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TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.
With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.
See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.
There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that caused replaced some categories with a link to the system message, MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.
Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.
Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.
A tool for editing TemplateData will be deployed to more Wikipedias soon. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.
VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect
or mw-disambig
class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these in types of links can be created.
Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358).
Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir
attribute but no lang
set (bug 69955).
The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.
The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.
In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.
At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community has been posted here. Thank you all for your work.
VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
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VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Login and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings in the upper-right corner, to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.
It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.
The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available in Mobile Web.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.
The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias next week, and eventually at the English Wikipedia.
The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar's menus are now shown in the menus. VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience / Design group. The appearance of dialogs has already changed in one Mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.)
Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search program could not find the page. A link inside a template, to a local page that does not exist, will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to a error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [1] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.
The tool for quickly editing TemplateData will be deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool is already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common response for that parameter. The autovalue can be easily overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.
In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.
Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in tables will appear next Wednesday. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be possible later. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus will be hidden behind a "More" item, such as "underlining" in the styling menu. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.
The user guide will be updated soon to add information about editing tables. The translations for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.
You can influence VisualEditor's design. Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
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Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.
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 table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).
Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan
and colspan
elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple <blockquote>
paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".
Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1. " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "((" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)
The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
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here, and thus you receive Ford Fiesta (first generation). That's the only one I've done so far, but... Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 22:18, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Charles , I own the Lotus Éclat you took a picture of and posted. I was surprised and pleased to see it when I searched the 'net to show a friend recently. I also own a Porsche 968 Clubsport and a Lancia Montecarlo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Butlers280766 (talk • contribs) 11:03, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes it is called Shuttleworth hall, and yes it's in Old Warden where the Shuttleworth collection is kept. My Lancia is the MK2 car, but I think both UK variants had glass filled buttresses behind the passenger compartment. The American ones were solid. Once I have mastered uploading and sizing images I will add some to this page for you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Butlers280766 (talk • contribs) 14:09, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Here you go Charles , some pictures as promised , a couple taken by me at the same event.
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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.
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:
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.
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.
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"must be at the service of its readers"
Thank you, Charles, addicted to photographing cars, for the anti-war novel Vergeltung, for quality biographies such as William Henry Brisbane and ("kicking off" from German and other languages) Tino-Antoni Schwierzina, for adding historic views to places such as Mannheim, for "Wikipedia ... must be at the service of its readers", for listening, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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Impact on engine design and on auto-industry development
"The fiscal benefits of reduced cylinder diameters (bore) in favor of longer cylinders (stroke) may have been a factor in encouraging the proliferation of relatively small six cylinder engined models appearing in Europe in the 1930s, as the market began to open up for faster middle-weight models[1]."
I am unable to comprehend this very well-written passage. I am unable to view the reference. What fiscal benefits might arise from more cylinders? Regards, Eddaido (talk) 06:27, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
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Excuse me, Sir (Mr Botcrusher, sir) was there not a period when Panhard et Levassor used the name on their products Panhard-Levassor or is this just a laziness. Excuse me, the neighbour is burying something in his back garden I must go and prepare a suitable generous free meal for him and his wife (and dog) and make arrangements for his garden to be dug up after dark but as Douglas MacArthur said when over the ditch at Terowie . . . Eddaido (talk) 22:40, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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![]() | On 28 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cläre Jung, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Cläre Jung has been called "the soul and muse" of a circle of Berlin-based expressionist poets that includes Else Lasker-Schüler? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cläre Jung. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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In late February 2010, you added a large amount of information to the Bugatti Royale article, most of which was sourced from an article by H. G. Conway on pages 17 to 20 of the 8 February 1969 issue of Motor.
I have formatted the Bugatti Royale article in a way that makes it easier to display the page number from which the information was taken from the source.
Is the 8 February 1969 issue of Motor still available to you? If so, would you please look through the articles and match the citations here to the respective page numbers in Motor?
