User talk:Hamham31

If you want to leave me a barnstar, you may post it on my user page under Barnstar section, thank you.

Welcome
Thanks SMasters for giving me a rules/tip about this site, I owe it all to you. And I promise that I will follow this rule/tip as long as I can. Hamham31 (talk) 07:34, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Typhoon Zoraida
Hi. Please explain. I don't see any reason for you to add this content and it's definetly not a disambiguation page. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 21:40, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi and good day. The name Zoraida was included on PAGASA's list of typhoon names, but when it was introduced in 2001, It was originally named as Zuma (which is somehow never used). I just thought that maybe/somehow be used again in the next years, so I've decided that the page will be disambiguated. But if you really insist on redirecting it again on this page, you may do so. I do understand that, and I didn't mean any vandalism for that, but I'm basing on PAGASA's usage of their naming list. I do hope you understand. Hamham31 Heke! KushKush!  01:13, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok. So per WP:D I returned it to a disambiguation page. The primary reason is that there's no reason to disambiguate. As soon as there's a named storm called Zoraida than we'll have source material to make a new decision. Right now, the last storm called Zoraida was called Podul in 2013, which is odd to me. The page itself exists and we can always change it as the need arises. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 16:30, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

First things first
What pointers would you give me on how to fight vandalism here on English Wikipedia and how to properly deal with it? Hoping for your kind response. Hamham31 Heke! KushKush! 00:05, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm not sure if this is the best place to talk about it but it's fine for now. I have watchlisted this page, so there's no need to keep pinging me. Anyways, the best places to find vandalism is on the recent changes possible vandalism tag and RTRC. After you find the vandalism, you should revert it. Those are the basics. If you would like, we can go into the rollback permission, 3RR, administrators noticeboard, etc. Dat GuyTalkContribs 06:18, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Sory for pinging you anyway. But I have another question, what is the qualification for granting rollback permission rights, and how do I add a tags on any edits that is possibly a vandalism? Hamham31 Heke! KushKush!  23:46, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Not sure if you have this page watchlisted, so I'll ping you for now. There is no set requirement, however I recommend that you'd have a month or so of experience in counter-vandalism. Here is when I got accepted! Don't forget that if someone has 4 warnings already in their talk page, then report them to WP:AIV. For your second question, the tags are automatically added by Wikimedia managed bots (something like that, not users though) to edits that have been filtered. Dat GuyTalkContribs 14:12, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply, thank you for your information. I'll be reviewing more of that for now. This will really helps me a lot to understand the process of handling and fighting vandalism here in Wikipedia. Hamham31 Heke! KushKush!  23:59, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

If you want, I can check out your anti-vandalism edits and give you tips. Dat GuyTalkContribs 09:56, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 * OK then, you may give me a tips so I can fully understand how things goes here. Hamham31 Heke! KushKush!  00:04, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I have noticed that here you manually created the page and added the warning. You can use Twinkle to do that! Just go to the menu (to the right of history, page, etc.) and hover over it. Then go down to warn, and add the proper warning. I'd suggest you check what the templates produce. To go into a level 2 warning, click on the first bar and go down to the level 2 warning. Finally, don't forget there are single issue notices and single issue warnings. Dat GuyTalkContribs 09:47, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I see it now. Next time I'm gonna using it. Anyway, I followed your first instruction, by watching out some vandalized edits such as what an IP user did to Lord Byron article. I reported that already to AIV despite having a final warning to him/her. And somehow blocked it for at least 31 hours. And I also requested to protect it temporarily so no one do the same vandalizing edits in that article. Do you think I had to improve more than that? Hamham31 Heke! KushKush!  23:30, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * (Additional Question) - Is it possible that I can report a user who vandalizes Wikipedia to AIV usng Twinkle? That is regards to your suggestion that I can warn a user using Twinkle. Hamham31 Heke! KushKush!  00:16, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * How AIV, UAA, and requests for page protection work is that after you report a user/page to them, an administrator comes around and checks it. If it seems to him that the user is either vandalising, making promotional edits, or a spambot/compromised account and should be blocked (for AIV), he does it. For UAA, if it seems to the administrator that the user's username is either promotional, misleading, implies shared use, offensive, or disruptive, then he'll be blocked. For RFPP, if the administrator believes that the page has been persistently vandalised, edited disruptively, etc. then the page will be (most commonly) semi-protected. For your second question, I believe your procedure was good. If a user already has 4 warnings, or an 'only warning' template (example) then you should straight-up report them to AIV. Yes, Twinkle can be used to report users. Go to someone's user/talk page, hover on TW, and above warn there is ARV which reports users to administrator. When you click it, you can select a report type (for now, I recommend only vandalism or username), and from there it's quite straightforward. Finally, could you tell me your reasoning for why this edit deserves a 4im warning? Don't forget that the bots can make mistakes. Dat GuyTalkContribs 11:02, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Whoops! I guess I picked the wrong message. I meant just only a simple warning, instead of that one. I guess I should have watch next time on picking a warning message for the editor. Anyway, it's my mistake, I think I overdid it. Sorry. Hamham31 Heke! KushKush!  23:28, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

