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A page you started (Maneless lion) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Maneless lion, Punetor i Rregullt5!

Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Please remove the Quora reference - this looks like a user-edited website and can't be relied upon as a source of anything other than opinion, no matter how correct it may be on this particular topic.

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Nick Moyes (talk) 00:38, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Partial mane (disambiguation)) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Partial mane (disambiguation), Punetor i Rregullt5!

Wikipedia editor Boleyn just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Please work on this in draftspace.

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Boleyn (talk) 19:54, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Jaguar versus leopard

Hello, Punetor i Rregullt5,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Jaguar versus leopard should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jaguar versus leopard .

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:51, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

I intend to tweak the article where possible, to make it more like Tiger versus lion (which was praised in the discussion) or a related article. This might involve deleting weak references, and adding better ones, or deleting, adding or changing information, because the article is in trouble. Leo1pard (talk) 09:39, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Because someone said "a comparison of jaguar and leopard" would be better, I decided to make this article with the word 'Comparison', so as to shift the contents of Jaguar versus leopard to there, provided that I can use WP:Reliable sources, though unfortunately, a number of references in Jaguar versus leopard were not that reliable, and well, it got nominated for deletion like Jaguar versus leopard. Leo1pard (talk) 13:06, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Aren't you going to vote Keep here or in the discussion on your article? If they vote to delete our articles, then what you put in there may disappear, and believe me, even sandboxes are not always safe from deletion by others. Leo1pard (talk) 04:26, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, for your article, but also vote here, because if you don't vote there, then it may not be counted for the other article. If my article is safe, then it could help to save your work, because my article is partly about what's in your article. Leo1pard (talk) 07:19, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that, and by the way, I think that your article has improved, but it still needs some tweaking, for example, some references are the same, and let me put in references that directly talk about the leopard and jaguar. Leo1pard (talk) 07:43, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Leo1pard: you can make what ever you want to my article to improve it. — Punetor i Rregullt5 (talk) 07:50, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2018

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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

• 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

• 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.
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— Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:12, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

WP:PATT

In this page WP:PATT you find instructions how to attribute content that you want to copy-paste between pages. Read it carefully and make it a habit to follow these instructions! In the over 500 pages on my watchlist, I have never experienced such a gross disrespect of other wiki editors, who initially contributed the info that you duplicated in other pages. BhagyaMani (talk) 18:24, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Please, BhagyaMani, be gentle and welcoming and kind. Our friend Punetor i Rregullt5 is quite new and I am sure very reasonable and nice. We just need to help with some guidance. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:46, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Am sorry if I look like not being patient enough with a new editor, Anna Frodesiak. I left a notice already on 1 November at Talk:Northern_lion#WP:PATT_issues, where Punetor i Rregullt5 also edits once in a while. But alas, s/he ignored this notice, and thereafter copy-pasted content into the East African lion page asserting it was not necessary to WP:PATT. I hope s/he now understood your instructions. Thanks for your prompt reaction!! -- BhagyaMani (talk) 09:34, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

That's okay. I'm sure our friend just misunderstood. Let's assume good faith. As for you, do not worry. I know you are passionate about Wikipedia articles and want things to be right. You are dedicated and also very appreciated here. My very best wishes, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:45, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

If in future you want to copy-paste content from one page to another, then use this code: text originally contributed by [[User:Example]] on 2024 23 November in your edit summary, or this code copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution followed by the diff, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lion&diff=prev&oldid=864444062. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 13:22, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Why do you ignore above hints how to copy-paste and attribute correctly? -- BhagyaMani (talk) 17:16, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Come on, user Anna Frodesiak explained to me here! — Punetor i Rregullt5 (talk) 17:20, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

I just read again what she explained to you : namely that you have to use the diff when copy-pasting. But you did not do this!! -- BhagyaMani (talk) 17:22, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

The copy-pasted content in this diff https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northern_lion&diff=next&oldid=866953714 is content that I initially provided! And this sentence as well 'A few lion specimens from West Africa obtained by museums have been described as having shorter manes than lions from other African regions.' in the diff https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northern_lion&diff=next&oldid=866955571 and this diff https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northern_lion&diff=next&oldid=866955930 and this diff https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northern_lion&diff=next&oldid=866956297 I feel honored that you duplicate this now again, but the how you do it, is NOT according to WP:PATT rules !!! -- BhagyaMani (talk) 18:14, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Albania

