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Category:Question and answer sites

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VisualEditor News #5—2015

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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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Marie Serneholt

If you want to, please take a look at this weeks TAFI selected article, Marie Serneholt. Regards.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:48, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Hi Jarble, I just wanted to thank you for the little bit of work you did adding references to Honeywell. I have a paid COI regarding the article, and have been trying to implement some changes to improve the article overall. If you have a minute, could you take a look at some of the discussion on the talk page and let me know what you think? I'd really appreciate the feedback.--FacultiesIntact (talk) 03:20, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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Mass kilings in China listed at Redirects for discussion

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Invitation to a research survey

Hello Jarble, I am Qi Wu, a computer science MS student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Currently, we are working on a project studying the main article and sub article relationship in a purpose of better serving the Wikipedia article structure. It would be appreciated if you could take 4-5 minutes to finish the survey questions. Thanks in advance! We will not collect any of your personally information.

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VisualEditor News #6—2015

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A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

Screenshot showing a pop-up dialog for switching from the wikitext editor to VisualEditor
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:
Screenshot showing a drop-down menu in Special:Preferences

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

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 and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.

The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

  • Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
    • Remember my last editor,
    • Always give me the visual editor if possible, 
    • Always give me the source editor, and 
    • Show me both editor tabs.  (This is the current state for people using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
  • Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

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Romans 1:27 listed at Redirects for discussion

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Wikipedia:MOOT listed at Redirects for discussion

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Paper soccer

Hi, do you can check my English in page my sandbox with I work? Sorry that I question you about it but in recent changes I have seen that you're active user. English language isn't my native. I would be grateful. Regards. Dawid2009 (talk) 18:49, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

@Dawid2009: I have made some grammar corrections and suggestions for improvement. Have you written a version of this article in the Polish Wikipedia yet? Jarble (talk) 19:53, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Yes, I did, I'm foremost author but you haven't to sugestions because I report this page to deskhelp, so we should avoid spam. Where you have made corrections? Dawid2009 (talk) 19:58, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
BTW, your sentences avoid word would be all right (mayby you urdenstand original article?). But I can speak English in this wiki. Dawid2009 (talk) 20:03, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
OK, I have seen you corrects. I havn't view before, or this is my oversight. Dawid2009 (talk) 20:08, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Oh. I haven't urdenstand what you your info [made (...) suggestions for improvent], but now I know what about you talked to me. I correct urdenstandable sentences. Do you think that the content is already to move to the article and to further repair there? Dawid2009 (talk) 05:23, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Did you know?
Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.
Screenshot showing a pop-up menu for column operations in a table
If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

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. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:

  • Remember my last editor,
  • Always give me the visual editor if possible,
  • Always give me the source editor, and
  • Show me both editor tabs.  (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.

Let's work together

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RE: CONTENT REMOVAL

Because the info applied to the African golden wolf, not the golden jackal.Mariomassone (talk) 20:58, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Oops

Sorry about that. For some reason, your revised link was a red-link when I first looked at it, so I reverted your change. It looks fine now, and I have no explanation as to why it looked invalid initially. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 21:36, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Do you want one Edit tab, or two? It's your choice

How to switch between editing environments
Part of the toolbar in the visual editor
Click the [[ ]] to switch to the wikitext editor.
Part of the toolbar in the wikitext editor
Click the pencil icon to switch to the visual editor.

The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.

You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.

There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 19:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF): VisualEditor is now my default editing interface, but I want to change the default to wikitext again. Is this possible? Jarble (talk) 22:12, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
@Whatamidoing (WMF): If it isn't possible now, will it be possible at any time in the future? Jarble (talk) 19:19, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
It's possible now, and it's easy. Just go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing and scroll most of the way down to find the "Editing mode" menu. Pick anything you like and save your changes. (Then reload the page you wanted to edit, just to make sure that your new preferences are on the page.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 05:09, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

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Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with many items

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.

Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

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. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

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Category:Islamophobia

This category has been nominated for deletion. Jason from nyc (talk) 02:00, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

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Turkish genocides listed at Redirects for discussion

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Correct the Record

Would you like to start the article? Here are the biggest donors.Zigzig20s (talk) 08:03, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of India and state-sponsored terrorism for deletion

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List of oil spills

It's been over 4 months since you complained about missing information on this page. Why haven't you added it yet? Johnson487682 (talk) 13:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

@Johnson487682: Someone added the missing information on May 2015, less than a day after I wrote about it on the talk page. Jarble (talk) 18:06, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
OK, thanks. I updated the request. Johnson487682 (talk) 13:28, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Dog reproductive anatomy photo

Hello, I saw you moved an image on this page that you thought was in the wrong section. It actually was in the correct section because that section is the only one that discusses the male physiology in detail. And that photo is the best one available in Wikimedia to give readers an illustration of what's being discussed. As such it is much more informative to the user, especially with the original caption, than with your movement and re-caption. So I ask you move it back to its original position as was intended. (I would do so but am mobile for several days and have no interest in an edit war.). Thanks! Jtrevor99 (talk) 02:46, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with options for editing the table structure

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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 mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

  • You can now set text as small or big.[1]
  • Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[2] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[3]
  • Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[4]
  • At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.[5]
  • The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[6] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
  • Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[7]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

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What's missing from...

