Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Current events

Interest in testing a tool for Breaking News? Seeking feedback

My team at the foundation, WME, has developed a dashboard that tries to identify new articles related to global "newsworthy" events as they are being written about across Wikipedia language editions at any given moment. You can read more about it here. I'm seeking help to improve the feature.

Here is the direct link to the dashboard. (desktop only).

I'd appreciate if anyone that tries it out can surface any potentially missing templates from across language projects that would help us capture more results. Using the thumbs up and down buttons in the demo to confirm or deny if entries are accurately identified as breaking news, would help me in the long and medium-term in building a better, more accurate tool.

Although Enterprises' focus is not on creating editing tools or gadgets, we hope this can be of use to the community, too.

Thanks! FNavas-WMF (talk)

Discussion at Template talk:Current event editnotice § Encouraging more use

 You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Current event editnotice § Encouraging more use. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 01:16, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Portal talk:Current events § Centralizing talk spaces

 You are invited to join the discussion at Portal talk:Current events § Centralizing talk spaces. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 01:21, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Historical portal talk tagging

I just noticed that less than 1% of Portal talk:Current events subpages are tagged with {{WikiProject Current events}}, e.g. Portal talk:Current events/2023 March 23. Is this on purpose or an omission? I'd like to either remove the existing tags, or add them to the remaining pages so that they are all uniformly tagged. This seems like an omission, but with such a disparity, I figured it best to ask. Pinging some frequent taggers I've seen in this area for inclusion: GeoffreyT2000, Family27390, Isabelle Belato, and WeatherWriter.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  02:08, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Will add WPCE soon per WP:SILENT, since all editors pinged have since edited.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  00:00, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Artists4Ceasefire

Dear all

I've just created an article for Artists4Ceasefire, any additions are very welcome.

Thanks very much

John Cummings (talk) 11:01, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 Crocus City Hall attack#Requested move 22 March 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Crocus City Hall attack#Requested move 22 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 Haitian jailbreak#Requested move 8 March 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Haitian jailbreak#Requested move 8 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:40, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Merger discussion for 2024 Lake Suviana explosion

An article which may be of interest to members of this project—2024 Lake Suviana explosion—has been proposed for merging with Lake Suviana. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. IgnatiusofLondon IgnatiusofLondon (he/him • ☎️) 13:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip#Requested move 11 April 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip#Requested move 11 April 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:21, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Tax Day protests

Not an ongoing event, but hoping some project members might be interested in helping to flesh out Tax Day protests. I should note, there's an ongoing discussion re: page title on the talk page, and the image could use images, a map, and expansion in general. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:40, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 shooting at a Donald Trump rally#Requested move 13 July 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 shooting at a Donald Trump rally#Requested move 13 July 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 23:13, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

When is an article no longer 'current?'

I was contemplating learning how to set up an Assessment Table for this WikiProject because I think they're super handy, but Assessment Tables are aggregated by tagging Talk pages with the WikiProject's Importance. For most WikiProjects, this is fine, because once a topic is important to the WikiProject it will most likely stay that way indefinitely. But, the definition of the scope of Current Events has a unique parameter in that articles, once tagged as Current Events, will eventually no longer be valid Current Events, and will instead be taken over by other projects.

So, is it even worthwhile to use the WikiProject's tag on Current Events article Talk pages? Would it be worthwhile to set up an Assessment Table? Could we perhaps establish a protocol whereby the Current Events tag is removed after so much time, say by a timer, or by some sort of review process?

Or does the topic move so quickly as to defeat the purpose of tracking it altogether?

Looking forward to your thoughts. Baltarstar (talk) 18:07, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Kamala Harris

New WikiProject:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Kamala Harris

---Another Believer _(Talk) 01:05, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Canada Soccer drone spying scandal § Should this be titled "Dronegate"

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Canada Soccer drone spying scandal § Should this be titled "Dronegate". Kingsif (talk) 00:52, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 United Kingdom riots#Requested move 7 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 United Kingdom riots#Requested move 7 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 03:30, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Jasper wildfire#Requested move 6 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Jasper wildfire#Requested move 6 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 07:08, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § Date redirects to portals?

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § Date redirects to portals?. Cremastra (u — c) 01:41, 30 October 2024 (UTC)