User talk:Ocaasi/Archive 6

Barnstars

Hi, is it possible to award barnstars to yourself? Respond asap because I just put one on my user page. Mouseinphilly (talk) 20:02, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It is possible, but it's not right. Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 20:03, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

If not, then can you award me a barnstar for removing Non English countries and converting international release tables to prose? Mouseinphilly (talk) 20:04, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mouseinphilly, thanks for your question. Barnstars are given as gifts of appreciation, and they typically come from someone as a surprise. That's the neat part about them, you never know when you will get one, most of the time. I recommend you keep doing great work and the barnstars will follow naturally! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:16, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

TWA

Could I test out TWA using a tablet? Will it work? ///EuroCarGT 16:47, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

That's a great question, and frankly I have no idea, although I'd love to know the answer. I think it will depend on how large the tablet is and whether it loads the mobile wikipedia site or the regular wikipedia site. In no way was the game configured for the mobile site, however it's possible that loading the regular website on a tablet might work. I'm curious what you find out. Thanks for the question, EuroCarGT! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 16:49, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the super quick answer! I'm going to test it out on an iPad an a Nexus 7. Will come back to the feedback page with some feedback. ///EuroCarGT 16:52, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

If I go to Mobile Wikipedia and click "Start Adventure" it directs me to the non-mobile site. ///EuroCarGT 16:59, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Neat, EuroCarGT. Then what happens if you try and play?? Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:14, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Well, I already completed the game on my account, do I need a second account? 17:36, 26 October 2013 (UTC)///EuroCarGT

EuroCarGT, yes you would need a second account. If you play the game logged out then on mission 1 step 7 it will take you to the registration page. I use alternate accounts like OcaasiTWA17. It's no big deal if you don't feel like trying it. The game is really designed for laptop./desktop, I'm just curious mostly. Thanks whichever way you choose. Best, Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:57, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Do I register normally using Special:UserLogin or request an account? Also I'm not a big fan of creating alternative accounts due to sockpuppetry and stuff like that so will I get in trouble? ///EuroCarGT 18:02, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Hey, EuroCarGT...You can register normally. These are not considered sockpuppets but rather legitimate testing accounts (see: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet#Legitimate_uses). Just don't use it for anything but testing and you'll be in no trouble at all. I have about 30 alternate testing accounts :), because I have to play the game through fresh each time. I would use something like EuroCarGTtwa, to be clear. Ocaasi ^{t | c} 18:08, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done time for alpha testing! --User:EuroCarGTTWA, operating under ///EuroCarGT 18:16, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

If I upload screenshots of the Wikipedia Adventure what source and copyright information will I need? ///EuroCarGT 20:47, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

, Hey EuroCarGT. Try {{Wikipedia-screenshot}} (example: File:English_Wikipedia_screenshot.png). Thanks! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

However it does contain browser and iPad status bar meaning it is part screenshot of a computer software. Sorry fo being a annoying user asking so much questions but I'm very keen in the policies and guidelines. Will I need to crop the screenshot? ///EuroCarGT 21:00, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

EuroCarGT, I can't answer for sure, but the top examples I searched for did not use additional licensing: [1], for example has the bar but just the Wikipedia-screenshot license. Another was the same. You could crop if you are most concerned. Or you could just describe what you see and not upload at all, that'd still be great and really useful. Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 21:09, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Cochrane account

Hi Ocaasi, I already applied for a Cochrane account in June 2013. A month ago I've been prompted to fill emailform but still I haven't yet received my login. Is there something wrong with it? --Doc.mari (talk) 22:46, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	Thank you very much for your efforts to create TWA. It is both fun and useful for new wikipedians. Odeesi (talk) 15:22, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much. That makes me smile :) Cheers, Odeesi, and thank you again. Check out the WP:TWA/About page to see how many people helped make it possible :) Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:24, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations!

		The Really Nice View for Really Nice Work Award
		Hello Ocaasi, I saw that you have been doing some really nice work on Wikipedia, particularly on The Wikipedia Adventure, responding to comments with in minutes, and generally doing a great job; so thought that you deserved to be the inaugural recipient of the 'Really Nice View' award. Congratulations! Matty.007 21:01, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, Matty.007 I like this new award and am grinning to be the first ever to receive it! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 21:39, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Some falafel for you!

Thanks for the barnstar, Ocaasi. Tambelon (talk) 00:49, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

TWA annoyance

Hey there bud, I happened to take a peek at your TWA project, and noticed a little annoyance in the upper left corner. There is a link back to < Wikipedia:TWA that looks out of place. If you could add a little JavaScript (more specifically, jQuery) to the TWA .js files that would remove those elements, it would look better. The code would look something like:

$("#siteSub").remove();
$("#contentSub").remove();

Other than that little thing, looks pretty good to me. :) Technical 13 (talk) 01:01, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Technical 13, Hey, good eye. That's one of four remaining minor design bugs we're patching this week. We had planned keep the < breadcrumbs but adjust the page title padding so that they are below the title. I like your idea too, I'll see if that's within usability expectations or whether it's better to keep them. Either way, they should look 'in place' when we're ready to rollout for the Nov. beta test. Cheers! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 01:56, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

If it were me... I would remove the breadcrumb links, add the word "home" to that circle image that half overlaps it and goes to the portal, and change that image to link back to start page. Tgat would leave you short a portal link, but the current portal link setup is very "Easter egg-like" so I'm not sure how productive it is. maybe link the title back to start and adjust the portal image to be clear it is a link to the portal? I dunno, just brainstorming... Technical 13 (talk) 13:14, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hey, Thanks for the barnstar and the mention in the credits. I hope I had contributed more to the project, but I guess we might still be working together in future :) Nischayn22 (talk) 06:53, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

HighBeam

Hello Ocaasi, I would like to thank you very much: I renewed my account HB for another year :) Thanks again!!! Bye, --Delfort (talk) 15:45, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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Wikimedia LGBT

Hi Ocassi, I hope you are well! I just wanted to bring Wikimedia LGBT, a proposed user group and thematic organization that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT communities, to your attention. I am sure you are so busy with your current projects, but I hope you might be able to direct people to this group if they are interested in LGBT content in any way. Of course, you are also more than welcome to indicate your interest/support, if you wish. Hopefully we can get some LGBT-related GLAM/Education projects up and running in the near future. Best, --Another Believer _(Talk) 20:07, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Another Believer, thanks for the heads up. I added my name to the participants list and will direct folks there if there's any interest. Great work and good luck! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 09:29, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Much appreciated. Enjoy Berlin! --Another Believer _(Talk) 16:52, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

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Question

Hi Ocaasi,

I hope life has been going well with you since we were last in touch. I posted a question on the Paid Editor Help page here a few days ago, but I haven't heard back from anyone. I noticed that you are a member of WikiProject Cooperation, so I was wondering if you would be able to answer my question. I would normally wait longer to receive a response, but the organization that has contacted me would like a response by Tuesday. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Neelix (talk) 16:56, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Neelix! Long time no see :) Sadly, I don't have time right now to look into it, and not on that timeline. I'd ping the WP:COI/N and ask if someone would take a look. Alternately, you could post {{requestedit}} on the article's talk page with your question/comment/suggestion. Finally, should all else fail, you can drop a note on User:Jimbo's talk page as he's offered to be a last resort for handling queries from companies. For reference, I recommend WP:PSCOI for general advice on working with companies or organization. Good luck! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:38, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

TWA Testing

Hey Ocaasi hope you are fine. Soon I'm going to test The Wikipedia Adventure with my TWA Testing account User:Pratyya GhoshTWA Testing. I'm not doing any sock puppetry, but testing TWA. I'm telling you so the other WP users will know about it. Otherwise they could think about sock puppetry!! Happy editing.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 06:36, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Pratyya Ghosh, can't wait to see what you think. You should be totally fine with your testing account, but I have it here on record should anyone ask. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 13:49, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Dear Ocaasi, I couldn't complete my adventure after the communicator award. The next step of watchlist was click to Contributions. But that's all. The message click to contributions was coming continuously. I clicked contributions 8 times and every time I get message click to your Contributions. So I ended that there. Cause no new adventure was coming. I'll try to do it again tomorrow... But I have to say that your idea's great and just great... --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 06:32, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Pratyya Ghosh, thanks so much for trying again. I hope that you had this problem a few days ago, because I fixed that bug earlier this week. Could you try again from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TWA/2/Start?tour=twa2&step=13. That should work now, but if it doesn't I really need to know! :) Ocaasi ^{t | c} 12:50, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Dear Ocaasi, please see File:Snapshot by Pratyya Ghosh 2.png.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:25, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Pratyya Ghosh, ok my hunch now is that your browser is somehow using the old code. Could you try again, but first: 1) log out of wikipedia 2) clear your browser Cache, 3) restart your browser, 4) login to WP, 5) try again from step 13. I'd really appreciate it. And hey, nice screenshot!! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 13:28, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I logged out of WP to log in to another account of mine. No I didn't restart by browser. Anyway I don't have that time today. So I'll let you know about it tomorrow. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:38, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I've completed that manually. I cleared my browser's cache, and restarted it. But no luck. So I went to step 16 manually. But I completed all the 7 missions. Really it's an awesome thinking. I have suggestions about it. I posted them here.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 05:43, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Also forgot to mention you one thing. When Girl86... messaged me I needed to make a reply. (I don't know that step or level I completely forgot), but the problem is when I went to message it took me to level 4 step 16. I saw this 4 times. Is it a bug?--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 06:31, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Pratyya Ghosh, thanks for the feedback! What browser and browser version are you using? I wonder if the Contributions and 4-16 bugs you found are related to that, as I've checked the code and everything seems to be looking and working fine, so I'm not sure what's causing those two issues. Would like to figure them out... Also note that the reason I don't give people an option to write on a different topic, is because then the game would be over! I need to keep people on the same storyline or else I would have had to write more than one script, and it took a heck of a lot of time to just do one ;) I agree that vandalism and copyright are key issues (I hope I cover copyright at least minimally). I provide extensive links at the end of the game for people to learn more, so they can keep exploring. Thanks again, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 12:39, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Hey Ocaasi, I'm using Firefox and the version is 25.0. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:21, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Hey Pratyya Ghosh, the 4.16 'bug' may just be that you're on a Galactic Challenge. There are several of those throughout the game, all with the same guide box text ("Challenge yourself..."). One other editor had a problem with the Contributions links, so I'm very suspicious and looking into it! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:14, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

