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Someone suggested at the Village Pump that I boldly create Wikipedia:Extant Organizations/Noticeboard, a noticeboard to discuss articles about organizations that may be subject to non-neutral editing. Basically it's the corporate version of BLPN, where both adverts and attack pages can be brought to the community for broader scrutiny. Except this board does not currently relate to a specific policy like BLPN does, except NPOV, V, etc. (though it could refer to this essay I wrote or something). You participated in the prior village pump discussion that led to consensus for Template:COI editnotice, which is now widely used. Although this noticeboard is not COI-related, I thought you might have an interest in this as well, in whether the noticeboard should be kept and/or in participating in it generally. CorporateM ( Talk) 18:36, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Books & Bytes recipients: The Wikipedia Library has been expanding rapidly and we need some help! We currently have 10 signups for free account access open and several more in the works... In order to help with those signups, distribute access codes, and manage accounts we'll need 2-3 more Account Coordinators.
It takes about an hour to get up and running and then only takes a couple hours per week, flexible depending upon your schedule and routine. If you're interested in helping out, please drop a note in the next week at
my talk page or shoot me an email at: jorlowitzgmail.com. Thanks and cheers, Jake
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Thank you for helping out and participating at the RBMS edit-a-thon this weekend. Myself, and Las Vegas' own Vegas Vic hope you come back real soon! Merrilee ( talk) 19:55, 1 July 2014 (UTC) |
I was sorry to miss your talk. Will you be posting any slides to slideshare.com or elsewhere? TeriEmbrey ( talk) 14:44, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.
note: you will not receive future editions of this newsletter unless you * sign up*; you received this version because you identify as a member of WikiProject MedicineSpotlight - Simplified article translation
Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.
Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:
We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.
What's happening?
I've ( CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.
For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.
There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as
Dutch,
Polish, and
Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not
MEDRS (
Polish,
German,
Romanian,
Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.
Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.
Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [69]
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If you are receiving this newsletter without having signed up, it is because you have signed up as a member of the Translation Taskforce, or Wiki Project Med on meta. 22:32, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I have undergone SUL rename to AmritasyaPutra since I applied to WP:OUP. Now, In the email signup I gave my new username only. The email address remains the same. Is this okay? Regards. The earlier username (Jyoti.mickey) is also (re)registered to me but I do not use it. -- AmritasyaPutra✍ 02:55, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
I want the above chapter (pages- 227, 230, 232, 235, 237, 241-242) for symphony six. These pages are not shown in the Google book preview of the book. I have tried WP:RX.-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 16:00, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
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To Ocaasi, thank you for your comments at Yahoo Health. Axl ¤ [Talk] 20:06, 21 July 2014 (UTC) |
By the way,
this is our rebuttal to Hasty & Gerber.
Axl ¤
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Hi,
Per the message on my talk page, if you're still needing an account coordinator for the library, I would be happy to help out.-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 00:20, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
You replied to a note I left on User: SlimVirgin's talk about my loss of JSTOR access, and told me to expect an email whereby I could be reconnected. That email has arrived, requesting details of my username and email address – the latter surely redundant since they are emailing me? Anyhow, I have attempted to submit these details three times, each time receiving back the message "Resend details". I'm not given any indication as to why what I send is not acceptable. I badly need this access, as its lack is impeding work on several articles. Any advice? Thanks, Brianboulton ( talk) 14:16, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Similar to CongressEdits. -- 94.201.57.87 ( talk) 16:29, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Jake, FYI - I've been accepted at the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Montana State University Library and have been working with Brian Rossman and others there on potential projects. I was granted complete access to online library resources a couple of weeks ago. I will be maintaining an accounting of contributions that benefited from access to library resources here: User:Mike Cline/Wikipedia visiting scholar/contributions. Additionally, just for fun, I mocked up a userbox:
Feel free to improve and expropriate for the Wikipedia Library if desired. Thanks for the opportunities. You all are doing great work. --
Mike Cline (
talk)
14:51, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
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My Wikipedia Library sub to newspapers.com doesn't seem to actually get me anything. When I click on an article, it urges me to get a paid subscription, but doesn't allow me to access the article. What might I be doing wrong? -- Orange Mike | Talk 23:16, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear Ocaasi, me and my friend are trying to translate and bring in TWA game to Telugu. Please help us.-- Rahmanuddin Shaik ( talk) 13:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi
Ocaasi, I am localizing the TWA into Telugu. I just got struck at the
first page of the journey. Unable to get the pop-up. Could you please help in this task.
