes, some categories need not any category further. I thought those categories I created might be like that. Well, if found appropriate to further categorize, I will certainly did it. One is done by someone, another is still not categorized. I am still searching for a suitable one. You can also help me!:-) Haoreima (talk) 08:52, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

I'll look at it later. Just be aware that all categories need to be categorized. Sometimes that's done by a template, such as with Category:2004 births, and on those you won't see the categories when you edit the page. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:35, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, Haoreima. You have a new email! Please check it at your convenience.
Message added 12:17, 26 December 2021 (UTC). You can take off this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template.

--Ferien (talk) 12:17, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

 Done Haoreima (talk) 12:19, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-52

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Luís Gama Please be bold and help translate this article! Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (Salvador, June 21, 1830 – São Paulo, August 24, 1882) was a Brazilian Rábula (self-taught lawyer), abolitionist, orator, journalist and writer, and the Patron of the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil. Born to a free black mother and a white father, he was nevertheless made a slave at the age of 10, and remained illiterate until the age of 17. He judicially won his own freedom and began to work as a lawyer on behalf of the captives, and by the age of 29 he was already an established author and considered "the greatest abolitionist in Brazil". (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:41, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations, WINNER!

Haoreima, among what I hope were many happy accomplishments this year, you also tied for third in the Wiki Loves Women Edit-a-Thon!

Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021 Barnstar
Hello Haoreima,
Thank you for your participation in 'Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021'. One or more of your submitted articles have been accepted in the contest. This barnstar is given to you as a reminder of appreciation for contributing to the acceleration of Wikipedia through writing articles at this event. We hope that your cooperation will continue in the future.

Stay wholesome and safe.
Regards,
Darkfrog24
Local Organizer, Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
20:28, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Gracias Darkfrog24 ! :-) Haoreima (talk) 01:27, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Wikipedia Asian Month 2021

Hello, thank you for participating in Wikipedia Asian Month 2021. We are grateful for your contributions! All the pages you created help the world know more about Asia and Asian cultures. You have created four or more pages that were accepted so you will receive a postcard for Wikipedia Asian Month 2021. Happy New Year and wishing you a good 2022! -Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 08:31, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Haoreima, I would also like to extend my congrats for you creating four or more articles at WAM this year, I hope you will join us again next year! Sincerely, --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 03:34, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-01

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Christmas tree production Please be bold and help translate this article! Christmas tree production occurs worldwide on Christmas tree farms, in artificial tree factories and from native strands of pine and fir trees. Christmas trees, pine and fir trees purposely grown for use as a Christmas tree, are grown on plantations in many western nations, including Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. In Australia, the industry is relatively new, and nations such as the United States, Germany and Canada are among world leaders in annual production. Great Britain consumes about 8 million trees annually, while in the United States between 35 and 40 million trees are sold during the Christmas season. Artificial Christmas trees are mostly produced in the Pearl River delta area of China. Christmas tree prices were described using a Hotelling-Faustmann model in 2001, the study showed that Christmas tree pr (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 11:42, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Harry Potter vandal

Hello Haoreima, it's good to be back! I'm currently in an edit war with a vandal who is removing information about Hermione Granger from Harry Potter articles, but it seems that there are no admins online to block them. What can we do? Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) 06:07, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Hockeycatcat:! If you don't find any local admins available, it's best to contact any one of the active admins of metawiki because they have access to both their own local as well as global (including this very wiki)! Haoreima (talk) 06:12, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll see if I can get one of them to come over here :) Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) 06:15, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Hockeycatcat and Haoreima, in the future please use WP:VIP for these reports, or if it's urgent you can ask in #wikipedia-simple on IRC. Global sysops do not have admin rights on here, and though Stewards technically do they should generally not use them here. I hope this helps, and if you have any questions please ask. Happy editing! Vermont (talk) 01:21, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Horror film on English Wikipedia

Dear friend I have a request for you for the article Horror film on English Wikipedia underneath the 1970s section can you write down The 1970s began a new age for horror films with the transition from "classic" to modern horror underneath the George A. Remero image? 107.119.69.54 (talk) 01:54, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-02

