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User talk:Bevo
You have done a good job so far in Wikipedia (a.k.a. 'Pedia or WP). I can see that you're a serious Wikipedian interested in improving our project. If you stay for a while, you'll discovered that collectively, we're a cooperative and friendly community. We are all here to learn, and hopefully can give something back. If you have questions or doubts of any sort, do not hesitate to post them on the Village Pump, somebody will respond ASAP. Other helpful pages include:
Texas
Bevo, I have been having a lot of fun working on the List of Texas county name etymologies. There are a bunch left to go. Consider joining in if you need a break from NM. H2O 07:26, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Why can't I add this page to my watchlist? Bevo 17:38, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi, most of your edits to the Multics page I've liked, but I think the last one is not an improvement. I'm going to put that one back the way it was, if that's OK. Noel 03:32, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC) Hi, that "Multics Virtual Memory: Concepts and Design" paper is already in the list of Multics papers (in the "Further Reading - Technical Details) - it even has the same URL! It only lists one source, though - perhaps the second could be added as an "(also here)" link? Noel 22:57, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hi, Bevo. I just started on Wikipedia. I'd like to add further tendencies, perhaps excerpt some passages. Do you think this is appropriate? Should this kind of thing be moved to a different entry? -tristil
J. Frederick George's real name is George Jewsbury, according to an interview with Neal Stephenson in Locus magazine. Jwrosenzweig 21:14, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC) Locator maps
Hello Bevo. (I still sort of crackup when I write on your user page). Hope I didn't spoil any fun you were about to have, but I made a map like the one you were requesting and uploaded it. I didn't make the table yet, because I didn't have all the info. On the talk page, I indicated this and also left a pointer to blank map that you can use to make location maps for any other parks the same way. -- Decumanus 23:34, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I saw you comment on the yellowstone page about the locator map. If you haven't seen it already, take a look at WikiProject Protected Areas there is some good info about the locator boxes on National park pages. In particular, there is a link to Map Locators/United States which has the map and external links to park info. Hope you find this helpful.
Featured Picture candidates, archives and galleryImage sizes on WP:FPC
Bevo, I have been intentionally making the width of portrait shots on WP:FPC smaller than landscape shots. The idea being that all shots should look about the same size (i.e. about 200px on the LONGEST edge). To keep the formatting of the page I have used the "width=220px" table option on portrait shots to keep the leftmost cells about the same width. - Gaz 15:06, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Nomination process
Thanks for fixing my nomination on Featured Picture Candidates. I wasn't quite sure exactly where it went... the page is a bit confusing :) - Fennec 18:07, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC) Archiving
Heya Bevo, I was trying to find recently promoted featured picture candidates, it seems you archived them, but later mistakingly removed them? Not sure what happened there, didn't want to correct something as maybe you had a reason I'm not seeing ;) Wikipedia:Featured_pictures_candidates/Archive-05 Oh by the way, a lot of your signatures seem to link to Bevo instead of Bevo. Ciao. -- Solitude 08:20, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Can you point to the featured picture candidate discussion where Antarctica satellite globe was nominated (and supported)? You've put that picture on Wikipedia:Featured pictures, but I can't find the nomination of it. --Conti|✉ 09:15, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
ImagesImage:Wpdms ut logo.jpg|UT logo
Well everyone's having that problem with images they uploaded earlier this week. There a discussion on Village Pump about it. Evidently it's caused by a hard-drive swap but eventually the images are supposed to be back. I suppose I could upload them, but I uploaded a lot earlier this week and keep hoping things will just come around. -- Decumanus 05:37, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) Image size
Greetings! Per our image use policy, justified images cannot exceed 300px in width in articles (centered images in articles can be up to 400px in width and there is no current policy regarding the size of images on image description pages). This is so that people with lower resolution monitors are not overwhelmed by the image and the wrapped-around text has more than 4 words per line. --mav 06:16, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I like the pic. Where did you get it? H2O 19:57, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Rmarkables Image
