Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,759 last month to 11,786 on February 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 113 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 84.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,470 articles.
Currently we have thirty three Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
There is an edit-a-thon on the subject of Art+Feminism to be held at the
Hepworth Wakefield on Sunday 8 March 2015. Any members who fit the criteria "Women and allies of all genders, including non-binary gender identities" in the
Wakefield area who can get to the event would be welcome to participate. For more information and to sign-up see the
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WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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You can now hide banners if you don't have an account.
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You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can
ask for the tool in other languages.
Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs.
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The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData.
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The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters.
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You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself.
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Future changes
You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page.
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This is a reminder that the first Project Eurovision Cup begins on Sunday 1 March and will run all the way through until Tuesday 31 March. The aim of the competition is to help improve many of the articles within Project Eurovision that would have been otherwise left neglected, by carrying out as many objectives as possible. The more objectives you do, the more points you will earn. So have you got what it takes to be crowned Project Eurovision Member of the Month? Click here to sign up.
Thank you for what you did on the EuroCup page; I never knew there was such a tool that automatically tallies up the points. I'm well impressed. Wes Mouse | T@lk 01:27, 5 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed.
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In VisualEditor the "Edit beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia.
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The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs.
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You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading.
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You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools.
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If you use the
ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.
Meetings
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You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself.
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AxG, I am looking for some technical help with the newsletter, and by that I mean changing the layout better. However, as you know, I'm not that technically minded when it comes to playing around with coding etc. First off, I want to change the style of the delivery page itself so it looks something like:
The newsletter logo in the top left corner with the issue number directly under it.
The statistics to move from the bottom (horizontal) to the right (vertical) with them split into 3 columns. Column 1: with the stat name (e.g. Number of articles etc.). Column 2: with an arrow pointing to column 3. Column 3: to show the stats themselves.
In a space on the left will show the news headlines.
The way it will end up looking (I hope) is so that it is split into 3 sections. Do you think this would be possible, or would it be too complexed? The reason I am wanting to try and modernise/improve the layout is because I am aiming to update the newsletter all together, so that the respective section on project news and contest news are on their own respective pages, but accessed by links from the delivery headlines and via tabs within the newsletter sections themselves. Wes Mouse | T@lk 14:29, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
User:Wesley Mouse - I shall draw up a draft and will get back to you with an image. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 17:59, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Wesley Mouse: I've made a very primitive mock in Excel (far easier at this time than coding), just to see if this is what you mean? -- [[axg//✉ ]] 18:29, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Oh yes, that is how I had imagined it to look. You are my knight in shining armour when it comes to things like this. Thank you. Wes Mouse | T@lk 18:31, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Thank you for doing that, AxG. It looks great. I've tweaked it slightly, so the division is 66% - 33% split; as the headlines can get long at times. Wes Mouse | T@lk 21:03, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
You gave me an edit conflict, in fact I did do a 60/40 split with my edit. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 21:08, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Oh heck, I am sorry about causing an edit conflict. I am impressed with what you have done though, and really appreciate the help and assistance immensely. Wes Mouse | T@lk 21:10, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Glad to help, now if you don't mind I'm off to watch a certain announcement at 9:30. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 21:20, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks. I'm ready to watch the same announcement. Put it this way, if the UK entry is crap, then I will be supporting the next best country that also uses the Union Jack... Australia. lol. Wes Mouse | T@lk 21:24, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
It certainly is different, and a grower at that. 1930s jazz-fest in Vienna, Yeah I can see that working for us! Wes Mouse | T@lk 21:43, 7 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Further templates
AxG, do you recall
User talk:Wesley Mouse/Archive 20#Re: Project Eurovision templates from October last year? Was wondering on how we got along with {{Esc}} template and adding |x=Dancers and |x=Musicians to the algorithm. I started to use that on the template, and noticed it still directs to ESC articles. I'll ping @
CT Cooper: in this too, so that he can temporarily lift the full protection, as it still won't let me edit the darn thing, despite me having template editor access. Wes Mouse | T@lk 16:09, 10 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Wesley Mouse: Are you sure? I've checked the protection and your user rights and you should definitely be able to edit it. Bypassing or clearing your cache might resolve the problem.
@
AxG: I've just given you the template editor right as a trusted user. Do you have the same problem?
