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Reflinks fails to fix refs that include a language icon e.g. (in French)

  • "Bundled" refs also remained unfilled e.g. [4]

--Catlemur (talk) 17:53, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

References

@Catlemur: About {{fr icon}}, the tool takes a "conservative" approach when dealing with references. When it comes across anything more than a bare link in a reference (i.e. the template), it skips the reference altogether. Maybe it can try to reuse more information from the original reference. And the second error isn't caused by the #tag magic word but the <!-- Bot generated title --> comment as the parser is not very clever. However, the tool will still skip the first one in the bundled references because of the {{dead link}} template. I'm dealing with the parser thingy. Thanks for the report. Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 09:13, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
@Catlemur: I've improved citation parsing, and now it should not be confused by comments within references. Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 09:53, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I tried it again and the bundled refs remained unfixed.--Catlemur (talk) 13:31, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Issue resolved, thanks a lot.--Catlemur (talk) 20:29, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

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 Fixed You want some fuel? Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 09:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Read, thanks. GlobalUserPage rocks!
16:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

toollabs:fengtools/reflinks/

Hi, Zhaofeng Li, just to let you know your server is down. Lotje (talk) 06:28, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

@Lotje: See [10]. It should be back up now. Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 08:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

refs ignored

There are two refs in this article that Reflinks seems to ignore, neither converting nor listing them as being impossible to operate on. In this case, one is from Bloomberg and the other is China Worker. -- Ohc ¡digame! 06:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

@Ohconfucius:  Confirmed The tool thought <ref name=wsj1412398431/> (before the ref) was the start tag of the Bloomberg reference. Fixing it. Thanks for the report. Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 09:34, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, -- Ohc ¡digame! 08:43, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Somewhat fixed I've made a dirty patch, but it may cause the script to ignore references whose names contain /. Will try to find a better solution later. 03:59, 3 March 2015 (UTC)Zhaofeng Li [talkcontribs]

It seems that there are two references in Pu Zhiqiang that are not resolved by reFill. -- Ohc ¡digame! 08:43, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ohconfucius: Looking into it. Zhaofeng Li [talkcontribs] 03:59, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
@Ohconfucius: Apologies for forgetting this thread. If you mean the nybooks.com and bbc.com references, the tool seems to be able to pick them up just fine. Zhaofeng Li [talkcontribs] 13:39, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Ref removed outright

Read, thanks.
16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Hey there! I just tried using Reflinks for the Portuguese Wikipedia but the "pt" option is missing from the list of projects... Victão Lopes Fala! 00:24, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

@Victor Lopes:  Fixed Thanks for the note. Zhaofeng Li [talkcontribs] 04:09, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Nice, thank you very much. Victão Lopes Fala! 17:34, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Read, thanks.
15:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Read, thanks.
15:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

reFill

Hi, Zhaofeng Li, just to let you know reFill is down. Lotje (talk) 07:02, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

@Lotje: Appears to be working for me. Zhaofeng Li [talkcontribs] 07:07, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
@Zhaofeng Li: Strange... very strange, now it is prepared to follow me again. Thank you for your time and have ha great day. Lotje (talk) 07:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Read, thanks.
15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Read, thanks.
15:19, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello,
I'd like to ask if there's any tool that can replace User:Dispenser/Checklinks. If no, can you help migrating it to wmflab? (Ik it's a hard work but Checklink's really a nice tool)
~Alexanderlimetalk~ 15:04, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

@Alexanderlime: I don't think there is one, and unfortunately the source code of the tool isn't available, making migrating impossible. Someone can rewrite the tool from scratch like what I've done with the original Reflinks, but that's a different story. It'll require much more work and no one has volunteered to do that. The tool is online on a third-party server, anyway. Zhaofeng Li [talkcontribs] 15:13, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Read, thanks.
Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:


Screenshot of Citoid's first dialog


Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:


Screenshot of Citoid's initial results


After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.


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 VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements

VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

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

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including AfrikaansAzerbaijaniBretonKyrgyzMacedonianMongolianTatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead (T90734).

Looking ahead

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.

Let's work together

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-Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 17:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Read, thanks.
15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Zhaofeng Li. Your reflinks tool seems to be unavailable. The error message is "is not currently serviced." Do you know what might be going on? (also pinging Technical 13) Many thanks.- MrX 21:47, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Never mind [87].- MrX 22:13, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Seems to be happening again. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 19:10, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Never mind - seems to be fixed after all. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 19:50, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

String repetition?

Could you have a look at this, please? Seems to be some string or field being repeated, particularly China Digital Time and China Daily refs. Don't know if it's the metadata or Refill doing that... I think it would not do any harm if these repeated strings were removed. Then there is a small issue of the "(CDT)" suffix that can probably be removed outright. Thanks, -- Ohc ¡digame! 05:16, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

@Ohconfucius: It's the metadata. If you look closely at the browser's title bar, you'll notice that sites often add their names to the end of the title. The tool can intelligently remove the trailing names in many cases, but it can still fail at times. I'll improve the routine later. Thanks for the note. Zhaofeng Li [talkcontribs] 13:48, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

16:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

untitled

Hi MR.Zhaofeng Li I have done the edit by the name User:Palem Srikanth Reddy to Palem Srikanth Reddy and i ask to move that one,but your team has deleted eveerything what z there in the Palem Srikanth Reddy and the entire content is unable to see and it seems we are unable to edit in the page of Palem Srikanth Reddy,Would you please help me out how to done with all the pages again and to update everything in the page,i just need the content again in the page os Palem Srikanth Reddy.Please help me out from this problem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Palem Srikanth Reddy (talkcontribs)

Hi Zhaofeng Li, do you have any idea why this occurs when using the tool? I also came accross it on this article as you may have noticed. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 07:51, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Zhaofeng Li, sorry to trouble you again, but how and where can I find out if this wonderful reFill tool of yours is ready/accepted by the Dutch Wikipedia community? Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 05:19, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
As the tool itself is hosted on the WMFserver, it should be available across all projects. You need to create the vector.js page in the relevant wiki userspace by following the instructions at User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill#Toolbox_link to use the tool. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 09:24, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

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VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

  • Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.
  • If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
  • If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:31, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Zhaofeng Li, just to inform you the Refill tool is still not working. Thanks for looking into it if you have a spare minute. Lotje (talk) 03:58, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

refill

Hi, Zhaofeng Li, toollabs:refill is down, just wanted to inform you. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 13:11, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

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VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).

Screenshot showing the special character tool, selected text, and the special character that will be inserted


Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

Screenshot showing the special character tool and the same text after the special character has been inserted


You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%).  There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. 

In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.  

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

  • Share your ideas and ask questions at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help.
  • If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
  • Please file requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
  • The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre directly, so that she can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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