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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2024)
Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Fire safety • Jean Gabin Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 April 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-16
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
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [1][2]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [3][4]- Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [5]
- A new variable
page_last_edit_agewill be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [6]
Future changes
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filterandabuse_filter_historytables. Some queries might need to be updated. [7]
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Besins healthcare page
Hello,
I noticed you reverted the changes I made on the Besins Healthcare page, citing a lack of adherence to Wikipedia's tone guidelines. While I understand the importance of maintaining a consistent tone, I believe the revisions I made were in line with improving the article's accuracy and relevance.
I'm open to constructive feedback and suggestions on how to better align with Wikipedia's standards, I would appreciate to not see my work be cancelled instead have some suggestion to make it fit the tone.
Best regards,
Vic01toire
Vic01toire (talk) 07:28, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Vic01toire, your work is not "cancelled"; it was reverted because it was not written in the encyclopedic tone that Wikipedia is written in. Reverting an edit does not mean "cancellation", it means someone else disagrees with it and feels the article was better before. Please see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution for guidance on this; Wikipedia is written by many people who will all eventually disagree with something at some point, and Wikipedia is built as a result of people with differences working to resolve disputes. Using terms such as "cancelled" is simply not correct and may inhibit your ability to resolve disputes, because it implies that you believe other people have an agenda to silence you.
- Your edit here looks like something found on the company's "About Us" page, not something in an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written in the style of an academic paper, so it presents the facts "with a straight face", not with the perspective of an employee at the company. For an example of encyclopedic tone, see a featured article and take note of the way it is written. It also removed a lot of sourced material, particularly those in the "Controversy" section; Wikipedia is about verifiability, not truth. Information that is well supported by reliable sources is what's reported on Wikipedia, not material that something believes to be truthful. Even if you think something isn't true based on your own perspective, that's not justification to remove it from Wikipedia if it's been supported by reliable sources. Wikipedia is a reflection of what reliable sources report on a topic, not an independent curator of information.
- You may find it difficult to write about Wikipedia on these terms because you're receiving payment for these contributions; as such, you have a conflict of interest. Most Wikipedia editors are impartial to the topics they write about, which makes it easier to write in an encyclopedic tone. You'll need to keep your own biases in mind when drafting content about this company.
- I've provided you with a lot of links to policy pages above. You may also be interested in the Teahouse, an environment for newcomers to ask questions; help on writing your first article; and the Five Pillars of Wikipedia, which summarize the core principles.
- —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:32, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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