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A proposal has been made to create a Live Feed to enhance the processing of Articles for Creation and Drafts. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC to create a 'Special:NewDraftsFeed' system. Your comments are welcome. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 06:17, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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Melding over vertaling: Data retention guidelines

Hallo Martijn Hoekstra,

U ontvangt deze melding omdat u zich heeft opgegeven als vertaler voor het Nederlands op Meta. De pagina Data retention guidelines is beschikbaar voor vertaling. Vertaal deze alstublieft hier:

De prioriteit voor deze pagina is hoog.


The discussion phase about the draft for the Wikimedia Foundation's new data retention guidelines is ending on February 14. Your help is welcome in translating the current version of the draft, which is expected to be close to the final version. This will also enable more community members to contribute comments before the discussion phase ends.

Please click "Translate" on both of these pages:

Introduction explaining the discussion phase / Main text of the guidelines

Uw hulp wordt enorm op prijs gesteld. Met vertalers zoals u is Meta een echte meertalige gemeenschap.

Bedankt!

Vertalingenbeheerders van Meta‎, 05:18, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tony Ramey has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:04, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Charlie Zelenoff has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:06, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Martijn's helper script test page, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:05, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Martijn's helper script test page has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:05, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/James Benjamin Owens has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:06, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

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G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Berendo Street and Avenue has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:05, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Further to User talk:Martijn Hoekstra/Archives/2014/January#José Rafael Cordero Sanchez I have tagged José Rafael Cordero with G5. Do you wish to salt and block? Best, Sam Sailor Sing 00:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor Newsletter—February 2014

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some small changes to the user interface, such as moving the reference item to the top of the Insert menu, as well as some minor features and fixing bugs, especially for rich copying and pasting of references.

The biggest change was the addition of more features to the image dialog, including the ability to set alignment (left, right, center), framing options (thumbnail, frame, frameless, and none), adding alt text, and defining the size manually. There is still some work to be done here, including a quick way to set the default size.

  • The main priority is redesigning the reference dialog, with the goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs and URLs and streamlining the process. Current concept drawings are available at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
  • A few bugs in the existing reference dialog were fixed. The toolbar was simplified to remove galleries and lists from the reference dialog. When you re-use references, it now correctly displays the references again, rather than just the number and name. If you paste content into a dialog that can't fit there (e.g. ==section headings== in references), it now strips out the inappropriate HTML.
  • You can now edit image galleries inside VisualEditor. At this time, the gallery tool is a very limited option that gives you access to the wikitext. It will see significant improvements at a later date.
  • The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu is being redesigned. Your feedback on the special character inserter is still wanted, especially if you depend on Wikipedia's character inserters for your normal editing rather than using the ones built into your computer.
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu (three bars next to the Cancel button) ( T54844).
  • If you edit categories, your changes will now display correctly after saving the page ( T50560).
  • Saving the page should be faster now ( T61660).
  • Any community can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData by leaving a note at T53734.

Looking ahead: The link tool will tell you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. The warning about wikitext will hide itself after you remove the wikitext markup in that paragraph. Support for creating and editing redirects is in the pipeline. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including default and upright sizes. The developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments, some behavioral magic words like DISPLAYTITLE, and in-line language setting (dir="rtl").

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — Legobot ( talk) 00:07, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/David Malachowski has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:03, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

Melding over vertaling: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Board Service

Hallo Martijn Hoekstra,

U ontvangt deze melding omdat u zich heeft opgegeven als vertaler voor het Nederlands op Meta. De pagina Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Board Service is beschikbaar voor vertaling. Vertaal deze alstublieft hier:

De prioriteit voor deze pagina is gemiddeld.


This is the second in a series of blogs posts by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, explaining the work of the Board Governance Committee. It is planned to be published at https://blog.wikimedia.org/ on Friday, February 28.

Translations are also still welcome for the first post in the series, titled "Introduction to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees", where Vice Chair Phoebe Ayers explains the Board, its mandate, and its work within the community. It will hopefully remain a useful reference for a long time to come. It can be translated at [1].

Uw hulp wordt enorm op prijs gesteld. Met vertalers zoals u is Meta een echte meertalige gemeenschap.

Bedankt!

Vertalingenbeheerders van Meta‎, 19:39, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 26 February 2014

Beer Ireland page deletion

I'm confused, a bit. Hopefully you can clear up my confusion. I clicked on a link in an article Beer in Ireland which should have taken me to a page about Beer Ireland, an association of Craft Beer Brewers in Ireland. The page was deleted with a reference to it having been a G12 unambiguous copyright infringement. There seems to be no talk on it, and your contributions log doesn't show the deletion anywhere. There seems to have been no discussion of the deletion. Can you explain to me, what I seem to be missing here? -- Celtic hackr ( talk) 22:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jessie Wiseman has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

FYI

A proposal has been made to create a Live Feed to enhance the processing of Articles for Creation and Drafts. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC to create a 'Special:NewDraftsFeed' system. Your comments are welcome. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 06:17, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Marriage

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Thanks

Cookies!

