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Women in Red | April 2025, Vol 11, Issue 4, Nos. 326, 327, 335, 336 Online events: New: Alphabet run G & H | Business Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements (Events facilitated by others): The European Destubathon – a stub improvement contest/editathon from 1–30 April 2025 Tip of the month: When creating biographies, don't forget to use Template:DEFAULTSORT. Accessible from "Wiki markup" at the foot of the page being edited, it allows categories to be listed under the subject's family name rather than their first or given name. Moving the needle: (statistics available via Humaniki tool) 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,057,083, 412,857 women) 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women) Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 2,657 articles during this period! Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Hi Rosiestep,

Where can I find instructions on adding a section (Bibliography specifically) and updating the Box-out information? In general, I'm not sure how to search Wiki specifically for editing support - I appreciate your guidance. Thanks! --Hawthornele (talk) 17:15, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

found the info as soon as I asked! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hawthornele (talk • contribs) 10:53, March 31, 2025 (UTC)

No worries, Hawthornele. They were good questions! Adding this info here in case it's helpful for a pagestalker. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:22, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• When not to call a section, "Bibliography": see here
• When it's okay to call a section, "Bibliography": see here

Hi Rosiestep, I hope you’re doing well! I just wanted to take a moment to say that your work has truly been an inspiration for me. I come from a small, often-overlooked corner of India—Northeast India—and I had joined Wikipedia to share the stories, culture, and history of our region and its people. Your contributions to wikipedia had motivated me to help bring greater awareness to where I come from, and for that, I’m really grateful. It all started after I binge watched a Youtube Video about you.

Thank you for being such a positive influence. I just wanted to say hi and let you know that your work matters. Here are some of the articles I had worked on: Hannah Lalhlanpuii, Kaitho Sukhai, Shania Yan, Theyiechüthie Sakhrie.

Best regards, Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 02:17, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to hear form you, Flyingphoenixchips, and thanks for the kind words. Also, thanks for what you do around here! --Rosiestep (talk) 21:47, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning,

The latest edition of the CEE Hub Newsletter is now available, bringing you updates from across the region and beyond. This issue features new initiatives, event highlights, and opportunities for engagement.

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• Meet Karolina Gruszczyk – Introducing the new Community & Communications Specialist at CEE Hub, working to strengthen communication and support communities across the region.
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• Next CEE Catch-up (April 23, 2025) – A Foundation Annual Planning Workshop focused on global trends affecting Wikimedia communities.
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--janbery, 08:43, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

My story today is about an opera singer born OTD in 1870. I have problems to say something as informative about Mirella Freni, as the DYK nom shows. -Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:07, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, the hook was improved. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:14, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly enjoyed reading about both of them, particularly Fausta Labia. Ipigott, regarding FL, I'm curious as to why the Italian cities and the opera composers weren't wikilinked. I ask as I would have wikilinked them, but maybe I'm missing the reason why not to do so. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:24, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Without looking: to avoid too much blue. Rome should never be linked; when an opera house is linked there's no need to link its city also (people who want to read about Venice will find it in La Fenice), and when an opera is linked whoever wants the composer's life can turn to the opera. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:37, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping, Rosie. I regard Gerda as something of an expert on Wikipedia's coverage of opera (and other forms of classical and choral music). She has provided me with enormous help in improving my biographies of numerous insufficiently recognized opera singers I'm glad to see you enjoyed reading Labia's biography.--Ipigott (talk) 16:03, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, both. Bottom line (for pagestalking newbies): "to avoid too much blue". --Rosiestep (talk) 16:28, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thank you, both ;) - Tout est lumière. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:33, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oui, tout. Et... enjoyed reading the one beneath it, the monk and musician, Notker. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:24, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

today: a woman in red, - Notker was last year's sorry. I don't come every day, but a click on story gives you a new one each day ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, last year's; I noticed the date and read it nonetheless. :) --Rosiestep (talk) 12:46, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How do I edit the URL and change the name of a page? --AMF93 (talk) 17:37, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi AMF93 and thanks for stopping by. Basically, when you change the name of a page, the url automatically changes. Here's how to do it. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:50, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

