User talk:Evolution and evolvability/Archive 2020

al-Iṣfahānī, the Author of the Kitāb al-Aghānī
Regarding the al-Iṣfahānī article, I went through it once, made some very minor corrections. Note that while I can read Arabic, I don't understand most of it. I haven't yet gone through the entire books list yet; regarding the rest:
 * Are the AH and CE dates from the sources? They don't appear to correlate to each other. They have only minor differences, don't know if it matters.
 * Are all mentions of  supposed to be in italics, because only some of them are?
 * Apparently incomplete Ref-notes: C, F, R, AD, AG.
 * In references, for the book titles wouldn't it be better to use the official titles given on worldcat.org?
 * For example: Akhbār Aṣbahān, Al-Fihrist, and Tārīkh Madīnat al-Salām.

— Regards, AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 09:15, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for this. It's exactly the additional proofread I needed. I'll look into the points you raised this week. I'm much more used to editing science articles which tend to have very simple citation systems (mainly just ). Thank again. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 23:12, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about the duplicate threads!
Hey there. I didn't mean to decentralize the discussion for your proposal; I didn't see your response before posting it. I asked others to comment in your thread at WP:Bot requests instead of the sub-section at WT:MOLBIO. Sorry about the mix-up.

Anyway, I'd already coded WikiProject Gene Wiki as a task force in before seeing your post. I mainly did it because there's a lot of articles with that template banner and it's a task-force of WP:WikiProject Genetics. If you want me to recode Template:WPMOLBIO so that it just adds Category:Gene Wiki articles when yes, I could do that instead. Just let me know which you prefer.

Either way, I'll recode now to reflect the rest of your 4th list entry in Bot requests. I.e., add the signaling and metabolism parameters to permit adding articles in the following categories:  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 02:38, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Category:WikiProject Cell signaling articles with yes
 * Category:Metabolism with yes

One more thing: I went ahead and requested permanent template-protection at WP:RFPP since a template merger seems likely.  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 02:40, 16 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I think your addition of the Gene Wiki taskforce to the template is very sensible. The only change might be to omit the taskforce-specific importance rating for the genewiki taskforce, since it doesn't really make sense in that context. Thanks for adding the metabolism and signalling parameters. The only outlier is the RNA tqaskforce, which was pretty short lived and tagging all the pages within Category:RNA is probably or questionable current value. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 02:57, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah. I'd meant to to code the category parameters last night but got sidetracked. Will do it later tonight or tmrw morning at the latest. Currently a bit busy until then. RNA probably isn't necessary to include.  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 22:39, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Please assist!! Help category is up for deletion
Hi. the first section on the main page for WikiProject Help reads as follows. I would like to help the problem stated below.

As one option, I have created a new category, below. this is designed to help new editors to find, as stated below, an "oasis of order amidst the chaos," namely a central category that can enable and assist others in finding helpful pages more easily.

However, this category is in danger of being  DELETED .
 * Category: Wikipedia help overviews.

could you please go to this category, click the link for the deletion discussion, and then add your thoughts there? we greatly need a wider amount of input. We appreciate any input that you could please provide. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 17:23, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Excerpt:  The trouble with help pages The help pages of Wikipedia are a rabbit warren of various types of pages, written to differing levels of technical expertise and in widely varying styles. The effect can be quite overwhelming! The help system has also become bloated, and continues to grow: in redundancy, in wordiness, and via instruction creep.

This WikiProject provides an oasis of order amidst the chaos - a place where editors can meet up, share opinions, and support each other with the mammoth task of help cleanup. Many of the help pages have few, if any regular maintainers, so having a place to record ideas can ensure that good ideas endure.

'''Please join. We can use all the help we can get. (Pun intended). See also Help desk patrol'''

Thanks for the tips Thomas but...
Thanks for the tutorial details. I'll watch them soon. I tried the link to firefox extension but it was a dead and when I searched firefox there were a lot of options but I couldn't see one that sounded like what you had in mind. Also I don't understand what should happen with the authority control - it just came up as another box with Orcid like i already have... I will get on to mapping the open access publishing pages shortly. AmandaL (talk) 09:44, 3 February 2020 (UTC)