A little flag for you that's been hanging in my window for many years, since I was once invited to join a marriage ceremony. Cheers from BhagyaMani (talk) 12:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Just saw that you translated Mount Hoyo into Alabanian, including the references I added there. Well done. It seems that the Albanian {{cite}} template does not understand the parameter '|year='. I bet, if you use the Albanian word instead, the year of publication will show in all refs; also in all the other texts that you translated. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 09:42, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@BhagyaMani: whats up with that left image there?? xD - Some1 ^{talk} 09:00, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you

I see you are discussing things and all is looking well. Many thanks. I'm really pleased to see this. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:44, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Bad news

Casliber has started a sockpuppet investigation about us, without telling me. Did he tell you about this? Leo1pard (talk) 11:24, 8 November 2018 (UTC); edited 11:25, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

But anyways, don't drop a message to Casliber, just comment here. Leo1pard (talk) 11:42, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Another thing, try not to get too emotional, and be careful about how to do things. Not being careful enough about this can land you in trouble, and though I'm not perfect in how I handle things in Wikipedia, watch how I tackle the issues, and try to be like that. For example, you could repeat what you said to me earlier about our differences, without tagging others. Leo1pard (talk) 12:08, 8 November 2018 (UTC); edited 12:08, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

An observation: there is hardly anything that looks more like covering up sockpuppeting than "coaching" a suspected double in behaving just like you. You are shooting yourself in the foot. Let Anna do her investigating without muddying the waters, I think she's more likely to give you the benefit of doubt than most people. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:28, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Elmidae Don't be so confident. I could have said the same about Casliber and another user with similarities if I had wanted, but I am more considerate, so I'm not doing that. Because of what has happened here and there, behind my back, such as what I mentioned to you 2 days earlier after you spoke to me here about others, I have had to monitor these developments. Leo1pard (talk) 13:33, 8 November 2018 (UTC); edited 13:38, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Puma pumoides

Thanks for creating Puma pumoides.

A New Page Patroller Boleyn just tagged the page as having some issues to fix, and wrote this note for you:

This has been tagged for three issues.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can reply over here and ping me. Or, for broader editing help, you can talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

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Caution

Please, don't make any more major changes like trying to keep "Northeast Congo lion" to "Central African lion", Please follow my lead, I've got experience in this, you don't know what you're doing, don't make any major edits like proposing "Central lion" as a separate article or redirecting some pages to "Central African lion". For now, just watch what I do till those discussions are over, remember that I had to help you when you got into arguments with other guys before. Leo1pard (talk) 05:46, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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Spotted hyena

You removed a featured picture from this article on 31 August last year and replaced it with a poor quality image. I wondered why? Best wishes. 09:43, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Partial mane (disambiguation)

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Image size

I would like to suggest to keep images auto-sized, i.e. without determining px width or height, because : editors can set these dimensions individually in their user profiles. See > Preferences > Appearance. So if you like to see images bigger than the default, change appearance there instead of on pages. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 12:16, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Në kurthin e Piter Pan

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Editing News #1—July 2019

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Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

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:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

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:

1. 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.
2. 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

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

• 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

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.

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Grandy King George moved to draftspace

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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

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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

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

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.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• 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.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• 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

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

• 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)

"Ryou isn't his name"

Hi! I have a comment about this edit. "Ryo" is the character's given name, not his family name, and like Kaiba most people refer to him by the family name, Bakura. In addition VIZ Media uses family name last with Japanese characters. The VIZ volumes use "Ryo Bakura" and therefore the header should use the same spelling.

Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 08:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Grandy King George

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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

On 16 March 2020, the 50 millionth edit was made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:

• The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Signature

Hi Puentor i Rregullt5, user signatures on Wikipedia must contain a link to your user page, talkpage, or contributions, per WP:SIGLINK. This helps aid with communication. Best, CMD (talk) 10:58, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello. I don't know why, but it doesn't contain that link, althought I don't remove it. — Punetor i Rregullt5 11:00, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Please check your settings in Special:Preferences. CMD (talk) 14:16, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

• More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
• Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
• Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[2]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

• The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
• Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.

• The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
• It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

• As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
• There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[3]
• The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[4] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
• A large A/B test will start soon.[5] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[6] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)