June 2016
I noticed that a message you recently left to Kazaro may have been unduly harsh for a newcomer. Please remember not to bite the newcomers. If you see someone make a common mistake, try to politely point out what they did wrong and how to correct it. ''Vandalism only-warning templates assume bad faith and are almost exclusively used when an vandalism-only account has vandalized multiple times with clear intent. For a new user, please use multi-level templates that assume good faith, and consider using a template that does not assume intent to damage Wikipedia, such as a template for disruptive editing. Finally, please read the common advice for warning template use on Wikipedia.'' Appable (talk) 18:13, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, I seem to have not noticed the mention of this in the above discussion (might still be a bit useful if you haven't seen the user warning advice yet), so feel free to trout me (or remove this message) if you want. Appable (talk) 18:15, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not being harsh to him/her. In fact, I just warn him/her that the article Charlie Conte is not a real actor, and to give you a note, Ms. Barbie Forteza and Ms. Thea Tolentino (the main 2 characters of The Half Sisters) told me thru Twitter message that they didn't know much about Charlie Conte and they made them very confused about the existence of that made-up actor as they noted here at WP:NACTOR. Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  02:57, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * (additional) Not just only that, I'm also questioning that the editor is just only 12 year old, so how come that an unknown person becoming a famous actor, not to mention searching his/her blog but just only created for his amusement? I guess next time, review his/her contributions properly so you may understand why do we need to warn him/her without any notice. But anyway, it's not your fault, but somehow, I already did it. Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  03:09, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * How do you come to know the editor is only twelve years old while following our very strict WP:OUTING policy? --<b style="color:navy">Neil N </b> <i style="color:blue">talk to me</i> 03:50, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Besides what NeilN said (if I interpret you correctly), again 4im templates should not be used except in cases where the vandalism is blatant and repeated. I only have used that once or twice, and it's really a last resort before ANI/V. Appable (talk) 03:59, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry to pile on, but also this edit deserves either a or just a good faith revert, but certainly not a 4im SMirC-wink.svg. Dat GuyTalkContribs 11:26, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * That was the edit I was referring to above, though I'm not sure if the editor quite understands the weight of 4im (which is understandable when you're new to anti-vandalism patrolling, but it is important to use good faith in most cases). Appable (talk) 18:34, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

A trout for you Myself :P!
This is for myself as well. I guess I don't yet quite known the usage of some warnings though. But still the editor must stop fantasizing himself/herself that he/she becomes a famous celebrity again. Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush! 23:49, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

GMA Network Inc. changing name
Hi Hamham31,

I want to move GMA Network Inc. (Company) to its original name as GMA Network Inc., Please change this article name to GMA Network Inc. and not GMA Network (Company) because GMA Network is already a company. I tried to move the page to GMA Network Inc. and I don't know how to request it to move the page to GMA Network Inc. can you move the page to "GMA Network Inc." and not to GMA Network (Company)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kazaro (talk • contribs) 04:33, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2016
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Invitation to the Wikiproject
Just simply accept this invitation, and when you get into the Wikiproject page, you will see a section of all the users currently in the project. Just place your name at the bottom of the list... and that's it, you're in! Have a good day editing on current TCs! Typhoon2013 (talk) 07:36, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Re: edit warring at Philippines
I see that a case is already filed on SPI so I'll let them take over. <b style="color:#0000FF;">OhanaUnited</b><b style="color:green;">Talk page</b> 04:50, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi. I notified the problematic user repeatedly not to insert hoax materials and images, and that his source bibingka.com is unreliable and thats coming even from an Admin User:Diannaa, but he keeps reverting on Philippines. He's done the same to other users who opposed his edits. Based on the history of the sock master, it is already no surprise and i just hope the admins act on them asap.--RioHondo (talk) 05:15, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I do left you a message on your user talk (In Filipino language). Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  05:28, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

RE:DBS 35
hi, i don't have a screenshot because i live outside metro manila were the broadcast is limited only in metro manila. Others have screenshot on our group in facebook (PHILIPPINE TELEVISION THROUGH THE YEARS AND BEYOND (1953-PRESENT))PHILIPPINE TELEVISION THROUGH THE YEARS AND BEYOND (1953-PRESENT). ​—Nikbert16 (talk)​ 18:29, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

