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Prospective student!

Hey there! You might know me, I am a CVUA teacher. However, I'm looking to apply for NPP within the New Year and I know you are a good teacher! I have been looking in expanding my horizons here on Wikipedia and have tried doing several NPP stuff with no success. I found the NPP program when reviewing the permissions log and thought I should apply! Thanks and happy editing! Mr. Heart (talk) 03:42, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

If you decide to take me in as a student, please do so under the name of HeartGlow30797. Mr. Heart (talk) 03:51, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
HeartGlow30797 Good day. Thank you for interest in joining NPPS. May I know who is your CUVA trainer and could you pls provide link to your CUVA program pls. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:02, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
CASSIOPEIA, I was not trained by a CVUA trainer, I started from the ground up. Mr. Heart (talk) 17:51, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
HeartatSchool May I know which CUVA template you are using - provide link pls or provide if your have your own CUVA program. I ask because I NPPS is a lot harder than normal CUVA program and so I may advise you on certain things on NPPS assignment requirements when answering the questions. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:32, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

New pages patrol School

Heyo! I noticed you has two open slots at NPRSCHOOL, is this still the case? If so I would love to enroll! After spending a lot of time doing countering vandalism, I would like to expand my knowledge with procedures and guidelines when it comes to page creation and review. I have already spent some time the last few weeks to read up on the NPP resources, so hopefully I should come prepared. However I am aware and ready for a lot of assignments and further reading. Johand199 (Talk) 20:43, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Johand199 Good day NPPSCHOOL program is a comprehensive program which requires the participant to spend time to read provided material (WP pages) and do the assignments. The project consists of 3 parts with 10 assignments and 1 final exam. It covers notability, sources, tagging, wiki project, subsort, wiki content policies, CSD, PROPS, AfD, communication, review and much more topics. Participant usually takes 2-3 months to complete the program (it depends how much time you spend on the program). Many participant abandoned the program due to the find they need to spend more time on the assignments/reading material as they anticipate. Once you have complete the program, you would equip with the knowledge to review new pages. If you have some personal commitment and need to take more than 7-10 days to work on the assignment, then just simply let me know. Let me know if you are still interest to join the program after reading the info above. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:46, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Cassiopeia Heyo. Thanks for the quick reply. I am up for the challenge and have plenty of free time. So if you are willing to take me as a student, I would be ready whenever! Johand199 (Talk) 10:43, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Johand199 I have set up the program page for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:56, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Unfinished CVU student

Hey! Just realized that I never followed up with you, my CVU mentor, about going MIA from Wikipedia for 6 months in 2019. Sorry for any wasted effort I caused on your part; it was the result of a changing personal life situation (it was a good thing!). Thanks for all of your help! Balon Greyjoy (talk) 07:21, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Balon Greyjoy Good day. Thank you for the message and good to hear from you. I understand the work commitment for travelling from US to Japan was/is particularly taking up a lot of your time and catching up with personal life would take much effort due to the travelling for I used some business trip across Asia Pacific myself. You have completed half of the CUVA program, and you are welcome to continue anytime when you are free. I will be always here to help you up. Stay safe Balon and take good care of yourself. Best. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:11, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Sherdog.com

Hello Cassiopeia, as you know we've reached consensus in the Talk:Conor_McGregor page. There's now a related discussion and RfC going on in WP:RSN for sherdog.com as an expansion of our previous consensus. I would like to hear your opinion since you had participated in the previous discussion. Thanks in advance.Lordpermaximum (talk) 20:14, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thank you for all your help with CVUA! Kj cheetham (talk) 10:03, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Kj cheetham Thank you for the banrstar and you did a very good work on the program. It has been a pleasure working with you and thank you so much for taking up this role. Do pop by my talk page anytime if you need any assistance. Welcome to CVU Academy Graduate!!! Cassiopeia(talk) 10:15, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Linda Chorney

Thank you for taking the time to assist in keeping the record of Linda's Bio straight. There is a anonymous editor from the Mesa AZ area who continues to slander Linda and Her husbands name. We would love to have this person disclosed and then blocked from editing Wikipedia due to abuses.

