Bigjolly. How to create a new wikipedia page? Please reply me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Utkarshshah53 (talk • contribs) 15:24, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Western Railway Elevated Corridor but inadvertently screwed up the table. Please remove Hindi and Marathi from the table. Also, there should be no underground stations as it is an elevated line. If you can find a source that says UG, then we should rename the article --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:11, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Hi, just remember this: If A exists, Be does not need to exist. Do read
WP:N. The reason why I asked for removal for local languages is 1. This is the English Wikipedia. 2. Adding oter languages will result in massive fight between users and IPs. That is all. Cheers, Happy Editing. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:32, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Gutkha
Nice to see your contributions on this article. Dr. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 09:13, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Templates
Just wanted to point out that adding to a templates documentation will not make those lines usable in the template. The actual template requires a change. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 09:48, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Mumbai's airport didnt open in 1980. only the current T2 did hence placing 1980 as year of opening in the infobox is quite misleading and confusing Trinidade (talk) 19:42, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar
Thank you for contributions expanding and improving the coverage of Indian whisky oknazevad (talk) 19:50, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Did you know?" nomination for two articles about Amrut
Hi. I've nominated the articles about Amrut Distilleries and its whisky that you created for the main-page feature
Hello. Can you please look at the new article Sulai? —BarrelProof (talk) 14:56, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
DYK for Amrut Distilleries
nominate
) 16:04, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Amrut (whisky)
nominate
) 16:04, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Beer brands
Hi BigJolly. I noted your question about beer brands on the Beer Project talkpage. We don't have an article on beer brands as such, though we do have List pages for some major brewery companies that have a range of beer brands, such as
Beer and breweries by region article, links to this information, there is no article that deals with it directly. BigJolly9 (talk) 14:36, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply
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We can continue this at the project page, where others may join in, and perhaps agree with your idea of a beer brands page. I've moved the above comments: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Beer#Beer_brands, and I'll respond there shortly. SilkTork✔Tea time 14:46, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, for your great contributions in the articles regarding Amendments of the Constitution of India. I nominated one of your article in the Did you know. I expect more intersecting articles from you. If you know articles which are new and interesting, please nominate it in DYK nominations. --Gfosankar (talk) 12:27, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the nomination, Gfosankar. Most of the amendment articles are new, and could possibly have a DYK which states their purpose. Regarding the current nomination, I think you left out the word "from"; it should be "lowered the voting age from 21 years to 18 years". --BigJolly9 (talk) 17:32, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
DYK for Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India
DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
For your excellent work on the Central Monitoring System article! Can you please also add substantial material about income tax enforcement i,e the investigation wing and the raid and search & seizure mechanism of the income tax department. Anyways kudos man, you deserve the barnstar! Uncletomwood (talk) 10:56, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the barnstar and the kind words, Uncletomwood. Do you mean the search & seizure mechanism of the IT dept in general, or the mechanism used in CMS? BigJolly9 (talk) 11:25, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
both in the Income Tax Department page. Uncletomwood (talk) 07:27, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Invitation to WikiProject Mass surveillance
WikiProject Mass Surveillance Dear, BigJolly9. We would like to invite you to join WikiProject Mass surveillance, a group of Wikipedians devoted to improving articles related to the privacy and global surveillance. If you're interested, consider adding yourself to the list of participants and joining the discussion on the talkpage.
Hi.. there... saw your latest work related to Mumbai. Just wanted to appreciate it. I use to update lots of articles related Mumbai and surrounding. Well I still do but not much as I use to do... keep doing good work :) KuwarOnlineTalk 13:44, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the barnstar, and the kind words. BigJolly9 (talk) 07:47, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Happy Easter and have a good Sunday Victuallers (talk) 16:03, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, and Happy Easter to you as well! BigJolly9 (talk) 16:16, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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.
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.
