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Hey Benzband. We've just rolled out a new version of the VisualEditor :). Changes and patches include:

• Newly added templates now list their available parameters if TemplateData is available;
• The load for the VisualEditor on apages is now 4 KiB, down from 119 KiB;
• Feedback dialog is no longer chased off the screen by typing ( bug 50538)
• Fixed the Monobook issues around z-indexes ( bug 50241)
• Undoing an image resize doesn't make everything look bad
• In the image dialog, "Caption content" is now just "Caption"
• Tweaked tooltip references to VisualEditor to instead talk about "source mode"

Those are the big ones; more coming at the end of this week or early next week :). It's a short list, but the load issue took up a lot of time, as did TemplateData, and are both pretty big changes. If you've got any questions, drop them on my talkpage. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 01:19, 4 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Hey Benzband! We've just deployed some fixes to the VisualEditor. These include:

• "Edit" will load the latest version, not the version you're looking at ( bug 49943)
• "Edit" will load the latest version, not the version you edited last time if this is your second edit ( bug 50441)
• VE edit section links will load the latest, not original, version in diff view preview ( bug 50925)
• <big><big>Foo</big></big> and similar repeated tags will not get corrupted any more ( bug 49755)

In the meantime, testing is proceeding well, and hopefully we can get some more fixes out over the next couple of days. If you're interested in helping out, we have a set of open tasks we'd really appreciate your assistance with :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 07:57, 9 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Hey Benzband

We just deployed another VisualEditor release; bugs fixed include:

• Firefox 13/14 has been temporarily blacklisted, to avoid the insertion of broken links [[./that look like this]] ( 50720)
• Changing a reference in a template should no longer produce the bright red "you don't have a references block!" error ( bugzilla:50423)
• Notices are now shown if you're editing a protected or semi-protected page ( bugzilla:50415)
• The template inspector will no longer invite you to insert parameters that are already being used ( 50715)
• Same as above, but with aliases ( 50717)
• Parameter names in the template dialogue now word-wrap ( 50800)
• The link inspector will not show in the top left if you hit the return key while opening it ( 49941)
• Hitting return twice in the link editor will no longer introduce a new line that overwrites the link ( 51075)
• Oddly-named categories no longer cause corruption ( 50702)
• The toolbar no longer occasionally covers the cursor ( 48787)
• Changing the formatting of text no longer occasionally scrolls you upwards ( 50792)

Not specific bugs, but other things; cacheing is now improved, so people should stop seeing temporary breaking when the VisualEditor updates, and RTL support has received some patches. I hope this newsletter is helpful to people; I'll send out another one with the next deployment :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 10:06, 11 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Hey Benzband! Another set of patches :). Today we have:

• Required template parameters are now automatically added to new templates ( 50747)
• Templates with piped links now display correctly when you alter them ( 50801)
• If your edit token expires, you're now informed of it ( 50424).

  You still won't be able to save - that's due to be fixed on Monday :).

More on Monday, I suspect. Hope you have a good weekend :). I should also have some news about the IP launch pretty soon. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 13:14, 12 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Hey Benzband; hope you had a decent weekend :). We've got a pile of patches, some of which went out on Monday, some yesterday:

• If you insert wikitext such as links or section headers, you get a notice in the top right corner (over the save button). It doesn't go away until click, though once dismissed you don't get another one that edit. ( 49820)
• If your edit token expires, VE fetches a new one for you so you can save. ( 50424)
• If the page is empty of content but does have something non-content (like a category or an HTML comment), VE no longer crashes on load - ( 50289)
• sub tags are no longer removed (( 49873)
• If you type at the end of links, they now extend
• Templates now only take a single click to insert
• Clear annotations clears links ( 50461)
• The link inspector stays open when you click to another item ( 50895)
• Typing after multi-byte characters no longer creats pawn icons ( 51140)
• Resizing thumbnails that have a default size set now works ( 50645)
• References made by tag:ref now display properly ( bugzilla:50978)
• The VE is integrated with the spam blacklist ( 50826)
• Feedbacl link goes to the right language ( bugzilla:47730)

There are a lot more improvements coming, but that's it for Monday and Tuesday. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 08:17, 17 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Hey Benzband. The newest updates:

• Links now don't extend over space/punctuation/workbreaks when you type ( bugzilla:51463)
• Users with the "minoredit" preference set get working functionality ( bugzilla:51515)
• You can tab to buttons in dialogs, including the save dialog ( bugzilla:50047)
• We now show the <newarticletext> (or <newarticletextanon>) message as an edit notice ( bugzilla:51459)
• You can scroll dialog panels like in transclusions' templates' parameter listings ( bugzilla:51739)
• Templates that only create meta-data and no display content at all (like Template:Use dmy dates) now can't be deleted accidentally or deliberately, but still don't show up ( bugzilla:51322)
• FlaggedRevisions integration ( bugzilla:49699)
• Edit summary will get the section title pre-added if you launched from a section edit link ( bugzilla:50872)

Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC) reply

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day

Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.

Quality

Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

Is more content needed?

Headings

Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

Images

Is the number of illustrative images about right?

Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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