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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2016)

The slaughtered swine (1652) by Barent Fabricius, a depiction of a killed animal
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Killing of animals

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Invitation to the Google Doodle task force

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Thank you

Thank you for ending the vandalism to the New Glarus, Wisconsin article.RFD (talk) 13:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2016)

Delivery trucks in San Salvador, El Salvador
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Delivery (commerce)

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2016)

An iceberg, which is relatively cold.
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Cold

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 February 2016

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2016)

Several of the commonly known molecules.
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Molecule

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Rename question

Hi. I hope you don't mind my asking a question about global renaming. I saw the Kingibk → True_N request, tried it and got a warning that there's a similar username already there called Truen. Truen has made no edits since registering in 2009, so I thought it was probably not a real problem, but I decided to leave it and see how an expert would handle it. I see you did the rename, so am I along the right lines in assuming it was OK because Truen was old and had no edits? Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:05, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Boing! said Zebedee. Unfortunately, the policy around similar usernames (AntiSpoof) for global renamers is quite vague. I renamed because I felt that "Truen" couldn't possibly be confused for "True N" as the differences between them are quite distinct. If the username were slightly more similar, say, "True N" versus "Truε n" (or "k6ka" versus "k5ka"), then AntiSpoof would definitely come in handy; notifying the requesting user about the conflict is advised. However, if the account with the conflicting username is inactive, then it may be acceptable to proceed with the renaming and notify the user who got renamed about the conflict, and advise them to be prepared to change their username again should there be confusion. I proposed a policy for this at m:Talk:Steward requests/Username changes but discussion has largely dried up. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 15:20, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your thoughts - that makes a lot of sense. My own thinking was that confusion between the two would be unlikely, especially as one is inactive, so I would certainly agree with a rename in this case. Interesting discussion at m:Talk:Steward requests/Username changes too, and it's a shame it dried up - what you suggest, if used as policy-based guidelines with some discretion allowed, makes sense, and I guess that's the way such things are de facto treated anyway. I guess it's a bit late now, but I might add a comment to it myself. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:03, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

webex

I request you review the text that I had deleted. It is composed entirely of a long screed by apparently a litigant against the company and/or its founders. It makes allegations of child rape against one of the founders among other allegations. I can not believe text like that could be left on a wikipedia page or from a purely legal perspective allowed to be published on the site. Can you explain why it should not be deleted? Wba1990 (talk) 18:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 24 February 2016

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Did you know?
Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.
Screenshot showing a pop-up menu for column operations in a table
If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

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You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

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Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:

  • Remember my last editor,
  • Always give me the visual editor if possible,
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  • Show me both editor tabs. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.

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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2016)

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Music of Africa

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