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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Bangalore Chennai Shatabdi Express
Hi, noticed your work on Mumbai Suburban Railways. I needed your assistance on an issue on
Bangalore Chennai Shatabdi Express
. Another user has been removing the links & references posted. I need a second opinion on his actions. Could you help??
Some of his brilliant thoughts - Mumbai central image to Surat railway station's article.[1]
Its a historic problem between us. Recently there was a discussion on whether detailed time tables should exist on train articles & several editors talked together on it without even once referring to any policy, i mean it was just editors talking to each other but this big quoter of policies just tucked in his tail between his legs & scooted out of there.
Hi, Superfast1111. This issue seems complex. Regarding some of the edits: I am not sure about the timetable. My understanding is that we would not include a detailed time table, but a quick description about how many services operate in a day and at what time they depart/arrive would be fine. Even if the user disagrees on its inclusion, you could include it if you and other editors achieve consensus. As for the Surat article, it is clear that the user got it wrong when he reverted your edit and replaced a Surat station pic with a Mumbai Central station one. However, his edit summary says that you are repeating the "same behaviour" for which you were blocked. I, certainly, dont have enough information regarding the history between you two to make an informed decision on this.
Regarding reliability of sources, I am again not very sure. When it comes to rail, I generally edit metro articles rather than traditional rail. Metros and Mumbai locals are usually well covered in the mainstream media. The user states that IRFCA is not RS. I dont know enough about the site to make a judgment on it, but I did find this short discussion where some editors state that it is reliable.
I noticed that you have had discussions with several other editors on your talk page. Also, I have not been able to find any discussion between you and the other user on the article talk page or your respective talk pages regarding this issue. Maybe, I missed it, but if there has not been a discussion, I suggest you take up the issue with the concerned user first. If you guys have disagreements, its always better to try to resolve it through consensus. Perhaps, asking the other editors for guidance, who I think will be more aware of the history of this issue, would be a good idea as well.
In any case, please let me know if I can be of any help. BigJolly9 (talk) 07:45, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
We have had not so fruitful talks most of which have had a not so pleasant conclusion. The repeated behavior was my reverting his edits on
Bangalore Chennai Shatabdi Express & see if you agree with the last 10 edits of his. A look at Pushpak Express
would also be appreciated. Thanks a lot for your assistance.
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A beer for you!
For digging out that image of N.S. Hardikar. Cheers! :-) Ashwin147 (talk) 18:27, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Ashwin. Cheers! BigJolly9 (talk) 19:05, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Personal Bias against a Brand
Dear BigJolly9- Its not Vandalism.
You are knowingly keeping ONE Case against a Brand in its History, thereby, giving negative impression about the Brand.
No Other WikiPages have the CONTROVERSY in ITS HISTORY Section.
If you want to badly insert that case (Guessing you have something against that particular Brand), Please insert Controversy/Court Case section and do so.
Thanks.
P.S- You are free too Ban me for the same- but does not change the fact that you have something personal against this Brand from the looks of it.
"No Other WikiPages have the CONTROVERSY in ITS HISTORY Section". I don't know how much of Wikipedia you have seen, but this is completely false. Several articles have controversial content in various sections. Second, if you want to accuse me of bias, please present evidence, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time. Perhaps, you work for the brand and that is why you are insisting on removing it. See how pointless such accusations are? Third, please explain your actions in an edit summary when you make an edit. Any editor on Wikipedia will revert section blanking that is not accompanied by an explanation. Fourth, please do sign your comments by placing four tildes (~) after your post. Finally, I am not an admin and have no power to block anyone. If you believe that the section should not be in the article, please start a discussion on the article's talk page and try to achieve
WP:CONSENSUS for the move. I will restore the article to its original state until then. BigJolly9 (talk) 10:55, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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I just noticed that you edited my user page. Please note editing other people's user pages and comments is something that you should never do on Wikipedia. BigJolly9 (talk) 11:01, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I am related to the Brand, That I will accept.
Also, I am unaware of how to start a Talk- and this was the option presented to me. If its outside certain online etiquettes, I apologize.
