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Tri Force Heroes!

I think it's time the page gets protected, I'm at my third revert already, so I'm powerless to stop it. Plus, I'm one of the clueless editors when it comes to posting requests as this site still confuses me to this day, do you think you can help me out by requesting it's protection, please? --Vaati the Wind Demon (talk) 19:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Vaati the Wind Demon. While there is a formal process for requesting page protection at WP:RFP, I usually just ask an administrator familiar with the topic for help or advice in situations like this. The admins who actively participate in WikiProject Video games are as follows: Czar, David Fuchs, Masem, PresN, Salvidrim! and Sergecross73. (I think that's all of them.) I'm not an expert on the protection policy... @Masem: If you have a moment, would you be willing to take a look at Tri Force Heroes to see if it requires protection? Thanks! —zziccardi (talk) 20:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
It looks like a singular user, so page protection would be overkill, but that IP is at 3RR, so one more revert would be fair block as long as they are warned about it. --MASEM (t) 20:38, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Okay, makes sense. I've been going through the page history a bit… This IP is surely the same person; he or she made the same sorts of changes and undid a handful of users' edits without explanation at the end of October (contributions), and was warned at the time by Gilliam and myself. Some of the other recent IPs may have also been the same person, but I'm not sure. I left a warning on the most recent talk page. —zziccardi (talk) 21:13, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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FYI, "betrothal" is. --Izno (talk) 19:33, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Thanks, though. —zziccardi (talk) 19:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Edit Reverted?

May I ask why my edit was reverted? I do realize the page is mainly about the base game, but I believe we need to include details about the HD game itself other than just what the amiibo can do and the pre-order bonuses. I'm sorry if I sound mad. I don't mean to, and I'm trying to follow the protocol in Wikipedia:DR, though I thought it would be better to ask privately than to bring it to the Talk:The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess page first. --Super3588 (talk) 02:38, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Absolutely. You don't sound angry at all, and talking directly to me is perfectly fine. I hope you didn't take the reversion personally. Anyway, I had a few concerns about your additions. As I said in my edit summary, "These additions don't seem particularly worthy of inclusion (especially since this article primarily concerns the original game) and contain typos." Perhaps the Hero Mode could be discussed in that article in brief, but the second paragraph was half incomprehensible (again, please don't take it offensively). The other thing about the second paragraph you wrote is that IGN was just one of many video game publications that created a video demonstrating the graphics differences between the original versions and the Wii U port. That means IGN's video wasn't particularly unique; further, mentioning its video but not that of others may have given WP:UNDUE weight to that single publication. —zziccardi (talk) 02:52, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.
Screenshot showing a pop-up menu for column operations in a table
If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:

  • Remember my last editor,
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The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.

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Do you want one Edit tab, or two? It's your choice

How to switch between editing environments
Part of the toolbar in the visual editor
Click the [[ ]] to switch to the wikitext editor.
Part of the toolbar in the wikitext editor
Click the pencil icon to switch to the visual editor.

The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.

You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.

There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.

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A kitten for you!

Thanks for your appreciation of my edits. Here's a kitten! 🐱

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@D412TH V4D312: My pleasure. Thanks for the kitten! :) —zziccardi (talk) 14:00, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for everything

First, I mistakenly delected your post yesterday, I apology for the incovinience I made to you.

Second, Thanks for reviewing what I added. You made an excelent contribution yesterday, I reread the information and its very clear and changes very objective, you understood what I wanted to contribute. Thumbs up, and keep the good work!

P.D: this is my first time editing, thanks for your patience and time to understand others contributions — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.176.72.54 (talk) 00:01, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi, 186.176.72.54. No worries, and thanks for the compliment—I appreciate it! I just left a semi-automated message on your talk page with a bunch of links that should help you with editing if you're interested in contributing to Wikipedia. Feel free to stop by again if you need any assistance. —zziccardi (talk) 01:20, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
hi zziccardi. I created the account. Thanks for replying. I will help with others contributor like you to get better in wikipedia, as you I'm focus on video games. Especially The Legend of zelda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Druidtaur (talk • contribs) 02:23, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Unnecessary newlines

In this edit you made a few corrections, but you also inserted an unnecessary newline. That new line fools the revision control system. The newline makes it represent your change as the complete deletion of the old paragraph, and its replacement by a different brand new paragraph. After removing your unnecessary newline, the revision control system shows me you made some subtle changes.

I am going to encourage you be careful about inserting or deleting newlines, because of how it eroodes the usefulness of diffs.

After I removed your newline, diff shows your changes clearly.

Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 03:17, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Geo Swan. Yes, I'm aware the default diff view is a bit imperfect. I sometimes add the new line because I find it helps me quickly locate the demarcation between the end of the infobox and the beginning of the lead (not really an issue here—more so with larger articles), but forgot to remove it before saving. If you haven't already, you may want to give the wikEdDiff gadget a try (you can enable it here). It handles this sort of minor tweak much better and you can show or hide its diff view (in addition to the default one) at any time with the click of a button. Besides, you'd probably have more luck using the gadget than repeatedly pleading others to edit the way you prefer. —zziccardi (talk) 02:02, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

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Editing News #2—2016

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It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with many items

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.

Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

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Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with options for editing the table structure

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

  • You can now set text as small or big.[1]
  • Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[2] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[3]
  • Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[4]
  • At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.[5]
  • The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[6] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
  • Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[7]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

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Precious anniversary

Two years ago ...
"I corrected"
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no. 1005 of Precious,
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Thank you again, Gerda! You're too kind. :) —zziccardi (talk) 15:10, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

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The Legend of Zelda

The IP is running a script. Might as well leave it alone. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 04:39, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too… Hopefully we can get the page protected shortly. —zziccardi (talk) 04:40, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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Editing News #1—2017

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Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

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When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Review your changes".

In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

Toggle button showing visual and wikitext options; visual option is selected.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

Screenshot showing the same changes, in the two-column wikitext diff display.

The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.

A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [8]

The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [9]

Other changes:

  • You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [10]
  • The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [11]
  • The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [12] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [13]
  • You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [14]
  • Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [15]
  • The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [16]
  • A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [17]
  • There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K on a PC or Command+K on a Mac. [18]

Future changes

  • The VisualEditor team is working with the Community Tech team on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [19]
  • The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [20]
  • The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [21]

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