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VisualEditor newsletter—July and August 2014

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.

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

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. 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 adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.

Feedback opportunities

The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30.

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at the VisualEditor feedback page or by joining the office hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).

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Hello from Anissa ducere

I wrote an article on Dorcas Makgato-Malesu but it was deleted because of promotion. I asked many times what was the promotion on but there wasn't any response. I made some changes but the article was still deleted. Please advise and if I can retrieve the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anissa ducere (talk • contribs) 03:54, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Anissa ducere: Sorry for the delayed response. The current article looks much better, whereas the older one appeared to read more like an advertisement. Details like her general hobbies and interests also didn't really offer any encyclopedic value. Try to be impartial in your authoring, careful to disregard opinions and stay focused on the facts. You can learn more about our policy on neutrality at WP:NPOV and our conflict of interest guideline at WP:COI. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:44, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bíblia Questionário Liga

Musik, you blocked user:Bíblia Questionário Liga as a promotional user name. There was also promotional material on the user page, but it was added by a different user, User:Khalil289. You may wish to block this account. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:56, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:Bíblia Questionário Liga was blocked per our username policy, nothing beyond that. While it's possible the accounts are related, I do not immediately see a reason to block User:Khalil289, especially since they blanked their only contributions. Thanks for the notice — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:49, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from 2607:F470:A:2:21F:5BFF:FE30:A9B5

Hello MusikAnimal- I noticed that you deleted my entry on 'Quentin Stoltzfus' on 8-13-14 due to copyright violation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Stoltzfus

I do have explicit permission from the writer to republish the article cited on the page. His contact info is matthewfritch@comcast.net if you would like to verify that.

Please let me know if I should there are further steps I should take to reinstate the entry.

orignal article here:

http://www.wonderingsound.com/interview/who-is/who-are-light-heat/)

--2607:F470:A:2:21F:5BFF:FE30:A9B5 (talk) 17:21, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! For legal reason we cannot accept copyrighted material without proper licensing in place. There are several ways to do this. See WP:DONATETEXT for the full instructions. Let me know if you need any help, thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:41, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Changes re: Josh Howard Page

Hi MusikAnimal,

I got your message re: the Josh Howard page changes that I made. I am sorry for not explaining why I made the changes, I am still learning the editing process and didn't realize the importance of that.

I made the changes because 1) there was information about his NBA career listed under his college career section, 2) because his NBA career section began with a grammatically incorrect and poorly worded sentence that contained dead links and 3) because the information on his NBA page was incomplete and not ordered correctly.

I realize I could go back and make the changes again and learn to correctly log my changes, but if you could help and point me in the direction of how to do that without starting over at the beginning it would be much appreciated!

Thanks, Liaobuqi (talk) 01:06, 14 August 2014 (UTC)liaobuqi 7:05pm MST, 8/13/2014[reply]

I have gone back and restored my changes and provided my reasons in the edit summary. Please do contact me if you have any more questions or if I did this in an incorrect manner.

Thanks, Liaobuqi (talk) 01:43, 14 August 2014 (UTC)liaobuqi, 7:42pm MST, 8/13/2014[reply]

@Liaobuqi: Hey! First off, I'd like to formally welcome you to Wikipedia. I've left some useful links on your talk page that may assist you in getting more familiar with our environment. Wikipedia is a rewarding collaborative community and I'm happy to see you here.

Looks like you've already figured out how to supply an edit summary with your changes. While we prefer to always use an edit summary, it is really only pertinent when making what may appear to be controversial changes. In your case, removal a large of amount of sourced material. That being said, I think your rationale for removal is perfectly valid and thank you for taking the time to explain it.

You asked how to apply your changes without having to redo them from scratch. Perhaps you are not familiar with the concept of a diff, which is the record of a change made to a page. Every change made can be restored in part or full. If you check the page history, you'll see your work. The diff you were referring to is probably this one, by viewing it you could simply copy and paste your work to the current version of the article. There is also the concept of undoing changes. Here I reverted your work in a single edit, so you could have also undone my edit and supplied the edit summary that way. Careful of not misusing it, the undo function can be quite handy.

Thanks again for helping improve Wikipedia. If you need any help moving forward don't hesitate to ask. — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:34, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Joan lama

SORRY

I am so sorry.Joan lama (talk) 16:24, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]