User talk:Pratyya Ghosh/Archives/36 (2015-08)

2015 GA Cup - Round 2
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VisualEditor News #4—2015
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You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar). Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince,  जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements
Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top.

In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.

Future changes
The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

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 * The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings.  You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though.  Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre directly, so that she can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

TAFI List of articles purge, part II



 * Hello Pratyya Ghosh:


 * A discussion is occurring at the TAFI talk page regarding the removal of entries from the project's List of articles page. Your input is welcome at the discussion.

Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 17:22, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Adoption class.
You are free to provide me adoption classes on Bollywood related topics. Jazz Stewart मला चर्चा? 05:11, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * All right . But before everything, I should mention you one thing. You stated that;
 * Now I'm NOT an Indian but a Bangladeshi. Plus, I know about Bollywood (almost everything), but I haven't done too much work with Bollywood articles in other word Bollywood is not my major editing or contribution area.
 * SO what is your comment now? -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 14:24, 11 August 2015 (UTC)


 * It is not an issue. I had precised an Indian editor who majored in Bollywood articles, because i believed that these editors are updated with daily buzz of Bollywood. They knew in the milk how much quantity of water is available—″When we make a choice we always choose the best right!″—I don't have any issue of you being a Bangladeshi. The thing that only concern me is that you know about Bollywood as i had joined Wikipedia to contribute to Bollywood. I really thank you for your gesture and really looking forward for some constructive lesson from you. Jazz Stewart  मला चर्चा? 05:02, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay then, I'll start the lesson from tomorrow. By the way sorry for the delayed reply. I was busy yesterday. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 13:27, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

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Jazz Stewart मला चर्चा? 14:59, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ saw and replied. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 15:36, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

GOCE August 2015 newsletter

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August 2015
Hello, I'm Pratyya Ghosh. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Peshmerga because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page.  Pr at yya  (Hello!) 15:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.
 * Hi Pratyya Ghosh. It seems that there have been some unintended keyboard touches, but I meant to remove the second note. No source mentioned in the article supports it, and the statement is very ambiguous. (Many Kurds? WP:WEASEL) Probably someone just added his opinion there. I would be happy if you reinstated my edit (without the erroneous keyboard touches), or add some sources to the statement and clarify it.--172.56.23.204 (talk) 15:47, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Dear IP 172.56.23.204 I reverted that edit. Maybe your intention was right. But you made a mistake removing that and that looked like one vandalism. You see after your revision it was like this. (I made the flaw bold and I took the first para).
 * This is why I reverted that one. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 13:42, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

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That's ok. I hope you'll anle to encounter it with ease. Thanks anyway!  Malaysiaboy Chat 03:45, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

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