Praveen Grao (
talk)
07:46, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
My biggest tip is to be very careful with your code. Every character matters. The most common errors are:
Update: Extension:GuidedTour is not enabled on Te wiki. Could you help us in enabling the same? Should we be raising a bug about it? Or does it require us to request some WMF staff member to help? -- Rahmanuddin Shaik ( talk) 13:12, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
sir, I have watched it for a long time, and I think that this is a right time to make it into other wikis. I may help you to move it to zh.wikipedia/zh.wikivoyage etc. How do you think? -- Gabrielchihonglee ( talk) 14:03, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.
The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.
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tags) are now made through the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, including the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Insert" menu. The "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip⧽" is still added via the "Insert" menu.The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.
The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30.
Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at the VisualEditor feedback page or by joining the office hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).
If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at Meta for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
I am, of course, very grateful for being granted both Questia and HighBeam Research accounts, and for all the hard work required of yourself and other Wikipedia Library project managers, as well as the support people on the partner side, for making this possible. Alas, your work is not done ;)
I use ONE carefully maintained email account for all Wikipedia and academic purposes and can't be bothered with using a separate email address just to access ONE service. When the email address is the only allowed login name, as for both Questia and Highbeam, I would be always confused if it weren't the one email I use for all research by default. It might not be a big deal if the login name were not the email address, but it is. I can't remember trivia like a one-off address I must use for a Web service that isn't very serviceable.
If they can't figure it out, I'll not be able to use their service. I'm not opening another vector of spam because they can't get it together several years after Cenage merger. Thousands of users of Questia must also have HighBeam accounts. Please make the following clear to Highbeam Wikipedia customer support liaison. I'll be happy to help them troubleshoot and post results for the benefit of many others in the same situation.
Ideally:
Acceptable:
Not Worth the Bother:
See (and please revise, if/when solution found): Wikipedia:HighBeam/Support
Paulscrawl ( talk) 20:13, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Mentioned you here, your comments are welcome too. Shyamal ( talk) 07:51, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled " DJ Many".
The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply {{db-afc}}
or {{db-g13}}
code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia
mainspace.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/DJ Many}}
, paste it in the edit box at
this link, click "Save page", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo ( talk) 13:25, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
This ought to be updated. Chris Troutman ( talk) 23:43, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Just a note from someone with an issue..
Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse/Host_lounge#Wikipedia_adventure_.27game.27_or_tutorial.3F
Thanks! heather walls ( talk) 23:12, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
by
CFCF
During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!
At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!
We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!
Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.
-- CFCF 🍌 ( email) 13:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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I've been editing WP for a while, but just tried out your Wikipedia Adventure in advance of doing a presentation to librarians on getting involved in WP. That's a great tutorial and I'll be sharing. Thanks! Hamaxides ( talk) 18:54, 6 October 2014 (UTC) |
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Wow, I just read about TWL's WMF contract funding… Congratulations! Amazing, amazing work. It has been so great watching the project develop and grow. Proud of you, and happy for you. :) --- Another Believer ( Talk) 05:04, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.
With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.
See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.
There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go ( bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that caused replaced some categories with a link to the system message, MediaWiki:Badtitletext ( bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.
Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.
Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references ( bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early ( bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed ( bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.
A tool for editing TemplateData will be deployed to more Wikipedias soon. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.
VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect
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Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one ( bug 60358).
Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir
attribute but no lang
set (
bug 69955).
The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.
The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.
In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.
At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community has been posted here. Thank you all for your work.
VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.
Give feedback on VisualEditor at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. To help with translations, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre at Meta. Thank you!
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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
There is an issue with The Wikipedia Adventure, since it is using some deprecated (then later removed) functionality. This is unrelated to the GuidedTour changes, but rather due to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118733/ . The 'ok' field no longer works with get/post/ajax calls. Instead, you have to use the returned Promise. I've tweaked the code accordingly. This replacement needs to be done for all definitions of sendMessage since currently it is not a library:
function sendMessage( targetPage, msgPage, linkTo ) {
var api = new mw.Api();
api.get( {
'action' : 'query',
'titles' : msgPage,
'prop' : 'revisions|info',
'intoken' : 'edit',
'rvprop' : 'content',
'indexpageids' : 1
} ).done( function (result) {
result = result.query;
var page = result.pagesresult.pageids0]];
var text = page.revisions0]['*'];
api.post( {
'action' : 'edit',
'title' : targetPage,
'appendtext' : "\n" + text,
'summary' : 'New Message (simulated automatically as part of [[WP:The Wikipedia Adventure|The Wikipedia Adventure]])',
'token' : page.edittoken
} ).done( function () {
window.location.href = linkTo;
} );
} );
}
As part of this, I've also changed it to not be global (it doesn't need to be, so it's better to avoid it). That shouldn't affect anything unless you're explicitly writing window.sendMessage . If so, change it to sendMessage.
