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			== Happy holidays! ==
	== Question from ] (00:39, 27 September 2024) ==

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			Rae, one of my first interactions with you was emailing answers@ over the summer when I wanted to know how the UCOC was licensed. Thank you for the diligent follow up to my question. But since then I have enjoyed getting to know you better, and it was a pleasure meeting you at WCNA. I hope to see you in NYC for WCNA2025 :) Best to you and yours in 2025, and happy holidays! <b>]]</b> (] • he/they) 04:50, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
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	== Tech News: 2024-40 ==

			monu __badmash__10 --] (]) 23:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
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			I need to add links and need to add some content it's not not shwoing --] (]) 14:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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			:@]: I've made ] to format the link as a citation, and to restore content I think you accidentally partially removed in a previous edit. If you're using the visual editor, there's an ]. ] (]—]) 18:27, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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			::thank you ] (]) 00:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

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	hi! Can you find a basic page for me to fix Grammer. Have a good day. :) --] (]) 17:30, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

			If I don’t give any references or links in my article then will Misplaced Pages remove it? --] (]) 12:00, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
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			Waarom word deze info van Etzel verwijderd? Er is niks mis mee. Hij is een belangrijke invloed geweest op de muziek van curacao. Hij is 4 jaar geleden overleden. En het is belangrijk dat zijn legacy blijft leven voor iedereen die naar zijn info zoekt. --] (]) 22:26, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
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	I am a native Spanish speaker and I am starting to translate articles that do not have a Spanish version. I am also a big fan of video games and I constantly see that in the original versions of pages (in English) there are often missing information.
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	I am trying to help a friend who is a actor, author, detective. Who has had a t.v. show on the history channel and had been on many TV shows and news interviews and has written several books. He has a YouTube page with 115k subs. He is asking me why he doesn't have a wiki page and I cannot figure this stuff out. He was the lead actor on the hunt for the zodiac t.v series on history channel and has a peacock series about to start very soon. Just seems odd he's solved cold case murders and been on TV was an fbi task force member undercover narcotics and now celebrity but he's not on wiki but all his co stars are. He also have a fb group called unsolved no more. His youtube group with 115k subs is called unsolved no more. I can help verify his identify etc but he's easily verified on imdb, and news articles both local, national paper news and t.v. news Nancy grace type stuff. --] (]) 16:02, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
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			Hasz ID da pan rady pomoc mi bardzo prosze --] (]) 14:31, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
	== Question from ] (16:15, 12 October 2024) ==

			== ''The Bugle'': Issue 225, January 2025 ==
	Hello Rae, it's nice to meet you. I made a Misplaced Pages account so that I could more consistently keep up-to-date the "Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election" page without any future semi-protections affecting me. I have edited there under the IPs 81.149.255.205 and 144.178.213.98.
	I know that my description of changes is not standard, so I will try and make it so in future :) --] (]) 16:15, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

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What we can change? --Mkbonline (talk) 16:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Mkbonline: What do you want to change? You can edit almost all pages :) Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:21, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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I need to add links and need to add some content it's not not shwoing --Ysrkavali (talk) 14:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

@Ysrkavali: I've made an edit to format the link as a citation, and to restore content I think you accidentally partially removed in a previous edit. If you're using the visual editor, there's an easy tool for automatic citations. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:27, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

thank you Ysrkavali (talk) 00:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

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If I don’t give any references or links in my article then will Misplaced Pages remove it? --Ibrahim01721 (talk) 12:00, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

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Waarom word deze info van Etzel verwijderd? Er is niks mis mee. Hij is een belangrijke invloed geweest op de muziek van curacao. Hij is 4 jaar geleden overleden. En het is belangrijk dat zijn legacy blijft leven voor iedereen die naar zijn info zoekt. --Etzel Provence (talk) 22:26, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

It looks like an editor has since provided context on your talk page. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 03:58, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue 225, January 2025

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Book review: Pickersgill-Cunliffe and Nick-D look at Germans in the Flanders Campaign and 50 years of Australian military history
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Tech News: 2025-03

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

The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
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View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.

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Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

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The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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Question from GravyOnToast (06:15, 20 January 2025)

Good Morning/Evening Rae,

I've been busy with life and university so haven't had much time devoted to Misplaced Pages. How would one go about making a user page? Is it essentially a sandbox or is it more of a professional profile?

ps. Happy New Year! --GravyOnToast (talk) 06:15, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-04

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

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Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

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The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Misplaced Pages, Kabyle Misplaced Pages, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki.
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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