CT Cooper ·talk 18:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
CT Cooper and
Wesley Mouse: It is allowing me to edit the template, so it's working for me. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 18:13, 10 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
CT Cooper: it won't let me edit the template. All I get is a pink editing screen and the message "Warning: This page has been protected in accordance with the protection policy so that only those with administrative rights can make edits.". Does this mean there is a problem with my template editing rights? Wes Mouse | T@lk 18:17, 10 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Wesley Mouse: That's exactly what I got, just try a dummy edit. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 18:21, 10 March 2015 (UTC)reply
(
edit conflict) @
Wesley Mouse: If you can't edit a page, the edit button should be replaced with a "View source" button which will show you the wikicode but not allow you make edits. The pink screen and notice (though a little misleading) should come up to anyone who can edit the template – it is there to warn you that the page is protected and to be careful when making edits, though everything else should work like normal.
CT Cooper ·talk 18:23, 10 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Wesley Mouse: What seems like hair pulling edits in October wondering why the hell I didn't get it to work, a couple of edits today at
User:AxG/Sandbox/6 seems to work when testing at
User:AxG/Sandbox/11. Finger crossed it works. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 00:41, 11 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Oh dear, I thought the pink screen meant I couldn't edit it. Phew! Thanks for the info, Chris. AxG, they look brilliant. I'm guessing the template document would need to be updated too, so that people know of the new coding? Wes Mouse | T@lk 12:37, 11 March 2015 (UTC)reply
I've gone ahead and added the new coding. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 16:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images.
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It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can
edit the list of characters for your wiki.
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Problems
Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (
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A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates.
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You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData.
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Meetings
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Future changes
The list of bad user names
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add rules for bad user names on Meta.
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You can
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calendar).
The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page.
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VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor.
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When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it.
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Meetings
You can
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You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on
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Future changes
Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the
new system.
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I think I know how the editor has got confused with ISO codes. Yes, the albums in the past (since the introduction of semifinals) have listed the entries in ISO order. However, the editor re-ordered them using
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, when the EBU uses
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3. If alpha-2 was used, then Austria (AT) would come before Australia (AU). However, as alpha-3 is used then Australia (AUS) comes before Austria (AUT). Wes Mouse | T@lk 15:27, 23 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Wesley Mouse: We should follow standard alphabetical naming, not using any codes we are not the EBU. Now we have the Austria then Australia on top, because of this, and yet France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK in the same order, but if we are to use the codes correctly, then the order would be Spain (ESP), Germany (DEU), France (FRA), the UK (GBR) and Italy (ITA). -- [[axg//✉ ]] 15:56, 23 March 2015 (UTC)reply
I stand corrected. The album track listings do use ISO alpha-2 and not alpha-3. Something they have done since 2005 (apparently). The track listing information should show exactly how the album lists them - and that would be alpha-2 ISO. Wes Mouse | T@lk 15:59, 23 March 2015 (UTC)reply
I suppose the EBU find using the alpha-2 system to order the track listing for the album, a more fairer solution. It would explain why these albums in the past have had Belarus (BY), then Switzerland (CH), and Cyprus (CY) in that bizarre order. Wes Mouse | T@lk 16:02, 23 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Wesley Mouse: But this is not the "Official album" section, this is the "Finalists" section table. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 16:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Check again. It was in the official album section. I gather Austria in the final table is on top, because they have been given their running order, whilst the remaining 6 countries have yet to be allocated. Wes Mouse | T@lk 16:06, 23 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Well don't I feel stupid. Sorry about that. -- [[axg//✉ ]] 16:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)reply
PMSL, don't worry. Even I had to double check and thought I was losing the plot. Wes Mouse | T@lk 16:11, 23 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account.
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You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki.
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All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser.
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You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly.
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VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (
calendar).
VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias.
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You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account.
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You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create
lists of articles.
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You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page.
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VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more.
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You can
read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
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 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
The winner of the first Project Eurovision Cup is
Jjj1238, who achieved an outstanding 108 points.
Androptrnt finished in second place with 30 points, and
Moldova96 in third with 15 points.
The second contest has begun, with participants from the first contest automatically registered. The EuroCup II will run from 1 April to 30 June, to allow people to get articles reviewed for GA or FA status. The aim of the competition is to help improve many of the articles within Project Eurovision that would have been otherwise left neglected, by carrying out as many objectives as possible. The more objectives you do, the more points you will earn. So have you got what it takes to be crowned winner of the next Project Eurovision Cup? Project members who wish to participate have until 18 April to sign up.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,786 last month to 11,807 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 113 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 84.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,480 articles.