What happened there?!--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 04:54, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Pratyya Ghosh, I believe I fixed it, with Equazcion's sharp eye and guidance. It was getting stuck on usernames with spaces in them. It should work now! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 13:45, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Now today I completed the task. No problems now. But I've watched some problems.

• In tour 6 step 13. Maybe, I'm not quite sure. But when Taggy McTaggerstein makes an angry comment, that time I too comment. But the sign goes for GalacticTrekker
• In every step I went to lounge and a message comes Go to mission 3.
• After the end of adventure when I go to tea house it takes me to mission 6 again.
• When I go to Special:GettingStarted it makes a message. That's Go to mission 3.
• When I go to intros it makes a message. That's Go to mission 3.

Anyway the others are good. Fine.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:47, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks Pratyya Ghosh. I believe I fixed the signature in 6-13. The Mission 3 box is just the guided tour following you around because your browser cookies stores it. Just [x] out of the box and it will go away. This is a known bug, unfortunately, and there's no way to fix it. Annoying, but manageable. Thanks again for all your help with testing. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:30, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

• Accidental deletion of infoboxes and other items: You now need to press the Delete or ← Backspace key twice to delete a template, reference or image. The first time, the item becomes selected, and the second time, it is removed. The need to press the delete key twice should make it more obvious what you are doing and help avoid accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336).
• Switch from VisualEditor to the wikitext editor: A new feature lets you make a direct, one-way editing interface change, which will preserve your changes without needing to save the page and re-open it in the wikitext editor (bug 50687). It is available in a new menu in the action buttons by the Cancel button (where the "Page Settings" button used to be). Note that this new feature is not currently working in Firefox.
• Categories and Languages are also now directly available in that menu. The category suggestions drop-down was appearing in the wrong place rather than below its input box, which is now fixed. An incompatibility between VisualEditor and the deployed Parsoid service that prevented editing categories and language links was fixed.
• File:, Help: and Category: namespaces: VisualEditor was enabled for these namespaces the on all wikis (bug 55968), the Portal: and Viquiprojecte: namespaces on the Catalan Wikipedia (bug 56000), and the Portal: and Book: namespaces on the English Wikipedia (bug 56001).
• Media item resizing: We improved how files are viewed in a few ways. First, inline media items can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones (like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug 54298). While you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the current dimensions (bug 54297). Once you have resized it, we fetch a new, higher resolution image for the media item if necessary (bug 55697). Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and should be available next week. If you hold down the ⇧ Shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. The media item resize label now is centered while resizing regardless of which tool you use to resize it.
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• Links to other articles or pages sometimes sent people to invalid pages. VisualEditor now keeps track of the context in which you loaded the page, which lets us fix up links in document to point to the correct place regardless of what entry point you launched the editor from—so the content of pages loaded through /wiki/Foobar?veaction=edit and /w/index.php?title=Foobar&veaction=edit both now have text links that work if triggered (bug 48915).
• Toolbar links: A bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343).
• Numbered external links: VisualEditor now supports Parsoid's changed representation of numbered external links (bug 53505).
• Removed empty templates: We also fixed an issue that meant that completely empty templates became impossible to interact with inside VisualEditor, as they didn't show up (bug 55810).
• Mathematics formulae: If you would like to try the experimental LaTeX mathematics tool in VisualEditor, you will need to opt-in to Beta Features. This is currently available on Meta-wiki, Wikimedia Commons, and Mediawiki.org. It will be available on all other Wikimedia sites on 21 November.
• Browser testing support: If you are interested in technical details, the browser tests were expanded to cover some basic cursor operations, which uncovered an issue in our testing framework that doesn't work with cursoring in Firefox; the Chrome tests continue to fail due to a bug with the welcome message for that part of the testing framework.
• Load time: VisualEditor now uses content language when fetching Wikipedia:TemplateData information, so reducing bandwidth use, and users on multi-language or multi-script wikis now get TemplateData hinting for templates as they would expect (bug 50888).
• Reuse of VisualEditor: Work on spinning out the user experience (UX) framework from VisualEditor into oojs-ui, which lets other teams at Wikimedia (like Flow) and gadget authors re-use VisualEditor UX components, is now complete and is being moved to a shared code repository.
• Support for private wikis: If you maintain a private wiki at home or at work, VisualEditor now supports editing of private wikis, by forwarding the Cookie: HTTP header to Parsoid ($wgVisualEditorParsoidForwardCookies set to true) (bug 44483). (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)

Looking ahead:

• VisualEditor will be released to some of the smaller Wikipedias on 02 December 2013. If you are active at one or more smaller Wikipedias where VisualEditor is not yet generally available, please see the list at VisualEditor/Rollouts.
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User:Jackson Peebles

Hi Ocaasi. It was very nice of you to take the time to write a thoughtful obituary for Jackson, and I wanted to express my appreciation. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 17:30, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

I agree with that entirely, thank you. Matty.007 17:46, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

• Yes, well done. Go Phightins emailed me yesterday; thanks for picking up the torch and writing such a nice message. I read all the obits late last night (had to make sure before I removed the user rights and protect the user page) and he sounded like he will be greatly missed by many. So thanks again. Drmies (talk) 18:45, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

• Jackson was a member of the editor retention project. I wonder if it would be appropriate to post the eulogy from his talk page to the WER talk page (signed by Ocaasi). He didn't just talk about retaining editors. He did the work of retaining editors. His legacy, for us, is the goodwill he displayed. ```Buster Seven Talk 23:46, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

• Buster7,  Done. Feel free to place it anywhere you think it would well honor his memory. Be well, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 23:53, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

YGM

YGM Go Phightins! 11:43, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for informing the community about the passing of Jackson Peebles and helping ensure that his memory was honored. Perhaps it wasn't a pleasant job, but I'm glad you were willing to do it. AutomaticStrikeout (₵) – Rest in Peace, Jackson Peebles 20:28, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

May I second this, and add my admiration at all you do for Wikipedia. Thanks, Matty.007 20:54, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Nice work!

		The Original Barnstar
		You've learned how to use basic wikicode in your sandbox. You can always return there to experiment more.

Hi Ocaasi, you might want to change it so that there is a sign from someone; such as when barnstars are actually given? Just my idea.... Thanks, Matty.007 17:24, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Matty.007, in WP:TWA all the messages are signed and timestamped. That above barnstar is actually from Sage Ross who is testing an education program training module. I'll let him know that signing is a good idea, especially because talk page archiving won't work without a signature. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:30, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

I wasn't sure which part it was from; but thought it best to check. Thanks, Matty.007 17:33, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

sandbox tour

Howdy! I just wanted to show the first draft of a basic sandbox tour that I adapted from your TWA tour3. Give this a spin: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ocaasi&tour=BeBoldStudent

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 17:03, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Sage Ross (WMF), this is really neat! Great job converting the tour mechanics for your sandbox training. A couple of thoughts: Rather than having steps advance with "I did x", especially when the tour is navigating to a particular page, you can use some game logic with isPage. For example:

               buttons: [ {
                        name: '<small>←</small>',
                        action: 'externalLink',
                        url: mw.util.wikiGetlink( 'Special:MyTalk/TWA' ) + '?tour=twa2&step=10'          
                                     } ],
	                shouldSkip: function() {
                        return gt.isPage( 'Special:Watchlist' );
                        }

So you can automatically skip when the page is bold or boldness or WP:BOLD. That will remove some of the 'I'm here' process. Great work! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 18:22, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. I figured it was possible to do that, but hadn't looked into it yet.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 19:42, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

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Notion Capital

Would you be kind enough to look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation/Paid editor help#Notion Capital, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:29, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Pigsonthewing, sorry Andy, I don't have time right now. Please ping WP:COI/N, or use {{editrequest}} on the article's talk page. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 16:53, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks anyway. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:31, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)

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Welcome to the second issue of The Wikipedia Library's Books & Bytes newsletter! Read on for updates about what is going on at the intersection of Wikipedia and the library world.

Wikipedia Library highlights: New accounts, new surveys, new positions, new presentations...

