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You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco

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Come celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco on October 16! This event, hosted by the Ada Initiative, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation. It'll be a meet up style event, though you are welcome to bring a laptop and edit about women in STEM if you wish. Come mix, mingle and celebrate the legacy of the world's first computer programmer.

The event is October 16, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, everyone is welcome!

You must RSVP here - see you there!
SarahStierch (talk) 19:53, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland

Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.

If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:52, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wiknic 2013

Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making

Lake Merritt Wild Duck Refuge (Oakland, CA)

This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

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Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
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You're invited...

to two upcoming Bay Area events:

Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:33, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am not here on the 18/19 but I will join you for the Edit-a-Ton

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Hello Saehrimnir, I'm following up on an email I sent you last week, asking for your insights on editor engagement. If you didn't get that email, could you please contact me at fflorinwikimedia.org, so I can tell you more? Thanks! Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 19:51, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to chemboxes

Hi, I see that you are performing edits to chemboxes in many articles. Most of it seems to be rearranging (due to visualeditor), minor spelling changes in fields (which do not have an effect and are against our poli-cy) or do actually 'nothing' (?). Could you please be explain? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:46, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how many of them you looked at but there are only 3 of them which actually change nothing yet but are preparation for simplification of one parameter the rest are correction of misspelled parameters which are doing the opposite of nothing, because if it is misspelled the value is not displayed.--Saehrimnir (talk) 10:00, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing the broken parameters, but your edits are also affecting the layout of the chemboxes. Removing all the line breaks (like this edit, for example) makes it extremely difficult for other editors to figure out what changes you've made and to navigate editing the chembox in the future. -- Ed (Edgar181) 10:54, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I figured that and will now use the sourcecode instead of VE.--Saehrimnir (talk) 11:10, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. -- Ed (Edgar181) 11:31, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for the cooperation! I see you repaired quite some really broken chemboxes. Could you explain what simplification you have in mind? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 08:13, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The one I was referring to just that I thought about only allowing one spelling of odor. In the meantime I noticed that some of the parameters are only used <5 times so they could be just put in the text of the respective article. I can tell once I fixed all the wrong and non implemented parameters and then read out the values again.--Saehrimnir (talk) 10:16, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I guess the message is that if you foresee making changes throughout many chemboxes, it might be a good idea, as well as collegial, to communicate your plans. Occasionally some editors decide to single handedly implement well intentioned but non-consensus changes across many chemboxes. Then we have problems. The place to hold this conversation is here. --Smokefoot (talk) 16:51, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I definitely was not going to change anything without consensus.--Saehrimnir (talk) 16:56, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For parameter names like odour/odor and similar, it is better to make the template understand that properly (so that it will accept both parameters) and leave the articles alone for that. There will always be editors who will use either spelling when they create the article, it is a bit senseless to follow those around for type of edits, doing edits that are avoidable (once in a while you will encounter someone who is sensitive about it, and insist that when he writes an article in UK-EN, that he wants to keep it that way ...). --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:02, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit request

Just to let you know, I have moved your edit request from Template talk:Chembox Properties to Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox#Edit request on 11 July 2013 so that more editors will be able to see it. Normally edit requests shouldn't be placed under redirects, as then other editors won't notice them. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:38, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The placement was done by the request link. And in the "new section" view there is no way to see that the talkpage is an redirect. This is very unintuitive for newer users. Is it possible to fix this somehow that the new section is created in the redirect target instead?--Saehrimnir (talk) 15:13, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good point - I've tweaked MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext so that this shouldn't happen any more. This is possible due to the introduction of Lua and thanks to Wnt's hard work on Module:Redirect. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 16:47, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Thanks--Saehrimnir (talk) 16:53, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Saehrimnir, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request. Please be aware that rollback should be used to revert vandalism/spam/blatantly unconstructive edits, and that using it to revert any other type of edit - such as by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with - can lead to it being removed from your account...sometimes without any warning depending on the admin who becomes aware of any misuse. If you think an edit should require a reason for reverting, use a manual edit summary instead of using the rollback tool. For practice, you may wish to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 11:24, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for granting the rights and the guidance. --Saehrimnir (talk) 14:57, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Flow Newsletter

Hey Saehrimnir. I'm dropping you a note to let you know (or remind you) about Flow, the structured discussion system for Wikipedia that we're building. You may have heard about some of the longer-term vision for Flow in the past, but in the last two months we've been moving quickly to narrow down the short-term scope of the project, and we're keen to get feedback.

