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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.
Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.
The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design ( T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor ( T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs ( T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.
Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once ( T78234).
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace ( T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.
We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.
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![]() A Sicilian
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Hi Quenhitran I hope you are well. I did some research on "Bill D'Arcy" -- the entry asked for more information on this person which I researched with great difficulty. The case is complicated. But I listed and have secondary sources for the story since his release from jail. I can give you more detail but all I can say is all my sources are publicly available and I only reported that which was factual. I have never been to dispute resolution before - and maybe I won't have to - as this person may be just a crank. But he took out the bulk of the article out with an assertion that I did not have sources and there was "possible bias" -( I am interested in his case but I am not biased) just like that. He is perfectly free to research and put in his own findings. I put the whole lot back. Have you any advice to give me? With best wishes, Gladiator Citizen Gladiator-Citizen ( talk) 05:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi there! It's been about three weeks since you acknowledged that you would be reviewing my GA of Flynn Rider, but I have yet to see any comments on the article's talk page. I just wanted to know how things are going? Please don't feel pressured to rush in any way; a steady, slow, thorough review is better than a quick, brash one. Thanks!-- Changedforbetter ( talk) 15:30, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
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Mongol Empire in the 13th century
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{{!}}
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[2]Software changes this week
☀
(Sun) character. This is now fixed.
[3]thumb
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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.
Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.
The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design ( T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor ( T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs ( T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.
Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once ( T78234).
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace ( T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.
We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.
Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
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Empire Field,
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Hi Quenhitran I hope you are well. I did some research on "Bill D'Arcy" -- the entry asked for more information on this person which I researched with great difficulty. The case is complicated. But I listed and have secondary sources for the story since his release from jail. I can give you more detail but all I can say is all my sources are publicly available and I only reported that which was factual. I have never been to dispute resolution before - and maybe I won't have to - as this person may be just a crank. But he took out the bulk of the article out with an assertion that I did not have sources and there was "possible bias" -( I am interested in his case but I am not biased) just like that. He is perfectly free to research and put in his own findings. I put the whole lot back. Have you any advice to give me? With best wishes, Gladiator Citizen Gladiator-Citizen ( talk) 05:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
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Trailer Trash is a US derogatory term for poor people living in
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caravans. It appears that these trailer trash happen to live on a
trailer park.
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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there! It's been about three weeks since you acknowledged that you would be reviewing my GA of Flynn Rider, but I have yet to see any comments on the article's talk page. I just wanted to know how things are going? Please don't feel pressured to rush in any way; a steady, slow, thorough review is better than a quick, brash one. Thanks!-- Changedforbetter ( talk) 15:30, 3 March 2015 (UTC)