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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Note

Your unblock at en-wiki was under highly specific conditions and in light of your current situation at meta etc., it would be highly prudential for you to avoid comments like these if you do wish to remain unblocked.~ Winged BladesGodric 10:29, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

@Winged Blades of Godric: Please tell me how that comment was against my unblock conditions or even remotely related to my block on Meta? I simply informed him on an essay written by another user, and direct me to actual Wikipedia policies instead of making unfounded remarks. The blocking policy exists to prevent disruption and criticism of admins or simple things like telling a user that their content additions aren't bad cannot be considered "disruptive" unless you wish to redefine it to mean anything remotely not positive about admins. The same could be said about the unblock condition that doesn't allow for emoji's despite that not being related to my original block or being considered to be bad conduct (as other users like Justin Knapp have emoji's in their signature without people complaining about it), all your comment seems to be doing is importing issues from other wiki's which is disruptive by you. --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) Respect mobile users. 11:04, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Or are you trying to send a message that no criticism from me will be tolerated? How was that one of my unblock conditions? --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) Respect mobile users. 11:09, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
You are not in a very-good-standing to advise an editor whose works has to be mass-draftified and later mass-nuked for BLP problems by pointing to essays written by a long-blocked-sockpuppet.Criticism seems to be your favorite word but in light of your exploits at different projects at different times, distinguishing them from trolling can be substantially difficult.Cheers!~ Winged BladesGodric 12:24, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
@Winged Blades of Godric: Yet you made absolutely no content arguments, the fact that the Slowking4 is blocked doesn'tautomatically dismiss any arguments they make, what does "a very-good-standing" editor have above one in "bad-standing"? It's the argument that's important not the person making the argument and if you can't look past that then maybe you should read this. Also claiming that informing a user about an essay is "trolling" tells me that you either don't understand what trolling is or make up your own definition. Also stop importing issues from other wiki's, it's unrelated to anything here. --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) Respect mobile users. 13:07, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

But in case you do wish to bring up the criticism I make, I voted against an expansion of a class because they systematically fail to abide by policies they swear to follow and saying that "voting is disruptive" is like saying that a North Korean that doesn't vote for the Workers' Party is being "disruptive", would that also mean that if I would vote no too many times here in an ArbCom election that it would warrant an eternal block? And how is that even remotely related to my comment to Sander.v.Ginkel, the Banner's nominations were clearly against WP:NOLYMPICS and the fact that users are encouraging the Banner might work discouraging for Sander.v.Ginkel, this doesn't concern his deleted contributions, this concerns his current articles which are not disruptive. --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) Respect mobile users. 13:11, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

And if that comment was disruptive you would've reverted it, but you didn't because the comment simply wasn't abusive or "trolling" in any way. --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) Respect mobile users. 13:13, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Unblock conditions for context

  • "User is indefinitely restricted to one account (User:Donald Trung)
  • User may not use emojis or other non-script symbols in edit summaries or non-talk pages
  • User must read and abide by the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle "

In light of the above comment "Your unblock at en-wiki was under highly specific conditions", yes, and that comment didn't break any of those conditions, nor was it a personal attack against anyone. "in light of your current situation at meta etc.," what "etc." Vague comments without diff's or policies to support them is nothing short of intimidation, the concerned user was clearly the victim of a systemic deletion request campaign which could be a demotivating factor so I simply showed him that not everyone at Wikipedia believes that his content is bad, and all of "his" articles nominated for deletion were clearly notable per WP:NOLYMPICS. --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) Respect mobile users. 11:23, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #300

22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #301

19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

Screenshot showing some changes, in the two-column wikitext diff display

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Toggle button showing visual and wikitext options; visual option is selected

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

Screenshot showing the same changes to an article. Most changes are highlighted with text formatting.

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

  • The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
  • The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [25]
  • Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [26]
  • The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up. Other wikis can have this service, too. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

  • The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
  • Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
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User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)