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The Minecraft problem
Has anyone noticed that the Minecraft page thinks that Steve and Alex are the only skins and that it has been like that for TWO MONTHS!? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:968C:9001:B9C7:5E23:C4EF:36A7 (talk) 19:23, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
- Questions about individual pages should be posted on a talk page for that subject. You're looking for Talk:Minecraft. Or if you can find a reliable source to back it up, you can make the change yourself. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:05, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
- That may depend on how big a Minecraft fan one is. Having known a fair number of serious gamers, I can see how such a thing could be considered important at a system level. – AndyFielding (talk) 08:53, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Portal issue in Vector 2022
Portal text is sandwiched besides images in Vector 2022. Compare Vector legacy to Vector 2022. Selected images also appear smaller. Is this the end of portals? (I'm sure all 12 of you that still use portals are very upset by this right now.) Schierbecker (talk) 19:47, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
- @SGrabarczuk (WMF) will probably know whether this has been reported before.
- I don't see any MOS:SANDWICHING on my screen, but I understand this to be something that depends strongly on your personal screen size and font settings. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:11, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- i don't see a problem. If there is a problem for you, than likely there was a problem before for others using that screenwidth. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:41, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
Insects and athletes
As a long-time (but perpetually technically baffled) WP contributor, I've noticed that nearly every other Random Page (by far, the best way to edit) seems to be about an insect, an athlete, or an athletic event. I've always assumed there were many more insects on the planet than athletes or athletics-related things—but is it possible I've been mistaken? Could there be comparable numbers of them? – AndyFielding (talk) 08:59, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
- A lot of editors are interested in sports. See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC on draftifying a subset of mass-created Olympian microstubs for a (very long) discussion on the topic of whether we should remove some poorly sourced articles about athletes. Donald Albury 13:36, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
- The number of articles we have on a given topic is driven by what our editors want to write about. You could get a vague idea of the relative popularity of insects vs athletics by looking at Category:Insects and Category:Athletic sports. FWIW, I just got 10 random articles. Three of them were sports related. So, yeah, it does seem to be a popular topic. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:06, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
- For what it's worth, I ran some numbers about six months ago - I was able to identify in the region of 600k biographies of sportspeople, a little under 10% of all articles. Don't have numbers for sports events and seasons and so forth but I would guess another couple of hundred thousand easily. Andrew Gray (talk) 17:12, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Shouldn't we have a television network?
Shouldn't Wikipedia have a Wikipedia television network with shows, etc, showcasing our works, maybe news, and other aspects of culture which are presented at the project? I get that we already have an online encyclopedia, but for those without access to a computer? Antonio Wants to be the first Wikipedia TV celebrity Martin (Please discuss) 14:44, March 18, 2023 (UTC) Antonio Martin (talk) 14:45, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
- That's an intriguing idea, but meta:Wikimedia Forum would be a better place to suggest it. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:58, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
- An over-the-air television station is expensive and each one can only reach a local market. A cable access channel is relatively cheaper to produce but getting a slot on a cable provider is a challenge and again, each provider only reaches a specific market. An Internet-based media channel is more cost-effective for the number of people it reaches, in spite of its limitations of requiring viewers to have Internet access and an Internet-connected viewing device. Because of the wealth of information available globally on the Internet and video-sharing sites such as YouTube, people everywhere are motivated to obtain some minimal access to these resources, beyond just access to Wikipedia. isaacl (talk) 16:37, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
- Yes. Not a station but a channel, and not a channel on local Cable TV but A channel on Youtube, for example. Then the principle cost is production, not distribution. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:31, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- Something to watch for is how the content from Wikipedia is presented. A show (TV/YouTube/etc) is different from a text article. You wouldn't want someone reading an article to the camera. So, how do you make it engaging for viewers? As a faint indication of what could happen, I have blogged on topics that also have articles in Wikipedia that I have contributed to. In my blog posts I have linked to relevant WP articles, but I also included analysis and speculation that I could not put in Wikipedia. I suspect that anyone trying to adapt a Wikipedia article to a video presentation is going to find WP policies and guidelines too restricting. Think docudramas, with invented dialogue, or the visual aids that would be needed for most subjects. Good documentaries can take years to develop. How much work, and how much outside material, would be needed to create even a five or ten minute segment on a topic based on a Wikipedia article that would engage viewers? - Donald Albury 15:34, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- Someone making videos on another site wouldn't be subject to Wikipedia policies (beyond satisfying licensing requirements). There are plenty of explainer videos out there that draw upon Wikipedia and other sources. For example, the Half as Interesting YouTube channel, devoted to brief explainers, started out covering small tidbits gleaned from Wikipedia articles. I absolutely agree that to do it well, significant effort has to be made, and graphics is what's going to make best use of the video format. isaacl (talk) 21:00, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- A video version of a Wikipedia article is a bad idea. Screenwriting is a completely different kind of writing; everything is organized differently from the start. An illustrated video documentary of a topic that is also covered by an encyclopedia article, yes that can work, though composing and editing it is a much bigger job than writing an article. The other things a Wikipedia TV channel can do better are interviews, lectures, panel discussions, and how-to pieces. And those are what the existing Youtube channel "Wikipedia Weekly" does. Those things could be done better and they could be done more. More of them could be linked from articles, and the various videos that we already have in Commons could be better linked, catalogued and organized. Basically, that's it. Wikipedia Weekly on YouTube Jim.henderson (talk) 00:04, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- I highly recommend Understanding Wikis and Wikipedia. The market for broadcast educational content on TV is very small. See also AtheistTV. Schierbecker (talk) 18:16, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
I see so many editors write "lead single" as title track, and EP as mini-album. These are actually different meanings. "Lead single" in South Korea is "pre-release single" and the single that released along with the EP/album is called "title track", which in international music industry term means a song that has same title as album/EP. About EP as mini-album, since we already have our own definition, we should use EP instead of "mini-album". But for title track, I have no idea. Do we have consensus about this? Do the admins actively correcting these mistakes? -GogoLion (talk) 02:27, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
- @GogoLion to answer your question, administrators don't curate content so they won't be correcting mistakes as a admin.