 * No problem I got the link wrong! The correct link for firefox is this (I've corrected it on your talkpage so that you have it there too). The updated authority control should look the same, but is drawing the info from your wikidata item, so when others get added, it'll automatically find them (see the bottom of my userpage as an example). T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 10:28, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Email
I have been off WP for some weeks due to ill heath. I recd a notification when I logged in regarding an email you sent. My apologies that I didn't receive it or response. Anything I can do for you now? AshLin (talk) 06:57, 4 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hey, no problem. Hope you're feeling butter. I was contacting since I noticed you'd written a few GAs. If you'd be interested in getting feedback from an external academic peer review process, WikiJournal of Science (www.wikijsci.org) might be suitable avenue: WP:WikiJournal_article_nominations.
 * For existing Wikipedia articles, the page is put through scholarly peer-reviewed and the reviewed version published as a citable document, with updated info integrated back into Wikipedia. This improves the scientific accuracy of the encyclopedia, generates citable, indexed publications. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 09:56, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

PROD declined
I declined your proposed deletion of Draft:The 5-step rules for proteome or genome analysis, as only articles are eligible for proposed deletion. For drafts, WP:MFD is the right forum. Hog Farm (talk) 21:18, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Nucleoid
Do you think there is any chance you could return to this nomination, where you assisted earlier, to answer the reviewer's further questions. Thanks for whatever you can do. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:27, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I have edited most of the article Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds. I am still not completely happy with Sources and Dioxins and sugarcane which are a bit incoherent. If you have time, screen it and comment! Viinamakelainen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viinamakelainen (talk • contribs) 19:09, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at the village pump about streamlining the welcome template and having it link to Help:Introduction instead of WP:Introduction
As creator of much of Help:Introduction, you are invited to join the discussion at Village_pump_(proposals). Sdkb (talk) 23:50, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Recent edits
Looks like this edit (and at least one of the similar recent edits I looked at) didn't quite work; now if one clicks on the icon at top right, you get taken to "example.com". Presumably a problem somewhere in Wikidata? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:00, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, Thanks. Will fix tomorrow. Should be possible to use the DOI from wikidata for the link, but I hadn't put the invoke:wikidataIB call in the template! Thank you for spotting it. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 12:15, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it should all be fixed now and understand the wikidata item enough to pull all the needed info from it! Let me know if you ever spot any new problem with it. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 05:43, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Will do. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 09:11, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Æthelfæd
Thanks for your edit, but it gives an error message (when the script to show harv errors is installed) "Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFDudley_Milesx2018". Dudley Miles (talk) 18:11, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, interesting. so it's spotting that the template has defined an ancor, but that it has not been reffed in the text. I'll look into what'd be the best way to fix that. Thanks! T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 23:41, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for bothering you, but...

 * New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
 * New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
 * Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines ; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
 * If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) (click me!)    20:58, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

note re your idea
Hi;. I agree with your idea that you posted at Village_pump_(proposals), on ways to perhaps provide a unified or consolidated talk page that could encompass multiple wikiprojects that are related in topics. would you like to talk about some different ways that perhaps we might make this happen? I have been thinking of some possible ideas on this topic. Please feel free to ping me when you reply. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 14:41, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Nucleoid
Hello! Your submission of Nucleoid at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 01:22, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Message
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Requested
Edit request that use temps like Template:Edit fully-protected can be seen at  User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable (as transcluded bellow)...that is transcluded at the WP:Dashboard for easy viewing..... definitely one on the list below that can use your attention 😎


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Nomination of Hina Baig for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Hina Baig is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Hina Baig until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Störm  (talk)  08:08, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Science/Virtual colony count in Russian Wikiversity
Hello! I moved the article to this page: ru:v:User:Evolution and evolvability/WikiJournal of Science/Virtual colony count. I am afraid that automatically translated text are not suitable for the Russian Wikiversity. And I have not enough knowledge in this topic to improve this translation. --Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 08:25, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you. It was translated by the author (Bryan Ericksen) who I thought spoke Russian. Are there grammatical problems? T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 08:46, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Does the phrase "96-well" means 96 holes in something?
 * This phrase is strange for me:

Тестирование чувствительности к антимикробным препаратам (AST) можно проводить на 96-луночных планшетах...