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The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs) 16:48, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:01, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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Re. HighBeam

Hey Ocaasi, I only just learned that my HighBeam application was approved. How do I access my account on the site? Kurtis ^(talk) 21:03, 9 December 2013 (UTC)  Fixed

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Credo login problem

Hi Ocaasi,
I haven't used Credo for a longer time, and now I can't login anymore. Is there a chance to re-activate my account?
Hope to hear from you. --Murma174 (talk) 16:55, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Murma174, I've reached out to Credo and will let you know if they can help. Do you have the original email that gave you access? Ocaasi ^{t | c} 22:10, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I received the confirmation e-mail on 2012-09-11 with username (= my e-mail-address) and password. Uuuh, it was 09/11 ... --Murma174 (talk) 06:26, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you so much for your advice and patience! I really appreciate your help! Kwesifokuo (talk) 19:33, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 19:34, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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TWA

Dear Occasi, Today I've tested TWA another time. This time I see it's perfect and has no flaw. Nice thing dude. Will be very useful for Wikipedia and Newcomers. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:36, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

:) :) Pratyya Ghosh. Thanks. It took a ton of tinkering to get it this way and I could not have done it without your help and many others' feedback. Hey, I recently added some sounds. Did you have any thoughts on them? Ocaasi ^{t | c} 13:39, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. Brilliant. You've added sounds. The back ground is more better. But something was bothering me so I made another round and found what was bothering me. See this You don't have any sign of mine. Also in the talk page of earth my sign is YOU. This two was bothering me. And what I saw previously but maybe it's okay. Templates like Currentime isn't really substituted. Maybe you've seen it. But the sounds you added is brilliant. If it's possible add video tutorials. Will be much helpful.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 14:19, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter • 19 December 2013

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some toolbar improvements, fixing bugs, and improving support for Indic languages as well as other languages with complex characters. The current focus is on improving the reference dialog and expanding the new character inserter tool.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

• Rich copying and pasting is now available. If you copy text from another website, then character formatting and some other HTML attributes are preserved. This means, for example, that if you copy a pre-formatted suggested citation from a source like this, then VisualEditor will preserve the formatting of the title in the citation. Keep in mind that copying the formatting may include formatting that you don't want (like section headings). If you want to paste plain, unformatted text onto a page, then use Control+⇧ Shift+V or ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+V (Mac).
• Auto-numbered external links like [2] can now be edited just like any other link. However, they cannot be created in VisualEditor easily.
• Several changes to the toolbar and dialogs have been made, and more are on the way. The toolbar has been simplified with a new drop-down text styles menu and an "insert" menu. Your feedback on the toolbar is wanted here. The transclusion/template dialog has been simplified. If you have enabled mathematical formula editing, then the menu item is now called the formula editor instead of LaTeX.
• There is a new character inserter, which you can find in the new "insert" menu, with a capital Omega ("Ω"). It's a very basic set of characters. Your feedback on the character inserter is wanted here.
• Saving the page should seem faster by several seconds now.
• It is now possible to access VisualEditor by manually editing the URL, even if you are not logged in or have not opted in to VisualEditor normally.  To do so, append ?veaction=edit to the end of the page name.  For example, change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random?veaction=edit to open a random page in VisualEditor.  This is intended to support bug testing across multiple browsers, without requiring editors to login repeatedly.

Looking ahead: The transclusion dialog will see further changes in the coming weeks, with a simple mode for single templates and an advanced mode for more complex transclusions. The new character formatting menu on the toolbar will get an arrow to show that it is a drop-down menu. The reference dialog will be improved, and the Reference item will become a button in the main toolbar, rather than an item in the Insert menu.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:48, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

Thanks for continuing to participate in the Individual Engagement Grants program, Ocaasi! I appreciate you lending your exuberant ideas and insight to the process, and for being a thoughtful grantee. Looking forward to what 2014 may bring! Siko (WMF) (talk) 00:41, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Happy holidays

Hi Ocaasi, thanks for the note and the kind wishes. Wishing you all the best for the holidays and the New Year. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 17:01, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Pratyya ^(Hello!) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Pratyya ^(Hello!) 04:47, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

TWA substitutions

It looks like the sendMessage function currently works by extracting the text of msgPage from the API. This works, but the downside is that it's not a standard technique, so there's less to draw on when there are questions like this. Since all it really does is post the contents of one page to another page, I agree you should try substing. This would mean removing the first GET call (used to query the text of a page, e.g. WP:TWA/Welcome), and instead using '\n{{subst:' + msgPage + '}}' for the appendtext (the suggested version should work, but I'm not sure those separations are needed). This boils down to (e.g.) {{subst:WP:TWA/Welcome}}.

The advantages of this are that it's pretty common, and saves an API call. Although wikitext templates are a dark art (one I will not pretend to have mastered), this lets you reuse existing code, such as from Template:now commons dated. That will solve the date (the trickier bit, presuming you don't want the date to change every time the user's talk page is purged). {{BASEPAGENAME}} is pretty simple. Just don't subst it on WP:TWA/Welcome. It will be included intact after substing, and work as normal (you may be able to subst it at the talk page using safesubst-like magic, but there's no real need, since it doesn't change on purge). Superm401 - Talk 22:09, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I'm trying a Catalan version of TWA at ca:VP:BUS. It is still a work in progress but I can apreciate the great work you guys have done so far. I am changing the concept of a gallactic adventure for a tour bus, more appropiate for a Catalan audience. I have solved the substitution problem changing var text in sendMessage function, as Superm401 suggests, and it works fine: ca:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa1.js. I have also simulated the timestamp signature including 5 tildes, like in ca:Viquipèdia:Bus turístic/MyTalk/7. Great work. --Vriullop (talk) 09:57, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Fils Tunechi (Athony Mandler) (Athony Mandler)

I'm curious as to how they took part in or expressed interest in the Adventure. I blocked them a month ago as a sock of an occasionally prolific sockmaster... (If you see 'Fils Tunechi' as name or subject, block on sight. Damn nuisance and a lot of it seems to be made up too.) Peridon (talk) 16:18, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

TWA Survey

Hey Ocaasi, Thanks a lot for the survey, answered the questions. Nice talk page. Thanks again. Merry Christmas! Take care. Weldon.J92 (talk) 19:52, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Merry Christmas. Weldon.J92 (talk) 19:56, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Question

Was JSTOR going to allow another 100 editors access to their archives for another year? I would really like to have access to JSTOR. --Kansas Bear (talk) 22:12, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Kansas Bear, we got an extension until the end of January for the original 100. We are still talking with JSTOR about how/if/when we can extend/expand the donation partnership. We'll post to JSTOR and in Books & Bytes newsletter as soon as we know. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 03:42, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey

Sorry not to respond earlier, or do your survey. I was given access to a library DB one year, but never used it, so now I am inclined to let someone else have the opportunity. Probably HighBeam and Questia would be of most interest to me. How are the numbers going? --Greenmaven (talk) 06:33, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Hey Jack Greenmaven, we have plenty of accounts available for HB and QST. Signup: WP:HighBeam, WP:QUESTIA. In terms of usage, we're seeing a nice uptick in outgoing links to those sources, so people are definitely using the accounts! Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:21, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Would it be OK to sign up for both HB and QST? --Greenmaven (talk) 05:57, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

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Happy New Year Ocaasi!

	Happy New Year!
	Hello Ocaasi: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Northamerica1000(talk) 05:21, 1 January 2014 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2014}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Happy New Year, Ocaasi

Pratyya ^(Hello!) — is wishing you a Happy New Year! Welcome the 2014. Wishing you a happy and fruitful 2014 with good health and your wishes come true! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! May the 2014 goes well for you.

Spread the New Year cheer by adding {{subst:User:Pratyya Ghosh/Happy New Year}} to their talk page with a Happy New Year message.

--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:26, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year Ocaasi !

Or 'Bonne Année et Bonne Santé' as we say in France ! Have a nice day. Best regards 83.114.216.83 (talk) 09:08, 2 January 2014 (UTC) (Mike Coppolano)

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Adminship anniversary!

Happy anniversary! Cheers. -- Trevj (talk · contribs) 21:03, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Trevj! :) Ocaasi ^{t | c} 21:42, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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Cochrane WiR

Thanks so much for the Cochrane WiR reminder! I'm almost finished with my application materials and will be submitting in the next few days! OR drohowa (talk) 22:37, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Hey

Can you come on IRC as soon as possible, please? I need to talk to you about a project you initiated a while back. DS (talk) 23:18, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: December 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue XII, December 2013 Headlines France report: GlamWiki Toolset; local actions in Rennes Germany report: New year, new GLAM contacts! Sweden report: Old ship and new solutions UK report: UK report for December 2013 USA report: University of Colorado Museum of Natural History; GLAM-Wiki in New York City Open Access report: NISO cites GLAM Newsletter; Adoption of CC BY 4.0; Two years Open Access File of the Day Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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High Beam

Hi Ocaasi, I was approved for HighBeam previously but my subscription ran out several months ago. I signed for new accounts in Round 6 and Round 7, however my name does not appear on the approved page here and I have not received any emails from High Beam about a new account. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for you help! -- — Keithbob • Talk • 23:00, 12 January 2014 (UTC)  Fixed

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Ocaasi, I think you deserve the Writers Barnstar because of how much you put on here. But I have a question, how do I get Barnstars? To answer, go on my talk page and answer. Thanks! Unknown249 (talk) 21:30, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

(22:40) thanks allot Ocaasi! P.S no exaggeration whatsoever. : — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unknown249 (talk • contribs) 21:47, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for Janaury 2014

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked mostly minor features and fixing bugs. A few significant bugs include working around a bug in CSSJanus that was wrongly flipping images used in some templates in right-to-left (RTL) environments (bug 50910) a major bug that meant inserting any template or other transclusion failed (bug 59002), a major but quickly resolved problem due to an unannounced change in MediaWiki core, which caused VisualEditor to crash on trying to save (bug 59867). This last bugs did not appear on any Wikipedia. Additionally, significant work has been done in the background to make VisualEditor work as an independent editing system.

