User talk:Epicgenius/Archive/2015/Jun

June 2015 Wikification drive.

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the June drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) "A wiki of beauty is a joy forever." Seriously. That's how long it'd take to read! (talk) 04:23, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for July 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:02, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Caitlyn Jenner edit

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caitlyn_Jenner&diff=prev&oldid=665269016 did you mean to revert to incorrect info and delete the correct provided ref.? The Wheaties web-site names "spokespersons" specifically for a reason. They used men and women. Also it was not explicitly clear that there have only been seven spokespersons. ChangalangaIP (talk) 11:15, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, it looks like the reference says "spokesperson" and mentions more than 7 spokespeople, so I guess you're right. Epic Genius (talk) 12:38, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
ty for looking at it. I agree that there is awkward grammar in the article and the cereal site does not make it crystal clear either. The only thing that it does confirm is that Jenner was the 2nd spokesperson. Yes there have been hundreds of atheletes featured on the box...but spokespersons as defined on the wheaties site was slash is a bigger additional job. AFAIK it looks like the old statement, which is still floating around on WP and elsewhere, could be a WP:OR that was made by an editor counting the photos of "spokespersons" on the Wheaties site?ChangalangaIP (talk) 16:12, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
No problem. In any case, it's best to remove the number of spokesmen and spokeswomen altogether. Epic Genius (talk) 16:43, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Categorization tool

Oh, that's awesome. I've known that it was possible, but was never sure just how, exactly - thanks for pointing the way! --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:07, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: No problem. Be careful with Cat-a-lot, though, because it edits very, very quickly, so you may want to first check all of the pages that you are recategorizing. Epic Genius (talk) 03:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Oh, yes - I've used it some over at Commons. I've given it a couple of fairly easy test runs for now; otherwise I'm going after low-hanging fruit with it at the moment. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:18, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:SL top

Template:SL top has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 12:48, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

IRT Jerome Avenue Line description

So you decided to split off my description of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line onto a route description chapter. Perfectly understandable, although I was debating whether I should've simply renamed the existing chapter "Extent and service," like so many other lines. More detail has to come though, and will. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 04:26, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@DanTD: I've been thinking about this. Maybe one "Extent and service" header would be better. Epic Genius (talk) 16:57, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

  • Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.
  • If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
  • If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

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R142 1 Train, House of Cards

Hi, I like the edits you made for the section, but why did you remove all of the other information? AahdTahar (talk) 17:47, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

@AahdTahar: I removed them because in my opinion, that info was irrelevant. Epic Genius (talk) 02:12, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2015

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2015. Legobot (talk) 00:03, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 14 June

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Template:S-line/NYCS left/Jamaica west local ‎

Hey EG. You recently updated this template, but now it red links "Broad Street or Forest Hills" like it is a new page as opposed to two links and I have zero idea how to fix it. I took out the unneeded "Chambers Street", but that didn't work. Please advise! (HELP!?) And thanks! --SkipperRipper (talk) 13:06, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey SkipperRipper. The problem is in Template:NYCS stations. If you update that, everything will be fine. Thanks, Epic Genius (talk) 01:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Death of Eric Garner#15 seconds

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Death of Eric Garner#15 seconds. Thanks. Pishcal — ♣ 21:30, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Help

How can we stop white people from shooting black people? 172.56.9.147 (talk) 13:43, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Is that a riddle? OK, I'll answer. The answer is, if you're white, don't buy a gun to shoot black people, and if you're black, don't be shot by white people who have a gun. Simple.
But seriously, this is not encyclopedic content. Epic Genius (talk) 02:17, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Reply

Nope.

No need to be like "the C's R32s" or "the J's R160s". A train/bus equipment assigned to a shop/line doesn't literally mean anything else. It doesn't mean they "belong" there. That's why I reverted your wording. JoesphBarbaro (talk) 23:49, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

@JoesphBarbaro: Okay, you could have told me that in some way rather than keeping on reverting. I was re-adding boldface to the letter "C" for consistency in the article. All other mentions are bolded. Epic Genius (talk) 23:51, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
@Epicgenius: I tried to, in the editing summary, but you was editing the article at the same time that I tried to revert you via a message in the editing summary. JoesphBarbaro (talk) 23:56, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
@JoesphBarbaro: You could have just removed the part where it said that the R32s belonged only to the C train, or the R160s only belonged to the J train. Epic Genius (talk) 23:59, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
@Epicgenius: I did. JoesphBarbaro (talk) 00:00, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
@JoesphBarbaro: I guess the problem is solved, in that case. Epic Genius (talk) 00:02, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

July 8: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday July 8, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month will also feature on a review of past and upcoming editathons, including Black Lunch Table Editathon @ MoMA on July 13.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street

Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 05:45, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

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Cat-a-lot

Seems to have ceased working for me; I can mark articles for categorization, but when I try to do it nothing happens. Any idea what might be up? --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:36, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: The script at Commons:MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js might have been changed, but I looked at the revision history, and it was last updated in August 2014. I checked it in Commons, and the tool still works there. I tried it on enwiki, and it seems to work now. Can you refresh your cache and check to see if it works?Epic Genius (talk) 23:14, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Doesn't appear to be working - I tried refreshing the cache, but it seems to have done no good. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 00:36, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: It may still not work for now, depending on which device you have. Would logging out, and then back in, work? If not, you may need to relaunch your browser, use a different browser, or restart your computer. Epic Genius (talk) 00:39, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
I've tried everything except for the different browser. No luck. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:28, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: If the different browser doesn't work, maybe you can ask for help here, since I don't really know how to fix it for you unless you try a different computer. Epic Genius (talk) 01:31, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Yep, still not working. I'll pop over there and ask. Sorry to bother you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:37, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: It's OK. Also, I've fixed the broken commons link. Sorry about that. Epic Genius (talk) 01:38, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks again! --01:42, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

By the by, I forgot to thank you for your kind words over at my RfA. They're very much appreciated; I shall do my best to live up to expectations. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:19, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Thanks. Congrats on being promoted to an admin, by the way. I've been busy in real life, but I just wanted to stop by and applaud you on that. Epic Genius (talk) 23:31, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Busy in real life...trust me, I understand. It would be this weekend... :-)
Thanks for the congratulations and the applause. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 23:33, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: That's really no problem; I'm happy to have supported you. Epic Genius (talk) 23:37, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
It's been sorted out, hooray. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:40, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Glad to hear that. Epic Genius (talk) 22:33, 29 June 2015 (UTC)