Thanks for the note. I have now released the image in a more formal manner.Tiles 04:51, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Halló Bevo! I'am here since five days. Was surprized to find our dog at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. I'm not familiar regarding what kind of pictures are more prefered here. We selected the picture because it was not shown already in our gallery [1]. Would be nice to heare your opinion about a picture wich is more suitable. Regards Gangleri 04:11, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)
Yes, I'm still updating it, but not always on a daily basis. I'll bring it up to date now. Thanks for the reminder. Angela. 03:29, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
The archive now has everything up until tomorrow. Thanks for keeping the image archive synchronized with it. Angela. New and improved POTD systemHello Bevo, This morning I've been working on implementing a new and Picture of the day system. It is based on the proven concept used by Today's featured article. This system will allow us to plan the POTD way ahead, plan POTD for special occasions, automatically archive the POTD's and so on, it also makes recycling a POTDs very easy, just point the template to a previous date. Another important advantage is that it makes customizing POTD's much easier, as you don't need to remember which were changed in size for instance or had a small caption added. Overall it's a robust system I think but please take a look and tell me what you think, see if there is anything I've overlooked. Switching to the new system would be a cake as the only thing that changes, is that the POTD templates now need to point to specific dates instead of days. Cheers, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 10:23, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC) PS. I've also sent this message to Angela as the three of us seem to maintain the POTD sections the most.
Surfer picHello, Article licensingHi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) FPC captionHi Bevo, I've noticed you adding [a Wikipedia:Featured picture] links to images on closed WP:FPCs. Its not a problem, but I can't quite figure out why - surely anyone who is looking back over the FPC archive already knows where the various FP pages are (and if not there are links at the top of the page in any case), and the promotion status is described in the vote summary. I guess it doesn't hurt, but then again there is already half a dozen steps involved in promoting an image. -- Solipsist 07:41, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Yosemite Valley photo as featured picture candidateI finally received a high-rez version of the image voted on a while ago. It's now on the Commons as Commons:Image:Yosemite meadows 2004-09-04.jpg. The composition is actually a bit different from Image:Yosemite 2 bg 090404.jpg. Do you think it's worth renominating it as an FPC here? Alternatively, I could nominate it on the Commons. --MarkSweep 06:57, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) Change to Bresenham's line algorithmHi, I noticed your change to this article specifying that the examples were in Wikicode, and I apologise for reverting it. However, this is what Template: Wikicode is for; the reason the message was removed from this template was due to strong opposition of the detractors of Wikicode. If you feel it is appropriate, please re-add an appropriate message to this template. This message will then be visible in all articles including wikicode, and will be more compliant with Wikipedia: Avoid self-reference. Thanks. Deco 07:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC) Root canal revisedNice critique on the Featured Photos page. See a revised version with more anatomical details and dual roots at the root canal page. FPC changesSoon, most of the tasks of promoting an FPC will become automated, but we will be required to put a template tag with specific information on the FPC's vote page. Check out User talk:AllyUnion for the discussion. I'll probably make the template tomorrow sometime, and update the instructions for FPC promotion. --brian0918™ 06:35, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC) Edit summariesHi. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I just wanted to give you some helpful advice, or maybe just a reminder about a feature in Wikipedia known as an edit summary. The edit summary is filled out using the 200 word text field located right below the editing text box. It is strongly recommended that one get in the habit of filling out edit summaries for each edit, giving a general summary of why particular changes were made, as well as a very terse summary of what changes were made. Edit summaries are a way to defend your edits, especially if you're an anonymous user. Ambiguous edits made by anonymous users may often be mistaken for vandalism. Filling out the edit summary also gives the users who monitor those pages on watch lists or recent changes, an idea of what kind of activity has taken place. If these changes do not strongly affect the content of the article, mark the This is a minor edit check box below the edit summary field. For further help on using edit summaries, consult this guide. Thank you. — oo64eva (AJ) (U | T | C) @ 22:44, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
