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Editing news 2021 #2
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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.
00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
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Editing newsletter 2022 – #1
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback.
23:15, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Editing news 2022 #2
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The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:
- The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
- They are beginning a new project, Edit check.
Talk pages project
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.
An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.
On Channel 3 (Thailand)'s former name
editHello! So about the former Thai name of Channel 3 (Thailand), your translation of สถานีวิทยุไทยทีวีสีช่อง 3 (the former name, sometimes used formally for corporate uses) is a bit incorrect.
You said before that the translation of สถานีวิทยุไทยทีวีสีช่อง 3 is "Worth every minute, watch channel 3 color TV.". That is the translation of the famous slogan of Channel 3, คุ้มค่าทุกนาที ดูทิวีสีช่อง 3.
The actual translation is "Thai Radio and Television Station, Color TV Channel 3. and is still used as a corporate name (although rarely used)
Please feel free to reply if you are desiring to revert from the current edit to the last version.
Kind regards, Thehappygolucky (talk) 06:34, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there,
- Sorry for the misunderstanding. They don't have radio, however, could you send me the source of where you got the new slogan?
- Please note that Google Translate may have problems translating into Thai as it is a complicated language.
- Thank you! Transitmatt (talk) 02:24, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- I surfed the Thai Wikipedia and found out an all-news radio station on 106 MHz that seems to be related to BEC (the owner of Channel 3) but I'm not sure yet.
- For the slogan, their slogan has been there for many years since the 1980s, and only had 3 (and more!) revisions.
- It's so famous and iconic even Channel 3 themselves have heard about the trend and have their newscasters replicate the dance (in Thai).
- Anyways, the page to the Thai wiki seems to say to broadcast Navy-related programs and some programs from Channel 3.
- The page is here (in Thai).
- Yours truly, Thehappygolucky (talk) 15:00, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
- Because of this I made a revision to the page.
- May you acknowledge, Thehappygolucky (talk) 15:14, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm, I was probably mistaken. Apologies about that! I'll see if I can make a slogan section and put it in there.
- Regards, Transitmatt (talk) 05:22, 14 February 2024 (UTC)