When reply to this, please ping me so I'll get a notification. After this is fixed, I'll continue testing the first level, so please let me know when it's done. You can see my status at https://trello.com/c/zX0PEzEl/407-test-backwards-compatibility-of-wikipedia-adventure-tour-with-updated-guidedtour . Mattflaschen (WMF) ( talk) 19:26, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
shouldSkip: function () {return mw.config.get( 'wgUserId' ) !== null;
. However it is not doing that... //7
title: 'Account Creation',
description: '<br><div align="left">[[File:TWA_guide_left_top.png|link=]]</div>Creating an account gives you lots of neat benefits. Go for it.<br><br>',
onShow: gt.parseDescription,
overlay: false,
closeOnClickOutside: false,
buttons: {
name: '<big>←</big>',
action: 'externalLink',
url: mw.util.getUrl( 'Wikipedia:TWA/1/Start' ) + '?tour=twa1&step=6'
} , {
name: 'Have account, need to login',
action: 'externalLink',
url: mw.util.getUrl( 'Special:UserLogin' ) + '?tour=twa1&step=7'
} , {
name: 'Register!',
action: 'externalLink',
url: mw.util.getUrl( 'Special:UserLogin/signup' ) + '?tour=twa1&step=7'
} ],
allowAutomaticOkay: false,
shouldSkip: function () {
return mw.config.get( 'wgUserId' ) !== null;
}
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keyword for
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indicator>
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Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Login and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings in the upper-right corner, to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.
It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.
The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available in Mobile Web.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.
The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias next week, and eventually at the English Wikipedia.
The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar's menus are now shown in the menus. VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience / Design group. The appearance of dialogs has already changed in one Mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.)
Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search program could not find the page. A link inside a template, to a local page that does not exist, will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to a error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [273] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.
The tool for quickly editing TemplateData will be deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool is already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common response for that parameter. The autovalue can be easily overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.
In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.
Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in tables will appear next Wednesday. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be possible later. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus will be hidden behind a "More" item, such as "underlining" in the styling menu. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.
The user guide will be updated soon to add information about editing tables. The translations for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.
You can influence VisualEditor's design. Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.
If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Thank you!
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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).
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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:40, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
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Any reason for this protection [314]? - DePiep ( talk) 22:57, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:
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Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).
Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan
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You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple <blockquote>
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Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1. " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)
The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
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Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi - what is involved in being a research co-ordinator on Wikipedia Library? I'd like more information, please. I'm a health sciences librarian. Sharkli ( talk - contribs) 13:38, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi, I'm requesting a deletion of my user page. Thnx & Cheers! — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 04:48, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
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☀
(Sun) character. This is now fixed.
[321]thumb
option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar.
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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Ocaasi. It looks like Laura has been on Wikipedia since at least 2005 (=very young), see this and this. Considering Bonadea's comments in the SPI alone — "mainly edits to userspace: to prettify user pages, add nonsensical text or random userboxes, or add misleading templates", "using Wikipedia as a medium for creative self-expression, posting nonsensical/incomprehensible text and templates" — there's little real doubt that it's the same person. But do you think there's any point in indeffing the present account as a sock? I'm thinking possibly not, as there's in any case no way of preventing the individual from creating more accounts ad libitum. (Are you watching, Drmies? Any ideas?) Bishonen | talk 13:25, 18 January 2015 (UTC).
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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to comment. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 16:49, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
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Someone suggested at the Village Pump that I boldly create Wikipedia:Extant Organizations/Noticeboard, a noticeboard to discuss articles about organizations that may be subject to non-neutral editing. Basically it's the corporate version of BLPN, where both adverts and attack pages can be brought to the community for broader scrutiny. Except this board does not currently relate to a specific policy like BLPN does, except NPOV, V, etc. (though it could refer to this essay I wrote or something). You participated in the prior village pump discussion that led to consensus for Template:COI editnotice, which is now widely used. Although this noticeboard is not COI-related, I thought you might have an interest in this as well, in whether the noticeboard should be kept and/or in participating in it generally. CorporateM ( Talk) 18:36, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
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as a
magic word to produce the
pipe character, for instance for use in
tables.
