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📰 WikiProject Louisville News

The latest updates from WikiProject Louisville:

🗞️ September 10, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the seventh time in the past nine months.

🗞️ August 26, 2024

Aaron Hertzman becomes a good article. This brings us again to 70 in total!

🗞️ August 12, 2024

Basil W. Duke was delisted as a good article.

🗞️ August 10, 2024

Andy Beshear is our most popular article for July. Beshear, recently a contender for the nomination of Vice President of the United States in the Democratic Party, is the 63rd Governor of Kentucky, currently serving in his second term. He and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman are the only Democratic statewide elected officials in Kentucky.

🗞️ July 17, 2024

Breonna Taylor becomes a good article. This brings us to 70 in total!

🗞️ July 10, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the sixth time in the past seven months.

🗞️ July 9, 2024

WDRB becomes a good article.

🗞️ June 23, 2024

There's now over 7,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ June 10, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for May, the fifth time in the past six months. Also of note are the rankings of articles related to local annual or special events, with Kentucky Derby at #4, Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) at #6, Valhalla Golf Club at #9, 2024 Kentucky Derby at #16, Mint julep at #21, 2023 Kentucky Derby at #23, and 2024 PGA Championship at #36.

🗞️ May 24, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for April, the fourth time in the past five months.

🗞️ May 22, 2024

There's now over 22,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ May 7, 2024

2024 Kentucky Derby appeared in the news as of May 6.

🗞️ April 9, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for March, the third time in the past four months.

🗞️ March 30, 2024

Walter A. Groves becomes a good article. (Category: Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary faculty)

🗞️ March 8, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the second time in the past three months.

🗞️ February 29, 2024

There's now over 21,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ February 9, 2024

Lamar Jackson is our most popular article for January. Jackson, American football player and Heisman Trophy winner who played for the Louisville Cardinals for three seasons before entering the NFL draft, is currently playing for the Baltimore Ravens. With the Ravens, he became the second unanimous Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the fourth African-American quarterback to win the award.

🗞️ January 13, 2024

WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar, The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (per usage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go.

🗞️ January 8, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, barely edging out the 2nd-place Jennifer Lawrence. Although not covered explicitly in his article, the popular, box-office-busting movie actor and three-time Golden Globe winner Cruise attended St. X High School in Louisville for a couple years, and his parents are from the city.

🗞️ December 28, 2023

There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ December 12, 2023

For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ December 8, 2023

Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapper Jack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9.

🗞️ December 3, 2023

Check out WikiProject Louisville's new Participation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page.

🗞️ November 8, 2023

Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for October. Lawrence, an Academy Award winner and the world's highest paid actress for two straight years, was born and raised in what is today Louisville Metro.

🗞️ October 24, 2023

For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ October 21, 2023

WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new.

🗞️ October 10, 2023

WikiProject Louisville's Assessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page.

🗞️ October 8, 2023

Deion Sanders is our most popular article for September. Sanders, a former NFL and MLB player and currently the head coach of Colorado Buffaloes football, played for the Louisville RiverBats (today known as the Bats) for two seasons (2000–01).

🗞️ October 3, 2023

WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updated action items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the {{WPLouNews}} template to your user pages or other appropriate Wikipedia pages.

🗞️ July 29, 2023

Sherman Minton was demoted from being a featured article.

🗞️ June 22, 2023

2022 Fenway Bowl becomes a good article.

🗞️ May 13, 2023

Phil Simms was delisted as a good article.

🗞️ March 22, 2023

Kentucky Railway Museum was delisted as a good article.

🗞️ November 23, 2022

Patty Loveless becomes a good article.

🗞️ May 9, 2022

Claudia Riner becomes a good article.

🗞️ March 13, 2022

Johnny Marcum becomes a good article.

🗞️ January 4, 2022

Ben Geraghty becomes a good article.

🗞️ December 28, 2021

2016 Jim Beam strike becomes a good article.

🗞️ October 15, 2020

Lee Guetterman becomes a good article.

🗞️ September 5, 2020

Mark Prior becomes a good article.

🗞️ August 30, 2020

Irene Dunne becomes a good article.

🗞️ May 8, 2020

Kentucky Kingdom becomes a good article.

🗞️ April 23, 2020

Ryan Hanigan was delisted as a good article.

🗞️ April 16, 2020

Ryan Rowland-Smith becomes a good article.

🗞️ April 13, 2020

Russell Branyan becomes a good article.

🗞️ April 9, 2020

Moe Drabowsky becomes a good article.

🗞️ April 5, 2020

Martha Watts becomes a good article.

Archive of news items over 5 years old

🗞️ June 7, 2006

WikiProject Louisville begins.

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Tech News: 2024-48

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

Updates for editors

A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [1]
Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [2]
The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [3]

Meetings and events

A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day, StefenTower! --Adr28382 ^{(Talk to me!)} 08:54, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-49

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

Updates for editors

Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [4]
Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [5]
This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [6]

Updates for technical contributors

In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-50

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

Weekly highlight

Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [7]
The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [8]
The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [9]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [10]
Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [11]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [12][13]

Updates for technical contributors

Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [14]
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [15]

Meetings and events

The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 December 2024

News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5

Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited

Op-ed: On the backrooms by Tamzin

In focus: Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?

In the media: Like the BBC, often useful but not impartial

Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody

Opinion: Worm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing

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Tech News: 2024-51

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

Weekly highlight

Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.