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I appreciate the willingness to restore the page.
The following page was the first paper published in the new section called "Topic Pages" of the journal PLoS Computational Biology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_permutation_in_proteins
If you read the sentence at the beginning of the References section, you will see that it is the same text we wrote in our page:
This article incorporates text from an open access publication: Bliven, S.; Prlić, A. (2012). "Circular Permutation in Proteins". In Wodak, Shoshana. PLoS Computational Biology 8 (3): e1002445. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002445. PMC 3320104. PMID 22496628.
Please, in case of doubt contact Shoshana Wodak (Editor of the Topic Pages) to solve the licensing issue.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortuna ebd (talk • contribs) 09:16, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Bilby:
On second thoughts, I agree with you. Thanks for removing. CsDix (talk) 10:03, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey. I'm sure you know that RfA is utter hell, but I've been looking for some good candidates, and one thing we could use more than anything else is another admin or two who is well-versed on copyright. Would you be willing to consider running? I'd have no problems nominating you. Personally I was convinced you were already an admin, was surprised to see you weren't. Wizardman 00:52, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I know I keep bugging you on this, but third time's a charm if your free time has finally returned. Wizardman 02:27, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
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I have initiated a discussion at Village Pump Proposals regarding applying Template:COI editnotice more broadly, in order to provide advice from WP:COI directly onto the article Talk page. Your comment, support or opposition is invited. Cheers. CorporateM (Talk) 19:47, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
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| I want to thank Bilby for his extensive work he has done to clean up the Puddle_Duck_Racer wiki page. Reading other comments from Bilby, it appears he doesn't have a puddle duck, but he went ahead and spent extensive amounts of his personal time collecting references from across the web to include with the pdracer wiki page, cleaned up the text to make it professional, informative, concise and accurate. Due to the positive effort Bilby, the page has been saved from an attack by a deletionist with a personal bias against the duck, and surely the page in it's new form will be able to survive future attacks. People like Bilby are what makes Wikipedia the greatest information source in the world. In addition to that, the world wide puddle duck community shall benefit from Bilby's work. Many people talk of making the world a better place, this effort of Bilby is an example of a person actually doing that. |
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Hi Bilby, you may be interested in the conversation I'm having with VedranaB on her talk page. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 02:24, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Bilby, I think I'm missing your point, how was this web reference [1] a link violation? BTW, I found this [2], do you think this one is better? Apparently the actual Fort Worth Star-Telegram article is no longer on the newspaper website, but other websites have apparently archived it for posterity. Cheers. —Prhartcom (talk) 23:11, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Bilby. I'm thinking that perhaps you aren't observing the holiday. Carl Nivorous (talk) 03:08, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks Bilby, I was editing Wikipedia to add an AFD for April Fools day since "there is no such thing as 'No Original Research'", and I completely messed it up....sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by Draconiator (talk • contribs) 04:53, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Any progress on your plans for Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 8?Pdfpdf (talk) 13:51, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Dear God. (I'm unfamiliar as to how to address the highly exalted.)
What's the status of an Adelaide Wikipedia meetup? (It's too damn cold to stay at home by oneself these days.)
Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 12:08, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, Bilby. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Evan Mandery.The discussion is about the topic Evan Mandery. Thank you. Nick Levinson (talk) 16:21, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Bilby, hope you don't mind me reaching out here, I saw your name on the list of participants at WikiProject Cooperation and wondered if you could help. I've recently researched and written a new article draft for Purple Strategies, an American communications firm that currently doesn't have a Wikipedia article. Because I've written this article on behalf of, and with input from, Purple Strategies I'm hoping to find editors who can review it to make sure that it is neutral and non-promotional. I've submitted the draft to AfC but since there's such a backlog there and their reviewers may not have experience with editors who have a COI, I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look and move the article live for me if it is ready?
