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Request for Admin

Hello everybro, as ebe me wey I start de Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, I dey seek de support of fellow editors so say I go be de Administrator give dis project. To promote Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, I for be de admin so say I go fi perform oda tasks wey dey hia such as make we komot invalid articles, support fresh editors, komot vandalism den develop existing editors. Thanks waa

• Hello everyone, as I started the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, I am seeking the support of fellow editors so that I can be the Administrator of this project. To promote Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, I have to be an admin so that I can perform important tasks such as removing of invalid articles, support new editors, remove vandalism and also developing existing editors. Thanks very much

You go fi support me for here

Thanks everybro - DaSupremo (talk) 17:47, 6 July 2023 (GMT)

Ibn Dagara (talk) 22:15, 17 October 2023 (GMT)

I strongly support Xibitgh (talk)

Support

1. NanaYawBotar (talk) 18:00, 6 July 2023 (GMT)
2. Jwale2 (talk) 18:54, 6 July 2023 (GMT)
3. Gyanford (talk) 19:27, 6 July 2023 (GMT)
4. Cornelius Agordome (talk) 11:05, 10 July 2023 (GMT)
5. Amuzujoe (talk) 21:39, 10 July 2023 (GMT)
6. Yaw tuba (talk) 18:27, 19 July 2023 (GMT)
7. Azorbli (talk)
8. MartinezYA (talk) 05:51, 18 October 2023 (GMT)
9. Xibitgh (talk)

Support

support 197.210.76.72 13:56, 14 August 2023 (GMT)

Support

support Umargana1 (talk) 13:58, 14 August 2023 (GMT)

Update links from Incubator to local

Some links on the FA blurb are still external to the incubator project. (Also, if we could get some more templates and modules imported from enwiki, like en:Template:Documentation, that would be great. Maybe we can raise it on Meta so someone with more experience can import/recreate them with dependencies?). MSG17 (talk) 19:32, 23 August 2023 (GMT)

Also, the page is using a Portuguese map, instead of the English file: File:Ghana Regions map.png MSG17 (talk) 19:35, 23 August 2023 (GMT)

Thanks for the observation DaSupremo (talk) 14:43, 2 September 2023 (GMT)

Request to continue Adminship

Hello everybro, I dey seek de support of fellow editors so say I go continue be de Administrator give dis project. To promote Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, I for continue de adminship so say I go fi perform oda tasks wey dey hia such as make we komot invalid articles, support fresh editors, komot vandalism den develop existing editors. Thanks waa

• Hello everyone, I am seeking the support of fellow editors so that I can continue being the Administrator of this project. To promote Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, I have to continue being an admin so that I can perform important tasks such as removing of invalid articles, supporting new editors, remove vandalism and also developing existing editors. Thanks very much

You go fi support me for here Thanks everybro - DaSupremo (talk) 16:41, 13 October 2023 (GMT)

Support

1. Ibn Dagara (talk) 22:15, 17 October 2023 (GMT)
2. Azorbli (talk)
3. MartinezYA (talk) 05:51, 18 October 2023 (GMT)
4. Xibitgh (talk)
5. Jwale2 (talk) 14:01, 19 October 2023 (GMT)
6. Yaw tuba (talk) 06:23, 22 October 2023 (GMT)

Ghana Month Edit-a-thon

Dear Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia Community,

We are excited to announce a month-long initiative aimed at enhancing gender representation on the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia. This project, organized by the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikimedians Community, seeks to address the underrepresentation of notable female personalities on our platform.

Project Objectives:

1. To increase the visibility and representation of Ghanaian women on the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia.

2. To create a more inclusive and diverse portrayal of Ghanaian history and culture.

3. To engage the community in actively contributing to articles related to notable female personalities.

Planned Activities:

1. Editing Workshops: Hands-on workshops to teach participants how to contribute and edit articles on the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia. Guidance on creating and improving articles related to notable female personalities in Ghana.

2. Panel Discussions: Featuring gender activists, notable female personalities, and Wikimedians. Discussing the importance of gender representation and its impact on knowledge diversity.

3. Content Creation Competition: A friendly competition encouraging participants to create or improve Wikipedia articles. Incentives such as awards, certificates, or recognition for outstanding contributions.

4. Outreach Events: Awareness campaigns at media stations with urban reach using Ghanaian Pidgin. Emphasizing that Ghanaian Pidgin is a written language, encouraging public participation.