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Lobster War (fr:Conflit de la langouste entre la France et le Brésil) Please be bold and help translate this article! The Lobster War (also known as the Lobster Operation; Portuguese: Guerra da Lagosta; French: Conflit de la langouste) was a dispute over spiny lobsters which occurred from 1961 to 1963 between Brazil and France. The Brazilian government refused to allow French fishing vessels to catch spiny lobsters 100 miles (160 km) off the Brazilian northeast coast, arguing that lobsters "crawl along the continental shelf", while the French maintained that "lobsters swim" and that, therefore, they might be caught by any fishing vessel from any country. The dispute was resolved unilaterally by Brazil, which extended its territorial waters to a 200-nautical-mile (370 km; 230 mi) zone, taking in the disputed lobsters' bed. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:35, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-03

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Henry Adams Thompson Please be bold and help translate this article! Henry Adams Thompson (March 23, 1837 – July 8, 1920) was an American prohibitionist and professor who was the vice-presidential nominee of the Prohibition Party in 1880. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:09, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03

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

Recent changes

• When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
• You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [2]
• When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-04

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Koz Castle Please be bold and help translate this article! Koz Castle (Turkish: Koz Kalesi), or Kürşat Castle is a castle in the Altınözü district of the Hatay Province of Turkey. It has been involved in the Crusades in the 12th and 13th century. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:58, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-04

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Koz Castle Please be bold and help translate this article! Koz Castle (Turkish: Koz Kalesi), or Kürşat Castle is a castle in the Altınözü district of the Hatay Province of Turkey. It has been involved in the Crusades in the 12th and 13th century. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 10:06, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2022

This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 1 • January 2022

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In This Issue

• 30-h Wikipedia Article Writing Challenge
• Announcing Wiki Workshop 2022
• Final exhibition about Cieszyn Silesia region
• Join us this February for the EduWiki Week
• Offline Education project WikiChallenge closed its third edition
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom ToT Experience of a Filipina Wikimedian
• Welcoming new trainers of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program
• Wikimedia Israel’s education program: Students enrich Hebrew Wiktionary with Biblical expressions still in use in modern Hebrew

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 17:28, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
• The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
• You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [3]

Events

• You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
• You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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21:38, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05

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

• If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

• A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:42, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-06

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Log bucking Please be bold and help translate this article! Bucking is the process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs. Significant value can be lost by sub-optimal bucking because logs destined for plywood, lumber, and pulp each have their own value and specifications for length, diameter, and defects. Cutting from the top down is overbucking and from the bottom up is underbucking. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 03:26, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-06

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Log bucking Please be bold and help translate this article! Bucking is the process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs. Significant value can be lost by sub-optimal bucking because logs destined for plywood, lumber, and pulp each have their own value and specifications for length, diameter, and defects. Cutting from the top down is overbucking and from the bottom up is underbucking. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 06:11, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06

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

• English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
• Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [5]

Problems

• A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:16, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Womens' markets

Hi Haoreima, I'm Griff! I was during my regular review of new changes and a change you made was marked as possibly a problem. I don't think it is, but I am a little confused by it and was hoping you could help me understand. In this change you made, I don't see the connection between the Ima Market and Leimarel Sidabi or her incarnations. Can you clarify? Thanks Griff (talk) 13:44, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

@Griffinofwales: The Leimarel Sidabi Ima Keithel (Complex Number 1), the Imoinu Ima Keithel (Complex Number 2) and the Phouoibi Ima Keithel (Complex Number 3) are the three main building complexes of the Ima Keithel. Imoinu and Phouoibi are also incarnations of goddess Leimarel Sidabi. In Meitei religion, markets are not only for commerce but also for sacredness and holiness. Markets in Meitei populated areas always houses at least a shrine in the middle of the complex in honor of the goddess of wealth. This is compulsory as well as mandatory. If not, the agony of the goddess of wealth might bring instability to the state's economy. Haoreima (talk) 13:55, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

I'm not an expert on this, but just so I understand, markets in Meitei areas all have shrines to Leimarel Sidabi? If that is the case, would it perhaps be better to include this information in the main article to the goddess and discuss not just this specific market, but all markets, and maybe use the Ima Market as an example? Griff (talk) 13:59, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