If you'd be able to review the article, the AfC entry is here: Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Purple_Strategies. If you need to make adjustments to the article, that's fine and please don't hesitate to ask any questions. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Bilby, thanks so much for your thorough review of the article and taking it live! Very much appreciate your help. I'm working on drafts for the other partners at Purple Strategies, so would love your help to review those if you have time once they're ready. I'll leave you a note once I have the next one in good shape for review, but I'll totally understand if you're working on other things. Thanks again! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 13:28, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
I am wondering you would consider taking another look at The Lightning Process which was previously nominated for deletion, in particular the long list of conditions/diseases it claims it can treat. I don't feel there is a strong enough warning that the Process is unproven. I would normally consider re-nominating for deletion but would like an independent view. Thanks FlatOut 03:39, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I kind of stumbled upon the 'Rights by claimants' portal today. I've never noticed it before. I decided to edit the opening of the article on fetal rights and to refer to the articles on animal rights and plant rights as guides. I left an explanation on the fetal rights talk page. Anyway, the formulation "Animal rights is the idea that..." struck me as strangely awkward until I saw your comment,
"The main problem is the statement "Animals are entitled to rights" as much of the debate has nothing to do with rights. Singer, for example, is not a rights advocate, and would deny that they exist."
Is the choice of words deliberate as a way to reflect that a rigorous consequentialist approach to ethics would not advocate rights at all (or at least not 'rights' as they're traditionally understood)? If so, might it be better to say, "Animal rights theory is the idea that..."?
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HiBilby, if you have the time and inclination could you please take a look at Tom Waterhouse and check out my last edit in the history, then my entries on More Joyous in Talk:Tom_Waterhouse ? I want to avoid an edit war but I believe the edit meets WP:BLP. Thanks, FlatOut 09:36, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Were you aware of the existence of this project?BOZ (talk) 14:12, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby, if you're interested in reviewing another article for a Purple Strategies executive, I've written a draft that I'd like to suggest as a replacement for the current version of the Alex Castellanos article. I've explained some of the issues with the existing article on the talk page here and you can see the draft in my user space here: User:16912_Rhiannon/Alex_Castellanos Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 21:49, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Do you think you could flesh out your reasons for needing the admin tools? The uninitiated likely have no clue what you guys do exactly, over at CCI. Just a thought. Good luck! Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 01:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Looking over your contributions for the RfA, and I noticed this: User:Bilby/Freelance paid editing study. That looks interesting. Do you have plans to finish it? SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:26, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Bilby. I noticed several edits that you made at Wikipedia:WikiProject Qworty clean-up; thank you for that. Interestingly no administrators have signed up for this task, which is fine; they are busy and we have a great group on non-administrators collaborating to get it done; correctly. It would be great if you would add your name as a non-admin participant; then as I suspect you'll soon become an administrator which is always good to have on board for this kind of endeavor. An admin that became an admin from within the project.--My76Strat (talk) 05:18, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
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--Wizardman 15:03, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
I don't want to jinx you or anything, but at this point it would take a massive influx of opposes to knock you out. ;) Don't worry about those; almost no one makes it in without someone needing to voice a negative opinion. Glad to have you aboard! BOZ (talk) 14:09, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
I've closed your RfA as successful (sorry for the delay!). Good luck with your new tools. Maxim(talk) 13:29, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, First of all, congrats on the the successful RfA. Recently you tagged the titled article for notability issues. Please take a look at its talk page for my comment, and lets discuss on that. Thanks Patrol49 (talk) 10:45, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this talk page & chime in? Thanks. Jakerome (talk) 00:02, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
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G'day Bilby, last month I put out a request for a photograph of the South Australia Aquatic and Leisure Centre. You kindly said that you would be able to do this. Any update? Let me know. Cheers -- Ianblair23 (talk) 05:21, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Adam. I remember from your RFA that you have alot of copyright experience, so I hope you don't mind my coming to you with a question. I'm good with image copyright, but I don't have much experience with article copyright. I just got this question on my talk. The deleted article was sourced to http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002928, which makes no statement of CC-BY-SA 3.0. The statement of apparent intention to free license the material is at http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002446. For images, I usually look for a direct statement of an exact free license at the source. Any advice you could give on this would be appreciated. INeverCry 17:31, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