Regards,

Scott Fadynich2601:500:C381:8620:89B1:89B5:B38D:4B8B (talk) 16:31, 12 October 2020 (UTC)


Yes much appreciated. We work hard to ensure that independent artists are treated fairly, and we are familure with Linda's story — Preceding unsigned comment added by ImmerseAlliance (talk • contribs) 16:35, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

@2601:500:C381:8620:89B1:89B5:B38D:4B8B and ImmerseAlliance:, Good day. I have requested the page to be protected. It was granted and protected from now to November 15, 2020 and only only autoconfirmed editors can edit the page. The slander text was suppressed (can not be viewed from history log ( see [ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linda_Chorney&action=history here] where those dates was strikethrough). Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 07:30, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

New s/d question

Hi Cassiopeia, I thought I would turn to you with this since you seem experienced in the area of short descriptions. I'm not sure if you've noticed, perhaps it's only happening on my end, but it seems that a whole lot of short descriptions have disappeared across Wikipedia, virtually overnight. Have you noticed the same thing, and if so, do you know what is going on? Thanks! Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Revirvlkodlaku Some of the s/d are taken from Wikidata and it has been planned to disable them, that only the local descriptions are used since Wikidata info could be vandalised without the editor notice as it operate different from English Wikipedia. As of October 13, 2020 the fallback to Wikidata for article descriptions was disable and went live for such millions of s/d disappeared in En Wikipedia if their s/d are taken from Wikidata. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 07:56, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
Oh ok, that explains it then, thank you. Do you know if this change has in some way caused glitches in the mobile apps? I can't seem to be able to post short descriptions from my Android app, though I realize that could be an unrelated issue. Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 14:44, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
Revirvlkodlaku I dont know if the application support s/d in mobile and if so, I am not sure which app (I meant StubSorter user script). I seldom use mobile to edit as I refer bigger screen and multiple monitors with several windows in one screen actually, for I like to view many pages/websites at the same for multi-tasking come naturally to me especially my work requires it. If you work from a laptop/desktop, and if you havent, you can install StubSorter user script. The s/d info would appear at the right top corner of every article where you would create/change the it directly without needed to click edit source and open the source page of the article. Btw, noticing you are a Canadian and a Czech which I had the opportunities to visit both countries. I got to say Prague is so beautiful with all the buildings full of Medieval architecture designs and of course walking across the snowy Charles Bridge in mid December, the scenery was just simply stunning. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 01:25, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Ok, well no worries, and thanks for the tip on the user script, I'll definitely check that out!
I lived in Prague for three years as a child, so I don't remember it very well, but it is certainly known as a very beautiful city, and I hope I can see it again soon. Whereabouts are you from and where do you live? Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 01:46, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Revirvlkodlaku I have lived in 6 different countries in 4 different continents. At the moment I am in The Land of Down Under, the big red earth, out there by ourselves along with our neighbor Aotearoa - Land of the Long White Cloud. Regards. Cassiopeia(talk) 01:58, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
That's really interesting, I've also lived in a variety of countries (including Australia and NZ) on four different continents. Where are you from originally? Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 15:06, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Revirvlkodlaku I am an Aussie. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:12, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Cool, thanks for telling me about yourself, it's a pleasure to know you 😃 Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 01:07, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Revirvlkodlaku likewise. Cassiopeia(talk) 01:13, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

New fighters for the mainspace

Just one person this week

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

All the best wishes. HeinzMaster (talk) 18:21, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

HeinzMaster  Done and thank you. When you have done Terrion Ware, pls let me know. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:12, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #438

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)
  • Development
    • Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
    • So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
    • Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
    • Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2020-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

  • You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [1]
  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [2]
  • Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Linda Chorney contant attack

Hi Cassiopeia.

