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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2015

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Tech News: 2015-10

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 software changes

• A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [1]
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
• You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [2] [3]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
• 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. [4] [5] [6] [7]
• The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [8]
• The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [9]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• 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 March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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. [10]

Future changes

• You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [11]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Eurovision Cup - March 2015

WikiProject Eurovision Cup March 2015 Dear Project Member 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. The Project Cup judges, Wesley Mouse and CT Cooper, wish you all the best of luck.

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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)

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Tech News: 2015-11

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

• You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [12] [13]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [14] [15] [16]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [17] [18]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [19] [20]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [21] [22]
• 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. [23] [24]
• 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

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• 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 March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [25]

Future changes

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [26]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [27]

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15:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Newsletter help

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:

1. The newsletter logo in the top left corner with the issue number directly under it.
2. 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.
3. 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)

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)

@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)

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)

@Wesley Mouse: WIP. -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 20:42, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

@Wesley Mouse: Go Australia? -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 21:40, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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)

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)

@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)

@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)

@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)

@Wesley Mouse: That's exactly what I got, just try a dummy edit. -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 18:21, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

(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)

@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)

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)

I've gone ahead and added the new coding. -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 16:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Nice one, looks good. And it has worked too, looking at Eurovision Young Dancers 2015. Wes Mouse | ^T@lk 16:41, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Good work. CT Cooper · talk 19:08, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-12

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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [28]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [29]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [30] [31]

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 (calendar).
• 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. [32] [33]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [34] [35]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• 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 March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [36] [37]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [38]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [39]

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15:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - Issue 46

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Edit war

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Tech News: 2015-13

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (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. [40]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [41] [42] [43]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [44]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• 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 March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [45]

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15:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

ISO codes

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)

@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)

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)

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)

@Wesley Mouse: But this is not the "Official album" section, this is the "Finalists" section table. -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 16:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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)

Well don't I feel stupid. Sorry about that. -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 16:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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)

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Tech News: 2015-14

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

• You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [46]
• 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. [47] [48] [49]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [50]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [51]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [52]

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. [53]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [54]
• 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. [55]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [56]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [57] [58] [59] [60]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [61]
• 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.

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WikiProject Eurovision Cup - April 2015

WikiProject Eurovision Cup EuroCup II Dear Project Member 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. The Project Cup judges, Wesley Mouse and CT Cooper, wish you all the best of luck.

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2015

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Tech News: 2015-15

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

• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [62]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [63] [64]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [65]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [66]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [67]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [68] [69] [70] [71]

Changes this week

• 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 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [72]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [73] [74]
• 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. [75]

Meetings

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Oh how I hate Inkscape

Any ideas how to create a winners map for the Pan Celtic Festival#By Celtic nation using File:Map of Celtic Nations.svg, so that it uses a colour scale like File:Junior Eurovision winners map.svg - except we have Wales with 14 wins. And I cannot find a map for the entire island of Ireland (north and south) with its counties, so that I can produce a map to show the number of times a county has hosted. Wes Mouse | ^T@lk 12:56, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

@Wesley Mouse: Are you looking for something like this > File:Counties of the island of Ireland.svg? -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 11:22, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

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)

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@Wesley Mouse: Multicoloured? -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 11:44, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

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)

@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)

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)

@Wesley Mouse: Highlight them, and use "Group" them, save, upload. -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 13:55, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

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Sky / BSkyB

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, --–Davey2010^Talk 16:27, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

@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)

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, –Davey2010^Talk 18:54, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Help on page move

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)

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)

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Question for administrator

Can an admin perform a history split of some sandbox pages?

• User:AxG/Sandbox/8 (23:59, 17 April 2015‎—present) to User:AxG/sandbox/26
• User:AxG/Sandbox/11 (00:36, 11 March 2015‎—present) to User:AxG/sandbox/27
• User:AxG/Sandbox/12 (22:13, 12 April 2015‎—present) to User:AxG/sandbox/21
• User:AxG/Sandbox/14 (19:44, 13 April 2015‎—present) to User:AxG/sandbox/22
• User:AxG/Sandbox/15 (21:45, 13 April 2015‎—present) to User:AxG/sandbox/23
• User:AxG/Sandbox/16 (23:05, 13 April 2015—present) to User:AxG/sandbox/24
• User:AxG/Sandbox/17 (20:06, 14 April 2015—present) to User:AxG/sandbox/25

Thanks. -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 11:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Will do, but probably not till this evening (UTC). JohnCD (talk) 12:04, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

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)

@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)

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)

@JohnCD: Thank you! -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 23:58, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Sandbox pages

I've undeleted those two pages; sorry for any inconvenience, Tom Harrison ^Talk 11:07, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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