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Proposed deletion of ISO_12620

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Content merged with Linguistic categories#ISO 12620 (ISO TC37 Data Category Registry, ISOcat as recommended after requested move 8 May 2020

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Proposed deletion of Alice Ethel Minchin

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PSU Nursing Article

Hello! I appreciate you editing my article. I just had some questions about the comments you made. In your comment, you mentioned "almost none of the content is actually supported by the references". However, I went through and confirmed that the citations are referenced in each spot they appear within the article. Do you have an example of where this is not successful so I know what to better fix? Additionally, I have worked to include other outside references. Because much of the detailed information comes from the college's website, that is why I include a handful of those. However, I have multiple notable mentions in various news outlets to showcase the topic's notability. I just wanted to follow up so I can better make edits. Thank you!

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Please rate the article Uthiyur on quality scale. It seems to be a good article.

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Stuartyeates,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 809 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 845 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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Tech News: 2022-21

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• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [1]
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Problems

• The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [3]
• Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [4]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

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• Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [5]

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-22

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 AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [6]
• The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (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 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [7][8]
• The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [9]
• A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [10]

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This Month in Education: May 2022

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Tech News: 2022-23

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
• A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [11]

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Tech News: 2022-24

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Recent changes

• All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [12][13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (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 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [14]
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [15]
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [16][17]

Future meetings

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Stuartyeates

Thank you for creating Katherine Singer Kovács.

User:Scope creep, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Hi, You need to split the two list out of this articles, into two seperate articles. The awards are notable, they have massive. If you can expand this article with biographical, it really neeeds. If you need any help please contact me.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Scope creep}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

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scope_creepTalk 12:54, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

@Scope creep: Alas I'm unable to make any of the excellent changes you suggest due to the fact that I'm currently topic banned from BLPs. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:34, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Stuartyeates: Thanks for getting back to me. I never knew that was a thing, to be honest. I guess I will need to do it. She seems to be major cultural figure. I'll leave an attribution so they know it was you that created the article. scope_creep^Talk 20:44, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your work. No need for any explicit attribution, it's all in the edit history. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:46, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-25

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• The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [18]
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• A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [19]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
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• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
• Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [21]

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

Hi Stuartyeates! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

• The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
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Are you learning new tricks? :-) Schwede66 05:30, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

User:Schwede66 I'm trying to take a moment to develop. WP:TWA is completely abandonware to the extent that I couldn't get it to work. OTOH, I've done ~ 2000 non-BLP edits since my topic ban, but WP:AFC queues don't seem to be getting shorter... Stuartyeates (talk) 07:29, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Oh. I wasn't aware of the state of TWA. Schwede66 08:32, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

If may have been a brwoser issue. not sure. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:10, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Stuartyeates,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 14680 articles, as of 00:00, 20 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

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Tech News: 2022-26

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

• Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
• All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (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 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [22]
• Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [23]
• Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [24]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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This Month in Education: June 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 6 • June 2022

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In This Issue

• Black Lunch Table: Black History Month with Igbo Wikimedians User Group
• Bolivian Teachers Welcomed Wikipedia in their Classroom
• Educational program & Wikivoyage in Ukrainian University
• The Great Learning and Connection: Experience from AFLIA
• New Mexico Students Join Wikimedia Movement Through WikiForHumanRights Campaign
• The school wiki-project run by a 15 year old student came to an end
• The students of Kadir Has University, Istanbul contribute Wikimedia projects in "Civic Responsibility Project" course
• Wiki Trip with Vasil Kamami Wikiclub to Berat, the town of one thousand windows
• Wikiclubs in Albania
• Wikidata in the classroom FGGC Bwari Experience
• Wikipedia and Secondary Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand
• А large-scale online course for teaching beginners to work in Wikipedia has been developed in Russia

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Tech News: 2022-27

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Decline of the draft of QualCoder software

I would like to justify why the draft should be accepted.

Firstly, when assessing the article, it should be taken into account the nature of the subject. As we talk about CAQDAS software, it is rather natural that most of in-depth sources are related to the software websites, blogs, manuals, etc. So, they have not secondary character. In turn, most secondary, independent sources are the journal papers which applied the specific software. However, they are quite dispersed. In other words, most independent and secondary sources relatively shortly describe software and mainly apply them in research.

