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The Signpost: 08 January 2014[edit]

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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked mostly minor features and fixing bugs. A few significant bugs include working around a bug in CSSJanus that was wrongly flipping images used in some templates in right-to-left (RTL) environments (bug 50910) a major bug that meant inserting any template or other transclusion failed (bug 59002), a major but quickly resolved problem due to an unannounced change in MediaWiki core, which caused VisualEditor to crash on trying to save (bug 59867). This last bugs did not appear on any Wikipedia. Additionally, significant work has been done in the background to make VisualEditor work as an independent editing system.

As of today, VisualEditor is now available as an opt-out feature to all users at 149 active Wikipedias.

  • The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has a very basic set of characters. The character inserter is especially important for languages that use Latin and Cyrillic alphabets with unusual characters or frequent diacritics. Your feedback on the character inserter is requested. In addition to feedback from any interested editor, the developers would particularly like to hear from anyone who speaks any of the 50+ languages listed under Phase 5 at mw:VisualEditor/Rollouts, including Breton, Mongolian, Icelandic, Welsh, Afrikaans, Macedonian, and Azerbaijani.
  • meta:Office hours on IRC have been heavily attended recently. The next one will be held this coming Wednesday, 22 January at 23:00 UTC.
  • You can now edit some of the page settings in the "options" dialog – __NOTOC__ and __FORCETOC__ as selection (forced on, forced off, or default setting; bugs 56866 and 56867) and __NOEDITSECTION__ as a checkbox (bug 57166).
  • The automated browser tests were adjusted to speed them up and bind more correctly to list items in lists, and updated to a newer version of their ruby dependencies. You can monitor the automated browser tests' results (triggered every twelve hours) live on the server.
  • Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide was updated recently to show some new and upcoming features.

Looking ahead: The character formatting menu on the toolbar will get a drop-down indicator next Thursday. The reference and media items will be the first two listed in the Insert menu. The help menu will get a page listing the keyboard shortcuts. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including support for alignment (left, right, and center) and better control over image size (including default and upright sizes). The developers are also working on support for editing redirects and image galleries.

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Wikidata weekly summary #93[edit]

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The Signpost: 15 January 2014[edit]

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The Signpost: 22 January 2014[edit]

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014[edit]

The Signpost: 29 January 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #96[edit]

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    • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
  • Development
    • More work on badges by Bene*
    • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
    • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
    • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
    • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
    • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
  • Monthly Tasks
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This Month in GLAM: January 2014[edit]



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  • France report: Public Domain Day; photographs
  • Germany report: WMDE-GLAM-Highlights in 2014
  • Netherlands report: New Years Reception; 550 years States General; Content donation University Museum; Wikipedians in Residence; OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey
  • Sweden report: Digitization; list creation
  • Switzerland report: The Wikipedians in Residence of the Swiss National Library have started their work
  • UK report: Voices from the BBC Archives plus Zoos, coins and Poets
  • USA report: GLAM-Wiki activities in the USA
  • Open Access report: Open Access Media Importer; Open Access File of the Day
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The Signpost: 12 February 2014[edit]

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    • Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
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    • Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
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    • Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
    • Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
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This Month in Education: February 2014[edit]



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VisualEditor Newsletter—February 2014[edit]

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You can easily re-use references by going to the Insert menu, choosing "Reference", and clicking on "Use an existing reference" in the lower left corner. A list of all references, their numbers, and their ref names (if any) will be shown. You can search the list for any author, title, date, or other keyword. Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some small changes to the user interface, such as moving the reference item to the top of the Insert menu, as well as some minor features and fixing bugs, especially for rich copying and pasting of references.

The biggest change was the addition of more features to the image dialog, including the ability to set alignment (left, right, center), framing options (thumbnail, frame, frameless, and none), adding alt text, and defining the size manually. There is still some work to be done here, including a quick way to set the default size.

