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[edit]The Wonder Weeks
[edit]Hi, I posted a note here asking you to look at the Talk page for The Wonder Weeks and help me better understand your concerns, but now I don't see it. Trying again. Bn (talk) 21:24, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Clarification of wording of Barbara's topic ban
[edit]Sandstein has closed the User:Barbara (WVS) ANI discussion with a topic ban worded "is topic-banned (WP:TBAN) from medical articles". Following discussion with Sandstein regarding the scope of that topic ban (User_talk:Sandstein#What_the_topic_ban_covers), it is felt that further wording is required. Therefore it is proposed that the wording of the topic ban is amended to read:
"By consensus of the community, Barbara (WVS) (talk · contribs), also editing as Bfpage (talk · contribs), is topic-banned (WP:TBAN) from health and medical topics, including anatomy and sexuality, broadly construed, and is also banned from interacting with Flyer22 (talk · contribs) (WP:IBAN)."
As you took place in the discussion, please visit Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Proposal_for_clarification_of_scope_of_topic_ban to give your views. SilkTork (talk) 08:40, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
April 2018 at Women in Red
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting
[edit]Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject Parenting
[edit]Regarding this WikiProject template, as I commented at the MfD page, I have created documentation at Template:WikiProject Parenting/doc. I have some questions regarding the banner template proper:
- Why have you provided the
|class=
and|importance=
parameters with positional aliases? This is very unusual, and can lead to problems with some scripts and bots. - Why is the parameter
|MAIN_CAT=WikiProject Women's Health articles
present? Did you intend to set it to something else?
I think that's it for now. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: Thanks for adding the doc! Neither of those issues were intentional. I fixed the main category bit. If you want to fix it go right ahead :). Mvolz (talk) 17:38, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- OK, I removed the aliasing too. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:54, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
May 2018 at Women in Red
[edit] Welcome to Women in Red's May 2018 worldwide online editathons.
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Wiki Loves Food
[edit]Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 20:57, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
References
[edit]Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN. We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Jytdog (talk) 01:15, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
Women in Red June Editathons
[edit] Welcome to Women in Red's June 2018 worldwide online editathons.
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July 2018 at Women in Red
[edit] Hello again from Women in Red!
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Compartmental models in epidemiology
[edit]I see you restored a section I deleted in Compartmental models in epidemiology. Did you see my comments on the talk page? Adpete (talk) 09:19, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
August 2018 at Women in Red
[edit] An exciting new month for Women in Red!
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September 2018 at Women in Red
[edit] September is an exciting new month for Women in Red's worldwide online editathons!
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October 2018 at Women in Red
[edit] Please join us... We have four new topics for Women in Red's worldwide online editathons in October!
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Get ready for November with Women in Red!
[edit] Three new topics for WiR's online editathons in November, two of them supporting other initiatives
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Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
[edit]- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [1]
Let's work together
[edit]- The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!
— Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:12, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
ArbCom 2018 election voter message
[edit]Hello, Mvolz. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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Editathon in Oxford
[edit]I know this is short notice (I only found out about it today), but there is an editathon in Oxford tomorrow evening you may be interested in m:Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen/Online edit-a-thon/Oxford Editathon. Thryduulf (talk) 16:26, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know! Unfortunately I can't make it though, alas! Mvolz (talk) 17:14, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
displayContributions.js
[edit]As an alternative to pasting the whole thing in global.js
, you could use the long-form of importScript()
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mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mvolz/displayContributions.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); // Linkback: [[w:en:User:Mvolz/displayContributions.js]]
I have to use this form whenever I want to use a script cross-wiki. It's really handy. — AfroThundr (u · t · c) 00:16, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
December 2018 at Women in Red
[edit] The WiR December editathons provide something for everyone.
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Children's Literature Project Relaunch
[edit]- Children's Literature Project Relaunch December 2018
Hi, I'm Barkeep49! You're receiving this message because at one time you had signed up for the Children's literature project. While the project has been largely inactive, I'm hoping make the project active once again. I think there are a lot of exciting directions we could take the project and I would love if you would join me by adding your name back to the active members list.
- Recognized Content
Congrats to the following editors for having newly recognized content in November and December:
The Adventures of Abdi by IndianBio | When Megan Went Away by Collin |
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January 2019 at Women in Red
[edit] January 2019, Volume 5, Issue 1, Numbers 104-108
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A page you started (Soft book) has been reviewed!