I understand that this would be a large amount of input for a fairly trivial output, so I would understand if you would not want to go to the trouble. I just figured I had nothing to lose by asking.
Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 23:34, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can I tempt you to put your name down for this project? You don't have to do anything different, it's just a loose association of people who translate from other wikis. Each month we have a stub focus, and you can list 10 French or German articles from a given subject needing transwikying etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:26, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Gerda, the ones which are red linked in existing cantata articles you can embolden and add a key note at the top so they become more priority :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
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I feel that you, of all people, agree that CD (Charles Deutsch) oughtn't be a redlink much longer. Have any sources? I could probably scrape something together but I am lacking the necessary energy to start a new entry. And then we'll get it DYK?-listed for additional ego boosts. Mr.choppers | ✎ 02:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
I am in the process of completing a new article about this Paris coachbuilder copying from French Wikipedia. I am very likely to have made bad mistakes. Please would you glance at it and correct same. It seems there are many Paris coachbuilders unaccounted for in this WP have you considered giving them some coverage here? Regards, Eddaido (talk) 02:42, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
... describes that something has ups and downs, mostly used when there are severe downs ("life is like a roller-coaster"), - we don't have to faithfully translate every whim (also called POV) of a German poet writing a Wikipedia article, - "translated" is only to give credit to some original author ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:00, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Do you have any period info on the 1972 Earls Court Motor Show? This guy was there and has a bunch of lovely b&w photos available, but I have a hard time finding out if there were any major introductions taking place at this show. Cheers, Mr.choppers | ✎ 03:32, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, could you, Furius or Ipigott translate from German wiki?♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:24, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Charles is a quite incredible contributor!! So is Xwej, it's really positive to have a quality editor working on Malta topics.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:36, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
The actress who shares her given name with me: that would make a fine DYK about her leading the Courage cast if only it had an inline citation. I would do the rest ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:47, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can you you do me a favour and translate the plot and production from German wiki?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:20, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for noting in the edit summary that you moved from German Wiki. Many editors forget when moving or copying Wiki content. For example, this edit [3]. Makes the job of people looking for copyright violations easier. Thanks.--Lucas559 (talk) 02:45, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please use the revision history tags only to give detail about your edits and not to add commentary that would more suitable in a forum website. Just for your consideration, the actual position of the statue has the highest dignity because is facing the main square in front of the Fontana Maggiore. Check better your sources next time. --Grifomaniacs (talk) 15:04, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi can you start this?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:13, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your recent articles, including Günter Stempel, which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. Let me know if you need help, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:27, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent articles, including Günter Stempel, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like ((WikiProject Keyword)) to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:27, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can you or Furius translate this?♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:07, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
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Greetings Charles01. Wondered if you would like to run a friendly but critical eye over these two articles particularly seeking omissions and confusions etc. Thanks and regards, Eddaido (talk) 11:08, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Charles. You seem to be once again making the mistake you used to make years ago at Daimler. You seem to assume that I have re-written (or even read!) the whole article. I do these things piece-meal. If someone wants to say (or remove) beautifully appointed I let them. At the same time I remember that Humber's "beautifully appointed" cars were made by Thrupp & Maberly and used at Buckingham Palace or wherever. Not to mention transport the Prime and other senior ministers of the Crown. Warm regards, Eddaido (talk) 04:32, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
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Or is it transmutation? A smoker by the nicotine on the teeth. Best, Eddaido (talk) 23:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for helping with the main page of Wikipedia Victuallers (talk) 13:27, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Look! - Excellent, thank you, - more please ;)--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:24, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
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I know this biography can be improved but I cannot decide where or how. What do you think? Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 10:18, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Günter Stempel for a dyk billing, feeling a bit of a twit as I did so for nominating an entry I'd started myself. But it did attract some (on balance seriously helpful) inputs from other people, which is good.
