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The Edit About Meigè

Hi , Sorry for Bothering . My edit about Meigè was removed and was labelled as Vandalism , while I added Correct info about the place . I recently have joined wiki so I yet not know how to revert the edits back. I had given a proper source , Including the book and the orignal name . I have been to Meigè myself and this info is 100% correct . It will be a great help of your if you told me how to revert the edits or did it yourself. Thank You

Hassan Afridi (talk) 06:38, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

I have read the above message. I will reply when I have a moment. (I am currently writing the reply, but it is quite lengthy) –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 06:45, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Hassan Afridi: Seeing as your edit was reverted for "Vandalism", I do not recommend reverting back to it or introducing the information back into the article. I think it would be better if you discussed this matter with Doremo, as they're the one that recently reverted your edit. If you're sure the information is correct, I think you should find reliable sources for this information and list them in the talk page. A good help is Google. Please feel free to notify me of any future updates to this! –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 06:51, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

New discussion

Hey, ToxiBoi - Thanks for trying to explain Wikipedia policy to me. There are a _ton_ of rules. However, in the case of the paragraph I deleted, I intentionally removed the entire thing because the information was uncyclopedic, of questionable accuracy, and definitely did not belong in that article. I am sure there are many policies as to whether or not something should be deleted, but the warning you left on my talk page sounded like it was auto-generated, and that you hadn’t actually looked at the edit itself. Aphidx (talk) 03:48, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for writing to me, @Aphidx: I will admit I don't have a lot of experience with this topic. If this caused any trouble, I'd like to apologize. I was concerned with your edit because the removed paragraph had citations, but looking back at the removed paragraph it looks like that your deletion was accurate. Plus, I'm sure your edit would've been reverted by now if there was something truly wrong with it, which it hasn't. I did base the warning upon auto-generated warnings, so I also see why it sounds inhuman. Please note I've also added a section header to this discussion, to avoid confusion with the discussion above. –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 18:07, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Actually you were well within your rights to warn him for his actions. The deleted material was not "uncyclopedic" (not a word) but was actually resourced and researched and had been talked about on many occasions beforehand. The unfortunate reality here is when users like Aphidx fail to read the talk page and just resort to deletion, it deletes important information from articles and takes away from the entire process of how Wikipedia deals with disagreements about what is included. The way that the section was written was agreed upon over a long session of edit wars by the parties at hand, it would be best to avoid that from happening in the future, hopefully telling him the better approach will help him learn. Thank you for your work. 2600:8804:80:2280:E5FD:D402:F01C:B9E9 (talk) 04:38, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

In what way, even remotely, is cherry-picking a bunch of car magazines for their best possible stats, then using those numbers instead of the manufacturer's, anywhere close to acceptable to an encyclopedia, vs quoting the actual numbers? No other car article does this. That's what made it stand out. Aphidx (talk) 06:11, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

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As of Mon Jan 6, this account was created to maintain security. Please feel free to block this account if any disruptive editing arise from this. ToxiBoi~pub (talk) 06:00, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

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It looks like you're writing a letter.

(Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruhn3r(min3r) (talk • contribs) 23:13, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

I was not writing a letter. I was telling you, as was The Mirror Cracked, to stop your disruptive editing. It currently looks like you're just set on advertising Mario. I would suggest to take a small break, at this point I'm worried if an admin may prevent you from editing. You may want to read WP:Editing under the influence (trust me, it's helped me out before). Thanks! –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 23:21, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

(Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruhn3r(min3r) (talk • contribs) 23:23, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

say, wanna have a steak dinner? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruhn3r(min3r) (talk • contribs) 23:24, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

1) You don't even know who I am, and 2) This really doesn't look like something you should be discussing on Wikipedia. –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 23:27, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

"Draft" Templates?

I am aware that there's a process where editors can draft articles (WP:AFC), but is there a similar process for "drafting" templates? Specificially, talk page notices. Thanks in advance! –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 23:22, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

The articles for creation process is needed because a great many new editors wish to create new articles and most of them need guidance from experienced editors to succeed or be persuaded that what they are attempting to do is not consistent with Wikipedia's goals.

