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Incorrect entries on popular pages bot configHello there! I saw you added some task forces to the popular pages bot config. Thank you for doing that. I wanted to point out that the "Name" field for these should be "U.S. Roads/<name-of-task-force>" because the bot derives it's config from a database which names projects like this to avoid problems when multiple projects have similarly named task forces. So if you could fix that edit and prefix the "Name" field values with "U.S. Roads/" , it'd be so awesome. Thank you. Feel free to reach out if you want help fixing it or in general to help out with the project. :) -- NKohli (WMF) (talk) 00:48, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
July 2017 {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Favonian (talk) 16:15, 22 July 2017 (UTC) Extension of TBANI have closed the ANI case regarding your recent conduct at the Westport page, and have extended your TBAN to all pages relating to Connecticut, broadly construed, for a period of six months. If you have any further questions or clarifications, please let me know either here or on my talk page. Primefac (talk) 16:36, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale! CoordinatesThese values cannot be correct. The number of minutes must be less than 60. Alex1 (talk) 10:05, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
ArbCom 2017 election voter message Hello, JJBers. 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) Happy Holidays
Your signaturePlease be aware that your signature uses deprecated to — Anomalocaris ( talk ) 19:58, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Also, if you have not already done so, would you please change your other signature from to — Anomalocaris ( talk ) 20:16, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
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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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— User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk ) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC) Happy Birthday
MentionedHello JJBers. Your name was mentioned in this talk thread. Perhaps you want to join the discussion and give your opinion. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 14:52, 14 October 2018 (UTC) Clearly you're not familiar with this. Take the time to read about it before reverting any of my edits regarding efforts to consolidate these pages. Thanks.--AirportExpert (talk) 18:05, 18 October 2018 (UTC)AirportExpert Council of Governments State Website: https://www.ct.gov/opm/cwp/view.asp?q=383046
CT page revertsHello JJBers, I request that you and AirportExpert come to the WPCT talk page to discuss the recent spate of editing-and-reverting across various CT pages. I hope that you will come. Markvs88 (talk) 19:11, 18 October 2018 (UTC) Editing News #2—2018Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter • Subscription list on the English Wikipedia Did you know? Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?  Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor. You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.  Remember to publish your changes when you're done. 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 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
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Hello, JJBers. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 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 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC) permission to use photographCT Main Street Center is requesting permission to use the JJBers photograph "Downtown Willimantic, Connecticut during 3rd Thursday" for our 2019 VIBRANT MAIN STREETS awards celebration in Willimantic. Use will be for the printed and emailed invitation (to aprox 2000 people in CT), and on the cover of our program booklet. Not having used the CC-BY-SA-4.0 before, I don't understand what the protocol is for permissions and photo credit. Please clarify, and let me know if we may use this photo. Thank you. 50.235.202.2 (talk) 20:10, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #1—July 2019Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter Did you know? Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device? Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon 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: Recent releasesThe 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:
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor. New and active projectsThis 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.
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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) 21:25, 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
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"Eaht" listed at Redirects for discussion An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Eaht. Since you had some involvement with the Eaht redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. — Searingjet (talk) 18:38, 25 November 2019 (UTC) ==Happy First Edit Day!==   Have a very happy first edit anniversary! From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 08:21, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
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) Happy...
Happy Birthday! Have a very happy birthday on your special day! Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 18:23, 27 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) Thank you for this edit: Revision as of 13:08, 25 June 2018 to the Wikipedia article Norwalk, Connecticut. I am working my way through edits which link to EB1911 articles on Wiksource that do not use the custom template template:Cite EB1911. I have noticed several instances where an editor has used the common templte I want to request that in future you use the custom template So for example: {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=A |volume=1 |pages=1–2}}
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If you use the template it automatically places the Wikipedia article into some maintenance categories that are useful for editors who maintain the links between Wikipedia and Wikisource. -- PBS (talk) 14:40, 14 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) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:CornwallCTSeal.png Thanks for uploading File:CornwallCTSeal.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:32, 8 January 2021 (UTC) Editing news 2021 #1Read this in another language • Subscription list for this newsletter Reply tool The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.
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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.[9] 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) File:CornwallCTSeal.png listed for discussionA file that you uploaded or altered, File:CornwallCTSeal.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 20:38, 28 January 2021 (UTC) Happy First Edit Day!Have a very happy first edit anniversary! From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:32, 30 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) Happy Birthday!Have a very happy birthday on your special day! Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 06:41, 27 June 2021 (UTC) ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
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) Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!
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 Happy Seventh First Edit Day!
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