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Can I say you have a very...interesting userpage. Did you write it yourself? I'm asking because we can't have copyrighted material used on Wikipedia. Thanks. White Arabian mare (Neigh) 21:01, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

It's an 18th century poem. We have an article on it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:23, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing I thought it looked familiar, like I saw it in school or something, but I decided to check just to make sure. Some people are very talented in writing in 'styles'--like using Shakespearian language to give weight and authenticity to historical novels, for instance, and I wanted to know for sure. White Arabian mare (Neigh) 22:55, 27 October 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare
@WhatamIdoing: I like that you call it an 18th century poem - wan't it Ossian's? Le Sanglier des Ardennes (talk) 00:16, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
According to the lead of the article, it appears that the attribution to Ossian is...probably just as fictional as the contents. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:48, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
@WhatamIdoing: I think that’s inaccurate. McPherson was guilty of much of the opus, but he had a real groundwork in old Gaelic poetry, and this (on my page) was one of the pieces that was arguably pre-existent – albeit, maybe, not Ossian’s. McPherson was trying to salvage his country’s old literature, and regrettably invented much more in the process. He was trying to ‘glue together’ the old fragments. That was the consensus of critical opinion…maybe not to Wikipedia though. Le Sanglier des Ardennes (talk) 21:53, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
If you're interested in it, then perhaps you'd like to find some more sources and give the article an inclusive WP:YESPOV transformation. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:40, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Finding your name

I noticed that you alphabetized WP:VisualEditor/Newsletter to make it easier to find your name. If that's a common problem for you, then you might like the solution that I've been using, which is a script someone wrote to highlight your name whenever it appears on any wiki page.

You can copy if from the first few lines of m:User:WhatamIdoing/global.js. If you put it into m:User:De la Marck/global.js, then it will work at all Wikipedias and sister projects. If you put it into m:User:De la Mark/common.js, then it will work only at the English Wikipedia. (Be sure to change the "whatamidoing" part to your name (or whatever other word you want to have highlighted). WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:21, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing Thanks - if anyone wants the page put back as it was, I'm happy to do that - I know 'twould be somewhat tedious to find all the recent additions so I wouldn't expect anyone else to do that. Le Sanglier des Ardennes (talk) 23:40, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
I don't expect anyone to object (why would they?), but I have that problem on all kinds of pages, and most of them can't be alphabetized (especially talk pages  ;-) . WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:50, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

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Hey

It's 4thmuskateer Thanks for helping me with Intrastate. It's a work in progress and I was wondering if you could help we out. Most of my articles are kind of disappointing, and you see like a good person to ask. I'd love to, but I am not familiar with tools and abilities that would allow me to do such

Hey sure I left a message on Yr page. Le Sanglier des Ardennes (talk) 01:34, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I've moved it. If you think of a better title (I'm sure there is one) up in the bar at the top, past View History etc. there is the more link - includes a move option. Le Sanglier des Ardennes (talk) 01:39, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?
You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Screenshot showing the menu for switching from the wikitext editor to VisualEditor

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

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 fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links:  It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558)  These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads:  Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Images and media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile:  Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use the visual editor on any size of device. (T85630)  Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools:  You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925)  There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227 and T113354)  When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

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