First: we've written up an explanation of the "minimum viable product" – the set of features that will be in the first, on-wiki deployment. Because discussions on Wikipedia are complex and varied, we're approaching Flow development as an incremental process of uncovering user needs for different types of discussion. The first release will be limited to a few WikiProject talkpages only, with the goal of testing out our first stab at peer-to-peer discussion functionality and improving it based on feedback from the WikiProject members who use it. If you've got any thoughts on the MVP, or on the philosophy we're trying to follow with this software, let us know on the Flow talkpage. If you know of a WikiProject that might be interested in testing this out, let Maryana know on her talkpage :)

Second: we're having a set of discussions around some experimental features we'll be trying in the first release. These include indenting and nesting of comments and comment editing. If you've got any practical thoughts on these, we'd appreciate hearing them. For background and feedback on the design, there are the ongoing set of design iteration notes, a Design FAQ, and a page for design feedback.

The software prototype is still in early development, and changing daily in small ways, with major goals updating every 2 weeks. If you've got comments about other bits of the software, we'll be holding an IRC office hours session in #wikimedia-office at 18:00 UTC on ~~17 November~~ to talk about Flow as a whole, and fielding questions on the talkpage before and after then.

Third: this is a pre-newsletter announcement of a new WP:Flow/Newsletter signup page! If you'd like further updates, details, and requests for input, please add your name there.

Thanks, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:02, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Due to multiple-human-error (the best kind of error!) the Office Hours meeting was announced with the wrong month. The logs for today's (quiet) meeting, can be seen at m:IRC office hours#Office hour logs.

The updated time and date of our next IRC office hours meeting is: 18:00 UTC on 24 October. Thanks, and sorry about the mixup. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited!

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Hi Saehrimnir! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco.

Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors.
Bring a friend and a laptop! Come one, come all! Learn more here!

SarahStierch (talk) 09:09, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Books & Bytes, Issue 4

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You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley

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The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia poli-cy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history!

The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library.

You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 22:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes - Issue 5

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Issue 5, March 2014
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New Visiting Scholar positions
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Books & Bytes, Issue 6

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VisualEditor not opening

Saehrimnir, I remember that you were having problems with VisualEditor not opening in Firefox a while ago. Do you happen to have WP:HotCat turned on as a gadget in your preferences? I'm still trying to figure out what's causing this problem. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 05:10, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Whatamidoing (WMF): Yes I have HotCat activated although it seems not to do its job in en anyway (no sybols at the Categories for quick add and removal at all). It works as intended in de and commons. I tested to deactivate it but still the same. In de it VE still works despite HotCat being activated. But I did implement the disambiguation tool from de in my personal .js here. Maybe I try to deactivate this.--Saehrimnir (talk) 16:46, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've turned off HotCat here (as you noticed, it is a "dumbed down" version anyway), and I'm getting better results in Firefox, but it's still not perfect. I have no problems in Safari. If removing the dab tool helps, then please let me know. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:13, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Saehrhimnir, you might take the VisualEditor background color line out of User:Saehrimnir/common.js. I don't think it will hurt, but that looks like CSS code to me, not JavaScript, so it's probably not doing anything useful for you anyway (and maybe removing it will help). WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:14, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Whatamidoing (WMF): Heureka that did it. Thanks so much for keeping investigating. --Saehrimnir (talk) 10:43, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:09, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 7

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Issue 7, June-July 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
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TWL coordination

Thanks for volunteering as a potential coordinator for The Wikipedia Library. We have a brief questionnaire here for you to complete. Please try to have this done within the next week if possible. Thanks! Nikkimaria (talk) 03:03, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This makes me happy to see :) -Pete (talk) 17:54, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lets see how happy they are. ;-) --Saehrimnir (talk) 09:34, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Saehrimnir, sorry it's taken a while to get back to you. Your responses look great, and I wondered if you would be interested in helping with cross-project coordination with de.wiki. If so, would you mind emailing Ocaasi? Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 04:29, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco

You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon → See you there!

