User talk:Nick Moyes/Archive 10

303: 736: 302: 735: 906: 905: 5683:. I'm glad they were blocked; a bored kid, I expect. But when I'm not sure myself, I prefer to err on the side of ensuring someone is fully warned, rather than immediately blocking, to give them that one last chance. All I had to go on were the contributions which showed they'd last edited 12 hours previously. I'd not seen that style of silly vandalism before. Thank you for letting me know. I hope eventually to gain a deeper understanding of the issues around how CU operates. But for now I'm still gaining general experience as a new admin. That said, I do believe there are certain situations where I feel IPs are not blocked for sufficiently long. For example, I didn't feel the warning given by another admin to 166.181.253.26 was appropriate for some of the horrible comments (some now revdel-ed) they'd made, so I weighed up indeffing versus a 1 year bock. I went for the latter, but it's always a case of trying to judge what is for the best of the project. I'm happy to receive feedback on any actions I take, and will either try to explain/justify or to reconsider in the light of greater understanding. Thanks for stopping by. 3898: 593:

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about in depth. It ignores self-published books, blogs and so forth. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I'm holding back on putting this article up for deletion purely so as not to discourage a new editor, as I know how horrible it is to have one's work dismissed. I do hope this sounds reasonable, and do please understand that most editors experience one of their pages put up for deletion at one time or another. Just like a young bird leaving the nest, this is a vulnerable time for any new article. Maybe with a bit more understanding and a chance to strengthen its wings this article might well fly. But sadly I have my doubts. I'll pop by in a few weeks and see how it's coming along. It may be then that a discussion on deletion - or otherwise - is worth having. Regards from the UK,

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go out of date when the interested editor leaves. It's important that yo don't get into an edit war, and one of the IP editors had posted at the talk page, so I advise you to enter into a discussion and come to some sort of consensus - because you're all interested in seeing a reasonable-quality article at the end of the day. I'm not going to semi-protect the article when all I see is constructive editing, albeit with slightly different views on how it should go. I don't feel it's vandalism. Remember that IP's are human too - so try to work together and agree how the article should look. It's really your move to reply on the talk page now. I'm sure you'll be fine,a nd it's fair that trivia ought not to go into articles if it can be found elsewhere. All the best.

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should have the London to Melton service. I was wondering though what could be done when people change parts of the article as it is not very reliable and with people removing correct parts all of the time it is becoming quite hard to get anything done to it. There are 2 users in particular User:92.14.199.35 and User:80.2.21.113 that have kept changing the part of the article in question. Could they be classed as vandalising the article as they have kept removing information that is correct. I did revert a edited with the reason "Reverted vandalism of correct and useful information." but I wasn't sure if this was correct so reverted my own edit. I would appreciate any help and guidence. Thanks

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and then immediately report them, despite there being no further editing on their part. I used to - and indeed still do - add such an editor to my own watchlist (or equivalent) and keep my eyes on them before warning and then reporting them. I'd like to see editors taking more responsibility to monitor and then only report the user when there's a clear need for admin involvement, so that it doesn't require them to do much backtracking and checking of each person's activity levels and warnings received. This isn't said against you - just a feeling I have in general. Cheers,

4925:, if it's genuinely that, or just say 'updating records' if that's what you're doing. 'Adding ref' (or even +ref) says you're inserting a source. It would be great to hear you say you'll set your User Preferences to prompt you to do this, though I can't force you. Like you, I do a lot of my editing from a tiny iPhone5 screen, and rarely have problems leaving edit summaries. I really thank you for engaging here, and hope to see you carrying on with your constructive editing in a clearer way in future. (Chuffed to see your last two edits did exactly that. Keep it up!) Cheers, 238: 5344: 3938: 4078: 5885:, Knowledge follows what name is commonly in use, and not what the person or thing is actually called by. That might seem counterintuitive, but that's how we work, as we reflect what the world at large says about a topic via proper, published sources (and that isn't always the same as the truth). I did check every image of the DVD and all the website listings - the DVD didn't list him; all the websites used Jamie, and I could find no social media profile account for them. It's something we'll have to live with for now, I'm afraid. Thanks for the cookie! 244: 5157: 927: 4051: 3872: 4021: 4101: 6381: 6333: 5058: 2127: 6391: 6347: 5146: 5068: 2179: 2137: 606: 31: 6312: 5047: 5104: 5086: 6323: 5168: 2113: 2855:

