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Qualcomm Allplay

Qualcomm Allplay platform has been speedy deleted, I have similarly tagged sonos from which the article was derived, let's see consistency in action. Mgillespie (talk) 08:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Since it is a very old page (from 2007) it could simply be reverted to the original, before the promotional content was added, as the company does seem notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article. MB298 (talk) 02:57, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Do my understanding is, that becuase you haven't heard of Qualcomm Allplay hardware platform it got deleted, but becuase you have of sonos, thats OK to stay....

I won't be bothering to add content to Wikipedia in future, its simply not wptg the effort when someone else comes along and tramples over it

barnstar

The Original Barnstar
For quickly and efficiently creating Ammon Bundy in response to current events. LavaBaron (talk) 01:37, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

American date formats

Hi, MB. I noticed that you reviewed the new Katie Fraine article, which employs incorrectly formatted dates for an article written in American English. I would be grateful if you and your fellow new article reviewers would be more conscious of the date formats used in the main body text, infobox, and footnotes. Articles written in American English about American subjects should employ American-style MDY date formats (e.g., January 1, 2015), not British/international-style DMY date formats (e.g., 1 January 2015). There is a limited exception for articles about American military history subjects, which sometimes employ DMY dates. You reviewers are on the front lines of dealing with new users, and gentle guidance could help them get it right, rather than waiting for more experienced editors to correct these articles. Please spread the word. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 06:09, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice. I will make sure to take note of this in the future. MB298 (talk) 00:13, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the review

Thanks for the review and for initiating the talk for Revelation 21. JohnThorne (talk) 00:53, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Your miscellaneous subpage

I suggest that you remove the Tyler entry from there. It could be considered a BLP vio. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:04, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

I removed it. MB298 (talk) 00:33, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

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Joe Biden presidential campaign

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This issue was resolved and found not to be a copyvio. MB298 (talk) 20:20, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Mike Huckabee presidential campaign for deletion

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Wikidata weekly summary #191

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Tech News: 2016-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Problems

  • Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [3]

Changes this week

  • The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [4]
  • New file uploads will now be patrollable. [5]
  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [6][7]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [8]
  • The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [9][10]
  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [11][12]
  • The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Not sure that SF BoS needs a party-affiliation diagram

Hi MB298. I see that you created a party affiliation diagram and added it to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. This seems a little unnecessary to me. Firstly, SF supervisors are elected on a non-partisan basis, so listing political groups or showing them visually doesn't make much sense. Also, as you can see all 11 members happen to be registered Democrats, and that's been the case for quite a while. If you don't mind I'll remove the graphic and the misleading "Political groups: Democratic Party (11)" statement. Aside from this instance, though, thanks for creating these for other bodies that do have partisan elections. Rupert Clayton (talk) 20:11, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

barnstar

The Malheur Occupation Barnstar

For exceptional and tireless work on the Malheur article from day one. LavaBaron (talk) 05:14, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blaine Cooper

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blaine Cooper. Thanks. Reinoutr (talk) 07:10, 15 January 2016 (UTC) --07:10, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Ward (sheriff)

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Ward (sheriff). Thanks. Reinoutr (talk) 17:55, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Don't decide what's notable & what's racist

I am talking about the Korean eyes. It's an ethnological fact that is an existing topic of significant fact (hence notable). Also, being racial & being racist are 2 different concepts. You are warned for article obstruction. Wikibreaking (talk) 03:22, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

I tagged the article for cleanup. MB298 (talk) 03:23, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
That shouldn't be decided by you. 1. The neutrality of this article has been questioned. All I did was quoting academic books on Ethnology. 2. The notability of this article was claimed. It is an existing topic of significant facts, hence it is notable. Quoting on notability, ""Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail" & "The common theme in the notability guidelines is that there must be verifiable". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability 3. The validity of the sources were questioned. They are all legitimate books on Ethnology. All valid.

Wikibreaking (talk) 03:29, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Metlifecare

Many thanks for the assistance and kind words for the Metlifecare article! PragmaticOutcome (talk) 03:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

List of mayors of Washington, D.C.

Why did you revert my edit to this? The table that was given had the exact same information right below it, I felt that it was obviously misplaced. Thanks DoomLexus (talk) 07:50, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Feel free to ignore this, I understand the table now -- sorry for removing it!! I acted in good faith, didn't mean to edit harmfully. DoomLexus (talk) 16:50, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
All is well. MB298 (talk) 17:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #192

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Tech News: 2016-03

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Recent changes

  • You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [13]
  • Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [14]

Changes this week

  • The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [15]
  • MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [16]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Korean eyes listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Korean eyes. Since you had some involvement with the Korean eyes redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mkdwtalk 18:03, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Note about the no content tag

Please wait at least 10 minutes before putting up the tag, it is frowned upon to put one up the second a article starts. Thanks. Wgolf (talk) 00:39, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Wesley Matthews