DZXL
Actually, there was a whole lot of detail in the article, none of which was sourced. Existence is not notability, and I found no historical information to assert anything that was in the article. As unsourced material may be removed, I did, and redirected the article. If you can explain to me how an unsourced article meets policy, I'll be happy to let it be, but there's literally nothing about the station out there. MSJapan (talk) 02:06, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Your response seems to indicate a further WP:NEXIST problem - that policy indicates that we judge notability not on the current state of the article, but on the existence of sources, but you seem to be making pretty clear that sources don't often exist. The reason this ties into "existence is not notability" is because to write an article, there needs to be information relating to it, and for a business, that information has to extend to meeting depth of coverage for a business, and being more than a business listing. OK, so there's a bunch of history there now - am I supposed to assume it's correct?  Maybe whoever wrote it got it wrong.  I would also point out we have had a huge issue with hoax Phillippines-based stations being added, to the point where we have had to block editors.  So it's really not an area where WP:AGF is necessarily a good idea. MSJapan (talk) 17:57, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Please adopt me
Please accept me as your student in Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy. Please reply soon Thanks.  Nepali keto62  Questions?!?!? 09:59, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Whoa! I never thought that someone requesting to me to become my student for Counter-vandalism Unit Academy. Anyway, I will refer you to DatGuy for some pointers and for some ideas to fight vandalism as well, since like you too I'm also a student for CVUA and not yet granted the rollback rights. Can we adopt him as one of our team on CVUA? Please response. Cheers.  Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  11:32, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure! I also noticed you request to be trained by other people. Hamham, how's the counter-vandalism going? You think you ready to pass the academy? Dat GuyTalkContribs 11:47, 17 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi DatGuy, I'm ready to pass the academy already. I'm continuing to monitor some of vandalized articles here, and this time, I'm carefully choosing the right warning message to the user who made a mistake to some of the articles here in WP. I already reported at least 6 or 7 users to AIV (some of them are warned or blocked already), but still I think I need to learn more things regards to fighting vandalizers here in English WP. Cheers. Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  12:05, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * please adopt me fast.— Nepali keto62  Questions?!?!?  11:51, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Relax, there is no deadline. When would you like to start? Dat GuyTalkContribs 12:13, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * What you mean by When would you like to start?? I want to start now. What should I do? Please reply fast.— Nepali keto62  Questions?!?!?  12:42, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * So you want to learn how to revert vandalism? If so, I'm working on a page now. Dat GuyTalkContribs 12:47, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Did you adopted me as your student?— Nepali keto62  Questions?!?!?  13:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi there, please wait patiently. Get yourself prepared first, and make sure you're ready for everything. And remember assume good faith to others you know. ;-) Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  13:18, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

I am working on it. If so, then a page will be up tomorrow. If not, then I will tell you. If you want to request to be trained by other editors, please notify me. Cheers, Dat GuyTalkContribs 13:22, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Typhoon Nepartak (2016)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:01, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

WP:PERM
Hi. According or declining additional user rights is strictly a task for admins. We already had a bot made to avoid most non admin comments and closures, but it doesn't quite seem to be working. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:36, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * OK I will take note of that (and sorry for the trouble), but I see that the requesting user was already blocked. Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  00:07, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Congratulations!
You can now also put on your userpage. However, I still do recommend that you wait before you request rollback. Dat GuyTalkContribs 16:47, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you DatGuy for the recognition you gave me. Don't worry, I'm still starting my journey yet to grant me that right. And still, I had to improve myself first before I request that right for tthe 3rd time again. Again, thanks for mentoring me. Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  14:11, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