he is a public figure who has been interviewed on radio talk shows. At least one of his books has been published by an independent publisher, Pearl Publishing. He is an internationally known spiritual teacher with 8 books in circulation and 20 videos on YouTube. He is also mentioned in at least 2 other Knowledge articles (Ascended Masters is one). It is a public service to have this page available. Please advice with any suggested edits to make it more acceptable to you.

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spirit, in particular of a happy service-to-readers puppy properly wagging its technological and editorial tail instead of the other way around, and without "drama". It's also one of the few examples I've seen in a long time of a new wikiproject actually doing something useful and fomenting constructive activity (instead of acting as a barrier to participation, and a canvassing/ownership farm for PoV pushers). Kudos all around. — SMcCandlish

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will likely make the two languages synergistic if not symbiotic. Research is under way on how we can use JavaScript to make some of the portal semi-automated features fully automatically self-updating, in ways that Lua cannot. Like gathering random members from a category and inserting them into a portal's templates as parameters. Once the parameters are in place, Lua does the rest.

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offence to them, and issues are best sorted out without them escalating onto a 3rd party's page. It's especially important to avoid accusing another editor of vandalism (i.e. a deliberate attempt to disrupt a page) if all they've done is make a change they've not explained or which appears to be a genuine attempt to improve a page, even if you disagree with it. See

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overwhelmed with 100 bits of random, unstructured advice. Are timestamps necessary? How and where would this page be used/promoted? Do you plan to 'curate' this page or just let it develop as a free-for-all? All things worth thinking about before going public. Maybe a better name would be 'Editor advice for newcomers', or something less formal-sounding. Cheers,

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make sure to cite my sources whenever required. I will try to leave more edit summaries in the future (especially on bigger edits), but please know I have no ill intentions and have tried to be fair with all my edits in the past. I do listen to criticism but have also not had any major or long-standing problems with those who sent me requests previously.

5700:, I appreciate your response. I completely understand why you warned them. Vandalism fighting helps you pick up on vandalistic behavior patterns so when I saw their edits to the disambiguation pages I wanted to report them to AIV so their fun was cut short. Of course, if there is anything I can help with, feel free to let me know. Thank you again! -- 6557:. I do not plan on setting up a maximum length for the advice. I don't think the timestamps are necessary. I am unsure how to prepopulate the page. My thinking is that when editors provide advice to newcomers on the page, newcomers can use this advice to help them become better Wikipedians in the future. I don't quite understand what you mean by 6015:

I should start by saying that I only reverted the edit because I regard once a day as 'regular', albeit infrequent. I'm not familiar with what other train operating service articles put in their pages, though I never like seeing Knowledge being used like some timetable service, which will immediately

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Thank you, Nick Moyes. The reason I do not have many edit summaries is because I do a lot of minor edits and it would take a long amount of time to add repetitive summaries for each of them when many of them are self explanatory or quite small. I do not feel as if I have ever vandalized a page, and I

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their edit. This is more likely to happen if the user fails to explain the reason for their edit. In desktop mode, just go to the 'View History' tab of any page, where you'll see each edit on a separate line (with date, editor's name, size of change and - we would expect - a clear edit summary). Note

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To go beyond Lua's limits, to take full advantage of Mediawiki's API, we are in the midst of adding another programming language to the resources we shall be making use of: JavaScript. The ways that JavaScript can help us edit portals to boost the power of our Lua solutions, are being explored, which

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for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can

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user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security

