User talk:Carriearchdale/Archive 1

January 2014

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Jodi Arias with this edit, you may be blocked from editing. Moosehadley 03:57, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: User:Carriearchdale/sandbox (January 5)

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Articles for creation reviewing

Hi there, I noticed you recently started reviewing AFC submissions. I would like to ask you to stop reviewing them, as your edit history clearly demonstrates you lack the experience to do so. Feel free to return when you have several more months experience on Wikipedia. Thanks --Mdann52talk to me! 08:36, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Mdann52,

Well thank you for noticing? I am very familiar with Wikipedia having been a member for about seven years. I have over 20 years experience in writing, editing, and reviewing works in the real world. Thanks for your comment. Have a great day! :) Carriearchdale (talk) 15:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

"Having been a member for 7 years..." Ummm... Your Contributions indicate this account has existed for less than 7 days, and by posting at the top of my talk page, I contest the familiar bit too... An I missing something here? --Mdann52talk to me! 15:44, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Mdann52, User:Mdann52

Yes I think you are missing something here. Please refer to the documentation I have copied here for you or do a search of my user name on your own if you prefer.

"Name : Carriearchdale User ID : 17299935 Registered : 21 November 2007"

2007 to 2014 is about 7 years give or take.

Have a fabulous day! Carriearchdale (talk) 15:52, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I have also looked at your on wiki experience under this account name and find it lacking to the level that we expect AFC volunteers to have. If you've worked on annother account, please provide the name so we can verify your experience. If you don't want to disclose a previous account that would have the experience, we will have to take that as an attempt to avoid scrutiny. Finally Wikipedia has a lot of esoteric rules and policies therefore real world experience, while helpful, is not a automatic grant of experience for AfC. Also, having a registered account is not the same as actively editing. Hasteur (talk) 15:57, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Hasteur, User:Hasteur

I have only one wiki account. To suggest I am attempting to avoid scrutiny is bordering on the edge of a personal attack. I never said I had about seven years of editing experience on wikipedia. I said I am very familiar with wikipedia and its esoteric rules and policies.

And your immediate reach for the words "personal attack" suggest that you are more experienced than your edit history (which start on 03:37, 3 January 2014) reveals. If you wish to persist in trying to push your viewpoint in such a manner I will bring it up for a consensus decision at the AFC WikiProject talk page. I would also note that you've recently come off a Edit warring block. If you truly had the 7 years of experience editing Wikipedia, you would have known about Edit Warring, BLP, and 3RR before you had been blocked. Hasteur (talk) 16:32, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Wow Hasteur, User:Hasteur

" If you truly had the 7 years of experience editing Wikipedia"

I never said that I did. What I said was that I am very familiar with Wikipedia having been a member for about seven years. I have over 20 years experience in writing, editing, and reviewing works in the real world.

I will persist in speaking about what I think about matters on my own talk page.

This really sounds like a threat and bullying: "If you wish to persist in trying to push your viewpoint in such a manner I will bring it up for a consensus decision at the AFC WikiProject talk page."

Threats and bullying are not needed here. Please go away. Have a great day! :) Carriearchdale (talk) 17:08, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
• You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

• You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [1] [2]
• The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [3]
• If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [4] [5]
• You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [6] [7]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [8] [9]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [10]
• It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [11] [12]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 7

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 7, June-July 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

• Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
• TWL's Final Report up, read the summary
• Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
• Spotlight: Blog post on BNA's impact on one editor's research

Read the full newsletter

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Tech News: 2014-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates

• Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [13]
• You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [14] [15] [16]
• You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [17]
• New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [18] [19]

VisualEditor news

• You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [20] [21]
• VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [22]
• Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [23] [24] [25] [26]
• Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [27] [28] [29] [30]

Future software changes

• You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [31] [32]
• All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [33]
• Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [34]

Problems

• Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [35]
• Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [36]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [37]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [38]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [39]

Future software changes

• Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [40] [41] [42]
• If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [43] [44]
• You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [45] [46]
• An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [47]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Decision on requesting unblocking?

