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!seward
Can someone please tell me the names of India's wikipedia sewards? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maddyjane123 (talk)
- Stewards are appointed for the whole Wikimedia community, not by country or project. You can find the list of Stewards here. QuiteUnusual (talk) 08:35, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Fastdelete script
Hi. It would be good if this script could work on Meta again. It saves you a lot of time when deleting pages. It used to work for me in the past. Here is the imported code and the custom reasons (at the bottom of the page). See also Tech#Fastdelete_script. Thanks for your help in advance. Best regards. — M 17:34, 05 December 2014 (UTC)
Obscenities, hide them please
HARD PORN content: http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/special:contribs/2001:41D0:52:400:0:0:0:332 please hide. Thank you! 66.187.71.42 19:05, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
- Vandalism was already reverted. If you find any edit that needs to be permanently removed please email stewards
wikimedia
org with the difflinks. If a deletion would be enough, I suggest that you ask any tewiki administrator to do it. Regards, -- M\A 15:24, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Transclusion magic
Hi,
I am trying to translate (multilingual) pages from the Grants NS and I am hitting a wall. Please see User:Jean-Frédéric/Sandbox5 and enlighten me :)
Jean-Fred (talk) 20:37, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
- It doesn't seem an includable namespace. ie. it can't be done. You should request it to be set as one. Platonides (talk) 20:41, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
- It was just a typo. --Nemo 20:52, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
- It is − I checked before. The truth is elsewhere. Thanks Nemo. I hang myself out of shame and I’m back. Jean-Fred (talk) 20:53, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Opening a new user group in Uzbekistan
Is it possible to create Wikimedia Usergroup? How to do this? --Ochilov (talk) 16:04, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- There is an introduction page at Step-by-step user group creation guide. Also, in the future, please use Wikimedia Forum for this type of posts as this page is for general discussion of Meta. --Glaisher (talk) 16:19, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you a lot! --Ochilov (talk) 16:49, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Request for a local delinker (delinker.py) bot, please
Hi. As you know Meta-Wiki is one of the few wikis that allow local hosting of files. A couple of years ago we decided that uploads should be restricted to prevent the increase of files that are better suited for commons, and the upload of copyright violations. Recently WMF is conducting a File metadata cleanup drive and some of us are still interested in Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta/Image review 2013 to remove copyvios, transfer files to commons when appropriate and add information to other files. I wonder if somebody would be so charitative to run a copy of the delinker.py locally so that localy deleted files can be delinked from pages, to avoid red links. Actually Category:Pages with broken file links hosts 1,000+ pages with broken file links, something that would be so tedious to do manually. I also beg interested users to join the image review and the metadata cleanup projects and help to clean up and organize the files we actually host. Many thanks in advance for your help. Best regards. -- M\A 18:51, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
- @MarcoAurelio: Maybe sulutil:Filedelinkerbot can be helpful. (Contact Krd for local bot...) IIRC, delinker.py is not much maintained. — Revi 16:34, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
- @-revi: Thanks a lot. I'll do that and see if (s)he's willing to run his service on Meta. Best, -- M\A 21:31, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Import
I have been looking to import few templates from En WP. Where should I ask it? Regards. --Tito☸Dutta 18:12, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #10—2014
Did you know?
Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).
Recent improvements
Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".
Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.
There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.
Looking ahead
The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)
The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.
Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
- Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
- Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
- File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
- The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
- If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!
18:59, 26 December 2014 (UTC)