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DYK for 2021 Moroccan general election

On 29 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2021 Moroccan general election, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in advance of the 2021 general election, Morocco outlawed the making of certain types of online posts? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2021 Moroccan general election. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2021 Moroccan general election), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Very sad. But very true. jp×g 03:35, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

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@Narutolovehinata5: Thanks for the heads-up. Responding now. jp×g 03:32, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

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• IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [1]

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• You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [2]
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Maps

Hi JPxG,

Sorry for the delay in responding to this -- I have been enjoying the discussion but life is hectic now that the semester is in full swing. Perhaps our substantive differences are not so large, and have more to do with emphasis. I agree with you that typing out what a map says is ok, but I think this category of information is extremely limited in almost all cases. Regarding WP:MAPCITE specifically (and thanks for finding it and pointing it out, it was an interesting read): the relevant section "Sources" has four subsections. The first, "Usage", seems mistitled and basically meaningless. Everything in the second section seems fine. I accept the suggestion in the section "Relevance" that it would be ok to use a map to source the altitude of a geographic feature. However, the proposal that a map be used as a source for the relative position of two locations makes me less comfortable, not because a map is unlikely to be correct but because if a map is the only source for such information then it seems to be introducing an issue of due weight, in practice probably to some end that would violate WP:SYNTH. I disagree with only one sentence in the section "Original research": It would be acceptable to say "The freeway first appeared on the department of transportation's map in 1951" or "The freeway was constructed by 1951" (assuming the source has a reputation for accuracy in its map updates) in the above case. The first proposed sentence strikes me as an unambiguous violation of WP:SYNTH; the second one is less bad, but again raises an issue of due weight.

What do you think?

All the best, JBL (talk) 23:13, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@JayBeeEll: Thanks for replying. I think that, on this stuff, we mostly agree. My main contention on the noticeboard was that it ought to be permissible to do this within certain bounds; obviously, like the freeway example, it's possible to do SYNTH from map information, but this is the same as SYNTH applied to any other type of source and there doesn't seem to be any unique badness endemic to maps. jp×g 22:43, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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DeepFuckingValue

Good work on DeepFuckingValue. I was wondering, ever thought of nominating it at WP:DYK? It certainly would make for a good hook for the front page in my opinion. Clearly it looks like both discussions are going to be closed in favour of the article but it is OK to nominate whilst the discussion are ongoing. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 08:55, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! I feel like the article's content is nowhere near stable enough to pass review right now; on the other hand, it wouldn't cost me anything to just nom it anyway. jp×g 22:41, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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January 2021 GOCE Drive bling

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		This barnstar is awarded to JPxG for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 19:03, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for Keith Gill (investor)

On 19 February 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Keith Gill (investor), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Keith Gill's username, "DeepFuckingValue", was chosen to reflect his belief in value investing? You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Keith Gill (investor)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

I think you missed one.

Browns Island (San Joaquin County) still doesn't have a pic. - Sumanuil (talk) 04:26, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

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• The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [17]
• The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [18]

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DYK for GPT-2

On 27 February 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article GPT-2, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the GPT-2 artificial intelligence can summarize, respond to, generate, and translate text, despite being trained to do nothing more than predict the next word in a sequence? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/GPT-2. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, GPT-2), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:06, 27 February 2021 (UTC)