User talk:Benison
 | Benison is busy and is going to be on Wikipedia in off-and-on doses, and may not respond swiftly to queries. |
|
You are going to leave a message in my talk page?: Go ahead (by clicking HERE) and do it but don't ping me (for the new-bies). Yeh, please be good enough to check back for my reply. I may not notify you always. Cheers!!
 |
Contentious topics alerts
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
| This is Benison's talk page, where you can send him messages and comments. |
Article policies
|
Archives: Index, Lua error: too many expensive function calls.Auto-archiving period: 7 days  |
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, Benison, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --BatteryIncluded (talk) 13:40, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot
[edit]Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.
| Views/Day | Quality | Title | Tagged with… |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 
|
Mundakayam (talk) | Add sources |
| 26 | 
|
Australian Conservation Foundation (talk) | Add sources |
| 115 |
|
Aruval (talk) | Add sources |
| 1,661 |
|
Indian Americans (talk) | Add sources |
| 213 |
|
Katar (talk) | Add sources |
| 6 |
|
Kuttoor (Thiruvalla) (talk) | Add sources |
| 44,972 | 
|
Mayhem (Lady Gaga album) (talk) | Cleanup |
| 384 |
|
Alappuzha (talk) | Cleanup |
| 132 |
|
National Highway 27 (India) (talk) | Cleanup |
| 53 |
|
Professional diving (talk) | Expand |
| 3,395 |
|
Disney+ (talk) | Expand |
| 591 |
|
Real Irish Republican Army (talk) | Expand |
| 129 |
|
Pathanamthitta district (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 4 |
|
Thungapuram (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 199 |
|
Pickup (music technology) (talk) | Unencyclopaedic |
| 44 |
|
Amphetamine type stimulant (talk) | Merge |
| 30 |
|
Anna University School of Architecture and Planning (talk) | Merge |
| 7 |
|
Expressway S2 Tunnel (talk) | Merge |
| 163 |
|
Tasnia Farin (talk) | Wikify |
| 3 |
|
History and culture of Kaviyoor (talk) | Wikify |
| 3 |
|
Prahlad Pandey (talk) | Wikify |
| 3 |
|
Conference of Four Religions (talk) | Orphan |
| 2 |
|
Akoh (talk) | Orphan |
| 15 |
|
Adjusted Plus Minus (talk) | Orphan |
| 79 |
|
Adimurai (talk) | Stub |
| 14 |
|
United States of Matsya (talk) | Stub |
| 10 |
|
Landlord's gas safety certificate (talk) | Stub |
| 4 |
|
Madhyampur railway station (talk) | Stub |
| 15 |
|
Čair Sports Center (talk) | Stub |
| 12 |
|
Oyshee (talk) | Stub |
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:24, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2025)
[edit] Hello, Benison. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Rake (tool) • Kerosene Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 March 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
|---|
Tech News: 2025-12
[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.
Weekly highlight
- Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.
Updates for editors
- The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
- On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
- The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
- Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [1]
- The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
- The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [2]
View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
- Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 17 March 2025 (UTC)
The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 2
[edit]
|
The Downlink | The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 1 — 28 February |
| Volume 3 — Issue 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the News
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Article of the month
Lua error: too many expensive function calls. |
Image of the month
STS-98 following liftoff
 Launched on 7 February 2001, STS-98 delivered to the Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station. Flown by Atlantis, it was the first human spaceflight mission of the 21st century. The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base on 20 February after being docked with the ISS for almost seven days. The crew consisted of Kenneth Cockrell, commander, Mark L. Polansky, pilot, Robert Curbeam, mission specialist 1, Marsha Ivins, mission specialist 2 and flight engineer, and Thomas David Jones, mission specialist 3. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Members
New Members: No new members. Number of active members: 200.
Total number of members: 426.
February Launches
|
Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 28 February 2025.
Monthly Changes
Since January 2025, one new high-importance, sixteen new low-importance, nineteen new NA-importance, and twelve new unknown-importance articles have been created, for a total of 58 new articles. One article has been demoted from Good Article status. There are also one more A-class article, one more B-class article, nine fewer C-class articles, thirteen more Start-class articles, three more Stub-class articles, and one more list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Discuss & propose changes to The Downlink at The Downlink talk page. To unsubscribe from the newsletter remove your name from the Mailing list. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.jpeg){kind=link}
#File:Magsafe3_closeup.jpg){kind=link}
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:59, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 67
[edit]
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025
- East View Press and The Africa Report join the library
- Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon
- Tech tip: Suggest page
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --18:48, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
March thanks
[edit] | |
| story · music · places |
|---|
Thank you for improving article quality in March! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:13, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
Today: an opera, 100 years old OTD, on Bach's birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:05, 21 March 2025 (UTC)