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Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the June drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) "A wiki of beauty is a joy forever." Seriously. That's how long it'd take to read! ( talk) 04:23, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
![]() | On 3 June 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article July 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the National Transportation Safety Board found that a track gauge 5⁄16 of an inch (7.9 mm) too wide caused a garbage train to derail in the Bronx? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/July 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 11:02, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Caitlyn_Jenner&diff=prev&oldid=665269016 did you mean to revert to incorrect info and delete the correct provided ref.? The Wheaties web-site names "spokespersons" specifically for a reason. They used men and women. Also it was not explicitly clear that there have only been seven spokespersons. ChangalangaIP ( talk) 11:15, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Oh, that's awesome. I've known that it was possible, but was never sure just how, exactly - thanks for pointing the way! -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 01:07, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
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So you decided to split off my description of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line onto a route description chapter. Perfectly understandable, although I was debating whether I should've simply renamed the existing chapter "Extent and service," like so many other lines. More detail has to come though, and will. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 04:26, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector ( T98085).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter ( T70425).
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The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
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Hi, I like the edits you made for the section, but why did you remove all of the other information? AahdTahar ( talk) 17:47, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hey EG. You recently updated this template, but now it red links "Broad Street or Forest Hills" like it is a new page as opposed to two links and I have zero idea how to fix it. I took out the unneeded "Chambers Street", but that didn't work. Please advise! (HELP!?) And thanks! -- SkipperRipper ( talk) 13:06, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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How can we stop white people from shooting black people? 172.56.9.147 ( talk) 13:43, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Nope.
No need to be like "the C's R32s" or "the J's R160s". A train/bus equipment assigned to a shop/line doesn't literally mean anything else. It doesn't mean they "belong" there. That's why I reverted your wording. JoesphBarbaro ( talk) 23:49, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
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Seems to have ceased working for me; I can mark articles for categorization, but when I try to do it nothing happens. Any idea what might be up? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 18:36, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
By the by, I forgot to thank you for your kind words over at my RfA. They're very much appreciated; I shall do my best to live up to expectations. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 05:19, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the June drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) "A wiki of beauty is a joy forever." Seriously. That's how long it'd take to read! ( talk) 04:23, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
![]() | On 3 June 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article July 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the National Transportation Safety Board found that a track gauge 5⁄16 of an inch (7.9 mm) too wide caused a garbage train to derail in the Bronx? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/July 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 11:02, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Caitlyn_Jenner&diff=prev&oldid=665269016 did you mean to revert to incorrect info and delete the correct provided ref.? The Wheaties web-site names "spokespersons" specifically for a reason. They used men and women. Also it was not explicitly clear that there have only been seven spokespersons. ChangalangaIP ( talk) 11:15, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Oh, that's awesome. I've known that it was possible, but was never sure just how, exactly - thanks for pointing the way! -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 01:07, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
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Jc86035 (
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12:48, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
So you decided to split off my description of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line onto a route description chapter. Perfectly understandable, although I was debating whether I should've simply renamed the existing chapter "Extent and service," like so many other lines. More detail has to come though, and will. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 04:26, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.
Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.
The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector ( T98085).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter ( T70425).
Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter ( T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter ( T53049).
The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:31, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I like the edits you made for the section, but why did you remove all of the other information? AahdTahar ( talk) 17:47, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2015. Legobot ( talk) 00:03, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hey EG. You recently updated this template, but now it red links "Broad Street or Forest Hills" like it is a new page as opposed to two links and I have zero idea how to fix it. I took out the unneeded "Chambers Street", but that didn't work. Please advise! (HELP!?) And thanks! -- SkipperRipper ( talk) 13:06, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Death of Eric Garner#15 seconds. Thanks.
Pishcal —
♣
21:30, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
How can we stop white people from shooting black people? 172.56.9.147 ( talk) 13:43, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Nope.
No need to be like "the C's R32s" or "the J's R160s". A train/bus equipment assigned to a shop/line doesn't literally mean anything else. It doesn't mean they "belong" there. That's why I reverted your wording. JoesphBarbaro ( talk) 23:49, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Wednesday July 8, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
---|---|
![]() ![]() You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month will also feature on a review of past and upcoming editathons, including Black Lunch Table Editathon @ MoMA on July 13. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 05:45, 28 June 2015 (UTC) |
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
Seems to have ceased working for me; I can mark articles for categorization, but when I try to do it nothing happens. Any idea what might be up? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 18:36, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
By the by, I forgot to thank you for your kind words over at my RfA. They're very much appreciated; I shall do my best to live up to expectations. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 05:19, 28 June 2015 (UTC)