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📰 WikiProject Louisville News

The latest updates from WikiProject Louisville:

🗞️ September 10, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the seventh time in the past nine months.

🗞️ August 26, 2024

Aaron Hertzman becomes a good article. This brings us again to 70 in total!

🗞️ August 12, 2024

Basil W. Duke was delisted as a good article.

🗞️ August 10, 2024

Andy Beshear is our most popular article for July. Beshear, recently a contender for the nomination of Vice President of the United States in the Democratic Party, is the 63rd Governor of Kentucky, currently serving in his second term. He and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman are the only Democratic statewide elected officials in Kentucky.

🗞️ July 17, 2024

Breonna Taylor becomes a good article. This brings us to 70 in total!

🗞️ July 10, 2024

Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the sixth time in the past seven months.

🗞️ July 9, 2024

WDRB becomes a good article.

🗞️ 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.

🗞️ July 29, 2023

Sherman Minton was demoted from being a featured article.

🗞️ June 22, 2023

2022 Fenway Bowl becomes a good article.

🗞️ May 13, 2023

Phil Simms was delisted as a good article.

🗞️ March 22, 2023

Kentucky Railway Museum was delisted as a good article.

🗞️ November 23, 2022

Patty Loveless becomes a good article.

🗞️ May 9, 2022

Claudia Riner becomes a good article.

🗞️ March 13, 2022

Johnny Marcum becomes a good article.

🗞️ January 4, 2022

Ben Geraghty becomes a good article.

🗞️ December 28, 2021

2016 Jim Beam strike becomes a good article.

🗞️ 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 23, 2020

Ryan Hanigan was delisted as 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.

🗞️ April 5, 2020

Martha Watts becomes a good article.

Archive of news items over 5 years old

🗞️ June 7, 2006

WikiProject Louisville begins.

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Traffic report: Was a long and dark December

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Books & Bytes – Issue 66

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 66, November – December 2024

Les Jours and East View Press join the library
Tech tip: Newspapers.com

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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 Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [1]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [2]
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. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

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. [4]
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. [5]

Meetings and events

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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