Currently we have thirty three Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Leeds Meet-up
Members are invited to a meet-up in Leeds on 12 April 2015 where you can meet other Wikipedians and discuss things. You can also have a meal and drink together. The meeting will be at 12:30 at The New Conservatory, The Albions, Albion Place, Leeds, LS1 6JL. If you are interested then you can find more details and sign-up at the
meet-up page.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2015 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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Monitoring is essential Use the
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Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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You can join a new
email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs.
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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 (
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You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor.
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Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed.
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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.
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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
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Future changes
You can again
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I've opted for the location map to show host locations (see
Pan Celtic Festival#Hostings. I think that covers the basics of what is needed there. But the winners map is what is confusing me the most. How do I add a colour chart table, and then decide the colour code from 0 to 14. Never come across anything like this before, where a country has won 14 times!. The Welsh are bloody good lol. Maybe that is where the UK are going wrong in Eurovision - let the Welsh have a go. Wes Mouse | T@lk 11:28, 12 April 2015 (UTC)reply
I see a rainbow! lol. Now that is the kind of scheme that should do the trick. How does one add a table to a vector map? I had tried to "copy/paste" tables from one map to the new one - but they were not exactly straight. They were more wonky than Willy Wonka himself. Wes Mouse | T@lk 11:47, 12 April 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Wesley Mouse: I have no idea how to put tables in Inkscape. I'd just get 12 squares in a row and make sure the grid is on. --
[[ axg//✉ ]] 11:51, 12 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Et voilà; we have a
winners map. Although there is a slight problem with it. Northern and Southern Ireland had to be clicked separately when colouring them in, as did Brittany and the Channel Islands, and Scotland, Orkney, and Shetland. Wes Mouse | T@lk 13:49, 12 April 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Wesley Mouse: Highlight them, and use "Group" them, save, upload. --
[[ axg//✉ ]] 13:55, 12 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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The
new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (
calendar).
Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis.
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All users can now test
link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias.
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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
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There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis.
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VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis.
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You can get the new version of the
Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends.
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If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet.
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The
new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (
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Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis.
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If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference.
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You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData.
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Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on
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Future changes
You will soon be able to add and remove
tags on edits.
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Hi AxG, I noticed you reverted someone on the JML article over the "BSkyB" name - Wouldn't it make more sense to have it as Sky ?, Although at one point they were named "BSkyB" they've never advertised themselves as that as thus wouldn't be known as that,
Personally I'm not all that fussed but I know some people are, Anyway thanks, --–
Davey2010Talk 16:27, 22 April 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Davey2010: Thanks for bringing this up, you had me rather confused then, I had not edited the article at all until I looked at my contribution and noticed that I did. The edit was not intentional, and I'll have to put it down to browsing in my phone and my fat fingers clicking buttons they were not supposed to, it's certainly not the first time it's happened (or probably the last) but most times I do spot it, but this one got away. Sorry about that. --
[[ axg//✉ ]] 18:24, 22 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Ahhhh
, to be honest I had wondered if it was a mistake but didn't wanna RV incase there was a something I was missing, Anyway no worries we all make mistakes, Thanks for replying/explaining :), Happy editing, –
Davey2010Talk 18:54, 22 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Is it possible for admins to move certain revisions of a pages history to a new name, whilst keeping those not moved were they where, e.g. when editing in a sandbox which already had an edit history? --
[[ axg//✉ ]] 19:55, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
reply
Yes, probably, see
WP:HISTSPLIT. Leave a note below saying what page, which revisions should be moved, and to what title. It will need an admin, so put {{Adminhelp}} above it. I'll look at it if I see it, but I shall not be around much longer tonight.
JohnCD (
talk) 20:36, 22 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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request for help from administrators has been answered. If you need more help or have additional questions, please reapply the {{admin help}} template, or contact the responding user(s) directly on their own user talk page.
Can an admin perform a history split of some sandbox pages?
Will do, but probably not till this evening (UTC).
JohnCD (
talk) 12:04, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
I have done the first one, and in doing it I noticed that all the new page names you specified have a small "s" in "sandbox", but all your existing ones have upper-case "S". Is small "s" what you want for the new pages?
JohnCD (
talk) 18:46, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
@
JohnCD: Small 's', ever since the 'Sandbox' link has been added to the top user bar, I've moved
User:AxG/Sandbox to
User:AxG/sandbox and plan to move the rest in time. --
[[ axg//✉ ]] 19:10, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
All Done. Interesting: I knew about that in theory, but I have never actually done it before,
JohnCD (
talk) 21:02, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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