I think that over a month has passed since you were blocked, which is generally long enough for most people to make a decision. I think myself perhaps if no request is made in the next week there is a very real chance some sort of a ban will be requested.John Carter (talk) 21:40, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Why not leave her be? Let her on her own time, it's kind of ridiculous that you want to seek a ban when no disruptive conduct is taking place. Tutelary (talk) 22:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

I did misstate the above and I apologize for that. I was misrepresenting through an error on my part the material Dennis included in the Notification section above. However I do note that in that section he indicated some sort of action might be taken then. It will likely be a noticeboard discussion and there are a number of possible outcomes of such discussion. John Carter (talk) 22:32, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

OK, what will the noticeboard discussion be about? Where is the incident here? Where is the conduct that a noticeboard would be needed? Tutelary (talk) 22:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

WP: STICK. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 06:18, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CI, August 2014

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Wrap-up of some recent external reviews Interview: World War I editors Op-ed: TomStar81 on the outbreak of World War I

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Tech News: 2014-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
• There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [48] [49] [50]
• You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [51] [52]
• You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [53]
• You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [54]
• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [55]

Problems

• There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [56] [57]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July drive and August blitz

Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the 40 people who signed up this drive, 22 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2400 articles to 2199 articles in July. This is a new month-end record low for the backlog. Nice work, everyone! Blitz: The August blitz will run from August 24–30. The blitz will focus on articles from the GOCE's Requests page. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. The blitz will run from August 24–30. Sign up here! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:10, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

VisualEditor news

• There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [58]
• You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [59]
• If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [60] [61] [62]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
• After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [63]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [64] [65]
• You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [66] [67]
• A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [68] [69]
• If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [70]

VisualEditor news

• You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [71]
• We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [72] [73] [74]
• VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [75]
• We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [76]
• You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [77]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
• There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [78]
• You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [79]
• You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
• You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [80]

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

VisualEditor news

• From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [81] [82] [83]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
• You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [84]
• You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [85]

Problems

• There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [86] [87]
• There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [88] [89] [90]
• New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [91]

Problems

• There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [92]

VisualEditor news

• If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [93]
• The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [94] [95]
• You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [96]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
• These changes are coming with the new version:
  • If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [97] [98] [99]

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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CII, September 2014

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Hawkeye7 looks at the military history of Austria-Hungary Timeleine: This month in World War I

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Tech News: 2014-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [100]

Problems

• There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
• Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
• There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [101] [102]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
• If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[103] [104]
• In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [105] [106]
• The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [107]
• The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [108]
• There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [109] [110]
• In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [111]

Future site changes

• You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [112]

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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis. You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files. [113] [114]
• There are now many more translations for language names. [115]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
• Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [116] [117]
• You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [118]
• If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [119] [120]
• The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [121]

Future changes

• You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
• JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [122]

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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [123] [124]
• Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [125] [126]
• You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [127]
• A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [128]
• The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [129]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
• If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [130] [131]
• We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [132]
• On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [133] [134]
• You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [135]
• 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [136]

Future changes

• You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [137]
• More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [138] [139]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 8

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

• TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
• Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
• New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
• Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [140] [141]
• You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list or asking Elitre (WMF).

Problems

• 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [142]
• Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [143]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
• 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [144]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC). [145]
• There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [146]
• You can join a meeting about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [147]

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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

GOCE October 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights: Results of the August Blitz and September Drive A few changes around the Guild's pages Sign up for the October Blitz Review the Coordinators election results – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:16, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Do not buy Russian goods!

Hello! Could you translate an article about boycott of Russian goods in Ukraine for the Farsi or/and Portuglese Wikipedia? Thanks for the help. --Trydence (talk) 14:34, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

[Do not buy Russian goods...

The Bugle: Issue CIII, October 2014 Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book review: Nick-D on Britain in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Timeline: This month in World War I The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 14:32, 19 October 2014 (UTC) The Bugle: Issue CIII, October 2014, Redux Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Nick-D on Britain in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Timeline: This month in World War I NOTE: This replaces the earlier October 2014 Bugle message, which had incorrect links -- please ignore/delete the previous message. Thank uou! The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 01:52, 20 October 2014 (UTC)