5. Closing Ceremony: An in-person event at the end of the month to celebrate achievements. Showcasing edited articles, sharing success stories, and expressing gratitude to participants.

Significance of the Project: Gender representation is a crucial aspect of creating a comprehensive and diverse narrative. By actively participating in this initiative, you contribute to breaking gender stereotypes and fostering a more inclusive portrayal of Ghanaian history and achievements. Your involvement is instrumental in making a positive impact on the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia community.

How You Can Participate:

Join our WhatsApp group for regular updates and discussions. Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) for real-time updates and engagement (@Ghpidginwiki) . Register for upcoming events using Wikimedia Event Registration tools.

Let's come together as a community to make a meaningful change. Your participation matters!

Thank you for your support and commitment.

Best regards,

DaSupremo (talk) 16:54, 14 January 2024 (GMT)

Enabling Section Translation: a new mobile translation experience

Hello Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedians!

Apologies as this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language.

The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know about our plans to enable the Section translation tool in Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia. For this, our team would want you to read about the tool and test it so you can:

• Give us your feedback

• Ask us questions

• Tell us how to improve it.

Below is background information about Section translation, why we have chosen your community, and how to test it.

Background information

Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. More than one million articles have been created across all languages since the tool was released in 2015. The Wikimedia Foundation Language team has improved the translation experience further with the Section Translation. The WMF Language team enabled the early version of the tool in February 2021 in Bengali Wikipedia. Through their feedback, the tool was improved and ready for your community to test and provide feedback to make it better.

Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:

• Guide you to translate one section at a time in order to expand existing articles or create new ones.

• Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device.

Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia seems an ideal candidate to enjoy this new tool since it has a Content Translation tool enabled by default.

We plan to enable the tool by 15th of February 2024, if there are no objections from your community. After it is enabled, we’ll monitor the content created with the tool and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to raise any concerns or questions you may already have in any of the following formats:

• As a reply to this message

• On the project talk page.

Try the tool

Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in our testing instance. Once it is enabled on Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, you’ll have access to https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation with your mobile device. You can select an article to translate, and machine translation will be provided as a starting point for editors to improve.

Provide feedback

Please provide feedback about Section translation in any of the formats you are most comfortable with. We want to hear about your impressions on:

• The tool

• What you think about our plans to enable it

• Your ideas for improving the tool.

Thanks, and we look forward to your feedback.

UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 05:26, 31 January 2024 (GMT) On behalf of the WMF Language team.

Thanks for this message and we are grateful the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia has been selected to try this new feature. DaSupremo (talk) 12:09, 1 February 2024 (GMT)

Flower of the month

Chrysothemis pulchella

Dear all.

For your huge efforts on Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia I want to award you with the Flower of the month.

Best regards, --Holder (talk) 06:00, 8 March 2024 (GMT)

We appreciate you @Holder DaSupremo (talk) 14:55, 8 March 2024 (GMT)

Request to continue Adminship

Hello everybro, I dey seek de support of fellow editors so say I go continue be de Administrator give dis project. To promote Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, I for continue de adminship so say I go fi perform oda tasks wey dey hia such as make we komot invalid articles, support fresh editors, komot vandalism den develop existing editors. Thanks waa

• Hello everyone, I am seeking the support of fellow editors so that I can continue being the Administrator of this project. To promote Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia, I have to continue being an admin so that I can perform important tasks such as removing of invalid articles, supporting new editors, remove vandalism and also developing existing editors. Thanks very much

You go fi support me for here Thanks everybro - DaSupremo (talk) 11:05, 11 October 2024 (GMT)

Carry on plus the good job, adey throw my support give you. 154.161.146.186 01:43, 12 October 2024 (GMT)

Support

• Heatrave (talk) 11:26, 11 October 2024 (GMT)
• Bro dey for long on Wikipedia top n so he get more knowledge on it top, I dey support am strongly Ruky Wunpini (talk) 11:48, 11 October 2024 (GMT)
• yh we dey give you total support. Jwale2 (talk) 13:15, 11 October 2024 (GMT)
• I Dey support DaSupremo. Eve hard working and he Dey do the job well. 154.160.6.233 14:46, 11 October 2024 (GMT)
• Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 00:55, 13 October 2024 (GMT)
• I dey support Supremo for dis role Gyanford
• Adey support DaSupremo for dis role sake of he be the co-founder wey he sana be experienced editor Yaw tuba

Proposal to enable the "Contribute" entry point in Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia

Hello Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedians,

Apologies as this message is not in your language. Please help translate to your language.