I could translate it as:

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) can be done on 96-well notebooks (or tablets)... --Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 09:02, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's one of these, but that apparently translates to 96-ячеек Микротитрационный планшет from checking the ru wikipedia page I'll check again with the original author. Thank you again for checking than language. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 22:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for information. I did not know about this plate. This is very interesting. --Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 07:57, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Hepatitis D
Content you added to the above article appears to have been copied from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4484953/, which is not released under a compatible license. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 12:39, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Arg, thank you for letting me know! I'll contact Mario. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 08:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:15, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Styling tech question
Hi Thomas! I noticed that, on the Help:Introduction menu, the boxes in the middle have some nice padding, whereas the ones at the top and bottom are more squished together. I can't figure out where on Template:Intro to single/styles.css or elsewhere the middle section padding is located, so I can't apply it to the top and bottom. Can you help? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 18:43, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I just tried figuring this out again; it's still a mystery to me haha. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 21:47, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for re-pining me on this. My mind has been a bit scattered recently. It looks like it was something to do with the template when I first put it together. Using the style parameter of the buttons themselves within the page should allow for much more consistent control of the vertical spacing. Great work for everything you've done with all of these. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 11:43, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks mostly good, but there's now an equally mystifying gap between the MOS button and the conclusion button. It seems to always exist between the last button and the second-to-last button, no matter which changes I try to preview. Any idea what's causing that? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 17:25, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Trouble with SVG images
Hi Thomas,

Thanks very much for your suggestion to upload images as SVGs. I tried doing this, but I had a lot of trouble with text getting mis-rendered, even after I switched to the Wikipedia-compatible font Liberation Sans. I'm attaching the file below. Do you have any tips for this?



Thanks,

Rob Hurt (talk) 23:43, 7 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I've seen something a like that before. The people at Commons:Graphic_Lab/Illustration_workshop were able to fix it for me when it happened. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 12:19, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Just submitted a request--thanks Thomas. Rob Hurt (talk) 18:16, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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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.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

April 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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Welcome template

 * Wikipedia talk:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates.--- Moxy 🍁 12:02, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Tryptophan 7-halogenase
Hi, I just saw your message on my talk page "Hi. Great work on the Tryptophan_7-halogenase article. Do you happen to know if the File:PrnA_Binding_Sites.jpg image is based on PDB:2AQJ? Thanks, T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:18, 3 September 2017 (UTC)" - forgive the very delayed reply. Yes, I believe it is 2AQJ. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scheng23 (talk • contribs)
 * no problem I know how messages can get missed! Thanks for the info. I've noted it in the figure legend. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 04:48, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
Enwebb (talk) 19:40, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

WJS submission
Hi Thomas,

Many (many) months ago, you approached me about the possibility of writing something for WikiJournal of Science. It turns out that a pandemic can have unexpected positive effects, and one of them is that I finally put something together; you can see it at User:Joel_B._Lewis/Affine_symmetric_group. Since this was created at en.wp but is not actually a wp article, it was a bit unclear to me which method of submission I should use; I assume that copying the source over verbatim to the WJS preprint server will break lots of things (but maybe that's wrong?). Your suggestions are welcome.

All the best, JBL (talk) 17:29, 5 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Sorry, in the end I decided I was being dense and this was the correct thing to do; please let me know if that's wrong! Thanks, JBL (talk) 23:08, 5 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Great to hear! And no worries about not finding WP:FAN earlier. Working out how to make use information on how to submit is both clear and not overwhelming (and makes sense to wikipedians and non-wikipedians) is a work-in-progress! I've added a note on your talkpage on subsequent steps. The reason WP:JAN is useful in these cases is that special:import also transfers over the edit history, and we can also import over any templates needed and convert the wikilinks to point back to en.wp. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 03:49, 7 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Yes, I was hesitant to copy it over because of the cross-wiki linking issue.  (I see it still does cause some problems with respect to the links in the citation templates, but I presume that can be sorted out separately/later.)  Looking forward to the process.  All the best, JBL (talk) 14:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.


 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiLoop Battlefield new name vote
Dear Evolution and evolvability,

Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield. We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting is held at m:WikiProject_WikiLoop/New_name_vote and ends on July 13th 00:00 UTC.

xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 05:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Rolling out cite templates at Wikiversity
Hi Thomas, in Help talk:Citation Style 1 you were mentioned as the one who rolled out the latest version of our citation templates at Wikiversity. That's great, however, there's one more thing that needs to be done to make it functional. Links to identifiers are now all routed through special "symbolic-identifier-name (identifier)" redirects instead of directly pointing to the target page in order to reduce the clutter at "What links here" and improve reverse lookup facilities. So far, these redirects do not exist at Wikiversity causing the links to show up as red links after the update. What needs to be done to fix this is to create the following special redirects for all identifiers supported by citation templates over there as well (there are many more such redirects, but only these are supported by the cite templates at present, so only these need to be created now):


