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📰 WikiProject Louisville News
🗞️ September 11, 2026
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August. Mitch McConnell was #2, and Jennifer Lawrence was #3.
🗞️ September 11, 2026
BELATED: Mitch McConnell is our most popular article for July. Elaine Chao was #2, and Tom Cruise was #3. Note that the "Popular pages" report has stopped running, so now Massviews is being used to tally the monthly result.
🗞️ July 18, 2026
There's now over 7,500 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ July 13, 2026
🗞️ June 13, 2026
Thomas Massie is our most popular article for May. Massie serves as U.S. representative from Kentucky's 4th congressional district, which includes portions of the Louisville metropolitan area. Tom Cruise was #2, and Abraham Lincoln was #3. Lincoln's article, plus some related articles, were recently added to our project so as to better cover topics from around the Louisville combined statistical area. Lincoln was born in the southern reaches of this area (LaRue County).
🗞️ May 13, 2026
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for April. Muhammad Ali was #2, and Jennifer Lawrence was #3.
🗞️ April 12, 2026
Rick Pitino is our most popular article for March. The former head basketball coach at the University of Louisville for 16 years, Pitino today holds this position for St. John's University. Tom Cruise was #2, and Jennifer Lawrence was #3.
🗞️ March 12, 2026
Rondale Moore is our most popular article for February. Hailing from New Albany, Moore was a wide receiver in the National Football League, after playing for the Purdue Boilermakers, where he was named a consensus All-American as a freshman. Area congressman Thomas Massie was #2, and Tom Cruise was #3.
🗞️ February 12, 2026
Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for January. Tom Cruise was #2, and Muhammad Ali was #3.
🗞️ January 13, 2026
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, the 18th time in the past 25 months. Jennifer Lawrence was #2, and Muhammad Ali was #3.
🗞️ January 12, 2026
There's now over 24,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ December 22, 2025
UPS Airlines Flight 2976 is, as predicted, our most popular article for November, with over 1.3 million views! Jennifer Lawrence was #2 with over 600K views, and Tom Cruise was #3 with nearly 500K views.
🗞️ November 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for October, the 17th time in the past 23 months. Also interesting is we likely already know November's most popular article. UPS Airlines Flight 2976 has already received twice as many views so far in November than the article for Cruise received in all of October. This has been a very intense and horrifying period in Louisville's history, and the deadliest local aviation accident since 1953, leaving 15 people dead and many injured.
🗞️ October 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for September, the 16th time in the past 22 months.
🗞️ September 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the 15th time in the past 21 months. Interestingly, Lee Corso is a close second. Corso, head coach for Louisville Cardinals football from 1969 to 1972, recently retired from his longtime TV gig as an analyst on ESPN's College GameDay.
🗞️ August 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for July, the 14th time in the past 20 months.
🗞️ July 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the 13th time in the past 19 months.
🗞️ June 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for May, the twelfth time in the past eighteen months.
🗞️ June 6, 2025
There's now over 23,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ March 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the eleventh time in the past fifteen months.
🗞️ January 9, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, the tenth time in the past thirteen months.
🗞️ November 9, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for October, the ninth time in the past eleven months.
🗞️ October 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for September, the eighth time in the past ten months.
🗞️ September 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the seventh time in the past nine months.
🗞️ 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 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the sixth time in the past seven months.
🗞️ 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.
🗞️ 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.
Archive of news items over 5 years old
🗞️ June 7, 2006
WikiProject Louisville begins.
