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This Month in Education: April 2019
This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 4 • April 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue |
The Signpost: 30 April 2019
- News and notes: An Action Packed April
- In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?
- Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
- Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art
- Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde
- Technology report: A new special page, and other news
- Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns
- News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?
- Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
- From the archives: Portals revisited
This Month in Education: May 2019
The Signpost: 31 May 2019
- From the editors: Picture that
- News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections
- In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball
- Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey
- Technology report: Lots of Bots
- Essay: Paid editing
- From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
The Signpost: 30 June 2019
- Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia
- News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising
- In the media: The disinformation age
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?
- Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters
- Technology report: Actors and Bots
- Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia
- From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal
- Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes
This Month in Education: June 2019
This Month in Education: July 2019
The Signpost: 31 July 2019
- In the media: Politics starts getting rough
- Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban
- Arbitration report: A month of reintegration
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?
- News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way
- Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
- Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract
- Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things
The Signpost: 30 August 2019
- News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings
- In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
- Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
- Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
- News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
This Month in Education: August 2019
The Signpost: 30 September 2019
- From the editors: Where do we go from here?
- Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup
- Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads
- News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green
- Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
This Month in Education: September 2019
This Month in Education: October 2019
The Signpost: 31 October 2019
- In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
- Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
- Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
- Community view: Observations from the mainland
- Arbitration report: October actions
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
- Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
This Month in Education: November 2019
The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited
The Signpost: 27 December 2019
- From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
- News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
- In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
- Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
- Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
- Technology report: User scripts and more
- Gallery: Holiday wishes
- Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
- From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
The Signpost: 27 January 2020
- From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
- News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
- Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
- Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019
- News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
- Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
- From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
This Month in Education: January 2020
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
- Gallery: Feel the love
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
This Month in Education: February 2020
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The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
- Arbitration report: Unfinished business
- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
This Month in Education: March 2020
Your InfoBox .. This user contributes using Linux
Hey, re your InfoBox .. "This user contributes using Linux" .. I love it!!!! The world needs more Linuxers. -From Peter {a.k.a. Vid2vid (talk | contribs)} 03:26, 25 April 2020 (UTC).
The Signpost: 26 April 2020
- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
- In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
- Featured content: Featured content returns
- Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-04-26/WikiProject report|The Guild of Copy Editors]]
Regarding your revert on mrwikisource
- Thanks for patrolling pages from mrwikisource, I saw that you reverted s:mr:Special:Diff/66093 this edit. And your edit summary was please use the sandbox.
- But I don't see any problem in that edit, nor I see any problems in other edits by the same user.
- They are relatively new and new users might get offended because of such summaries, some of them might not even understand, why their edit was reverted. No issues now as User:सुबोध कुलकर्णी, already reverted it back.
- I request you to check after revert and this is something I learned from my own mistakes. So I thought I should share it with you. You can drop a message on my talkpage if you are confuse/not sure about any devnagari wiki issues. I would love to help you, usually I am online often so you might get reply in less than 24hours. thanks and regards. QueerEcofeminist "cite! even if you fight"!!! [they/them/their] 13:55, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
- @QueerEcofeminist:Hi greetings, I am very sorry for that revert. I agree with you. I will more conscious in my future reverts in SWs. Also I have a problem with SWViewer. Thank you very much for the advice. Users like you are very helpful. Hope this kind of helps and advices will give in future also. Thank you.--Path slopu (talk) 15:59, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
This Month in Education: April 2020
The Signpost: 31 May 2020
- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
- Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member receives editing restriction
- Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
- Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
- News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
- Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
- Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
This Month in Education: May 2020
Welcome to Meta!
Hello, Path slopu. Welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum if you need help with something (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). Happy editing!
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This Month in Education: June 2020
The Signpost: 28 June 2020
- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
- News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
Translation notification: VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/July
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-29
The winner this Translation of the week is en:Coraline Ada Ehmke Please be bold and help to translation this article! Coraline Ada Ehmke is a software developer and open source advocate based in Chicago, Illinois. She began her career as a web developer in 1994 and has worked in a variety of industries, including engineering, consulting, education, advertising, healthcare, and software development infrastructure. She is known for her work in Ruby, and in 2016 earned the Ruby Hero award at RailsConf, a conference for Ruby on Rails developers. She is also known for her social justice work and activism, the creation of Contributor Covenant, and promoting the widespread adoption of codes of conduct for open source projects and communities. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 00:12, 13 July 2020 (UTC) |
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-30
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! Amabie (アマビエ) is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with three legs, who allegedly emerges from the sea and prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 00:12, 20 July 2020 (UTC) |
