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I have replied to your post in the RfC on Caste. Please respond. (See Talk:Caste.) Fowler&fowler «Talk» 17:20, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Please could you move most of the content of User:OrangesRyellow to your sandbox or some other sub-page? Everything from the sentence beginning "This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2012." has the appearance of being a draft article and it is inappropriate to have such things on the main user page. Please take a look at Wikipedia:User pages#What may I not have in my user pages.3F. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 01:02, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi OrangesRyellow. I moved the article to User:OrangesRyellow/Sandbox. Keeping it on your user page is inappropriate but you can use your sandbox to build on the article if you like. -- regentspark ( comment) 13:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Love your explanation: "these two fatalities in Pakistan can be neglected". I thought they were interesting, but ok. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortibus ( talk • contribs) 02:15, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
Persecution of Hazara people in Quetta. Users are expected to
collaborate with others, to avoid editing
disruptively, and to
try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
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If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Sitush ( talk) 01:08, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
I am trying to expand Women in Chad that you created. Since you have created the article I suppose that you'd be interested. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 03:40, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
I would like your opinion and appropriate action on this edit. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 02:48, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Similarly, various concerns have been raised regarding your contributions. As with Yogesh, it is far from being the case that I follow everything you do but there is enough reasonable doubt & actual practical outcomes to counter any charge of stalking etc, plus our paths will in any event overlap fairly frequently both in articles and via user talk pages that we both watch/contribute to. I think you were told this by someone else only a few days ago - Qwyrxian or Drmies or someone like that.
You are already contributing to many articles that I have not looked at. I am not going out of my way to do so either. I would strongly advise you against a trip to ANI any time soon, though. You've been mentioned twice there since your arrival in September and on neither occasion did the outcome favour you: that is exactly a part of the pattern that culminated in Yogesh getting into so much hot water. He had too many visits and ended up on the "wrong side" every time - ANI is a fairly high-profile place and having your name popping up there frequently in such circumstances is not going to help your cause. Nor will appealing to Jimbo, I suspect. But, of course, that is entirely up to you. However, not rushing to the defence of Yogesh is probably a good move: defend him when you are sure but not otherwise, else you might end up being another MangoWong, ThisThat2011 or any one of a number of other acolytes who have fallen by the wayside. And that would be a shame because I have no doubt that you have much to offer. - Sitush ( talk) 03:47, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, just felt that you should strike out few sentences here. Just an opinion. -- sarvajna ( talk) 06:44, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Reflect on the "use" of your responses , have you heard of being forced out of the ring with an uneven enforcement of civility or selective application /amnesia of rules it happens . :) Intothefire ( talk) 12:39, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Have you ever interacted with JanetteDoe before or are you just being a shit-stirrer? FWIW, see User talk:Dennis Brown - another admin. - Sitush ( talk) 12:35, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm still waiting to see your response regarding past interactions, and I know I'm not going to get a response to the obvious other point. It is probably best to stick to your own battles and not get drawn into the crap that surrounds your on-wiki friends. One is topic banned for a reason and is consistently proven to be wrong even in areas where their ban does not apply; another refuses to take their complaints to WP:ANI because they know they'll "lose" (they've said as much somewhere, IIRC, arguing that ANI is corrupt/biassed). Getting yourself involved is asking for trouble and, believe me, you would not be the first to either burn-out or be blocked for blindly supporting those people. Just get on with building the encyclopedia and leave the politics to people who seems often to have nothing better to do than promote religious, political and nationalist POVs all over the shop. FWIW, I quite often ignore situations where, for example, Malleus is in trouble yet again - I like the guy and I've met him but that doesn't mean that I have to hang off his shirt-tails or come to his defence on every occasion. - Sitush ( talk) 13:58, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
I would appreciate it if you would clarify at ANI why Doncram is not at fault for issues detailed at "Doncram at lists of various churches", including ownership, personal attacks, edit-warring based on carelessness, and harassing other editors into months-long departures from the project. Nyttend ( talk) 20:55, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
You appear to be confusing "verifiable" with "verified", and probably also "contentious" with "benign". Please do not rip up articles without at least doing a simple web search & take note of what Dr Blofeld said in response to your query of a few days ago. You removed a perfectly good source and some easily verifiable info: that is not a clean up but wanton destruction. If you cannot edit Pakistan-related articles neutrally & sensibly then perhaps best not to touch them at all. Thanks. Sitush ( talk) 08:22, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
I've just rebuilt Alhamra Arts Council using sources that you had removed from the article. I've also removed the tags: I have no idea why you were querying the notability of something that you presumably knew from your reading of the source had won a notable architectural prize, ie: the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Anyways, the complex seems notable to me but feel free to send it to WP:AFD if you must.