- Do you have sources to back up your claims? I suggest looking through WikiProject Korea, WikiProject Songs, WikiProject Albums and WikiProject Music to find answers. If that does not work start a RFC. Lightoil (talk) 03:50, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
Hello all, an important update on the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines:
The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement Guidelines. You can view the vote statistics on Meta-wiki.
As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines. The resolution can be found on Foundation wiki and you can read more about the process behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines review on Diff.
There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
JPBeland-WMF (talk) 21:08, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Problem with deleted page
I received an error report from the MilHistBot about Talk:Raymond W. Bliss. The problem is that the talk page has no associated article page. The article was deleted for "copyright problems" Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2023 March 17 but the talk page was not deleted and was tagged by SandyGeorgia with {{G8-exempt}}. That is a problem, because the article is now in maintenance categories. The MilHistBot will not be able to process any articles until the issue is resolved. I could tell it to skip articles like this but that is problematic at the present time and the issue will not be resolved; the page will clutter the maintenance categories. Normally I would resolve the issue manually but I don't know what the correct procedure is. The talk page needs to be given a proper MilHist rating and we don't have one for deleted articles. So what I have done for now is use the {{Suppress categories}} template to squelch the inclusion of maintenance categories, which works from my point of view. If anyone has any advice it would be appreciated. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:40, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Would a redirect solve this problem? If so, then a redirect to Surgeon General of the United States Army makes sense. Curbon7 (talk) 02:52, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, that would work. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:47, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hawkeye7 we need to get Mike Christie in on this as there are scores of these resulting from WP:DCGAR, and Mike needs the pages to generate the GA stats, similar to the FAC stats. I wonder if instead Mike could arrange to save only the GA page? I do not know how to resolve this, but it has always been a problem that GA reviews are sub-pages of article talk pages rather than stand-alone; I leave this to you, Mike and others as I am only entering the G8-exempt's per Mike's request for his GA scripts. I have been worried about the number of these stand-alone pages and whether they would cause problems down the line ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:53, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Losing the talk pages will remove some GAs from the historical stats database I've built, which would be a pity but is better than disrupting productive editing and useful bots. I'd rather see these deleted than see others have to work around them. Hawkeye7, how would your bot handle a similar situation with an FA that had the article deleted? Sandy, I know that's extremely rare, but in those cases would the talk page be G8 exempt? If I (and hence the bot, I assume) could see deleted pages this wouldn't be an issue. I'm not saying it's a reason to start an RfA but it's the first time I've seen a need for the tools.
- I'd say delete these pages at will. I have some archives of the data I can use to reconstruct the history if I decide to go ahead and do that. Sandy, sorry to put you to the trouble over those pages and now change course, but it seems like too much of a divergence from normal business operations to persist, for now. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:08, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hawkeye7 we need to get Mike Christie in on this as there are scores of these resulting from WP:DCGAR, and Mike needs the pages to generate the GA stats, similar to the FAC stats. I wonder if instead Mike could arrange to save only the GA page? I do not know how to resolve this, but it has always been a problem that GA reviews are sub-pages of article talk pages rather than stand-alone; I leave this to you, Mike and others as I am only entering the G8-exempt's per Mike's request for his GA scripts. I have been worried about the number of these stand-alone pages and whether they would cause problems down the line ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:53, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, that would work. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:47, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
Today’s featured picture March 25, 2023
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How long do I need to wait for Wikipedia:Request an account?
Hello, I had requested an account as I cannot create it due to similar to other username. The page said that the request can take 2 to 3 days, but I have waited more than 3 days and still did not receive any emails. I checked the account creation log and I still cannot find my requested account being created. I filled in the username, the email, confirmation of email, comments and pressed send request. Did I missed some steps to submit my request? And should I resubmit my request? 202.144.171.195 (talk) 05:29, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- I checked but I don't see any requests from your IP address in the queue, and at the moment there are only 2 pending requests. I also don't see any accounts being created on your IP. In both of these cases I wouldn't be able to see your request or your account if you made the request from a different IP address, so that's not a definitive answer. Check the email you provided for a message from wikiwikimedia.org (check your spam folder too), that should have instructions for your new account, or a reason why it could not be created. If you didn't receive the email then probably your request wasn't received properly, in which case you should submit a new request and it will be processed shortly. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:19, 25 March 2023 (UTC)