The WMF Language and Product Localization team proposes enabling an entry point called "Contribute" to your Wikipedia.

The Contribute entry point is based on collaborative work with other product teams in the Wikimedia Foundation on Edit discovery, which validated the entry point as a persistent and constant path that contributors took to discover ways to contribute content in Wikipedia.

Therefore, enabling this entry point in your Wikipedia will help contributors quickly discover available tools and immediately click to start using them. This entry point is designed to be a central point for discovering contribution tools in Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia.

Who can access it

Once it is enabled in your Wikipedia, newcomers can access the entry point automatically by just logging into their account, click on the User drop-down menu and choose the "Contribute" icon, which takes you to another menu where you will find a self-guided description of what you can do to contribute content, as shown in the image below. An option to "view contributions" is also available to access the list of your contributions.

For experienced contributors, the Contribute icon is not automatically shown in their User drop-down menu. They will still see the "Contributions" option unless they change it to the "Contribute" manually.

This feature is available in four Wikipedia (Albanian, Malayalam, Mongolian, and Tagalog). We have gotten valuable feedback that helped us improve its discoverability. Now, it is ready to be enabled in other Wikis. One major improvement was to make the entry point optional for experienced contributors who still want to have the "Contributions" entry point as default.          

We plan to enable it on mobile for Wikis, where the Section translation tool is enabled. In this way, we will provide a main entry point to the mobile translation dashboard, and the exposure can still be limited by targeting only the mobile platform for now. If there are no objections to having the entry point for mobile users from your community, we will enable it by 9th November 2024.

We welcome your feedback and questions in this thread on our proposal to enable it here. Suppose there are no objections, we will deploy the "Contribute" entry point in your Wikipedia.

We look forward to your response soon.

Thank you!

On behalf of the WMF Language and Product Localization team. UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 03:28, 23 October 2024 (GMT)

Hello UOzurumba (WMF), thanks for reaching out and thanks for considering the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia for this feature. I will share this info on our WhatsApp page for others' valuable contribution. DaSupremo (talk) 11:41, 23 October 2024 (GMT)

Hello DaSupremo,

Thank you for responding to this message. We will go ahead and enable the feature since there are no objections to having it in your Wiki. UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 22:59, 6 November 2024 (GMT)

Noted with thanks DaSupremo (talk) 23:11, 6 November 2024 (GMT)

An improved dashboard for the Content Translation tool

Hello Wikipedians,

Apologies as this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language.

The Language and Product Localization team has improved the Content Translation dashboard to create a consistent experience for all contributors using mobile and desktop devices. The improved translation dashboard allows all logged-in users of the tool to enjoy a consistent experience regardless of their type of device.

With a harmonized experience, logged-in desktop users now have access to the capabilities shown in the image below.

Notice that in this screenshot, the new dashboard allows: Users to adjust suggestions with the "For you" and "...More" buttons to select general topics or community-created collections (like the example of Climate topic).  Also, users can use translation to create new articles (as before) and expand existing articles section by section. You can see how suggestions are provided in the new dashboard  in two groups ("Create new pages" and "Expand with new sections")-one for each activity.

In the current dashboard, you will notice that you can't adjust suggestions to select topics or community-created collections. Also, you can't expand on existing articles by translating new sections.

We will implement this improvement on your wiki on Monday, March 17th, 2025 and remove the current dashboard by May 2025. Please reach out with any questions concerning the dashboard in this thread.

Thank you!

On behalf of the Language and Product Localization team.

UOzurumba (WMF) 02:55, 13 March 2025 (GMT)

Our Digi Rights Edit-a-thon

Hello everyone! Our Digi Rights Edit-a-thon be project wey dey seek make e amplify youth voices den dey enhance civic engagement insyd a secure digital space by make we create den improve content on Wikipedia den Wikidata. De focus regions dey include de Sahel region, neighbouring West Africa, den de Horn of Africa.

