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March 2

Bulk PDF exports?

Is there any way to export every wikipedia article (like a wiki dump) as opposed to xml, which I don't like as much. MiniMikeRM (talk) 00:45, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Are you talking about export all articles available on Wikipedia or a particular one ? Anatole-berthe (talk) 23:08, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
All, I know that you can export one at a time but that would obviously take a while MiniMikeRM (talk) 01:51, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
Let's try our best to avoid the XY problem here. Instead, what I'm going to ask you to do is describe what goal you want to accomplish. "I want to take Wikipedia articles, and do Y". Maybe PDF will turn out to not be a good idea for going about what you want to accomplish. --Slowking Man (talk) 05:41, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Help: Enhance the Wikipedia Page for Marinduque State Univeristy

Hi there,

I am seeking for your assistance to improve Marinduque State University page due to it has already became a university from its college name. But as per review, only few information were added. Hoping for your assistance and contribution from the expert editor and reviewer out there. Thank you. Filipinotayo (talk) 05:47, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

@Filipinotayo I'm immediately noticing two issues. Firstly, the article is inconsistent with calling it a university or college. Secondly, the entire "Campus" section is unsourced. Those are the most glaring issues. Ultraodan (talk) 05:59, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Why the arrow mark disappear if I click on the image?

Image here has arrow mark but has red arrow on it.

When I double click on it, arrow mark is gone. Why is that ? HarryOrange (talk) 13:41, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

@HarryOrange: The arrow is added on to the Wikipedia article, after the main image has been resized and displayed, using the {{superimpose}} template.
Clicking the main image shows it inits original form on WikiCommons. Bazza 7 (talk) 13:49, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Archiving a citation

I need to archive just one more citation in my article, but the source website (newspapers.com) has blocked me from completing the archive via the Wayback Machine. Numerous attempts to rectify the apparently simple problem with the source site have failed. I otherwise have full access to newspapers.com, so there's no serious issue involved. Could someone please archive https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pennsylvania-herald-and-york-genera/158594062/ on the Wayback Machine and then post here the resulting archive URL so that I can add it to the article? I really appreciate your help! Tfhentz (talk) 16:02, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Maintenance tag required on an article, not sure how to go about this.

I'm looking at the Xbox (console) page's modding section and some of the methods mentioned and used are very out to date compared to what is used today.

I would like to put a "needs maintenance" or an "needs updating" banner on this section.

Anyone know how? It's been a while since I've done this.

Thanks,

Urbanracer34 (talk) 16:28, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

@Urbanracer34: see {{Update}} and {{Update section}}. It is helpful if you can explain the problem on the talk page and put a link to it to the template. TSventon (talk) 16:43, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Subpage assistance

I've proposed the idea on Wikipedia talk:Vital articles#Create a timeline on a subpage that we add a subpage of a meline of level 3 vital people to Wikipedia:Vital articles, and the idea has reached acceptance. Now I'm wondering what the best way to add it as a subpage under it is, and if I should do anything in addition.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Wikieditor662 (talk) 18:03, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

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