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If editing articles on video games interests you, consider joining the Video games WikiProject and/or one or more of these platform specific projects: WikiProject Xbox, WikiProject PlayStation, Nintendo task force. Cheers, – xeno talk 15:52, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I've been a Tomb Raider fan for many years, so it was nice helping out and improving Tomb Raider articles. I had to dig into different archives of various video game websites to find those references. Most of them weren't helpful, except IGN. Other websites were found from old 2003 threads from the Tomb Raider Forums. WWETrishMickiefan ( talk) 13:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Please don't delete entire talk page sections. Although I directed you towards the article's talk page, I still answered some of your questions. That does not make the section irrelevant. It will automatically be removed from the talk page in due time if no one else comments. -- ferret ( talk) 17:30, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
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I wish to put up the article List of Aeon Flux episodes for deletion because of frequent examples of both original research and complete lack of references to the information given. The main article can remain, but this article seems superfluous and not in-keeping with Wikipedia standards. But I can't make head or tail of the instructions of how to do it. So could someone please help me get the process started? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 10:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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I sometimes feel, especially when looking at articles on swear words and such rather delicate topics as nudity and various sexual angles (no pun or embarrassing inferences intended), that some kind of confirmation of age is needed. I was looking at a page on nudity and many of the pictures there might well give offence or shock to someone who was too young to understand. What is the point of view on Wikipedia about this point? --
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I wish to put the article Lego Cinematic Universe up for deletion, because the information is unreferenced and when I tried to reference it, I found the info was not even accurate or even true in some places. It reads like something from a fan site. How exactly do I ask for it to be considered for deletion? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 22:38, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
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I am worried about the article titled List of Square Enix Hitman characters. It seems to me that the 'Square Enix' part is superfluous, if not completely unfounded given the fact that only one game has so far been released by Square Enix. It should just be called List of Hitman characters. What is the reason for this, and what can be done to change it? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 23:23, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
it hasn't directly been called a "trilogy" only as the "lightning saga". Lucia Black ( talk) 20:46, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello, ProtoDrake
Thanks for your work at DmC: Devil May Cry. I was feeling like a pariah with so many excited people ignoring WP:NOT. I didn't dare touch DmC because of my experience in Characters of Devil May Cry. People are adding everything in it; not just characters but monsters too.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
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Hello.
Thank you for your message. I am aware that the info boxes are becoming really long, but this info really needs to be added. The reason is there is no website or wiki that lists the core staff of each and every FF game. The main reason I'm putting all this info up on Wikipedia is to aid others who may want to know the core staff of each FF. I know this info can be difficult to find online from experience. In fact, all the info I'm adding is stuff I've had to get off various other websites like IMDB, MobyGames and even by watching the credits of various FF games on YouTube. Not a lot of regular readers will be bothered to go to that extent to acquire this information. As a result, I'm doing the hard work for them and listing the key staff in the info box so the information is readily available for them when they visit the page. Please try to understand. Warm regards. -- G-Zay ( talk) 13:57, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Are you sure George and Wolf joined Sunny at Solis? Because when one of the Maverick staff asks Doktor, "How's our new recruit doing?" to which it then cuts to Sunny, Wolf and George, I was under the impression that Sunny joined Maverick's new cyborg firm. -- FLStyle ( talk) 20:04, 4 March 2013 (UTC) Hmm. Yeah, I think you're right. I'll change it, or delete it if I can't change it to fit the dialogue. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 23:10, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Possible ban discussion on Niemti?. Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 16:14, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
For your efforts in fixing Final Fantasy related articles. Keep it up!. Lucia Black ( talk) 18:20, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
You have previously commented on Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Niemti.
As an outside editor, I have moved that this RFC/U be closed. If you wish to comment on the Motion to close, please do so here. Fladrif ( talk) 14:35, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with the current "History" section. Why, you ask? Because the game is not yet released. I think until this game actually comes out, we should provide clear and concise updates on the game's development. The "History" section does this well. Once the game is actually out, a lot (and I mean a lot) of the information in this section can be thrown away and moved to other parts of the article. At that point, we can begin to make the page look more like other FF Wikipages. However, seeing as this game was announced 7 years ago and still has no release date in sight, it's only considerate to the readers that we provide concise and clear updates on its development history for those wishing to research it. I hope you can see where I'm coming from.