As of today, VisualEditor is now available as an opt-out feature to all users at 149 active Wikipedias.

• The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has a very basic set of characters. The character inserter is especially important for languages that use Latin and Cyrillic alphabets with unusual characters or frequent diacritics. Your feedback on the character inserter is requested. In addition to feedback from any interested editor, the developers would particularly like to hear from anyone who speaks any of the 50+ languages listed under Phase 5 at mw:VisualEditor/Rollouts, including Breton, Mongolian, Icelandic, Welsh, Afrikaans, Macedonian, and Azerbaijani.
• meta:Office hours on IRC have been heavily attended recently. The next one will be held this coming Wednesday, 22 January at 23:00 UTC.
• You can now edit some of the page settings in the "options" dialog – __NOTOC__ and __FORCETOC__ as selection (forced on, forced off, or default setting; bugs 56866 and 56867) and __NOEDITSECTION__ as a checkbox (bug 57166).
• The automated browser tests were adjusted to speed them up and bind more correctly to list items in lists, and updated to a newer version of their ruby dependencies. You can monitor the automated browser tests' results (triggered every twelve hours) live on the server.
• Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide was updated recently to show some new and upcoming features.

Looking ahead: The character formatting menu on the toolbar will get a drop-down indicator next Thursday. The reference and media items will be the first two listed in the Insert menu. The help menu will get a page listing the keyboard shortcuts. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including support for alignment (left, right, and center) and better control over image size (including default and upright sizes). The developers are also working on support for editing redirects and image galleries.

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Talkback

Hello, Ocaasi. You have new messages at CutOffTies's talk page.
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Questia-email

Hi. Like a year ago you informed me about an e-mail conc usage of Questia. I never received, or I did and it went to spam or I messed it up ... Could you resend pls. --Wistula (talk) 09:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)  Fixed

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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue

Books & Bytes

Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013

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Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!

The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:

Increased access to sources: 1500 editors signed up for 3700 free accounts, individually worth over $500,000, with usage increases of 400-600%

Deep networking: Built relationships with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, Cochrane, LexisNexis, EBSCO, New York Times, and OCLC

New pilot projects: Started the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar project to empower university-affiliated Wikipedia researchers

Developed community: Created portal connecting 250 newsletter recipients, 30 library members, 3 volunteer coordinators, and 2 part-time contractors

Tech scoped: Spec'd out a reference tool for linking to full-text sources and established a basis for OAuth integration

Broad outreach: Wrote a feature article for Library Journal's The Digital Shift; presenting at the American Library Association annual meeting

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User:Ocaasi/Lifland

Just a note as I came across your draft via a Google search... it appears that Mr. Lifland has died: [3] [4]. Cheers! – Connormah (talk) 05:40, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Sad news, thank you for the update. I have created a stub as a start. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Ocaasi thanks

Mabuhay, Ocaasi Thanks for creating the The Wikipedia Adventure project, I find it fun and useful. I'll make sure that I will share this to my collages and friends. Keep it up. Kixzer (talk) 19:39, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, so glad you like it! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Visiting Scholar position

Hello I initially showed interest but didn't realize it was so history-centric. It looks like a great opportunity for others but since I really don't focus on history articles I'm going to decline. Thank you. --CutOffTies (talk) 14:58, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I think it's still a neat opportunity as they are 'new media' and history, so quite broadly construed. Feel free to still give it a shot! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

re: George Mason Wikipedia Visiting Scholar (please apply this week)

Hey Ocaasi/Archive 6, you have a reply at my talk page, for when you have a moment  czar ♔ 22:34, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Good to hear! Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

A Tesla Roadster for you!

	A Tesla Roadster for you!
	Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! Gg53000 (talk) 13:24, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks :) Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Approaching a library or organization for access

Hey Ocaasi, not sure if this is the place to post, I'm an active Wikipedian in Project Dentistry. I was thinking about approaching our local University Dental library or association to sponsor journal access for a couple of Wikipedians for work on the project (journal and etext access). Is there a standard approach that is used? Do they somehow become a "partner" (e.g. is they're anything in it for them?). Thanks for any info. I've already received the Cochrane access - it's very helpful. thank you btw Ian Furst (talk) 20:52, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Hey Ian Furst, sorry for the delay in replying. I think WP:TWL/Partners will be helpful for you. It'd be great to set up a time to chat briefly and talk about what has made our 'pitches' work well (or less well) as we've learned a lot doing this over time. If so, shoot me an email at jorlowitzgmail.com and we'll set up a skype or hangout or phone call. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

will email. thx. Ian Furst (talk) 15:32, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Help:Help desk

Help:Help desk, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Help:Help desk and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Help:Help desk during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:04, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Feedback request

Hi Ocaasi, I am looking for some feedback on my own editing behaviour. You may not want to get involved with technical discussion at chiropractic, but I am hoping that you are keeping an 'eye out' for any 'poor behaviour'. I have always appreciated your 'level head' and regard your constructive criticisms as an accurate way to check my own perspective. Editing here is only fun if we follow the rules and we don't care too much about the outcome! I know that sometimes I do care too much about the outcome. This is just a request that if you see me acting in a manner that could be viewed as non-collaborative, please feel free to tell me; here, at the talk page, or at my talkpage. Usually I assume that if I hear nothing from any of the more objective editors then I am acting ok; but I am worried that after a few days of regular 'back and forth', editors might just be avoiding us on that page rather than approving of our discussion in silence. I personally enjoy the 'back and forth' there, but I want to make sure that I am not acting in a way that would discourage the more objective editors from contributing as well. Thanks Puhlaa (talk) 18:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

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Your input on this RfC/U would be very welcome

Hi Ocaasi! You participated in an RFC/U concerning User:QuackGuru in 2011. There is a new RFC/U on for the same user at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/QuackGuru2, and your input would be welcome. Cheers, --Mallexikon (talk) 07:06, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

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TWA uses

This Month in Education had mentions of an interactive course and interactive tutorials. Have you suggested using TWA for mentoring student editors?

Is TWA used much in the Teahouse?

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VisualEditor Newsletter—February 2014

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some small changes to the user interface, such as moving the reference item to the top of the Insert menu, as well as some minor features and fixing bugs, especially for rich copying and pasting of references.

The biggest change was the addition of more features to the image dialog, including the ability to set alignment (left, right, center), framing options (thumbnail, frame, frameless, and none), adding alt text, and defining the size manually. There is still some work to be done here, including a quick way to set the default size.

• The main priority is redesigning the reference dialog, with the goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs and URLs and streamlining the process. Current concept drawings are available at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
• A few bugs in the existing reference dialog were fixed. The toolbar was simplified to remove galleries and lists from the reference dialog. When you re-use references, it now correctly displays the references again, rather than just the number and name. If you paste content into a dialog that can't fit there (e.g. ==section headings== in references), it now strips out the inappropriate HTML.
• You can now edit image galleries inside VisualEditor. At this time, the gallery tool is a very limited option that gives you access to the wikitext. It will see significant improvements at a later date.
• The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu is being redesigned. Your feedback on the special character inserter is still wanted, especially if you depend on Wikipedia's character inserters for your normal editing rather than using the ones built into your computer.
• You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu (three bars next to the Cancel button) (T54844).
• If you edit categories, your changes will now display correctly after saving the page (T50560).
• Saving the page should be faster now (T61660).
• Any community can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData by leaving a note at T53734.

Looking ahead: The link tool will tell you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. The warning about wikitext will hide itself after you remove the wikitext markup in that paragraph. Support for creating and editing redirects is in the pipeline. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including default and upright sizes. The developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments, some behavioral magic words like DISPLAYTITLE, and in-line language setting (dir="rtl").

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David Jubb

BeautifulAngel

Would you please be so kind and delete your wiki page on David Jubb? Thank you!

Hi Ocaasi, David Jubb himself would like this page removed. Would you please delete it?