I wrote an article then realized two things. First, I'll be 90 in 3 months and the Wizard is too much for me. Second, I have a vested interest in it because I am the inventor Listou cited in the article's referenced patent. After it is published I have a list of cognitive scientists, and others, who I will invite to edit it. Are you willing to submit it, please? It is at execware.com/cdm.pdf.Rlistou (talk) 17:28, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
I wrote an article then realized two things. First, I'll be 90 in 3 months and the Wizard is too much for me. Second, I have a vested interest in it because I am the inventor Listou cited in the article's referenced patent. After it is published I have a list of cognitive scientists, and others, who I will invite to edit it. It is at www.execware.com/cdm.pdf. Are you willing to submit it, please? rlistou@execware.comRlistou (talk) 17:32, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
I wrote an article, execware.com/cdm.pdf,then realized two things. First, I'll be 90 in 3 months and the Wizard is too much for me. Second, I have a vested interest in it because I am the inventor Listou cited in the article's referenced patent. After it is published I have a list of cognitive scientists, and others, who I will invite to edit it. Are you willing to submit it, please? rlistou@execware.comRlistou (talk) 17:35, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, as i mention in my edit summary, i am working on its c/r contents, and once we restore it then only I shall read and re-write the contents. So now again i shall have to re-store it once again, as i am still not done with my edits. And once i am fenished then you may decide if that will still be c/r contents. Regards :)--Omer123hussain (talk) 15:03, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for removing it. Proxima Centauri (talk) 18:54, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Bilby
We just deployed another VisualEditor release; bugs fixed include:
Not specific bugs, but other things; cacheing is now improved, so people should stop seeing temporary breaking when the VisualEditor updates, and RTL support has received some patches. I hope this newsletter is helpful to people; I'll send out another one with the next deployment :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:20, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey Bilby! Another set of patches :). Today we have:
More on Monday, I suspect. Hope you have a good weekend :). I should also have some news about the IP launch pretty soon. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:29, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, Bilby! :)
A while back you said you had some back issues of this sci-fi mag, and that they have reviews of D&D and other gaming books. What do you know, I did a search online, and they have an index at their home page. :)
If you have any of these issues, would you want to help by adding something from the review?
BG #15 – if you have a copy of this, let me know and I fill find a place to put it for these 4th edition books:
Let me know! BOZ (talk) 23:07, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey Bilby. The newest updates:
Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:04, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Dear Bilby,
I apologize for the inconvenience, but have no other way than appealing for administrators’ help recover a deleted article.
I published a film article entitled Drits (Derivas), a film by Portuguese director Ricardo Costa. It is the second film from an autobiographic trilogy, Faraways. The article was kept untouched by several months. To my surprise, it was recently eliminated and redirected to the director’s page with no discussion. I undid the redirection, but saw the article was proposed to deletion. Reason: independent, verifiable, secondary resources. I argued that the article couldn’t have but primary sources (the producer’s ones) as it is an upcoming film, like many others listed at upcoming films. A film that has not yet been premiered or distributed may not be commented. Besides, none of the films so listed has ever been deleted or even contested.
At last, in discussion, user User:reddogsix proposed that the article should be renamed to Drifts (film) or similar, and at the same time put at the disambiguation page of Dritf this reference «Drifs, unreleased film by Ricardo Costa (filmmaker). I created a new page for the same article entitled Drifts (Portuguese film). As the semantic root “drift” seemed to be the problem, I replaced the article name to Derivas (Drifts) and published it once more with some improvements. As a result, the article was fast deleted and I blocked for three days.
In the meantime, a new article about the trilogy was published: Faraways, which was proposed to fast deletion as well by the same user, User:reddogsix.
Although unreleased, although having no reliable secondary sources, Drifts is unquestionably an outstanding film for its uniqueness and characteristics: autobiography, comedy, docufiction, metafiction in one. I guess that “outstanding” may be a synonym for “notable” in such cases and that articles like this shouldn’t be deleted without previous cared analyses: important information may be lost.
