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The Signpost: 28 May 2014

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2014)

The Amazon Basin, pictured in yellow, holds the largest rainforest in the world.
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh.

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Amazon Basin


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Books & Bytes, Issue 6

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 6, April-May 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

  • New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
  • TWL does Vegas: American Library Association Annual plans
  • TWL welcomes a new coordinator, resources for library students and interns
  • New portal on Meta, resources for starting TWL branches, donor call blitzes, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar news, and more

Read the full newsletter

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GOCE June 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone!

Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here.

Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28.

Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

You seem to be confused

Dear Pratyaya Ghosha

On the basis of your letter to me, you appear to be confused between your fictitious notion of what is "constructive", and the actual truth.

When I state that balut is a food that guarantees its eater a long residency in Hell, this is called the truth.

Whatever your subjective and wrong opinion of whether the truth is "constructive", it is nonetheless the truth.

Thank you Yours Sincerely Liam McMahon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.73.130.151 (talk) 20:51, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Minor barnstar
I was just about to revert than edit on Leona Lewis :)  — ₳aron 15:31, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey thank you. --Pratyya (Hello!) 13:12, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

Orphaned non-free image File:Chitrojogotlogo.png

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Thanks for uploading File:Chitrojogotlogo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 21:36, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2014)

File:Elmo-cockpit xltn.jpg
The Tickle Me Elmo toy was based on the Sesame Street character Elmo
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Tickle Me Elmo


Previous selections: Amazon Basin • Film criticism


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Guestbook Barnstar of Larksky12358

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Your name will be forever in my Guestbook, thanks to you! Cheers, ❀Larksky12358Guestbook 07:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Guestbook Barnstar of TheQ Editor

The Guestbook Barnstar
Thank you very much for signing my guestbook. TheQ Editor (Talk) 07:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! :)

Happy Birthday Friend!
Though it was not too late.. I want to wish you happy birthday! Hope you're going well.. :) — ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ʙᴏʀᴇᴅ ʜᴜʜ? 14:48, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very very very much my friend. Yeah I'm going well. --Pratyya (Hello!) 14:51, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Pratyya

Happy Birthday Pratyya. Enjoy your birthday and keep editing.--Skr15081997 (talk) 14:59, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much friend. --Pratyya (Hello!) 15:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Happy belated birthday

Hi Pratyya. Happy belated birthday! Sorry for not wishing you on time. Jianhui67 TC 17:28, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

No problem my friend. Thank you very much for wishing me.--Pratyya (Hello!) 14:11, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2014)

The old buildings of the National Library of China house historical and ancient books, documents and manuscripts
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

National Library of China


Previous selections: Tickle Me Elmo • Amazon Basin


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Please STOP reverting my changes to the Ridley High School info. I am an alumni of Ridley and the website coordinator for Ridley Football and am updating info for our new website and football history.

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The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed

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File:Email 003 2014.png listed for deletion

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The Signpost: 18 June 2014

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2014)

Anubis, the jackal headed god of ancient Egypt
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Anubis


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A Barnstar for you!

BPL Barnstar of National Merit
For your extraordinary efforts to get List of Bangladesh Premier League captains to FL status and thereby bringing the first FL to WP:BPL, you are hereby awarded the first ever BPL Barnstar of Merit! Keep up the good work! Cheers, ƬheStrikeΣagle 05:03, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League Elections

Dear Wikiproject Bangladesh Premier League member. I hope you are having a great time. As you know, it was agreed at the time of the advent of the project that there shall be an election to elect Coordinator and Vice Coordinator every six months. Since the time has arrived now, we hope to conduct an election to elect the new Coordinator and Vice Coordinator. All the people hoping to contest to the posts can leave a message in the project talkpage. The election will end by 01 July 2014 00:00 (UTC) starting from 24 June 2014 00:00 (UTC). We sincerely hope you participate in the elections and thereby help improve the quality of Wikiproject Bangladesh Premier League and it's organisation. Cheers --Pratyya (Hello!) and ƬheStrikeΣagle 15:12, 23 June 2014 (UTC)


VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014

The character formatting menu

Did you know?

The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

  • They have moved the "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
  • You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
  • The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type "date" for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and "boolean" for values which are true or false. Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like {{citeweb}}{{cite web}}) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964). You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
  • Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
  • They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references. When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead.
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed. Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the "Page options" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
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Looking ahead

The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

Supporting your wiki

Please read VisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

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To change your subscription to this newsletter, please see the subscription pages on Meta or the English Wikipedia. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 04:59, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

Award 4 U

awarded to Pratyya Ghosh for (being a whisker away from) joining the 25,000 Edit Club
Vjlmhds (talk) 15:37, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey thanks. It really made my day. --Pratyya (Hello!) 12:55, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights:

– Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:27, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2014)

Reconstruction of the head of Java Man
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Java Man


Previous selections: Anubis • National Library of China


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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Scotland Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to Florida 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)