Relatively few people know about templates as items that are created by volunteer editors and it's a somewhat specialized skill. You can always create drafts of templates in your own userspace; the invocation process is just a matter of using doubled-curly braces.

Getting your draft templates to be considered for general adoption may require attention from other editors interested in templates and, in particular, the group of editors with privileges to edit templates. You could open a conversation at WP:VPT if there's no more specific place where the templates could be better considered. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:07, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: RAP DEVIL (January 20)

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Hello, ToxiBoi! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 23:16, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

:@AngusWOOF: I've gone ahead and resubmitted at the new noticeboard. Thanks, but what will I do with the original draft page? Should I speedy it? –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 23:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

mmh hmm

probably shouldn't make a high-quality image for an image that shouldn't be high-quality lol 199.189.101.209 (talk) 17:57, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

nvm fuck you199.189.101.209 (talk) 21:19, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Mmh-hmm. –ToxiBoi! _(public) 20:20, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

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Contested the deletion on the talk page. –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 23:41, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

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Happy Birthday!

So glad I just caught this in the middle of testing WikiLevy. Your wishes are much appreciated. Thanks! –ToxiBoi! _(public) 18:27, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Proposal at the Village Pump to streamline the welcome template

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

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(Marker) Wikibreak Seperation

Messages sent before major Wikibreak were restored above this marker heading. All messages under here were after the wikibreak. For more information: see [1]. –ToxiBoi! _(public) 22:40, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Welcome template

• Wikipedia talk:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates#‎RfC on welcome template standardisation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moxy (talk • contribs) 05:04, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Moxy (talk · contribs) (I think you're the one who posted this, if not, my apologies). But I was a bit late in recieving this, and now there's not much else I can add to the discussion. I hope you can understand. –ToxiBoi! _(public) 02:12, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

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WikiLoop Battlefield new name vote

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

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@Xinbenlv: Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I know I haven't used the tool much to patrol edits, but I hope that my votes will be helpful to those who use it more dilligently. Take care! –ToxiBoi! _(public) 02:04, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

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

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

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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Self-update: ToxiBoi account is back in use!

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In short, yes, I now have limited access to the account. The monitor is still destroyed, and the computer a bit laggy, but it still functions -- and is logged into User:ToxiBoi's account. For proof, I'll reply to this thread on my main account with `rfh38itgo4ihthg`. It's just gibberish that shouldn't appear outside this page.

Hooray..? Well, I'm hoping to extract the password outside of this broken computer so I can edit regularly on my main account, so I'm gonna do that ASAP. Thanks for all the advice! –ToxiBoi! _(public) 22:40, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

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Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

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

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

• More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
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The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

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

New requirements for user signatures

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Next: New discussion tool

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

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Illogicopedia

Hello! I am the BSOD user on Illogicopedia, and yes, for now you may have to edit under a different username. Most of our admins... do not do anything. That's all I got to say, seeya! -GoatLordServant ^{(Talk-Contribs)} 17:01, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

New, simpler RfC to define trust levels for WikiLoop DoubleCheck

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Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.

• The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
• It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

• As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
• There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[4]
• The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[5] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
• A large A/B test will start soon.[6] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[7] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiLoop 2020 Year in Review

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Dear editors, developers and friends:

Thank you for supporting Project WikiLoop! The year 2020 was an unprecedented one. It was unusual for almost everyone. In spite of this, Project WikiLoop continued the hard work and made some progress that we are proud to share with you. We also wanted to extend a big thank you for your support, advice, contributions and love that make all this possible.

Head over to our project page on Meta Wikimedia to read a brief 2020 Year in Review for WikiLoop.

Thank you for taking the time to review Wikipedia using WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Your work is important and it matters to everyone. We look forward to continuing our collaboration through 2021!

María Cruz
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:35, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Reply-link officially superseded by DiscussionTools

Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Editing newsletter 2022 – #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:15, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #2

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The [subscribe] button shortens response times.

The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)