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the other day and one of its members has been trying to clean things up, but the account that showed up this morning is edit warring. I posted some things on their user talk page, but I'm not sure whether they even know they have a user talk page. The next revert will push them beyond 3RR and things

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Sure thing- thanks. The one thing I would quite like to ask - of everyone - is not to report a user at AIV if either they've not edited for some time, or if they've not been properly warned. As an admin, it can be frustrating to see editors failing to warn a troublesome user at all, or warn someone

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Of course, if you're convinced an edit is done in bad faith, you can use Twinkle to select and to leave an appropriate notice on the offending editor's talk page. These should generally escalate in 3 or 4 steps and, once an editor has continued editing in bad faith beyond the final (Level 4) warning

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I can't comment on that, as football is not my thing, and the new editor did not specify anything for me to look at. However, I do think your total failure to use edit summaries is a legitimate concern, and I might be be posting on your talk page about that in the next few days. I certainly shalln't

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criteria, and redlinks in borderline articles tend to serve as a flag that demonstrate people are trying too hard. Ensure every statement is supported by a reference, and include the url in the reference if one's available. Both of our editing tools have drop-down templates for inserting references,

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Hi Nick, I hope that I am replying to your take down notice correctly, as the method to reply was not clear. Obviously I am a new editor on Knowledge. I started a page on Peter Mt. Shasta yesterday, July 12, 2018, and don't understand why you want to remove it. Although it is about a living person,

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If you can show to me how other, independant sources have covered your rabbbit cartoons in detail and in depth then I'll gladly help you understand what is and isn't regarded as 'notable' here. Knowledge isn't a platform for you to push or promote your pet projects. Go do that somewhere else please.

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Note that this is a prototype, not ready for widespread use. Click on the box in between the lesser than and greater than signs, to see what I mean. It was meant for pictures, and so the thumbnail feature doesn't apply to article prose very well. I've presented it even though it isn't ready, to show

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Evad37 has figured out a way to apply the picture slideshow feature to displaying article excerpts (now you can check out the provided box above). :) This allows us to bypass page purging to see the next selection, and you can even click through them rather quickly. Currently, the wikicode for doing

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That's brilliant, thanks. -if you can find a published source that indicates this has either happened, or will happen, it would be great to have in the article. I'd suggest a new section first, then forking off sa appropriate. I wont interfere, as it's not my area, and I hate reverting well-meaning

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about the London st Pancras to Melton Mowbray service. People using Ip adresses have been changing the article when it has been made right E.g the service has been added back as it is a service EMR provides but then the edit reverted by a different user. I personnaly think that the services section

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We don't block an editor for failing to leave an edit summary, although repeatedly ignoring requests from the community and not fixing the issue can lead to sanctions. (And that could, potentially, happen here.) I've just noticed that you did recently leave a request for them to use edit summaries,

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Well, now we have another template, courtesy of Evad37, which accepts one or more page names instead, and displays a random image off of the listed pages. So instead of listing dozens of files by hand, you can include a title or three to be scanned automatically. It even lets you specify particular

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What is "fully automated"? When you create a portal using a creation template, and the portal works thereafter without editor intervention, the portal is fully automated. That is, the portal is supported by features that fetch new content. If you have to add new article names every so often for it

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One of our participants got involved with this WikiProject through interest in how the new generation of portals would be handled in WP's MOS (Manual of Style). It didn't take long before he got sucked in deeper. This has given him an opportunity to look around, and so, he has made an assessment of

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That does not mean we should be idle in the meantime. The main reason most of us are here is because it became apparent that portals were largely unmaintained and had grown out-of-date. This had become so apparent that a proposal was made to delete all the portals and the portal namespace to boot.