[edit]Thanks for creating Soft book.
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I've linked to your Wikimedia commons category and moved the template below the references list which looks cleaner. Hope that's OK.
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Merry Christmas (belated)
[edit]Redrose64 🌹 (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas6}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
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- @Redrose64: Thanks and you too! It's not belated, it was on the 5th day of Christmas! See you in the new year! Mvolz (talk) 09:59, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Addison's Walk (Dublin) moved to draftspace
[edit]An article you recently created, Addison's Walk (Dublin), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:
" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 06:16, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
- @CASSIOPEIA: Thanks but I probably will never get around to it; this was all content that I removed from Addison's Walk which wasn't relevant because it was about the wrong walk. Mvolz (talk) 09:54, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Mvolz, Greetings to you. Kindly place {{Db-g7}} on top of the page for deletion and place "deletion request my author on the summary edit" before click save. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 10:01, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
February 2019 at Women in Red
[edit] February 2019, Volume 5, Issue 2, Numbers 107-111
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Children's Literature Newsletter February 2019
[edit]- Children's Literature February 2019
Wow! Can you believe that we've gone from less than 5 members to over 20 in just a short time? Thanks to everyone for joining (or rejoining) the project and hopefully we will do some great work ahead. Please feel free to bring any ideas you might have to our talk page.
- Recognized Content
- Project Tagging - Your help is needed
Thanks to Earwig and his bot some articles had our project banner placed on their pages - this will let us monitor and support these articles better. However, the tagging received some complaints about too many incorrectly place tags (see here). Some help in going through the categories to be used by the bot would be appreciated. That list of categories can be found at: User:The Earwig/Sandbox/Children's Lit
A great way to stay on top of articles which need particular attention is through the project's article alerts page. You can find out about new Good Article Nominees, Articles for Deletion, and more. If you watch the page you can even see the new additions each night right frmo your watchlist.
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March 2019 at Women in Red
[edit] March 2019, Volume 5, Issue 3, Numbers 107, 108, 112, 113
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[edit]April 2019
[edit] April 2019, Volume 5, Issue 4, Numbers 107, 108, 114, 115, 116, 117
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Children's Literature Newsletter March 2019
[edit]- Children's Literature March 2019
More good work has been underway since our last newsletter. Thanks to all the project members for what you to do to support Children's literature on Wikipedia.
- Newly Recognized Content
Finding Winnie Review by Guettarda | Stellaluna by Enwebb |
- Article Assessment
With the completion of our project banner project, we have a large backlog of unassessed articles. Doing article rating is a great way to find interesting articles with-in our project's scope and to also find articles that were incorrectly tagged. This project will hopefully let us better monitor and aid in the development the many articles that this project supports. Thanks to Legoktm for all his work in making this happen.
- Google Custom Search Engine
Looking for information on a book? Try out the new Children's literature custom search engine. This custom google search engine will look at designated sites for information. Included so far are Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and Publisher's Weekly. If you have ideas for other sites which should be added start a discussion on our project talk page.
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Discussion on Layla Moran talk page
[edit]There is a rather spirited discussion currently ongoing at Talk:Layla Moran#Domestic Violence. I would appreciate if you could chime in with your view, in the interests of finding a consensus one way or the other. Domeditrix (talk) 09:52, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Camera tripod attachment
[edit]I forgot to mention - I have part of your camera tripod here, it's the bit that screws into the bottom of the camera and then clips to the top of the tripod. I'll bring it to the next Oxford meetup, on 28 April. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:09, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
May you join this month's editathons from WiR!
[edit] May 2019, Volume 5, Issue 5, Numbers 107, 108, 118, 119, 120, 121
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:17, 27 April 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hi, good to have a chat in Oxford yesterday. This is the place I was talking about to take the family to, with a whole range of toys, both historical and modern, and some workshops for kids to get involved with. It's about ten minutes' walk from Bethnal Green tube station. The article on the museum needs a bit of work too, which I can probably do as soon as I locate my well-worn copy of The London Encyclopedia. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:05, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
June events with WIR
[edit] June 2019, Volume 5, Issue 6, Numbers 107, 108, 122, 123, 124, 125
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Children's Literature Newsletter April/May 2019
[edit]- Children's Literature April/May 2019
This newsletter sees us embark on a project drive around article creation of some medium, or higher, importance topics that are currently redlinks. Read more and consider joining the work.
