User talk:Mdann52

That wasn't me that made that edit, my friends were playing around with my phone and they probably edited it sorry though

Tech News: 2015-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [1]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [2]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [3]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [4] [5]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [6]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [7]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:24, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Markup Language

Hi User:Mdann52, I've been doing minor edits on articles for about 2 months, but despite numerous attempts, I can't seem to make the Wiki markup work. In particular tables seem to evade me. I understand the basic |Title= but it merely puts it into text. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide a few tips for me Kind Regards, TheHecster (talk) 16:03, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

@TheHecster: Hey, thanks for dropping me a line! In terms of tables, I can kinda do them, but I can't explain it very well, however Help:Tables explains it much better. Also, it may be worth looking into using Visual Editor, as it can now handle many features of tables quite well. Let me know if you want me to look at anything in particular! Mdann52 (talk) 19:56, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

@Mdann52: Thanks, will have a look at that. Also, you may remember me as HAWK1521, the persistent blocked user. I never thanked you properly for helping me with that, so thank you retrospectively. Kind regards,

TheHecster (talk) 15:39, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [8]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [9] [10]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [11]

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16:19, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of appropriate edits

It is not appropriate for you to delete appropriate edits in an article, demanding that they first be proposed on the talkpage, on the basis that other editors engaged in COI editing as revealed in the history of the article. Even in articles under 1RR that is not required, in highly contentious articles under ArbCom restrictions. It is required under COI circumstances, but I have no COI, and I was not part of the prior COI editing. Please don't roll back appropriate edits on the basis that you rolled them back today. It's simply not allowed. Thank you. --Epeefleche (talk) 22:09, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

@Epeefleche: I only mentioned it as a touch of advice as edits like that is why the page was protected originally. Mdann52 (talk) 09:09, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

The page was protected for inappropriate edits. If you want page protection, there is a proper way to seek it, from a sysop. But it will not be granted where the edits are appropriate. And reverting as though you are a sysop protecting a page, where there is not page protection granted, goes beyond "advice" and is not a correct way to handle any concerns. Best. --Epeefleche (talk) 11:57, 28 May 2015 (UTC)