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Miles Davis ain't no Saint?

Hi - I wonder if my problem is one you might look at. I hope I am not 'canvassing'. I just posted in the Teahouse "False, uncited statement leads to edit war warning" - concerns Miles Davis and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Thanks Thelisteninghand (talk) 14:02, 10 June 2021 (UTC) Sorry, Warning and discussion here User talk:Thelisteninghand Thelisteninghand (talk) 14:05, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

  • Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
  • The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

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00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

@CAPTAIN RAJU: It's that time of year already, eh? Thank you for dropping by! Thank you to my nominators Mz7 and SoWhy, TheresNoTime for the idea, and everyone who commented at the time (support, oppose, or neutral). Your feedback in general has been invaluable. --TheSandDoctor Talk 21:47, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
You can't blame me for suggesting you put yourself through the wringer! - TNT 😺 21:54, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
@TheresNoTime: hehe   --TheSandDoctor Talk 22:14, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
TNT is right, we just talked you up but you decided to take the plunge yourself   Happy anniversary! Regards SoWhy 07:57, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

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16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021

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