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October 2019

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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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2019 US Banknote Contest

	US Banknote Contest
	November-December 2019
There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons. In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate. If you do not want to receive invitations to future US Banknote Contests, follow the instructions here

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It lives!

The entity intermittently known as SMcCandlish has returned. It is generally in a more chipper mood than in May or so (and not totally out of the loop – was using an alt. account here and there in the interim, at about about 1–2% of the usual clip).

Some big news, MoS-wise: I got dead-tired of lugging around over 5,000 books every time I moved (and ten times too much stuff in general, really). I've liquidated. While I still have a large e-book collection of style guides and dictionaries and such, I no longer have two entire bookcases full of paper ones. Thus, I'm no longer going to be the go-to guy for a mile-long comparative rundown on what every style guide in the English-speaking world has ever said about some usage or punctuation nit-pick. Some of those took several days (all-day-long days), so I probably won't miss it. I do have enough in electronic form to have meaningful input into various style debates, though.

 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:48, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Welcome back! Loopy30 (talk) 00:06, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

     Thankee.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:27, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Yes, welcome back! Coincidentally, I donated a bunch of my style guides (among other things) to the "Friends of the Library" yesterday. Trying to divest of too much stuff, and moving to an apartment. Dicklyon (talk) 00:43, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

I hear ya. I moved from a bug- and rodent-infested converted warehouse space of about 2000 sq ft to a one-room efficiency, and also cleared out two storage units of cruft in the process, not just everything in the big warehouse space. I was holding onto a lifetime worth of stuff, plus two estates' worth of stuff, and it was getting to hoarder level. Just for kitchen stuff alone, I had enough for probably four families. Almost every hand tool ever devised. Probably 50+ gallons of paint, varnish, cleaning supplies, etc. Three beds, at least a dozen tables, over a dozen chairs, three desks, four antique dressers/cabinets, a scaffold, at least five vacuum cleaners, yadda yadda. Just had to go. I can fit everything into a 12 ft U-Haul now.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:27, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Very glad to see you show up in a capitalization-related RM, just like old times. Welcome back. —BarrelProof (talk) 06:40, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

October

... with thanks from QAI

Great that "it lives"! Looking forward to your comments. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Today, I am proud of a great woman on the Main page, Márta Kurtág, finally! - Here's my ideal candidate for arbcom. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:19, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:IP block exemption

This blocked user is asking that his block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System:

SMcCandlish (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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UTRS appeal #27330 was submitted on Oct 27, 2019 20:34:24. This review is now closed.

--UTRSBot (talk) 20:34, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

I see at your ticket, you mention repeatedly that the range in question rarely edits. Please see Wikipedia:Blocking_IP_addresses#Open_proxies Open proxies may be blocked on sight according to the policy on open proxies., Wikipedia:Open_proxies Open or anonymizing proxies, including Tor, may be blocked from editing for any period at any time., m:NOP Publicly available proxies (including paid proxies) may be blocked for any period at any time. and Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Open_or_anonymous_proxies Open or anonymous proxies may be blocked on sight.. There is no requirement to wait for edits when dealing with open or anonymizing proxies. To correct one other minor point, you can put the IP range into this page, and it will give you a start and end ip for that range - the IP you mention is inside the range (belonging to a dedicated server / datacenter company) that I blocked. If you have any technical questions, feel free to ask - I'll do my best to answer. SQL^{Query me!} 01:48, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

@SQL: That's fine; I'm just wanting to get an exemption for when I'm logged in. Right this moment, I'm using a different endpoint from the same VPN provider, but it's slower, so being able to use the one I submitted the request about would be a boon. The one I'm on for the moment isn't just slower for WP, but for everything I do online, so it's not a practical long-term solution.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:11, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

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