@Griffinofwales: Good idea! But I mean goddess of wealth. Wealth is an attribute possessed by many goddesses. Some use in the name of Leimarel Sidabi. Some use other names of other goddesses (her incarnations, not Leimarel directly). How shall we proceed in this condition? Haoreima (talk) 14:05, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps we could make a Worship section in the main article that talks about how the Meitei people worship the goddess or her incarnations through shrines in their markets, using the Ima Market as an example? I might be wrong about this, but I feel like we should make it clear that the Ima Market is not the only example of these shrines? Griff (talk) 14:11, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

@Griffinofwales: If you want to add this in the article about Leimarel Sidabi, then I have already added it at Leimarel Sidabi#Namesakes. If you want any improvements, you are welcome to do so! Haoreima (talk) 14:14, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-07

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Bidriware Please be bold and help translate this article! Bidriware is a metal handicraft from Bidar, India. It was developed in the 14th century C.E. during the rule of the Bahamani Sultans. The term "bidriware" originates from the township of Bidar, which is still the chief centre for the manufacture of the unique metalware. Due to its striking inlay artwork, bidriware is an important export handicraft of India and is prized as a symbol of wealth. The metal used is a blackened alloy of zinc and copper inlaid with thin sheets of pure silver. This native art form has obtained Geographical Indications (GI) registry. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:43, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07

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

• Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [7]

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19:18, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-08

The winner this Translation of the week is simple:Loktak Folklore Museum (mni:ꯂꯣꯛꯇꯥꯛ ꯈꯨꯟꯅꯨꯡ ꯄꯨꯀꯩ ꯂꯟꯀꯩ ꯁꯪꯂꯦꯟ) Please be bold and help translate this article! The Loktak Folklore Museum or the Thanga Folklore Museum is a folk museum in Thanga Island in the Loktak lake of Manipur. It cares for and displays a collection of artistic, cultural and historical artefacts associated with the Loktak lake. The museum preserves the folk customs and beliefs, folk medicines, folk literature associated with the Loktak lake. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:18, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08

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

• Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [8]
• At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [9]
• You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [10]
• There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

• The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [11][12]
• Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [13]
• Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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Spelling of an Indian phrase

Hi! May I ask, what is exact Indian (or Hindi language or regional Indian language), phrase for "floating lake".--I expect to propose that the exact Indian phrase, should maybe be mentioned in the article about that one famous lake. Regards! 89.8.126.96 (talk) 12:37, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

This is an English language wikipedia, not any Indian language like Hindi, Manipuri wikipedias. No need to mention any terms of non English languages unless necessary. Haoreima (talk) 12:40, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Sandbox

Just letting you know that I edited your sandbox and why. The page had several instances of using the parameter "issue" 2 times in the same Infobox royalty template. This caused the page to be listed in an error category. As the page ignores all but the last use when displaying the template and the first uses were all empty, I cleared the early uses and left the ones being displayed. Overall, it will have no affect on the outcome of the paga other than to remove it from the error category. --Creol(talk) 15:33, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

@Creol: Thanks for doing that. You are free to do so in future too. Actually, when not in use, I usually kept my sandbox empty. I have forgotten to empty my sandbox after my last edit. Now, I have removed most of the contents like I do as usual. Please don't mind. It's not because you did something. Haoreima (talk) 15:39, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-09

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Shapur I's victory relief at Naqsh-e Rostam Please be bold and help translate this article! Shapur I's victory relief at Naqsh-e Rostam is located 3 kilometers north of Persepolis. It is the most impressive of eight Sasanian rock carvings cut into the cliff beneath the tombs of their Achaemenid predecessors (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:27, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2022

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Volume 11 • Issue 2 • February 2022

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• Open Foundation West Africa Expands Open Movement With UHAS
• Celebrating the 18th anniversary of Ukrainian Wikipedia
• Integrating Wikipedia in the academic curriculum in a university in Mexico
• Results of "Reading Wikipedia" workshop in the summer school of Plan Ceibal in Uruguay
• WikiFundi, offline editing plateform : last release notes and how-tos
• Writing Wikipedia as an academic assignment in STEM fields
• The Learning and Connection – 1Lib1Ref with African Librarians

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Tech News: 2022-09

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

• When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [14]
• Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [15][16]
• The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

• The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

• Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
• If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-10