  • The main priority is redesigning the reference dialog, with the goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs and URLs and streamlining the process. Current concept drawings are available at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
  • A few bugs in the existing reference dialog were fixed. The toolbar was simplified to remove galleries and lists from the reference dialog. When you re-use references, it now correctly displays the references again, rather than just the number and name. If you paste content into a dialog that can't fit there (e.g. ==section headings== in references), it now strips out the inappropriate HTML.
  • You can now edit image galleries inside VisualEditor. At this time, the gallery tool is a very limited option that gives you access to the wikitext. It will see significant improvements at a later date.
  • The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu is being redesigned. Your feedback on the special character inserter is still wanted, especially if you depend on Wikipedia's character inserters for your normal editing rather than using the ones built into your computer.
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu (three bars next to the Cancel button) (T54844).
  • If you edit categories, your changes will now display correctly after saving the page (T50560).
  • Saving the page should be faster now (T61660).
  • Any community can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData by leaving a note at T53734.

Looking ahead: The link tool will tell you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. The warning about wikitext will hide itself after you remove the wikitext markup in that paragraph. Support for creating and editing redirects is in the pipeline. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including default and upright sizes. The developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments, some behavioral magic words like DISPLAYTITLE, and in-line language setting (dir="rtl").

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 February 2014[edit]

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher 13:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Historiography[edit]

Hi there, Ruud - I've been working on cleaning up the contents of Category:Historiography in recent days. I just came across Category:Academic genealogies and its main article, and I'm perplexed as to why you chose Category:Historiography of science as a parent cat, rather than Category:History of science. I've already implemented that change, but I thought I'd give you the opportunity to offer an explanation if you feel that there is a sound reason for to designate them as "historiography". Regards, Cgingold (talk) 13:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't remember doing that, or why. Category:History of science indeed seems like a much more appropriate parent category. Feel free to correct it. Regards, —Ruud 13:37, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your amazingly quick reply, Ruud. Btw, when I saw your pic on your User page I thought to myself, "Yes, he does look like a really nice guy!" You may be Ruud, but you are not at all "rude". :) Best regards, Cgingold (talk) 13:46, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, now I try to recall why I made this categorization, the following came to mind: the main article on Academic genealogy is probably somewhat more of a meta-historical concept than a historical one. The articles in Category:Academic genealogies, containing actual academic genealogies, definitely belong in Category:History of science, but I'll leave the categorization of Academic genealogy to your judgment. —Ruud 13:53, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your followup comment. I will take another look with that in mind just to be sure I got it right! Cgingold (talk) 14:02, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 February 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #99[edit]

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This Month in GLAM: February 2014[edit]



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  • France report: National Archives; Sèvres & mass uploads; Wikipedians in the European Parliament
  • Germany report: Claim open culture, again and again
  • India report: National Museum, New Delhi, India (January 2-5, 2014)
  • Netherlands report: Art and Feminism; Wikipedian in Residence; War memorials
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VisualEditor newsletter—March 2014[edit]

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The template dialog has been simplified to make it faster and easier to add parameter data. Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on changes to the template and image dialogs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks was the redesign of the template dialog. The template dialog now opens in a simplified mode that lists parameters and their descriptions. (The complex multi-item transclusion mode can be reached by clicking on "Show options" from inside the simplified template dialog.) Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. With today's update, searching for template parameters will become case-insensitive, and required template parameters will display an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. In addition to making it quicker and easier to see everything when you edit typical templates, this work was necessary to prepare for the forthcoming simplified citation dialog. The main priority in the coming weeks is building this new citation dialog, with the ultimate goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs, URLs, DOIs and other quick-fills. This will add a new button on the toolbar, with the citation templates available picked by each wiki's community. Concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.

