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December 2014 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2014 Newsletter Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in November's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 43 people who signed up for this drive, 26 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: The November Drive removed 26 requests from the Requests page and 509 articles from the {{copy edit}} backlog. We copy edited 83 articles tagged in the target months; July, August, and September 2013. Together with tag removals from articles unsuitable for copy editing, we eliminated July 2013 from the backlog and reduced August and September's tags to 61 and 70 respectively. As of 01:01, 1 December 2014 (UTC), the backlog stood at 1,974 articles, dipping below 2,000 for the first time in the Guild's history (see graph at right). Well done everyone! Blitz: The December Blitz will run from December 14–20 and will focus on articles related to Religion, in recognition of this month's religious holidays in much of the English-speaking world. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. Sign up here! Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from 1 January to 30 June 2015 is now underway. Candidates can nominate themselves or others from December 01, 00:01 (UTC), until December 15, 23:59. The voting period will run from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. You can read about coordinators' duties here. Please consider getting involved and remember to cast you vote—it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Thank you all once again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve anything without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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username change request question

Hello k6ka, Thank you for my username change request response. Would 'squirrelvizsla' be an acceptable username? I just thought I'd check before making another request after 'vizsla' didn't meet the requirements.

Many thanks Livcollofficial (talk) 11:33, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

@Livcollofficial: Yes, it's fine, no issues to note. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 11:39, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_LAMARE

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --Web PAL (talk) 12:47, 15 December 2014 (UTC) >> Her sister is already an FR and EN Wikipedia as a writer

   and contitutes a complementary information link
   The protagonist don't want to be add on the 'Vanessa DURIES' wikipedia page beacus of the erotic field of her novel.

>> Helene LAMARE was injuried by several tries of thief whe she launched her innovation in 2004.

  This innovation constitutes a massive work as a self-made woman. And to have a wiki page is a kind of recognization. 
  She always been discrete about her invention and won 2 trials againt Postal Groups
  

Maybe the lines of trial (but it's a full cardboard) must been displayed on wikipage ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Web PAL (talk • contribs) 12:48, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

@Web PAL: Please see Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing. Wikipedia does not create articles to "reward" or "recognize" people. We create articles to report on information that has already been reported on. We don't report on brand new information - encyclopedias are not the sources for that. Encyclopedias report on information already reported, and we only report on information that is notable enough to deserve its own article. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 12:52, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-51

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 software changes

• You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1]
• You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [2]
• You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [3]
• You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [4]
• VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [5]
• The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [6]

Future changes

• The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [7] [8]
• You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [9] [10]

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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

hi

Sorry for the mistake it was not done intentionally i was just confused while making my page, so i am really sorry for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank Cockerill (talk • contribs) 12:28, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Orduin. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, User:FLAXSEEDS, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. -- Orduin ^⋠T⋡ 17:39, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "*  " will make the line a bullet list; "1.  " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

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Tech News: 2014-52

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 software changes

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [11]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [12]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [13]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [14]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year to you, K6ka. Thanks for the holiday greeting. It is always good to hear from you. I looked for a snappy template for the season but only found the one on the userbox page for greetings. It seemed a little ordinary after seeing yours, so I thought I would just send my greetings.

You were right about Huggle. It is fast but it has drawbacks. I have been unable to load STiki, showing my lack of computer skills. I will give it another try. Huggle finds more problems and allows more reversions but using Twinkle and picking recent changes to view gives more choices and better messages - if you tailor some of them to the individual case. It also gives you a little faster access to the full article and references if you want to check something before making a revert. I suppose switching back and forth and giving up a little speed would be best in terms of quality or informing new users of problems or mistakes. I will use either anti-vandalism program or both for the time being, or STiki if I can get it to work, but a little less often than I have been doing.

I want to do some more content work over the next few months at least because I have noted on my user page a few articles I want to improve in the near future. Right now, real life and holiday activities are limiting my time online but that will not be much of a limitation in a week or two. Donner60 (talk) 00:24, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

86.101.241.13

Merrrrry Xmas! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.101.241.13 (talk) 15:54, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

powernet,

how can i upload a screenshot from the national telecoms regulator in bulgaria stating they will be penalised for failure to respond to an official case? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.148.138.51 (talk) 23:42, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Screenshots may not necessarily be accepted as a source, see WP:CITE and WP:RS. But, to answer your question on uploading files, see this page. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 23:46, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

I simply want to provide a true honest description of the corrupt service provided by powernet - wikipedia constantly deleting edits is going against both public opinion and many innocent customers fighting for justice! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.148.138.51 (talk) 23:59, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