We would like to know who is behind the slander ( 2600:1011:B12B:5C91:55EE:1CDF:6018:1FCA ) it seems to be coming from AZ and NJ from a mobile device. I have an estimate about who it is and would like to deliver a spot and stand down order to the individual. They are obviously consistent in not signing in and their edits have been slanderous. We appreciate you looking out. If we can not determine who is the offender, I would request that they be blocked from Wikipedia editing/ Thanks for the due diligence — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScottAFadynich (talk • contribs) 23:03, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Hector Acero Sanchez

Hi, last year I tried to make a wikipedia page for Hector Acero Sanchez. The original page was listed as "Hector Acero-Sanchez". I went to my draft that you put it in after it's deletion for not having references and deleted everything, but the draft is still there. I created a new page for it today with proper references under "Hector Acero Sánchez" as I am fairly positive this is the correct spelling. It's quite difficult to know as I have seen everything from "Hector Acero Sanchez" to "Hector-Acero Sanchez". The only reason I bring this seemingly minor detail is the linking of Wikipedia pages. I am unable to link the page I created to the French translation, which seems to be the only place that this page exists. I'm just trying to figure out how to do everything right to keep this page up and accessible from search engines such as google (I cannot find it just by looking it up).

Side note: I created a translation for Aurelio Herrera (if there aren't enough references let me know and I will find more) from Polish to English yesterday, and the only way I can find the page without going from linked pages or typing in the exact URL is by looking "Aurelio Herrera wikipeida", clicking on the Polish version and clicking on the English link under languages. User: CaPslOcksBroKEn

CaPslOcksBroKEn, Good day. In Wikipedia we use WP:COMMON NAME for the subject title name. However, in this case there are several spelling so a redirect can be done from other spelling to the page you created. By the way, not only Herrera page, which needs a lot more reference but also Sanchez page, more reference is also neeede. Thank you for your contribution. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:31, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Khamzat Chimaev

I fixed the sentence "Khamzat Chimaev (Russian: Хамзат Чимаев; born May 1, 1994),[8] is a Russian-born Swedish[9] professional mixed martial artist of Chechen descent who competes in the welterweight and middleweight divisions of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)." He isn't Russian but Chechen, Chechnya being part of Russia doesn't make him a Russian since Chechens have their own autonomous republic representing its minority. In Russia there is a difference between a россиян (citizens of Russia) and русский (ethnic slavic russian) just like a uyghur or a tibetan isn't chinese, it's very simple isn't it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ad-Tlemlo (talk • contribs) 09:31, 24 October 2020 (UTC) Ad-Tlemlo (talk) 09:33, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Ad-Tlemlo Good day and thank you for your message. In Wikipedia, we dont put the ethnicity in the WP:LEAD section (Introduction) - see Wikipedia:Ethnicity but we normally would state the subject nationality. The ethnicity of a subject can be placed in the body text, which in this case it has already stated in the "Background" section. Chinese has many difference sub races, if I recall correctly, 5 biggest race and 52 sub races/ethnicity and this is same with Russia and India. Chechen and Dangestan both belong to Russia for such they are Russian (as a nationality and not Russian as the ethnicity) - see Russia ethic groups. Let me know if anything else I could help. Stay safe and best.09:51, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

New fighters for the mainspace

New Fighters for mainspace for this week

All the best HeinzMaster (talk) 00:58, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

HeinzMaster  Done. Thank you so much for all the hard work to create all the articles and updated many MMA related articles. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 02:41, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #439

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
    • Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
    • Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
    • Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
      • WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
      • Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
      • 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
      • Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
      • Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
      • Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
    • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET
  • Tool of the week
    • WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
  • Development
    • Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
    • Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
    • Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
    • Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
    • Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
    • Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
    • Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
    • Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
    • Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
    • Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

