User talk:Indikawiki

The "Preview" button

I noticed your excellent work on Pointer (computing) required a great number of edits.

Are you aware that you can see a preview of the work you are doing to check everything looks good and check spellings and punctuation etc. before submitting the work as a finished draft?

Just to the right of the "Save page" button you'll see the "Show preview" button. By using this to check our work before saving the page we can save Wikimedia and all users of Wikipedia a lot of trouble keeping track of the page history. Also it is good practice to always leave a short comment about what work we carried out in the "Edit summary" just above the "Save page" and "Show preview" buttons.

You can also create your own private sandbox as an extension to your own user page to use as a testing site for work that might require a lot of little changes over a period of hours or days.

Happy editing! fredgandt 10:54, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

The point taken and thanks for pointing it out. I was not aware of the page history. Yes, it will be a waste of resources to have a lot of history for minor page edits. Indikawiki 19:07, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka

Dear Indikawiki, Thank you for your contributions to the Wikimedia Projects. As a Sri Lankan editor, you are warmly invited to join the official Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka and to subscribe to its mailing list, Wikimedia-LK. The user group currently includes volunteers from Wikipedia and other projects, from the English, Sinhala, and Tamil speaking communities. It is the Wikimedia-approved platform for editors from Sri Lanka to enable wider collaboration, for both online and offline projects. With your support, we hope to organize cross-project content improvement drives as part of online projects, as well as organize in-person edit-a-thons, training sessions, photowalks, and other such activities, in the near future. The ultimate goal(s) of these initiatives is to improve the overall coverage and quality of topics relating to Sri Lanka, as well as encourage new editors to join the Wikimedia community, while simultaneously empowering and retaining our existing team of editors. There are no mandatory obligations for members who choose join the community, other than the usual editing rules for online projects, and the friendly space policy for in-person projects. You may also (or instead) subscribe to the mailing list, where any member could initiate discussions with volunteers across projects, notify members of events and meetings, stay up to date with competitions, organize your own events, and so on. See you on board, and Happy Editing!

Rehman 02:25, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!