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How can I add a picture on my profile? --Prashantraj0man (talk) 18:48, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Prashantraj0man and thanks for the question. Please read this first regarding privacy considerations. The 'how to' instructions are here. Happy editing! --Rosiestep (talk) 17:13, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm wondering why you're adding so many backdated "one source" tags - for example, {{one source|date=August 2020}} - to Max Ehinger and many others? Is this a copy/paste oversight? Ingratis (talk) 10:43, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, it's the backdating that puzzles me rather than the placing of the tags as such. Ingratis (talk) 15:34, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(watching:) I fail anyway to understand why more than one ref would be even expected for one sentence, with a tag occupying more space than the sentence + ref. Most readers will be able to count that at a glance, and it seems not even a problem. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:19, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ingratis and Gerda Arendt:, thanks for noticing my gnomish work as part of my participation in the European Destubathon. It's a habit of mine to backdate to the article creation month if what's missing can factually be traced to that date, e.g., it's not something I do automatically or as an oversight. In addition to "one source", you'll see that I follow the same process for "no footnotes", "unref", etc. As for "one source" template for a 1 sentence article: IMO, it's a slippery slope to make allowance for 1 ref for 1 sentence. By adding the tag, some editor who wouldn't otherwise view the article will view it and, hopefully, not just add another ref, but also add more content. Of course, editors are welcome to revert or edit my edits as they please. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:26, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd just prefer cat work to you wasting time on saying "1 is 1 ...". A stub tag should do the same trick, no? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:29, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That would make sense, but alas, a stub tag doesn't necessarily accomplish the same thing. See Category:Swiss writer stubs where, last night, I tagged many articles that were created more than a dozen years ago. Also, destubbed the ones that weren't a stub anymore. Also, made gnomish improvement edits to some of the stubs. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:37, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved on to reviewing European sociologist stubs where I just encountered Yngvar Løchen; multiple sentences, 1 source, created in 2008 by an editor who now has 131K+ edits. If it were tagged with "one source" and "April 2024", it might be many years before someone reviewed it, vs. "October 2008". Alternatively, not tag it. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:54, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation of the backdating, which is what I was asking about - I see your reasoning, although I don't know, to be honest, whether I agree with it. My main concern was to check if it was accidental or not, and since it's not, I'll mind my own business! Ingratis (talk) 18:22, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ingratis I'm not opposed to using the nifty template tagger, which does the job more quickly/easily, and I'm willing to learn from other points of view. Ergo, curious as to your thoughts on backdating. Care to share? --Rosiestep (talk) 13:34, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My reservation, apart from a general unhappiness about adding false information, for whatever reason, is that if you backdate the maintenance templates the affected articles will indeed, as you anticipate, generally come to be reviewed sooner, but they will not have had the length of exposure they should have had. If you backdate something to 2010, for example, it will not have had the 15 intervening years for someone to improve it before being reviewed and probably PRODded or AfDed. (You may or may not find that convincing!) Best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 12:40, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ingratis, I'm glad I asked the question. It never occurred to me to consider these points. Thanks for sharing. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:42, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we evaluate our work done for the recently closed quarter (January-March 2025), we present you a number of video and blogpost about us to watch and read, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also we remind you that the next Natural Language Generation Special Interest Group meeting will be held on April 15, at 16:00 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11:20, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I want to create an article, i wanted to ask if these sources are good to use for article creation? Or they do not count as a reliable source? https://moneygenius.ca/insurance/home-insurance/square-one-home-insurance https://loanscanada.ca/insurance/square-one-insurance-review/ --DeadMeat778 (talk) 19:30, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DeadMeat778 and thanks for stopping by. These are good questions. Both of the examples (moneygenius.ca; loanscanada.ca) are primary sources. So the answer is 'no', they would not count as a reliable source. Here are some links which provide explanations on self-published works; primary sources; and the differences between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. I'll leave some additional links for newcomers on your talkpage. Thanks for joining Wikipedia and happy editing! --Rosiestep (talk) 12:46, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2025 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, Wracking stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and IQR and WikiEditor5678910 were newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 55 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive 33 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 611,404 words in 237 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 14 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 10 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 46,749 words in 18 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 47 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. 28 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 479,172 words in 207 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 13 to 19 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 9:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 89 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,264 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, IQR, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and WikiEditor5678910. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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You are invited to join us at Ujamaa Community Bookstore (2424 Doctor M.L.K. Jr St, Indianapolis, IN 46208)for an Earth Day edit-a-thon and meetup hosted by IU Indianapolis Arts & Humanities Institute, Ujamaa Community Bookstore, Flanner Farms, and the Wikimedians of Indiana User Group. This event is supported by the Central Indiana Community Foundation—where both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve write articles about earth day, the environment, and local food and environmental movements, history, and legislation. Tuesday April 22nd, from 4 - 7 pm: Earth Day Edit-a-thon & Meetup (RSVP), focusing on Earth Day related topics like the environment, agriculture, plants, and animals, and local and regional food and environmental movements, history and legislationg 4 pm to 7pm at Ujamaa Community Bookstore in Indianapolis, IN. We hope to see you there! Sincerely, Wikimedians in Indiana User Group

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how do I make a article --Ibrahim.H.Akhtar (talk) 09:26, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ibrahim.H.Akhtar. Thanks for your question and welcome to Wikipedia. There's an instruction page here and a video here. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:11, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]