User talk:Ged UK/Archives/2014/December
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The Signpost: 03 December 2014
- In the media: Embroidery and cheese
- Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
- Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
- WikiProject report: Today on the island
Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 02:07, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 December 2014
- Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
- Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
- Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.
Would you consider this
You recently added page protection to Electronic cigarette. Would you consider making it permanent and not expire after a month? I know I was against the protection, but after giving it some thought a longer time is necessary to make sure that discussion happens first on this very contentious article. AlbinoFerret 14:58, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
- As a Wikipedia user/contributor who came to the Electronic cigarette page for the first time a few days ago, to add something, and then got a little involved in checking out the on-going editorial dispute, I strongly disagree with long-term page protection. No doubt there is a vast amount of history concerning edit wars and page protection that I am not aware of. That said, in this case, long-term page protection seems to be a way to hijack the page, giving a highly visible article the appearance of being discredited and unreliable, thanks to the protection and neutrality tags. Problems should be worked out on an individual editor level. --Tsavage (talk) 05:11, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 December 2014
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
- Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
- Traffic report: A December Lull
Seasonal Greets!
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Please restore the protection to Electronic cigarette
I have already made the request on the protection page. link. It appears an admin that has involved themselves in editing the page changed the protection and shortened the time. Would you please restore it. AlbinoFerret 12:04, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014
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).
Recent improvements
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.
Looking ahead
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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Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 December 2014
- From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
- In the media: Wales on GamerGate
- Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
- WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
- Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased
Seasonal Greets!
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015 !!! |
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- Thanks! GedUK 12:26, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
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- Thanks! GedUK 12:26, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 01:59, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
- The vandalism that caused the protection has stopped. Whilst some IP edits continue to be undone, they aren't vandalism. GedUK 12:29, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 08:39, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 08:42, 31 December 2014 (UTC)