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Issue 41, September – October 2020 
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St James's University Hospital
Hallo, I think there's a difference in the use of "St." or "St" between US and British English. I've reverted your move of St James's University Hospital - see Category:NHS hospitals in England to see that the full stop is not standard, and see every piece of documentation about the hospital too - I've just updated its official website in the article to this link. Your "full stop continuity" (which seems to mean "using what would be its name if it was in the USA" here) is not a valid reason for moving this article. Of course redirects from all variations are useful: St/St./Saint, not to mention missing or misplaced apostrophes. And that category link shows that some attention to DEFAULTSORT might be useful for a lot of "St" institutions. Happy Editing. Pam D  09:02, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes - Issue 42
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Issue 42, November – December 2020 
 * New EBSCO collections now available
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December with Women in Red
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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.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 42
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Issue 42, January – February 2021 
 * New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
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April editathons from Women in Red
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Name change
I guess I'll have to get used to your new name! Might take a while to adjust. Hope you are well. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 01:44, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * - Thanks for noticing. My real name is Wayne, and people call me Wika Wika Wayne IRL. Doing pretty well. You? Cheers!  09:10, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

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Queering Wikipedia 2021 User Group Working Days: May 14–16
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May 2021 at Women in Red
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Books & Bytes – Issue 43
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Precious anniversary
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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.

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"California attack" listed at Redirects for discussion
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August Editathons at Women in Red
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Books & Bytes – Issue 45
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"Paid advocacy" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Fixed your talk page archiving
Hi! I took the liberty of fixing the auto-archiving settings at the top of this page. --rchard2scout (talk) 13:25, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - Cool beans. I truly appreciate that. Having fun. PS: A few posts were gamed so they would never archive automatically. Will that change? Cheers!  14:21, 18 September 2021 (UTC)