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Re: Donna Lee undo blyons3 edits.

Hi mate,

Not to quibble but I don't understand your comment about Donna Lee not being double time. The Donna Lee head is most certainly twice the tempo (eighth notes) of the contrafact that it is based upon. Indiana's melody is quarter notes against the changes, Donna Lee is twice the tempo. Hence the double time comment. Did you mean that it's not double time feel?

I need to review the rest of the stuff you've undone from my original edits and see if there's a better way to make the points that I was trying to make. I won't undo your edits without consulting you but, I think that there was some stuff in there that was worth keeping. I just want to make sure that I've said it the best way possible.

Thanks, Bill — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blyons3 (talk • contribs) 14:28, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Right...usually I think of "double time" as meaning "played twice the tempo", swung 16th notes and all that. Anyway, feel free to redo your edit. Probably a rephrasing would be in order, though. Happy editing. Eman235/talk 16:59, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

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Talkback

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Sorry, I don't have the source. Many years ago (during beginning of 90's), I have a book on stringed instrument making and the informations was there but, I don't remember the title and the author. This informations was also confirmed by another person who was a real encyclopedia of musical instruments Johnny Marazza (about the one piece neck of Fender) well known in the musical instrument industry. But he's dead now. I can't help you more than this.

Yvan

That's fine; I don't think it's doing any harm as it is. In fact, I would almost say it's common knowledge. Eman235/talk 21:06, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4

Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?

• A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
• A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
• New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
• SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
• Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.

Until next time, Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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Twinkle unlink

Hi Eman. I feel I need to point out that this is a case where WP:BEANS definitely applies. Please think twice before making posts like that.

In any case, I don't intend to proactively blacklist pages from unlink. From time to time we hear from users concerned about the availability of this tool to non-admins, but for the most part their concerns are unfounded. The sandbox was blacklisted to solve a real problem that occurred on more than one occasion. If there is evidence of abuse on particular pages then we could consider blacklisting. — This, that and the other (talk) 00:45, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes...I was a bit nervous about that. That's why I titled it "don't etc." This is kind of like WP:SPARE, which basically says not to protect things to apprehend vandalism, only to stop it. Eman235/talk 03:30, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

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Fixed. Eman235/talk 16:29, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

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accidental undo

I accidentally hit undo somehow. Since you get a message when that happens to one of your edits, I figured I'd explain. I don't recall hitting undo or visiting that page recently even. Not sure what happened. Anyway, sorry about that. Someone else noticed and reverted me. Dream Focus 21:15, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

@Dream Focus: Yeah, good to know that wasn't intentional. I was rather confused :P Eman235/talk 00:28, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Mistake.

No, User:94.56.162.39 was removing the content. I was restoring it. 2602:306:3357:BA0:AD4E:3D6:87A:5286 (talk) 11:46, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

(replied on User talk:2602:306:3357:BA0:AD4E:3D6:87A:5286) Eman235/talk 12:02, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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Harry! Harry Warren! Eman235/talk 15:01, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

GOCE July drive

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Eman235 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words during the GOCE July 2015 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 22:49, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Link classifier

For the orange to display on dab links you need to remove importStylesheet('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css'); from your common.js. You can copy individual css classes from User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css, tweak it and add it to your common.css to get the desired colors. - NQ (talk) 15:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

NQ, great. Colors are gone (except for redirects). And now dabs are glaringly obvious. Eman235/talk 15:18, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Main page

Hi, thanks for helping:) Your variant is better. Ilya Drakonov (talk) 16:45, 7 August 2015 (UTC).

You're welcome. Eman235/talk 22:01, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%).  There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

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In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.  

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

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VisualEditor update

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The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.

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We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 October 20#File:Peniston Finally CDS.jpg

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About "This Book Loves You"

Hey, thanks for the advice on what to do! I'm new to Wikipedia (as you should be knowing) and I reverted the page to redirection. Also, is this page acceptable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rollingcontributor/This_Book_Loves_You

I moved it into my user space.