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Hi Books & Bytes recipients: The Wikipedia Library has been expanding rapidly and we need some help! We currently have 10 signups for free account access open and several more in the works... In order to help with those signups, distribute access codes, and manage accounts we'll need 2-3 more Account Coordinators.
It takes about an hour to get up and running and then only takes a couple hours per week, flexible depending upon your schedule and routine. If you're interested in helping out, please drop a note in the next week at
my talk page or shoot me an email at: jorlowitzgmail.com. Thanks and cheers, Jake
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Thank you for helping out and participating at the RBMS edit-a-thon this weekend. Myself, and Las Vegas' own Vegas Vic hope you come back real soon! Merrilee ( talk) 19:55, 1 July 2014 (UTC) |
I was sorry to miss your talk. Will you be posting any slides to slideshare.com or elsewhere? TeriEmbrey ( talk) 14:44, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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<ref></ref>
tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}
.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}}
more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}}
to hide it.
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07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.
note: you will not receive future editions of this newsletter unless you * sign up*; you received this version because you identify as a member of WikiProject MedicineSpotlight - Simplified article translation
Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.
Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:
We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.
What's happening?
I've ( CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.
For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.
There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as
Dutch,
Polish, and
Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not
MEDRS (
Polish,
German,
Romanian,
Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.
Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.
Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [69]
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If you are receiving this newsletter without having signed up, it is because you have signed up as a member of the Translation Taskforce, or Wiki Project Med on meta. 22:32, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I have undergone SUL rename to AmritasyaPutra since I applied to WP:OUP. Now, In the email signup I gave my new username only. The email address remains the same. Is this okay? Regards. The earlier username (Jyoti.mickey) is also (re)registered to me but I do not use it. -- AmritasyaPutra✍ 02:55, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
I want the above chapter (pages- 227, 230, 232, 235, 237, 241-242) for symphony six. These pages are not shown in the Google book preview of the book. I have tried WP:RX.-- Skr15081997 ( talk) 16:00, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
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To Ocaasi, thank you for your comments at Yahoo Health. Axl ¤ [Talk] 20:06, 21 July 2014 (UTC) |
By the way,
this is our rebuttal to Hasty & Gerber.
Axl ¤
[Talk]
20:06, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
Per the message on my talk page, if you're still needing an account coordinator for the library, I would be happy to help out.-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 00:20, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
You replied to a note I left on User: SlimVirgin's talk about my loss of JSTOR access, and told me to expect an email whereby I could be reconnected. That email has arrived, requesting details of my username and email address – the latter surely redundant since they are emailing me? Anyhow, I have attempted to submit these details three times, each time receiving back the message "Resend details". I'm not given any indication as to why what I send is not acceptable. I badly need this access, as its lack is impeding work on several articles. Any advice? Thanks, Brianboulton ( talk) 14:16, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Similar to CongressEdits. -- 94.201.57.87 ( talk) 16:29, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Jake, FYI - I've been accepted at the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Montana State University Library and have been working with Brian Rossman and others there on potential projects. I was granted complete access to online library resources a couple of weeks ago. I will be maintaining an accounting of contributions that benefited from access to library resources here: User:Mike Cline/Wikipedia visiting scholar/contributions. Additionally, just for fun, I mocked up a userbox:
Feel free to improve and expropriate for the Wikipedia Library if desired. Thanks for the opportunities. You all are doing great work. --
Mike Cline (
talk)
14:51, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 7, June-July 2014
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The Interior (
talk ·
contribs),
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talk ·
contribs),
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My Wikipedia Library sub to newspapers.com doesn't seem to actually get me anything. When I click on an article, it urges me to get a paid subscription, but doesn't allow me to access the article. What might I be doing wrong? -- Orange Mike | Talk 23:16, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear Ocaasi, me and my friend are trying to translate and bring in TWA game to Telugu. Please help us.-- Rahmanuddin Shaik ( talk) 13:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi
Ocaasi, I am localizing the TWA into Telugu. I just got struck at the
first page of the journey. Unable to get the pop-up. Could you please help in this task.
Praveen Grao (
talk)
07:46, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
My biggest tip is to be very careful with your code. Every character matters. The most common errors are:
Update: Extension:GuidedTour is not enabled on Te wiki. Could you help us in enabling the same? Should we be raising a bug about it? Or does it require us to request some WMF staff member to help? -- Rahmanuddin Shaik ( talk) 13:12, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
sir, I have watched it for a long time, and I think that this is a right time to make it into other wikis. I may help you to move it to zh.wikipedia/zh.wikivoyage etc. How do you think? -- Gabrielchihonglee ( talk) 14:03, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.
