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- The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [1][2]
The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINSwill no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [3]
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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
Replaceable fair use File:Ernest Jones.jpg
Hi re your objection to the existing image in the Ernest Jones article - I have responded on the file talk page. Almanacer (talk) 16:08, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
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- Getting to it. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:59, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
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- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [4][5]
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- Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [6][7]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).
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- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.
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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Article deletions
Can you please not alert me of a PROD, image or article deletion again, I barely visit this site nowadays let alone have time to waste on trying to save articles that deletionists have made up their mind aren't notable anyway. Thankyou.† Encyclopædius 17:01, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
TFA
Thank you today for Mount Takahe, "about a volcano in Marie Byrd Land, and one of the (relatively) best studied of the edifices there. It is not currently active and almost entirely covered with ice and snow, but deposits of volcanic ash from Mount Takahe have been found in ice cores and suggest that it was very active during the latest Pleistocene and early Holocene." - I still celebrate Beethoven's 250 years on my talk ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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- That's resolved. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:08, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
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- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
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{{citation needed}}template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [9]
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- Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a
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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Tazieffite - Mutnovsky volcano, Kamchatka, Russia (Color SEM).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:11, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
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- Got these. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 13:31, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
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Willing to Create Sandeep Maheshwari Page
Hi there, Not sure why it is admin blocked. Could you please explain to me how can I create or I am allowed or not? Pardon me, I am new to Wikipedia. Sonofstar (talk) 16:50, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
- Greetings, Sonofstar. It's salted because this discussion determined that despite folks continually recreating it it doesn't meet Wikipedia's inclusion rules, namely the one linked at WP:GNG. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:28, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me. This discussion was really helpful for my understanding and I agree he is not having good independent coverage as of now. I also gone through the list of other youtubers after it. -Sonofstar (talk) 18:20, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, are you not supposed to add anyone at all who disappeared mysteriously or was kidnapped to that list or just certain people? There are some people who went missing on the list and I need to know if they should be kept. I did add some as well, but I will remove them if you tell me that they don't belong there. Davidgoodheart (talk) 15:28, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I don't know anything about that category. The instructions on the category page, though, say that missing persons should not be there so I think that "disappeared mysteriously or was kidnapped" wouldn't belong. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:17, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
In case anyone wants to use this information
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL contains sources on pluvial climates of the Southwestern United States. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 18:56, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey Jo-Jo. I noticed that you deleted this article a few years ago following an AFD discussion. Is it okay if you recreate it as a draft in my userspace? I'm planning to work on it with the goal of a more suitable article being written, perhaps later on being brought to DRV to see if there's consensus to recreate it. Thanks. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 10:46, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- Sure. I don't know anything about the subject beyond noting that folks in the AFD didn't think it meets WP:N guidelines. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:52, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. Is it okay if you restore it at User:Narutolovehinata5/Jill Harris? Thanks. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:58, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- That's done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 12:10, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. Is it okay if you restore it at User:Narutolovehinata5/Jill Harris? Thanks. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:58, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
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Pacific Meridional Mode
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Hello:
A quick question. Partway through this article which I'm working on for the GOCE contributors started to list the year an author made a claim. e.g. "According to Wu et al. (2009), the decreased evaporation..." I have not come across this before and have been putting the years in brackets. I thought I'd check with you if this is okay. Perhaps you can point me in the MOS where this is discussed?
Many thanks,
Twofingered Typist (talk) 22:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Greetings, Twofingered Typist Honestly I am not sure on this. The main reason why I've done so is because these claims are basically primary claims which haven't had much if any follow-up discussion yet but were published by authoritative sources and thus can't simply be ignored. I think WP:INTEXT discusses this kind of in-line sourcing. I'll see if Femkemilene has thoughts on how to present such findings. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:23, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
- I don't know enough about the topic, but if you have reason to believe it's a fact, and not a scientific assessment, it's better to leave out the author from the sentence to avoid presenting facts as opinions. When in doubt, you can always send authors a quick email; most scientists are really happy when their work is read outside of their bubble. Femke Nijsse (talk) 10:33, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
- Jo-Jo Eumerus WP:INTEXT doesn't cover this directly. I think I'll continue to put the years in brackets otherwise the article will end up with dozens of sentences like "So-and-so suggested in 2019 that..." Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:01, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
- Seems OK. I'll see at WP:GAN and perhaps WT:FAC about whether there is a better presentation. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:52, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Jo-Jo Eumerus WP:INTEXT doesn't cover this directly. I think I'll continue to put the years in brackets otherwise the article will end up with dozens of sentences like "So-and-so suggested in 2019 that..." Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:01, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
- I don't know enough about the topic, but if you have reason to believe it's a fact, and not a scientific assessment, it's better to leave out the author from the sentence to avoid presenting facts as opinions. When in doubt, you can always send authors a quick email; most scientists are really happy when their work is read outside of their bubble. Femke Nijsse (talk) 10:33, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
(Talk page watcher comments welcome) Note to self
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Been wondering if [12][13][14] are enough to make this often-cited photo of the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season notable under WP:GNG terms. There are other passing mentions in this Google hit list. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:43, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Licancabur Lake
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