I need help with this article. A great amorphous heap of facts its got too many failings altogether. You might say I've got started and now lost enthusiasm. Wouldn't you like to have a try to set the story out better? Should there be a separate article for the Sedan version? Eddaido (talk) 23:11, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
It was v courteous of you to ask. I was still expecting to deal with it, but prob from the Dutch article, not the German one, as I am having difficulty sourcing it. I think Dr B has been a bit premature, as there is still a week to go to the end of the month! If you want to take it on, please do, as I am not on Wikipedia much at the moment. Eustachiusz (talk) 14:48, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
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Re Hans van der Laan, I followed the usage in the Dutch article: "van" where the name is given in full, but "Van" where the surname stands alone. I suppose in Dutch it helps the surname stand out from normal text, but perhaps we don't need to do it in English, as the word "van" is any case distinctive.Eustachiusz (talk) 21:47, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can you translate that from German wiki and add to the potted biography extras?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:34, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Thought you might like this / these very composed old motorists and their conveyance. Eddaido (talk) 07:56, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you. Looks like my moment for another "proof read"! Regards Charles01 (talk) 14:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
CO#1 I send greeting. Please would you check my sandbox and tell me what you think and none of this diplomatic stuff, please. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 00:28, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Charles. I notice some more monasteries at Intertranswiki. I should mention that Franciscans don't have abbeys or monasteries (as they are not monks) but friaries, so herewith forewarning that I'll be renaming the Franciscan-related articles. I wanted to explain in advance why! Best wishes, Eustachiusz (talk) 14:04, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Re your picture of the Dacia 1300 Estate. Seems you snapped a very rare vehicle indeed. When was the photo taken, and did you by any chance take any other images? Any further details you could give would be hugely appreciated. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.240.144.36 (talk) 16:32, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Wonderful! Thanks v much. Fascinating. Trade mission sounds about right. It shows a few features unique to UK-market Dacias (the rubber mouldings and the roof rack) which were fitted at the importers', in Yeovil. But the only Dacia saloons and estates sold over here were the later 1310 model. What an interesting vehicle!
The one you snapped in Romania is also quite special: non-standard bumpers, paint and wheels, which would have made it stand out from the crowd. Licence place was issued in around 1974. Did you see anything else interesting around on your visit? Thanks & regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.240.144.36 (talk) 14:21, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi there. Sorry about this, but this was such a long time ago that I have forgotten the information you seek. Again I apologise because of this. ISD (talk) 15:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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No worries - I'm leaving this one well alone! it's an important house and community, and the de-Wiki article is far too long a translation for me to undertake at the moment. If Blofeld can wait for a few days until the real end of the month, however, I'll do something for Torba.
Also, I'm not quite sure what to call it. It's not an abbey, as the head of the house is not an abbess but a prioress, so "Ilanz Priory" would be fine formally. Dominican women's comunities seem mostly to be referred to as "Convent", although the form "[Placename] Convent" is in the range "peculiar" to "incorrect". If you can confirm as you work through it that the dedication is to Saint Joseph, as seems likely from a very quick glance, then my best suggestion, if you wanted an alternative to "Ilanz Priory", would be "Convent of St. Joseph, Ilanz" or "St. Joseph's Convent, Ilanz", depending on your personal preference. Eustachiusz (talk) 13:13, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi there Charles01. I wonder if you might be able to assist me. I search for someone with a high level of diplomatic skills. This is because I find on this page three photographs that appear to date a particular vehicle to 1941. This is simply not a possible production date for reasons I will not enter into at this moment in time ever being in need of refuge.
I should think it is a modified version of one of these (which might be familiar to you) because of how it differs in the front, may I say, wings. (The (well, OK, pretty) helmet shaped cycle guards are so oddly supported they can only have been added by someone without knowledge of the right method of doing it). And its date is therefore circa 1933. So different from 1941 (sigh).
So I'd be very pleased if you might find you're able to make an appropriate approach to that particular editor to learn more. He/she may in fact know more than has been added to the metadata or whatever it is called. PS you are allowed to decline this mission and then there'll be no penalty. Yrs sincerely etc. Eddaido (talk) 05:33, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
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Just to let you know that I've reverted File:Austin 1300 in Langen.jpg to your original uploaded version and re-uploaded the colour-adjusted version I made under the filename File:Austin 1300 in Langen (adjusted version).jpg.
