WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar,
The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (per
usage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go.
🗞️January 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our
most popular article for December, barely edging out the 2nd-place
Jennifer Lawrence. Although not covered explicitly in his article, the popular, box-office-busting movie actor and three-time
Golden Globe winner Cruise attended
St. X High School in Louisville for a couple years, and his parents are from the city.
🗞️December 28, 2023
There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️December 12, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️December 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our
most popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapper
Jack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9.
🗞️December 3, 2023
Check out WikiProject Louisville's new
Participation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to our
talk page.
🗞️November 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our
most popular article for October. Lawrence, an
Academy Award winner and the world's highest paid actress for two straight years, was born and raised in what is today Louisville Metro.
🗞️October 24, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️October 21, 2023
WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new.
🗞️October 10, 2023
WikiProject Louisville's
Assessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to our
talk page.
WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updated
action items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the {{WPLouNews}} template to your user pages or other appropriate Wikipedia pages.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
You can
nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (
calendar).
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Future changes
This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of
Special:MyPage/vector.js to
Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are
more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.
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Hi. May i ask why you unpipe wlinks, as here which resulted in at least eight links to redirects which previously pointed to the exact article required through the pipe? I'm sure that there probably is a reason for this that i'm just unaware of, so i'm wondering for my future use if the use of the pipe trick is deprecated in favour of adding redirects? Thanks. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello 05:14, 26 April 2024 (UTC)reply
WP:NOPIPE is in play here ("It is generally not good practice to pipe links simply to avoid redirects"). If a redirect is what you actually want to say and it already redirects to the correct article, use the redirect. Otherwise, pipe from the actual article link. This is about having the least complicated wiki text possible and also being able to track redirect use (like to help decide if a new article is necessary).
What I'm doing with the script is fixing all the links back to where they should have been, kind of a reset, or lint cleaning if you will. In ordinary wiki writing, it's easy to unnecessarily pipe a direct link, and I make that mistake as well. But it's not a serious problem, and I wouldn't sweat it.
Stefen Towers among the rest!Gab •
Gruntwerk 05:35, 26 April 2024 (UTC)reply
7&6=thirteen (
☎) has given you a
Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.
To give a Dobos torte and spread the
WikiLove, just place {{
subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test
gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes
in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
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Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (
calendar).
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Apologies about the mix up it appears my account was accessed illegitimately as i have been away from my computer thank you for bringing this to my attention
JohnLeHistorian (
talk) 19:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)reply
On 5 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2024 Kentucky Derby, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the
candidates page.
Stephen 23:18, 5 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Tech News: 2024-19
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Recent changes
The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (
a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes
on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes
in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
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Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found
at the extension's page.
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Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (
calendar).
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When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".
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Thanks for uploading File:150th Kentucky Derby logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see
our policy for non-free media).
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Recent changes
On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
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If you use the
user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (
what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page.
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Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the
image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
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The old
Guided Tour for the "
New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (
calendar).
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The
Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.
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Future changes
In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022.
Learn more.
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Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
You reverted my edit on Botswana having 20 graduates. I forgot to add a source, sorry. It’s been added, and I realized it was 22, not 20. 48JCL (
talk •
contribs) 12:51, 18 May 2024 (UTC)reply