“ There was no work there, just a header, when you have some work transcluded, feel welcome to recreate the page, or ask me to undelete it. It doesn't do well to have headers that mislead people to think that a work exists, and especially one that is sitting there orphaned. The 'history' statement relates to the history of the file, nothing else, it doesn't reflect on the work; the content similarly relates to what was at the page. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:25, 14 May 2013 (UTC) Well then that is an entire different situation. ”

“ Our policy is that two different people look at every page in the Page: namespace. So, you won't be validating your own proofread pages, but you are able to validate the work of other editors. You don't have to wait to transclude the pages. Once a chapter is completely proofread in the Page: namespace, then it can be brought through to the mainspace. I've used a table for this page. Have a look at what I've done as it's easier to understand tables by looking at real examples rather than by description. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 02:25, 1 June 2013 (UTC) Marvelous! ”

“ Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. . VisualEditor also allows editing references. The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign. ”

“ As a means to get the validation stage done on works, we have a special effort in November each year, plus we have a category where they are listed, and plus some lists around the place where we can try to influence people.Wikipedia has a page about wikilinks which is good reading. ”

“ Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.
Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.) The Translate extension and Universal Language Selector were enabled on Wikimedia Commons on May 20. Commons users can now easily change languages, and translate pages with a friendly interface. The Notifications feature, active on the English Wikipedia, now supports local blacklists and whitelists. It is possible to hide users (for example certain bots) from all notifications on the wiki. Also, e-mail notifications are now grouped. ”

“ You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account. Future software changes
There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays. When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed. ”

“ New features
You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class "autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. Problems
There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC) . ”

“ The Dictionary of Australasian Biography almost completely validated Hi Billinghurst, I've gone through and validated all the pages I can, there's just five left where I was the proofreader so I can't validate. So when you get a chance you might want to proof those pages and update the category for the DAB to Validated. I've learnt quite a bit doing this project, I saw you created the {{Mc}} template which is great for McCulloch etc. so I've been using that. Nice work too, in adding the supplemental info to people's main article. ”

“ Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas. Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users. You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3. You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17. Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. ”

“ A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513) . Future software changes The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. ”

“ Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836) . A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123) . ”

“ You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. Future
Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. ”

“ Sitenotice has the same effect as centralnotice. We used to use it, and it was often equally ineffective, or considered irritating as non-logged in users cannot collapse it, so it is always there. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:31, 16 June 2012 (UTC) I would have assumed as much, being most regulars disable such messages in their settings (& I have little affinity for the IP user; most are 1 day contributors at best anyway) . All I was wondering is how feasible would it be to put a banner-like message at least where the watchlist message goes if not the WS-wide message. ”

“ I feel that there are works with both smart quotes and straight quotes that get past us even during validation month. It may be possible for one of our tech-genius' to create something that can be used to convert all smart quotes (curly quotes) into straight quotes. I do not think our works look good with some of each and I do not believe we are perfect enough to catch all smart quote marks.—Maury (talk) 14:59, 14 April 2013 (UTC) I assume that someone can write a bot to replace all of U+201C (“) , U+201D (”) , and U+201F (‟) with U+0022 (") . ”

“ I would normally add a link to the word at wiktionary. [ [wikt:arachaicword|] ] . The only thing to watch for is overlinking. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:00, 20 April 2013 (UTC) Moving works from Commons to WS Sorry about this, but I noticed that one of the works I had uploaded to commons is copyrighted in the UK until 2018 (its source country) . The work is Democratic Ideals and Reality: A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction, with an index here, the djvu file here along with the various images collected here. ”

“ Watchlist is watchlist, and reacts as you configure it through your preferences. Two components, 1) General preferences, and if you have E-mail me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed set, then you will get an email for page changes; and for what sets off the trigger, you need to see how you have configured it on the specific Watchlist preference page. Talk pages notifications are paired with their equivalent 'front' side.— billinghurst sDrewth 05:51, 31 January 2013 (UTC) Ok. ”

“ An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287) . Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. Future software changes
MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the tag (bug #8480) . It will now be possible to create empty MediaWiki: messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124) . The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. ”