lots of edits, not an adminHi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:10, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC) Visual Basic Classic WikibookI see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 08:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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I completely agree with your statement about the photo. I have several pictures I've taken of B-XIII that I might be able upload. I'll see if I can scrounge one up in the near future. Somewhere I have link to some information that purports that the A&M branding story is apocryphal. I wish I could find it. It would be nice to profile all the animals, and eventually maybe dismbig the pages from the St.Louis neighborhood. Decumanus 05:33, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC) (Ph.D.'97) Thank you for finding that Daily Texan article! It's the one I have been remembering but couldn't find. I'm very glad too that you finally disam'd the page and took it from underneath the near-beer article.-- Decumanus 05:28, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC) Does anyone learn at UT?I posted a comment to the University of Texas at Austin page concerning the lack of an academics section on the page. I would appreciate comments. Thanks. -Scm83x 08:52, 28 November 2005 (UTC) peer review for University of Texas at AustinHey Bevo. I've noticed that you've made a lot of great contributions to the UT article in the past, and thought you might be interested to know that I started the peer review process. Thanks. -Rebelguys2 12:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC) Yet another new UT articleI have started Main Building of the University of Texas at Austin, and it awaits your edits. With all of the new UT articles popping up recently, what do you think about the possibility of organizing a WikiProject or collaboration about the University? Please let me know! — Scm83x talk Windows Vista articleHmm.. Wikipedia is acting weird. When I made changes to the article after your changes, it reverted your changes for some reason. I didn't mean to do that. I'll have to find out why it does that. — Alex 20:02, 25 December 2005 (UTC) Edit summaryHello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. Mrtea (talk) 00:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
You do great workHello Bevo, I am very impressed by your contributions to Wikipedia. You have done great work across a wide variety of articles, including the often-thankless task of formatting standardization, which helps to improve the overall appearance and usability of this great resource. I think the project benefits greatly from your participation. I think you could do even more good for the project as an administratior. As far as I can see in your contribution history and talk page history, you have always "played nice" with others - which is a very important consideration for the adminship, in my view. I think one of the most important roles of the administrator is to set a good example for other users, and I think we should recognize the fact that you are doing this today. Administrators also have access to a few technical features that help with maintenance. I don't know you well enough yet to know for sure how much use you would make of these tools, but I am very confident you would not abuse them, and you are quite likely to find them useful in your work here. Please look over the administrators' reading list and how-to guide, as well as the guide to requests for adminship. If this looks like something you are interested in, then please leave me a note on my Talk page and I will formally nominate you. Best regards - Johntex\talk 18:53, 11 January 2006 (UTC) "std fmt"Hello, I'm just wondering what purpose these edits serve. They do not affect the appearance of an article in any way. Extra spaces are harmless, and I find it more easy to parse wikisyntax with a space between the asterisk and the text of an item in a bulleted list, etc. Regards — Dan | talk 00:36, 13 January 2006 (UTC) A new article awaits your edits...Johntex\talk 13:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC) "standard and consistent internal and/or external formatting"Why are you removing spaces from after headers and list markup? This makes the wikitext harder to read and can break formatting of definition lists, etc. — Omegatron 20:54, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