CVUA Request

Hello Cassiopeia! I'm interested in joining your CVUA class. I believe I have enough mainspace contributions, and I've also read the syllabus and enabled Twinkle. I'm in UTC-4 so it might be hard to coordinate things. Maka(talk) 00:16, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Maka the Two Star Meister Good day. Do note that the program requires participant to do a lot of reading and assignment. Many participants abandon the program because they did not anticipate the amount of work it needed. If you still want to join the program after knowing this, then pls complete WP:TWA first to gain some basic Wikipedia guidelines prior start the program. Let me know. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 02:46, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I finished The Wikipedia Adventure. Maka(talk) 23:02, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Maka the Two Star Meister I have set up the page for you. Cassiopeia(talk) 15:38, 28 October 2020 (UTC)


Tech News: 2020-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [3]
  • Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [5]
  • There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [6]
  • The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [7]

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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Donald Cerrone

Hi! I think I changed my IP today and got a message meant for someone else. I have no idea who Donald Cerrone is. I don't know how to send messages to you. So, feel free to erase this after reading this: Information icon Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Donald Cerrone. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 10:29, 19 January 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.114.34.101 (talk)

46.114.34.101 Hi, This is the Donald Cerrone's edit that made by this ip address - see HERE. I have no way to know if you have just change the new IP address to this one. Any way, as long as you edit contrastively, then that would not no issue in the future. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 15:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC)


Request for Training under Counter Vandalism Unit

Hello, I was looking to be trained in the counter vandalism unit. Please accept me as your student RealUser007 (talk) 05:21, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

RealUser007, Hi goo day. Thank you for intresting in the CUVA program. Participant of the program needs to have minimum 200 edits in the main space. At the present you have only 2 edits - see here. When you have reached 200 + main space edits and if you are still interest in joining the program then pop back here. At the mean time pls complete WP:TWA to understand the basic Wikipedia guidelines. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 15:49, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Missing fighters

Liana Jojua and Terrion Ware still haven't got solo articles as both have fought 3 times in the UFC. Dwanyewest (talk) 16:30, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

My bad please ignore the Terrion Ware suggestion.Dwanyewest (talk) 17:28, 24 October 2020 (UTC)


@Dwanyewest and HeinzMaster: Both Liana Jojua and Terrion Ware have been created. Thanks to HeinzMaster. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 02:32, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

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Pancrase Hybrid Wrestlin™ Update

Cassiopeia We are the legal trademark holders for Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling™ we are asking that you personally put the update back as it is factual as you can verify this through www.USPTO.gov as Blown Falcon Productions LLC and World Pancrase Create are the owners and have in fact announced publicly the news of Pancrase coming to America

Eric Nyenhuis/Owner Blown Falcon Productions LLC PancraseHybridWreslingUS@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:1217:975D:389B:CBEF:4A2C:ED54 (talk) 14:28, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@2605:E000:1217:975D:389B:CBEF:4A2C:ED54: Good day. Pls note that to indepedent, Reliable sources (which means no sources that are affiliated, associated can be used here) needed to support the content claim "Pancrase coming to America" for info that is changed or added needs to be supported by verification of independent, reliable source - see WP:PROVEIT. Since you are affiliated with Pancrease, you are not advisable to edit the associated page but you can WP:Request edit by providing the source (independent, reliable source such as from the newspaper) in the article talk page and a uninvolved editor will help to put the info into the article. Thank you and stay safe. Cassiopeia(talk) 07:20, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy

Hi there! I see you have free slots for users who want to become Anti-Vandalism trainees. Are you willing to take me under as a trainee? EN-Jungwon (talk) 07:58, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

