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WikiCup 2013 October newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is. Our final nine were as follows:

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:


 * wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
 * wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
 * wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
 * wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
 * wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
 * wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
 * wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
 * The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to, for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
 * Finally, the judges are awarding the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 01:03, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hardfet Modulator
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Read what I said again, and you'll see it was me who was asking the other editor not to bite a brand new user, and encouraging him not to throw stones if he lives in a glass house. No need to apologise, but next time you want to give me an instruction like that, make sure you've properly understood the situation, please. No need to ping me for something as trivial as that either - I have, and use a watchlist. Thank you. Begoon &thinsp; talk 07:13, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually you too misunderstood me. I knew that you were asking another editor not to bite. I understood that completely. But without any fun WP was being boring to me. That's why I made a little fun with you..... I used a :P like there, you can see. But if it's bothered you then sorry. -- Pr at yya   (Hello!) 12:57, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, ok - but it wasn't clear, and just looking at this page you seem to use a smiley about 25% of the time you post, so one could be forgiven for ignoring that as seeming to be almost "part of your signature". It kinda gets devalued if you use it all the time (which is why I should stop ). Also I felt it somewhat devalued what I was hoping the other editor would take quite seriously - I thought it was an appalling thing to say to a new user, made even worse by the lack of English skills of the "criticiser" of English skills, and hence outright hypocrisy in the statement. I felt your comment might make them less likely to take what I said seriously, and they really should. No problem - all water under the bridge. Begoon &thinsp; talk  14:13, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
 * No the smiley is not a part of my signature. Cause when I'm angry or annoyed I'll not use it. I use it when I feel it's good.Yeah your logic is right. My fun would make your serious talking less serious. Anyway thank for your good faith to me.-- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 14:21, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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Article request: Astoria, Queens
Hi, Pratyya! Are you interested in starting a Bengali stub on en:Astoria, Queens? It is a neighborhood that had a high Bengali population. Many of the Bengalis in Michigan lived in Astoria before moving to Michigan.

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 20:12, 7 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Also, could you do some other Queens neighbourhood stubs, too (like Jackson Heights, Queens which has a growing Bengali population)? Thanks. Epicgenius (give him tirade • check out damage)  21:18, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay I'll try . -- Pr at yya   (Hello!) 12:31, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hi from Italy
Hi Pratyya Ghosh, how are you? Me I'm very fine. Here it's started Autumn, and all flowers of my garden are sleeping.

Please, I ask your precious help to make two (2) little stub about 2 Brazilian famous singers and musicians:


 * Toquinho: you can write his born in 1946 in São Paulo and his family came into Brazil from Molise, Italy, and he started to play guitar with Paulinho Nogueira.

His first success song was in 1970 Que Maravilha with Jorge Ben, and today his still writing and singing songs.

You can use the picture of him taken in 2010. I took it in Cremona. Don't forget also to put the External Links Web Page.


 * Zeca Pagodinho: born in 1959 Rio de Janeiro, neighbour Irajà, he startet to dance and sing samba still baby at Portela School.

Still today it's part of Portela and he has the Quintal do Zeca, like a Zeca's Café where he meets al artists, poets, musicians and plays music for his supporters. Don't forget also to put the External Links Web Page.

Thank you very much for your precious help. IIf I can write a page or a stub from English to Italian or from English to Portuguese, tell me. See you soon

Rei Momo (talk) 11:17, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll try.-- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 13:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your greetings
Hey, I received your Sharadiya Greetings on my talk page. Was very delighted to see it. Thanks a lot!! Sorry, couldn't wish you the same on time, but I hope that it was great for you. May Durga Ma bless you.

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Rebel Wilson
Hi Pratyya,

I'm responding to your denial of my change to Rebel Wilson's page. Specifically the deletions of the majority of her 'Personal Life' section pertaining to her weight and her weight sponsorships.

Sadly, I wasn't aware of any place I could give reasons for my changes. But I'll gladly explain to you my reasoning for doing so! Mainly because it's incredibly rude to have her weight a topic on anything about her, but specifically her 'personal life' section. The fact that the section is predominately commentary relating to her weight is disgusting. How would you like it if your Facebook profile specifically outlined your weight? Her weight doesn't really have anything to do with her personal life anyways.

As unconstructive as it may be to just delete that section, it may be better to include it under a 'sponsorship' section or something if you're so hellbent on keeping it on the page.

On an aside, I've submitted the page and my complaint to several prominent feminist websites.

Thank you for your time.

05:20, 14 November 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fuhms91 (talk • contribs)
 * I understand what you say. But you needed to make an edit summary before removing the contents.-- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 05:36, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!!!!