Anyway- I am unaware How I can put this view- of keeping the same content in a seperate section- as anyway it seems more logical. So I will keep changing it to this format as I have done- and would try to give explanation for the same.
Hi. If you actually have a connection to the subject, you should pay particular attention to
edit warring
.
Also, for the record, I have created articles related to several brands of alcohol (including other brands made by United Spirits Limited). I personally dont think anyone should stop consuming a product because of a solitary incident. But here on Wikipedia, we strive to be neutral and present all views - positive and negative. It is for the reader to make up his own mind on the subject. BigJolly9 (talk) 12:25, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, Just read about Conflict of Interest.. so will refrain from making edits.
And I agree that both Positive and Negative views should be shown- I myself would have asked same for any other page too- but at the same time, showing the Negative view first thing in History, does not sit right with me.
Anyway, will not be making edits as of now. Thanks for the help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Modi.priyansh (talk • contribs) 14:58, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for taking the time to read COI. It is not necessary for you to refrain from editing, but if you choose to edit an article related to a whisky manufactured by your employer (or their competitors), you will have to take extra care to ensure that all your edits are backed up by
reliable sources. This applies throughout Wikipedia, but in this case, as an employee of the company, your edits are likely to be scrutinized more than edits made by uninvolved editors. I do appreciate you discussing this with me and also admitting that you have a potential conflict of interest; that is always the best way to resolve issues. BigJolly9 (talk) 07:58, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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CCI Notice
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Wikipedia's copyrights policy. The listing can be found here. For some suggestions on responding, please see Responding to a CCI case. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 23:07, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply
sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mushroom9, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community. Grewia (talk) 17:57, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply
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VisualEditor newsletter—September and October 2014
Did you know?
TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.
With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.
There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that caused replaced some categories with a link to the system message, MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.
Increased support for devices and browsers
Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.
Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.
TemplateData editor
A tool for editing TemplateData will be deployed to more Wikipedias soon. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
Other changes
Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.
VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect or mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these in types of links can be created.
Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358).
Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir attribute but no lang set (bug 69955).
The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.
In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.
Supporting your wiki
At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community has been posted here. Thank you all for your work.
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.
Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.
VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Login and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings in the upper-right corner, to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.
It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.
The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available in Mobile Web.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.
Recent improvements
The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias next week, and eventually at the English Wikipedia.
The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar's menus are now shown in the menus. VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience / Design group. The appearance of dialogs has already changed in one Mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.)
Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search program could not find the page. A link inside a template, to a local page that does not exist, will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to a error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [2] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.
TemplateData
The tool for quickly editing TemplateData will be deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool is already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common response for that parameter. The autovalue can be easily overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.
In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.
Looking ahead
Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in tables will appear next Wednesday. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be possible later. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill featuresfor citations soon. To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus will be hidden behind a "More" item, such as "underlining" in the styling menu. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.
The user guide will be updated soon to add information about editing tables. The translations for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.
You can influence VisualEditor's design. Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Also, user experience researcherAbbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.
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Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).
Recent improvements
Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".
Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1. " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.
Looking ahead
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)
The Editing team plans to add auto-fill featuresfor citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
Translations of the user guide for most languages are oudated. Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translators are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
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It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See
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It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people on the cover of Maxim magazine (India) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Allure Russia cover models until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaana.com until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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state clearly the source of the image. If it has been copied from elsewhere on the web you should provide links to: the image itself, the page which uses it and the page which contains the license conditions.
add the relevant
copyright tag
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Hi, I see you have done some great work on many alcohol related articles. Sad to see you blocked. You should have known copyright rules. Anyway, just want to thank you for your contributions. I will continue your legacy to improve alcohol related articles (without any copyright violation). Thanks again. You will be missed. Cheers.-- Human3015Let It Go 19:56, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Elle boutique. Since you had some involvement with the Elle boutique redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. MB 02:08, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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