I just wanted to expand a little bit on this. Jimmy Butler once had this atrocious picture in the infobox and it was agreed upon that the picture was lowering the quality of the article so "any picture is better than no picture" is not always true. Even if it's not in the infobox, it's still not giving the article anything. If you want to start a discussion on it, feel free. I just wanted to mention the Jimmy Butler situation because it's very similar. You can't put all that in an edit summary! —DangerousJXD (talk) 07:21, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [17][18]
  • Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [19]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [20]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [21]
  • The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [22]
  • Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [23]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Until the day I die (film) delete flag

Hi,

I'm new to Wikipedia and wanted to set a skeleton frame for the article on the film - I'm in touch with the director and producer of the film so all the information will be press material. Can I recreate the page since the original deleted one didn't have this info and I took too long in publishing it?


Thanks! Lrtorres (talk) 21:50, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Before you recreate the article, you'll want to make sure it satisfies the film notability criteria. Make sure you cite several reliable sources as well. MB298 (talk) 00:14, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

The film itself is an independent production and was released in a niche cable channel (Cine Latino), not sure how the notability rules will apply but it hasn't garnered many reviews yet. However, the production is complete as of January 2016.

Thanks! 104.179.214.194 (talk) 05:44, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of President Trump

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as President Trump, is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. -- Tavix (talk) 02:40, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Note: Page was redirect. MB298 (talk) 04:05, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Curaçao\

A tag has been placed on Curaçao\ requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. -- Tavix (talk) 04:54, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Note: Page was redirect. MB298 (talk) 04:55, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Ammon Bundy caricature

I've removed the caricature image you added. Unless the caricature itself is a subject of the article, adding it constitutes editorializing, which goes against Wikipedia's WP:NPOV policy. -- The Anome (talk) 12:24, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Trumpa

A tag has been placed on Trumpa requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. -- Tavix (talk) 15:12, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Ammon Bundy Page

Hi MB298, Thanks for the welcome. I really appreciate it. With regards to the Ammon Bundy page, I added "domestic terrorist" based on the US law Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I - CRIMES CHAPTER 113B - TERRORISM Sec. 2331 (5) (B) (ii) which states that "to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion" based on his actions at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for which has been arrested. This is in compliance with Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xanekka (talk • contribs) 18:10, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

I do agree that Bundy should technically be called a domestic terrorist, but on the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge page it has been generally established that they are militants or something along those lines (I guess he would be both). Keep in mind your edits must adhere to the WP:BLP and probably will be reverted at some point if other editors don't think it follows that policy. MB298 (talk) 18:18, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Then can we state in the article that definition of a militant and a domestic terrorist both applies to Bundy? As it stands now, both would be accurate and as the story develops, we or other editors can continue to edit. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xanekka (talk • contribs) 18:23, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #194

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Tech News: 2016-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [26]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [27][28]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [29]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [30]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [31][32]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [33]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [34][35][36]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [37][38]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [39]


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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

3pac listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 3pac. Since you had some involvement with the 3pac redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix (talk) 21:38, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [40]
  • When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [41]
  • RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [42]

Changes this week

  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [43][44]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [45][46]
  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [47][48][49]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

MyIntent Project

MB298, thanks for connecting about the MyIntent page. Here's some more context in case it's helpful? Let me know if you need any other info. The project has made an impact in the lives of over 25,000 individuals and has an ever larger community that is growing quickly. It is a collaborative project that is here to stay over the long term. It has already carved its own slice in American culture, by being featured on The Today Show and the cover of Time Magazine.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:1521:121:DB3:3D79:BC0C:CAF0 (talk • contribs)

Barnstar

Thank you for the barnstar last week. :) Can you believe the occupation is over? CaseyPenk (talk) 04:36, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [50]
  • You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [51]

Problems

  • A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [52][53]

Changes this week

  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [54][55]
  • Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [56]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [57]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Wikidata weekly summary #196

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

Tech News: 2016-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Problems

  • There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [60][61]

Changes this week

  • After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [62]

Meetings

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #186

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7

Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

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VisualEditor News #1—2016

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The visual editor

Did you know?

Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.

Screenshot showing a pop-up menu for column operations in a table

If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

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

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:

  • Remember my last editor,
  • Always give me the visual editor if possible,
  • Always give me the source editor, and
  • Show me both editor tabs. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.

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Tech News: 2016-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
  • The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
  • The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [63][64]
  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [65][66]

Changes this week

  • On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [67]
  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [68]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [69]

Meetings

  • Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [70]
  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #198

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Hillary C listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hillary C. Since you had some involvement with the Hillary C redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. —Godsy(TALKCONT) 03:33, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Mr. Trump listed at Redirects for discussion

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Mr. Obama listed at Redirects for discussion

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Back Obama listed at Redirects for discussion

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Jerseu listed at Redirects for discussion

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