  • The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. Pages that exist, but are not indexed by the search engine, are treated like non-existent pages (T56361).
  • Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from the paragraph you are editing.
  • The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has been slightly redesigned, to introduce larger buttons. Your suggestions for more significant changes to the special character inserter are still wanted.
  • The page options menu (three bars, next to the Cancel button) has expanded. You can create and edit redirect pages, set page options like __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__, and more. New keyboard shortcuts are listed there, and include undoing the last action, clearing formatting, and showing the shortcut help window. If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged.
  • It is easier to edit images. There are more options and they are explained better. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. You can now set image sizes to the default, if another size was previously specified. Full support for upright sizing systems, which more readily adapt image sizes to the reader's screen size, is planned.
  • VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. These "slugs" are now smaller than normal blank lines, and are animated to be different from actual blank lines.
  • You can use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+S shortcuts to open the save window, and you can preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window.
  • After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed to the Interlingual Occidental Wikipedia, the Portuguese Wikibooks, and the French Wikiversity.
  • Any community can ask for custom icons for their language in the character formatting menu (bold, italic, etc.) by making a request on Bugzilla or by contacting Product Manager James Forrester.

The developers apologize for a regression bug with the deployment on 6 March 2014, which caused the incorrect removal of |upright size definitions on a handful of pages on the English Wikipedia, among others. The root cause was fixed, and the broken pages were fixed soon after.

Looking ahead: Several template dialogs will become more compact. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. You will be able to see the Table of Contents change live as you edit the page, rather than it being hidden. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") may be offered to a few Wikipedias soon.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on 19 April 2014 at 2000 UTC. Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #106[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 23 April 2014[edit]

VisualEditor newsletter—April 2014[edit]

Did you know?

You can use VisualEditor to make redirects. First, remove any unwanted content from the page. Then go to the "Page options" menu (next to "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽") and choose the "Page settings" item. Click the box to "Redirect this page to". In the box, type in the name of the page that you want to redirect this page to.

You can also set or remove categories for the redirect in the "Page options" menu. Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on performance improvements, image settings, and preparation for a simplified citation template tool in its own menu.

  • In an oft-requested improvement, VisualEditor now displays red links (links to non-existent pages) in the proper color. Links to sister projects and external URLs are still the same blue as local links.
  • You can now open templates by double-clicking them or by selecting them and pressing Return. This also works for references, images, galleries, mathematical equations, and other "nodes".
  • VisualEditor has been disabled for pages that were created as translations of other pages using the Translate extension (common at Meta and MediaWiki.org). If a page has been marked for translation, you will see a warning if you try to edit it using VisualEditor.
  • When you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor, the full protection notice and most recent log entry are displayed. Blocked users see the standard message for blocked users.
  • The developers fixed a bug that caused links on sub-pages to point to the wrong location.
  • The size-changing controls in the advanced settings section of the media or image dialog were simplified further. VisualEditor's media dialog supports more image display styles, like borderless images.
  • If there is not enough space on your screen to display all of the tabs (for instance, if your browser window is too narrow), the second edit tab will now fold into the drop-down menu (where the "Move" item is currently housed). On the English Wikipedia, this moves the "Edit beta" tab into the menu; on most projects, it moves the "Edit source" tab. This is only enabled in the default Vector skin, not for Monobook users. See this image for an example showing the "Edit source" and "View history" tabs after they moved into the drop-down menu.
  • After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed as an opt-in feature at Meta and on the French Wikinews.
The drop-down menu is on the right, next to the search box.

Looking ahead: A new, locally controlled menu of citation templates will put citations immediately in front of users. You will soon be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) is being developed. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") will be offered as a Beta Feature soon. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

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Wikidata weekly summary #107[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:18, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 April 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #108[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

The Signpost: 07 May 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #109[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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This Month in GLAM: April 2014[edit]



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5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Heinrich Suter (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
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The Signpost: 14 May 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #110[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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VisualEditor newsletter—May 2014[edit]

Did you know?

The cite menu offers quick access to up to five citation templates. If your wiki has enabled the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, press "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" and select the appropriate template from the menu.

Existing citations that use these templates can be edited either using the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" tool or by selecting the reference and choosing the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu.

Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on the new citation tool, improving performance, reducing technical debt, and other infrastructure needs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks is the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". The new citation menu offers a locally configurable list of citation templates on the main toolbar. It adds or opens references using the simplified template dialog that was deployed last month. This tool is in addition to the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu, and it is not displayed unless it has been configured for that wiki. To enable this tool on your wiki, see the instructions at VisualEditor/Citation tool.

