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change my username

Hello, I would like to change my username but the process is hard to understand. I tried it out last week but it failed.17:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)Wol W. Dut (talk)

@Wol W. Dut: Please see your request. It has received a response. In simple terms, the username you wanted to be renamed to is already taken (in use) by another user. Please file a new request with a new username or simply keep your existing username. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 20:22, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for offering to help. I appreciate what you guys are doing here.

Thanks for offering to help. I will wait, don't worry
I appreciate what you guys are doing here.

Wol W. Dut (talk) 17:22, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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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.

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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.

Recent improvements

VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. 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 improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead (T90734).

Looking ahead

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

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Today's articles for improvement

• Hello K6ka:

This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 18 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

Sent by User:Northamerica1000 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:26, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2015)

The wheel is one of the most famous and useful inventions in the history of technology Hello, K6ka. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: History of technology Previous selections: Garbage picking • Antagonist Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:14, 6 April 2015 (UTC) •

disadvantages to cipp lining:

My company has been installing 2 to 6 inch cipp liners for over ten years. We are not engineers, but we have perfomed almost every imaginable type of installation from pull in place to blow in place to upstream and downstream-even lining larger pipes through many feet of smaller pipe. The statement in the disadvantage section that CIPP cannot be cleaned with a drain cable, or "snake" is incorrect. Also, hydrojetting is not the only method of cleaning a cipp installation and can actually cause delamination of the very thin (1 to 2 mm)pvc coating applied to the fabric in order to seal it. The damage has not been shown to cause performance problems or blockages in the pipe. Also, either method could cause the seam tape that was installed to seal the stitching to come loose and cause a possible temporary blockage. It is easily removed bt the same methods cited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dangpipe (talk • contribs) 03:44, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

@Dangpipe: Sorry, but I'm not exactly sure what you are asking about/requesting from me. What are you referring to, what do you think is wrong and could be improved, and, if you want something in an article changed, could you please cite a reliable source? (I'm afraid your example is original research, which we unfortunately don't accept) --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:54, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [1]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [2] [3]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [4]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [5]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [6]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [11]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [12] [13]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [14]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [15]

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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kenatics

One of the editors under suspicion of being a sockpuppet is an editor that has repeatedly requested page protection for an article they created (Talk:Ken Alfonso) ... just FYI. --Drm310 (talk) 14:14, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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