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Hi Sdkb. You've lent a hand at Talk:TikTok a few times in the past - would you mind weighing in at Talk:TikTok#Community Guidelines and Transparency Center? My initial post was met with a response that I feel was overly exclusionist, and it would help to have a set of unbiased eyes take a look. Thanks! Bkenny44 (talk) 17:47, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your response at Talk:TikTok was much appreciated. I replied to your post there and am looking forward to continuing the conversation with you until we reach a point where you are comfortable implementing some version of my proposed content. Thanks again! Bkenny44 (talk) 13:05, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I need to create an article about a revolutionary song which has put en a deep influence on the iranian uprising. i want to put the english translation here on wikipedia. how do i start? --Shahoo2002 (talk) 14:07, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Shahoo2002! The content translation tool may help you. Cheers, ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 07:00, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 20 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article House of Waters, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that House of Waters repurposes the hammered dulcimer, an Appalachian folk music instrument, for international jazz fusion? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/House of Waters. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, House of Waters), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 20 November 2022 (UTC) [reply]

November songs

Thank you for a good one! Opera and Advent choral music on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:49, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are you a bot because basically there's a new word called "Scaranation" and stuff but I just want to know if you're a real person or not. (Sorry if you're offended). --Rekipope (talk) 19:08, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Rekipope! Bleep bloop 🤖 ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 19:15, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(If you're considering making a new Wikipedia article on the word, be aware of WP:NEO — not all new words qualify to have articles.) ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 19:16, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I just want the people to know about Scaranation since it was on the news and in the Urban Dictionary. Rekipope (talk) 23:12, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team!

Highlights

• Mentorship: We released the new structured mentor list to all wikis. This change makes mentorship easier to setup, manage and use.
• Positive reinforcement: An improved impact module is available for testing.

Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test

The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.

Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited.

This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module at Beta Wikipedia. For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.

Structured tasks: improvements based on patroller feedback

After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.

We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed:

• Patroller fatigue:
  • By default, newcomers can complete up to 25 "add a link" tasks and 25 "add an image" tasks per day. If patrollers are overburdened, each community can use Special:EditGrowthConfig to lower that limit.

• Quality of edits: what constitutes a "quality edit" is not a well defined concept. We initiated a discussion and summarized our findings. We also worked on the following improvements:
  • Add a Link
    • Underlinked articles are now prioritized, so it's less likely that newcomers are adding links to articles that are already have a lot of links.
    • The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.
    • The default number of suggested links per article has been lowered to 3. This can be changed at Special:EditGrowthConfig. Communities can also exclude articles containing certain templates or categories from being suggested.
  • Add an Image
    • Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
    • Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
    • We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023. [1]

The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at "Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.

Recent changes

• All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience. Previously, at a few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they created their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. Experiments have shown that Growth features improve activation and retention, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will utilize control groups when testing new features, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request. [2]
• The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change. We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate. We will first deploy it at our pilot wikis, and then to all other wikis where this feature is available. [3][4]
• Growth's features FAQ has been updated and expanded. This page centralizes all the information about Growth features. We invite you to read it, and, if you can, to translate it.

News for mentors

• All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program in an easier way.
  • We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.
  • Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on following a new process. When done, mentors can sign-up by visiting Special:MentorDashboard.
  • Wikipedias where the list of mentors already existed have been converted to the new system.
  • A new special page — Special:ManageMentors — now displays the list of mentors. This page can be transcluded on any other page. There are also new processes to signup as a mentor or to quit mentorship, and we improved community mentorship management.
• The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees. [5]

Deployments

• Add a link has been deployed to a 5th round of wikis. [6]

Improving this newsletter

We plan to have a more regular newsletter, every two months. We also want to know if the current format suits you! Let us know what you like, what you like less and your suggestions of improvements: leave us a comment, in your preferred language.

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20:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello mentor! I made several edits to a page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manju_Singh) , and am wondering if I can delete the template message myself, or if someone else should do it. Thank you. --Nz18 (talk) 11:04, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Nz18: Thanks for helping out! So long as you have no conflict of interest and are confident the issues have been resolved, you're welcome to remove the tags yourself. Looking at them briefly, the bare URLs and lack of inline references seem resolved, but the fact the article refers to her as a "pioneer" in the first sentence hints that there may still be some advertising issues. Cheers, ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 11:43, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I have edited out all the 'advertising' words and it should read quite neutrally now, so I have removed the template. Nz18 (talk) 17:23, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sdkb. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Not Just Bikes, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 18:01, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sdkb. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Cleo Abram, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 18:01, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I noticed that section 3.3 "Middle Ages" in the "Berbers" page is way too long, and I wanted to move it to another page. Do I need to do anything special for that? Should I just make a new page and copy the contents of section 3.3 over to it? I couldn't find an any official policy for how to approach this kind of change.