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We have some very talented Lua programmers, who are pushing the limits of what we can do in gathering data from Knowledge's various namespaces and presenting it in portals. Due to their efforts, Lua is powering the selective transclusion core of our emerging automated portal design, in the form of

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We need everybody, except those building software components, to work on converting intros. If you have AWB, definitely use that. If not, then work on them manually. Even one a day, or as often as you can muster, will help a lot. There are only about 1,000 of them left to go, so if everyone chips

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Certainly not - at least, not at this early point anyway. I don't know who you've contacted, but a mix of old hands and new editors might be good. As the 'curator' I suggest you make it clear that you do intend to select out duplicates and keep the best/most helpful - otherwise you might drown in

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to English Knowledge in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will

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tend not to have not gone in their favour, and blocks have ensued. That does seem to be the case with your edits, where 99.2% of your 43,000 edits have no explanatory edit summary, and I see repeated requests for you to explain your edits when you add or remove content. So could you address that

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Bottom line: I really can't see anything that makes this person stand out as meriting an article on Knowledge. We aren't a public service, listing or promoting every minor celebrity, sportperson, scientist or preacher. Knowledge only cares about people that other independent sources have written

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I'm quite frankly really impressed and inspired by what's happening here. If you'd asked me a year ago if I thought portals should just be scrapped as a failed, dragged-out experiment, I would have said "yes". This planning and the progress toward making it all practical is exemplary of the wiki

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pl.: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of

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Eventually, the portal department will be a software program. And we won't have to do anything (unless we want to). Not even tell it what portals to create (unless we want to). It will just do it all (plus whatever else we want it to do). And we will of course give it good manners, and a name.

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Finally, I've not looked at the individual edits of the editor you're mentioned here, and won't do so unless you link to a specific diff. But to be frank, it's far better to engage with an editor in the first instance before raising it on an admin's page, as you've done here, as this can cause

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collects list items from a specified page, or from a section of that page, and transcludes the lead from a randomly selected link from that list. Courtesy of Certes. So, if you use this in a portal, and if the template specifies a page or section serviced by JL-Bot, you've now got yourself an

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An interesting initiative. You've not set up any criteria for additions, such as maximum length. 20 words? 50 words? 500 words? Do you plan to create sub-sections in which to put different bits of advice? I suggest you prepopulate the page with those divisions or otherwise a new edit will be

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Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read

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These things really are worth thinking out in advance before you rush into them. You could, for example, aim to gather the Top Ten Tips in each category (moving other ones into a hidden section, or over at the talk page. Like any project that goes public - think through the advantages and

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template to display pictures, be sure to use the plural tense in the section title: "Selected pictures". That's because slideshows don't show up on many mobile devices. Instead the whole set of pictures is shown, hence the section title "Selected pictures", as it fits both situations.

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a discussion forum, just a place where you say what advice would be helpful to our future editors. I would like to get at least 100 editors to take part in this so please feel free to spread the word to other editors as well. I look forward to seeing what you say to newcomers.

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That works for most portals, but not all. For some portals it requires some tweaking, and for others, we may have to use a different or more customized approach. Remember to visually inspect each portal you work on and make sure that it works before moving on to the next one.

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Hi, IP editor. No, that was indeed an error on my part. I did see it at AIV, but normally we only block accounts that have actually already edited, unlike this one. So please report if it actually starts editing - I'll then be happy to extend the block. But not until.

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The docs for Box-header says "A template standardizing the portal templates and for other purposes. If used for other purposes, note that if the TOC and EDIT parameters are missing or not set to yes, the table of contents and all section editing will be suppressed."

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notice, anyone can remove a PROD notice. But that doesn't stop an article subsequently being put forward for a deletion discussion, where consensus of other editors is sought. I fear yours may soon be, as I see nothing yet that makes this person clearly meet our

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Well, not at the present time, because building portals is quite time consuming. The good news is that we are working on a design that will be fully automated, or as close to that as we can get. And the new design is being implemented in the portal department's

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I'm amazed at how rapidly portals are evolving. And we're still within a single generation of portal technological evolution. Imagine what they might be in 2 or 3 more generations of developments. Pretty soon, portals will be able to shake your hand. :)

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I'm afraid Knowledge follows what published sources say, not what family and friend say - even if the former are wrong and the latter is right! The source you added and then removed also used the spelling Jaime, so we're stuck with it, I'm afraid.

