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Hello. You've recently created the mainspace article StudiesWorld/Books, but I moved it to User talk:StudiesWorld/Books since I'm guessing that you wanted to create an user subpage rather than a mainspace article. I've tagged the original page (now a redirect) for speedy deletion. If you have any questions or comments, you can leave a message on my talk page. Oh, and you might not want to make an archive page with only seven sub-topics. That might give a wrong impression. KJ^Discuss? 01:39, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Yeah I meant to make a user space page. Thanks for the suggestion about the archive. StudiesWorld (talk) 09:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

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Tony Silva

I have reverted the edit you made using STiki. Poor judgement - please be more careful. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 11:12, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-40

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Recent software changes

On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis. You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files. [1] [2]
There are now many more translations for language names. [3]

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [4] [5]
You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [6]
If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [7] [8]
The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [9]

Future changes

You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [10]

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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

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GA Cup

Hi, I'm Dom497, one of the judges for the GA Cup. Please remember to close your reviews after the review is complete. Your Radish review is still open. Thanks!--Dom497 (talk) 20:02, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. StudiesWorld (talk) 21:58, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

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Recent changes

You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [11] [12]
Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [13] [14]
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Books and Bytes - Issue 8

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Issue 8, August-September2014
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