Eventually, the VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for these citations. When this long-awaited feature is created, you could add an ISBN, URL, DOI or other identifier to the citation tool, and VisualEditor would automatically fill in as much information for that source as possible. The concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog, and your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted.

  • There is a new Beta Feature for setting content language and direction. This allows editors who have opted in to use the "Language" tool in the "Insert" menu to add HTML span tags that label text with the language and as being left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL), like this: <span lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span>. This tool is most useful for pages whose text combines multiple languages with different directions, common on Right-to-Left wikis.
  • The tool for editing mathematics formulae in VisualEditor has been slightly updated and is now available to all users, as the "⧼math-visualeditor-mwmathinspector-title⧽" item in the "Insert" menu. It uses LaTeX like in the wikitext editor.
  • The layout of template dialogs has been changed, putting the label above the field. Parameters are now called "fields", to avoid a technical term that many editors are unfamiliar with.
  • TemplateData has been expanded: You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData, and VisualEditor will display them in the template dialogs like required ones. "Suggested" is recommended for parameters that are commonly used, but not actually required to make the template work. There is also a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name, for file names. The template tool can now tell you if a parameter is marked as being obsolete.
  • Some templates that previously displayed strangely due to absolute CSS positioning hacks should now display correctly.
  • Several messages have changed: The notices shown when you save a page have been merged into those used in the wikitext editor, for consistency. The message shown when you "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽" out of an edit is clearer. The beta dialog notice, which is shown the first time you open VisualEditor, will be hidden for logged-in users via a user preference rather than a cookie. As a result of this change, the beta notice will show up one last time for all logged-in users on their next VisualEditor use after Thursday's upgrade.
  • Adding a category that is a redirect to another category prompts you to add the target category instead of the redirect.
  • In the "Images and media" dialog, it is no longer possible to set a redundant border for thumbnail and framed images.
  • There is a new Template Documentation Editor for TemplateData. You can test it by editing a documentation subpage (not a template page) at Mediawiki.org: edit mw:Template:Sandbox/doc, and then click "Manage template documentation" above the wikitext edit box. If your community would like to use this TemplateData editor at your project, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
  • There have been multiple small changes to the appearance: External links are shown in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. This is a lighter shade of blue than the internal links. The styling of the "Style text" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin. VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽" dialog, now use a "loading" animation of moving lines, rather than animated GIF images. Other changes were made to the appearance upon opening a page in VisualEditor which should make the transition between reading and editing be smoother.
  • The developers merged in many minor fixes and improvements to MediaWiki interface integration (e.g., edit notices), and made VisualEditor handle Education Program pages better.
  • At the request of the community, VisualEditor has been deployed to Commons as an opt-in. It is currently available by default for 161 Wikipedia language editions and by opt-in through Beta Features at all others, as well as on several non-Wikipedia sites.

Looking ahead: The toolbar from the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. More buttons and icons will be accessible from the keyboard. The "Keyboard shortcuts" link will be moved out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) and inline images is being developed. You will be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. VisualEditor will be available to all users on mobile devices and tablet computers. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 10:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:16, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 21 May 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #110[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Request for comment[edit]

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Wikidata weekly summary #111[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 28 May 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #112[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 04 June 2014[edit]

This Month in GLAM: May 2014[edit]



Headlines
  • Netherlands report: Libraries; Wikidata & DBpedia; Wikipedians in Residence; Open Culture Data
  • Norway report: 2 x GLAM edit-a-thons
  • Sweden report: Award, competitions and Coat of Arms
  • UK report: No trouble at t'mill; Assisting Metropolitan Police with image licensing enquiries; Wikimania is coming
  • USA report: New Edit-a-thons; GLAM at Wikiconference USA; Activities in New York City
  • Open Access report: WikiProject Open Access launched on the English Wikisource
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346 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Esoteric programming language (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Add sources
64 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Pure function (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Axiomatic semantics (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
97 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Poon Lim (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
195 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Standard ML (talk) Please add more images Please add more sources Add sources
207 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Japanese role-playing game (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
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266 Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: A Monitor (synchronization) (talk) Please add more sources Cleanup
224 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start Type theory (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Expand
132 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Physical address (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Expand
89 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA History of mathematical notation (talk) Expand
979 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Lagrangian point (talk) Unencyclopaedic
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub List (abstract data type) (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
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119 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Runtime system (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
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3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Ruy de Queiroz (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
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The Signpost: 11 June 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #113[edit]