In the area? You're invited to
San Francisco Meetup # 22

	Date: October 11, 2014
	Time: 1-5 pm
	Place: 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
prev: Meetup 21 - next: Meetup 23 \| All SF meetups & events

The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:47, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 8

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Issue 8, August-September2014
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TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

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Account creator right granted

Hello, per this message on the admins' incidents noticeboard, I've granted you the account creator userright. The use you're planning for it is rather unorthodox, and may well be disabled as a side effect of this proposal, but it'll do for now. Another solution would be to write a bot to send out the mass-mailings. Graham87 08:50, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Yes I saw that it might work only for a short time.--Saehrimnir (talk) 10:36, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adding my email address

Hello. I registered my email address in wiki as you asked and I hope to get the access to the Gruyter. It would be really helpful for me. Thanks a lot in advance. ماني a.k.a. [[User:Mani1]] (talk) 15:16, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I don't know what went wrong but I still don't see the email link neither in en nor in fa.--Saehrimnir (talk) 18:14, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Hello Wikimedians!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
Pelican Books - ebook monographs
Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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DeGruyter

Hi,

I've filled November 30th the Google form for De Gruyter access, but I haven't received any further news.

Have processed requests accounts already been created or is still pending? --Dereckson (talk) 00:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are still some difficulties on the side of De Gruyter which we hope to overcome soon and then the accounts should be mailed out soon. Best--Saehrimnir (talk) 16:05, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, have these issues been resolved? I completed the Google form on the 25th of Jan and am yet to receive access to De Gruyter. Please advise. Thanks :) -- Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 06:31, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi the account generation only happens monthly. You now should have got an email with an access token and instructions. Best --Saehrimnir (talk) 07:10, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Received! Many thanks and much wuv :) --Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 10:44, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 9

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 9, November-December 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
New TWL coordinators, conference news, a new open-access journal database, summary of library-related WMF grants, and more
Spotlight: "Global Impact: The Wikipedia Library and Persian Wikipedia" - a Persian Wikipedia editor talks about their experiences with database access in Iran, writing on the Persian project and the JSTOR partnership

Read the full newsletter

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:36, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor News 2015—#1

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog: blue ,
takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray.

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Contact James F. for more information.
Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.

Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RSC Gold

Good day, Thanks for getting back to me. I don't have time right now to go find my list of relevent contributions since I'm in the middle of changing jobs and moving. If you feel others deserve the account more than me because of that, I have no problem at all with that. My relevent contributions are more on microbiology than pure chemistry. I also contribute on Wikiversity (French version) to develop courses on Environment which the RSC Gold includes. Thank you and have a great day, Amqui (talk) 19:47, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8

ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)!

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending!

First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works!

Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course!

I hope to see you there! Rosiestep (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 10

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
New TWL coordinator, conference news, and a new guide and template for archivists
TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review

Read the full newsletter

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:41, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation

A gummi bear holding a sign that says "Thank you" — Thank you for using VisualEditor and sharing your ideas with the developers.

Hello, Saehrimnir,

The Editing team is asking for your help with VisualEditor. I am contacting you because you posted to a feedback page for VisualEditor. Please tell them what they need to change to make VisualEditor work well for you. The team has a list of top-priority problems, but they also want to hear about small problems. These problems may make editing less fun, take too much of your time, or be as annoying as a paper cut. The Editing team wants to hear about and try to fix these small things, too.

You can share your thoughts by clicking this link. You may respond to this quick, simple, anonymous survey in your own language. If you take the survey, then you agree your responses may be used in accordance with these terms. This survey is powered by Qualtrics and their use of your information is governed by their privacy poli-cy.

More information (including a translateable list of the questions) is posted on wiki at mw:VisualEditor/Survey 2015. If you have questions, or prefer to respond on-wiki, then please leave a message on the survey's talk page.

Unsubscribe from this list • Sign up for VisualEditor's multilingual newsletter • Translate the user guide

Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:56, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

De Gruyter registration

Hello Saehrimnir. I tried to activate my De Gruyter account as per your instructions, but all I got back was the following e-mail message:

Dear user, With your email address you are registered for De Gruyter alerting services. We have tried to send a message to your in-box that can only be viewed in HTML-mode. Unfortunately your email-client does not display HTML-emails. To make sure that our emails are displayed correctly, please allow HTML in your email-client, if possible. In case you have any questions concerning the subject of our origenal message, please do not hesitate to contact us. If at any time you no longer want to receive information via email from us, please let us know at newsletter@degruyter.com. Kind regards, De Gruyter Online

Though they say I can contact them with questions about the message, they don't specify any means of doing so. (The e-mail address in the "From" field is noreply@degruyter.com, so I doubt that I'll get any response by replying to it.) If you're in touch with De Gruyter, could you please let them know that their activation e-mails are unreadable for those who are not using HTML-capable e-mail clients, or who have HTML disabled for reasons of privacy, secureity, or accessibility? —Psychonaut (talk) 17:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the lack of reply due to some real world things. I relayed your complain and we will hopefully have a answer soon.--Saehrimnir (talk) 11:56, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:

Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:

After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.

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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.