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Dylan's Done It! Bob Dylan, a most awesome musician/warrior/poet, is the recipient of the 2016 Nobel prize in literature!

Cleocatra sez!: Be on a MISSION !

W I K I P E D I A R O C K S ! Make it YOURS?

'''Going somewhere? Go with all your ! Anything else just wastes your time, doesn't it?''' Indelibly yours, Paine Ellsworth



Unfinished business
Ideas in progress...
 * An essay on the printability of redirect pages

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a magic quilt that soars over a world of imagination without end! See also:


 * ''See also Wikipedia in the media

Oh! what a tangled web we weave Whene'er we serve as Wikipedians! Fact is, when you have opened and closed at least a dozen browser tabs or windows while you edit this encyclopedia, then you must be doing something right!

''Follow the bouncing encyclopædia...''

You don't get no respect?

 * R-e-s-p-e-c-t → just a brief essay by me

Countering systemic bias (CSB)


Review and Improve: Origin of AIDS – continue investigation!

Vandal info

 * I fixed the redlink image, by showing a blank space instead (see ); but the "Cannot determine vandalism level" message appears to be intentional, see . -- Red rose64 (talk) 07:58, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, Redrose64! It appears that the template may work well again, soon.  Hope your Spring is going well!  Stick to sources!  Paine   14:27, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * is running again. -- Red rose64 (talk) 00:17, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

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Editing News #3—2016
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?



Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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 VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

 * You can now set text as small or big.
 * Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.  A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
 * Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
 * At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.
 * The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page. In the future, the "" button will say "".  This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems.  More information is available on Meta.
 * Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image.  Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.

Future changes
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce. 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. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


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