As a suggestion, if you remove copyvio or similar in future, it can be useful to retain the source even if that means placing it in an external links or further reading section. Similarly, sources that obviously have merit but you remove for some other reason might best be placed there. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 16:08, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
I offered a suggestion that I know has the support of sensible people. You can take or leave that suggestion but, either way, if you continue to demonstrate a lack of common sense then you can expect me to follow you around and fixing any poor contributions while the sources are not buried deep in history. I am sure that you do not want me on your back but if that is what it takes to protect the integrity of this project then it is what will happen. - Sitush ( talk) 12:23, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
If you were not saying that I had done something wrong, then perhaps I have misread you and there is no problem at all. From now on, I will leave a diff of deleted material on talk pages to make it easier for you or anyone who may want to recover anything from the material which I delete. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 14:56, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Your comment here of "admins are clearly engaging in racist behavior here" is completely unacceptable. Accusations of racism, sexism, or just about any kind of "ism" are not tolerated on this project; especially when there is nothing to verify such defamation. Quite frankly, had this been directed at an individual editor, you would most likely be blocked at this point. Please read No personal attacks and understand that this is something this project takes quite seriously. Any further attacks such as this will be most likely be met with block. — Ched : ? 07:40, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
I agree, there is too mcuh incivil beahvoir on wiki , see also on wikipedia bias https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.wikipedia/u4dJIwvCQc4 -- Nvihlhe ( talk) 16:10, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi OrangesRyellow -- thanks for the CB and your welcome re. Oxford sex gang and Telford sex gang. I'm not an expert Wikipedian, so make mistakes in formatting (and wikiquette). So clean-up would be appreciated. I'll try to add more to the articles in time. There's a lot of material, unfortunately, but so it goes at present in the UK. CurrentUK ( talk) 09:03, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
{{
unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. However, you should read the
guide to appealing blocks first. --
Boing! said Zebedee (
talk) 06:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)@YogeshKhandke. There was no provocation. So, why should I retaliate? And who am I supposed to be retaliating at without a provocation? There is no provocation-retaliation or anything like it. Please read my comment in question and subsequent comments. I have now clarified several times that I was not likening anyone to Nazis. Since I made that comment, I should know what I was saying. How can you guys know better than me about what I am saying? If you want an undertaking, I am happy to give an undertaking that I would not liken any user to a Nazi. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 10:00, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Can anyone please copy this over to ANI and also indicate that it is addressed to Boing!SaidZebedee. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 15:14, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
The word Nazi is used only when when one runs out of words or in exasperation. No one ought to take such comments seriously. That it was taken meant that it was found offensive. Being offended is the judgement of the recipient of the comment. It is not about what was meant but about what was perceived. I was once blocked for comparing the editing actions of one editor with that of the Norway bomber. It was unfortunate that such a comparison was taken literally, but it was. So I have a little understanding of what could get a person blocked and what ought to get the person unblocked. My opinion is that the most formal and neutral language possible in the situation ought to be used as the debates themselves are quite contentious. I am happy that you've done what it was necessary to get yourself unblocked. Drive safely and happy journey! Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 04:58, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
This is something that I have used several times but would like to repeat it again "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". Things might change.- sarvajna ( talk) 21:12, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
I am a bit busy nowadays, I am shifting from a country to another one. I will shortly have my flight. Then I will manage the diffs. You need not to worry about them. Fai zan 13:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
OrangesRyellow, that's a positively phrased and reasonable opposing comment you made, so thanks for the courtesy of a fair answer. I would say that there's a lot of admins you never see on ANI, though, and that's fine--much of the work has nothing to do with it. When I was admin K-stick ask me to do all kinds of little things that require the tool, and those are important too: cleaning up old sandboxes, moving uncontroversial articles, merging histories. Those kinds of things are easily done with a tool, and I just don't think that Kelapstick is going to get carried away from what he usually does. I hope his RfA is successful, and I am sure you won't be disappointed. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 18:36, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
"naturals" at adminning have which traits, exactly? ... aa: talk 09:11, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey OrangesRyellow
We just deployed another VisualEditor release; bugs fixed include:
Not specific bugs, but other things; cacheing is now improved, so people should stop seeing temporary breaking when the VisualEditor updates, and RTL support has received some patches. I hope this newsletter is helpful to people; I'll send out another one with the next deployment :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 10:20, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey OrangesRyellow! Another set of patches :). Today we have:
More on Monday, I suspect. Hope you have a good weekend :). I should also have some news about the IP launch pretty soon. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 13:29, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding me unblocking Pudeo. The thread is Bwilkins' response to my unblock of Pudeo. Thank you. -- tariqabjotu 22:41, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey OrangesRyellow; hope you had a decent weekend :). We've got a pile of patches, some of which went out on Monday, some yesterday:
There are a lot more improvements coming, but that's it for Monday and Tuesday. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 08:30, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to say that currently the Indian news search engine is working for me. Why don't you tell it to the user concerned that it doesn't for you? I think you should reconsider your edit on the project page. - Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 17:44, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey OrangesRyellow. The newest updates:
Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 22:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Perspective is everything. I wrote a civil comment in reply to what could be described as an uncivil response. I explained the reason for that edit. You then took it upon yourself to revert that change with a spurious edit reason - yes, people are allowed to remove what they like from their talk pages, but there is no rule that says it is wrong to respond to that civilly in an appropriate fashion. Essentially you have taken it upon yourself to censor a discussion which you have assumed that Sue would not like. So be it. I think that there is a big difference between someone removing a comment and hiding that comment and putting a derogatory characterisation to it. In doing that I believe that Sue left herself open to having that challenged.
Are you saying that you want a Wikipedia where sexual innuendo and abuse is considered the normal way of interacting with people and is acceptable? Don't you think it is reasonable to ask Sue to lead by example? We have to take it as tacitly accepted that she disagrees with that, but with your interference that's all we have.
I would like you to think about how you have interfered with a reasonable discussion and if you consider that my comments are inappropriate then so be it, but if you set aside Sue's characterisation of my comments as trolling and can see that they were meant constructively, then I would like to suggest that you revert your intervention and let people make their own mind up. Other than that, I'll let it drop. 94.169.24.206 ( talk) 15:58, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi OrangesRyellow, could I ask you to not to post any more comments on User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz? From my perspective, your comments appear to be unnecessarily confrontational. PhilKnight ( talk) 09:57, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
It's been almost two weeks since the last newsletter, and a lot of improvements have been made during that time. The main things that people have noticed are significant improvements to speed for typing into long pages ( T54012), scrolling ( T54014) and deleting ( T54013) on large pages. There have also been improvements to references, with the latest being support for list-defined references, which are <ref>s defined inside a <references> block ( T53741). Users of Opera 12 and higher have had their web browser removed from the browser black-list, mostly as a result of work by a volunteer developer ( T38000). Opera has not been fully white-listed yet, so these users will get an additional warning and request to report problems.
Significant changes were made to the user interface to de-emphasize VisualEditor. This has cut the use of VisualEditor by approximately one-third. You can read about these at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Updates/August 1, 2013, but they include:
There have also been many smaller fixes, including these:
Most of the Wikimedia Foundation staff is traveling this week and next, so no updates are expected until at least August 15th. If you're going to be in Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013, say hello to James Forrester, Philippe Beaudette, and the other members of the VisualEditor team.
As always, if you have questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:30, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Indians in Bangladesh, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Zayeem (talk) 16:51, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
I should have said thanks for your support sooner. ``` Buster Seven Talk 03:49, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
As you may know,
VisualEditor ("Edit beta") is currently available on the English Wikipedia only for registered editors who choose to enable it. Since you have made 50 or more edits with VisualEditor this year, I want to make sure that you know that you can enable VisualEditor (if you haven't already done so) by going to
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talk) 20:13, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
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
class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these in types of links can be created.
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.
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— Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 00:10, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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 [16] 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.
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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.
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— Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:41, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Just because!
Carolmooredc (
Talkie-Talkie) 15:01, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for helping me appeal my block extension. You put a lot of thought into it and maybe helped others to think it through, too.
Lightbreather (
talk) 19:53, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about Priya's Shakti at RSN.
-- Lightbreather ( talk) 22:28, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Some Quality Streets for you! | |
Thanks for supporting me at my RfA. It didn't succeed this time, but I'll keep editing as much as I can. Rcsprinter123 (discuss) @ 12:24, 30 December 2014 (UTC) |
This is to confirm that I have requested an additional account to be created. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 00:52, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Oranges. Did you happen to see the Daily Show on January 8, where Jon Stewart assured viewers that "Out of respect for the new mass transit ordinances here in New York City, behind my desk I am actually mansqueezing"? :-) I tried to find a video link (I don't exactly do Facebook), but failed and didn't want to spend too long on it, as I don't really think it's useful for your article. Pretty funny, though, if you perhaps have more luck finding a clip. Stewart wasn't making fun of the campaign against manspreading, but rather supporting it. His message was "Play with your boys in the office, not on the subway!"
This note is an expression of the fact that I have just got myself a lot more TV channels, and am actually able, for the first time ever, to watch the Daily Show from these distant shores. Great show, and I feel so updated! Bishonen | talk 15:16, 16 January 2015 (UTC).
I fully support a "culture of kindness". However, in my experience, I have seen very little kindness on Wikipedia. The most kind act we can do involves our personal, daily choices. For example, earlier today, I noticed an editor make the passing comment that they had suffered a panic attack due to all the stress another editor was giving them. I then left them a personal message wishing them well on their talk page. [18] To me, that's what a culture of kindness is truly about, not random chiding. Viriditas ( talk) 04:18, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Your counterargument is interesting, but having a name and face isn't enough; we have to also have a connection to others as likeminded beings. You touch upon this when you mention the physical distance problem, which is part of what I was getting at in terms of the limitations of the medium. However, where we differ is your appeal to consequences, which is an older, fear based paradigm with significant cultural implications rooted in a conservative approach known as retributive justice, which I dare to say has failed as a philosophy. I realize you disagree. More importantly, you've pointed out one of the unanswered questions in jurisprudence, sociology, and psychology. Some aspects of this question have good answers already. The death penalty, for example, has been shown not to deter crime in a significant way. In fact, it is meted out disproportionately and in some cases, to innocent people. It also gives the ultimate power of life and death to a government, which can make politically-motivated decisions in spite of the evidence. I'm using this as an extreme example, but it is the inevitable outcome of your proposed argument for enforcing the law. You bifurcate between peace and anarchy, as if those are our only choices, setting up an ultimate authority to enforce the law, such that its bite is worse than its bark. Sadly, history has shown the fruits of this approach, and it's a strange, bitter fruit indeed. No, what is needed is the end and cessation of retributive justice, and a new way of doing things. We already see this new way forward. In many countries, for example, drug addicts are no longer being treated as criminals, but as patients who need medical attention. While many may still argue over nurture and nature, with both sides cheering and claiming victory, there is good evidence that both can influence human development. I will not discuss free will, as that is a can of worms in and of itself. Suffice it to say, no man or woman is an island; we must live alongside each other in peace for the good of all. This means we must make the right choice. To be civil, therefore, is the correct choice, no different than drinking water when thirsty, or bathing when unclean. To do otherwise would be a sign of some kind of disorder or disease. But we cannot be at peace as a society through the strict enforcement of law as you propose. In some cases, this may seem to work for a time in homogenous cultures, but little by little the cracks will appear, the black market will form, and the law will be undermined by those tasked with enforcing it. Peace comes from within the individual as a result of their relationship to their environment, and expands outward. You will never find it outside yourself, nor will you ever be able to enforce it. That is simply another form of totalitarianism, fascism, and any other failed ideology you can name. The real question then becomes, why are people not at peace with themselves and their fellow humans? And we can extend that question to non-humans as well. And when you begin looking hard at the question, really examining it in the light of day, the answers will appear. I think John Lennon and Yoko Ono said it best: "War is over, if you want it." The question is, why don't people want it, and why are they at war with themselves, others, and even nature itself? Viriditas ( talk) 01:37, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
It turns out Martin Luther King, Jr. made a good argument back in 1964 defending both of our positions on civility. I would like to share it with you:
Now, the other myth that gets around a great deal in our nation and, I’m sure, in other nations of the world is the idea that you can’t solve the problems in the realm of human relations through legislation; you can’t solve the housing problem and the job problem and all of these other problems through legislation; you’ve got to change the heart. We had a presidential candidate just recently who spoke about this a great deal. And I think Mr. Goldwater sincerely believed that you couldn’t [change] anything through legislation, because he voted against everything in the Senate, including the civil rights bill. And he said all over the nation throughout the election that we don’t need legislation, that legislation can’t deal with this problem. But he was nice enough to say that you’ve got to change the heart.
Now I want to at least go halfway with Brother Goldwater at that point. I think he’s right. If we’re going to get this problem solved in America and all over the world, ultimately, people must change their hearts where they have prejudices. If we are going to solve the problems facing mankind, I would be the first to say that every white person must look down deep within and remove every prejudice that may be there, and come to see that the Negro, and the colored peoples, generally, must be treated right, not merely because the law says it, but because it is right and because it is natural. I agree with this 100 percent. And I’m sure that if the problem is to be solved, ultimately, men must be obedient not merely to that which can be enforced by the law, but they must rise to the majestic heights of being obedient to the unenforceable.
But after saying all of that, I must go on to the other side. This is where I must leave Mr. Goldwater and others who believe that legislation has no place. It may be true that you can’t legislate integration, but you can legislate desegregation. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law can’t change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can’t make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. And I think that’s pretty important also.
Have a great day. Viriditas ( talk) 22:26, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. 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 improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead ( T90734).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.
The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.
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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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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.
For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.
Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top.
In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
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Hi, I noticed your request at this CatScan manual talk page and answered it. I used your request as one of two examples now in the documentation. You were looking for help back in December, 2014. Hope this is helpful to you still. -- do ncr am 12:17, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.
This action has not changed anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab is still after the “Edit source” one. You can learn more at the visual editor’s talk page.
We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Educational features: The first time you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. ( T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. ( T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.
Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. ( T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. ( T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.
Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Images and media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.
Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use the visual editor on any size of device. ( T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. ( T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. ( T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.
Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. ( T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. ( T114227 and T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.
On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.
You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. ( T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. ( T102398) This project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.
The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. ( T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. ( T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. ( T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. ( T92661)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. ( T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.
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The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.
You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.
There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. ( T138966)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred 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) 18:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Hina Khan (Pakistan) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hina Khan (Pakistan) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. FreeatlastChitchat ( talk) 07:48, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [27]
The team have added
multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references />
block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can
request multi-column support for your wiki.
[28]
Other changes:
<chem>
tags (sometimes used as <ce>
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
[33]Control
+Shift
+K
on a PC, or Command
+Shift
+K
on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control
+K
on a PC or Command
+K
on a Mac.
[37]<ref>
tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
[38]&ooui=1
to the end of the URL, like this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
[39]If you aren't reading this in your preferred 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! User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:19, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
<references />
block can
automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either <references />
or the plain (no parameters) {{reflist}}
template. If you edit a different wiki, you can
request multi-column support for your wiki.
[43]— User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:15, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
— Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:12, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
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Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
– PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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test the new features on the
Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.– Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
It looks like you haven't edited for a long time, so I'm taking your name off of Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. If I've guessed wrong, or you come back to Wikipedia in the future, then please feel free to re-add your name, or to put your name on the global list at m:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter.
Thanks for your interest in editing.
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 02:56, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
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Opposition to a strong notion of civility is a tactic for those who know that their ideas cannot stand up to rational scrutiny, leaving bullying and abuse as the only way to win a debate. [1]
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Hello, OrangesRyellow, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.
There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{ helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! reddogsix ( talk) 10:20, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
I have replied to your post in the RfC on Caste. Please respond. (See Talk:Caste.) Fowler&fowler «Talk» 17:20, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Please could you move most of the content of User:OrangesRyellow to your sandbox or some other sub-page? Everything from the sentence beginning "This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2012." has the appearance of being a draft article and it is inappropriate to have such things on the main user page. Please take a look at Wikipedia:User pages#What may I not have in my user pages.3F. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 01:02, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi OrangesRyellow. I moved the article to User:OrangesRyellow/Sandbox. Keeping it on your user page is inappropriate but you can use your sandbox to build on the article if you like. -- regentspark ( comment) 13:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Love your explanation: "these two fatalities in Pakistan can be neglected". I thought they were interesting, but ok. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortibus ( talk • contribs) 02:15, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
Persecution of Hazara people in Quetta. Users are expected to
collaborate with others, to avoid editing
disruptively, and to
try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:
If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Sitush ( talk) 01:08, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
I am trying to expand Women in Chad that you created. Since you have created the article I suppose that you'd be interested. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 03:40, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
I would like your opinion and appropriate action on this edit. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 02:48, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Similarly, various concerns have been raised regarding your contributions. As with Yogesh, it is far from being the case that I follow everything you do but there is enough reasonable doubt & actual practical outcomes to counter any charge of stalking etc, plus our paths will in any event overlap fairly frequently both in articles and via user talk pages that we both watch/contribute to. I think you were told this by someone else only a few days ago - Qwyrxian or Drmies or someone like that.
You are already contributing to many articles that I have not looked at. I am not going out of my way to do so either. I would strongly advise you against a trip to ANI any time soon, though. You've been mentioned twice there since your arrival in September and on neither occasion did the outcome favour you: that is exactly a part of the pattern that culminated in Yogesh getting into so much hot water. He had too many visits and ended up on the "wrong side" every time - ANI is a fairly high-profile place and having your name popping up there frequently in such circumstances is not going to help your cause. Nor will appealing to Jimbo, I suspect. But, of course, that is entirely up to you. However, not rushing to the defence of Yogesh is probably a good move: defend him when you are sure but not otherwise, else you might end up being another MangoWong, ThisThat2011 or any one of a number of other acolytes who have fallen by the wayside. And that would be a shame because I have no doubt that you have much to offer. - Sitush ( talk) 03:47, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Conspiracy theories about attack on Malala. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Malala Yousafzai#Public reactions. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Malala Yousafzai#Public reactions – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.
If you think that the article you created should remain separate, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. — further, Francophonie&Androphilie sayeth naught ( Je vous invite à me parler) 01:24, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
P.S. I hope you have noticed my reply to your latest comment in an above section.
Hi, just felt that you should strike out few sentences here. Just an opinion. -- sarvajna ( talk) 06:44, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Reflect on the "use" of your responses , have you heard of being forced out of the ring with an uneven enforcement of civility or selective application /amnesia of rules it happens . :) Intothefire ( talk) 12:39, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Have you ever interacted with JanetteDoe before or are you just being a shit-stirrer? FWIW, see User talk:Dennis Brown - another admin. - Sitush ( talk) 12:35, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm still waiting to see your response regarding past interactions, and I know I'm not going to get a response to the obvious other point. It is probably best to stick to your own battles and not get drawn into the crap that surrounds your on-wiki friends. One is topic banned for a reason and is consistently proven to be wrong even in areas where their ban does not apply; another refuses to take their complaints to WP:ANI because they know they'll "lose" (they've said as much somewhere, IIRC, arguing that ANI is corrupt/biassed). Getting yourself involved is asking for trouble and, believe me, you would not be the first to either burn-out or be blocked for blindly supporting those people. Just get on with building the encyclopedia and leave the politics to people who seems often to have nothing better to do than promote religious, political and nationalist POVs all over the shop. FWIW, I quite often ignore situations where, for example, Malleus is in trouble yet again - I like the guy and I've met him but that doesn't mean that I have to hang off his shirt-tails or come to his defence on every occasion. - Sitush ( talk) 13:58, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
I would appreciate it if you would clarify at ANI why Doncram is not at fault for issues detailed at "Doncram at lists of various churches", including ownership, personal attacks, edit-warring based on carelessness, and harassing other editors into months-long departures from the project. Nyttend ( talk) 20:55, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
You appear to be confusing "verifiable" with "verified", and probably also "contentious" with "benign". Please do not rip up articles without at least doing a simple web search & take note of what Dr Blofeld said in response to your query of a few days ago. You removed a perfectly good source and some easily verifiable info: that is not a clean up but wanton destruction. If you cannot edit Pakistan-related articles neutrally & sensibly then perhaps best not to touch them at all. Thanks. Sitush ( talk) 08:22, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
I've just rebuilt Alhamra Arts Council using sources that you had removed from the article. I've also removed the tags: I have no idea why you were querying the notability of something that you presumably knew from your reading of the source had won a notable architectural prize, ie: the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Anyways, the complex seems notable to me but feel free to send it to WP:AFD if you must.
As a suggestion, if you remove copyvio or similar in future, it can be useful to retain the source even if that means placing it in an external links or further reading section. Similarly, sources that obviously have merit but you remove for some other reason might best be placed there. Thanks. - Sitush ( talk) 16:08, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
I offered a suggestion that I know has the support of sensible people. You can take or leave that suggestion but, either way, if you continue to demonstrate a lack of common sense then you can expect me to follow you around and fixing any poor contributions while the sources are not buried deep in history. I am sure that you do not want me on your back but if that is what it takes to protect the integrity of this project then it is what will happen. - Sitush ( talk) 12:23, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
If you were not saying that I had done something wrong, then perhaps I have misread you and there is no problem at all. From now on, I will leave a diff of deleted material on talk pages to make it easier for you or anyone who may want to recover anything from the material which I delete. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 14:56, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Your comment here of "admins are clearly engaging in racist behavior here" is completely unacceptable. Accusations of racism, sexism, or just about any kind of "ism" are not tolerated on this project; especially when there is nothing to verify such defamation. Quite frankly, had this been directed at an individual editor, you would most likely be blocked at this point. Please read No personal attacks and understand that this is something this project takes quite seriously. Any further attacks such as this will be most likely be met with block. — Ched : ? 07:40, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
I agree, there is too mcuh incivil beahvoir on wiki , see also on wikipedia bias https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.wikipedia/u4dJIwvCQc4 -- Nvihlhe ( talk) 16:10, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi OrangesRyellow -- thanks for the CB and your welcome re. Oxford sex gang and Telford sex gang. I'm not an expert Wikipedian, so make mistakes in formatting (and wikiquette). So clean-up would be appreciated. I'll try to add more to the articles in time. There's a lot of material, unfortunately, but so it goes at present in the UK. CurrentUK ( talk) 09:03, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
{{
unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. However, you should read the
guide to appealing blocks first. --
Boing! said Zebedee (
talk) 06:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)@YogeshKhandke. There was no provocation. So, why should I retaliate? And who am I supposed to be retaliating at without a provocation? There is no provocation-retaliation or anything like it. Please read my comment in question and subsequent comments. I have now clarified several times that I was not likening anyone to Nazis. Since I made that comment, I should know what I was saying. How can you guys know better than me about what I am saying? If you want an undertaking, I am happy to give an undertaking that I would not liken any user to a Nazi. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 10:00, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Can anyone please copy this over to ANI and also indicate that it is addressed to Boing!SaidZebedee. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 15:14, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
The word Nazi is used only when when one runs out of words or in exasperation. No one ought to take such comments seriously. That it was taken meant that it was found offensive. Being offended is the judgement of the recipient of the comment. It is not about what was meant but about what was perceived. I was once blocked for comparing the editing actions of one editor with that of the Norway bomber. It was unfortunate that such a comparison was taken literally, but it was. So I have a little understanding of what could get a person blocked and what ought to get the person unblocked. My opinion is that the most formal and neutral language possible in the situation ought to be used as the debates themselves are quite contentious. I am happy that you've done what it was necessary to get yourself unblocked. Drive safely and happy journey! Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 04:58, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
This is something that I have used several times but would like to repeat it again "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". Things might change.- sarvajna ( talk) 21:12, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
I am a bit busy nowadays, I am shifting from a country to another one. I will shortly have my flight. Then I will manage the diffs. You need not to worry about them. Fai zan 13:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
OrangesRyellow, that's a positively phrased and reasonable opposing comment you made, so thanks for the courtesy of a fair answer. I would say that there's a lot of admins you never see on ANI, though, and that's fine--much of the work has nothing to do with it. When I was admin K-stick ask me to do all kinds of little things that require the tool, and those are important too: cleaning up old sandboxes, moving uncontroversial articles, merging histories. Those kinds of things are easily done with a tool, and I just don't think that Kelapstick is going to get carried away from what he usually does. I hope his RfA is successful, and I am sure you won't be disappointed. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 18:36, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
"naturals" at adminning have which traits, exactly? ... aa: talk 09:11, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey OrangesRyellow
We just deployed another VisualEditor release; bugs fixed include:
Not specific bugs, but other things; cacheing is now improved, so people should stop seeing temporary breaking when the VisualEditor updates, and RTL support has received some patches. I hope this newsletter is helpful to people; I'll send out another one with the next deployment :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 10:20, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey OrangesRyellow! Another set of patches :). Today we have:
More on Monday, I suspect. Hope you have a good weekend :). I should also have some news about the IP launch pretty soon. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 13:29, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding me unblocking Pudeo. The thread is Bwilkins' response to my unblock of Pudeo. Thank you. -- tariqabjotu 22:41, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey OrangesRyellow; hope you had a decent weekend :). We've got a pile of patches, some of which went out on Monday, some yesterday:
There are a lot more improvements coming, but that's it for Monday and Tuesday. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 08:30, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to say that currently the Indian news search engine is working for me. Why don't you tell it to the user concerned that it doesn't for you? I think you should reconsider your edit on the project page. - Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 17:44, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey OrangesRyellow. The newest updates:
Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 22:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Perspective is everything. I wrote a civil comment in reply to what could be described as an uncivil response. I explained the reason for that edit. You then took it upon yourself to revert that change with a spurious edit reason - yes, people are allowed to remove what they like from their talk pages, but there is no rule that says it is wrong to respond to that civilly in an appropriate fashion. Essentially you have taken it upon yourself to censor a discussion which you have assumed that Sue would not like. So be it. I think that there is a big difference between someone removing a comment and hiding that comment and putting a derogatory characterisation to it. In doing that I believe that Sue left herself open to having that challenged.
Are you saying that you want a Wikipedia where sexual innuendo and abuse is considered the normal way of interacting with people and is acceptable? Don't you think it is reasonable to ask Sue to lead by example? We have to take it as tacitly accepted that she disagrees with that, but with your interference that's all we have.
I would like you to think about how you have interfered with a reasonable discussion and if you consider that my comments are inappropriate then so be it, but if you set aside Sue's characterisation of my comments as trolling and can see that they were meant constructively, then I would like to suggest that you revert your intervention and let people make their own mind up. Other than that, I'll let it drop. 94.169.24.206 ( talk) 15:58, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi OrangesRyellow, could I ask you to not to post any more comments on User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz? From my perspective, your comments appear to be unnecessarily confrontational. PhilKnight ( talk) 09:57, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
It's been almost two weeks since the last newsletter, and a lot of improvements have been made during that time. The main things that people have noticed are significant improvements to speed for typing into long pages ( T54012), scrolling ( T54014) and deleting ( T54013) on large pages. There have also been improvements to references, with the latest being support for list-defined references, which are <ref>s defined inside a <references> block ( T53741). Users of Opera 12 and higher have had their web browser removed from the browser black-list, mostly as a result of work by a volunteer developer ( T38000). Opera has not been fully white-listed yet, so these users will get an additional warning and request to report problems.
Significant changes were made to the user interface to de-emphasize VisualEditor. This has cut the use of VisualEditor by approximately one-third. You can read about these at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Updates/August 1, 2013, but they include:
There have also been many smaller fixes, including these:
Most of the Wikimedia Foundation staff is traveling this week and next, so no updates are expected until at least August 15th. If you're going to be in Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013, say hello to James Forrester, Philippe Beaudette, and the other members of the VisualEditor team.
As always, if you have questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:30, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Indians in Bangladesh, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Zayeem (talk) 16:51, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
I should have said thanks for your support sooner. ``` Buster Seven Talk 03:49, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
As you may know,
VisualEditor ("Edit beta") is currently available on the English Wikipedia only for registered editors who choose to enable it. Since you have made 50 or more edits with VisualEditor this year, I want to make sure that you know that you can enable VisualEditor (if you haven't already done so) by going to
your preferences and choosing the item, "
MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable
". This will give you the option of using VisualEditor on articles and userpages when you want to, and give you the opportunity to spot changes in the interface and suggest improvements. We value your feedback, whether positive or negative, about using VisualEditor, at
Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you,
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 20:13, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
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
class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these in types of links can be created.
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!
— Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 00:10, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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 [16] 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!
— Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:41, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Just because!
Carolmooredc (
Talkie-Talkie) 15:01, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for helping me appeal my block extension. You put a lot of thought into it and maybe helped others to think it through, too.
Lightbreather (
talk) 19:53, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about Priya's Shakti at RSN.
-- Lightbreather ( talk) 22:28, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Some Quality Streets for you! | |
Thanks for supporting me at my RfA. It didn't succeed this time, but I'll keep editing as much as I can. Rcsprinter123 (discuss) @ 12:24, 30 December 2014 (UTC) |
This is to confirm that I have requested an additional account to be created. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 00:52, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Oranges. Did you happen to see the Daily Show on January 8, where Jon Stewart assured viewers that "Out of respect for the new mass transit ordinances here in New York City, behind my desk I am actually mansqueezing"? :-) I tried to find a video link (I don't exactly do Facebook), but failed and didn't want to spend too long on it, as I don't really think it's useful for your article. Pretty funny, though, if you perhaps have more luck finding a clip. Stewart wasn't making fun of the campaign against manspreading, but rather supporting it. His message was "Play with your boys in the office, not on the subway!"
This note is an expression of the fact that I have just got myself a lot more TV channels, and am actually able, for the first time ever, to watch the Daily Show from these distant shores. Great show, and I feel so updated! Bishonen | talk 15:16, 16 January 2015 (UTC).
I fully support a "culture of kindness". However, in my experience, I have seen very little kindness on Wikipedia. The most kind act we can do involves our personal, daily choices. For example, earlier today, I noticed an editor make the passing comment that they had suffered a panic attack due to all the stress another editor was giving them. I then left them a personal message wishing them well on their talk page. [18] To me, that's what a culture of kindness is truly about, not random chiding. Viriditas ( talk) 04:18, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Your counterargument is interesting, but having a name and face isn't enough; we have to also have a connection to others as likeminded beings. You touch upon this when you mention the physical distance problem, which is part of what I was getting at in terms of the limitations of the medium. However, where we differ is your appeal to consequences, which is an older, fear based paradigm with significant cultural implications rooted in a conservative approach known as retributive justice, which I dare to say has failed as a philosophy. I realize you disagree. More importantly, you've pointed out one of the unanswered questions in jurisprudence, sociology, and psychology. Some aspects of this question have good answers already. The death penalty, for example, has been shown not to deter crime in a significant way. In fact, it is meted out disproportionately and in some cases, to innocent people. It also gives the ultimate power of life and death to a government, which can make politically-motivated decisions in spite of the evidence. I'm using this as an extreme example, but it is the inevitable outcome of your proposed argument for enforcing the law. You bifurcate between peace and anarchy, as if those are our only choices, setting up an ultimate authority to enforce the law, such that its bite is worse than its bark. Sadly, history has shown the fruits of this approach, and it's a strange, bitter fruit indeed. No, what is needed is the end and cessation of retributive justice, and a new way of doing things. We already see this new way forward. In many countries, for example, drug addicts are no longer being treated as criminals, but as patients who need medical attention. While many may still argue over nurture and nature, with both sides cheering and claiming victory, there is good evidence that both can influence human development. I will not discuss free will, as that is a can of worms in and of itself. Suffice it to say, no man or woman is an island; we must live alongside each other in peace for the good of all. This means we must make the right choice. To be civil, therefore, is the correct choice, no different than drinking water when thirsty, or bathing when unclean. To do otherwise would be a sign of some kind of disorder or disease. But we cannot be at peace as a society through the strict enforcement of law as you propose. In some cases, this may seem to work for a time in homogenous cultures, but little by little the cracks will appear, the black market will form, and the law will be undermined by those tasked with enforcing it. Peace comes from within the individual as a result of their relationship to their environment, and expands outward. You will never find it outside yourself, nor will you ever be able to enforce it. That is simply another form of totalitarianism, fascism, and any other failed ideology you can name. The real question then becomes, why are people not at peace with themselves and their fellow humans? And we can extend that question to non-humans as well. And when you begin looking hard at the question, really examining it in the light of day, the answers will appear. I think John Lennon and Yoko Ono said it best: "War is over, if you want it." The question is, why don't people want it, and why are they at war with themselves, others, and even nature itself? Viriditas ( talk) 01:37, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
It turns out Martin Luther King, Jr. made a good argument back in 1964 defending both of our positions on civility. I would like to share it with you:
Now, the other myth that gets around a great deal in our nation and, I’m sure, in other nations of the world is the idea that you can’t solve the problems in the realm of human relations through legislation; you can’t solve the housing problem and the job problem and all of these other problems through legislation; you’ve got to change the heart. We had a presidential candidate just recently who spoke about this a great deal. And I think Mr. Goldwater sincerely believed that you couldn’t [change] anything through legislation, because he voted against everything in the Senate, including the civil rights bill. And he said all over the nation throughout the election that we don’t need legislation, that legislation can’t deal with this problem. But he was nice enough to say that you’ve got to change the heart.
Now I want to at least go halfway with Brother Goldwater at that point. I think he’s right. If we’re going to get this problem solved in America and all over the world, ultimately, people must change their hearts where they have prejudices. If we are going to solve the problems facing mankind, I would be the first to say that every white person must look down deep within and remove every prejudice that may be there, and come to see that the Negro, and the colored peoples, generally, must be treated right, not merely because the law says it, but because it is right and because it is natural. I agree with this 100 percent. And I’m sure that if the problem is to be solved, ultimately, men must be obedient not merely to that which can be enforced by the law, but they must rise to the majestic heights of being obedient to the unenforceable.
But after saying all of that, I must go on to the other side. This is where I must leave Mr. Goldwater and others who believe that legislation has no place. It may be true that you can’t legislate integration, but you can legislate desegregation. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law can’t change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can’t make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. And I think that’s pretty important also.
Have a great day. Viriditas ( talk) 22:26, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for contributing to the process we use for electing our administators. Please remember that the RfA page is for offering your comment regarding the suitability of the candidate. Anything else is off topic and belongs elswere. Happy editing! -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 22:23, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. 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 improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead ( T90734).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.
The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.
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- Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 17:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
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)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Women's rights in 2014 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Women's_rights_in_2014 until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.
For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.
Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top.
In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre directly, so that she can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 00:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your request at this CatScan manual talk page and answered it. I used your request as one of two examples now in the documentation. You were looking for help back in December, 2014. Hope this is helpful to you still. -- do ncr am 12:17, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.
This action has not changed anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab is still after the “Edit source” one. You can learn more at the visual editor’s talk page.
We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Educational features: The first time you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. ( T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. ( T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.
Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. ( T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. ( T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.
Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Images and media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.
Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use the visual editor on any size of device. ( T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. ( T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. ( T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.
Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. ( T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. ( T114227 and T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.
On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.
You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. ( T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. ( T102398) This project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.
The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. ( T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. ( T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. ( T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. ( T92661)
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Whatamidoing (WMF), 00:54, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. ( T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.
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– Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:47, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.
You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.
There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Whatamidoing (WMF) 19:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. ( T138966)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
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Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk), 21:09, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred 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) 18:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Hina Khan (Pakistan) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hina Khan (Pakistan) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. FreeatlastChitchat ( talk) 07:48, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [27]
The team have added
multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references />
block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can
request multi-column support for your wiki.
[28]
Other changes:
<chem>
tags (sometimes used as <ce>
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
[33]Control
+Shift
+K
on a PC, or Command
+Shift
+K
on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control
+K
on a PC or Command
+K
on a Mac.
[37]<ref>
tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
[38]&ooui=1
to the end of the URL, like this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
[39]If you aren't reading this in your preferred 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! User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:19, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
<references />
block can
automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either <references />
or the plain (no parameters) {{reflist}}
template. If you edit a different wiki, you can
request multi-column support for your wiki.
[43]— User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:15, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
— Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:12, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
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Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
– PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.
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. You can
test the new features on the
Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.– Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
It looks like you haven't edited for a long time, so I'm taking your name off of Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. If I've guessed wrong, or you come back to Wikipedia in the future, then please feel free to re-add your name, or to put your name on the global list at m:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter.
Thanks for your interest in editing.
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 02:56, 19 August 2020 (UTC)