Best, BA — Preceding unsigned comment added by BeautifulAngel 2014 (talk • contribs) 02:18, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Ocaasi, I appreciate the dialogue. Please expect an email from David directly.Thanks, BA — Preceding unsigned comment added by BeautifulAngel 2014 (talk • contribs) 02:50, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

JzG

If you're going to work on userspace drafts, you may not copy-paste chunks of text direct from sources into the drafts, because that's a copyright infringement. You have probably worked out the identity of the person who's blanking the page. I recommend you work on this offline until such time as you have a robustly sourced draft. You can probably guess why. Guy (Help!) 10:22, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Hey, JzG, I agree it's a copyvio issue, even as a userspace draft. I was hesitant to remove the content solely on a deletion request (likely from the subject), but agree it should be a paraphrased version even as a draft. Thanks for the recommendation. You did mention there were BLP issues as well. I'm not sure I agree on that point, would you mind going into a little detail. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:08, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

JzG, I've done away with the copyvio and restored the page as a proper userspace draft. Would you take a look, or if there is an OTRS request, point me to the ticket? Best, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:01, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Ah, I've found the ticket and replied. I also removed the NY Post source, which I assume was the BLP concern. Let me know if you have any other thoughts. Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:13, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Well done, thanks. I think this is in safe hands now :-) Guy (Help!) 18:02, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for your message--I actually passed the buck, to someone who is smarter, wiser, and kinder than me. Drmies (talk) 03:25, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes, Issue 4

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News for February from your Wikipedia Library.

Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers

Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement

American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia

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Help Needed

Can you please help resolve an issue ([5]). This AfD Debate has been pending for a while. Thanks for your time. Kanga Roo in the Zoo (talk) 14:12, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker)  Done — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 14:37, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

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As you may be aware, I've gotten the George Mason position. Forgive me for not responding on my talk page to your notes about it, I figured no point in stirring up competition! Anyway, I live only a few miles from there, and it's history so I think it will work out well. I've been complaining about the lack of resources for years but you went out and did something about it. Thanks.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:39, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2014

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This Month in GLAM: February 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue II, February 2014 Headlines France report: National Archives; Sèvres & mass uploads; Wikipedians in the European Parliament Germany report: Claim open culture, again and again India report: National Museum, New Delhi, India (January 2-5, 2014) Netherlands report: Art and Feminism; Wikipedian in Residence; War memorials Norway report: Women on Wikipedia Sweden report: Local portal and CC toolkits UK report: Wikimedia UK Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Signalling OA-ness Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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VisualEditor newsletter—March 2014

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.
• VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. These "slugs" are now smaller than normal blank lines, and are animated to be different from actual blank lines.
• You can use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+S shortcuts to open the save window, and you can preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window.
• After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed to the Interlingual Occidental Wikipedia, the Portuguese Wikibooks, and the French Wikiversity.
• Any community can ask for custom icons for their language in the character formatting menu (bold, italic, etc.) by making a request on Bugzilla or by contacting Product Manager James Forrester.

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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Cochrane links

Re our discussion on counting Cochrane links, I have put a list of all onlinelibrary.wiley.com external links in articles at User:Johnuniq/wiley. That can be used to test theories about how to identify a Cochrane link. If the worst comes to the worst, it would be possible to have a script read each page and search the result for "Cochrane" or other identifier. That would allow each URL to be identified as wanted or not. Johnuniq (talk) 02:57, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Hi Ocaasi, just had the Wikipedia Adventure and it was one of the greater adventures I ever had - I loved it!! All missions accomplished. Congratulations to yourself and all members of the team that made it possible. Needless to say how much I enjoyed the Teahouse and the Intersteller Lounge! Awesome. The whole experience put me in your shoes, gave me a better insight of what people behind nicknames and talk pages do and was educative and fun. I am proud of the badges I earned too. Thanks

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A pie for you!

Originally I selected a cupcake for you but then thought I should send you a pie so that you can share few pieces with your peers and not eat the entire thing yourself! Enjoy Mark.int (talk) 23:00, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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JSTOR

Last I heard I didn't have access to it. Do I currently have access? I can't remember the password/username anyway.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:08, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

As far as I can see, nobody yet has the extended access – see your thread here. Can Ocaasi confirm that access is being extended, and if so, when? Brianboulton (talk) 14:02, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Brianboulton (talk · contribs), access was extended. Reload and try again! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:12, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

I can't remember my user name or password!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:02, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Dr. Blofeld (talk · contribs), email me with the email you used to register the account and I'll get it sorted. Did you try the 'recover username' function which likely uses that same email address to remind you? Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:12, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: March 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue III, March 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Summer is over Germany report: GLAM ship; Open GLAM hackathon; Science 2.0 conference; GLAM meetup Mexico report: New GLAM projects in Mexico and Reynosa's City Hall donation of historical photos Netherlands report: Education; Libraries; Museums; Maps, Earth Norway report: GLAM edit-a-thon at Preus museum Sweden report: Many ways to meet Wikipedia UK report: Art, Women, the Police and the build up to Wikimania USA report: Women's History Month Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Open Access Button; Topic Pages Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Email

Jake, I sent you one, in case you didn't see it. Johnbod (talk) 16:56, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

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guided tours question

Hey Jake! I have a GuidedTours technical question for you. Do you know of anything you can use in place of gt.isPostEdit to check whether someone just pressed the Save button whether or not they actually made any changes to create a new revision?--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Pinging Superm401 (talk · contribs), as Sage, I am not sure :). Sage Ross (WMF) (talk · contribs), Matt Flaschen, was the real brains behind TWA's code so if anyone knows it will be him. Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:33, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I'm the one that suggested Sage talk to you. I couldn't think of a way; I just thought it might have come up in TWA. Superm401 - Talk 20:44, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Ah, I see :/

Sage, what we did to avoid the no-edit Save was to insert the forced go-back message and reload the page's editing function.

 
// Fail gracefully post-save but not postedit
var postEditButtons = [];
if ( mw.config.get( 'wgAction' ) === 'view' && !gt.isPostEdit() ) {
        postEditButtons.push( {
                name: 'Click here to go back and make an edit',
                onclick: function() {
                        window.location.href = new mw.Uri().extend( { action: 'edit' } ).toString();
                }
        } );
}

Not sure if that's useful to you, or if you have situations where you want them to save null edits. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 21:03, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I already stole that feature, but was hoping for a little more flexibility. For the BeBold tour, the users edit and interact with a single page over the course of multiple edits, then follow links they created. If they follow the directions precisely, they will get through it, but if they improvise (such as, say, creating the correct link as well as another link), then they may end up needing to be redirected back to an edit page to try again but not actually needing to make an edit in order to follow the directions. Probably its an edge case, but I was hoping to find a way to account for it via tour logic (instead of more tedious instructional text).--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 17:25, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

WVS Montana

The WVS Montana link is a private Google Doc (FYI) czar ♔ 04:00, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

fixed the doc link  Done

(and the Rutgers link doesn't have contact info or a timeframe, and the Riverside app was due on the 10th, though it was just posted—might be worth clarifying on the page) czar ♔ 04:02, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

great catch! working on it Czar (talk · contribs) Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:38, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 5

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Books & Bytes
Issue 5, March 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

• New Visiting Scholar positions
• TWL Branch on Arabic Wikipedia, microgrants program
• Australian articles get a link to librarians
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Wikipedia Visiting Scholars and the University of Alabama

I am a professor at the University of Alabama who often works with its libraries' administration and who has contributed to Wikipedia since 2005. I'd like to help UA could get involved in the Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program, but I'm not sure where to start. The link to OCLC on the Visiting Scholars article (www.oclc.org/config) does not work. Can you please advise me? Thanks. Jeremy Butler 11:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello :)

Hi Jake, hope everything is fine! I sent you an email last week, and I really count on your answer. Thanks! --Elitre (WPS) (talk) 14:29, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about the vandalism to LJN

Title says it, and it won't happen again! Vandalism normally doesn't happen from this account. Thebestofall007 (talk) 16:55, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Education Program technical update, April 2014

Since the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:

Default course end date

The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.

Notifications when you get added to a course

Whenever a user gets added to a course by someone else, they will now receive a Notification.

Disabling individual student profiles

The student profile special page (Special:Student/Username, not to be confused with Special:Students) is a page that lists the courses a student editor is enrolled in, and is also supposed to list the articles that user is working on. However, the list of articles can include incorrect data in cases where an instructor or volunteer assigned the articles to the student editor. These profiles are being removed from the extension altogether. This change should go into effect Thursday, May 1. (Logs are still available to find out which courses a user is enrolled in.)

Article edit notifications for students coming soon

A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.

Duplicate courses and API deletion

Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.

If you have feedback about these changes, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let Anna Koval or me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter—April 2014

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on performance improvements, image settings, and preparation for a simplified citation template tool in its own menu.

• In an oft-requested improvement, VisualEditor now displays red links (links to non-existent pages) in the proper color. Links to sister projects and external URLs are still the same blue as local links.
• You can now open templates by double-clicking them or by selecting them and pressing  Return.  This also works for references, images, galleries, mathematical equations, and other "nodes".
• VisualEditor has been disabled for pages that were created as translations of other pages using the Translate extension (common at Meta and MediaWiki.org). If a page has been marked for translation, you will see a warning if you try to edit it using VisualEditor.
• When you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor, the full protection notice and most recent log entry are displayed. Blocked users see the standard message for blocked users.
• The developers fixed a bug that caused links on sub-pages to point to the wrong location.
• The size-changing controls in the advanced settings section of the media or image dialog were simplified further. VisualEditor's media dialog supports more image display styles, like borderless images.
• If there is not enough space on your screen to display all of the tabs (for instance, if your browser window is too narrow), the second edit tab will now fold into the drop-down menu (where the "Move" item is currently housed). On the English Wikipedia, this moves the "Edit beta" tab into the menu; on most projects, it moves the "Edit source" tab. This is only enabled in the default Vector skin, not for Monobook users. See this image for an example showing the "Edit source" and "View history" tabs after they moved into the drop-down menu.
• After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed as an opt-in feature at Meta and on the French Wikinews.