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This Month in Education: June 2014[edit]



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The Signpost: 18 June 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #114[edit]

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VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014[edit]

The character formatting menu

Did you know?

The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

  • They have moved the "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
  • You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
  • The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type "date" for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and "boolean" for values which are true or false. Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like {{citeweb}} → {{cite web}}) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964). You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
  • Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
  • They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references. When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead.
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed. Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the "Page options" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler.

Looking ahead[edit]

The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

Supporting your wiki[edit]

Please read VisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

If you speak a language other than English, we need your help with translating the user guide. The guide is out of date or incomplete for many languages, and what's on your wiki may not be the most recent translation. Please contact me if you need help getting started with translation work on MediaWiki.org.

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 share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 21:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas and Pacific Islands) or on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 9:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East, Asia).

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The Signpost: 25 June 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #115[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Wikidata weekly summary #116[edit]

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014[edit]

This Month in GLAM: June 2014[edit]



Headlines
  • Belgium report: Bouchout Declaration on Open Access to Biodiversity data; Virtual collaboration in the government
  • France report: Round table in Brussels; Video at Sèvres; 70th anniversary of the D-Day
  • Germany report: Exhibition photography
  • Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México
  • Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth
  • Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden
  • UK report: Free Culture; Image releases
  • USA report: A GLAM Day Out! in Philadelphia; Local History at the Local Library
  • Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania
  • Open Access report: Open biodiversity data; Automated import of scholarly journal articles into Wikisource
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Category:Documentary films about geology[edit]

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VisualEditor newsletter—July and August 2014[edit]

The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

Screenshot of VisualEditor's link tool
Dialog boxes in VisualEditor have been re-designed to use action words instead of icons. This has increased the number of items that need to be translated. The user guide is also being updated.

The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.

  • Hidden HTML comments (notes visible to editors, but not to readers) can now be read, edited, inserted, and removed. A small icon (a white exclamation mark on a dot) marks the location of each comments. You can click on the icon to see the comment.
  • You can now drag and drop text and templates as well as images. A new placement line makes it much easier to see where you are dropping the item. Images can no longer be dropped into the middle of paragraphs.
  • All references and footnotes (<ref> tags) are now made through the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, including the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Insert" menu. The "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip⧽" is still added via the "Insert" menu.
  • When you add an image or other media file, you are now prompted to add an image caption immediately. You can also replace an image whilst keeping the original caption and other settings.
  • All tablet users visiting the mobile web version of Wikipedias will be able to opt-in to a version of VisualEditor from 14 August. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu.
  • The link tool has a new "Open" button that will open a linked page in another tab so you can make sure a link is the right one.
  • The "Cancel" button in the toolbar has been removed based on user testing. To cancel any edit, you can leave the page by clicking the Read tab, the back button in your browser, or closing the browser window without saving your changes.

Looking ahead[edit]

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Feedback opportunities[edit]

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Wikidata weekly summary #122[edit]

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  • Development
    • Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
    • Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
    • Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
    • We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
    • Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
    • Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
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The Signpost: 17 September 2014[edit]

The Signpost: 24 September 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #126[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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651 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Scheme (programming language) (talk) Add sources
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456 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Python syntax and semantics (talk) Please add more images Please add more sources Cleanup
45 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Synchronous programming language (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Cleanup
218 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Microsoft Windows library files (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Cleanup
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76 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Linear logic (talk) Please add more images Please add more sources Expand
66 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Operational semantics (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,978 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (talk) Unencyclopaedic
2,450 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Homer (talk) Unencyclopaedic
771 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Comparison of Java and C++ (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
90 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start Terminal and nonterminal symbols (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
58 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Name resolution (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
819 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Stack (abstract data type) (talk) Please add more sources Merge
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The Signpost: 01 October 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #127[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
    • ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Investigated and fixed issues with time values
    • Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
    • Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
    • Further work on usage tracking
    • Created smoke tests for items and properties
    • Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
    • Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
  • Monthly Tasks
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VisualEditor newsletter—September and October 2014[edit]

Did you know?

TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.

With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.

See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

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.

Increased support for devices and browsers[edit]

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.

TemplateData editor[edit]

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.

Other changes[edit]

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).

Looking ahead[edit]

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.

Supporting your wiki[edit]

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)[reply]

The Signpost: 08 October 2014[edit]

This Month in GLAM: September 2014[edit]



Headlines
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Wikidata weekly summary #128[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 15 October 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #129[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 22 October 2014[edit]

Category:Category talk:C programming language family[edit]

Category:Category talk:C programming language family, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:15, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #114[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
    • Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
    • When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
    • Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
    • Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
    • Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
    • Work on entity usage tracking
    • Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
    • Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
    • Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
    • Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
  • Monthly Tasks
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The Signpost: 29 October 2014[edit]

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17 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start C Sharp 2.0 (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
248 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Japanese role-playing game (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
17 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
228 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start Pimsleur method (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Expand
219 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start Type theory (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Expand
75 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Metaclass (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
178 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub List (abstract data type) (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
30 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C GURPS Infinite Worlds (talk) Please add more images Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
33 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Top type (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Merge
688 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: B ?: (talk) Please add more images Please add more sources Merge
408 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start Tree (graph theory) (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
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551 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Tcl (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Wikify
13 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Device driver synthesis and verification (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: B Junction Grammar (talk) Please add more wikilinks Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Homeric Prayer (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
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14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Benjamin C. Pierce (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
74 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Early Cretaceous (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Stub
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Wikidata weekly summary #131[edit]

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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)[edit]

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

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Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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VisualEditor newsletter—November 2014[edit]

Screenshot on an iPad, showing how to switch from one editor to the other
Did you know?

VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Login and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings in the upper-right corner, to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.

It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available in Mobile Web.

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.

Recent improvements[edit]

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 [1] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.

TemplateData[edit]

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.

Looking ahead[edit]

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)[reply]

Small comment[edit]

I respect you and your decisions.

In my opinion the style of lambda calculus page is dangerous. It shows complete disrespect to the reader. I don't think that is a good image for academics.

Every is up to you. It is your page. You don't need to insult me to achieve your goal. But if you need to, so be it.

Thepigdog (talk) 14:14, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 05 November 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #132[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Lydia, Magnus and Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the ODI award gala
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This Month in GLAM: October 2014[edit]



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Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 23:35, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #133[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
    • GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Help make sure these items have labels in your language
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
    • Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
    • Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
    • Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
    • Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
    • Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
    • Improved calendar model display
  • Monthly Tasks
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The Signpost: 12 November 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #134[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 26 November 2014[edit]

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Wikidata weekly summary #136[edit]

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Toploftical[edit]

Yes, that is an alternative id I use sometimes. I just looked up Sock Puppet and did not know it was such a bad thing. I used it because of the Privacy exception. I am slightly known to one of the people mentioned and did not want to cause him any embarrassment. I am sorry that you do not think that there is any conflict of interest on the HoTT page. I believe there is. I guess I will just give up on trying to fix it even though it is a bit of a mess.

I notice that within a short time after removing my delete tag that you added a comment to the IAS talk page regarding the negative comments of Hamming. I hope this was not a case of Wikihounding--Foobarnix (talk) 22:15, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 December 2014[edit]

This Month in GLAM: November 2014[edit]



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Homotopy type theory[edit]

Please wait a few minutes before deleting everything. I was in the process of adding detailed discussion of these tags to Talk:Univalent foundations. Wait an hour or two and then state your objections there. You might want to take a look this page--15:52, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

remarks added on 12-17-14

On 8 December 2014 you challenged me with the statement, There might be potential for a conflict of interests here, but I'm not seeing any to be honest. You also haven't offered anything more than hypotheticals.