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Day of the National Flag (Ukraine) (uk:День Державного Прапора України) Please be bold and help translate this article! August 23 every year since 2004 (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:57, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

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Problems

• There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-11

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Hermila Galindo (es:Hermila Galindo) Please be bold and help translate this article! Hermila Galindo Acosta (also known as Hermila Galindo de Topete) (2 June 1886 – 18 August 1954) was a Mexican feminist and a writer. She was an early supporter of many radical feminist issues, primarily sex education in schools, women's suffrage, and divorce. She was one of the first feminists to state that Catholicism in Mexico was thwarting feminist efforts, and was the first woman to run for elected office in Mexico. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:23, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

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 Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [19][20]

Problems

• There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
• There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [21]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
• When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [22]
• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [23]
• On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [24]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
• The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [25]

Events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Question

When you reverted my bot's edit on Khoriphaba, your edit summary said "It alters everything." Would you please explain what you meant by that? The change I made shouldn't have done anything except combine duplicate, identical references. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:59, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6 I want to fix some edits that were done before your bot edited the page. To revert their edits, I need your bot's edit to be reverted. Sorry for my wrong edit summary. Btw, I am currently fixing some contents. Once I complete doing so, I will inform you. Haoreima (talk) 09:14, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6  Done Haoreima (talk) 09:36, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Archiving discussions

Can you archive discussions up to Dec 2021 to /Archive/1 as this talk page is getting bigger at 174 kB? BP001002004008 (talk) 10:33, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

BP001002004008 I want to become a record holder! Haoreima (talk) 10:34, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

See en:WP:CHOKING for more details. BP001002004008 (talk) 11:17, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

BP001002004008 Thanks for your concern! What shall I do now? Haoreima (talk) 11:21, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Can you move the first 53 discussions in this page to /Archive/1 and add:

Archives: 1

to the top of this page. BP001002004008 (talk) 11:37, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Why so 53 in particular? Haoreima (talk) 11:38, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

The first 53 discussions date back to 2021. BP001002004008 (talk) 11:39, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Another option is to use automatic archiving. You can see an example of this at the top of my talk page if you edit the page. Just don't use exactly that code because it has my user name in it. User:MiszaBot/config has documentation on the different options. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:44, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-12

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Farn-Sasan Please be bold and help translate this article! Farn-Sasan was the last king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, ruling the region of Sakastan approximately from 210 to 226. Literary sources makes no mention of him, and he is only known through the coins he issued. He was defeated in 226 by the Sasanian ruler Ardashir I (r. 224–242), which marked the end of Indo-Parthian rule. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 06:29, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12

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New code release schedule for this week

• There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

• You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [26]
• The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [27]

Future changes

• Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [28]

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This Month in Education: March 2022

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• Arte+Feminismo Pilipinas:Advocacy on Women Empowerment
• The edit-a-thon on Serbian Wikipedia on the occasion of Edu Wiki Week
• Call for Participation: Higher Education Survey
• Collection of Good Practices in Wikipedia Education
• Conversation: Open education in the Wikimedia Movement views from Latin America
• EduWiki Week 2022, celebrations and learnings
• EduWiki Week in Armenia
• Open Education Week at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
• Wikipedia + Education Talk With Leonard Hagan
• Wikimedia Israel cooperates with Yad Vashem in developing a training course for teachers

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• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-13

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Dummy tank Please be bold and help translate this article! Dummy tanks superficially resemble real tanks and are often deployed as a means of military deception in the absence of real tanks. Early designs included wooden shells and inflatable props that could fool enemy intelligence; they were fragile and only believable from a distance. Modern designs are more advanced and can imitate heat signatures, making them more effective illusions. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:51, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

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 simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [29][30]

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19:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Deities/Gods and goddesses categories

Hi, Haoreima. I meant to leave you some messages about this earlier.

• I renamed the "deities" categories you created because "gods and goddesses" uses simpler words.
• You had put some entries in both nature deities and water deities, but water deities is a subset of nature deities so they don't need to be in both. I removed the duplicates from the nature gods/goddesses category.
• I moved the thunder and water categories under the nature category you created (which was renamed to gods and goddesses of nature). That left only two entries in the nature category, so maybe we can find more entries for that.
• When you create a category, please categorize the category itself.