InvasionSince you worked on the article Invasion, I thought you might like to know that it has now been submitted as a featured article candidate. If you're interested, I wanted to invite you to come vote at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Invasion. Thanks - Kafziel 05:50, 11 February 2006 (UTC) UCLAI have modified some erroneous edits which you made on January 11. See Talk:University of California, Los Angeles for further explanation and supporting links. The relevant headings are all proper nouns because they are the full official names of UCLA administrative units. --Coolcaesar 04:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC) Please check your WP:NA entryGreetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:
Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 04:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
SymbolwikiI noticed you had an edit on the symbolwiki article. The concept of symbolwiki is dear to my heart. Thankfully, such a symbol system already exists, though has very little presence thus far. Check out Blissymbolics if you get a chance. --Mlandau 05:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC) License tagging for Image:UT Tower 83400355 68b7a5eeb9 o.jpgThanks for uploading Image:UT Tower 83400355 68b7a5eeb9 o.jpg. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images. For more information on using images, see the following pages: This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 18:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
XIIIIt's sad isn't it? The line about XIV following him around really tugs at the heart-strings. Johntex\talk 14:09, 11 October 2006 (UTC) Thank you for your helpThank you for your assistance in the Single-grain experiment. It was DYK on October 12. I greatly appreciated it. Chris 01:55, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Somebody is claiming that much of the article is a copyvio (which I doubt). Cites and copyedit are also needed. --mav
Jericho page movesFYI, your page moves have been reverted. Wikipedia guidelines for page names dictate using the simplest name, not naming for consistency. --Ckatzchatspy 10:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
May 2007My edit to Harry PotterI was trying to add a comment to explain my last edit to Harry Potter and hit the Save button before I checked the "Minor edit" checkbox. This was just a minor edit to make the formatting of the section headers consistent in format; this doesn't change the article's appearance, but does make identifying headers easier when they are all in the same internal format. - Bevo 16:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC) revision history on Harry Potter and my minor editI just reviewed the edit history of Harry Potter. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Potter&diff=127703456&oldid=127702503 is my edit, but I see now that I applied it just after Harry Potter was vandalized. I try hard to keep that from happening! I'll try even harder...and, thanks for the vigilance to revert the vandals...I too, do my share of reverting. - Bevo 16:28, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Interpretation of Current spaceflightHi! I notice some of your edit log comments that refer to the instructions at Template:Current spaceflight. I wonder if you could help me understand those? What does it mean by, "routine unradio controlled flights, for example communications satellites". Why are comsats "unradio controlled"? Thanks for any insight you can provide! (sdsds - talk) 02:23, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Re: Sea Turtle editSteven Colbert mentioned Sea Turtles in reference to Wikipedia on The Colbert Report. I was just semi-protecting the article to preempt any massive surge of Colbert-related vandalism. Best, IronGargoyle 18:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC) Bob O. EvansThanks for editing the article. I think the article also needs a picture of Evans. The IBM website has a picture, an obvious publicity one. I'm not quite up-to-date on licensing laws etc., but maybe you know: Would WP use of the picture fall under "fair use"? Iterator12n Talk 23:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Formatting cleanupPlease read Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(headings)#Spaces and stop messing with the formatting, especially in removing the black lines that make the source more readable. Dicklyon 20:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC) ( The three entries below were copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dicklyon#Formatting_cleanup . I include them here to preserve our dialog in total. - Bevo 15:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC) )
BarnstarSorry to bother you but...