WP:Louisville
[edit]Joe Morgan is from Massachusetts. He played 132 total games for the Louisville Colonels, presumably his only connection to that city. More to the point, the article makes no mention of it, only including him in the minor league player category. And that, you say, is enough that he is relevant to the WikiProject? With that logic, wouldn't we have to include the WP for every other state covering a team he played for? WP:Boston isn't even tagged. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:50, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
- Yes. That is quite a bit of games over two seasons. Cities who have mostly had minor-league teams take pride in their players. I try to exclude players who practically fly through the city, but this doesn't appear to be that. Also, it's best to ask WikiProject questions at the WikiProject talk. the Stefen 𝕋ower 17:58, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
- In addition, that WP Boston isn't tagged isn't really my concern because I'm not a participant in that project. If they want to tag it, they can. the Stefen 𝕋ower 18:00, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
- What proof is there that the city of Louisville holds Joe Morgan in that kind of regard? I could probably find minor league players who played only a handful of games for Louisville MiLB teams. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:51, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
- I don't find the question of use, as one can name all sorts of notable people connected to Louisville that most Louisvillians would not know (and I'm sure this applies to all cities). Also, we as Wikipedians are here to inform, and including this person in WP Louisville informs people of a significant connection to the city. the Stefen 𝕋ower 02:54, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
- What proof is there that the city of Louisville holds Joe Morgan in that kind of regard? I could probably find minor league players who played only a handful of games for Louisville MiLB teams. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:51, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #264: Your code can now call back to the Wikidata fetch functions
[edit]There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we introduce the possibility of calling Wikidata fetch functions, we present a new Type, we celebrate more than 200 new functions this week, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:13, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2026)
[edit] Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is:
Vancouver International Airport Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: One-form (differential geometry) • Archipelago Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 September 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Hello! I saw the great work you did for the Kentucky, Louisville, and Indiana WikiProjects in setting up their archive.today tracking pages. I was hoping you could help me do the same for WikiProject Rugby league? I attempted to set it up myself, but it's just not working for me.
Assuming there's no problem with it, the page I'm using is Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/Archive.today.
Thank you :) JordyGrey talk🧸 07:39, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
- I think SD0001 may have fixed it? But I'm 100% sure it's missing entries, unless it only looks for external links? Straight away, Melbourne Storm has archive.today links... JordyGrey talk🧸 07:48, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
- Hi JordyGrey, I have an alternative report for these now, as English Wikipedia has a bot going around to hide/deactivate the hard Archive.today links. Check this out: Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/CiteMaint – entries for articles with Archive.today links will show "CS1 maint: deprecated archival service" in the "CS1 Maint Category" column (which by the way is sortable for convenience). I hope this will work for you. the Stefen 𝕋ower 08:21, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
- Awesome!! Thank you so much!! That looks perfect 🤩 JordyGrey talk🧸 08:45, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
- Hi JordyGrey, I have an alternative report for these now, as English Wikipedia has a bot going around to hide/deactivate the hard Archive.today links. Check this out: Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/CiteMaint – entries for articles with Archive.today links will show "CS1 maint: deprecated archival service" in the "CS1 Maint Category" column (which by the way is sortable for convenience). I hope this will work for you. the Stefen 𝕋ower 08:21, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
The next Natural Language Generation Special Interest Group meeting is tomorrow!
[edit]Hi all! A quick message to inform you that Denny will lead a quick first introduction to syntactic phrase functions in the next Natural Language Generation Special Interest Group meeting, that will be held tomorrow, September 15, at 16:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
See you at the meeting! In case you can't join, the meeting will be recorded and made available on Commons. -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:27, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-38
[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
- The Future Audiences team has started a discussion on English Wikipedia about a proposed new experiment to show a temporary notice about the new Google Preferred Sources feature to Wikipedia readers coming from Google. The experiment is to test whether this notice makes visitors come back to Wikipedia more often. Preferred Sources feature lets users choose websites they trust so Google can highlight content from those sources more prominently in Search and AI experiences. We are interested in testing this on other languages that Google supports and would welcome assistance with starting conversations on other wikis. If interested, please reach out to Future Audiences on the talk page.
Updates for editors
- The chat platform Discord is releasing a new self-service framework that websites can use to specify how their links should look when shared on Discord. The Future Audiences team is planning to start using this new framework to improve how Wikipedia links look when shared on Discord, giving better attribution and credit to contributors. The link appearance and behavior won't change in the first phase of this project as we want to first collect some baseline data to assess the impact of future changes. However, if community members who are active on Discord spot any issues, they can reach out on Phabricator or Metawiki.
- The Reader Growth team will be running an experiment to test whether compacting article lead sections on mobiles with the addition of a "read more" button improves reader retention. The test will begin on September 17 on Arabic, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and will run for four weeks.
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming week.
View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Wikistats for Wikipedias was returning an HTTP 500 error and could not be reached, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikimedia Commons links tables need to update their code to connect to the new x4 database cluster. The links tables have been moved from the s4 cluster to x4, and will no longer receive updates on s4. The page and redirect tables remain available on both clusters. A wiki replica for the x4 cluster will be set up afterwards. The change is being made because the s4 cluster has grown too large to operate efficiently. You can read more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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