Also, I apologise if I came off as harsh before, but I've begun to notice that Lucia seems to have some king of animosity against my edits and it's making close to breaking. I'm trying to just ignore him/her but that's difficult seeing as we're meant to working as a team. -- G-Zay ( talk) 21:28, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Ignore G-zay. when it comes to articles, you cant just sy "i give up" especially when others agree with you. Even if the game is confirmed vaporware, the content will still have to be summarized and focus on its cancellation. Other than that, i will also take a break from the horrible article of versus XIII. For now, i came to ask if maybe you could help me on Final Fantasy Dimensions. Im not very good at adding plot info. Lucia Black ( talk) 01:07, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Sounds fair. Im at the final boss anyways. Lucia Black ( talk) 08:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
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There are two things I really need to know. First: Where do I start a discussion about the moving of a page? The one I was hoping to move is Characters of Final Fantasy XIII, XIII-2 and Lightning Returns. I have already tried to move it, and the current, unwieldy title is the result, and I want to start a discussion about moving it and renaming it, for reasons I won't bore you with. The second is=: how do I create an archive for sections on my talk page, since it seems to be getting a little full? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 19:16, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
No, at the FAC Hanchen decided to make a fuss about having them both and I didn't feel like arguing the point. No consensus has emerged yet as to what metareviewers to include Wikipedia-wide, so there shouldn't be any large-scale removals. -- Pres N 00:20, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. If you don't mind, can you please take a look at this? We are sorting out problems with G-Zay's misuse of sources. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 17:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I am sending this message to the users who I have closely collaborated with. I will be taking a temporary Wikibreak for at least 5-7 days to let off some steam and get myself reenergized. Some of the stress has got to me, so I think it's best if I should take a couple of days off. I also have final exams coming up as well, so I have more important things to worry about. I, however, will be here to contribute to some articles that I have worked on. Until then, farewell. With my very best and warmest regards, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 20:35, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to tell you, I think you should nominate it for GA today, and keep working on it while you wait. I will also assist you with the review when it comes. Does that sound good? Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 14:28, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
I did the batch of corrections, so come see if you have any more :) Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 18:45, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
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I need to report user 24.180.83.223 for persistent disruptive editing, putting in nonsense info on articles such as Hero Factory and Cerberus. Where do I report him/her before he/she does any more damage? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 08:56, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello ProtoDrake! Saw you were one of the most active editors of this article so I thought I'd leave you a message. I'm in the process of removing more of G-Zay's lies from this article and generally touching up the text and sources. I'm not finished yet, so please don't take it I'm trying to step on anyone's toes if some accurate information by you and others temporarily vanished from the lower sections I've edited. Still shifting some things around. It seems G-Zay has moved on to the unprotected and as-of-yet-oblivious FF Wikia in the meantime to continue his shenanigans. At least he's restarted his cycle of adding lies in articles and spreading them via forums. Xiomicronpi ( talk) 15:09, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I don't have any of the FF13/FF13-2 Ultimanias- I just had the scans posted on the FF13 talk page for the interviews in those ones, and was never able to track down anything for the 13-2 ones. I've got a character interview from teh FF13 Scenario Ultimania posted at Talk:Final Fantasy XIII/Ultimania translations, though note that the scans were pretty crappy so the transcribing is kind of flakey- if something doesn't translate well, it might be because some of the characters are wrong. If you can read Japanese or know someone who does, the scan itself might be more helpful. -- Pres N 02:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I tentatively reinstated the info in the Nosgoth article. It's entirely your prerogative to give a blanket dismissal of everything on NeoGAF, and I've removed that specific citation, but I'd point out there was already a second source which is considered reliable in there to back it up. More than willing to discuss the matter, if you still challenge that paragraph. -- LoK Wiki ( talk) 14:57, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey Drake, this is Judgesurreal777, I wanted to thank you for your tremendously high quality article you are building for the Final Fantasy XIII series. I wanted to drop a note here that you should consider taking a look at the other Characters of articles for Final Fantasy games, since we have several others that are of low quality and could really use your excellent work. for example, I have nominated Sephiroth for GA again, and when it passes, if we could get the Characters of the Final Fantasy VII series article to GA, we would hav a new good topic! Just a thought. Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 01:03, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake! We've just deployed some fixes to the VisualEditor. These include:
In the meantime, testing is proceeding well, and hopefully we can get some more fixes out over the next couple of days. If you're interested in helping out, we have a set of open tasks we'd really appreciate your assistance with :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 08:07, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry it took a while, I was in Disney World! I looked at the article, definitely a C, and inches from a B. A two paragraph lead, trim the story section, it should be a B class and good to go for Good Article review. Great job! Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 20:44, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake
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) 10:17, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm on the case, but I appreciate the ping (these days it takes me a while to do any sort of meaningful reviews between work and arb duties which is why I specifically request parties to badger me!) Should have a complete review up by tomorrow if not tonight. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs( talk) 12:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake! 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) 13:26, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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I'm here! Smile, breath, and do things on at a time, easy peasy! Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 16:25, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake; 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) 08:27, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
"Characters of" articles are really hard to source and write, and as such very few people actually work on them. You've broken the mold by getting Characters of the Final Fantasy XIII series up to GA, and as such I hereby award you your second Square Enix barnstar. -- Pres N 07:09, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake. 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) 22:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
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For the incredible amount of work that you put into your first Good Article, and for not giving up on something new and challenging, I hereby award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar! Please keep going and nominate more Good Articles when you get the chance! Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 00:36, 25 July 2013 (UTC) |
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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) 23:23, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article Tomb Raider (2013 video game) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Cabe 6403( Talk• Sign) 14:53, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
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I am awarding this barnstar as thanks for your efforts in improving Wikipedia. Keep up the good work, as usual! Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 15:49, 7 August 2013 (UTC) |
Also, I do not actually know if you are aware of this, but Fladrif ( talk · contribs), a user who had issues with me, was blocked indefinitely by Ched per this discussion back in April for chronic disruption and doing the same thing to other users (this also includes an attack on an Arbitrator) and Ched acknowledged the fact that he said some negative things about me when we had that AN discussion about a certain user in March and apologized during that particular case with Fladrif after I apologized to him, as I did not really mean for some things like that to happen. So, with that, my faith in the community has been restored somewhat. When someone posts questionable aspects on my behavior or unfounded accusations about me, I get a little shaky. Other than that, good luck with everything that you do. I hope we can get to collaborate even more in that discussion. Regards, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 15:53, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
The article Tomb Raider (2013 video game) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tomb Raider (2013 video game) for comments about the article. Well done! It was a pleasure to review, a credit to the project Cabe 6403( Talk• Sign) 08:54, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Both VisualEditor and MediaWiki were upgraded recently. For VisualEditor, this is the long-awaited post- Wikimania update with many bug fixes and enhancements. Work also continues on speed at opening and during use, as well as on the bugs reported here and at other Wikipedias. The full report is at Mediawiki.
References are displaying properly, even when nested ( T52749) or in image captions ( T2000. Reference lists are now always fully populated with references ( bug 50094). Firefox users can insert an existing reference in the first paragraph ( T54159). Opera users no longer see corruption of categories when a reference was added ( bug 50385).
Stray spaces are being stripped from the start of paragraphs to end one of the common <nowiki> problems ( T53462). We also fixed a round-tripping bug that caused desirable whitespace in templates (used to make templates more legible, e.g., by putting each parameter in an infobox on a separate line) to get corrupted ( bug 51150).
Wikilink handling was improved. Users are not allowed to create internal links to invalid titles (titles that are actually impossible due to limits on acceptable character combinations in titles, not redlinks) ( T35094). You can extend wikilinks, but it won't do so over a wordbreak (like a space) (bugs 49931 and 51463).