Secondly, acceptance of the QualCoder article is justified by the character and sources of the already accepted articles on Wikipedia. I done some work and analysed articles on the three of the most famous commercial CAQDAS: Maxqda, NVivo and Atlas.ti. Sources to the articles are as follow:

Maxqda:

Total number of references: 7 (1 in literature section, withour reference to specific fragment).

Number of NOT independent references (product website): 4

Notes: first paragraph without ANY reference

Number of in-depth independent references: 1

Number of short independent references: 2

NVivo:

Total number of references: 8

Number of NOT independent references (product website, articles of software developers): 4

Not-working links: 2

Notes: second paragraph without ANY reference

Number of in-depth independent references: 0 (!)

Number of short independent references: 2

Atlas.ti:

Total number of references: 17

Number of NOT independent references (product website, articles of software developers): 12

Not-working links: 1

Notes: first paragraph withour ANY reference, the whole second section without ANY reference

Number of in-depth independent references: 2

Number of short independent references: 1

References withour mentioning the subject: 1

QualCoder (this draft):

Total number of references: 21

Number of NOT independent references (software website): 2

Number of in-depth independent references: 2 (I added one recently)

Number of short independent references: 14

To sum up, comparing three already accepted articles of most famous, commercial CAQDAS, and the draft, it is worth to stress that:

- the draft has the smallest number of dependent references (2 vs. 4, 4 and 12)

- the draft has the higher number of independent short references (14 vs. 2, 2 and 1), including also at elast 7 peer-reviewed articles, sometimes with high impact factor.

- the draft has 2 independent in-depth references, while existing articles has 2, 1 or even not at all.

This relatively good support of indepednent sources results from the fact that, as I am a PhD student, I conducted systematic literature review on this software package, including all sources from Google Scholar, as well as general Google sources. The number of in-depth independent sources is 2, however, it is not low number, taking into account nature of the subject and existing Wikipedia aritcles. However, number of shorter sources is exeptionally high, as well as number of developer-related sources is reduced to the minimum, what cannot be said about existing Wikipedia articles in this field.

To sum up, the draft provide holistic and reliable overview of the subject by providing indpendent, in-depth, as well as shorter but very reliable and diversified sources. In this way, contrary to the three already accepted articles, it provides not only good overview of the software, but also in-depth insight into actual use of the software (empirical journal articles), recommended use of it (methodological journal articles), and educational use (libraries sites).

In fact, the draft not only meets the existing level of the Wikipedia articles in this field, is relatevely exemptionally and can serve as an example of good practices of articles grounded in diversified, reliable, and independent sources. AndrzejSN (talk) 20:04, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

• I assume that we're talking about Draft:QualCoder here. If not, ignore the rest of this.
  • WP:GNG says A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. This is the core of the issue.
  • Both of the articles you mention are currently tagged as having issues. They are not exemplars to use.
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  • If you believe that I personally have made an error or hold a grudge of some type, Wikipedia:Teahouse is a place to go for newbie-friendly advice and to find editor who may take another look at things.

I believe that your best approach to getting the article accepted it to find new sources with independent in-depth coverage. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:11, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your detailed explanations. Actually, I do not discuss your review conclusion itself, but I see very problematic the fact that other articles on the similar subject were accepted despite being at the lower level than article that was declined. It seems quite arbitrary and generate gaps in Wikipedia coverage of specific field, in this case the CAQDAS software. But, I understand that you assess the articles individually, not in relation to others. So, I do not suggest that your decision is arbitrary, but the total effect visible at Wiki. Thank you for advices! AndrzejSN (talk) 22:57, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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Talk about Draft:OnionShare

So is it alright? Is there need for improvement? I think the notability part is pretty good? Greatder (talk) 07:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

I would like it to be an article, so I improved it in couple of obvious ways. Am I convinced that it would survive AfD right now? No, which is why I didn't promote it to user space. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:09, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Greatder there are a couple of recent pieces on https://sempreupdate.com.br/, which look suitable but I don't speak Portuguese. More generally there's coverage in Google News that I'd add. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

CryptoSlate article

I appreciate the timeliness of the review of the Draft:CryptoSlate article. You stated:

• Comment: I waded through a dozen sources and none of them were independent secondary sources, which is what we're meant to be basing out articles on. Throw out the primary sources and interview-based puff pieces and write based on secondary sources with in-depth coverage of the org. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:27, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

I have been talking with other Wikipedia reviewers and guidance is mixed across the community. I removed primary sources originally but then readded to include links to the editorial policy etc. following the discussion on CoinDesk talk page. I added the references to policy and advertising guidelines as it was noted that there has to be a question of trustworthiness for crypto news outlets. While I understand this sentiment, the sole purpose of CryptoSlate since 2017 has been to provide a respected news source that is verified and edited by an independent team with deep experience in traditional financial news.