The drop-down menu is on the right, next to the search box.

Looking ahead:  A new, locally controlled menu of citation templates will put citations immediately in front of users. You will soon be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) is being developed. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") will be offered as a Beta Feature soon. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Monday, 19 May 2014 at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this on your own page, subscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor#Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Library Research Coordinator

Yeah sure, count me in. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:17, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

High Beam

Hello, I still have problems to enter to HighBeam. What can I do? --Nicola54 (talk) 17:32, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi @Nicola54:, will you ping @Nikkimaria:, ask her to check and resend your access code, and troubleshoot from there. If needed, we'll just give you a new code. Best, Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:37, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! --Nicola54 (talk) 17:40, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

E-mail

Hello, I sent this e-mail to wikipedialibrary at gmail on April 20 but haven't received a reply. I want to make sure you received it

I am currently in a MLS program and would like to get more involved with this project if possible. My background is web application development (ColdFusion, javascript, database) and I'd like to pursue tech-focused activities.

In looking at the TWL main page, this is something that I'd really like to be a part of:

Build tools which support research. Developing technology to connect directly with available sources, library search interfaces, citation indexes, and authorized websites makes all this easier.

I have extensive experience editing Wikipedia, though for this project I'd really like to get involved with back-end development.

Thank you!

--CutOffTies (talk) 23:13, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Credo

When I login to Credo, I'm getting a "HTTP Status 403 - Institution '5749' is not authorized to access any titles" error. I haven't seen that issue before. Thanks for any help you might have on this. Thanks. — X96lee15 (talk) 01:43, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey @X96lee15:. Can you email me at jorlowitzgmail.com with the email address you used to register for CREDO. I'll pass this on to them for troubleshooting. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:10, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Sent. Thanks — X96lee15 (talk) 17:25, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Adventure

Hi Ocaasi, I played through the full TWA today. It was interesting and I'm glad you made it! I have a question though. There are feedback forms piling up in the Interstellar Lounge. I was thinking it would be a place for newbies to leave comments. When you invite people to take a break would it make sense to send them to the Teahouse instead, or would it make sense to put the feedback forms on a page that's not implicitly a social page? Thanks! --Pine^✉ 07:42, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

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The Cure Award

I must admit to embarrassment. I am quite sure that if I had as many medical edits as listed, they were all vandalism reversions. I do write articles and make content contributions and edits, but I almost always do that in the field of history. So I should not have the Cure Award. I believe it would not be of any use to you under the circumstances for me to answer the survey. Sorry, but perhaps it is of some use for you to know that medical articles need to be watched for vandalism and at least a few of the editors are contributing through vandalism reversion rather than through writing substantive content. Donner60 (talk) 19:36, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
I also left this message for Doc James, User talk:Jmh649. Donner60 (talk) 19:40, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Reverting vandalism is exceedingly important. Thus you have my appreciation :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 20:35, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-19

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
• The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [6]
• It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [7]

VisualEditor news

• External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [8]
• The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [9]
• You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [10]
• There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [11][12]
• Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [13] [14]
• You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [15] [16]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [17]
• You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
• If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [18] [19]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

Hello Ocaasi, Doc James and the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation

I hope I can help You with translation of this message. I did translate this message into estonian, but it needs some help from wikipedia administrators, as soon as they answer I can send translated message to You.

one question althougt - quick 5-question survey? does this survey need translation also? (I think not? but to be sure of I ask it anyway)

Mariina 5. mai 2014, kell 10:29 (EEST) alias Простота — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.190.33.48 (talk) 07:33, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your help! I don't think we really have an easy way to translate the form, although people could translate it in their browser using google translate or chrome's browser I think. So, let's leave the survey as is but thanks very much for your offer and your assistance. Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:23, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

Hello Ocaasi!

My translation got some help so now I can send it to You!

Täname, et oled üks Vikipeedia parimaid meditsiinialastest kaastöölistest!

Ravi auhind

2013. aastal kuulusid Sina meditsiiniartiklite 300 parima toimetaja hulka kõikide Vikipeedia keeleversioonide lõikes. Täname Sind, et aitasid Vikipeedia lugejateni tuua tasuta, ülevaatlikku ja asjakohast ning aktuaalset meditsiiniinfot. Me hindame Sind ja Sinu tegemisi meditsiiniartiklite vallas.

Tahaksime teada, milline on meie meditsiiniartiklite parimate toimetajate haridus. Kas oleksid, palun, valmis täitma lühikese (5 küsimusega) küsimustiku? (Palun täida see üksnes juhul, kui said auhinna.)

90.190.33.48 (talk) 15:00, 5 May 2014 (UTC) alias Простота

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

Thank you for the award. Exactly which articles are considered medical, how do I figure that out?

Also, are there historical records of names that have received awards like in number of edits?

Please respond to my page.

--David Hedlund (talk) 15:52, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi @David Hedlund:! Here are the links with data/statistics: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Stats#Editor_numbers. Doc James can tell you more about the process used to identify medical articles, but it has a lot to do with taking the English Wikipedia articles tagged by WikiProject medicine and then combing through the interwiki interlanguage links to find equivalent subjects on other Wikipedias. I believe that's how it was done. Ask James for more details. Cheers and thanks for all your work! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:55, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. I could find my name at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Stats/Top_English_medical_editors_2013

Also, the article says "Note: Number of edits listed is only the number of edits to medical articles tagged as WP:MED" --David Hedlund (talk) 16:22, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Do you know how to list all "medical articles tagged as WP:MED"? --David Hedlund (talk) 16:57, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

@David Hedlund:, you can get a table here [20] and the breakdown is also at WP:MED. Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:22, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

What is the exact recepie to do what I asked for in the page you provided? --David Hedlund (talk) 17:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your spam!

Thank for your spam, but I'm not interested and only a top contributor because I am a vandal fighter. Please don't this spam again. Thanks. JurgenNL (talk) 18:06, 5 May 2014 (UTC) @JurgenNL:, hi! Thanks so much for your work as a vandal fighter. You are a very important protector of our medical content I'm sure, whether you intend to be so or not. Duly noted, however, no more barnstars for you ;) Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 19:05, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

The cure Award

Thank you for this feed back. You ask for help to translate this message in local language, so I've made a French translation (may be to late to be usefull, any way) :

---

	The Cure Award (Le prix des contributions médicales)
	En 2013 vous faites partie du top 300 des contributeurs médicaux de Wikipedia, toutes langues confondues. Merci beaucoup d'aider à apporter au public une information médicale libre, complète, exacte et à jours. Nous vous en somme vraiment reconnaissant pour le travail vital que vous faites!

On aimerait connaître le baguage éducatif de nos éditeurs médicaux. Pourriez-vous s'il vous plais compléter ce formulaire? (à ne remplir que si vous avez reçu ce prix).

Encore merci. :)

---

Thank you to take care of this cure project. ;) --Smily (talk) 07:47, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

The Cure Award

Hello, I got a message from you telling that I am one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia.

Well, I edited very few articles on medical topics, the number of edits can't be more than 100 for sure. But probably it's like 20 or 30. I really hope I am not one of the top 300. Because if I am, then it means Wikipedia is going down fast. But if I'm in the first 300 on Romanian Wikipedia, that's ok. I hope it's a bug in your counter, so here I am to report it. Best regards. —  Ark25  (talk) 19:24, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Hey Ark. You have made 129000 edits to ro.wikipedia, many of them during 2013 [21]

We have counted every edit made in main space to an ro article that corresponds to an article tagged as part of WPMED on English Wikipedia.

Thus I bet that there is a good chance you reverted that much vandalism on these pages. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 20:35, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I didn't reverted much at all. —  Ark25  (talk) 18:54, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

I edited a lot of talk pages of such articles though. Maybe that's why I get in the first 300. —  Ark25  (talk) 16:58, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-20

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [22]
• Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [23]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [24] [25]
• You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [26] [27] [28] [29]
• You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [30] [31]
• The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [32]
• The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [33] [34] [35]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [36]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [37]

Problems

• There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [38] [39]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Where can I find data on The Wikipedia Adventure?

