On 30 July 2015 at 12:57, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
If anyone is still running outreach editathons to try and recruit new
editors, you might want to consider using visual editor.
I've considered it; and decided not to.
For one thing, when a new user sees a diff,
It is a little while ago now that I was asked, by Roberta Wedge, about the
missing women on the English Wikipedia, who are identified in the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). I'm glad to say that, with a
recent technical development I now have a list.
(Recent means since this
If anyone is still running outreach editathons to try and recruit new editors,
you might want to consider using visual editor. I spoke to some of the WMF
people at Wikimania and apparently the issue of it running very very slowly on
old kit has recently been largely addressed. I've pointed out
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:13 PM Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
This comes out as pile 188 for PagePile. If you look at the wikitext on my
page, the data is actually in two columns, Wikidata ID followed by name.
(This is tabbed data, though the first four or so tabs
I would start with the VE and introduce diffs and wikitext at the end of
the class as advanced stuff.
Understanding a wikitext diff is much easier than editing wikitext
Joe
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:10 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 30 July 2015 at 12:57, WereSpielChequers