A handful of fixes to the user interface were made. The toolbar doesn't float over personal tools after opening a dialog or the inspector ( T54441). Toolbars were also re-written to be collapsible/expandable, with room for more icons. Buttons in dialogs can now be activated using the Tab ↹ and ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ key commands ( bug 50047). This saves time for editors, because you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to click a button. We fixed a handful of bugs that affected only certain articles or certain browsers, including toolbar buttons in Firefox ( bug 51986) and dialog panels that didn't always scroll correctly ( bug 51739). Bugs with undo/redo getting confused have been fixed ( T54113).
Images, in addition to getting references displaying correctly, also saw improvements with a set-empty |link=
parameter no longer corrupted (51963). We corrected thumbnail images' display so that they look don't wrong in some contexts (
bug 51995). Inserted images no longer explicitly set their alignment, but instead inherit the default position in compliance with the Manual of Style (
bug 51851).
More edit notices, warnings, and metadata like information about Pending Changes on an article now appear as appropriate ( bug 49699). When new articles are created, users are now shown the <newarticletext> message ( bug 51459). VisualEditor now handles templates that set "meta" items (like a category) and nothing else better ( bug 51322). If the database is locked when a user tries to save with VisualEditor, they now get a message telling them as such and an opportunity to try again, rather than a silent failure ( bug 51636).
When you save the page, having the default preference set to "mark all my edits as minor by default" no longer overrides the setting in the save dialog ( bug 51515). If you open VisualEditor from a section edit link, the section's title will be pre-filled in in the edit summary box when you go to save it ( bug 50872). The size of the save dialog box in the Monobook skin has been fixed ( bug 50058). Also, wikipage content handlers like sortable tables are re-run automatically after saving ( T53565).
A very early version of the mathematics equation editor is now available for testing on mw:Mediawiki. If you would like to help improve the user interface for math editor, please test out the extension at mw:Mediawiki:Sandbox and leave your comments directly at the discussion page for the Math Node User Interface at Mediawiki. You should be able to use your regular username and password should to login to Mediawiki.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:40, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar | ||
I'd like to present you this barnstar for improving the Tomb Raider article to GA status. It was on my to-do list for this month, but you beat me to the punch and did a great job. Keep up the good work.-- WWETrishMickiefan ( talk) 23:08, 23 August 2013 (UTC) |
This Thursday's VisualEditor update was mostly about stability and performance improvements, and some preparatory work for major planned improvements, along with bug fixes for non-English language support and right-to-left text. Everything that the English Wikipedia received today has been running on Mediawiki for a week already.
Officially, the problem with the link inspector not linking to a specific section on a page ( bug 53219) was fixed in this release, although that critical patch actually appeared here earlier.
A number of bugs related to copy-and-paste functionality were fixed ( 48604, bug 50043, bug 53362, bug 51538, among others). Full rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor is expected "soon".
In other fixes, you can no longer add empty ref tags (<ref/>
) (
bug 53345). Selecting both an image and some text, and then trying to add a link, previously deleted the selected image and the text. This was fixed in
bug 50127. There was another problem related to using arrow keys to move the cursor next to an inline image that was fixed (
bug 53507).
Looking ahead: The next planned upgrade is scheduled for next Thursday, and you should expect to find a redesigned toolbar with drop-down menus that include room for references, templates, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting. There will also be keyboard shortcuts for setting the format (paragraph vs section headings).
If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being determined at this time. Generally speaking, languages that depend on the input method editor are not going to receive VisualEditor this month. The current target date is Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:44, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
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VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.
As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add <u>
(underline), <sub>
(subscript), and <sup>
(superscript), <s>
(strikethrough) and <code>
(computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at
Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.
In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references ( bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label ( bug 51670).
In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl+0 sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl+1 up to Ctrl+6 sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl+7 sets it as pre-formatted ( bug 33512). Ctrl+2, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.
Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" ( bug 50452).
Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application ( bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.
Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate ( bug 53503).
Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter ( bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again ( bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.
If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:47, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you very much. I've been a Tomb Raider fan for many years, so it was nice helping out and improving Tomb Raider articles. I had to dig into different archives of various video game websites to find those references. Most of them weren't helpful, except IGN. Other websites were found from old 2003 threads from the Tomb Raider Forums. WWETrishMickiefan ( talk) 13:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Please don't delete entire talk page sections. Although I directed you towards the article's talk page, I still answered some of your questions. That does not make the section irrelevant. It will automatically be removed from the talk page in due time if no one else comments. -- ferret ( talk) 17:30, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
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I wish to put up the article List of Aeon Flux episodes for deletion because of frequent examples of both original research and complete lack of references to the information given. The main article can remain, but this article seems superfluous and not in-keeping with Wikipedia standards. But I can't make head or tail of the instructions of how to do it. So could someone please help me get the process started? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 10:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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I sometimes feel, especially when looking at articles on swear words and such rather delicate topics as nudity and various sexual angles (no pun or embarrassing inferences intended), that some kind of confirmation of age is needed. I was looking at a page on nudity and many of the pictures there might well give offence or shock to someone who was too young to understand. What is the point of view on Wikipedia about this point? --
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I wish to put the article Lego Cinematic Universe up for deletion, because the information is unreferenced and when I tried to reference it, I found the info was not even accurate or even true in some places. It reads like something from a fan site. How exactly do I ask for it to be considered for deletion? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 22:38, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
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I am worried about the article titled List of Square Enix Hitman characters. It seems to me that the 'Square Enix' part is superfluous, if not completely unfounded given the fact that only one game has so far been released by Square Enix. It should just be called List of Hitman characters. What is the reason for this, and what can be done to change it? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 23:23, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
it hasn't directly been called a "trilogy" only as the "lightning saga". Lucia Black ( talk) 20:46, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello, ProtoDrake
Thanks for your work at DmC: Devil May Cry. I was feeling like a pariah with so many excited people ignoring WP:NOT. I didn't dare touch DmC because of my experience in Characters of Devil May Cry. People are adding everything in it; not just characters but monsters too.
Best regards,
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Hello.
Thank you for your message. I am aware that the info boxes are becoming really long, but this info really needs to be added. The reason is there is no website or wiki that lists the core staff of each and every FF game. The main reason I'm putting all this info up on Wikipedia is to aid others who may want to know the core staff of each FF. I know this info can be difficult to find online from experience. In fact, all the info I'm adding is stuff I've had to get off various other websites like IMDB, MobyGames and even by watching the credits of various FF games on YouTube. Not a lot of regular readers will be bothered to go to that extent to acquire this information. As a result, I'm doing the hard work for them and listing the key staff in the info box so the information is readily available for them when they visit the page. Please try to understand. Warm regards. -- G-Zay ( talk) 13:57, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Are you sure George and Wolf joined Sunny at Solis? Because when one of the Maverick staff asks Doktor, "How's our new recruit doing?" to which it then cuts to Sunny, Wolf and George, I was under the impression that Sunny joined Maverick's new cyborg firm. -- FLStyle ( talk) 20:04, 4 March 2013 (UTC) Hmm. Yeah, I think you're right. I'll change it, or delete it if I can't change it to fit the dialogue. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 23:10, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Possible ban discussion on Niemti?. Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 16:14, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
For your efforts in fixing Final Fantasy related articles. Keep it up!. Lucia Black ( talk) 18:20, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
You have previously commented on Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Niemti.
As an outside editor, I have moved that this RFC/U be closed. If you wish to comment on the Motion to close, please do so here. Fladrif ( talk) 14:35, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with the current "History" section. Why, you ask? Because the game is not yet released. I think until this game actually comes out, we should provide clear and concise updates on the game's development. The "History" section does this well. Once the game is actually out, a lot (and I mean a lot) of the information in this section can be thrown away and moved to other parts of the article. At that point, we can begin to make the page look more like other FF Wikipages. However, seeing as this game was announced 7 years ago and still has no release date in sight, it's only considerate to the readers that we provide concise and clear updates on its development history for those wishing to research it. I hope you can see where I'm coming from.