There are several secondary sources in the CryptoSlate draft showcasing other notable companies citing CryptoSlate as a respected source. However, I understand the strict guidelines for notability at Wikipedia. CryptoSlate is extremely well known within the industry and I believe its important for it to be listed on Wikipedia. 0xCryptoDegen (talk) 09:56, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

The "trustworthiness for crypto news outlets" can in no way be based on what they say about themselves. Someone else talking about their editorial policy maybe, but not themselves. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:11, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

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Submission declined on 1 August 2022 on "Draft:AliceVision"

Hello @Stuartyeates

Regarding your comments on our Draft:AliceVision :

Peer review articles by the creators of the software and software repositories are not secondary sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:19, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

1- the main article "AliceVision Meshroom: An open-source 3D reconstruction pipeline" has been reviewed by the committee of the prestigious ACM Multimedia Systems Conference and has even received the "Best Open Dataset and Software Paper Award".

See the nomination award here : https://2021.acmmmsys.org and the award copy.

2- Most of the academic publications quoted in our draft have not been written by the creators of the software. They are trusted academic publications with their official DOI or ISBN. For instance, these are the 25 references 5 to 29 in our article.

I would like to hear about your explanations for why they are not trustable "secondary sources". BMaujean (talk) 17:54, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Answered at Draft:AliceVision. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:34, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

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Draft:Gravity Spy resubmitted

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Answered on Draft:Gravity Spy. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:07, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: July 2022

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Tech News: 2022-33

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

• The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (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 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [34][35][36]

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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Request on 03:24:01, 16 August 2022 for assistance on AfC submission by Commevsp

• Commevsp (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Foundation model (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Re your comments: I am a subject matter expert in the field and can attest the notion of "Foundation Models" is real and increasingly impactful in AI.

The primary source is not peer reviewed because it is a position paper, not a journal article. Not every primary source is necessarily peer reviewed. Note too how the primary source authors include some of the most authoritative figures of the field: Andrew Ng, and others.

The second source points to the Stanford-based Institute that originated the concept of "Foundation Models", and who then organized the collective position paper publicly formalizing the notion: the primary source. So it is valid and unsurprising that the Institute's foundation precedes the position paper its members then coauthored. Put in another way: First came the Institute formed around the notion, -then- the came authoritative position paper formalizing it.

Consider reevaluating your decision, or assigning it to another editor for a second opinion. It is fairly discouraging to take the time to make a pro bono and genuinely valuable encyclopedic contribution to Wikipedia, only to be dismissed for unsound reasons. Thank you.

Commevsp (talk) 03:24, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to wikipedia Commevsp. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, by definition a tertiary source, it needs to be based on secondary sources. You're welcome to resubmit to get the opinion of another editor, if you see fit, but I don't hold out much hope. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:30, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-34

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

• Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [37][38]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [39]

Future changes

• The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [40]

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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sustainable_Healthcare

Hello - Thanks for reviewing my article. Are you able to tell me specifically which bits were a copyright problem? This was not intentional and I will correct any then re-submit. Thank you for your time Glasgow87 (talk) 15:34, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi User:Glasgow87. I can't access the article to check, but I recall it read like you'd cut and pasted bullet points / summaries from a whole lot of different articles, one per section, into a draft article. When I searched the web for a long textual string from the article I found that it had been lifted. You can't cut and paste ANY text from other documents unless those documents are released under an appropriate license. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:12, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello - for example when I included a part on the world health organisation approach to sustainable health care I listed their 10 action points - this was a direct cut and paste because these are their action points - I had referenced at the top but perhaps this sort of thing isn't appropriate? Is that correct? Glasgow87 (talk) 19:45, 25 August 2022 (UTC)