Thanks. Feel free to let me know if you have questions about any of this. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:22, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6 Shall we create "those mentioning deities" as redirects for "those renamed mentioning gods and goddesses"? --Haoreima (talk) 02:31, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

I deleted them as part of the rename because I didn't think they were necessary. We don't have them for any of the other gods/goddesses categories. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:41, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6 I have recently created Category:Gods and goddesses of sky to fulfill the three contents of a category. Please check if everything is ok! --Haoreima (talk) 02:43, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

That should work, except for a minor change I'll make so that the grammar is good (of the sky, not just "of sky"). -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:47, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Naming god/goddess categories

When the thing they're a god or goddess of is a unique, tangible thing, the name of the category should usually include the article "the". That's why I renamed that other category to "of the sky". So the new category you created should be "of the moon". I'll rename it, but please keep this in mind when creating categories. If you're not sure, feel free to ask. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:43, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6 It was better if we named "Category:Moon gods and goddesses" instead of "Category:Gods and goddesses of the moon". Many might not like strict grammatical rules in category names, just my assumption. --Haoreima (talk) 03:51, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Categorize!

Please categorize your new categories! --Auntof6 (talk) 03:51, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6 Which one? Please remind me! I can't recall! I have categorized most of them, but I might have missed one or two. --Haoreima (talk) 03:53, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Look at all the categories you've created. The ones that show as "Created blank page" weren't categorized. This includes one you created after I left you this message. -- Auntof6 (talk) 05:56, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6 Sorry! I couldn't because I don't know how to see the exclusive list of categories I have created. And to check them through my edit history will be very exhaustive since I did a lot of edits today. If you could, please show me! Haoreima (talk) 06:39, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You can see them here: in your contributions page -- *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 06:45, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

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. [31]

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. [32]
• 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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21:01, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

My Japanese Niece

Does this movie really have an official Japanese title ? I tried to find it with the Japanese title that you gave, but nothing appeared. Machine translation of Japanese is not good as you expect, so please stop using it. In my opinion, repeating の sounds weird. MathXplore (talk) 13:53, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

MathXplore Thanks you came across it. Please transcribe this Japanese kanji writing into text form either at my talk page so that I could rewrite there in the article. Or, please do so directly in the article. --Haoreima (talk) 14:04, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

MathXplore It seems like both Japanese and Meitei translations are found only in picture formats (in some posters, that can't be accessed through search) and not in written text forms (that can be accessed through search). The official poster is also seen in this website too. :-) --Haoreima (talk) 14:20, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. The poster did not include kanji title but only katakana title, so I used that one. MathXplore (talk) 14:25, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Darkfrog24's message

Congratulations on your victory and all your hard work. As always, your choice of subjects was impeccable. Darkfrog24 (talk) 18:57, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Darkfrog24 Thank you for your wonderful contribution to the contest as a jury. --Haoreima (talk) 09:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-15

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Ankarana Reserve Please be bold and help translate this article! Ankarana Special Reserve in northern Madagascar was created in 1956. It is a small, partially vegetated plateau composed of 150-million-year-old middle Jurassic limestone (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:24, 11 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. [33][34]

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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19:44, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-16

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Gwoździec Synagogue (pl:Synagoga w Gwoźdźcu) Please be bold and help translate this article! The synagogue was erected around 1650 in Gwoździec (Ukrainian: Гвіздець - Hvizdets), then in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, today in the Kolomyia Raion, Ukraine. The building was seriously damaged in a fire during World War I. It was rebuilt in the interwar period, but destroyed completely by the Germans in 1941 (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:24, 18 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. [35]
• 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. [36] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [37] [38] [39]

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This Month in Education: April 2022

This Month in Education

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• Audio-Educational Seminar of Wikimedia Mexico
• Dagbani Wikimedians using digital TV broadcast to train Wikipedia contributors in Ghana
• Digital Education & The Open Space With Herbert Acheampong
• HerStory walks as a part of edit-a-thons
• Join us for Wiki Workshop 2022
• The youngest member of Tartu Wikiclub is 15-year-old student

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The Signpost: 24 April 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Double trouble

• In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia

• Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)

• Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March

• In focus: Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia

• Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners

• Interview: On a war and a map

• Serendipity