The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.
<ref>
tags) are now made through the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, including the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Insert" menu. The "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip⧽" is still added via the "Insert" menu.The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.
The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30.
Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at the VisualEditor feedback page or by joining the office hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).
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I am, of course, very grateful for being granted both Questia and HighBeam Research accounts, and for all the hard work required of yourself and other Wikipedia Library project managers, as well as the support people on the partner side, for making this possible. Alas, your work is not done ;)
I use ONE carefully maintained email account for all Wikipedia and academic purposes and can't be bothered with using a separate email address just to access ONE service. When the email address is the only allowed login name, as for both Questia and Highbeam, I would be always confused if it weren't the one email I use for all research by default. It might not be a big deal if the login name were not the email address, but it is. I can't remember trivia like a one-off address I must use for a Web service that isn't very serviceable.
If they can't figure it out, I'll not be able to use their service. I'm not opening another vector of spam because they can't get it together several years after Cenage merger. Thousands of users of Questia must also have HighBeam accounts. Please make the following clear to Highbeam Wikipedia customer support liaison. I'll be happy to help them troubleshoot and post results for the benefit of many others in the same situation.
Ideally:
Acceptable:
Not Worth the Bother:
See (and please revise, if/when solution found): Wikipedia:HighBeam/Support
Paulscrawl ( talk) 20:13, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Mentioned you here, your comments are welcome too. Shyamal ( talk) 07:51, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled " DJ Many".
The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply {{db-afc}}
or {{db-g13}}
code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia
mainspace.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/DJ Many}}
, paste it in the edit box at
this link, click "Save page", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo ( talk) 13:25, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
This ought to be updated. Chris Troutman ( talk) 23:43, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Just a note from someone with an issue..
Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse/Host_lounge#Wikipedia_adventure_.27game.27_or_tutorial.3F
Thanks! heather walls ( talk) 23:12, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
by
CFCF
During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!
At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!
We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!
Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.
-- CFCF 🍌 ( email) 13:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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I've been editing WP for a while, but just tried out your Wikipedia Adventure in advance of doing a presentation to librarians on getting involved in WP. That's a great tutorial and I'll be sharing. Thanks! Hamaxides ( talk) 18:54, 6 October 2014 (UTC) |
Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
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The Interior (
talk ·
contribs),
Ocaasi (
talk ·
contribs),
Sadads (
talk ·
contribs)
MediaWiki message delivery (
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04:51, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Wow, I just read about TWL's WMF contract funding… Congratulations! Amazing, amazing work. It has been so great watching the project develop and grow. Proud of you, and happy for you. :) --- Another Believer ( Talk) 05:04, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.
With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.
See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.
There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go ( bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that caused replaced some categories with a link to the system message, MediaWiki:Badtitletext ( bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.
Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.
Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references ( bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early ( bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed ( bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.
A tool for editing TemplateData will be deployed to more Wikipedias soon. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.
VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect
or mw-disambig
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Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one ( bug 60358).
Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir
attribute but no lang
set (
bug 69955).
The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.
The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.
In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.
At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community has been posted here. Thank you all for your work.
VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.
Give feedback on VisualEditor at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. To help with translations, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre at Meta. Thank you!
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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
There is an issue with The Wikipedia Adventure, since it is using some deprecated (then later removed) functionality. This is unrelated to the GuidedTour changes, but rather due to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118733/ . The 'ok' field no longer works with get/post/ajax calls. Instead, you have to use the returned Promise. I've tweaked the code accordingly. This replacement needs to be done for all definitions of sendMessage since currently it is not a library:
function sendMessage( targetPage, msgPage, linkTo ) {
var api = new mw.Api();
api.get( {
'action' : 'query',
'titles' : msgPage,
'prop' : 'revisions|info',
'intoken' : 'edit',
'rvprop' : 'content',
'indexpageids' : 1
} ).done( function (result) {
result = result.query;
var page = result.pagesresult.pageids0]];
var text = page.revisions0]['*'];
api.post( {
'action' : 'edit',
'title' : targetPage,
'appendtext' : "\n" + text,
'summary' : 'New Message (simulated automatically as part of [[WP:The Wikipedia Adventure|The Wikipedia Adventure]])',
'token' : page.edittoken
} ).done( function () {
window.location.href = linkTo;
} );
} );
}
As part of this, I've also changed it to not be global (it doesn't need to be, so it's better to avoid it). That shouldn't affect anything unless you're explicitly writing window.sendMessage . If so, change it to sendMessage.