We go contribute to bridging content gaps on topics such as de African Union Convention on Cybersecurity and Personal Data Protection, e-democracy, digital mobilisation insyd social movements, SDG16, freedom of expression, den human rights. Additionally, de initiative go highlight de roles of governments, NGOs, den grassroots organisations wey dey address censorship, surveillance, den online disinformation insyd Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, den Togo

You fi join dis campaign for dis link top: (https://w.wiki/EWvG). Thanks waa DaSupremo (talk) 08:51, 19 June 2025 (GMT)

Migration to Parsoid

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Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the Parser Unification project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your wiki. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.

If this disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation.

There is more information about our roll-out strategy available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.

To report bugs and issues, please look at our known issues documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.

Content Transform Team 00:35, 6 January 2026 (GMT)

Annual review of de Universal Code of Conduct den Enforcement Guidelines

I dey wrep to you make you know say dem now gbele de annual review period give de Universal Code of Conduct den Enforcement Guidelines. You fi make suggestions for changes thru 9 February 2026. Dis be de first step of chaw dem go take for de annual review. Read more information den find a conversation to join on de UCoC page for Meta top.

De Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) be a global group dem dedicate to providing an equitable den consistent implementation of de UCoC. Na dem plan den implement dis annual review by de U4C. For more information den de responsibilities of de U4C, you fi review de U4C Charter.

Please share dis information plus oda members insyd your community werever else wey fi be appropriate.

-- In cooperation plus de U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk)

21:01, 19 January 2026 (GMT)

Re-using references with different details – introducing Sub-referencing

Sub-referencing: Example

Hi, I’m Johannes from WMDE’s Technical Wishes team. Sorry for writing in English, please support us by translating this message!

We’ve been working on a new feature to improve re-using references with different details: Sub-referencing. We’ve deployed the feature to German-language Wikipedia four months ago. After iterating on the initial feedback we’re ready to rollout sub-referencing to additional wikis.

What to expect?

You will notice footnotes like [1.1] in Wikipedia articles, if citations are used with different details (e.g. different page numbers) using sub-references. We are implementing a long-held community wish: Many Wikipedia articles currently contain references that are almost identical but differ in details such as the page number. This leads to cluttered reference lists which make it harder for readers to quickly assess how many different sources have been used. And unlike with identical reuses, re-using references with different details previously required duplicating the reference, which led to longer wikitext and – especially in VisualEditor – also to more time expenditure.

Sub-referencing solves these issue: We are adding a new wikitext attribute details="..." – similar to the existing attribute ref name="...". VisualEditor users can use the "add details" button to insert sub-references. You can find detailed instructions on our project page. We also published a report about our learnings on the first three months of sub-referencing on German Wikipedia which you might find interesting.

Deployment

We’ll likely deploy sub-referencing to this project on February 17. Please let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to your feedback on the new feature, either on our discussion page, my user talk page, or as a reply to this post.

Best regards from the Technical Wishes team --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 15:34, 3 February 2026 (GMT)

Today we've deployed sub-referencing to gpewiki. Please let us know if you notice any issues or if you have suggestions on how to improve the feature. We’re already working on some ideas like improving the reader’s view if there are lots of sub-references in the same article. You can find more information about the feature and how to re-use references with different details using sub-references in VisualEditor and Wikitext in the announcement above or on our project page.

Some suggestions: We are using a tracking category for pages using sub-referencing to quickly identify any issues with the new feature. You can change the category name via MediaWiki:Cite-tracking-category-ref-details. You might want to create the category page (currently Category:Pages that use sub-references) using __HIDDENCAT__ to hide it from the default reader’s view (see d:Q129764848).

You could also consider creating local versions of MediaWiki:Cite-ve-dialog-subreference-help-dialog-link and MediaWiki:Cite-ve-dialog-subreference-help-dialog-link-ve to point directly at translated versions of our project page (if existing – or link to local help pages on sub-referencing if the community creates them). The default Special:MyLanguage links to our metawiki project page unfortunately won't work properly for logged-out editors and will always lead to the English version. Both links are used for VisualEditor users, the first one is displayed in a pop-up when using the "add details" button for the first time, the second link is permanent when using the VE dialogue to add details to a reference.

If you’ve enabled the gadget Reference tooltips in your user preferences instead of using the default Reference Previews, you won’t see the entire sub-reference information. We will soon provide guidance to communities on how to update the gadget.

You can use our sub-referencing talk page to provide feedback on the new feature – or just reply to this post. Thanks for piloting the feature! Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 16:23, 24 February 2026 (GMT)