Issues with Wikipedia editing exercise

[gabrielbodard]

If you have any questions, problems or other issues with the creation of your Wikipedia account and profile page, with editing articles or working with the Wikipedia community, or just want to share progress, links, screenshots, or discussion about editing, please feel free to post questions and comments here. Please keep an eye on the thread in case any of your colleagues have issues that you might be able to help with.

[PAZHames]

Hi all,

I'm having a bit of an editing issue. I've added an info box to a page, using one from an established page for format, but I'm getting an 'unknown punctuation' warning come up. I've included my edit and the warning. I can't see any difference in the expression - does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
P

[gabrielbodard]

@PAZHames Odd. I would expect that error to mean that there is a stray opening { somewhere that isn't expected, but I don't see it in your screenshot. (I presume the infobox ends with }} somewhere further down eventually?)

One thing that occurs to me is that the tag |df=yes ought to mean that the date is "day-first" format, but since you have only the year of birth, maybe that's confusing it? Try removing the df tag altogether, and see if that helps?

[PAZHames]

@gabrielbodard I just removed |df=yes, but no cigar. And yes, there is a }} at the bottom. But useful to know! I assumed it was 'date from'.

^^What a completely bizarre few sentences.

[gabrielbodard]

@PAZHames well I may be wrong! :) Have you saved the page, or are you keeping your draft in a separate doc somewhere so as not to lose it? If you've saved, would you like to give me the link and I'll look at it on WP? (Alternatively, temporarily delete that line and see if it still complains. If not, at least we know where the problem was.)

[gabrielbodard]

@PAZHames : Ah, I've just looked at the manual and it seems that what we want when there is only a year is {{birth year|1522}} rather than {{birth date}}. Maybe it was complaining because it was seeing the closing }} before the month and day that it was expecting…

Does that work?

[PAZHames]

@gabrielbodard Success! Thank you so much! This is she https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Sigea_de_Velasco (not finished!)

[RichardNevell]

Hi Kéyah, if you can share a link to the article in question I'd be happy to take a look. Accusing good faith editors of vandalism is not acceptable behaviour.

…

On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 at 14:47, Kéyah Doering ***@***.***> wrote: Hi all, I am being harassed by a user and they accused me of vandalism because I copy edited a page requesting copy edits. I'm not sure what to do about this. I fear absolutely any edit I make is being tracked by this user. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#24 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFIHF7TZ65DQPIA5DG5K7ZDS5VI7JANCNFSM4WVHC77A> .

-- Dr Richard Nevell Project Coordinator, Wikimedia UK 020 3372 0765 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5–11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.

[K-Doering]

@RichardNevell, Thank you for your offer to take a look! I was able to have a community member review my edits through the help center on Wikipedia (I made all of my edits at once so the user reverted all of my edits rather than the primary edit they took issue with (which was a valid mistake)) and I also sorted the vandalism issue with this user (apparently it flagged as vandalism automatically because they reverted edits I made on another page (?) but they apologized). All in a days learning I suppose! Many thanks.

[FabioDFernandes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimus_Terentius_Gentianus

As suggested by Gabbie, here is my edited article, which any of you may feel free to edit yourselves.

[PAZHames]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Sigea_de_Velasco

edited re suggestions from earlier

[RichardNevell]

I'm glad it got sorted. I've seen more than a few times that an error can result in a swathe of edits getting reverted by another edit. That isn't good practice, but it happens because it's quicker and easier than fixing the issue.

…

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 14:45, Kéyah Doering ***@***.***> wrote: @RichardNevell <https://github.com/RichardNevell>, Thank you for your offer to take a look! I was able to have a community member review my edits through the help center on Wikipedia (I made all of my edits at once so the user reverted all of my edits rather than the primary edit they took issue with (which was a valid mistake)) and I also sorted the vandalism issue with this user (apparently it flagged as vandalism automatically because they reverted edits I made on another page (?) but he apologized). All in a days learning I suppose! Many thanks. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#24 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFIHF7VDZJ5AAHHBSCN5IPDS572HJANCNFSM4WVHC77A> .

-- Dr Richard Nevell Project Coordinator, Wikimedia UK 020 3372 0765 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5–11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.

[alexandrabushman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iynx

Here is the wikipedia page I've been working on. My username is Classicsstudent21 to see my other edits. -Alex

[K-Doering]

Here is the Wikipedia page I've made edits and added sources to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnak_Open_Air_Museum

Here is also the link to my user page.

[gabrielbodard]

@FabioDFernandes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimus_Terentius_Gentianus

As suggested by Gabbie, here is my edited article, which any of you may feel free to edit yourselves.

Would you consider adding the Latin alongside the translation on this page?

[FabioDFernandes]

@gabrielbodard Thank you for the suggestion - I was intending on further structuring the article soon, and will certainly add that in.

[ChantalvanEgdom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorcon Here is my Wikipedia article. Have not had to time to add anything after the lecture yet!

[despinaborcea]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistulae_ex_Ponto Here is the Wikipedia article I worked on, feel free to edit the page! :)