On Wikipedia, we strive to write things in a neutral point of view, and never provide inaccurate or false information, especially if controversial, libelous, or harmful, to the subject. Wikipedia is not a battleground for you to shed blood and tears on. We are an encyclopedia that provides information, not bloodshed. We are also not a soapbox or means of advertisement or promotion. For an overview of what we are, see our Five Pillars. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 00:16, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Tokio Hotel

Thank you for reverting my edit to the article Tokio Hotel. I was unaware that my edit was incorrect (rather, I was under the impression that the article had numerous misspellings), as the lead singer, Bill Kaulitz, as well as his accompanying entourage, has long been known to don extravagant attire, drawn from many eras of the fashion industry, including that of the 18th century fop. I believed the band could thusly be considered Fop rock, and that perhaps calling it Pop rock would be a step too far. I am a fan of the fop rock genre, and Tokio Hotel greatly exceeded my expectations, as it is so rare to hear foppish music in its native German tongue, since the deaths of many classical musicians of that order occurred centuries ago. I shall be more mindful in the future, and will promptly be trading in my Tokio Hotel albums for more suitable issues; I believe Falco has a rather jaunty tune in homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which I have yet to hear. Once again, I thank you for your tutelage. 67.176.91.3 (talk) 03:49, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

hello k6ka i am new to wikipedia can you explain me how to edit articles on wikipedia and how vandalism is protected here

i need a explanation — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yogeshyvd (talk • contribs) 15:12, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

@Yogeshyvd: Editing articles is as simple as clicking the "Edit" button and making your changes. We deal with vandalism by reverting the malicious edits, warn the editors, and, if necessary, block them. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 15:20, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

GOCE holiday 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors Late December 2014 Newsletter Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the December Blitz. Of the 14 editors who signed up for the blitz, 11 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. January drive: The January backlog-reduction drive is just around the corner; sign up here! Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from January 1 to June 30, 2015 is now underway. The voting period runs from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. Please cast your vote—it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Happy holidays from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WUSN US99

Hi K6ka. I appreciate your efforts to remove the spam that has been occurring on the WUSN US99 Wikipedia page. However, the information is still incorrect. The information that should be there is what was posted earlier. I will place it here so that the information can be readded and the subsequent changes by the people responsible for the spam can be removed. The information they keep putting on that page is not correct. A search of the names yields no answer. Even with proper references, they still keep changing it. The code is below:

=== On Air Staff ===
<big>
Join Us 99.5 with our * Award Winning * Line-up</big> <ref>http://us995.cbslocal.com/category/shows/</ref>

'''Lisa Dent & Ramblin' Ray'''    Mornings 5AM to 10AM

'''Drew Walker'''     Mid-Days 10AM to 3PM

'''Shila Nathan'''     Afternoons 3PM to 7PM

'''Jax'''     Evenings 7PM to 12AM

'''Marci Braun'''''    Overnights  12AM to 5:30AM

'''Kix Brooks (American Country Countdown)'''  Saturdays 6AM to 10AM

'''Lon Helton (Country Countdown USA)'''  Sundays 7AM to 10AM

Program Director: '''Jeff Kapugi'''


==References==
{{Reflist}}

64.53.233.112 (talk) 20:39, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2015)

The skyline of Frankfurt, Germany Hello, K6ka. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Skyline Previous selections: Natural phenomenon • Spaghetti Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:18, 29 December 2014 (UTC) •

Tech News: 2015-01

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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Adminship

Would you like to run for adminship? I thought you we're already one. You seem like a perfect candidate. :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 03:27, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

@AmaryllisGardener: Well, glad to hear! However, for the same reason that I declined Xeno's offer, I personally don't feel that RFA will play nicely on me. For instance, the large majority of my edits are vandalism reverts. Another massive portion is maintenance edits to keep the gears of Wikipedia running smoothly. Very few of my edits are of actual article development, and especially the AFD section, which !voters at RFA want to see. In any case, I would like to wait a bit longer, maybe actually sit down and start building articles instead of playing "Wikipedia Tower Defense", and we'll see how it goes from there. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:31, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Ok, that's fine. To me, you just explained why the mop would be useful to you (mops are for maintenance work), but I know RfA voters don't always see it that way. Anyway, if you ever decide to run, you have my full support! :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 03:35, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Dear Sir

I thank you for your recommendations. I will give many good edits with your advice. - 50.153.132.142 (talk) 03:47, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2015)

Dishwashing liquid is a detergent used in dishwashing Hello, K6ka. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Dishwashing liquid Previous selections: Skyline • Natural phenomenon Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:18, 5 January 2015 (UTC) •

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2014

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
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Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: The Fish-Slapping Dance.--DrWho42 (talk) 22:52, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

swmusic name change

Please let me know your concerns about our name change. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swmusic (talk • contribs) 01:24, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

@Swmusic: The account you have requested, Annabass, is already registered. If you want this rename to proceed, consider filing a request at m:SRUC. Alternatively you can just pick a new name at WP:CHUS. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:09, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Re: Please comment on nl.wiki using BWR to show that you own it.

