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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 Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).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 Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).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)

Nomination for deletion of Template:1909–10 NHA standings

Template:1909–10 NHA standings has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ricky81682 (talk) 08:50, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Most HHOF players you put selected in 1963 have been selected in 1962

Hi Alaney2k, On July 22 you and others reverted my changes about players like Didier Pitre and others that were inducted in 1962 to 1963, even with my notices that hhof.com tells 1962. All sites says 1962 and the newly released book NHL-Official Guide & Record Book 2016 pages 235-236 say 1962. Here is an article from the Montreal Gazette from 1962 who tells about the newest selected members --> https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19620828&id=W4U0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=jJ4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6076,4472970&hl=fr Can you correct them please and put 1962 instead of 1963. Thank you. --Danielvis08 (talk) 15:36, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Selected in 1962, I agree, but inducted in 1963. That's what the list is of, not the selected date. Nowadays, the players are announced several months ahead of the fall induction date. That time, it was a full year ahead. Don't know why. Alaney2k (talk) 15:53, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Shin GOJIRA? or Shin GODZILLA?

You think it's a good idea to keep the article titled as "Shin Gojira"? Gojira translates into Godzilla in English but Shin has multiple meanings and translations, hence why I left it alone when I retitled the article. As a reference, I looked towards the Kamen Rider Series and how wiki editors handle it. The studio markets the franchise as Masked Rider for English markets but it's commonly refereed to as Kamen Rider, with only the Rider part translated into English. The article for Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue was also another reference I looked towards, since it has a similar title translation situation. This article sheds more light on the title's translation more than most english sources. Thoughts? Armegon (talk) 04:01, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

There is no translation, or rather multiple translations. Until there is an official English title, we should use the one that we have all of the references for. But we could always start a requested moves discussion. Alaney2k (talk) 04:32, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Yeah, that would seem fair. I said that the word Shin translates into a various meanings & translations because translated articles have quoted Hideaki Anno stating that the Shin part of the title has a "variety of meanings".Armegon (talk) 09:26, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
The article is shaping up nicely. Your work is good. Do you have any ideas for a "Premise" section until a plot synopsis is released? Alaney2k (talk) 13:10, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
I think it may be a tad bit too early to add a premise/synopsis section. There's not enough plot detail to go on besides the confirmation that Godzilla will attack modern day Japan & that America will get involved this time. We should wait a bit longer until more plot details surface. Armegon (talk) 17:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor update

This note is only delivered to English Wikipedia subscribers of the visual editor's newsletter.

The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.

This action has not changed anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab is still after the “Edit source” one. You can learn more at the visual editor’s talk page.

We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?
You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Screenshot showing the menu for switching from the wikitext editor to VisualEditor

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

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, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links:  It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558)  These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads:  Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Images and media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile:  Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use the visual editor on any size of device. (T85630)  Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools:  You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925)  There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227 and T113354)  When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

If you can't read 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) 04:16, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

CN Railway Police building, Toronto

This name seems to be not based on any official reference. City of Toronto Heritage property listing simply calls it "Canadian National Railways Office Building" without a specific purpose. One of the references even says that it was once owned by CP Rail! Do you have any thoughts on the title? The building and the adjacent development is currently fenced off but, if I can sneak in the gate, I will get some better photos as soon as the sun shines. Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:18, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Of course, the company spells it "Railway", so I don't know if the heritage list is definitive. Probably there is no real title for the building, just an address, so it gets referred to differently. Using Office Building is a bit vague though. I sure the company has other office buildings in Toronto. Alaney2k (talk) 23:10, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
I just thought the name was a little bit "off", but I could not really come up with a definitive option. Thanks. Secondarywaltz (talk) 23:25, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:56, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Condense Godzilla Resurgence section??