WP:PERM (2)
Hi, I asked you once already only two weeks go: would you please refrain from from making non admin comments on requests for permissions. It is strictly admin territory and your comments are not helpful. If you wish to help the encyclopedia please choose an activity that is more appropriate to your experience. Thank you. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:08, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Lionrock
Hey there! I saw you started the article for Typhoon Lionrock. If you want to expand the article, you gotta start first by looking at what sources are available right now. Is the storm getting a lot of attention in the news, with lots of different content? Then it should be pretty easy to fill out the impact and preparations section. But it looks like Lionrock right now has much in the way of impacts. It has taken an unusual path, but than alone doesn't warrant making an article. Storms can be fickle and last three weeks, but unless it affects humans (usually due to very damaging impacts, but generally it's obvious that there is a lot of different information). You might want to hold off on making a Lionrock article now. It might seem like a great idea for an article today, but that's just because it's happening now. Usually, this sort of article just sits once it dissipates, and it is quite obvious that an article shouldn't have been made in the first place. Hope that all makes sense. Let me know if you have any more questions. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 02:34, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It's probably only a day or so away from more news coverage, if the storm ends up hitting Japan. At that point, the storm will definitely be notable enough, and there will be plenty of information that you can find through a simple Google or Google News search. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 02:51, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Mark, salamat sa iyong concern. Maging maingat ako diyan sa English Wikipedia na ito. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Broryan1983 (talk • contribs) 08:58, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Super Typhoon Meranti
Seeing that you started the article for Lionrock, I think it would be best if one is started on Meranti, as it is by far the strongest storm on Earth right now. Plus, its strength and threat to Taiwan is gaining a lot of media. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 22:40, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that someone created the article already, but if ever, I'am willing to help out, whenever it had an impact here in the Philippines. BTW, Lionrock needs to be updated, the other article I've created (with the help of anyone) is Typhoon Nepartak. Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  22:46, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
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New deal for page patrollers
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Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2017
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Other changes:
 * You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this.
 * The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow.
 * The item has been moved to the top of the  menu (from clicking on the  VisualEditor - Icon - Menu.svg icon) for quicker access.  There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
 * You can now create   tags (sometimes used as  ) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
 * Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
 * The menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) .  The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt.
 * A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed.  The team are sorry for the disruption.
 * There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:  + +  on a PC, or  + +  on a Mac.  It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is  +  on a PC or  +  on a Mac.

Future changes

 * The VisualEditor team is working with the Community Tech team on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of   tags and other types of wikitext syntax.  You will be able to turn it on and off.  It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
 * The kind of button used to, , and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI.  The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read.  The labels will remain the same.  You can test the new button by editing a page and adding   to the end of the URL, like this:  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1  The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
 * The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors.  See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:18, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

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Editing News #1—2018
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Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.



This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

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 Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

 * The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools.  The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments.  They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing.  The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January.  Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor.  Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits.  More information will be posted at Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
 * The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor.  When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs.  You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs".  The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges.
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.
 * The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time.  It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up.  Other wikis can have this service, too.  Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

 * The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
 * Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
 * The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens.  This makes footnotes easier to read.  This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia.  If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either   or the plain (no parameters)   template.  If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki.
 * If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

—User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

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Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.



Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

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 Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

 * The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
 * The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles.  You can read the report.
 * The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
 * The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar.  You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
 * The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
 * The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images.  It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published.

Let's work together

 * The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website.  Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
 * The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
 * If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly.  We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation.

— Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:11, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

 Edit Cards 



This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:


 * 1) Section editing
 * 2) * The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
 * 3) * The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
 * 4) Loading overlay
 * 5) * The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.


 * Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.  Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
 * Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
 * Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?  We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
 * Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use.  The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

 * Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019.  They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space.  Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
 * Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards



 * On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
 * There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
 * Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar



 * In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
 * One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
 * New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
 * Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
 * Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

 * Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes.  The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
 * Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
 * Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November.  This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations.  The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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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)

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)

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.

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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) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
The Reply tool  is available at most other 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.
 * There is 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 that 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 (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts 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 mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:22, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:


 * Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
 * The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Mondo Manu for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mondo Manu 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/Mondo Manu 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. Rdp060707&#124;talk 09:23, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:MondoManuAksyonTV.jpg
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:52, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Re: DWKC-TV move
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Requests for history merge. Thank you. -WayKurat (talk) 17:35, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Uh yeah, I know that, but I tried to move the page 5 times already, but it only returning a message that "it can't be moved" for unknown reason. Hamham31 <small style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;color:gray;">Heke! <small style="font-family:System;font-size:small;color="red">KushKush!  01:35, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
 * You need to request to delete the DWKC-DTV redirect first before you can move the article since that redirect has a substantial edit history, thanks to similar cut and paste activities by IP editors. If you do a direct cut-and-paste move on any article, the edit history will not carry over. You can do your request here. -WayKurat (talk) 02:04, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Editing newsletter 2022 – #1
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Village pump (proposals). You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #2
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The new [] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)) 00:35, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Your signature and linter errors
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I'm wondering
How did you get a custom name? And how do you get the phillipines flag? Noru111344 (talk) 11:01, 26 October 2022 (UTC)


 * This is already a late reply, but I only rely on other users here in Wikipedia for that customized name. Cheers. <font face="Arial Rounded MT" size="3" color="orange">Hamham31 <font face="Century Gothic" size="2" color="gray"> Heke! <font face="System" size="2" color="red"> KushKush! 13:54, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

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Request Edit Assistance - Pluto TV
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Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:


 * 1) The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
 * 2) They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences. Please tell them what you think.



An A/B test for on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of List of programs previously broadcast by CT for deletion
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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 until the discussion has finished.  // Timothy :: talk  14:00, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Custom signature fix needed
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