Hey, curious to see if the Wikipedia Adventure helped to retain new editors. Is there any data somewhere? Thanks! Anyashy (talk) 15:00, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

@Anyashy:. Hi! We have a final report from the grant here. But it only looked at a few weeks of activity. We're re-running numbers in May and will have much better long-term data. Hope you're doing great. Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 18:57, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

@Ocaasi: Thanks! I'm thinking about attending the Social Machines Hack pre-Wikimania and thought I'd bring up the Teahouse and Wikipedia Adventure projects as effective examples of "social UX" on Wikipedia. I'm also putting down some thoughts about the theory behind these projects here. Feel free to jump in. :) Especially if you know of any other similar projects. Or, you know, ping me and I'll add them. Any chance of seeing you this side of the Atlantic in August? Anyashy (talk) 02:48, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

@Anyashy:. I'll be at Wikimania of course, August 6-14 ish, as I haven't decided my dates. Will you be going??? Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:53, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

@Ocaasi: So far that's the plan. :) When you know, ping me your details for when you're in London. Anyashy (talk) 15:51, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

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The Cure Award

Thank you for giving me "The Cure Award". Although I did not worked much but now onwards I would love to translate more and more pages for the spread of free medical knowledge. --سیانف (talk) 19:56, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

@Jmh649:, @CFCF:... Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:32, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks and left a note, Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 01:30, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [40] [41] [42]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [43] [44]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [45] [46]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [47] [48]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [49] [50]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [51] [52]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [53]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [54] [55]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [56] [57]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [58]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

WP India references

User:Ocaasi and User:The Interior, I contacted you (@ User:Ocaasi) with an idea to include some WikiProject India related reference site. WP India very much needs such option. Could you tell me the procedure of approaching sites/projects, so that I can contact a few sites and orgs. Tito☸Dutta 06:30, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter—May 2014

Did you know?

The cite menu offers quick access to up to five citation templates.  If your wiki has enabled the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, press "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" and select the appropriate template from the menu.

Existing citations that use these templates can be edited either using the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" tool or by selecting the reference and choosing the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu.

Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on the new citation tool, improving performance, reducing technical debt, and other infrastructure needs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks is the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". The new citation menu offers a locally configurable list of citation templates on the main toolbar. It adds or opens references using the simplified template dialog that was deployed last month. This tool is in addition to the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu, and it is not displayed unless it has been configured for that wiki. To enable this tool on your wiki, see the instructions at VisualEditor/Citation tool.

Eventually, the VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for these citations. When this long-awaited feature is created, you could add an ISBN, URL, DOI or other identifier to the citation tool, and VisualEditor would automatically fill in as much information for that source as possible. The concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog, and your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted.

• There is a new Beta Feature for setting content language and direction.  This allows editors who have opted in to use the "Language" tool in the "Insert" menu to add HTML span tags that label text with the language and as being left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL), like this:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span>. This tool is most useful for pages whose text combines multiple languages with different directions, common on Right-to-Left wikis.
• The tool for editing mathematics formulae in VisualEditor has been slightly updated and is now available to all users, as the "⧼math-visualeditor-mwmathinspector-title⧽" item in the "Insert" menu. It uses LaTeX like in the wikitext editor.
• The layout of template dialogs has been changed, putting the label above the field.  Parameters are now called "fields", to avoid a technical term that many editors are unfamiliar with.
• TemplateData has been expanded:  You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData, and VisualEditor will display them in the template dialogs like required ones.  "Suggested" is recommended for parameters that are commonly used, but not actually required to make the template work.  There is also a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name, for file names.  The template tool can now tell you if a parameter is marked as being obsolete.
• Some templates that previously displayed strangely due to absolute CSS positioning hacks should now display correctly.
• Several messages have changed: The notices shown when you save a page have been merged into those used in the wikitext editor, for consistency.  The message shown when you "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽" out of an edit is clearer. The beta dialog notice, which is shown the first time you open VisualEditor, will be hidden for logged-in users via a user preference rather than a cookie.  As a result of this change, the beta notice will show up one last time for all logged-in users on their next VisualEditor use after Thursday's upgrade.
• Adding a category that is a redirect to another category prompts you to add the target category instead of the redirect.
• In the "Images and media" dialog, it is no longer possible to set a redundant border for thumbnail and framed images.
• There is a new Template Documentation Editor for TemplateData.  You can test it by editing a documentation subpage (not a template page) at Mediawiki.org: edit mw:Template:Sandbox/doc, and then click "Manage template documentation" above the wikitext edit box.  If your community would like to use this TemplateData editor at your project, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
• There have been multiple small changes to the appearance:  External links are shown in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.  This is a lighter shade of blue than the internal links.  The styling of the "Style text" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin.  VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽" dialog, now use a "loading" animation of moving lines, rather than animated GIF images.  Other changes were made to the appearance upon opening a page in VisualEditor which should make the transition between reading and editing be smoother.
• The developers merged in many minor fixes and improvements to MediaWiki interface integration (e.g., edit notices), and made VisualEditor handle Education Program pages better.
• At the request of the community, VisualEditor has been deployed to Commons as an opt-in. It is currently available by default for 161 Wikipedia language editions and by opt-in through Beta Features at all others, as well as on several non-Wikipedia sites.

Looking ahead:  The toolbar from the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. More buttons and icons will be accessible from the keyboard.  The "Keyboard shortcuts" link will be moved out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) and inline images is being developed. You will be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. VisualEditor will be available to all users on mobile devices and tablet computers. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

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Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [59] [60] [61] [62]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [63] [64]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [65] [66]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [67]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [68]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [69]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [70] [71]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [72] [73] [74]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [75] [76]

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Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

High Beam, Questia, Credo

Hi Ocaasi - a while ago you told me that I had been approved for High Beam but you ran out of accounts, so I was put on the round 7 list. I see that I was approved for round 7 but I never got any information about accessing it, as far as I remember. (I had some off wiki stuff going on this last year so dropped this ball.) Can you update me on my High Beam access as well as how to renew my Questia - and were there any others I applied for? Thanks - would really like to be able to access these systems. Thanks very much Tvoz/talk 21:16, 29 May 2014 (UTC) [sorry for duplication - no idea how I managed to do that]

Just re-checked my wiki email account and I do have the HighBeam access info - sorry about that. But I do need to know how to renew Questia and if there were others what the story is for Credo. Thanks so much. Tvoz/talk 21:38, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi @Tvoz: You just need to reapply for Questia at WP:Questia. For Credo we're exploring a new donation, so make sure you're signed up at WP:CREDO. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 21:59, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks - I reapplied for Questia and see that I'm still listed on Credo. Hoping for the best! Tvoz/talk

Trouble accessing Questia (and HighBeam)

(Minor note, to editors experiencing issues - please contact the coordinators instead of contacting Questia/High Beam/etc.. directly. Thank you. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 04:10, 15 May 2014 (UTC) )

Hi! I am User:Neonorange. Last week I was approved for a Questia account. I registered and logged in successfully. I used Questia over the following days. Today (14MAY14) I was approved for a HighBeam account. I registered and logged in successfully. I used HighBeam for about an hour. Later today, when I tried to login on HighBeam, I got this message: The login information you entered does not match an account in our records. Please try again. If you need help, request your login information.

I followed the directions for resetting a forgotten password, received an email with a one-time URL for reset, rest the password, then tried to login - and got the same message. Went through several cycles of this, using IE11 and Firefox with identical results. And now I get the same message when I try to login on Questia. Went through the same cycles as with HighBeam, getting the same message after each reset. I did call customer support, but their suggestions were of no help.

Are any other Wikipedians having similar troubles? Can you offer any help? I'd already found sources I can use for articles, but then, nothing...

Thanks - Neonorange (talk) 20:39, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

I've replied to this specific query via email, but there have been a few similar problems reported within the past couple of days - Wikipedia:HighBeam/Support#Note for Questia users. Ocaasi, any more insights since we talked about this last? Neonorange's situation is a bit different from the other reports, so there could be something else going on there too. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:35, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks @Nikkimaria: and @ChrisGualtieri: for looking into this. I'll email our contact first thing tomorrow morning. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 02:40, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

This is indeed bizarre. I've not had any reports of this on the Questia side and I've been checking each one to make sure - I did have a lost code once prior, but that's to be expected out of the hundreds we've given out. I'll look into this more, but I think we can try and cut down on the issue by advocating more use of special-purpose e-mails for it. I advocate brand new e-mails for Questia, since renewals cannot be done. The one error I had on my end has not been duplicated since. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 04:05, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

I am back from travels, and now have access to my desktop again. I managed to submit my email address to Questia, received a password reset link, reset my password, and regained access to my Questia account. Access works with Firefox and IE 11 (over a dozen successful log-ins).

Still no access to Highbeam. When I attempt to log in to my Highbeam account, I get the same The login information you entered does not match an account in our records. Please try again. If you need help, request your login information message as before. I submit my email address to Highbeam in an attempt to reset my password. The email address is accepted (with a note displaying I will receive an email with a reset link). But, no email appears (repeat cycle - same result). No email reply from Questia/Highbeam (as was promised in the phone conversation I had two weeks ago). I recognize that a single point interface with Questia/Highbeam is the way to go; I called before I fully read the instructions, and then realized I shouldn't expect a response. Any ideas? - Neonorange (talk) 06:56, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Still no access to Highbeam. I did receive an email from Highbeam with a password reset link (the email took a few hours to be delivered, so I had assumed, incorrectly, that I did not get an email), reset the password successfully, then logged in with the new password. Same results. Tried both IE 11 and Firefox; immediately and after 12 hours, same message The login information you entered does not match an account in our records. Please try again. If you need help, request your login information. And now I just discovered my Questia account does not work! All I can think is that somehow it may not be possible to use the same email address for both accounts. It is not possible for me to resolve the problem. I have just now regained access to Questia (by resetting password), but I think that I will need a new account from you to get access to HighBeam. Before I use a new account for HighBeam I will generate a new email address. - Neonorange (talk) 17:58, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Hey Neonorange, once you've got a new address ready email me with it and I'll send you a new code. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:07, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Nikkimaria, thanks for your patient help. I've sent my new email address (for HighBeam account only) to your Wikipedia email address. - Neonorange (talk) 03:07, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Hey Nikkimaria. So, I am still snake-bit. I sent you an email, through Wikipedia, giving the gory details. - Neonorange (talk) 03:18, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

I am pleased to close out this thread; I now have a functional HighBeam account! Thank you, Nikkimaria, for sticking with me.

