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History of gender feminism listed at Redirects for discussion

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DTC

Personally I think the article is slanted a bit too much in favor of DTC. I think the format of the article's contents needs to be reorganized to achieve a more neutral feel. ViperSnake151  Talk  20:56, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

@ViperSnake151: Which article are you referring to? Jarble (talk) 21:32, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Direct-to-consumer advertising. Though on second thought, I actually think {{us-centric}} might be a bigger issue. ViperSnake151  Talk  21:44, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Home energy efficiency listed at Redirects for discussion

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CfD nomination of Category:Muslim user templates

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Proposed deletion of Natural-language programming

The article Natural-language programming has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This topic is not covered in any text books and has a very low and falling on Google ngram at just just 0.0000000350% [ngram https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Natural+Language+Programming%2C+Natural+Language+Processing&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CNatural%20Language%20Programming%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CNatural%20Language%20Processing%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2CNatural%20Language%20Programming%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CNatural%20Language%20Processing%3B%2Cc0] The topic is orphaned List_of_constructed_languages#Knowledge_representation

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Notgain (talk) 08:42, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

1. Section editing
   • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
   • The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
2. Loading overlay
   • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

• Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
• Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
• Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
• Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use.  The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

• Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
• Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Delete Natural-language programming?

I'm just opening up a discussion on proposal to delete an article Natural-language programming as you were the main contributor. Have you seen the articles on Gherkin or Cucumber (software)?

@Notgain: There are about 1,700 articles on Google Scholar that mention natural-language programming, spanning several decades of research. Why should this article be deleted? Jarble (talk) 13:55, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

None of the references cited on the page established notability. I should have first added a request for additional source or a notability template, rather than deletion. Do you want to change it to a notability request? Notgain (talk) 14:30, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

@Notgain: The article does need some additional references, but it already includes this list of references. Why are these references not sufficient to establish notability? Jarble (talk) 14:49, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

According to ngram viewer[1], the term 'Natural-language programming' hasn't been used since 1983 as far as I am aware. If you have some more recent sources that'd be great. Is the topic known by another name? Constrained natural languages are now used in testing, e.g. Behavior-driven development.:: Perhaps it would be best covered in a article on naturalistic programming methods, ie. Pulido-Prieto, O. and Juárez-Martínez, U., 2017. A survey of naturalistic programming technologies. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 50(5), p.70. Notgain (talk) 02:20, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

@Notgain: The ngram viewer probably isn't a good measure of notability. "Natural language programming" has been described in hundreds of articles in Google Scholar since 2015, and many other articles in previous decades. Currently, Wikipedia doesn't have an article about "naturalistic programming", which is even more obscure than "natural-language programming." Jarble (talk) 11:47, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

@Jarble: Thanks for clarifying. I found a few more sources there. Let's add some sources to the article and remove the deletion request. - Dijkstra, E.W., 1979. On the foolishness of "natural language programming". In Program construction (pp. 51-53). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Notgain (talk) 12:41, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

I created a article for deletion discussion here: [2]. It might be better to merge or redirect the article to another article, say on very high-level languages. Notgain (talk) 06:07, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

A modern fusion splicer listed at Redirects for discussion

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"A peer-review system could solve several chronic problems in Wikipedia"

For a peer-review system, you might take a look at v:WikiJournal_of_Science. Boris Tsirelson (talk) 19:09, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Re: adding DOI links

Thank you for linkifying DOIs. You might be interested in the citation expander gadget: User:Citation_bot/use#Simple_cases:_DOI_/_GoogleBooks. Nemo 17:47, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: There are still many more DOIs that could be linked in this way. I found them using a regular-expression search. Jarble (talk) 18:03, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes, indeed. It's usually quite fast to delete a ref entirely, replace it with the DOI only and then have the citation bot expand it. It's also in my plans to make it more automatic, maybe I'll have a patch this week. Nemo 19:05, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: There are also many open-source citation parsers that could assist with formatting references. I usually use Google Scholar to find open-access links, but I haven't seen any Wikipedia bots that can do this yet. Jarble (talk) 19:12, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Citation bot and OAbot use Unpaywall and other open repository URLs, which are a large majority of what Google Scholar offers and are more reliable on average (the only significant URLs you're going to miss are ResearchGate and SemanticScholar as of now).

As for citation parsers, Citoid is often effective, thanks to the CrossRef API citation resolver (they are doing significant work in the field). You can use Citoid with VisualEditor or User:Salix alba/Citoid.js (although the latter often fails to return any output, at least for me). Nemo 19:55, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

For instance, instead of this, simply pasting the unstructed citation string there was before into the VisualEditor automatic citation dialog produces a good compiled template which then citation bot/expander can clean up with a single click (it would also have added an open access link to the PDF if it were available). Nemo 20:08, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Alternatively, if you prefer your current manual method, you can use the https://unpaywall.org/ browser extension to accelerate the process of finding something like 98 % of the PDF URLs. Nemo 20:03, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Did you manage to try the extension? I'm curious about the experience for a Wikipedia editor. Nemo 09:29, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: I occasionally use Unpaywall, but Google Scholar usually provides links to PDFs for open-access documents. Jarble (talk) 15:11, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

October 2019

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page 1,000,000 has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Thank you. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 02:21, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

@Arthur Rubin: Thanks for correcting my mistake. I didn't realize that this link was still working, since my browser wouldn't display the PDF. Jarble (talk) 02:59, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Module:World topics

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Service (computing) - redirect to Windows service rather than daemon (computing)?