I now respond to that challenge.

The history–and especially the relationship between Univalent foundations and Homotopy type theory–is misrepresented in the current WP articles. Consider:

The first higher-dimensional models were constructed by Awodey and Warren in 2005 using Quillen model categories, and were presented at several conferences thereafter. These included FMCS 2006[1] at which Warren gave a talk entitled "Homotopy models of intensional type theory", a special conference about identity types at Uppsala in 2006[2] at which Warren gave a talk entitled "Model categories and intensional identity types", and PSSL86 in 2007[3] at which Awodey gave a talk entitled "Homotopy type theory" (this may have been the first public usage of that term, which was coined by Awodey). Awodey and Warren summarized their results in the paper "Homotopy theoretic models of identity types", which was posted on the ArXiv preprint server in 2007[4] and published in 2009; a more detailed version appeared in Warren's thesis "Homotopy theoretic aspects of constructive type theory" in 2008.

Some confusion is understandable because on his UF page in WP, VV uses "(Univalent) Foundations in three different senses:

1. his programme (or just vision) of the eventual outcome of HoTT, as done by him, as a foundation for constructive, machine-checkable math;
2. the work that has already been done and is being done, by many people, on HoTT, as embodied in the HoTT book. For example, VV mentions the work of Coquand and his collaborators on cubical type theory. I strongly believe that Coquand considers himself to be contributing to HoTT, not to VV's fork;
3. most specifically, to the particular library called Univalent Foundations written by VV in Coq and put on github. There seems to be no question that this predates other actual libraries. This was later revised by Shulman and put into the HoTT library, which was later added to many people.

AFAIK, everyone but VV uses "HoTT" and "UF" interchangeably, as in the title of the HoTT book or in the nLab page on HoTT

UF is now VV's name for his new fork. It used to mean the same as HoTT, as in the title of the book. UF does not at all predate HoTT. HoTT was developed independently by Awodey and Warren at about the same time as VV's UF. The term "homotopy type theory" is Awodey's. VV added his Axiom of Univalence and universes. These were quickly accepted as part of HoTT.

Nobody doubts VV's central role in the development of HoTT. But I want to emphasize the VV has personally written most of Homotopy type theory article, much of his own biographical article Vladimir Voevodsky, and all of Univalent foundations article. If that is not conflict of interest I do not know what is.

Actually I sort of agree with User:Mark viking that the HoTT article's history section should be purged of synthesis, cut back to just the most basic uncontroversial facts or removed altogether until secondary sources develop. IAC, the current version written by VV is just plain wrong.

citations for Homotopy type theory
  1. ^ Foundational Methods in Computer Science, University of Calgary, June 7th - 9th, 2006
  2. ^ Identity Types - Topological and Categorical Structure, Workshop, Uppsala, November 13-14, 2006
  3. ^ 86th edition of the Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic, Henri Poincaré University, September 8-9 2007
  4. ^ Homotopy theoretic models of identity types, by Steve Awodey and Michael A. Warren, Cornell University Library, September 3, 2007

Forgive me for adding a reflist tag to your talk page. It was the most handy way to handle my references. Feel free to remove it.--Foobarnix (talk) 17:38, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

remarks added on 12-17-14

Thank you for your continuing work on this acticle. Adding the cover the HoTT book was a great idea. I do think that listing all of the participants in the 'Special Year' is unnecessary. If the idea was to make sure everybody gets credit, there are other ways to do that. Moreover, the list makes no distinction between the participants and the visitors–a distinction probably important to the main researchers. Anybody who is interested can simply click on the link to the book to find this list. I recommend taking it out. The article is already getting a bit cluttered.--Foobarnix (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #137[edit]

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VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014[edit]

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Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements[edit]

Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1. " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead[edit]

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

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