- Newly Recognized Content
A Sick Day for Amos McGee Review by Valereee | The Lion & the Mouse Review by Farang Rak Tham |
- Awards in Red
MrLinkinPark333 recently pointed out that on some of our Top importance pages about Children's literature awards there are many redlinks. The three pages with these redlinks are Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, and Carnegie Medal (with 0 existing redlinks in the other top importance award article - Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award). As of this newsletter there are 222 redlinks in those three articles. How many can we as a project create over the next 6 weeks? Could we even do better and see if we could create any that earn a Did You Know or even get it up to Good Article status?
As always feel free to head on over to the project discussion page if you find yourself in need of any help as we work to turn these notable entries on some of our most important articles blue.
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July events from Women in Red!
[edit] July 2019, Volume 5, Issue 7, Numbers 107, 108, 126, 127, 128
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Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?
Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases
[edit]The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
[edit]This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
[edit]- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
[edit]The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
August 2019 at Women in Red
[edit] August 2019, Volume 5, Issue 7, Numbers 107, 108, 126, 129, 130, 131
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Ways to improve Ischnocodia annulus
[edit]Hello, Mvolz,
Thanks for creating Ischnocodia annulus! I edit here too, under the username Willsome429 and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-
Please add reliable sources to establish the page’s notability.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Willsome429}}
. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~
. For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.
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Willsome429 (say hey or see my edits!) 13:43, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
September 2019 at Women in Red
[edit] September 2019, Volume 5, Issue 9, Numbers 107, 108, 132, 133, 134, 135
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Melissa A. Wilson Sayres moved to draftspace
[edit]An article you recently created, Melissa A. Wilson Sayres, does not have information as written to show that the subject meets the relevant criterion WP:PROF. It needs citations to her actual peer-reviewed scientific papers, not just to reports of them in non-professional sources, and indication that they have been influential. Influence in WP:PROF is normally shown by the extent ot citations to the person's published work, for which the most convenient source is often Google Scholar 'In particular, my preliminary analysis of this data shows that her most heavily cited papers are those where she is one of a great many co-authors, sometimes more than 100. In such cases, it is necessary to figure out her role. I've found the first step is to see if she was an independent researcher at the time of the work.
I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:
" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. DGG ( talk ) 01:16, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I noted you were a member of Wikiproject Parenting. I was hoping you might have the time or interest to consider helping me with a review of this article that I nominated. The recent DYK may be of interest as well. Disclaimer, I'm an uncle 4x over but not yet a parent :) --[E.3][chat2][me] 16:04, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
October Events from Women in Red
[edit] October 2019, Volume 5, Issue 10, Numbers 107, 108, 137, 138, 139, 140
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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help
[edit]What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk Pages
[edit]The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
[edit]The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
[edit]The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
[edit]- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
November 2019 at Women in Red
[edit] November 2019, Volume 5, Issue 11, Numbers 107, 108, 140, 141, 142, 143
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--Rosiestep (talk) 22:58, 29 October 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Nomination for deletion of Module:Sources
[edit]Module:Sources has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:29, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
ITN recognition for James Le Mesurier
[edit]On 12 November 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article James Le Mesurier, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 21:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Patricia Moreira
[edit]Hi...How are you? You can see from my edits that I am not a feminist...but kind of feel this should not be deleted. Any thoughts? Whispyhistory (talk) 21:12, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'm in inclusionist so personally I think it meets the criteria, but I do think it was ambiguous when nominated - I added a few additional citations, that might help! Cheers, Mvolz (talk) 11:34, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks @Mvolz:....Whispyhistory (talk) 11:46, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Melissa A. Wilson (November 14)
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ArbCom 2019 election voter message
[edit]Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
[edit]Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to [email protected], so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at [email protected].
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--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
December events with WIR
[edit] December 2019, Volume 5, Issue 12, Numbers 107, 108, 144, 145, 146, 147
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January 2020 at Women in Red
[edit] January 2020, Volume 6, Issue 1, Numbers 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Melissa A. Wilson has been accepted
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Missvain (talk) 05:44, 19 January 2020 (UTC)A barnstar for you!
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Thanks for your efforts in making Wikipedia easier to understand. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC) |