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Why did you re-remove everything from Aisha Kahlil's wiki page?
Ok so why did you remove everything, I wrote and re-publish (that other people put down before everything was removed) on Aisha Kahlil's wikipedia page? And I hope your reply is not something like "there's not enough sources or something" cuz 1. I put another source down that the other person didn't have, 2. even if there was not enough sources you could just look up on google for more sources and put it in her article or something like that, like the birth name is correct from the 1993 book "We Who Believe In Freedom", (which I have source) the birthday is correct, (which I found out from sweet honey in the rock's facebook page from Nov 16, 2023, etc. and besides even if there was one little thing that didn't seem right, that doesn't mean you had to remove literally everything, so can you please explain? AmaMcG (talk) 16:34, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, AmaMcG! The issue lies with the sources. I couldn't find any coverage through a Google search, as all the sources I found were primary sources. Simply adding a few citations doesn’t make an article well-sourced. Out of the two sources, one was a primary source. I recommend reviewing WP:My first article for instructions on how to write articles properly. Ophyrius (he/him T • C • G) 11:43, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok well look I know a lot about the sweet honey in the rock singers, and I don't think it's right too have all the other singers (who have a wiki page) have something, and yet one of them, has their wiki page, re-directed back to sweet honey in the rock's wiki page, so is there a way I can put some stuff back like the Discography for example? cuz the only album she had, "Journey to My-Ka" is sourced on spotify and apple music and what not (P.s I'm so of bad at putting links on sources cuz it's so hard, so maybe you or someone else can do it, and I can tell you where I found it or something, cuz I'm so bad at it) also the birth-date, birth-name, and birth-place, I feel like can stay, cuz I don't see why or how you can source that. AmaMcG (talk) 22:49, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also speaking Sweet honey in the rock, one member they had in Dec 1974, was a member named (Ingrid Ellis) who got killed in 1981 by her husband, (and it's confirmed that it's the same person, on Page: #60 of Sweet Honey in the rock's 1993 book it says "Ingrid Ellis was dead, a victim of domestic violence") and I have been thinking of doing a wiki on her, here is one of the sources I found of it. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166262964/ingrid_marie-ellisAmaMcG (talk) 00:52, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog.
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Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
A new parser function has been added: {{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as MediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. [1]
Adding or editing a DISPLAYTITLE for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket.
Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates, quantities and time values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).
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Misread of consensus at Lindbergh RM
The RM was 4-2 in terms of number of votes and the 4 supporting votes were essentially the same argument. I definitely think you should've relisted this close. I am requesting you to undo your close and allow a relist instead. guninvalid (talk) 09:07, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, guninvalid! The arguments aren't exactly same. In a discussion arguments re likely to be same. It's the nature of discussions. Also, due to stronger support than oppose, it would be still closed as such. If you don't agree with this, you can request a review at WP:MR. Thanks! Ophyrius (he/him T • C • G) 13:13, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [2]
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The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [3]
The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. [4]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (q:ms:) [5]
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks. [6]
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Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once.
A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
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