When reply to this, please ping me so I'll get a notification. After this is fixed, I'll continue testing the first level, so please let me know when it's done. You can see my status at https://trello.com/c/zX0PEzEl/407-test-backwards-compatibility-of-wikipedia-adventure-tour-with-updated-guidedtour . Mattflaschen (WMF) ( talk) 19:26, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
shouldSkip: function () {return mw.config.get( 'wgUserId' ) !== null;
. However it is not doing that... //7
title: 'Account Creation',
description: '<br><div align="left">[[File:TWA_guide_left_top.png|link=]]</div>Creating an account gives you lots of neat benefits. Go for it.<br><br>',
onShow: gt.parseDescription,
overlay: false,
closeOnClickOutside: false,
buttons: {
name: '<big>←</big>',
action: 'externalLink',
url: mw.util.getUrl( 'Wikipedia:TWA/1/Start' ) + '?tour=twa1&step=6'
} , {
name: 'Have account, need to login',
action: 'externalLink',
url: mw.util.getUrl( 'Special:UserLogin' ) + '?tour=twa1&step=7'
} , {
name: 'Register!',
action: 'externalLink',
url: mw.util.getUrl( 'Special:UserLogin/signup' ) + '?tour=twa1&step=7'
} ],
allowAutomaticOkay: false,
shouldSkip: function () {
return mw.config.get( 'wgUserId' ) !== null;
}
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Thanks for your work on the Wikipedia Adventure! I really enjoyed it, and I hope that others will also use it as a starting point to become great editors and content creators! Thanks again! Stevenzc ( talk) 03:44, 28 October 2014 (UTC) |
Greetings, thank you for signing up for the Structured Data newsletter and its first edition. With this newsletter, the Structured data team plans on keeping you informed of technical progress, events, and communications to talk about the project, and continued information on how you can participate. This newsletter will be sent approximately every two weeks, and future editions will be translatable prior to publication. If you're new to Wikidata and want more information about how it works in relation to Wikimedia Commons, you can read an introduction to Wikidata for Commons being drafted.
There will be much more information and activities around the proposal to develop structured data on Wikimedia Commons. This project is a major undertaking and an important step as the chief provider, repository, and curator of media for Wikimedia projects.
Thank you for your participation in such an extensive project, let me know if you're interested in participating in this newsletter. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 04:43, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team 23:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Login and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings in the upper-right corner, to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.
It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.
The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available in Mobile Web.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.
The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias next week, and eventually at the English Wikipedia.
The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar's menus are now shown in the menus. VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience / Design group. The appearance of dialogs has already changed in one Mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.)
Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search program could not find the page. A link inside a template, to a local page that does not exist, will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to a error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [273] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.
The tool for quickly editing TemplateData will be deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool is already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common response for that parameter. The autovalue can be easily overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.
In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.
Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in tables will appear next Wednesday. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be possible later. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus will be hidden behind a "More" item, such as "underlining" in the styling menu. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.
The user guide will be updated soon to add information about editing tables. The translations for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.
You can influence VisualEditor's design. Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.
If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Thank you!
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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
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Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:40, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
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Any reason for this protection [314]? - DePiep ( talk) 22:57, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:
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Hi - what is involved in being a research co-ordinator on Wikipedia Library? I'd like more information, please. I'm a health sciences librarian. Sharkli ( talk - contribs) 13:38, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Ocaasi, I'm requesting a deletion of my user page. Thnx & Cheers! — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 04:48, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Ocaasi. It looks like Laura has been on Wikipedia since at least 2005 (=very young), see this and this. Considering Bonadea's comments in the SPI alone — "mainly edits to userspace: to prettify user pages, add nonsensical text or random userboxes, or add misleading templates", "using Wikipedia as a medium for creative self-expression, posting nonsensical/incomprehensible text and templates" — there's little real doubt that it's the same person. But do you think there's any point in indeffing the present account as a sock? I'm thinking possibly not, as there's in any case no way of preventing the individual from creating more accounts ad libitum. (Are you watching, Drmies? Any ideas?) Bishonen | talk 13:25, 18 January 2015 (UTC).
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An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to comment. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 16:49, 1 February 2015 (UTC)