Also, I apologise if I came off as harsh before, but I've begun to notice that Lucia seems to have some king of animosity against my edits and it's making close to breaking. I'm trying to just ignore him/her but that's difficult seeing as we're meant to working as a team. -- G-Zay ( talk) 21:28, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Ignore G-zay. when it comes to articles, you cant just sy "i give up" especially when others agree with you. Even if the game is confirmed vaporware, the content will still have to be summarized and focus on its cancellation. Other than that, i will also take a break from the horrible article of versus XIII. For now, i came to ask if maybe you could help me on Final Fantasy Dimensions. Im not very good at adding plot info. Lucia Black ( talk) 01:07, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Sounds fair. Im at the final boss anyways. Lucia Black ( talk) 08:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
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There are two things I really need to know. First: Where do I start a discussion about the moving of a page? The one I was hoping to move is Characters of Final Fantasy XIII, XIII-2 and Lightning Returns. I have already tried to move it, and the current, unwieldy title is the result, and I want to start a discussion about moving it and renaming it, for reasons I won't bore you with. The second is=: how do I create an archive for sections on my talk page, since it seems to be getting a little full? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 19:16, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
No, at the FAC Hanchen decided to make a fuss about having them both and I didn't feel like arguing the point. No consensus has emerged yet as to what metareviewers to include Wikipedia-wide, so there shouldn't be any large-scale removals. -- Pres N 00:20, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. If you don't mind, can you please take a look at this? We are sorting out problems with G-Zay's misuse of sources. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 17:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I am sending this message to the users who I have closely collaborated with. I will be taking a temporary Wikibreak for at least 5-7 days to let off some steam and get myself reenergized. Some of the stress has got to me, so I think it's best if I should take a couple of days off. I also have final exams coming up as well, so I have more important things to worry about. I, however, will be here to contribute to some articles that I have worked on. Until then, farewell. With my very best and warmest regards, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 20:35, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to tell you, I think you should nominate it for GA today, and keep working on it while you wait. I will also assist you with the review when it comes. Does that sound good? Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 14:28, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
I did the batch of corrections, so come see if you have any more :) Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 18:45, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
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I need to report user 24.180.83.223 for persistent disruptive editing, putting in nonsense info on articles such as Hero Factory and Cerberus. Where do I report him/her before he/she does any more damage? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 08:56, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello ProtoDrake! Saw you were one of the most active editors of this article so I thought I'd leave you a message. I'm in the process of removing more of G-Zay's lies from this article and generally touching up the text and sources. I'm not finished yet, so please don't take it I'm trying to step on anyone's toes if some accurate information by you and others temporarily vanished from the lower sections I've edited. Still shifting some things around. It seems G-Zay has moved on to the unprotected and as-of-yet-oblivious FF Wikia in the meantime to continue his shenanigans. At least he's restarted his cycle of adding lies in articles and spreading them via forums. Xiomicronpi ( talk) 15:09, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I don't have any of the FF13/FF13-2 Ultimanias- I just had the scans posted on the FF13 talk page for the interviews in those ones, and was never able to track down anything for the 13-2 ones. I've got a character interview from teh FF13 Scenario Ultimania posted at Talk:Final Fantasy XIII/Ultimania translations, though note that the scans were pretty crappy so the transcribing is kind of flakey- if something doesn't translate well, it might be because some of the characters are wrong. If you can read Japanese or know someone who does, the scan itself might be more helpful. -- Pres N 02:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I tentatively reinstated the info in the Nosgoth article. It's entirely your prerogative to give a blanket dismissal of everything on NeoGAF, and I've removed that specific citation, but I'd point out there was already a second source which is considered reliable in there to back it up. More than willing to discuss the matter, if you still challenge that paragraph. -- LoK Wiki ( talk) 14:57, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey Drake, this is Judgesurreal777, I wanted to thank you for your tremendously high quality article you are building for the Final Fantasy XIII series. I wanted to drop a note here that you should consider taking a look at the other Characters of articles for Final Fantasy games, since we have several others that are of low quality and could really use your excellent work. for example, I have nominated Sephiroth for GA again, and when it passes, if we could get the Characters of the Final Fantasy VII series article to GA, we would hav a new good topic! Just a thought. Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 01:03, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake! We've just deployed some fixes to the VisualEditor. These include:
In the meantime, testing is proceeding well, and hopefully we can get some more fixes out over the next couple of days. If you're interested in helping out, we have a set of open tasks we'd really appreciate your assistance with :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 08:07, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry it took a while, I was in Disney World! I looked at the article, definitely a C, and inches from a B. A two paragraph lead, trim the story section, it should be a B class and good to go for Good Article review. Great job! Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 20:44, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake
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) 10:17, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm on the case, but I appreciate the ping (these days it takes me a while to do any sort of meaningful reviews between work and arb duties which is why I specifically request parties to badger me!) Should have a complete review up by tomorrow if not tonight. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs( talk) 12:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake! 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) 13:26, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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I'm here! Smile, breath, and do things on at a time, easy peasy! Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 16:25, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake; 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) 08:27, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
"Characters of" articles are really hard to source and write, and as such very few people actually work on them. You've broken the mold by getting Characters of the Final Fantasy XIII series up to GA, and as such I hereby award you your second Square Enix barnstar. -- Pres N 07:09, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey ProtoDrake. 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) 22:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
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For the incredible amount of work that you put into your first Good Article, and for not giving up on something new and challenging, I hereby award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar! Please keep going and nominate more Good Articles when you get the chance! Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 00:36, 25 July 2013 (UTC) |
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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) 23:23, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article Tomb Raider (2013 video game) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Cabe 6403( Talk• Sign) 14:53, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
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I am awarding this barnstar as thanks for your efforts in improving Wikipedia. Keep up the good work, as usual! Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 15:49, 7 August 2013 (UTC) |
Also, I do not actually know if you are aware of this, but Fladrif ( talk · contribs), a user who had issues with me, was blocked indefinitely by Ched per this discussion back in April for chronic disruption and doing the same thing to other users (this also includes an attack on an Arbitrator) and Ched acknowledged the fact that he said some negative things about me when we had that AN discussion about a certain user in March and apologized during that particular case with Fladrif after I apologized to him, as I did not really mean for some things like that to happen. So, with that, my faith in the community has been restored somewhat. When someone posts questionable aspects on my behavior or unfounded accusations about me, I get a little shaky. Other than that, good luck with everything that you do. I hope we can get to collaborate even more in that discussion. Regards, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 15:53, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
The article Tomb Raider (2013 video game) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tomb Raider (2013 video game) for comments about the article. Well done! It was a pleasure to review, a credit to the project Cabe 6403( Talk• Sign) 08:54, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Both VisualEditor and MediaWiki were upgraded recently. For VisualEditor, this is the long-awaited post- Wikimania update with many bug fixes and enhancements. Work also continues on speed at opening and during use, as well as on the bugs reported here and at other Wikipedias. The full report is at Mediawiki.
References are displaying properly, even when nested ( T52749) or in image captions ( T2000. Reference lists are now always fully populated with references ( bug 50094). Firefox users can insert an existing reference in the first paragraph ( T54159). Opera users no longer see corruption of categories when a reference was added ( bug 50385).
Stray spaces are being stripped from the start of paragraphs to end one of the common <nowiki> problems ( T53462). We also fixed a round-tripping bug that caused desirable whitespace in templates (used to make templates more legible, e.g., by putting each parameter in an infobox on a separate line) to get corrupted ( bug 51150).
Wikilink handling was improved. Users are not allowed to create internal links to invalid titles (titles that are actually impossible due to limits on acceptable character combinations in titles, not redlinks) ( T35094). You can extend wikilinks, but it won't do so over a wordbreak (like a space) (bugs 49931 and 51463).