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Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can

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Hi Nick. Would you mind watching this for a bit? There have some recent attempts to completely rewrite the article by accounts claiming to be the wife of the subject and the subject himself. I tried to get WikiProject Cricket involved per

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disadvantages of each approach, and think ahead to work out what might really be of interest and of real use to the target audience. I'm not suggesting it's a vanity project, but planning, planning planning always gets the best results.

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Yes, sorry, you may be right, though as yours were the only two edits, I felt I'd not unreasonably attributed the content to you on the target page. Hardly likely to lose any external links to it after just an hour in mainspace, either.

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As a new editor, may I welcome you to Knowledge. It can be very hard to understand all the procedures and guidelines, and making an acceptable new article is actually the hardest task for any new editor to achieve. You said to me, you

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We are in the process of developing a rating system specifically for portals, as the quality assessment scheme for articles does not apply to portals. It is coming along nicely. Your input would be very helpful. See the discussion at

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recently I have found a vast amount of categories with the word mountain in their title with no mountain project tag on the talk pages - and had gone from various regions and today bumped into the alps, in a manner of speaking...

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I do understand your rationale of removing duplicate comments. I'm not against it, but my concern with that is that it will discourage other editors from contributing. If I can find a way to get around this, that would be great.

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All but about 170 portals now have introductions selectively transcluded on the base page. Not counting manually maintained portals, that leaves about 70 portals that either need their intros converted, or they need an intro.

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What I'm getting at here, is that it would be better to wait to build lots of new portals until after the new design is completed. Because with it, instead of taking hours to create a new portal, it will likely take minutes.

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Or you could keep it as a work in progress and simply amass other people's short, sensible advice (with a link and a credit) whenever you stumble across a little gem someone says. (It might prompt me to keep my words short!)

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You didn't quite post on my talk page correctly, but not to worry. I've moved them both together here now. New posts go at the bottom of a talk page - just click 'add topic' and you'll get a box in which to write to another

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We've run into an obstacle using Lua-based selective transclusion: Lua is incapable (on Knowledge) of reading in article names from categories. Because of this, we'll need to seek other approaches for fully automating the

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I have added some headings to start off with. I have also added a sentence that says to keep the advice to be a maximum of 3 sentences. If it is not good, do you think I should tag the page for deletion and not do this?

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So, to be more accurate on reporting upgrade progress, that's one section down (for the whole set of portals), with (about) nine sections to go. (Skipping curated portals, regarding custom content sections, of course).

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The answer to this question is quite involved, and would fill this page to overflowing. Therefore, this subject, including a complete update on where we are at and where we are going with portal design, is covered at

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Currently, there is no quality rating for portals: in the Portals WikiProject box on each portals' talk page, it just says "Portal". But times are a changin'. Quality assessment is on the way, and you can help. See

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When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures.

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Hi, I did some search and found on the news that a Women's race at Paris-Roubaix is forseen for this year for the first time. Maybe we ll need to add a new section or even a new article (probably better). See

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section is semi-automated, because it requires that an editor supplies the names of the various articles for which excerpts are (automatically) displayed. For examples, look at the wikisource code of

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The Associated Wikimedia sections of the entire set of portals have been upgraded. These are now handled on each portal base page (bypassing the previously used corresponding subpages), using the

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The docs for Box-header colour states "Other parameters that are accepted by Template:Box-header can also be used in this template, apart from the following (which will be ignored if specified):

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About a thousand portals use the method of selective transclusion for the intro section. That's about two-thirds. That means we have one-third of the way to go on the intro section conversions.

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sold as pets often differ substantially in size from the common house mouse. This is attributable to breeding and different conditions in the wild. The best-known strain of mouse is the white

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Hello, Nick Moyes. I want to thank you for the very compassionate and perceptive response to a young editor at the Teahouse. And, thank you also for all the helpful advice you offer there.

