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Merry Christmas

Merry Cristmas everybody!!!
Merry Cristmas everybody!!!

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,

I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)

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Merry Christmas!

Hello MRD2014: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:25, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

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Hello MRD2014: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, -- Dane talk 08:18, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas MRD2014!!
Hi MRD2014, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,

Thanks for all your help on the 'pedia!

   –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 15:57, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for messages. I need a lot of suggestions for writing in English Wikipedia.

There is a person asking me to help her write Prof.Surapol Issaragrisil's biblipgraphy at Thai wikipedia, and I did already. Later, she asked me again to write in English because that professor would like to get his English bibliography also. Although I got my Master's degree in the United States and had been there for over 8 years, I have still a little bit confused to write this in English. She just sent me English links., so please give me step by step's instruction to write this anyway, and I will be very appreciated. Thank you very much!

Again, I am very truely sorry, but I have no idea how to find the appropriate links or good references because I didn't graduated in medicine major, and didn't work in Mahidol university in Thailand. I have already asked that person to send me the right references, or she can put all references for herself.

Sincerely (Atrosesther (talk) 17:07, 25 December 2016 (UTC))

You could probably just use the English references to help you with writing it so long as you don't copy from the sources word-for-word. If you need help with the English, try typing words into Google Translate so you can get the words in Thai. —MRD2014 (Merry Christmas!) 19:22, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 20:58, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2016)

World plate tectonics (click on map for more details)
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Tectonics

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Quviahugvik

Hello MRD2014: From high in the Canadian Arctic I hope you enjoy the holiday season, the Winter or Summer Solstice, Quviahugvik, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hannukah or even the Saturnalia, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 05:44, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Adapted from {{Season's Greetings}}

Globe Theatre thanks

Thanks for your help with my edit request.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 09:07, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Request on 02:15:00, 30 December 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Sandeep talks



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@Sandeep talks: Your request is blank. What do you need help with? —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 02:17, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

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58.127.227.27 (talk) 13:16, 31 December 2016 (UTC) Oh, I viewed your message today..

Well, I viewed your message today. actually, I forgotten what I added on Oreo o's. Can you tell me about what I added on article?

+can I add reference on my photo(taken by myself)? or article about written by myself on blog?

PS. I don't know how can I use User talk

This is the edit you made. If you choose to add a source, please make sure it is reliable. IP editors cannot upload files, but you can use the Files for upload process. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 14:59, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, MRD2014!

Happy New Year!

MRD2014,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. -- Dane talk 02:29, 1 January 2017 (UTC)


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Happy New Year, MRD2014!

Happy New Year!

MRD2014,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:26, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, MRD2014!

Happy New Year!

MRD2014,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2017)

Some of the Aeolian Islands
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Aeolian Islands

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year!
Hello MRD2014:

Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters.

CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 03:08, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, MRD2014!

Happy New Year!

MRD2014,
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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2017)

Professional audio – pictured is a portable setup of various live audio production and recording equipment
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Professional audio

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The Deltahorse - draft

Hi MRD2014,

Thank you for taking an interest and commenting on my draft... over here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:The_Deltahorse&action=submit

Following your recommendations I have made the required corrections by adding inline citations and references. I am now about to resubmit.

Regards, ChristinaSlower Faster Music (talk) 14:28, 9 January 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slower Faster Music (talk • contribs) 14:18, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok. I prefer to let someone else review it so you can get info from other editors. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

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THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM

THIS MEDAL is NOW OFFICIALLY THE MEDaL OF BRoMAnCE AS DECREED bY PReSIdeNT BARRY BLACK BRO BAMA MAN. ANYONE WHO SullIES THe WONDErS OF HiS DEEp AFFEcTiON TO THE IRISHMaN VP JOEY MY MAN BIDAN SHaLL Be SEnTENCED To DANk MEmES — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.138.65.180 (talk) 15:45, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Uh it's not called that. It's the Presidential Medal of Freedom, not Bromance. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 16:05, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2017)

Some of the human organs
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Organ (anatomy)

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  • video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [7]

Changes this week

  • There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [8]
  • When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [9]
  • You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [10]
  • You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [11]
  • The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [12]
  • Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [13]
  • When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [14]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

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famousbirthdays.com is not a reliable source

Hi MRD2014 . I'm in the process of removing famousbirthdays.com as a source from Wikipedia, because it's not reliable (See Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_153#Is_famousbirthdays.com_a_reliable_source_for_personal_information). I noticed that you've added it, and wanted to make sure you understood why it's being removed. If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 02:06, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

@Ronz: Thanks for the note. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 02:09, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2017)

Ghanaian nationalists celebrating the 50th anniversary of national independence in 2007
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African nationalism

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  • You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [15]

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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OHAKEA

January 2017[edit] 

Hello, I'm MRD2014. I noticed that you made a change to an article, RNZAF Base Ohakea, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 03:24, 29 January 2017 (UTC)


I don't have a website source at this stage as it hasn't made the news media yet. You can see this link: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAE406 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.50.60.180 (talk) 03:37, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

If you don't have a source, then we can't add it as it contravenes our verifiability policy. Also, please note that Wikipedia is not a newspaper. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 03:42, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok ok no need to (Redacted) about it! Here it is: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/88873939/plane-diverted-from-auckland-airport-due-to-runway-closure — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.50.60.180 (talk) 03:45, 29 January 2017‎ (UTC)

Well now you have the source so you can add it using {{cite web}}, placing it inside <ref></ref> tags. To do that, click "Cite" in the toolbar, and under the "Templates" drop-down menu, select "cite web" and fill out the fields. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2017)

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Nvidia Shadowplay

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Tech News: 2017-05

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

  • The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [16]

Changes this week

  • ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [17]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [18][19]
  • The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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18:46, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello MRD2014,
A HUGE backlog

We now have 810 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

  1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
  2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
  3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2017)

A high school in Malaysia
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Secondary school

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Tech News: 2017-06

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

Problems

  • The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [20]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [21]
  • There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [22]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).

Meetings

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  • Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [23][24]

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19:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2017)

The Sun and planets of the Solar System (distances not to scale) are examples of astronomical objects.
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Astronomical object

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Tech News: 2017-07

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Recent changes

  • EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [25]

Problems

  • The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [26]
  • Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [27]

Changes this week

  • The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [28]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

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 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [29]
  • The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2017)

Växjö surrounded by lakes, as seen from an airplane
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Växjö

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Tech News: 2017-08

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Recent changes

Changes this week

  • Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [31]
  • There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [32]
  • OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [33]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

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19:26, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you.

I appreciate the quick and useful response to my Help Request. JTEntzminger (talk) 04:10, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

No problem. —MRD2014 📞 What I've done 04:10, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello MRD2014,

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 810 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.

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Please comment on Talk:Basketball Comebacks

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Basketball Comebacks. Legobot (talk) 04:28, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2017)

Parallel goods traders queuing outside Sheung Shui Station in Hong Kong
Hello, MRD2014.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Grey market

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Växjö • Astronomical object

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