Outline of natural language processing?   The Transhumanist 05:34, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Category:Gangnam Style has been nominated for discussion

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March 27

Thank you for this comment of yours on that mysteriously remarkable date, March 27.

I've a hunch that its remarkableness is entirely fake, because based on data that are merely fictional. You may find this current discussion at WP:AN of interest. Certainly I'd be interested in any comment you might make there. -- Hoary (talk) 07:46, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Thanks for your edit to Islamic religious police. It is true that the link you marked as "dead" was indeed dead. There was also nothing found on the Wayback Machine. However, a simple search for article title on amnesty.org ("Saudi Arabia: Gross human rights abuses against women" site:amnesty.org) turned up this functioning link: https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/140000/mde230572000en.pdf.

I've decided to let you know, as you referred to 100 other broken links (which you've probably also marked "dead") in your edit summary. Perhaps you'll be able to find functioning links for these other "dead" links. Thank you for your attention. Akhooha (talk) 16:33, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Austrian Army

Your edit to Austrian Army has been reverted. Please do not cause existing redirects with incoming links to point to disambiguation pages without first obtaining consensus for such a change. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:50, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

@Bd2412: Austrian Army and Austrian army now redirect to two different pages. It seems very counterintuitive. Jarble (talk) 21:11, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Let's reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement!

Hi Jarble, please allow me to get in touch with you because you have stated sympathy with environmental causes on your user page. I would like to invite you to check out the Environmental impact project page on Meta, where I am trying to create some momentum to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. My first goal is to have all the Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy. Maybe you could show your support for this project as well by adding your signature? Thank you, --Gnom (talk) 19:46, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Redirects

When creating redirects, please remember to only redirect to a single source if you're creating multiple redirects. Please don't redirect a page to another redirect (see WP:2R for more details). Thank you. JudgeRM (talk to me) 02:59, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@JudgeRM: Double redirects are quickly identified and corrected by User:Xqbot, so this seems relatively unimportant now. Jarble (talk) 03:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
No, that's not how it works. You shouldn't create double redirects on purpose. Period. Letting a bot automatically fix it is not how you should be doing things. Furthermore, WP:2R states that "an editor should not leave behind the double redirects that he created himself". Double redirects should be, for the most part, the results of moves; creating them on purpose is discouraged, so I would suggest you don't do it again. JudgeRM (talk to me) 03:07, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Reminder that "a redirect should not be left pointing to another redirect page" (right from WP:REDIRECT). So please don't make double redirects on purpose. Thank you. JudgeRM (talk to me) 20:18, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@JudgeRM: I haven't created any double redirects on purpose: all of them were unintentional. User:Xqbot fixes every double redirect within 24 hours, so it is usually not necessary to correct them manually. Jarble (talk) 23:09, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Category:Forcible religious conversion has been nominated for discussion

Category:Forcible religious conversion, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:07, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Cram101/CTI Reviews

Thanks for tagging Cram101/CTI Reviews as low quality. Actually, these books are largely copied from Wikipedia and can be simply removed - they have zero value. See WP:CIRCULAR and WP:PUS for more info. Fences&Windows 22:40, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Move request

A request to change the title and content of a comics article has begun at Talk:X-Men (film series)#Requested move 7 April 2017. Any interested WikiProject:Comics editor may comment there within one week. --Tenebrae (talk) 02:23, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

An update from the Sustainability Initiative

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!

Hi, Jarble! Thank you again for supporting the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 200 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.

What's new?

We are writing you this message because there is great news: The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has finally passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Also, we have created a cool logo and found a nice name for the project which you can see on the right :-)

What's next?

Currently, we are working with Wikimedia Foundation staff to make sustainability a key priority for the selection of a new location for Wikimedia servers in Singapore. Also, we have presented the Wikimedia Foundation with a green energy roadmap to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.

Please help!

Let's keep this project moving forward – and there are several ways in which you can help:

  • Ask other Wikipedians to sign the project page as well – this way we can show the Wikimedia Foundation that this is an issue that the community really cares about.
  • Talk to Wikimedians you know about the importance of reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement.
  • Improve and translate the project page on Meta.

If you have any questions, you can contact us on on Meta. Again, thank you very much for your support! --Aubrey and Gnom (talk) 09:15, 9 April 2017 (UTC)