EN-Jungwon Good day. Do note that the program requires participant to do a lot of reading and assignment. Many participants abandoned the program because they did not anticipate the amount of work it needed. If you still want to join the program after knowing this, then pls complete WP:TWA first to gain some basic Wikipedia guidelines prior start the program. Let me know. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 02:04, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I have completed WP:TWA (Not sure) EN-Jungwon (talk) 16:57, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
EN-Jungwon Hi, You havent finished the program for you should received all the icons - see here. Thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 04:17, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
How about now? EN-Jungwon (talk) 06:50, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
EN-Jungwon I hae set up the CUVA program for you. Pls read the communication section before start answering the questions. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 07:02, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

CUVA

Cassiopeia, I'm here for the same thing(brushing up anti vand skills) and see that you have two slots available. Would you accept me? Thank you! Firestar464 (talk) 02:12, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Firestar464, Kindly read my message to EN-Jungwon above and pls complete the WP:TWA program. Let me know once you have done the program so I may set up the CUVA program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 02:48, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
@CASSIOPEIA: I completed it while testing the (remarkably boring) game. I also have been frequently reverting vandalism using Twinkle. Firestar464 (talk) 02:56, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Firestar464, I have changed my user name from all caps to sentence case early in the year. So just call me Cassiopeia or Cass. Secondly, you dont need to {{reply|CASSIOPEIA}} when you write a message on the editor page who you want to talk to. Thirdly, do add another ":" (colon) from the previous message for 1 space right indentation as this is the protocol in tall page communication.(I have added them for you). Lastly, while you might have testing the game, I do need you to actually complete the program. The program must not be written to your tease or you as the target audience; however, it is very important to complete the program so you would know the Wikipedia basic guidelines which might be boring to but it is very important just as if you dont know the CUVA guidelines and know how to apply them, instead of helping, you might give warning/revert certain edits which are uncalled for. Even you might knwo them since you have tested them, I still need you to take the program so I may know you have completed the program. Thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 03:11, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

New Fighters

Hey Hey, Just doing the weekly thing. This week only one fighter

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

Likewise, I know the other admins have been bothering about the length of the List of current UFC fighters. What if we remove the "History" part since that's already covered in the main article for UFC and the rankings page since there is also a separate page for that. I just don't like the look of the page with no flags. The page is way under the limit for Post-expand include size, so I asked the two people what exactly they are seeking in regards to specific size. Take care and all the best.HeinzMaster (talk) 13:46, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

HeinzMaster Good day.  Done reviewed Miles Johns. Thanks for creating the page. I have further reduce the file size which should be good by now. If the action is taken then the tag can be removed. The 2 editors are not admins but editors just like you and I trying to improve Wikipedia. By the way, 2 admins have previously noted about the length and size of the file and have recorded it. Thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:57, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-45

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

  • You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [8]
  • Advanced item There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [9]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
  • Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [10]
  • The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [11]

Future changes

  • A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [12]
  • In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:07, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #440

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)
  • Events
    • Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET
This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.
1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.
  • Tool of the week
    • reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.
  • Development
    • Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
    • Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
    • Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266673)
    • The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

MMA Fighter Listing

Inquiring about getting a Wikipedia listing for Helen Peralta - currently listed as featherweight Bare Knuckle champ at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_Knuckle_Fighting_Championship and has recently returned to MMA, where she is 3-1 https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Helen-Peralta-243945

I was a content contributor in the early 2000's but, ha, things have developed quite a bit, and I think you are the editor for listing fighters, or you can help me with the template.

Thanks for the work you do, FarmerJohn (talk) 16:05, 5 November 2020 (UTC)


Reevasso Good day. Thanks for the message above. Helen Peralta passes MMABIO notability guidelines. You can use Felicia Spencer as the template for all but UFC fights and use Jason Knight (fighter) for Bare Knucle. In the fight table follow the manual of style to a tee, any info can not be obtain from Sherdog.com for the infobox need to be sourced and as usual all content need to be sourced too. Let me know if you need any help and you can let me when you have created the article either in AfD or NPP for I would review it for you. stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 04:42, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
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