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Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, the world's first
national park
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I added the external link "boracay beaches guide" to the Boracay page.
The reason you mention for deleting that resource is " inappropriate for an encyclopedia".
My question to you is: have you even read the page? Because it's the most comprehensive guide to Boracay's beaches available online. I know, I live there... So I don't feel there is any question that it's a useful resource for people wanting to learn more about Boracay.
I will re-add the link since I feel that you have made a wrong judgement when deleting it. Please don't delete my contributions again without taking care to read the content first.
Thanks, if you have any questions just let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JanPaul999 ( talk • contribs) 03:31, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Is anything not officially issued considered spam? It might not be officially issued but I've been living on Boracay for 3 years now and I can vouch for the accuracy of the information. There's also no other website that goes into that much detail of the beaches. Having talked to many tourist here, I know the beaches are #1 reason people come to Boracay, so a resource that talks about them in detail like that should be helpful for a lot of people that want to know more about the place.
About copying the contents to Wikipedia, I could do that but I feel that resource really has to be read on it's own since it's a complete guide and not just a snippet of information that can be summarized easily.
Anyway, thanks for being reasonable :)
If you have any suggestions just let me know, I'm relatively new to using Wikipedia as an editor.
JanPaul999 ( talk) 04:43, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
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pizza is an oven-baked flat bread typically topped with tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings
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keyword for
text searches. It caused issues with the
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indicator>
tag in these templates instead to add the icons.
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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Login and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings in the upper-right corner, to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.
It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.
The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available in Mobile Web.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.
The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias next week, and eventually at the English Wikipedia.
The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar's menus are now shown in the menus. VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience / Design group. The appearance of dialogs has already changed in one Mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.)
Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search program could not find the page. A link inside a template, to a local page that does not exist, will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to a error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [30] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.
The tool for quickly editing TemplateData will be deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool is already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common response for that parameter. The autovalue can be easily overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.
In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.
Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in tables will appear next Wednesday. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be possible later. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus will be hidden behind a "More" item, such as "underlining" in the styling menu. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.
The user guide will be updated soon to add information about editing tables. The translations for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.
You can influence VisualEditor's design. Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.
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Sleeping is part of
everyday life
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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
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military technology.
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Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator
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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
A beach on the island of San Andrés, a tourist destination in the
Caribbean
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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
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Mexico–United States border spans six Mexican states and four U.S. states, with a total length of 3,145 km (1,954 mi).
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Game design is the art of creating rules and mechanics to facilitate interactions between players in a game.
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mw.text.unstrip
to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a
list of scripts to fix.
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Ctrl+F
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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Did you know?
Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing 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).
Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new 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.
VisualEditor will replace the existing design 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 at other sites 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.
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aurora is a
natural phenomenon.
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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
How do you get STiki to show the "to last version by User" bit in its edit summary? I've noticed you've been able to do this, so I'm wondering what I need to put in the edit summary field to get STiki to do the same. Thanks. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 21:28, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
to last revision by #p#
to generate such bit. I learned this from ClueBot NG's edit summary, and found that it could be useful in several cases. —ALittle
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talk to me)
04:11, 23 December 2014 (UTC)