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Updating Census figures

I've updated census figures for Perry County, Pennsylvania. Interested in making this a little project, expanding out to other counties. Wondering if there is any organized effort on here to do that... CsCMRd (talk) 23:30, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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Feedback needed on using special characters

Hello. Thank you for using VisualEditor! Having editors use it is the best way for the Wikimedia Foundation to develop it into the best tool it can be.

While we always welcome general feedback (please report any issues in Bugzilla in the "VisualEditor" product or drop your feedback on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org), the developers are especially interested right now in feedback on the special character inserter. This new tool is used for inserting special characters (including symbols like ₥, IPA pronunciation symbols, mathematics symbols, and characters with diacritics). It is intended to help people whose computers do not have good character inserters. For example, many Mac users prefer to use the extensive "Special Characters..." tool present at the bottom of the Edit menu in all applications or to learn the keyboard shortcuts for characters like ñ and ü.

The current version of the special characters tool in VisualEditor is very simple and very basic. It will be getting a lot of work in the coming weeks and months. It does not contain very many character sets at this time. (The specific character sets can be customized at each Wikipedia, so that each project could have a local version with the characters it wants.) But the developers want your ideas at this early stage about ways that the overall concept could be improved. I would appreciate your input on this question, so please try out the character inserter and tell me what changes to the design would (or would not!) best work for you.

The "insert" pulldown on the task bar of VisualEditor will lead you to the '⧼visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title⧽' tool.

This is the ⧼visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title⧽ inserter as it appears on many wikis. (Some may have customized it.) Your feedback on this tool is particularly important.

Issues you might consider:

• How often do you normally use Wikipedia's character inserters?
• Which character sets are useful to you? Should it include all 18 of the character sets provided in the wikitext editor's newer toolbar at the English Wikipedia, the 10 present in the older editor toolbar, or some other combination of character sets?
• How many special characters would you like to see at one time?
  • Should there be a "priority" or "favorites" section for the 10 or 12 characters that most editors need most often? Is it okay if you need an extra click to go beyond the limited priority set?
  • How should the sections be split up? Should they be nested? Ordered?
  • How should the sections be navigated? Should there be a drop-down? A nested menu?
• The wikitext editor has never included many symbols and characters, like ℗ and ♀. Do you find that you need these missing characters? If the character inserter in VisualEditor includes hundreds or thousands of special characters, will it be overwhelming? How will you find the character you want? What should be done for users without enough space to display more than a few dozen characters?
• Should the character inserter be statically available until dismissed? Should it hover near the mouse? Should it go away on every selection or 10 seconds after a selection with no subsequent ones?
• Some people believe that the toolbar already has too many options—how would you simplify it?

The developers are open to any thoughts on how the special character inserter can best be developed, even if this requires significant changes. Please leave your views on the central feedback page, or, if you'd prefer, you can contact me directly on my talk page. It would be really helpful if you can tell me how frequently you need to use special characters in your typical editing and what languages or other special characters are important to you.

Thank you again for your work with VisualEditor and for any feedback you can provide. I really do appreciate it.

P.S. You might be interested in the current ideas about improving citations, too. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Copyright problem: User:CsCMRd/sandbox

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Stefan2 (talk) 22:19, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, CsCMRd. You have new messages at Stefan2's talk page.
Message added 19:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Stefan2 (talk) 19:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

User:CsCMRd is right. I've had this type of thing tagged on my page b4, too. These admins are great but sometimes get big heads and mistakes. Stefan2 is wrong. I looked at the page. I don't see any plagiarism or copied material. There's that org chart image, but the image info on Commons says that CsCMRD made it himself and released it to Creative Commons. Behen1970 (talk) 19:54, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, CsCMRd. You have new messages at Stefan2's talk page.
Message added 20:15, 8 August 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Stefan2 (talk) 20:15, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Don't leave

I don't like how Stefan2 is handling the situation which is why I'm the one who attributed the page in any case but right now I think he's being difficult. I'm gonna try to get a second opinion on whether you really need to attribute a sandbox or not. Tutelary (talk) 21:05, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi. :) You do, actually, need to attribute a sandbox. Content on Wikipedia is not public domain, but liberally licensed for use. To use it anywhere, you must meet the licensing conditions. Wikipedia's policies require that only properly licensed, public domain or acceptably utilized non-free content be placed anywhere on our project. However, it's a small and easily repaired issue - the templates that Tutelary added are very helpful, but the really critical component is simply a link in edit summary. I've added that and restored your sandbox. If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know either at my talk page or here - if you respond here, please let me know by using [[User:Moonriddengirl]] in your response. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:33, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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