 * ArXiv (identifier)
 * ASIN (identifier)
 * Bibcode (identifier)
 * BioRxiv (identifier)
 * CiteSeerX (identifier)
 * doi (identifier)
 * eISSN (identifier)
 * hdl (identifier)
 * ISBN (identifier)
 * ISMN (identifier)
 * ISSN (identifier)
 * JFM (identifier)
 * JSTOR (identifier)
 * LCCN (identifier)
 * MR (identifier)
 * OCLC (identifier)
 * OL (identifier)
 * OSTI (identifier)
 * PMC (identifier)
 * PMID (identifier)
 * RFC (identifier)
 * S2CID (identifier)
 * SBN (identifier)
 * SSRN (identifier)
 * Zbl (identifier)

I would do this myself, but my global account does not log in there for unknown reasons. So, before I spend time to sort this out it is probably easier for you to create these redirects over there. (At Wikipedia, these identifier redirects all carry a special "Rcat from citation identifier" to put them into a special category for maintenance - don't know if a similar concept exists at Wikiversity - in either case, this is not essential to the function.) Thanks and greetings. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 01:34, 3 July 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:


 * The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
 * More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
 * Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
 * The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
 * Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.
 * On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
 * In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Melissa Reeves
Just wanted to let you know that I have reverted all the edits I made earlier saying Reeves was fired and have restored the previous version. TV Line has retracted the source article, saying it was published due to "technical error" and she has not been fired. It looks like it was one of those 'potential' articles that sites write up in case something happens and they had it ready when she was being publicly criticized, but it never came to pass and wasn't supposed to be posted. Lilipo25 (talk) 11:59, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Question on Associate Editor Application to the Wikijournal
Thanks for your vote on my application in June. I was wondering when can I expect to know the outcome. Natematic (talk) 17:02, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pinging me about this. I've prompted the other editors to vote (we have a 5 vote quorum to be able to implement, but people often miss new posts to that page). T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 10:39, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

June/July 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Intcurrent
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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

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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
Delivered on behalf of Enwebb (talk) 17:10, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

August 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
Delivered on behalf of Enwebb (talk) 22:52, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Error in image
Hi,

I just wanted to notify you about an error I happened to find in the following image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protein_Sequence_space.png

The number of possible 300 amino acid proteins is approximately 10^390, and not 10^325 like it says in the image (which is the approximate number of all 250 amino acid proteins). Also, for clarity, it might be better to write ≈ instead of = for the powers of 10, as they are only approximate.

Kind regards,

Leergier (talk) 18:45, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for both spotting this error and letting me know! And I agree, approx equals signs would be more appropriate. I've updated the image and acso uploaded the svg version so that it's more editable/adaptable in future. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 02:40, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Template:Cite Q EtAl
Cite Q now handles "et al" by default, and the number displayed can be configured through the use of display-auathors; please will you orphan Cite Q EtAl so that it can be redirected or deleted? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:49, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to merge in, but the current Cite Q doesn't quite have the needed functionality yet. Ideally, for articles adapted from a Wikipedia page (so has additional contributors), the display-authors should draw from the GetEtAl template. Also, the unset seems to have stopped functioning. Example:
 * Should display as:
 * T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 03:06, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 03:06, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 03:06, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Per the updated template documentation;, should work:



but does not; in case I've missed something.

I'm not clear what you think should be "drawn from the template". I note that Q76846397 had one value for and none for ; I've now added a second P50 value,, but as you can see, Citation does not like that. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:36, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Good idea with just adding as an author to the item! Obvious in retrospect. The getetal template was just a bodge to basically estimate that, so I'll update the wikidata items so that it's not needed. I'll get on it today. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 23:04, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Question on Meta
Dear Thomas,

On Meta i just have entered a query for you, thanks, Hansmuller (talk) 11:10, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

New, simpler RfC to define trust levels for WikiLoop DoubleCheck
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Help regarding Nucleoside-modified messenger RNA article
Hi, can you help in providing an image for Nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) so that it can be used for both for article and DYK. Thank you — Amkgp 💬  10:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * replied at WT:Molbio. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 22:30, 9 December 2020 (UTC)