This sequence of interventions is clearly a personal attack by User:reddogsix, supported by two or three user friend. It has no other explanation. It contributes in nothing to improve articles quality. Mists article, which I created on 10 September 2010, is the latest example. The article structure was unreasonably modified, loosing clarity and useful content.
NOTE: sent to 30 administrators.
Thanks for your attention, User:Tertulius 20:00, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, Bilby. I noticed that at one time [3], you had access to the Pyramid archives at Steve Jackson's website. If you still have access, would you like to help out with reviews on D&D articles? I have checked for where the reviews were already cited, and added more where they were needed. The main thing I would need help with would be to add the name of the reviewer in most cases, and that we fix the citation template. Additionally, if you have the time and inclination, you could go through the review and see if there are any additional bits worth mentioning in our article, it would help out a ton if you would do that. Here is a sampling of articles that I would suggest you take a look at for starters:
If those all look good to you already, or if you just want to see what else there is, you can check out my full list of Pyramid's online reviews. Thanks! BOZ (talk) 15:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, Bilby, any luck with finding Pyramid or Black Gate yet? :) BOZ (talk) 17:00, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
It's been almost two weeks since the last newsletter, and a lot of improvements have been made during that time. The main things that people have noticed are significant improvements to speed for typing into long pages (T54012), scrolling (T54014) and deleting (T54013) on large pages. There have also been improvements to references, with the latest being support for list-defined references, which are <ref>s defined inside a <references> block (T53741). Users of Opera 12 and higher have had their web browser removed from the browser black-list, mostly as a result of work by a volunteer developer (T38000). Opera has not been fully white-listed yet, so these users will get an additional warning and request to report problems.
Significant changes were made to the user interface to de-emphasize VisualEditor. This has cut the use of VisualEditor by approximately one-third. You can read about these at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Updates/August 1, 2013, but they include:
There have also been many smaller fixes, including these:
Most of the Wikimedia Foundation staff is traveling this week and next, so no updates are expected until at least August 15th. If you're going to be in Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013, say hello to James Forrester, Philippe Beaudette, and the other members of the VisualEditor team.
As always, if you have questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:25, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
hi, why did you revert this? I'm new & not sure what "rv - copyvio/overly close parapgrasing" means Cbommm (talk) 11:53, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
1. How is a user determined to be a WikiDragon, considering their rarity? Is it based on community feedback or self image?
2. Your talk page is very long and perhaps it would be a good time to create another archive.
3. How are you?
MezzoMezzo (talk) 10:25, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Phoenix and Winslow is using the Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tea Party movement case[4] in an attempt to get me banned by making extensive use of my editing at Ugg boots as evidence of bad behavior. Specifically "WLRoss eventually became aggressively involved in the content dispute against Phoenix and Winslow and other editors at Ugg boots and related articles in October 2011, and continued the content dispute for the next two years" and the recent "improper closure" Rfc at the Ugg boots trademark dispute article. I'm not asking you to comment as I think the diffs I posted speak for themselves but I thought this dispute may interest you. Wayne (talk) 15:15, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
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Both VisualEditor and MediaWiki were upgraded recently. For VisualEditor, this is the long-awaited post-Wikimania update with many bug fixes and enhancements. Work also continues on speed at opening and during use, as well as on the bugs reported here and at other Wikipedias. The full report is at Mediawiki.
References are displaying properly, even when nested (T52749) or in image captions (T2000. Reference lists are now always fully populated with references (bug 50094). Firefox users can insert an existing reference in the first paragraph (T54159). Opera users no longer see corruption of categories when a reference was added (bug 50385).
Stray spaces are being stripped from the start of paragraphs to end one of the common <nowiki> problems (T53462). We also fixed a round-tripping bug that caused desirable whitespace in templates (used to make templates more legible, e.g., by putting each parameter in an infobox on a separate line) to get corrupted (bug 51150).
Wikilink handling was improved. Users are not allowed to create internal links to invalid titles (titles that are actually impossible due to limits on acceptable character combinations in titles, not redlinks) (T35094). You can extend wikilinks, but it won't do so over a wordbreak (like a space) (bugs 49931 and 51463).
