… topic was opened with the focus on the actions of mainly one user on the Scots Wikipedia. His actions, albeit well-intentioned, nonetheless exposed a large vulnerability not just in the Scots Wiki, but small language Wikis in general. The conversation that followed quickly turne…
…ed elsewhere. The Obama regime makes itself a laughingstock for pretending that Wikileaks and Snowden material are still secrets; this law would do the same. 26 August 2013 ( Jet Blue refused to let Hindu man board ) A Hindu man was taken for Muslim after he (not knowing why) set…
…These shortcuts are made possible by "template redirects": a non-intuitive MediaWiki hack where " transcluding " a redirect is equivalent to "transcluding" its target page. Template:Cn is a redirect to Template:Citation needed , the same way United States of America is a redirect…
…s and smokescreens by Slowking will never help their case. The abuse of certain wikis is extensive, and especially if you want to argue that a block should be void because every admin from 5 different wikis gave you an involved block, you can't particularly do that while creating…
… or other issues, so people know these should be focused on. Possibly sorted by WikiProject (Music, TV, Football, etc) so we can work on topics that interest us that are also considered very important. This could be a regular post somewhere (Diff?) or twice yearly report. Whateve…
…ibraries, then you’ve probably come across some really strange maps during your Wikipedia wormhole plummets. Reading about the European discovery of the New World is one thing, but sifting through the speculative maps they made is another adventure entirely. With such limited inf…
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…d the “arbitrary code execution from unsanitized input” bug that the Arch Linux Wiki mentions here for the xdg-user-dirs utility, by replacing the shell script with a C binary. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! Allan Day @aday GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-04-17…
Since the 2013 RfC on Wikidata Phase 2 , using Wikidata in infoboxes has gone from the concept stage to more extensive mainspace experimental implementations. This had led to some controversies: some editors have been converting infoboxes to use Wikidata, believing use of Wikidat…
… ( RFC on next steps), Summary of public discussions ( 2 online consultations , Wikimania workshop upcoming) Section in progress. This is a wiki, please edit to include links to any discussion that is not yet there. Editors spend a lot of time reading, writing, and reviewing mate…
… and below); though I like the middle part by itself. Favicon already in use in Wikipedia Not much of a logo, just text. No true symbol like other Wikimedia projects, just words. This is a good place to discuss the above arguments. Is there a proposed favicon to accompany this? —…
…entation of the citation if it's not the problem, with the cited part bolded in wiki-syntax (even if it's not bolded in actual font in the browser). Those abbreviations seem a bit opaque - I'm sure they're well-known for your average Egyptologist, but not necessarily so for every…
Wikispecies:Village Pump/Archive 25 - Wikispecies Jump to content From Wikispecies Wikispecies:Village Pump (Redirected from Wikispecies:Village pump/Archive 25 Wikidata edit Happy New Year! Are there any ideas / concepts how Wikispecies will use Wikidata? In a few weeks Wikidata…
…ike it's for nothing. I am thinking I will just work the data into simpler HTML/wiki tables, which might not mimic the original format as precisely, but will I think at least permit the reader to get the information in the articles. Again, thank you for your help, and I'm sorry I…
…lks :) As I've announced a while ago today is the big day. We just enabled interwiki links via Wikidata for Wikimedia Commons. This means interwiki links to for example the Wikipedias no longer need to be stored in the wikitext and updated there. They can now be stored in one cen…