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== Editor of the Week ==

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 2px solid lightgray" |Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as ] for a great attitude for helping others. Thank you for the great contributions! <span style="color:#a0a2a5">(courtesy of the ])</span>
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] submitted the following nomination for ]:
:I nominate {{noping|Howicus}} to be Editor of the Week for his attitude and helpfulness at the {{IRC|wikipedia-en-help}} IRC channel. Howicus is one of the most friendly helpers on -help that I've seen in months of idling in the channel, while simultaneously actually helping the helpee instead of saying things to be rid of the helpee. Howicus is a wonderful editor to talk to and almost always cheers everyone up. In addition, he does excellent work on-wiki patrolling vandalism and is an unsung hero of the 'pedia.
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
<pre>{{subst:Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Recipient user box}}</pre>
Thanks again for your efforts! This nomination also received four seconds, so a quadruple thanks from the encyclopedia for your efforts! '''] ]]''' 12:51, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

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SpectroMagic

Hi! Thanks for the suggestion, but I would just like to inform you that "A Piece of SpectroMagic History" is believed to be the last merchandise ever available for SpectroMagic Parade. This makes it a big part of its History and is huge information for collectors. Also the pins themselves hold a real life article from the original Parade. Last all the information is 100% Creditable from Disney Parks and Resorts Official Disney Pins website http://www.disneyparksmerchandise.com/pins

-Thanks

http://www.disneyparksmerchandise.com/pins

In regards to the taking down of my important edit.

As a well respected member of the sliced bread community I believe that the removal of my post was wrongfully and unnecessary. however if you believe that sliced bread isn't "the best thing since sliced, uh... nevermind".and that sliced bread isn't "Bread (Of the sliced variety) and or don't want this information to reach the public, then that is alright with me. Your friend Noll McLÜF the second

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

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

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

The Signpost: 11 February 2015

Valentine Greets!!!

Valentine Greets!!!

Hello Howicus, love is the language of hearts and is the feeling that joins two souls and brings two hearts together in a bond. Taking love to the level of Misplaced Pages, spread the WikiLove by wishing each other Happy Valentine's Day, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person.
 Sending you a heartfelt and warm love on the eve,
Happy editing,
--L235 (talk) As a courtesy, please ping me when replying. 01:20, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Valentine Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Message from User:Joshua0228 about adoption

Hi there. I am a new Misplaced Pages user and I was wondering if you could adopt me? I am not even sure that I am creating the right subsection. I wish to create more articles, primarily songs, as I feel many vital albums need more individual articles on their songs. Contact me if you are willing to adopt me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshua0228 (talk • contribs) .

I'd be happy to adopt you! The way I do adoption, at least, is I have a "school" page set up with lessons that I think will help you learn important aspects of Misplaced Pages editing. If that sounds good to you, you can follow the instructions at User:Howicus/Adoption school and create your own copy of the page to work on. There's no deadline or rush, you can work through the lessons in any order and at your own pace. Let me know if you're interested. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 03:23, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I will be very happy to learn from you and I hope to help make Misplaced Pages a better place. Thanks for taking me in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshua0228 (talk • contribs) 04:12, 19 February 2015 (UTC) I have a question. When you say post diffs of the results of the various tasks you have me do, what is a diff and how do I get it? I'm sorry for sounding like a noob — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshua0228 (talk • contribs) 04:52, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

"Diff" (short for difference) is a term for a page that shows the difference between two versions of a specific Misplaced Pages page. You find it by clicking the "view history" tab at the top of the page, finding the versions you want to compare, and clicking "Compare Selected Revisions". For example, this is the diff for your last edit to this page.
As an aside, whenever you post on a talk page, a noticeboard, or something similar (but not an article), you should sign your post with four tildes ~~~~. That will insert your username and the date, with links to your user page and user talk page. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 05:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Much appreciated. Sorry for all the dumb sounding questions, also do check out my user page for your adoption school. I have a couple of questions about you on there. I am reading the assigned articles and will start posting answers soon. Joshua0228 (talk) 14:48, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I am so sorry on how long it has taken me to get to these assignments. i have been so busy recently in school. However, very soon I should be able to work on them, I apologize. Joshua0228 (talk) 04:23, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. There's no deadline or anything, and it's good that you're putting school ahead of Misplaced Pages. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 06:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 February 2015

yeruham

Hi, Yes - I am talking with Norty Noth, the person who wrote to me that he created the page for the Yeruham. I was not happy to see that it was edited one day ago, as all the news stories were being made up about my town. As far as the pictures go, yes - I can take photos of the lake area and its very pretty. The problem now is that its winter - and the place is covered in snow and water and mud. It does not look like its "normal" self at this time in season. But yes, I can take photos better than like the aerial shot on here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amandalee222 (talk • contribs) 05:54, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

Editor of the Week

Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for a great attitude for helping others. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Misplaced Pages Editor Retention Project)

User:Lixxx235 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Howicus to be Editor of the Week for his attitude and helpfulness at the #wikipedia-en-help IRC channel. Howicus is one of the most friendly helpers on -help that I've seen in months of idling in the channel, while simultaneously actually helping the helpee instead of saying things to be rid of the helpee. Howicus is a wonderful editor to talk to and almost always cheers everyone up. In addition, he does excellent work on-wiki patrolling vandalism and is an unsung hero of the 'pedia.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: 

{{subst:Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Recipient user box}}

Thanks again for your efforts! This nomination also received four seconds, so a quadruple thanks from the encyclopedia for your efforts! Go Phightins! 12:51, 1 March 2015 (UTC)