A handful of fixes to the user interface were made. The toolbar doesn't float over personal tools after opening a dialog or the inspector (T54441). Toolbars were also re-written to be collapsible/expandable, with room for more icons. Buttons in dialogs can now be activated using the Tab ↹ and ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ key commands (bug 50047). This saves time for editors, because you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to click a button. We fixed a handful of bugs that affected only certain articles or certain browsers, including toolbar buttons in Firefox (bug 51986) and dialog panels that didn't always scroll correctly (bug 51739). Bugs with undo/redo getting confused have been fixed (T54113).
Images, in addition to getting references displaying correctly, also saw improvements with a set-empty |link= parameter no longer corrupted (51963). We corrected thumbnail images' display so that they look don't wrong in some contexts (bug 51995). Inserted images no longer explicitly set their alignment, but instead inherit the default position in compliance with the Manual of Style (bug 51851).
More edit notices, warnings, and metadata like information about Pending Changes on an article now appear as appropriate (bug 49699). When new articles are created, users are now shown the <newarticletext> message (bug 51459). VisualEditor now handles templates that set "meta" items (like a category) and nothing else better (bug 51322). If the database is locked when a user tries to save with VisualEditor, they now get a message telling them as such and an opportunity to try again, rather than a silent failure (bug 51636).
When you save the page, having the default preference set to "mark all my edits as minor by default" no longer overrides the setting in the save dialog (bug 51515). If you open VisualEditor from a section edit link, the section's title will be pre-filled in in the edit summary box when you go to save it (bug 50872). The size of the save dialog box in the Monobook skin has been fixed (bug 50058). Also, wikipage content handlers like sortable tables are re-run automatically after saving (T53565).
A very early version of the mathematics equation editor is now available for testing on mw:Mediawiki. If you would like to help improve the user interface for math editor, please test out the extension at mw:Mediawiki:Sandbox and leave your comments directly at the discussion page for the Math Node User Interface at Mediawiki. You should be able to use your regular username and password should to login to Mediawiki.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:41, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Bilby, Thank you for approving the PhotoSensitive (organization) page. I would like to improve it further and would like advice on where it is best to start. WilPatrick (talk) 12:52, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi! My name is Chris Sheetz and I teach an Information Literacy course at a community college in Ohio, USA. I would like my students to edit stub or start articles for their class project. I need a WikiAmbassador to guide me in this adventure. Would you be willing to help us out? Csheetz (talk) 15:56, 27 August 2013 (UTC)csheetz
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Yes, I still need a course ambassador. Here is a link to my Course Page.
Let me know if you would be willing to help me and my students. Csheetz (talk) 13:52, 3 September 2013 (UTC) I currently have only 6 students and as the term goes on, some may disappear. I will introduce the project next week (our Week #3) and then they will be progressing through the tasks each week, to finish by Oct 20. Csheetz (talk) 15:57, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Bilby, Thank you for helping with the issues with this article. I have a question: Why did you protect this particular version? I have been trying to bring neutrality to this article for some time and I have provided independent sources and documents + made the effort to explain everything on the talk page. The people behind the article do not let me add the facts they don't like and keep on coming back with sock puppets, some of which blocked for personal attacks and attempted outing of an editor. Bulgarian community in NYC is familiar with the problems this organization has - "Gergana" has been left by 25 out of 30 families because of that. In the current version all the information about the controversy is deleted as well as the only independent sources to the article and the section is pushed to the back. Also the "History" section is incorrect- this organization used to belong to the community before the people behind the article took over. I suspect the editor behind this article is paid by the organization and is writing about him/herself, family members and friends in it. Just trying to understand. Thanks for paying attention advance,
Star Gazer 13 (talk) 16:09, 4 September 2013 (UTC) Star Gazer 13
Saw you note on the talk page of the article after the fact.
I have to admit it is disheartening to say the least. After all the efforts I made to stick to the rules, I can not even add my independent sources to the article.