 * Thanks  -- Pr at yya   (Hello!) 13:33, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Autopatrolled
Hi Pratyya. Hope you don't mind me interrupting here. I have recently seen you requesting for the autopatrolled permission. I just dropped by here to say that autopatrolled only affects the new articles you have created, not your other edits. It is good that you have created 52 articles, but still, do you want to change your request a little bit? Wikipedia is not Commons. Wikipedia autopatrolled permission is for new articles, while Commons autopatrolled permission is for all your edits. Thanks. ''' JianhuiMobile talk 13:42, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I know that. Yeah Autopatrol is for new articles. But I need to create subpages for good reasons. Anyway I've given the reason there. I'm not changing it. If an admin thinks I'm eligible s/he'll grant me with this words, but if s/he doesn't think I'm eligible then this changing will not take any effect. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 13:52, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Then I wish you good luck then. One good way is to check that there are no maintenance tags on your articles. ''' JianhuiMobile talk 14:05, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've maintenance tag on 7-8 articles I believe and those were my early contributions. Now I'm experienced. . What do you think? -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 14:18, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about that though. It depends on the granting admin. I don't have the autopatrolled permission, but I know how all user rights work. I think if it's 1 or 2 that have maintenance tags, the admin will grant and tell you to work on them. I actually stalk PERM, so I know most of it. :P ''' JianhuiMobile talk 14:39, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * And your request was denied by Wifione. Told you to change your request already. ''' JianhuiMobile talk 07:58, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Article request #2: Nachuk Tahate Shyama
When you do the one about Astoria, do you want to start bn:নাচুক তাহাতে শ্যামা (Nachuk Tahate Shyama)? Tito might love that! WhisperToMe (talk) 07:53, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Tomorrow the Astoria. I'm busy today with an IRC meeting. -- Pr at yya   (Hello!) 14:16, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That's fine :) - I really appreciate it WhisperToMe (talk) 16:37, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ bn:Astoria, Queens. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 05:38, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you :) WhisperToMe (talk) 06:27, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:


 * Accidental deletion of infoboxes and other items: You now need to press the Delete or Backspace key twice to delete a template, reference or image. The first time, the item becomes selected, and the second time, it is removed.  The need to press the delete key twice should make it more obvious what you are doing and help avoid accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336).
 * Switch from VisualEditor to the wikitext editor: A new feature lets you make a direct, one-way editing interface change, which will preserve your changes without needing to save the page and re-open it in the wikitext editor (bug 50687). It is available in a new menu in the action buttons by the Cancel button (where the "Page Settings" button used to be). Note that this new feature is not currently working in Firefox.
 * Categories and Languages are also now directly available in that menu. The category suggestions drop-down was appearing in the wrong place rather than below its input box, which is now fixed. An incompatibility between VisualEditor and the deployed Parsoid service that prevented editing categories and language links was fixed.
 * File:, Help: and Category: namespaces: VisualEditor was enabled for these namespaces the on all wikis (bug 55968), the Portal: and Viquiprojecte: namespaces on the Catalan Wikipedia (bug 56000), and the Portal: and Book: namespaces on the English Wikipedia (bug 56001).
 * Media item resizing: We improved how files are viewed in a few ways. First, inline media items can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones (like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug 54298). While you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the current dimensions (bug 54297). Once you have resized it, we fetch a new, higher resolution image for the media item if necessary (bug 55697). Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and should be available next week. If you hold down the shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. The media item resize label now is centered while resizing regardless of which tool you use to resize it.
 * Undo and redo: A number of improvements were made to the transactions system which make undoing and redoing more reliable during real-time collaboration (bug 53224).
 * Save dialogue: The save page was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug 48566), and in the process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it loses focus (bug 50722), or if you review a null edit (bug 53313); its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions options now layout much more cleanly (bug 52175), and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug 51918). There was a bug in the save dialog that caused it to crash if there was an error in loading the page from Parsoid, which is now fixed.
 * Links to other articles or pages sometimes sent people to invalid pages. VisualEditor now keeps track of the context in which you loaded the page, which lets us fix up links in document to point to the correct place regardless of what entry point you launched the editor from—so the content of pages loaded through   and   both now have text links that work if triggered (bug 48915).
 * Toolbar links: A bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343).
 * Numbered external links: VisualEditor now supports Parsoid's changed representation of numbered external links (bug 53505).
 * Removed empty templates: We also fixed an issue that meant that completely empty templates became impossible to interact with inside VisualEditor, as they didn't show up (bug 55810).
 * Mathematics formulae: If you would like to try the experimental LaTeX mathematics tool in VisualEditor, you will need to opt-in to Beta Features. This is currently available on Meta-wiki, Wikimedia Commons, and Mediawiki.org. It will be available on all other Wikimedia sites on 21 November.
 * Browser testing support: If you are interested in technical details, the browser tests were expanded to cover some basic cursor operations, which uncovered an issue in our testing framework that doesn't work with cursoring in Firefox; the Chrome tests continue to fail due to a bug with the welcome message for that part of the testing framework.
 * Load time: VisualEditor now uses content language when fetching TemplateData information, so reducing bandwidth use, and users on multi-language or multi-script wikis now get TemplateData hinting for templates as they would expect (bug 50888).
 * Reuse of VisualEditor: Work on spinning out the user experience (UX) framework from VisualEditor into oojs-ui, which lets other teams at Wikimedia (like Flow) and gadget authors re-use VisualEditor UX components, is now complete and is being moved to a shared code repository.
 * Support for private wikis: If you maintain a private wiki at home or at work, VisualEditor now supports editing of private wikis, by forwarding the Cookie: HTTP header to Parsoid ( set to true) (bug 44483).  (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)

Looking ahead: If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:24, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * VisualEditor will be released to some of the smaller Wikipedias on 02 December 2013. If you are active at one or more smaller Wikipedias where VisualEditor is not yet generally available, please see the list at VisualEditor/Rollouts.
 * Public office hours on IRC to discuss VisualEditor with Product Manager James Forrester will be held on Monday, 2 December, at 1900 UTC and on Tuesday, 3 December, at 0100 UTC. Bring your questions.  Logs will be posted on Meta after each office hour completes.
 * In terms of feature improvements, one of the major infrastructure projects affects how inserting characters works, both using your computer's built-in Unicode input systems and through a planned character inserter tool for VisualEditor. The forthcoming rich copying and pasting feature was extended and greater testing is currently being done.  Work continues to support the improved reference dialog to quickly add citations based on local templates.

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