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Ok, you.....i improved article with shortening biography of singer which was written already on page when you click on singer, there wasn't really need to have double text....and corrected some things like turbo folk, pop folk music...since there were some incorrect things like....real folk music has nothing to with turbo folk. I hope this is enough to prove my editing as correct and not violation --95.85.150.29 (talk) 19:49, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [2][3]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [4]
Meetings
You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [5]
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [6]
Hi, I'm tlwendt2 and I made an edit to the Birdman(film) page. The edit I recently made about the plot was no attempt of vandalism, but I was wondering if you could tell me why Cluebot NG removed it immediately? Is there any reason why no specific person made an edit to it? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.126.255.191 (talk) 02:43, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm tlwendt2 and I made an edit to the Birdman(film) page. The edit I recently made about the plot was no attempt of vandalism, but I was wondering if you could tell me why Cluebot NG removed it immediately? Is there any reason why no specific person made an edit to it? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tlwendt2 (talk • contribs) 03:36, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Starbucks
Hi! I'm lscheff2, I edited the Starbucks page and added a section on the mobile app, and in less than a minute my contributions were deleted by ClueBot. If you could just let me know why the bot deleted my content, that would be great! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lscheff2 (talk • contribs) 20:49, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Lscheff2: There are some things we need to clarify here:
Your contributions were not deleted. Deletion is something only administrators can do, and ClueBot NG is not an administrator. Your contributions were reverted and are still visible in the page history.
Now, the bot reverted your edit because it was similar to many other unconstructive edits in the bot's database. Looking at the edit carefully though, your edit seemed to read more like something written for promotional purposes, which is why the bot reverted it. You made a similar edit a few days later and Davey2010 reverted it since he/she believed it read like a manual or instructional guide, which isn't what Wikipedia is (it's an encyclopedia — like Encyclopedia Britannica). --I am k6kaTalk to me!See what I have done21:25, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lscheff2 - The edits IMHO were a Guide hence me reverting - I have no objections to you readding providing it's reworded in to a sentence rather than a list, Cheers K6ka for pinging. –Davey2010Talk21:34, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Re:Help with a stub
Hi, I am very wiki illiterate, and was wondering if you might be able to help me stumble through my assignment- the guidelines are as follows Find a person, place, or event in history from the years 1500-2000 that is on Wikipedia as a “stub”. Research and write a Wikipedia-style article of at least 500 words about it. Make sure you use hyperlinks (web links) to link it to other subjects that Wikipedia treats, just like Wikipedia articles include links! Make sure you have REFERENCES (footnotes, works cited)! Wikipedia likes references. Your article should be of a high quality, well-written, well-supported, and thorough, comparable to good articles on the Wikipedia website. It should be able to be published.
You could choose virtually any one of these under "history stubs" to use for this project. A stub generally has a sentence or two, no more--it's really ready for some enterprising historian (like you!) to come along and use his or her research and writing skills to inform the world!
Please note: you MAY NOT write a Wikipedia article about a person, place, or thing that already has a thorough article on Wikipedia. That wouldn't be very useful, because the world already knows who that person is or what that place is.
I encourage you to join the Wikipedia community and actually post your article to Wikipedia!
However, that is not required; if you choose you may simply submit it as a .doc or .html file or similar, PROVIDED ALL THE LINKS WORK.
@Vernonwashere: Hi. In order to help you, I need to know what you need help with specifically. Also, if I can't figure out an answer to your question, or if you'd like a more appropriate response, feel free to drop in to the Teahouse where an experienced Wikipedian can help you. Thanks, --I am k6kaTalk to me!See what I have done23:49, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [7][8][9]
You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [10]
The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [11][12]
Problems
There was a problem that caused slow editing. [13]
Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [14]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [15][16]
You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [17]
When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [18]
When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [19]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The page Lolcow is currently being vandalized with harassing information on me (Gabriel James Navarro), being put there by the very same cyberbullies who aggressively treat me as a "lolcow", and who are also presently harassing my IP talk page. Please ban these malicious parties. 45.49.131.121 (talk) 03:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please explain why you and the other user are reverting factual changes to the Lolcow article? As far as I can tell, the article was created to simply provide non-biased information regarding the lolcow phenomenon on the internet. Most of the recent edits are just adding another example, Gabriel James Navarro, who is a known lolcow as evidenced by sites like this: http://cwckiforums.com/threads/moleman9000.1357/page-1. Allowing the other user, who I suspect is Gabriel Navarro revert edits would be like allowing celebrities to edit out controversies on their own articles for the sake of reputation keeping rather than actual writing information content. 104.138.250.63 (talk) 03:36, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Please help me report these longtime stalkers and cross-site harasser-slanderers. And understand that my "edit warring" is simply removal of vandalism. 45.49.131.121 (talk) 03:53, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I keep getting told the following and I don't understand the difference: "The request was made by 'User' Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band, not Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band; please login as Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band to requ...
Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried.
Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [20]
You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [21]
The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [22]
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
I thought you might like to know that I have heard back from Rich regarding this. Apparently the WP:API has changed again which has generated a lot of PHP errors so ClueBot III therefore hasn't archived correctly. Rich is now looking into this, hopefully ClueBot III will be back archiving your page shortly!--5 albert square (talk) 00:24, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah it's weird because it doesn't even look as if it's been archiving ClueBot NG's talk page! I've been archiving that and Jimbo Wales' talk page manually otherwise both would be about 10 miles long now.--5 albert square (talk) 00:53, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [27]
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