If the rationale for having Service (computing) redirect to daemon (computing) is that background processes of that sort are called "services" on Windows, and the term "service" isn't used in that context except on Windows, perhaps Service (computing) should redirect to Windows service? Guy Harris (talk) 17:10, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

@Guy Harris: Since it has several different meanings, it should probably redirect to Service#Computing and telecommunications instead. Jarble (talk) 17:15, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Sounds good. Should I make that change or do you want to do it? Guy Harris (talk) 17:53, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Poverty in Peru.

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I would consider removing the cities table as the data is almost 13 years old.

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"Penis (disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Category:Climate change skepticism and denial has been nominated for discussion

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Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction

Greetings.

I nominated the redirect Association_for_Crime_Scene_Reconstruction for deletion because it just points back to the original link in Crime_reconstruction#Professional_Associations. If there isn't somewhere else for it to go, there's no point in having a circular reference. We'd be better with a redlink until someone creates the article.

After I added the nomination, I noticed that the template suggests contacting the creator, so I thought I'd be courteous and do so.

Best regards,

*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 00:53, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Males has been nominated for discussion

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Merger discussion for Penis (disambiguation)

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World atlas

Before tagging thousands of articles with [better source needed] perhaps best to bring up the source at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. Do you have a replacement in mind?--Moxy 🍁 02:42, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Moxy: World Atlas is an online encyclopedia, but most of its articles do not cite any sources, so I believe that it is not a reliable source. I started this discussion on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss possible replacements for it. Jarble (talk) 03:16, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

The WikiLoop Battlefield weekly barnstar

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		Congratulations, Jarble You have been recognized as the weekly champion of counter-vandalism of WikiLoop Battlefieldseeking new name, a crowdsource counter-vandalism patrol and label tool (http://battlefield.wikiloop.org) for the week ending at 2020-03-09. On behalf of the team and community of WikiLoop Battlefield and as Wikipedians, we like to appreciate your contributions, and look forward for more in the future. Also don't forget to bring your Wikipedian friends who you think are also passionate of keeping Wikipedia protected. By the way, we currently have no different barnstar image for different level (weekly / monthly / annual) champion, if you are interested in help designing, please help us. Thank you! Cheers, xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 22:52, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

The WikiLoop Battlefield weekly barnstar

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		Congratulations, Jarble You have been recognized as the weekly champion of counter-vandalism of WikiLoop Battlefieldseeking new name, a crowdsource counter-vandalism patrol and label tool (http://battlefield.wikiloop.org) for the week ending at 2020-03-23. On behalf of the team and community of WikiLoop Battlefield and as Wikipedians, we like to appreciate your contributions, and look forward for more in the future. Also don't forget to bring your Wikipedian friends who you think are also passionate of keeping Wikipedia protected. By the way, we currently have no different barnstar image for different level (weekly / monthly / annual) champion, if you are interested in help designing, please help us. Thank you! Cheers, xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 17:05, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

"Relation (disamiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The WikiLoop Battlefield monthlyly barnstar

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		Congratulations, Jarble You have been recognized as the monthlyly champion of counter-vandalism of WikiLoop Battlefieldseeking new name, a crowdsource counter-vandalism patrol and label tool (http://battlefield.wikiloop.org) for the monthly ending at 2020-04-02. On behalf of the team and community of WikiLoop Battlefield and as Wikipedians, we like to appreciate your contributions, and look forward for more in the future. Also don't forget to bring your Wikipedian friends who you think are also passionate of keeping Wikipedia protected. By the way, we currently have no different barnstar image for different level (weekly / monthly / annual) champion, if you are interested in help designing, please help us. Thank you! Cheers, xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 06:55, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiLoop Battlefield new name vote

Dear Jarble,

Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield. We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting is held at m:WikiProject_WikiLoop/New_name_vote and ends on July 13th 00:00 UTC.

xinbenlv ^{Talk, Remember to "ping" me} 05:02, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia content has been nominated for renaming

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Editing news 2020 #3

On 16 March 2020, the 50 millionth edit was made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:

• The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

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Category:American secret military programs has been nominated for deletion

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Announcing WikiLoop DoubleCheck

Dear Wikipedians and contributors, the open source Wikipedia review tool, previously "WikiLoop Battlefield" has completed its name vote and is announcing its new name: WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Read the full story on the program page on Meta-wiki, learn about ways to support this tool, and find out what future developments are coming for this tool.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the vote!

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"侯世达" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Cognitive effects of cable television" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

• More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
• Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
• Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[3]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

• The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
• Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

"Protests during Donald Trump's presidency" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Protests during Donald Trump's presidency. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 September 4#Protests during Donald Trump's presidency until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm _Bacon 02:04, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Jarble

Thank you for creating Privacy concerns of Facebook.

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Thank you for this new article. I recommend expanding the lead paragraph significantly, to give readers a better previous of what comes later.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Environmental issues in Laos

A tag has been placed on Category:Environmental issues in Laos requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Environmental issues in Madagascar

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Your draft article, Draft:Neo-Nazism in Ukraine

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:44, 19 November 2020 (UTC)