Star Gazer 13 (talk) 16:22, 4 September 2013 (UTC) Star Gazer 13
You can search for images directly in VisualEditor. Click the media icon, which looks like this: 
Then type a few keywords into the search box. VisualEditor will search Commons for images or other files whose titles or descriptions contain those words, and will display thumbnail pictures of them for your review. Click one time on the image you want to insert in the article.
For more details, read VisualEditor's user guide.
This Thursday's VisualEditor update was mostly about stability and performance improvements, and some preparatory work for major planned improvements, along with bug fixes for non-English language support and right-to-left text. Everything that the English Wikipedia received today has been running on Mediawiki for a week already.
Officially, the problem with the link inspector not linking to a specific section on a page (bug 53219) was fixed in this release, although that critical patch actually appeared here earlier.
A number of bugs related to copy-and-paste functionality were fixed (48604, bug 50043, bug 53362, bug 51538, among others). Full rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor is expected "soon".
In other fixes, you can no longer add empty ref tags (<ref/>) (bug 53345). Selecting both an image and some text, and then trying to add a link, previously deleted the selected image and the text. This was fixed in bug 50127. There was another problem related to using arrow keys to move the cursor next to an inline image that was fixed (bug 53507).
Looking ahead: The next planned upgrade is scheduled for next Thursday, and you should expect to find a redesigned toolbar with drop-down menus that include room for references, templates, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting. There will also be keyboard shortcuts for setting the format (paragraph vs section headings).
If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being determined at this time. Generally speaking, languages that depend on the input method editor are not going to receive VisualEditor this month. The current target date is Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
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11 edits before someone did the obvious thing! Well, at least you noticed and did it!! Pdfpdf (talk) 06:19, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
You can edit a page's categories in VisualEditor. Click the "Page settings" button (next to Cancel/Save) in the toolbar to open the category tool. It will show you a list of the current categories for that page.
To add a category, type the name of the category you want to add in the search field. To remove an existing category, click on the category in the list and then, in the dialog that opens, click on the "Remove" icon (trash can). "Options" will allow you to set a default sorting key.
For more details, read VisualEditor's user guide.
VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.
As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add <u> (underline), <sub> (subscript), and <sup> (superscript), <s> (strikethrough) and <code> (computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.
In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references (bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label (bug 51670).
In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl+0 sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl+1 up to Ctrl+6 sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl+7 sets it as pre-formatted (bug 33512). Ctrl+2, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.
Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" (bug 50452).
Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application (bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.
Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate (bug 53503).
Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter (bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again (bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.
If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
[5] and [6]. What was the point of these edits and why did you use misleading edit summaries? The links are appropriate and they should stay on the article talk pages. If you have any further questions or concerns please contact me directly to discuss my edits. ThemFromSpace 20:07, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
As one of a highly select international group, you are hereby invited to join me in celebrating my 666! (Let the games begin!) Pdfpdf (talk) 11:17, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby. Just a courtesy note regarding 2 proposed changes that have been left on the OHP discussion page all day if interested in commenting further? If not will go ahead. thanks Mrm7171 (talk) 05:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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You can create and edit multi-level lists in VisualEditor. The first two icons let you set or remove list formatting.
The last two are used to increase or decrease the indentation level. This can also be done from the keyboard, by using Tab ↹ to indent the list and ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ to outdent it.
For more information, read Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide.
VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to your preferences and choosing the item, "MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable".
The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug 50459).
There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected (bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances (bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories (bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias (bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes (bug 54712).
Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:49, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Since you contributed to the discussion resulting in the ban of Wikiexperts, you may want to consider the CEO's appeal at Wikipedia:AN#Ban Appeal of AKonanykhin. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 17:10, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary Could you please discuss before blindly reverting as you usually do and again, 'without any discussion,' only days after dispute resolution and with obvious editor conflicts on the OHP article. I would appreciate it if you undid your revert please Bilby. So we may have a civil discussion first. My addition is factual and based on a reliable source. I will not engage in edit warring and therefore have not reverted it again. Thank you.Mrm7171 (talk) 13:25, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