Hi there. I just wanted to say thay I followed your request for a confirmation of owning the account name 'BWR' on nl.wiki . You can see that I changed the User:BWR page to confirm. Can the usurpation be completed with this information? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghanib (talk • contribs) 12:47, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

@Ghanib: I've added your diff to the request page. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 12:49, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2015)

The history of Mongolia includes the foundation, expansion, and fragmentation of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century Hello, K6ka. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: History of Mongolia Previous selections: Dishwashing liquid • Skyline Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:09, 12 January 2015 (UTC) •

Tech News: 2015-03

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 software changes

• Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [15]
• You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [16]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
• A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [17]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [18]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [19] [20] [21]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [22]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [23]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Colin A Grainger EddieCat2009

Yes please change name to EddieCat2009 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colin A Grainger (talk • contribs) 20:22, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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Talback

Hello, K6ka. You have new messages at Pietro.ziveri's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I already asked for merging username:Pietro.ziveri to username:P.ziveri but still no anser from baffo@global ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pietro.ziveri (talk • contribs) 22:40, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

@Pietro.ziveri: You'll have to be patient. I cannot rename you myself as I am not a global renamer. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 22:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2015)

An example of prose, a type of writing that simulates the natural flow of language Hello, K6ka. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Prose Previous selections: History of Mongolia • Dishwashing liquid Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC) •

Tech News: 2015-04

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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[24] [25]
• Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

• All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [26]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [27]

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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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username change request

Yesterday I requested a change to my username from Radicalchoicesllc to Rchoices. I haven't hear whether or not this has been approved. Can you tell me? Radicalchoicesllc (talk) 17:37, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

@Radicalchoicesllc: It hasn't been approved because you are still using the old name, and looking at the logs no action has been taken yet. AFAIK there are still concerns that your new username might still be somewhat related to the company you work for, and may not be a "personal" or "one-person" username. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 19:15, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Blagoi Ivanov

Hello. I added link of source — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.237.76.26 (talk) 18:42, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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• You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [28]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [29]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [30]
• The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [31]

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guitar boogie (song) LYRICS

Sorry, but I am not all over how to information correctly and the directions are way too complicated and time consuming. My ex-girlfriends father, John R. O'Connell, originally from the coal regions of Pennsylvania north of Pottsville, PA had a band that played in area bars. The had words to this song. He sang and played guitar. He passed the song down to his children. Three of his four children play guitar and know the song and most of the words, but don't recall quite all of them. Searching on the WWW has turned up nothing.

Maybe someone out there knows what they are and who really came up with the lyrics, unless it is possible that her dad or members of his band came up with these on their own? At some point I'll have the lyrics that they recall to post.

Please add this if you could. My personal e-mail is bfmcelroy@comcast.net

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.90.14.185 (talk) 16:21, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Firstly, we need to make sure that the information can be verified, such as through a citation (you know how you need to cite your sources in an academic paper; Wikipedia is no different). Secondly, we also need to make sure this is notable. We don't record or publish the names of high school garage bands that only entertained their family or classmates at most. Thirdly, we unfortunately don't accept original research, which is when someone who claims they are involved publish information that would otherwise only be obtained from that person. For example, a Holocaust survivor cannot write something on Wikipedia and claim it is true, citing themselves as a source. Otherwise we could easily have people saying "The sky is blue" and cite "Me, Myself, and I" as a source, which is not allowed. In your case, we can't actually take what you say as true unless you also have a reliable source to prove it.

Oh, and I don't email people over issues like this. You will need to communicate with me and other editors on this page, or on the article talk page. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 17:42, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm MrX. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, ಪ್ರವೇಶವಿಲ್ಲದ ಗರ್ಭಗುಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂಜಾರಿಯಾದವರು, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. - MrX 13:12, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

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Freeze dried coffee, an example of the application of food science Hello, K6ka. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Food science Previous selections: Symphony • Prose Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC) •

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• There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [32]

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• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
• The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [33]
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VisualEditor News 2015—#1

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. 

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

• starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog:  blue ,
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• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:  gray.

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

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Guild of Copy Editors February 2015 Newsletter Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 38 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were able to remove August 2013 from the general copyediting backlog and November 2014 from the request-page backlog. Many thanks, everyone! Blitz: The February Blitz will run from February 15–21 and again focuses on the requests page. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one request article. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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