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Editnotices on mobile

Hi Help desk folks. Recently, as per a passed RfC, Wikipedia:EditNoticesOnMobile is being rolled out to mobile users in a phased manner. Currently, it is available by default only for Extended confirmed users & Administrators, and will be expanded to all other users if everything goes right. If you find someone reporting a technical issue with the tool, please consider directing the issue to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) or Wikipedia talk:EditNoticesOnMobile. Thank you! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 06:51, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Archiving may be interrupted

scsbot hit a brick wall tonight and is no longer able to add date headers to the Help desk, or archive it. Something seems to have changed on the Mediawiki side, exposing a new, unsuspected incompatibility in the way scsbot mechanically edits Wikipedia pages.

I'm not sure how long it will take me to track this down and fix it. In the meantime, archiving will be interrupted, and people will probably have to add date headers by hand.

If anyone knows of any specific Mediawiki change that might have been rolled out in the last 24 hours, please let me know! Thanks. —scs (talk) 00:22, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I manually inserted the date header. I might try archiving it, but I'm not sure how it works. weeklyd3 (block | talk | contributions) 00:24, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

@Scs: Also, it might be a change that happened yesterday. weeklyd3 (block | talk | contributions) 00:25, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

@Weeklyd3: Yup, just spotted that announcement myself. It's got to be related, although I don't yet see anything in the release notes that might be relevant. —scs (talk) 00:27, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I also figured out how to archive it and I archived August 15. weeklyd3 (block | talk | contributions) 00:35, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

The issue is resolved; see Wikipedia talk:Reference desk#Archiving may be interrupted for details if curious. —scs (talk) 02:28, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Profile pictures for federal judges not showing when I hover my mouse over their names

Moved to Wikipedia:Help desk § Profile pictures for federal judges not showing when I hover my mouse over their names

Weeklyd3 (talk) 02:02, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Apple store and play store

Hello 203.96.243.185 (talk) 10:43, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

hi! —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:49, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Manually archive post

Can someone either manually archive or remove the WP:HD#I will no longer be donating thread currently at the top of the HD. My guess is that Scsbot missed it for some reason when archiving the September 24 thread and this is why it's currently floating at the top of the HD. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:32, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: done. lettherebedarklight, 晚安, おやすみ, ping me when replying 10:42, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Upcoming WMF fundraising campaign

Hello everyone,

My name is Julia and I am the Community Relations person at the WMF Advancement Department which includes the fundraising team. As you might be aware the WMF will be launching the English Wikipedia banner fundraising campaign in late November and it will run until the end of December.

During last years' campaign, I noticed that you had a lot of people coming to this space with questions, suggestions, and complaints about the campaign. I am trying to help to decrease this kind of traffic this year. I prepared a draft Template for you to use. This is a draft so please do add aspects you would like to see in it. Using this template is a suggestion to hopefully make your life here easier in case you get an influx of enquiries during the campaign. I hope it will be useful and if you would like me to make any changes to it, please do let me know.

You could also add an extra line to the header and the Are you in the right place page, reading (suggestion):

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints around the banner fundraising campaign (visible on Wikipedia between the 29th of November and the 31st of December), please email donate(@)wikimedia.org

Generally speaking, you can ping me with anything fundraising related and I will come and help!

Best,

JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 06:21, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Virtual meeting this Friday

Hello,

The Editing team is hosting a public meeting this Friday, December 16th to talk about the needs of new editors. You are all invited. They want to present some ideas they have about encouraging the addition of inline citations, and they want to hear what you think will help newcomers make productive contributions.

When: Friday, 16 December 2022 at 16:00–17:30 UTC

Video conference link: https://meet.google.com/krq-tonw-quz

This meeting will be in English. There is some information on wiki at mw:Editing team/Community Conversations#16 December 2022 You don't need to sign up in advance, but you can sign up on that page if you want to.

If you aren't able to attend, but you have some information or advice for the team, you can also leave a public note for the Editing team at mw:Talk:Editing team/Community Conversations. (Also, if you want to find out about future events, I suggest putting that page on your watchlist. I think the next meeting will be on 20 January 2023 in Zoom (software), with a French interpreter.)

I hope to see some of you there. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Gina Gogean's reference from Sports Reference to Olympedia

I want to explain about the reference for the Former Gymnast from Romania Gina Gogean. In 2020, Sports Reference has closed the Olympic Site, and open a new site is Olympedia. And I have is this ^[1]. Can you help me out how to solve a problem. I'm sorry. It will be a transfer. Thank you. 100.2.114.167 (talk) 01:33, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

References

^ Cite error: The named reference olympedia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

IP editor, this is the help desk's talk page, used to discuss the operation of the help desk and related issues, not the help desk itself. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 15:29, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Changing Username

How to change your username GeorgeKil (talk) 16:43, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Either Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS. 331dot (talk) 16:46, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Vector 2022 questions

Is there some blanket message that we can display to maybe address at least some of the flood of questions we are getting about it? 331dot (talk) 19:23, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

A template like the HD/donations one would be very helpful. Just a basic "The default desktop skin has changed. Account holders can change back in prefs. IPs are outta luck. Complain about it at (link)." It'll probably continue to come in useful over the next few weeks/months. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 19:56, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

@331dot: I whipped up {{HD/wikilayout}}. Any thoughts? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:19, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Tenryuu You're more talented than I. :) I think that's pretty good. 331dot (talk) 00:47, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Brilliant. I see it's already getting used. Hopefully the flood of "??!" will abate in the next few days. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 14:44, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Vector 2022 reader feedback

See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Where to direct reader feedback? as to where to direct feedback. S0091 (talk) 23:17, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

In short, it is Wikipedia talk:Vector 2022. Trizek (WMF) (talk) 15:19, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

[olympedia-1] Cite error: The named reference olympedia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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