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📰 WikiProject Louisville News

The latest updates from WikiProject Louisville:

🗞️ June 23, 2024

There's now over 7,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ June 10, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for May, the fifth time in the past six months. Also of note are the rankings of articles related to local annual or special events, with Kentucky Derby at #4, Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) at #6, Valhalla Golf Club at #9, 2024 Kentucky Derby at #16, Mint julep at #21, 2023 Kentucky Derby at #23, and 2024 PGA Championship at #36.

🗞️ May 24, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for April, the fourth time in the past five months.

🗞️ May 22, 2024

There's now over 22,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ May 7, 2024

2024 Kentucky Derby appeared in the news as of May 6.

🗞️ April 9, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for March, the third time in the past four months.

🗞️ March 30, 2024

Walter A. Groves becomes a good article. (Category: Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary faculty)

🗞️ March 8, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the second time in the past three months.

🗞️ February 29, 2024

There's now over 21,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ February 9, 2024

Lamar Jackson is our most popular article for January. Jackson, American football player and Heisman Trophy winner who played for the Louisville Cardinals for three seasons before entering the NFL draft, is currently playing for the Baltimore Ravens. With the Ravens, he became the second unanimous Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the fourth African-American quarterback to win the award.

🗞️ January 13, 2024

WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar, The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (per usage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go.

🗞️ January 8, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, barely edging out the 2nd-place Jennifer Lawrence. Although not covered explicitly in his article, the popular, box-office-busting movie actor and three-time Golden Globe winner Cruise attended St. X High School in Louisville for a couple years, and his parents are from the city.

🗞️ December 28, 2023

There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ December 12, 2023

For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ December 8, 2023

Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapper Jack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9.

🗞️ December 3, 2023

Check out WikiProject Louisville's new Participation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page.

🗞️ November 8, 2023

Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for October. Lawrence, an Academy Award winner and the world's highest paid actress for two straight years, was born and raised in what is today Louisville Metro.

🗞️ October 24, 2023

For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.

🗞️ October 21, 2023

WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new.

🗞️ October 10, 2023

WikiProject Louisville's Assessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page.

🗞️ October 8, 2023

Deion Sanders is our most popular article for September. Sanders, a former NFL and MLB player and currently the head coach of Colorado Buffaloes football, played for the Louisville RiverBats (today known as the Bats) for two seasons (2000–01).

🗞️ October 3, 2023

WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updated action items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the {{WPLouNews}} template to your user pages or other appropriate Wikipedia pages.

🗞️ October 15, 2020

Lee Guetterman becomes a good article.

🗞️ September 5, 2020

Mark Prior becomes a good article.

🗞️ August 30, 2020

Irene Dunne becomes a good article.

🗞️ May 8, 2020

Kentucky Kingdom becomes a good article.

🗞️ April 16, 2020

Ryan Rowland-Smith becomes a good article.

🗞️ April 13, 2020

Russell Branyan becomes a good article.

🗞️ April 9, 2020

Moe Drabowsky becomes a good article.

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🗞️ June 7, 2006

WikiProject Louisville begins.

Tech News: 2024-24[edit]

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

Recent changes

The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [1]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [2]

Problems

There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [3]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5]
The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [6]
On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [7]

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Talk:UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Imavov[edit]

Hi, Stefen, As per above, pls provide the link of Wikipedia guidelines of your edits. Thank you. Cassiopeia talk 07:50, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have just left a note on your talk page that explains. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 07:54, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-25[edit]

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Recent changes

People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [8]
The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [9][10]
The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [11]

Problems

Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [12]
Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [13]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [14][15]
Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [16]
Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [17]

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Category:Defunct Catholic schools in Louisville, Kentucky has been nominated for splitting[edit]

Category:Defunct Catholic schools in Louisville, Kentucky has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 01:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-26[edit]

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

Recent changes

Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [18]
The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [19]

Problems

You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [20]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [21][22]
Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [23]

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Possible resource[edit]

Just wanted to flag this memoir of Louisville in the 1850s. I'm going to use a little in a forthcoming Matthew Garrison (slave trader) article, and I added a bit to Jim Porter (giant) but there's lots of 160-year-old gossip on murders and the 1855 Know-Nothing Riots etc. cheers. jengod (talk) 15:18, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jengod Thanks! Interestingly this is available on the Filson website in a more readable form (and you can do word searches and copy text from it for quotes and such). Also, you can find all their Filson Club History Quarterly articles here. And here are some Louisville area-related sources I've been compiling in WikiProject Louisville. In that, I mention Project MUSE (accessible from the Wikipedia Library) - with this, you can access practically any book published by the University Press of Kentucky, which may be of special assistance on the topic of slavery in Kentucky. Happy digging! :) Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 08:31, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're awesome. I'll link to the Filson Club one as the source. TY so much for the reference list--I'll go through with each Louisville topic I cover. Best, jengod (talk) 14:39, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-27[edit]

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

Recent changes

Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [24]
Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [25]
If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [26][27]
Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [28]
Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [29]

Problems

Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [30]

Future changes

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