User talk:Fox/October 2016

Thanks

I appreciate it. James J. Lambden (talk) 17:46, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

@James J. Lambden: Not a problem! — foxj 18:46, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IX, September 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshop: ONU Mujeres; Case study: Digitization Project Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg Brazil report: A GLAM ostrich makes the day; Wiki Loves Monuments boost in Brazil Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon in the Research Library in Olomouc Germany report: Presenting four years of GLAM activities in Germany at WikiCon 2016 Italy report: Wikipedians at Tridentine Diocesan Museum; Alpine Botanical Garden Viote Macedonia report: Statistics and news Mexico report: Towards reducing gender gap in Wikipedia: "Editatona" Female writers Netherlands report: Workshop for Dutch WW2 underground newspapers; Project Netherlands and the world; A report on the Iconclass expert Meeting Norway report: Wiki Loves Monuments editing contest; Wikinobel Serbia report: Content donation by an art photograph Maja Stošić Spain report: Wiki Takes Sweden report: A month full of projects Ukraine report: Writing Week Around Content Donation USA report: Edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, and Wikiconference Open Access report: WikiCite at OASPA; 3D printing biology Wikidata report: Properties are Deft! Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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 VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

• You can now set text as small or big.[1]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[2] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[3]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[4]
• At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.[5]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[6] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[7]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

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List of songs recorded by Adele

Please don't remove templates from a Featured Article. You may believe it is useless, but that doesn't mean other users find it so, and no one at the FAC review deemed it useless, either. As an administrator, you should know that you should raise any queries you may have on the respective article talk page rather than remove content willy-nilly.  — Calvin999 08:13, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

@Calvin999: You have read the "be bold" guideline, right? It's a fundamental principle. As is your revert. Just because something is Featured-quality does not mean it cannot be edited. — foxj 14:40, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Being bold by removing a table that aides in the navigation of the table itself is not helpful. Well, yes I am afraid it does to some extent, because you are significantly altering what multiple people deemed as being appropriate and worthy of promotion. You should know that any change which could or would have an effect on the quality and accessibility of the article to the 600-700 people who view it each day should be discussed on the respective talk page first.  — Calvin999 14:46, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

The anchors move whenever the table is sorted. This doesn't seem ideal for navigation, to me. — foxj 14:47, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Review Article that was protected

Hello sir, Please review this Draft article DJ Kentalky. It was deleted in (July 2016) because of the Census comment see DJ Kentalky. This deletion discussion proves that Wikipedia Editors are no longer reading the wikipedia policy according to This AFD Sentence. The subject article DJ Kentalky Meets WP:MUSICBIO 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11. This reliable source [Vanguard] also passes WP:GNG and Verifiability because its a newspaper site according to what i read. Have a nice dayBlaze8724 (talk) 23:32, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Hello @Foxj: haven't heard your response.--Blaze8724 (talk) 14:10, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

@Blaze8724: I'd probably wait for the review. The process is quite backlogged at the moment. — foxj 14:48, 17 October 2016 (UTC)