A handful of fixes to the user interface were made. The toolbar doesn't float over personal tools after opening a dialog or the inspector ( T54441). Toolbars were also re-written to be collapsible/expandable, with room for more icons. Buttons in dialogs can now be activated using the Tab ↹ and ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ key commands ( bug 50047). This saves time for editors, because you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to click a button. We fixed a handful of bugs that affected only certain articles or certain browsers, including toolbar buttons in Firefox ( bug 51986) and dialog panels that didn't always scroll correctly ( bug 51739). Bugs with undo/redo getting confused have been fixed ( T54113).
Images, in addition to getting references displaying correctly, also saw improvements with a set-empty |link=
parameter no longer corrupted (51963). We corrected thumbnail images' display so that they look don't wrong in some contexts (
bug 51995). Inserted images no longer explicitly set their alignment, but instead inherit the default position in compliance with the Manual of Style (
bug 51851).
More edit notices, warnings, and metadata like information about Pending Changes on an article now appear as appropriate ( bug 49699). When new articles are created, users are now shown the <newarticletext> message ( bug 51459). VisualEditor now handles templates that set "meta" items (like a category) and nothing else better ( bug 51322). If the database is locked when a user tries to save with VisualEditor, they now get a message telling them as such and an opportunity to try again, rather than a silent failure ( bug 51636).
When you save the page, having the default preference set to "mark all my edits as minor by default" no longer overrides the setting in the save dialog ( bug 51515). If you open VisualEditor from a section edit link, the section's title will be pre-filled in in the edit summary box when you go to save it ( bug 50872). The size of the save dialog box in the Monobook skin has been fixed ( bug 50058). Also, wikipage content handlers like sortable tables are re-run automatically after saving ( T53565).
A very early version of the mathematics equation editor is now available for testing on mw:Mediawiki. If you would like to help improve the user interface for math editor, please test out the extension at mw:Mediawiki:Sandbox and leave your comments directly at the discussion page for the Math Node User Interface at Mediawiki. You should be able to use your regular username and password should to login to Mediawiki.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:40, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
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I'd like to present you this barnstar for improving the Tomb Raider article to GA status. It was on my to-do list for this month, but you beat me to the punch and did a great job. Keep up the good work.-- WWETrishMickiefan ( talk) 23:08, 23 August 2013 (UTC) |
This Thursday's VisualEditor update was mostly about stability and performance improvements, and some preparatory work for major planned improvements, along with bug fixes for non-English language support and right-to-left text. Everything that the English Wikipedia received today has been running on Mediawiki for a week already.
Officially, the problem with the link inspector not linking to a specific section on a page ( bug 53219) was fixed in this release, although that critical patch actually appeared here earlier.
A number of bugs related to copy-and-paste functionality were fixed ( 48604, bug 50043, bug 53362, bug 51538, among others). Full rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor is expected "soon".
In other fixes, you can no longer add empty ref tags (<ref/>
) (
bug 53345). Selecting both an image and some text, and then trying to add a link, previously deleted the selected image and the text. This was fixed in
bug 50127. There was another problem related to using arrow keys to move the cursor next to an inline image that was fixed (
bug 53507).
Looking ahead: The next planned upgrade is scheduled for next Thursday, and you should expect to find a redesigned toolbar with drop-down menus that include room for references, templates, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting. There will also be keyboard shortcuts for setting the format (paragraph vs section headings).
If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being determined at this time. Generally speaking, languages that depend on the input method editor are not going to receive VisualEditor this month. The current target date is Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:44, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
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VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.
As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add <u>
(underline), <sub>
(subscript), and <sup>
(superscript), <s>
(strikethrough) and <code>
(computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at
Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.
In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references ( bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label ( bug 51670).
In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl+0 sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl+1 up to Ctrl+6 sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl+7 sets it as pre-formatted ( bug 33512). Ctrl+2, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.
Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" ( bug 50452).
Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application ( bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.
Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate ( bug 53503).
Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter ( bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again ( bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.
If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:47, 19 September 2013 (UTC)