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Advice for editors

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Articles about books

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Articles for Creation

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Bots

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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The issue with CC BY-SA 4.0 for Wikipedia is not with the copyright parts. 4.0 adds sui generis database rights, something which Europeans have but Americans don't, to the license. This would affect reusing facts from Wikipedia in some ways. (Facts themselves are not covered by copyright in the US). WMF proposed switching to 4.0 with a waiver of database rights, but Creative Commons said that was not possible. CC BY 4.0 is fine even with database rights because it doesn't have the share-alike clause for downstream use. CC BY-SA 4.0 is fine for images. The WMF would like to do this but will involve a significant amount of complicated work on the database. This is original research on my part. As far as I know there isn't a WMF explanation available to serve as a reference for this.

Sources

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Creating articles

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Data

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See mw:Help:Tabular Data for infomation on storing tabular data at Commons. Wikidata is a knowledge base that can store numerical data but retrieving it for use in tables and graphs is not working at the moment. See Template:Graph:Lines

Deletion

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January 2023

  • A discussion at ANI which included how aggressively to revert uncited additions resulted in this comment on the the great debate: "delete-uncited-on-sight" versus "if-it's-probably-true-it's-disruptive-to-delete".
  • An RfA that turned into a referendum on WP:BEFORE, Prod and Draftifying

Diffs

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  • Help:Diff
  • {{diff}}
    • {{Diff||newerid|oldid|label}} - page name omitted

Drafts

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Finding science drafts to review

Inappropriate drafts - how to treat/remove

Pending submissions

Reviewing articles

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Just redirect draft if article has been copy-pasted into mainspace - keeps history, merge anything needed 

  Or if an article has been created in mainspace in the interim

Editing

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Graphs

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One of the graph modules has software problems that may not be fixed. See mw:Extension:Graph/Plans and its discussion page. As of 9/15/23 the plan is to migrate to Vega 5.

"The Graph extension uses the older Vega 1 & Vega 2 libraries, which had a number of security vulnerabilities. In the interest of the security of the people who use Wikipedia, the Graph extension was disabled on all Wikimedia wikis in April 2023."

This affects

Category:Pages using the Graph extension says it has 19,065 members, as does Category:Pages with disabled graphs.

International Phonetic Alphabet

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ISBNs

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  • Template:Format ISBN with proper hyphens; will either set it up for AnomieBOT to do it or can use subst

MediaWiki software

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Move history

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New editors

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There is a WMF guide at mw:Growth/Communities/How to interact with newcomers. This was originally titled "How to work with newcomers on help desks".

Useful things to tell newcomers about:

Notability

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See User:StarryGrandma/Example articles#Notability.

Criteria

Policies and guidelines

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Professor T

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Professor T, season 1, episode 10

  • "Doubt is the motor of failure."
  • "Accept that you don't know enough about some things to have a well-founded opinion about them."

Public relations

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References

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reference info for Frank Bunker Gilbreth
unnamed refs 12
named refs 6
self closed 9
cs1 refs 15
cs1 templates 28
cs1-like refs 1
cs1-like templates 2
cs2 refs 1
cs2 templates 1
harv refs 1
harv templates 1
rp templates 8
refbegin templates 2
cs1|2 dmy dates 4
cs1|2 mdy dates 2
cs1|2 ymd dates 2
cs1|2 dmy access dates 3
cs1|2 mdy access dates 1
cs1|2 ymd access dates 4
cs1|2 dmy archive dates 4
cs1|2 ymd archive dates 1
cs1|2 last/first 21
List of cs1 templates
  • cite book (12)
  • cite journal (3)
  • cite news (3)
  • Cite web (1)
  • cite web (9)
List of cs2 templates
  • Citation (1)
List of cs1-like templates
  • cite Q (2)
List of harv templates
  • harvtxt (1)
explanations

Bare references

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Fixing references

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General

Problems with templates that export named references, see Category:Templates that generate named references.

These exported references are changed periodically:

Merging templates or creating wrappers and losing fields with references

  • Russian inhabited locality

Reference formats

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Visual Editor

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Converting VE reference names

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Visual Editor automatically generated names of the for ":0", ":1", etc. for references used more than once. As of Feb 2023 there is a script to clean up after this problem.


Wikidata, references in

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  • T199197 - [2.11] Integrate Citoid in Wikidata - went up on beta wikidata July 16, 2019. The test cases work nicely there, some issues with ISBN's with hyphens. Update: the task stalled thereafter.

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RfA

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Searching Wikipedia

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Special pages

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Tables

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Template problems

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  • Template:Infobox language exporting ethnologue references: replace a broken reference such as <ref name=e18 /> with <ref name=e18>{{E18|iso code}}</ref> or <ref name=e18>{{E18|iso code|name}}</ref>

Template data monthly reports

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There is a monthly analysis of template use here which tells how many articles use each template, and how many use each parameter.

Time

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Tools

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Who Wrote That?

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To install in common.js

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Transclusion

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  • Putting a ':' in front of the name lets one transclude from article space. See WP:Transclusion. Example from The Big Bang Theory (noinclude tags let only the first table be transcluded): <code>{{:List of The Big Bang Theory episodes}}</code>
  • {{Excerpt}} - for reusing parts of pages in other pages, can choose not to transclude the references

Visual Editor

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Watchlist

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  • Category changes are helpful for watching AfC now that drafts are categorized in various ways.
  • Adding category changes to the watchlist shortens it to a few hours or a day. See T223760.

Welcome

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Wikidata

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WikiEd

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Useful Wiki Ed course materials

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Wikimedia Foundation's Education team

Guides for writing articles in topic areas

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List of subject specific handouts is here. These are now on Commons; see c:Category:Wiki Education Foundation subject-specific handouts.

Wikipedia Library

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"The Wikipedia Library allows active editors to access a wide range of collections of paywalled reliable sources for free!"

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