The reason was that having come across it again I felt that the changes maybe went beyond what I'd consider trivial "unbiased" colour balance and level correction and was edging into selective changes (if not quite retouching). I also knew that you weren't convinced about the colour (see User talk:Charles01/Archive 22), so upon reflection I probably should have uploaded it as an "altered" or "modified" version separate from your original in the first place.
Sorry if this seems like I'm making a big deal of it, I just thought you ought to know as it was your upload.
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This seems to be kinda close to home. Is there a chance this item might be added to your long-term plan for English WP?
Best, Eddaido (talk) 10:26, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your very kind message! Leaving fed-up-ness aside, I really have no choice at the moment but to cut my time right back for the next few months, but I'll re-think once the pressure has eased. As you say, I've always come back before! In the meantime I've not completely burnt my boats and am happy to aim to do a couple of Intertranswiki architecture articles as and when. It seemed better, and fairer, to lower the bar to nothing and then do one or two occasionally than to carry on under the expectation that I'd be doing more, and then not to deliver. If I do find time to tackle any bridges, I'll start with the last and work backwards, in the hope of avoiding clashes. Thanks again and all best wishes, Eustachiusz (talk) 12:56, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can you please translate Er ist eine große Überraschung und spielt mit seinen 20 Jahren wie ein Alter spielt mit seinen 20 Jahren wie ein Alter". RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 13:13, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
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As you have seen already, I changed a few things in your article on Bruges City Hall (as you asked some days ago). Thank you for making new pages on Bruges in the English Wikipedia!
Your contributions on bishop Faict and Anselm de Peellaert look rather OK to me. I'll ask Andries Van den Abeele (who knows a lot about Bruges and is a very assiduous contributor to the Dutch Wikipedia) to have a look on them also.
Kind regards, Marc Ryckaert (MJJR (talk) 16:38, 12 October 2015 (UTC)).
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For your ongoing efforts on the Intertranswiki project with some excellent new biographies and articles. Keep it up! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:18, 29 October 2015 (UTC) |
Can you or Furius translate Hotel Waldhaus (Flims) [8]? Loeba requested it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:11, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
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I love your comments ;) Thanks for your additions to Catherine Feuillet. As you know, I don't speak French or read it. That being said, her contributions seemed huge. If she really does crack the code, the GMO debate will explode. I love that you found her DOB/POB and the quote is great! SusunW (talk) 15:16, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for the update, Casliber. Success Charles01 (talk) 12:10, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
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There is an error in the references on the Peugeot 403 page which I think may stem from an edit which you did some time back. Cheers. GTHO (talk) 00:19, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Charles, hope you're well. Can you expand this?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:20, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your recent articles, including Werner Lamberz, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like ((WikiProject Keyword)) to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:24, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can you remember to embolden the articles you create beyond stub level and mark as such on the Intertrans main page.? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:14, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Minimum 1500 bytes of readable prose for a start class.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:41, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Charles01, I see you are creating a large number of articles. Great job. I noticed however that most of them were lacking the WP:SORTKEY, which causes articles not to be displayed in the right place in categories. I added the sort key to about twenty of your most recent articles. I hope you could add the defaultsort to the articles you create. Keep on the good work. Crispulop (talk) 09:41, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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I nominate User Charles01 to be Editor of the Week for his tireless article translations. Charles01 has been an editor since 2006 and has over 40k edits, of which over 90% is to mainspace. As a member of the Intertranswiki project, he has been creating about an article a day, usually translating and expanding articles from other Wikipedia language versions such as the German Wikipedia that are missing from the English Wikipedia. I first noticed this editor while new page patrolling, and I think he deserves the EotW award. sst✈discuss 09:39, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk 15:06, 27 December 2015 (UTC)