Thanks for your help!! --Blueshiftofdeath (talk) 23:18, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Blueshiftofdeath! Looks like you're referring to Berbers § Middle Ages. That is indeed a fairly long section in a fairly long page (93,000 characters of readable prose, which is almost certainly too long). However, there could be different reasons for it, and without digging into it myself, I can't say which is the case. Sometimes pages are too long because they go into too much detail, and they need to be condensed down to a more encyclopedic summary style. If there are a lot of quotes and low-quality prose containing seemingly trivial information, this is likely the case. But sometimes they do need to be split off into a separate article, a process called Splitting. The procedure section there will show you how to propose that. It can be a slow process, so don't be alarmed if it takes a long time to garner opinions — the discussion will find consensus eventually and proceed accordingly. Before you make a splitting proposal, I'd check carefully to make sure that there isn't already an article that covers something similar to the scope you envision for the split off article (which would be something like Berbers in the Middle Ages?). If another article with a similar scope already exists, then you'll likely want to just add a ((Main)) or ((Further)) hatnote to the section in Berbers and then condense the section. I hope that helps! Cheers, ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 23:33, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is super helpful, thanks so much!! Blueshiftofdeath (talk) 02:51, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Scope creep was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

References are routine annoucements, some funding and "what is this" posted PR, explain what it is and other common PR, all indicative of very early startup.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Post.news and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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scope_creep^Talk 08:55, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sdkb! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! scope_creepTalk 08:55, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

hello im new to this.

I put a cool page up similar to this one... I used to work with them : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Studios

but the moderator took it down when I put a link to one of my products. any advice on how to get a page like that up and not getting deleted?

thank you --TonyLantana (talk) 23:12, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@TonyLantana, the message on your talk page has some info. More can be found at WP:COI and WP:NCORP. You are a paid editor, so please take the time to educate yourself rather than asking me as a volunteer to do your work for you. ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 19:26, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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@Justyouraveragelechuga: My Discord username resembles my Wikipedia one, so I shouldn't be hard to find. ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 01:21, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Sdkb!

The other day, I was having a conversation with someone about holiday cards and social media. It occurred to me that, in the years since I left Facebook, the site I use most to communicate with people I like isn't actually a social media site at all. If you're receiving this, it's pretty likely I've talked with you more recently than I have my distant relatives and college friends on FB, at very least, and we may have even collaborated on something useful. So here's a holiday "card", Wikipedia friend. :) Hope the next couple weeks bring some fun and/or rest. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 18:34, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sdkb: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:22, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:22, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

		Happy Holidays
		Hello, I wish you the very best during the holidays. And I hope you have a very happy 2023! Bruxton (talk) 17:34, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

...after TFD#Template:Auto archiving notice was filed and languishing at WP:TFDH, the merger with ((Talk header)) has been completed. I remember Trialpears had replaced the easy ones with their bot, but there about ~800 that had to be replaced case by case after review. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 16:22, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, amazing! Glad to hear it! ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 20:48, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sdkb,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 23:02, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 23:02, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sdkb. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Motley Coffeehouse".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:02, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sdkb. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Micro-Face".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:03, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sdkb,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomer experience projects

The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:

• Thank you pages & banners - Encourage donors to create accounts through thank you pages and banners.
• Marketing experiment - Run ads on-wiki and off-wiki to see how this impacts account activation.
• "Add an image" GLAM events - Host GLAM events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.
• Welcome emails - Experiment sending welcome emails to newly created accounts.

Newcomer tasks

• Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [7]
• The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [8]

Mentorship

• When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [9]
• Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [10]
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• In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [11]
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14:44, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

How can I start editing my page. --Atulkumar938 (talk) 04:45, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Atulkumar938! Are you referring to your user page? The instructions for that are at the link. But you probably want to start editing articles first — user pages are not personal profiles but rather spaces to aid the goal of building an encyclopedia. ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 04:53, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Clovermoss submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

May I introduce the awesome editor that is Sdkb. I checked the list of previously awarded EOTWs and I was shocked that they were not on there, honestly. Sdkb's done a lot of amazing things but I mostly remember them for their hard work in streamlining a lot of the templates used to welcome new editors, helping out at the Teahouse, and running SdkbBot. This nomination was seconded by User:theleekycauldron

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

((User:UBX/EoTWBox))

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 15:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]