Jeffrd10 has given you some cookies! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the "WikiLove" by giving someone else some cookies, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

Thanks for the guidance and the work that you did to get me unblocked the fools who Hijacked my account are now facing retribution for their action

To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{ subst:Cookies}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{ subst:munch}}!

-- Jeffrd10 ( talk) 17:50, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/55 PMA Long Course has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:04, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Non-admin closure. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — Legobot ( talk) 00:06, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Milyoni has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:06, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Melding over vertaling: Data retention guidelines

Hallo Martijn Hoekstra,

U ontvangt deze melding omdat u zich heeft opgegeven als vertaler voor het Nederlands op Meta. De pagina Data retention guidelines is beschikbaar voor vertaling. Vertaal deze alstublieft hier:

De prioriteit voor deze pagina is hoog.


The discussion phase about the draft for the Wikimedia Foundation's new data retention guidelines is ending on February 14. Your help is welcome in translating the current version of the draft, which is expected to be close to the final version. This will also enable more community members to contribute comments before the discussion phase ends.

Please click "Translate" on both of these pages:

Introduction explaining the discussion phase / Main text of the guidelines

Uw hulp wordt enorm op prijs gesteld. Met vertalers zoals u is Meta een echte meertalige gemeenschap.

Bedankt!

Vertalingenbeheerders van Meta‎, 05:18, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tony Ramey has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:04, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Charlie Zelenoff has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:06, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Martijn's helper script test page, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:05, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Martijn's helper script test page has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:05, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/James Benjamin Owens has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:06, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Trademarks. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — Legobot ( talk) 00:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Berendo Street and Avenue has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:05, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Further to User talk:Martijn Hoekstra/Archives/2014/January#José Rafael Cordero Sanchez I have tagged José Rafael Cordero with G5. Do you wish to salt and block? Best, Sam Sailor Sing 00:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor Newsletter—February 2014

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some small changes to the user interface, such as moving the reference item to the top of the Insert menu, as well as some minor features and fixing bugs, especially for rich copying and pasting of references.

The biggest change was the addition of more features to the image dialog, including the ability to set alignment (left, right, center), framing options (thumbnail, frame, frameless, and none), adding alt text, and defining the size manually. There is still some work to be done here, including a quick way to set the default size.

  • The main priority is redesigning the reference dialog, with the goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs and URLs and streamlining the process. Current concept drawings are available at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
  • A few bugs in the existing reference dialog were fixed. The toolbar was simplified to remove galleries and lists from the reference dialog. When you re-use references, it now correctly displays the references again, rather than just the number and name. If you paste content into a dialog that can't fit there (e.g. ==section headings== in references), it now strips out the inappropriate HTML.
  • You can now edit image galleries inside VisualEditor. At this time, the gallery tool is a very limited option that gives you access to the wikitext. It will see significant improvements at a later date.
  • The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu is being redesigned. Your feedback on the special character inserter is still wanted, especially if you depend on Wikipedia's character inserters for your normal editing rather than using the ones built into your computer.
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu (three bars next to the Cancel button) ( T54844).
  • If you edit categories, your changes will now display correctly after saving the page ( T50560).
  • Saving the page should be faster now ( T61660).
  • Any community can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData by leaving a note at T53734.

Looking ahead: The link tool will tell you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. The warning about wikitext will hide itself after you remove the wikitext markup in that paragraph. Support for creating and editing redirects is in the pipeline. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including default and upright sizes. The developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments, some behavioral magic words like DISPLAYTITLE, and in-line language setting (dir="rtl").

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — Legobot ( talk) 00:07, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/David Malachowski has become eligible for G13. HasteurBot ( talk) 02:03, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

Melding over vertaling: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Board Service

Hallo Martijn Hoekstra,

U ontvangt deze melding omdat u zich heeft opgegeven als vertaler voor het Nederlands op Meta. De pagina Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Board Service is beschikbaar voor vertaling. Vertaal deze alstublieft hier:

De prioriteit voor deze pagina is gemiddeld.


This is the second in a series of blogs posts by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, explaining the work of the Board Governance Committee. It is planned to be published at https://blog.wikimedia.org/ on Friday, February 28.

Translations are also still welcome for the first post in the series, titled "Introduction to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees", where Vice Chair Phoebe Ayers explains the Board, its mandate, and its work within the community. It will hopefully remain a useful reference for a long time to come. It can be translated at [1].

Uw hulp wordt enorm op prijs gesteld. Met vertalers zoals u is Meta een echte meertalige gemeenschap.

Bedankt!

Vertalingenbeheerders van Meta‎, 19:39, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — Legobot ( talk) 00:02, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 February 2014

Beer Ireland page deletion

I'm confused, a bit. Hopefully you can clear up my confusion. I clicked on a link in an article Beer in Ireland which should have taken me to a page about Beer Ireland, an association of Craft Beer Brewers in Ireland. The page was deleted with a reference to it having been a G12 unambiguous copyright infringement. There seems to be no talk on it, and your contributions log doesn't show the deletion anywhere. There seems to have been no discussion of the deletion. Can you explain to me, what I seem to be missing here? -- Celtic hackr ( talk) 22:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


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