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This Month in Education: August 2020
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Editing news 2020 #4
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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.


 * More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They  posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
 * Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
 * Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة.  ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")

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

 * The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
 * Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily . Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected.  Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures.  If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool
Next, 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) 15:10, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Feedback request: Maths, science, and technology request for comment
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Books & Bytes – Issue 40
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Issue 40, July – August 2020 
 * New partnerships
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 * #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
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This Month in GLAM: August 2020
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This Month in Education: September 2020
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This Month in GLAM: September 2020
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This Month in Education: October 2020
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The Signpost: 1 November 2020
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November 21st ~ NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-A-Thon - ONLINE
--Wil540 art (talk) 17:29, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Wil540 art, for the invite. That time is difficult for me, but I will sure try to engage somehow. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 21:34, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2020
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Books & Bytes – Issue 41
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Issue 41, September – October 2020 
 * New partnership: Taxmann
 * WikiCite
 * 1Lib1Ref 2021

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wikitech.wikimedia
Hi! I saw https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267729 and made https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileImporter/Data/wikitech.wikimedia. I hope it will help you. --MGA73 (talk) 19:57, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2020
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This Month in GLAM: November 2020
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This Month in Education: November 2020
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The Signpost: 28 December 2020
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Talk:Richard V. E. Lovelace
Hey, Daniel Mietchen, I'm wondering if you might be willing to help out at this article talk? We have an academic whose native language is Russian who is trying to help with an article she has a COI on, and between everything that means, it's been rough going for her. It might be helpful if at least someone who understands Russian can explain. —valereee (talk) 19:36, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2020
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This Month in GLAM: December 2020
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Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
The Reply tool  is available at most Wikipedias.


 * The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
 * It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:


 * As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
 * We have preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.
 * The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month. Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
 * Венов_дијаграм.svg A large A/B test will start soon. This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone.  During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. You can still turn it on or off for your own account in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool
The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself. 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 notifications-talk.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2021
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This Month in Education: January 2021
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Books & Bytes - Issue 42
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 * New EBSCO collections now available
 * 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
 * Library Card input requested
 * Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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Help on Wikiproject Climate change project
Hi,

any chance you want to help out on increasing coverage and info on this ? Carbon sink upscaling additional info on carbon sink upscaling (missing info) --Genetics4good (talk) 16:36, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021
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You're invited! Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE - February 6th, 2021 -
--Wil540 art (talk) 22:55, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Chemical graph generator
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This Month in GLAM: January 2021
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Two requests for some help
Greetings,

Happened to come across your wonderful user profile and Wiki contributions. I am looking for help in two different topic segments.


 * 1) Looking for some article expansion help @ Draft:Irrational beliefs


 * 2) Looking for translation completion help in article en:Kithaab to Russian wikipedia → ru:Китаб (пьеса) -a play about women rights issues- which has been copy edited and is ready for translation in various languages.

Requesting your kind visit to above articles and expansion support in first one and translation support in second one whichever you find interested in.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 13:55, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting in touch, but I currently do not have the bandwidth to help with that. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 08:53, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

I can understand the same. Thanks and wish you nice times. Bookku (talk) 09:31, 10 February 2021 (UTC)