“ BUT if someone has done a *whole* work that way, then do not change it, just leave it as is, it hurts no one. This is more about direction to users about our preference to make things easier for all, and contemporary presentation. So be guided by the rules. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:34, 14 April 2013 (UTC) Billinghurst, if anyone does a large work using smart quotes I have no plans to change all of them. I would work on my own projects instead. My mention about smart quotes was about an occasional page that had both smart quotes and straight quotes. ”

“ You are the one who started this silly situation, back at least to your statement of "Don't get your knickers in a knot" which since you are British as you posted long ago, you should now know the original statement was "Don't get your knickers in a twist". ”

“ No need to apologize - everybody's input is welcome. And its not really anything you've said or done; its the changes that come down to us by those making changes or upgrades to the code every ~10 to ~14 days now instead of every 3 months or so like before. -- George Orwell III (talk) 17:59, 28 October 2012 (UTC) {{botanist}} Does what new user Pigsonthewing has done to this template & its documentation make sense? Microformats (and their real use/purpose) are beyond my understanding. ”

“ I have put in two new switches to remove the annoying "07" problem. This template handles that silently. I have updated the Wikisource:WikiProject DNB/Transclusion Wikisource:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Transclusion documentation accordingly.-- PBS (talk) 20:22, 8 January 2013 (UTC) I have put the same patch for the 07 problem into Template:DNBset/sandbox (as it seems odd to me to provide this really useful template and then leave a gocha for the users) -- I am not going to test it or implement it, but it is there if you are interested. ”

“ One for proofread of the month and one for validation of the month. Any validation award should look different than a proofread of the month award. People like collecting the awards and displaying them. ”

“ The results from the current approach will always conjure "ghosts in the machine" (i.e. lead to unpredictable behavior)
For instance -- open Index:Frost - A Boy's Will, 1915.djvu to edit mode, don't touch a thing, click 'Preview' then click 'Show changes'. Note the addition of fields that shouldn't require an independent refresh & save to make them present & current. More important is that you note the removal of the fully transcluded Category if that page was saved at that point. ”

“ Ofter we get concerned and talk about if we can get 2 small works in and sometimes a 3rd part small work in when we go fast as with the recent Japanese Flower arrangements that went fast. Therefore, we are doing 1-2-or even 3 small works. This can be modified to a small work plus a validation work. Presently, many new incoming books are totally processed while leaving the older non validated and non proofread works behind. Respectfully, —Maury (talk) 12:27, 14 January 2013 (UTC) ”

“ You can either take my word and experience on the matter or not. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:47, 15 May 2013 (UTC) Aren't people polite to you? I know you work on a other wiki areas so perhaps they aren't. It is good that people are polite to each other and it is self-evident that politeness is needed on every wiki area to constructively build up any given wiki area by the process of helping one another--or as Hesperian recently stated to me on a project we both worked on--"Teamwork" —Maury (talk) 04:41, 16 May 2013 (UTC) Not what I said, nor what I meant. ”

“ Do these thoughts match your thinking? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:09, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
IF an export as EPUB is required for the work, the options are waiting for someone to develop something for us in Lua. Based on probability and luck, if someone was going to jump out of the WS bushes and give us something ... it wouldn't be a lua model based on current developmental rates. In lieu of that it is pretty much "yep" and "", though I was currently letting it sit and distil.Thinking out of an orifice, we won't need to touch the page: ns. They are simply sectionalised, and proofread. ”

“ Taking you up on your offer on Vanity Fair Hi, what needs to happen is that all edits by User:The Bible in Metre to the Page: namespace for Index:Vanity Fair 1848.djvu, where he is the last editor of the particular page, need to be undone/rolled back/reverted/set back to Status 3 (or any other terminology) . Cheers, Beeswaxcandle (talk) 03:32, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Done for two users where they were shown as the validators, so I am hoping that anyone who edited afterwards stuck the Validated tag into place to override. Too hard (for me) to pull last editor and still get a readily working list. ”