You think we should probably condense the Godzilla Resurgence section in the Godzilla franchise article? Now that there is a page for the movie, all those same details that you can find in the page itself seem necessary for that small section. Thoughts? Armegon (talk) 20:28, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes, let's condense Alaney2k (talk) 17:06, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #6—2015

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Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

Screenshot showing a pop-up dialog for switching from the wikitext editor to VisualEditor
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:
Screenshot showing a drop-down menu in Special:Preferences

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

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 and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.

The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like 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 a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

  • Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
    • 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 current state for people using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
  • 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, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

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), 00:54, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Notice of an RfC which you may be interested in

Hello. This is just a notice that an RfC has been created for the discussion regarding alternate titles with Star Wars: The Force Awakens in which you participated in. If you would like to participate in the RfC, you can find it here. Thank you. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 00:00, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Issue on Godzilla 2014 page

I'm kinda having a minor issue with someone on the critical reception section of the Godzilla 2014 page. If you check the view history, some anonymous user keeps switching my new edit (with a supporting cited source) back to an old one. This has been going on back and forth for a few days and it's getting annoying, is there a way I can stop this before it becomes an edit war? Armegon (talk) 17:53, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Looks like they stopped. Sometimes you just have to wait it out. Alaney2k (talk) 15:58, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...
Sunnyside
...you were recipient
no. 1100 of Precious,
a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:44, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Art Ross

Hi, Alaney2k. In the biography book of Art Ross from hockey historian and author Eric Zweig, he said that he was born in 1885, not 1886. I left a note about that on his Talk page some months ago with a link from his google-book you can read if you want. The grandson of Ross commanded a new gravestone in 2014 which he changed the birth year to 1885. Here is another link you can read if you want --> http://ericzweig.com/2016/01/12/you-say-its-your-birthday/. Also in his book on page 200, he said that in the season 1928-29, it's Ross who was the coach and not Cy Denneny who was his assistant. I have the book. When Claude Julien was near to beat the record of victories for coach of the Boston Bruins and was near to win his second Stanley Cup as coach with the Bruins, the Boston Bruins Team asked Zweig to search about Ross if he was coach or no this season or Denneny for their records, and Zweig made researches and told them it was Ross, so the Bruins changed all theirs stats and records about that on their Official Site and it's also changed in the NHL Official Guide & Record Book 2016 published in September 2015. Me I'm not very good in English, but I contribute on hockey on French Wikipédia, and if you see the article on Art Ross in French, it's been a long time since his birth year is changed and his stats on the board of his coaching career (1928-29) and also all the transformations about this year on the French pages of Cy Denneny and the Boston Bruins. Just wanted to let you know... Thanks. Cordially. --Danielvis08 (talk) 22:43, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I just saw a reference already in the article references who suggests he was born in 1885, that he dies at 79 ! https://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=XsMtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_Z4FAAAAIBAJ&dq=art-ross+medford&pg=7232,889192&hl=fr --Danielvis08 (talk) 18:55, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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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. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.

Let's work together

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. Thanks!

– Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:46, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Just curious...

Did you actually want this post on your user page? Or was it left there my mistake and you just didn't notice it? And, you have Miszabot archiving your talk page, but where? (just a couple of oddities I noticed, thought I would I ask) Cheers - theWOLFchild 23:46, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

(tps) The archive starts at User talk:Alaney2k/Archive 11, because the counter was set at 11. — Diannaa (talk) 23:06, 1 April 2016 (UTC)


Do you want one Edit tab, or two? It's your choice

How to switch between editing environments
Part of the toolbar in the visual editor
Click the [[ ]] to switch to the wikitext editor.
Part of the toolbar in the wikitext editor
Click the pencil icon to switch to the visual editor.

The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.

You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.