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but for some reason you posted in the middle of their talk page. I'm not sure why. New threads and warning notices should go at the bottom of a talk page, as you've done here on my page.

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the link to 'thank' the editor, or to 'undo' their edit. Each line has a radio button which you can select in order to see the changes made across a number of edits, and displayed as a

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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

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Eventually, we may need another way to do slideshows. If we do go this route, and I don't see why we wouldn't, then (user configurable) automatic slideshows also become a possibility.

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edit summaries, and I've set my User Preferences to prompt me for them. I do this out of respect for others, and to help me find my own past edits. Feel free to Tick the box for a

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I got overwhelmed IRL (in real life) during the production of issue #12. So, here is a catch-up issue, to help bring you (and me) up to speed on what is happening with portals...

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So much has been happening with portals that I can't keep up with it. (That's good). Which means, more in the upcoming issue. Until then, see ya 'round the project. Sincerely,

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as a matter of background (unnecessary) I used to live next to an unskiable mountain in tasmania - it got snow but was a horrible conglomerate part of the west coast range....

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Once implemented, this will allow editors to create and edit cascading style sheets for use with templates. This will expand what we can do with portals. For more detail, see

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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (

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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (

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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (

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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (

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that keeps editing without edit summaries. Is it possible that he could be blocked or something? It also looks like he may have vandalised some things as well, Thanks.

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When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript.

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Also from Evad37, we have a new component for starting section boxes, that is color configurable, and that bypasses the need for box-header subpages altogether. It is

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Work is proceeding apace. We have 2 major thrusts right now: converting the intro sections of portals, and building the components of the one-page automated model...

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You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on

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made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Knowledge. Here's what happened since its introduction:

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be blocking anyone for that right now, though if the community repeatedly asks someone to conform to its practices, and an editor refuses, then recent decisions at

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there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening.

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all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles

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Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited "hot bloods" with speed and endurance; "cold bloods", such as

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On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page.

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While I think the IVS is likely notable on it's own, I think it was OK to merge into the VLBI article until it gets developed further. But you forgot the

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An AWB pass to convert intros on the portals has been completed. The pass couldn't convert them all (due to various formatting configurations, etc.).

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Was it your intention to only block this account for 24 hours. From what I've seen, accounts like these are usually indefinitely blocked. Thanks.

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this for article excerpts is a bit eye-boggling, and so we are looking into simplifying it. A streamlined version may be just around the corner.

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When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label).

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Thank you for that. I've certainly learned a lot since you invited me to contribute there, and its good to support amd help others when we can.

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Caveat: avoid super-huge pics, as they can cause portal scripts to time-out. Please try to keep picture size down below 2 megabytes. Thank you.

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Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change.

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That makes our main objective in the short term to improve all the existing portals so that the community will want to keep them—forever.

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between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.

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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on

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and 2. Why Josy the rabbit STILL doesn't qualify for "notability". And I've wondered, are The irate gamer and Sonichu notable either?

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as it is a very valid point. Turns out four of the five poets in question actually do have verifiable English forms of their names.

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It now looks highly feasible that we could get portal construction time down to a few minutes, or maybe even down to a few seconds.

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So far, 3 sections are fully automatable: the introduction section, the categories section, and the Associated Wikimedia section.

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Initially, we will need to explore options that allow portals to have slideshows without adversely affecting mobile viewers. See

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is busy adding panoramas to geographical portals that don't yet have one. Feel free to join in on the fun. See task details at

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Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an

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if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge.

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If an editor either vandalises, or inserts content which you dispute and which isn't supported with a citation, then you can

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has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on

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if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the

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Later, when the tools are up to the task, filling in the gaps in coverage (with new portals) will also become practical.

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to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of

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have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the

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the project looks resurrectable - but needs some tweaking in template/assessment areas - any thoughts/advice/whatever?

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Ashwrat is an actual Hindu deity i could provide a citation if so needed, Your allegation is unfounded and quite rude.

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automatically updated section in the portal. JL-Bot provides links to featured content and good articles, by subject.

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can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for

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