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![]() Hydroelectric dams use
hydropower to generate electricity
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The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was
Cas Liber (
submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on
Corona Borealis and
Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.
Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.
The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) 16:51, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation. Legobot ( talk) 00:06, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
![]() The
food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse
businesses that supply much of the food and
food energy consumed by the
world population.
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![]() Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being
deep fried.
Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the
North Pole, the northern
polar ice cap on
Earth
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![]()
Chocolate most commonly comes in dark (bottom), milk (middle), and white (top) varieties
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Please note that Personality is also an article for improvement for week 22, 2015. Thank you.
![]() The term
Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight
automobile with
off road capabilities and sparse bodywork.
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Yes (band). Legobot ( talk) 00:04, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.
Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.
The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector ( T98085).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter ( T70425).
Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter ( T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter ( T53049).
The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
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![]() The amounts of
fat types in selected foods
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A
party in celebration of the Chinese Year of the Ox at a restaruant
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Template:Factor has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Sjoerd de Bruin
(talk)
12:03, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Mecca is regarded as the
holiest city in the religion of
Islam. Pictured is the
Masjid al-Haram during
Hajj, 2007.
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![]() An example of an
igloo
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A
farmhouse (bottom) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland
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Archive 5 | ← | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | → | Archive 15 |
![]() Hydroelectric dams use
hydropower to generate electricity
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Geography of Niger • Aerophone Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:08, 27 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (US stations). Legobot ( talk) 00:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Ypnypn.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Hydropower • Geography of Niger Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 00:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • |
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The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was
Cas Liber (
submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on
Corona Borealis and
Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.
Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.
The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) 16:51, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation. Legobot ( talk) 00:06, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
![]() The
food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse
businesses that supply much of the food and
food energy consumed by the
world population.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:07, 11 May 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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![]() Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being
deep fried.
Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the
North Pole, the northern
polar ice cap on
Earth
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Food industry • Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT ( talk) 01:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC) • |
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Rick Schwartz. Legobot ( talk) 00:10, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
![]()
Chocolate most commonly comes in dark (bottom), milk (middle), and white (top) varieties
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Deep frying • Food industry • Home appliance Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:49, 25 May 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Please note that Personality is also an article for improvement for week 22, 2015. Thank you.
![]() The term
Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight
automobile with
off road capabilities and sparse bodywork.
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Types of chocolate • Deep frying • Food industry Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:18, 1 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Yes (band). Legobot ( talk) 00:04, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.
Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.
The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector ( T98085).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter ( T70425).
Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter ( T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter ( T53049).
The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:31, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Somalis. Legobot ( talk) 00:06, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Ypnypn.
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Sport • Buggy (automobile) • Types of chocolate Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:13, 15 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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![]() The amounts of
fat types in selected foods
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Nightlife • Sport • Buggy (automobile) Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:07, 22 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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A
party in celebration of the Chinese Year of the Ox at a restaruant
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Fat • Nightlife • Sport Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:07, 29 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Ludwig Wittgenstein. Legobot ( talk) 00:09, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Template:Factor has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Sjoerd de Bruin
(talk)
12:03, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Mecca is regarded as the
holiest city in the religion of
Islam. Pictured is the
Masjid al-Haram during
Hajj, 2007.
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Party • Fat • Nightlife Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT ( talk) 18:00, 6 July 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Tony Abbott. Legobot ( talk) 00:03, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Ypnypn.
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Hello, Ypnypn.
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sydney/Railway stations. Legobot ( talk) 00:04, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
![]() An example of an
igloo
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Dessert • Kayaking • Holiest sites in Islam Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: Northamerica1000 ( talk) 00:25, 27 July 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Portal talk:Current events. Legobot ( talk) 00:07, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
A
farmhouse (bottom) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Igloo • Dessert • Kayaking Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:18, 3 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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