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Coffee County Central High School

On our page, I changed the school grades from 9-12 to 10-12, as they recently created a 9th grade academy. This left our high school with 10-12th graders. I also changed the name of our principal, as we changed principals from John Bush to Joey Vaughn. I proceeded to add "The Raider Yearbook" to the publications next to "The EDGE." Along with the additions of the clubs and organizations of the school, beside "The Raider Yearbook" I put "Aka the Beyonces of the school" as that is a reference to our school's yearbook. Ellejernigan42 (talk) 23:08, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

The other edits are collateral from rolling back an edit from the same user, sorry about that. However I'm sure you can respect where "Aka the Beyonces of the school" could be construed as vandalism from an outside viewer... please do try and keep "inside" references off the article :) - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 23:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Ellejernigan42 Please review the guidelines of editing with a conflict of interest, you seem to have a direct connection to that subject and you should not be editing that page yourself. Mlpearc (open channel) 23:28, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Mlpearc When I got the e-mail saying you had posted, I thought you were talking to me... I was going to say "What?" :P - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 23:30, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to disappoint Mlpearc (open channel) 23:34, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Page Ong Kean Swan and its creator, Garydog Comment

I have reported both the page and its creator to administrators. They have removed about 8 templates (about 4 of them after a final warning. There's no point in battling him since both he and the page will be gone soon. DJAMP4444 (talk) 15:18, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note re references

Hi Methecooldude, Thanks for the heads up. The article adjustment I made today was to reinstate an entire article section which had been removed by another user. The original section included the following reference link.[1]

I'm not quite sure how that became detachedLn when I "undid" the deletion, but welcome thoughts on if I should replace the section myself or if you may reinstate it with the reference. Sincerely, Detroit Proud — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dtw.proud (talk • contribs) 19:09, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

What do you mean by constructive? If you do the math, it's quite obvious that the statement in the article cannot be true. Again, as I say in the edit, unless the author has not added information that would be critical to making sense of the statement. It would be closer to the mark for the author to say 71 rounds rather than 17. But that still doesn't clearly gibe with the hours and minutes stated. Is this constructive enough for you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randol059 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thought I'd drop by and say hiya! 5 albert square (talk) 21:30, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Oh hai :D - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 12:11, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Talkback Randol059 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randol059 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

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Sorry for not telling why why i edited the page

Hey man thanks for telling me how the things work.I'm sorry I am new to editing pages.Sorry for not telling why i edited the Seth Rollins page.Because i want other user from other community to know more about him.Once again,Thanks man.:-):-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glhf123 (talk • contribs) 11:26, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

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  • Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [1]
  • First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [2]
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  • Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [4]

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Tech News: 2016-46

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  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [9]

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
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Tech News: 2016-47

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

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [12]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [13]
  • The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [14]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [15][16][17]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [18]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [19]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [20]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [21]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  • Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [22][23]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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Tech News: 2016-49

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 choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [24]
  • Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [25]
  • ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [26]

Changes this week

  • You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [27]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

Meetings

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