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Hi, careful to prepare for the text translation of a widely used template. When reporting a template for translation, you must then edit all pages where it is included by replacing {{ABC}} with {{TNT|ABC}} or else problems will occur and the translated text will not be displayed. For this reason it is better in these cases to move the text to be translated to a subpage as I did with the Template:Engine (Template:Engine/translatable). --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 19:20, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Samuele2002:Hi greetings, thank you so much for the help. I will do as you recommended in my future edits. Thank you for creating the subpage. Thanks a lot. Regards.--Path slopu (talk) 08:57, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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- It is not usual to send out translation notification for Tech News. Why did you send it? — regards, Revi 09:58, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- @-revi: Hi greetings, I only tried to increase the language versions. There are many translators of several regional languages who haven't subscribed Translators I. So I thought the notification will help to reach them. If I made a mistake, I'm apologising. I won't do it again, if it was wrong. Thank you. --Path slopu (talk) 10:06, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- It was not to imply you did something wrong: TAs usually don't send out translation notifications (TN) for Tech News (They are advertised on the translators-l mailing list) so I was wondering why it had to be sent as on-wiki talk messages. I think interested parties can get notifications on translators-l mailing list, so I think TN can be skipped (or ask John (WMF) to make a new opt-in for on-wiki talk notifications)? I certainly didn't subscribe to TN to get weekly Tech News alerts. (One-Time nudge is probably fine though) — regards, Revi 10:09, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Re: this topic, there is further discussion at Talk:Tech/News#Tech_news_notifications. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:27, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- It was not to imply you did something wrong: TAs usually don't send out translation notifications (TN) for Tech News (They are advertised on the translators-l mailing list) so I was wondering why it had to be sent as on-wiki talk messages. I think interested parties can get notifications on translators-l mailing list, so I think TN can be skipped (or ask John (WMF) to make a new opt-in for on-wiki talk notifications)? I certainly didn't subscribe to TN to get weekly Tech News alerts. (One-Time nudge is probably fine though) — regards, Revi 10:09, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- @-revi: Hi greetings, I only tried to increase the language versions. There are many translators of several regional languages who haven't subscribed Translators I. So I thought the notification will help to reach them. If I made a mistake, I'm apologising. I won't do it again, if it was wrong. Thank you. --Path slopu (talk) 10:06, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
On a different topic: In the future, please don't remove the {{tech news draft}} template yourself. That is part of the process that we do on Friday after any final changes have been made (per Tech/News/Manual). Thank you! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:27, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Quiddity (WMF): Hi, thanks for pointing out my mistake. I apologise, I will not do that in the future. Thank you.--Path slopu (talk) 06:28, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 2 August 2020
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-32
The winner this Translation of the week is en:Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Please be bold and help to translation this article! During the first and second civil conflicts which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), all sides involved in the war actively recruited child soldiers, known locally as Kadogos which is a Swahili term meaning "little ones". It has been estimated that the militia led by Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was 30 percent children. In 2011 30,000 children were still operating with armed groups. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), released a report in 2013 which stated that between 1 January 2012 and 31 August 2013 up to 1,000 children had been recruited by armed groups, and described the recruitment of child soldiers as "endemic". (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 00:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC) |
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-33
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! HelloFresh SE is an international publicly traded meal-kit company based in Berlin, Germany. It is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States, and also has operations in Canada, Western Europe (including Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands), New Zealand and Australia. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:08, 10 August 2020 (UTC) |
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Tech News
Hi! I just wanted to thank you for your work on Tech News and your translations. It helps, and thank you for being part of letting the communities know. (:
(By the way, it's not obvious, but we're trying not to create the new Tech News issues weeks ahead of time. Sometimes we change things in Tech/News/init and if that comes after a page for a week has been created but weeks before it's sent out, there's a lot of double work. The new issue isn't created until needed by design.) /Johan (WMF) (talk) 13:22, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Johan (WMF): Thank you so much for your advice. I apologise for creating too many new week issues. I only tried to help the community, but I did not think it would harm other works. Sorry. I will remember this in my future edits. Hope you'll help in future also. Also, thank you so much for your hard works. Thank you.--Path slopu (talk) 16:48, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- No worries, you were trying to help and it's not obvious until it's been explained. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 15:09, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
This Month in Education: August 2020
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The Signpost: 30 August 2020
- News and notes: The high road and the low road
- In the media: Storytelling large and small
- Featured content: Going for the goal
- Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
- Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax
- Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
- News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
- Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
- Arbitration report: A slow couple of months
- From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
Editing news 2020 #4
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Reply tool
The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.
- More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
- Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
- Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[1]
The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).
The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.
New requirements for user signatures
- The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
- Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.
Next: New discussion tool
Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.
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Special global permissions/Seealso
നമസ്കാരം, പരിഭാഷയുള്ള മിക്കതാളുകളിലും Special global permissions/Seealso നൽകിയിട്ടുള്ളിടത്ത് അത് തെറ്റായി കാണിക്കുന്നു. ഉദാഹരണത്തിന് ഈ താളിൽ ഞാൻ കാണുന്നത് ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്
- ഓ.റ്റി.ആർ.എസ്. അംഗങ്ങൾ: == ആഗോള അനുമതികൾ== ·
ആഗോള സംഘങ്ങൾ (ടൂൾസെർവ്വർ)D
· അംഗങ്ങളുടെ പട്ടിക · group changelog
ഇത് എവിടെയാണ് ശരിയാക്കേണ്ടത് എന്നറിയാമോ?--Kiran Gopi (talk) 08:20, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Kiran Gopi: നമസ്കാരം, അത് Template:Special global permissions/Seealso/ml എന്ന വിവർത്തനത്തിലെ പ്രശ്നമായിരുന്നു. അത് ഇപ്പോള് പരിഹരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. (diff) OTRS/ml എന്ന താൾ പരിശോധിക്കുമല്ലോ? നന്ദി. --Path slopu (talk) 12:15, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
- നന്ദി, --Kiran Gopi (talk) 18:41, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
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Kindly mark this page & it's linked page for translation. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 18:29, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
- @আফতাবুজ্জামান: Done--Path slopu (talk) 09:38, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
- There was a problem, i fixed that. Kindly mark again. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 15:57, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
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Reply tool
The Reply tool is available at most 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.
- We have 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 they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[2]
- 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.[3] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
- A large A/B test will start soon.[4] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. You can still turn it on or off for your own account in Special:Preferences.
New discussion tool
The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[5] 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 notifications-talk.
18:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
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