• The first failed attempt, using the first code, was likely due to using the same email address ID for my HighBeam account as for my Questia account.
• The second failed attempt, using the second code, and a new email address, was likely due 'user error' on my part. The simplest explanation is that I did not enter the email ID that corresponded to the email ID that I had written down. Subsequent attempts to log in, using the correct email ID written down did not work. I have no evidence this is the case because HighBeam does not email a confirmation link to the registered email address.
• The third attempt, using the third code, was successful. However, for this attempt, I changed my IP address and registered the account from an iPad using a new email address. I sacrificed debugging to reach a quicker resolution. -Neonorange (talk) 21:27, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Talk at WikiConUSA

Nice talk on Libraries and Wikipedia today at WikiConferenceUSA! Very informative, I'm currently involved in the Resource Exchange because I have access to a lot of online library materials. -Newyorkadam (talk) 14:55, 31 May 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam

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Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [77]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [78]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [79] [80]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [81]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [82]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [83] [84]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [85] [86]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [87] [88]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [89]

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Books & Bytes, Issue 6

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 6, April-May 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

• New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
• TWL does Vegas: American Library Association Annual plans
• TWL welcomes a new coordinator, resources for library students and interns
• New portal on Meta, resources for starting TWL branches, donor call blitzes, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar news, and more

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The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014

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Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
• You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [90] [91]

VisualEditor news

• You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [92] [93]
• The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [94] [95] [96]
• You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [97] [98]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [99]
• You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [100]
• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [101] [102]
• You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [103] [104]
• Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [105] [106] [107]
• You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [108] [109]
• Hovercards will no longer flicker. [110]

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FYI: You have mail

Best,--Aschmidt (talk) 17:50, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors

Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

Hi Ocaasi! I received a message from a bot (signed up thanks) and remember I saw your name in the archives regarding chiropractic. There is an Arbcom review happening right now on the topic as well as this discussion [111]. I would like to have an outside voice peek in, if you're willing. Thanks for any consideration. Neuraxis (talk) 02:29, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Neuraxis, Hi and nice to speak with you. I've happily left chiropractic behind and fear whenever a particularly tendentious editor is active there that progress slams to a halt. I think sufficiently neutral minds are on the case, including some thoughtful admins, and I'm sure it will turn out ok in a few months. Otherwise I will be staying out of this one, sorry. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 02:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

BMJ subscription sign up page

Greets, thanks for the notice and for managing some of the subscription programs. I noticed that the sign up page for the BMJ seems like some content was cut and pasted from the Oxford University Press sign up page and some additional editing might be needed, in particular to the citation example. I would do it myself but I am not sure exactly what would be appropriate on this page. Thanks. - - MrBill3 (talk) 02:33, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Bill. Thanks for your sharp eye, I indeed just copied and pasted. I'd certainly appreciate you changing any mentions of Oxford to BMJ. For the citation, we just need any BMJ reference to replace it. I will get to it this week but feel free to beat me to it! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 02:35, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

TWA questions

Hi Ocaasi,

• Have you had the opportunity to test TWA with newcomers at edit-a-thons?
• Will TWA be integrated into the new "Re-imagining mentorship" project?
• Can you get me a list of the music tracks that you used in TWA? I might want to use them in my presentation somewhere.

Thanks, --Pine^✉ 07:43, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Pine :)

• I have used TWA with education program introductions and suggested it to folks running editathons. I haven't done that systematically, but I think it would make an excellent pre-editathon prep, or first-project during the morning. If you can think of ways to promote TWA to folks hosting editathons that'd be awesome.
• I view TWA as part of a set with Teahouse and Reimagining Mentorship. As we advertise TWA from Teahouse, I hope to advertise Mentorship from Teahouse and possibly TWA too. The only caveat is that TWA is for basically brand new editors (0-20 edits) and Mentorship is likely targeted at editors with 20+ edits. Still, I like the idea and think that it is worth mentioning to the Mentorship folks. As I'm an advisor on that project, I'll have opportunity to do so!
• Sounds are here: Wikipedia:TWA/Index#Sounds.

Cheers! Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 12:22, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

• Thank you! --Pine^✉ 06:43, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue V, May 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Libraries' support continues and strengthens Czech Republic report: Workshop in Seifhennersdorf‎; WikiTown Přibyslav Germany report: GLAM on Tour touring; WMDE Data fueling station Hungary report: QRpedia projects in Hungary Italy report: Wikipedian in Residence and Open Data Government Hackathon Mexico report: Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art donates 357 photos; partnership with Museo Soumaya; Iberocoop edit-a-thon Netherlands report: Libraries; Wikidata & DBpedia; Wikipedians in Residence; Open Culture Data Norway report: 2 x GLAM edit-a-thons Sweden report: Award, competitions and Coat of Arms UK report: No trouble at t'mill; Assisting Metropolitan Police with image licensing enquiries; Wikimania is coming USA report: New Edit-a-thons; GLAM at Wikiconference USA; Activities in New York City Open Access report: WikiProject Open Access launched on the English Wikisource Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

• You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

• You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [112]
• When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [113] [114]
• You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [115] [116] [117] [118]
• The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [119] [120] [121]

Future software changes

• Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [122]
• You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [123]
• You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [124] [125]
• It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [126] [127]
• Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [128]
• The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [129]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
• You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [130]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!

		The Original Barnstar
		For your ongoing efforts to make useful tools like JSTOR etc. available to content creators. Your hard work is noticed and very much appreciated and has more effect on the content of the encyclopedia that you will ever realize. Carrite (talk) 03:40, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

@Carrite: my pleasure to serve this community. Thank you! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 16:21, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Library

Hi Ocaasi, do you happen to know what happened with Wikipedia:OUP? I signed up in April and only realized today that I hadn't heard anything more about it. Thank you for everything you've done to set this up, by the way. Your hard work on it is very much appreciated. Best, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 01:36, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

@SlimVirgin: Hi! :) OUP was waiting for 150 signups but we are currently processing them this week! You'll get a form to give an email address and then OUP will send out codes shortly. Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 16:18, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

That's great, Jake, many thanks. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 22:15, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, but...

For the library offer and keep me in mind. But I suspect I'll be too busy to do more than check my watchpage twice a day until the fall. I have noticed, and appreciate your efforts. μηδείς (talk) 00:20, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Library Account Coordinators

Thanks for thinking of me. I'm unable to help for two reasons - I have applied for a free signup myself so it may be a COI but more importantly so I'm due to be on vacation after a week at my hometown for a full month with little guarantee of reliable internet access while I'm there. If you still need help when I'm back, I'll be glad to take something on. AshLin (talk) 16:52, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

For your constructive efforts on Wikipedia Library!

AshLin (talk) 16:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

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Offer to help with account access sign-up

Hi! If you need help on this project, I feel I owe it. From my short experience using HighBeam and Questia, spreading more research sources seem sure to improve Wikipedia. And considering the problems I had in setting up the two accounts, and the effort you and Nikkimaria exerted to get me started, I feel I've got a head start in problem solving for others B^) A few hours per week is little enough to spare. (My accounts are working well, by the way!) - Neonorange (talk) 06:43, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Awesome Neonorange, Il be in touch next week! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 06:08, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Library Issue

Hey Ocaasi, I e-mailed you (please don't disclose that e-mail id in private, yahoo is making problems that's why I used that id) and in e-mail I said everything. I think I'll be able to do the job. Thank you.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 04:11, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-26

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [131] [132]
• When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [133] [134]
• You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [135] [136]
• You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [137] [138]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [139] [140]
• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [141]
• CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [142]
• You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [143] [144]
• An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [145]

Problems

• On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
• Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [146]

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JSTOR access

Hi, I would very much like to be considered as one of the editors for trial JSTOR access. My email is activated on my User page, it seems Wikipedia:JSTOR that contacting you is the first step? In ictu oculi (talk) 09:24, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, scratch that, further down the page the apply procedure is explained. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:25, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Library Account Coordinators

Hi Ocaasi, I am also willing to help out with this important Project.--Saehrimnir (talk) 16:51, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Me too. Erika erika_herzog@yahoo.com BrillLyle (talk) 00:00, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Count me in too. Gamaliel (talk) 16:43, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014

Did you know?

The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

• They have moved the "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
• You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
• The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type  "date" for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and  "boolean" for values which are true or false. Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like {{citeweb}} → {{cite web}}) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964). You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
• Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
• They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references. When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead. 
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed. Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
• You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the "Page options" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
• The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler.

Looking ahead

The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

Supporting your wiki

Please read VisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

If you speak a language other than English, we need your help with translating the user guide. The guide is out of date or incomplete for many languages, and what's on your wiki may not be the most recent translation. Please contact me if you need help getting started with translation work on MediaWiki.org.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

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Hi Jake! I cann support a couple of hours at the night as coordinator. Regards, --ProtoplasmaKid (talk) 06:54, 25 June 2014 (UTC)