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Hi! Thanks you very much for your appreciation of these page edits :-) , but curiosity got the better of me. Why? What is so special about this page and its file? To me it's a very ordinary photo of an ordinary event. Sure, it's been used on a few websites, but some of my other photos are used on hundreds of sites, so I really can't see what the big deal is with this one. ;-) Sorry for being inquisitive, but it's not often I get these kind of 'thanks'. All the best, --Cart (talk) 15:45, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
- I speculate it's mainly because of 3 reasons: 1. it looks good with just a few lit windows and otherwise dark but still discernible scenery 2. there are only few files available under a free license for the event and even fewer that are of good quality and illustrative 3. I don't know how you search file uses of files on Commons but it may be that the way you search them or come across them this is a file / file-use you'd find.
- I think there are many uses of files on Commons that are not acknowledged on the given talk page. It probably needs some new tool that does some automatic checking to capture more and a sizable fraction. Prototyperspective (talk) 15:50, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for satisfying my curiosity. :-) I was mainly taken aback that someone paid attention to such a photo. I do occasional searches online to see where my photos are used. Sometimes I search using "W.carter" and sometimes my real name, but the best way to find where an image is used, is to download a small version of the file and to an Image search with Google Lens, and check the "Exact matches". --Cart (talk) 16:20, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
Growth News #35
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A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.
New releases
[edit]English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task
[edit]We released the "Add a Link" Structured Task to 100% of accounts at English Wikipedia on Tuesday, September 2nd (before then it was available to 20% of accounts).
Growth features for Wikidata
[edit]After examining if the Growth features and Mentorship could be adapted to Wikidata, we activated the Growth features on Beta Wikidata to allow for testing and discussion (T400937). Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.
Work in progress
[edit]Revise Tone Structured Task
[edit]The Growth team is making progress on the technical architecture, onboarding design, and early user testing. We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.
Add a link to more wikis
[edit]The machine learning team has been working on a new model that can suggest links to more languages, including Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedias. We are starting to release the “Add a Link” feature to Wikipedias that weren’t supported by the previous model.
Add a link, which can be configured by the community locally, increases the chance that a new contributor will make their first edit and then continue to participate in Wikipedia.
Research
[edit]The Growth team is involved in several research initiatives to help guide our future work:
Progression System – We have published initial findings from interviews with 10 English and French Wikipedia newcomers. The research examined motivations, challenges, and feedback on a prototype system intended to help editors build confidence, develop skills, and contribute more constructively over time.
Mobile Web Editing Research – This project combines quantitative and qualitative data, community feedback, and user journey analysis to identify possible ways to enhance the mobile editing experience.
Newcomers Survey – This project surveys successful newcomers on English Wikipedia to understand their early editing experiences, tool use, and community interactions.
Community events
[edit]The Growth team participated in several community events to listen, share, and collaborate on improving newcomer experiences across Wikimedia projects.
Wikimania - Organizers as key partners to support newcomers' growth in our movement
This session invited organizers to share how they introduce newcomers to Growth features and the challenges they encounter. The discussion focused on common newcomer questions and opportunities to strengthen collaboration in supporting new editors.
Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks
This talk demonstrated how Structured Tasks help newcomers take their first successful steps on Wikipedia. It shared impact data, community configurations, and a demo of “Add a Link,” illustrating how these tasks make editing more accessible and sustainable, particularly for mobile contributors.
Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
With active editor numbers declining, the Contributors Strategy aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group with involvement from the Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (formerly Campaigns) teams, highlighted efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Participants learned about ongoing initiatives and shared feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.
CEE Meeting - Retaining beginners and improving content moderation: an inclusive and sustainable future for Wikipedia contributors
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10:23, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
Category:Roads
[edit]Before you judge me, I ask you to familiarize yourself with the facts. The category currently works as follows: “Road – Road transport – Road transport infrastructure.” This means that all categories are already logically connected. However, if I now say that “Road transport infrastructure” should become a parent category of “Road” (which doesn’t make much sense conceptually), the following loop — and thus an incorrect categorization — would occur:
Road – road transport – road transport infrastructure – road – road transport – road transport infrastructure – road...
I hope you understand the principle. I corrected the mistake that had already been made in the past. --Lukas Beck (talk) 18:12, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- I didn't judge you so please don't claim such a false thing. Thanks for your explanation, it would be much better to include this / explain this in the edit summary. I was checking the categories on that category and both Thoroughfares and Linear structures or cats above them are not in the Road transport infrastructure cat.
- I think the issue here is that Road should be in cat Road transport, not the other way around. Can I make the two changes or should we get more people involved e.g. via a category discussion? For example, for the same reasons Category:Railway lines is in cat Category:Rail transport infrastructure. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:21, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Before you judge me is a friendly expression with the preventive intention of not passing judgment on me and was not referring to your edit summary — although I didn’t find that particularly friendly either. But I think we can both put that behind us now.
- As for why I didn’t include this in the edit summary: well, explaining what I was able to elaborate on here in more detail would have been far too long to fit there.
- Regarding your proposed solution: I think it sounds good. But feel free to get a second opinion from others. I’m not an expert in this field — my concern was solely about the formal error. Lukas Beck (talk) 18:34, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- It read like an accusation so I misread it. It wasn't meant to be unfriendly, sorry. For future edits: I think an edit summary like "introduces a category-cycle" would suffice. I would make the edits in a few days and until then you could create or invite/ping other users asking about this if you wish so and users could also chime in after the edits if they think this organization is flawed anyhow. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:51, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Agreed 😉 Lukas Beck (talk) 19:13, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- It read like an accusation so I misread it. It wasn't meant to be unfriendly, sorry. For future edits: I think an edit summary like "introduces a category-cycle" would suffice. I would make the edits in a few days and until then you could create or invite/ping other users asking about this if you wish so and users could also chime in after the edits if they think this organization is flawed anyhow. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:51, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
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Johnj1995 (talk) 04:16, 27 October 2025 (UTC)
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File:Dixit – How to Play and Tips.webm has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |
Cawfeecrow (talk) 03:54, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
Video files of music that should be audio files
[edit]Hello Prototyperspective, Regarding this, what about the corresponding video files? will those be deleted..? --Gpkp (talk) 05:02, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- No, they won't until you or somebody else uploads them as audio files and the static image displayed in the video separately. It would be nice if you could do that. Also see my request for enabling to show thumbnails for audio files then one wouldn't even need the separate image and just show the embedded thumbnails: W455 Support seeing the embedded thumbnails of audio files. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:26, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- Prototyperspective, there are so many artworks, animations and several graphics in videos created by the record-label which cannot be extracted. I insist the video files should not be deleted after converting them to audio. What do you say? --Gpkp (talk) 14:35, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- 1. They can be extracted. 2. A file in video format that is a static image or basically a static image and audio is the wrong format choice as static images can be embedded in the audio file and/or a separate image be included in the file description. 3. They have not yet been extracted and there is no deletion request yet for the videos so it doesn't need to be discussed now. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:39, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- Prototyperspective, there are so many artworks, animations and several graphics in videos created by the record-label which cannot be extracted. I insist the video files should not be deleted after converting them to audio. What do you say? --Gpkp (talk) 14:35, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
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File:Cute animal generated by AI 'Mom calls me Precious'.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |
