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1		Minot Why Nots ( talk)						Orphan
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8		Liechtenstein State Library ( talk)						Stub
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42		Countervalue ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
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40		Aggravated battery ( talk)						Merge
20		U.S. Route 20 in Illinois ( talk)						Merge
8		Connecticut Route 34 ( talk)						Merge
8		U.S. Route 11 in Mississippi ( talk)						Wikify
290		Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( talk)						Wikify
3		Georgia State Route 169 ( talk)						Wikify
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4		Alex Keating ( talk)						Orphan
1		Amina Hanum Syrtlanoff ( talk)						Orphan
14		Maine Department of Transportation ( talk)						Stub
4		Red Banks, Mississippi ( talk)						Stub
272		Dan Starkey (actor) ( talk)						Stub
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted  on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at  12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at  mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. 

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the  OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

• starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog:  blue ,
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• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:  gray.

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design ( T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor ( T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs ( T73077 and  T73078) and improved usability.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once ( T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace ( T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

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3		Myra MacPherson ( talk)						Cleanup
7,016		Five Nights at Freddy's ( talk)						Expand
3		Bannered routes of U.S. Route 25 ( talk)						Expand
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23		Interstate 72 ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
123		Human rights in the United Kingdom ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
72		National Flood Insurance Program ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
52		Downtown Connector ( talk)						Merge
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238		Socialist state ( talk)						Merge
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6		Multiple referral ( talk)						Orphan
2		Amebis ( talk)						Orphan
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171		First Moroccan Crisis ( talk)						Cleanup
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249		The Biggest Loser: Glory Days ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
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75		Interstate 69 in Indiana ( talk)						Merge
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