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I know this is late but I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your participation at my RfA. I was very inspired by the many that supported me and it’s that feeling of friendship and camaraderie that keeps me coming back to the project. So, thank you for your support, I look forward to the opportunity to work together in the days to come. Cheers!, — Keithbob • Talk • 16:41, 9 March 2014 (UTC) |
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WPP report
Hey Buffbills, any chance you could add a lead to this week's WikiProject report? :-) Thanks, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:50, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
- Done. buffbills7701 20:06, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks very much! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 02:25, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
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VisualEditor newsletter—March 2014
The template dialog has been simplified to make it faster and easier to add parameter data. Read the user guide for more information.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on changes to the template and image dialogs.
The biggest change in the last few weeks was the redesign of the template dialog. The template dialog now opens in a simplified mode that lists parameters and their descriptions. (The complex multi-item transclusion mode can be reached by clicking on "Show options" from inside the simplified template dialog.) Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. With today's update, searching for template parameters will become case-insensitive, and required template parameters will display an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. In addition to making it quicker and easier to see everything when you edit typical templates, this work was necessary to prepare for the forthcoming simplified citation dialog. The main priority in the coming weeks is building this new citation dialog, with the ultimate goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs, URLs, DOIs and other quick-fills. This will add a new button on the toolbar, with the citation templates available picked by each wiki's community. Concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
- The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. Pages that exist, but are not indexed by the search engine, are treated like non-existent pages (T56361).
- Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from the paragraph you are editing.
- The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has been slightly redesigned, to introduce larger buttons. Your suggestions for more significant changes to the special character inserter are still wanted.
- The page options menu (three bars, next to the Cancel button) has expanded. You can create and edit redirect pages, set page options like
__STATICREDIRECT__,__[NO]INDEX__and__[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__, and more. New keyboard shortcuts are listed there, and include undoing the last action, clearing formatting, and showing the shortcut help window. If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. - It is easier to edit images. There are more options and they are explained better. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. You can now set image sizes to the default, if another size was previously specified. Full support for upright sizing systems, which more readily adapt image sizes to the reader's screen size, is planned.
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The developers apologize for a regression bug with the deployment on 6 March 2014, which caused the incorrect removal of |upright size definitions on a handful of pages on the English Wikipedia, among others. The root cause was fixed, and the broken pages were fixed soon after.
Looking ahead: Several template dialogs will become more compact. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. You will be able to see the Table of Contents change live as you edit the page, rather than it being hidden. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") may be offered to a few Wikipedias soon.
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Are you on OTRS yourself?
I'm just curious why, ref your RFA nomination statement, you think Mdann52 should be an OTRS admin and how you know what good work they do for OTRS? Thanks Spartaz Humbug! 14:20, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
- No, I'm not on OTRS, but knowing Mdann, I'm certain the he would be a perfect OTRS admin. buffbills7701 12:58, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Marc Nadon
Before you slander me again, please read the decision (in particular paragraph 6): http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/13544/index.do The court held that he was never considered a judge of the Supreme Court. He therefore cannot be a "former" puisne justice of the Supreme Court. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.158.124 (talk) 16:03, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2014)
 The knee of a patient is examined with help of radiography after an injury.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Assassination of Anwar Sadat • Rare breed (agriculture) Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:28, 25 March 2014 (UTC) • |
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Regarding Ban vs. Block
I saw your conversation regarding ban vs. block. I would like to inform you that your policy interpretation is incorrect. While a ban is definitely more severe than a block, a ban is not automatically carried to other projects (Wikipedia and/or others). You may have confused it with global bans, which is what you described. Yet the number of individuals under global bans are few and infrequent. OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:35, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2014 March newsletter
A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer 
Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist 
Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. 
Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.
With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2014)
 An April Fools' Day hoax marking the construction of the Copenhagen Metro in 2001.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Injury • Assassination of Anwar Sadat Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 03:45, 1 April 2014 (UTC) • |
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