WhitespaceWhat do you think of Bugzilla:11498? — Omegatron 02:56, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
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Merger proposed: Photometric telescope → Apache Point ObservatoryIt has been proposed to merge the content of Photometric telescope into Apache Point Observatory. Since you have previously edited one of these articles, I thought you might be interested. You're welcome to participate in the discussion if you like. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:23, 9 December 2007 (UTC) FP delistDear Bevo, Image you have nominated for Featured Picture status is proposed for delisting. Your comments/suggestions/etc are welcome here --Mothmolevna ( © ® ) 21:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC) Image copyright rationale for Image:CliffnotesRomeoAndJulietCover.jpgThanks for uploading Image:CliffnotesRomeoAndJulietCover.jpg. You've indicated that the image is being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why it meets Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check
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WikiProject University of Texas at Austin Collaboration for August 2008
Thanks to all those who helped out with UT Austin-related articles this last month. This month's collaboration needs help with transferring alumni names into the organizational tables in prep for FLC. I look forward to working with you. Hook 'em Horns! --Eustress (talk) 00:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC) 2008 Texas Longhorn football teamHi Bevo, thanks for your improvements to 2008 Texas Longhorn football team! I think we are getting this thing pretty good for this point in the season. We need to add more refs on the 2 game summaries, which I will do if no one beats me to it. I would like to inquire about this edit. My thinking is that the Weather.com reference is better than no reference. Yes, it goes out of date, but at least people can see what we used as our source, even if they can't go there and see what we saw on the day. I think it should be included and I'd like to see if you agree. Also, I'm surprised you took out several non-breaking spaces ( ). The last time I took an article to FA, the reviewers were very strict about including these between a quantity adjective (E.g. ten, second,...) and the noun it modifies. Maybe the MOS has changed, or maybe you have a different interpretation? Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks, Johntex\talk 00:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC) Hey, Bevo, thought you might get a chuckle out of this - I know I did. Best of luck on Saturday's game (but you know who I'll be rooting for!) H2O (talk) 04:13, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject University of Texas at Austin Collaboration for August 2009
WP:UT's first priority is getting the flagship article (UT Austin) back to GA status and ultimately, FA status. So lets take this in baby steps and focus on one section at a time, and what better section the the first: history! Any contributions would be appreciated and... Hook 'em Horns! NThomas (talk) 00:52, 4 July 2009 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of File:SkylabIemblem10076057.jpg A tag has been placed on File:SkylabIemblem10076057.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated. If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding You are now a Reviewer Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial ending 15 August 2010. Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages. When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here. If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Karanacs (talk) 14:30, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Delist nominationAn image you nominated at FPC has now been put up for deletion. Cowtowner (talk) 15:03, 18 September 2010 (UTC) Invitation to join WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 02:32, 4 January 2011 (UTC) QuestionDo you plan to do anything with User:Bevo/subpage? It hasn't been touched in 3 years. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 02:36, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
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iD Software article de-capitalizationHi there, I just saw your note at the article on iD Software, asking if there was interest in fixing the name. I'd be willing to lend my support to such an effort. Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you need some support. Thanks! --Edwin Herdman 05:59, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Section header editsPlease desist in making WP:Dummy edits like this. Edits that have no effect on the article as read just add to the revision history and changes that other editors have to look through. If it's done as part of an edit with effective changes, fine, but otherwise it has some detriment with no benefit. Thanks. --A D Monroe III(talk) 03:37, 10 November 2017 (UTC) ArbCom 2017 election voter message Hello, Bevo. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 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. If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC) Editing News #1—2018Read this in another language • Subscription list for the English Wikipedia • Subscription list for the multilingual edition  Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?  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.  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.  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
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Learning moreThe 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) 21:24, 15 July 2019 (UTC) Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter 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. HelpWhat 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 PagesThe 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 editorThe 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. 
WikimaniaThe 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
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC) 2019 US Banknote Contest
Sent by ZLEA at 23:30, 19 October 2019 (UTC) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion toolsRead this in another language • Subscription list  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.  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.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch – PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC) Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updatesRead this in another language • Subscription list 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.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC) Editing news 2020 #3 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:
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC) Editing news 2020 #4Read this in another language • Subscription list for this newsletter Reply 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.
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
Next: New discussion toolNext, 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) 18:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC) ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message
Editing news 2021 #1Read this in another language • Subscription list for this newsletter Reply tool The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.
Research notes:
New discussion tool 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.[11] 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 #2Read this in another language • Subscription list for this newsletter  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:
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. 00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC) Editing newsletter 2022 – #1Read this in another language • Subscription list for the multilingual newsletter • Local subscription list  The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback. 23:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC) Editing news 2022 #2Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter  The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. –Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:35, 26 August 2022 (UTC) ArbCom 2022 Elections voter messageHello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed 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. If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add Editing news 2023 #1Read this in another language • Subscription list for this newsletter This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:
Talk pages project  The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools. It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.  An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site. New Project: Edit Check The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more. |
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