There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 19:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Paying people to create articles on Wikipedia

You asked on the Help Desk about people paying to have articles created on Wikipedia. Yes, it is done, but officially, it is discouraged. See WP:PAID. — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:43, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Nationality

Hey hows it going? Just noticed the following edit and just thought I would let you know as you probably have forgotten, but the nationality field was removed from the ice hockey box many years ago. It was replaced with the national team field. In this case he wasn't on the national senior team. -DJSasso (talk) 17:34, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

I was curious if the infobox supported nationality, like the infobox person does. I just forgot to remove it. I see it is there but undocumented. It's not the same as being on a national team. Otherwise it goes into the prose. The project is replacing the persondata template with wikidata and it would be good if people templates had all the core fields that infobox person does. I have not looked into it enough to propose anything though. Alaney2k (talk) 17:40, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
It is there because we used to support it, entering any data into it puts the article into a category of ice hockey articles using deprecated parameters, nothing is visible to the reader, just puts it in that category to notify of an error on the page which is how I noticed you did it. Nationality was removed because defining nationality in an infobox is problematic due to context issues, its one of those things that many people argue on both sides of the issue on if it should be in infoboxes. There was also the issue of flags, they can only be used for sporting nationality which is what necessitated the changing of the field to National Team to clarify that is what we were using. -DJSasso (talk) 18:33, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Problem child new user linking to discount travel site

A user is linking multiple airline-related articles to pages on https://www.discountmyflights.ca. I've revered the one about Porter Airlines but as you can see from the link, there's a clear pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/RSKM008  Natty10000 | Natter  20:30, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.

Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

File:King-st-toronto-1840s.jpg listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:King-st-toronto-1840s.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:41, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with many items

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.

Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

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 Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 21:09, 30 June 2016 (UTC)


Relief Line West

If you refer to page 35 of the DRTES, Roncesvalles is shown as a potential GO connection, i.e. a connection with Lakeshore West. I have taken your comment re: High Park into consideration, and removed a connection with the 506, since it is at High Park Blvd (not Howard Park). --Natural RX 03:07, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

It still does not stop in the park. Yet you want that link in there. Alaney2k (talk) 14:06, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

514 Cherry

I will have pictures of the streetcars soon, but until then there is nothing wrong with a picture that shows the route through Yonge Street. They use the same vehicles on the 504 route. Secondarywaltz (talk) 23:12, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

They were captioned as 514 cars, which they were not. That was my only point about that. It was kind of misleading. I don't think a pic is necessary. Why do you think so? Alaney2k (talk) 23:32, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
The picture is really of nothing. There is no real subject. Alaney2k (talk) 23:33, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
Not the caption that I had there originally and replaced today. Most of the cars being used are signed 504. This is the route through downtown and if there were no streetcars the tracks would still show the route. Don't be so petty. I will have a 514 streetcar soon, so give me a break. Secondarywaltz (talk) 23:42, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
Sheesh. Alaney2k (talk) 23:49, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Horror Collaboration

Hello Alaney2k, just want to let you know that I have finished my expansion on the article for the horror film I Drink Your Blood and I have already incorporated what I have done so far on the draft page into the actual article itself. However its still needs a little more work done to it though, namely giving proper citations to unsourced material, updating citations, and expanding the section on the film's controversy. At the moment I am finished with the article, and I am leaving it up to others to further modify and expand it. I am also working on a new article to collaborate on for WikiProject Horror. It is the article on the infamous horror character Leatherface which is pretty significant but, unfortunately, it is in a state of severe underdevelopment and suffering from poor writing and few sources. My plan is to expand it significantly so that it reaches its full potential, and quite possibly become a featured article like the one on Jason Voorhees. However, for this particular project I will need the help of as many editors as possible since the level of expansion needed would be too daunting for any one or even three editors. Similar to the other collaboration that I have done with I Drink Your Blood, I have already created a draft for the use of expanding the article which I will include the link here. Let me know whether or not you would be able to help expand the article on my talk page and see if you can get other people on this.--Paleface Jack (talk) 16:12, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Change article title back to "SHIN GODZILLA"?

Think we should change the article back to "Shin Godzilla"? Given that "Shin Godzilla" is the official English title that Toho prefers Funimation to release it as? Armegon (talk) 19:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Citations

Say, alittle while ago you did a fine job cleaning up the citations over at the King Kong vs Godzilla page. Do you think you could do that over at the King Kong page? I created alot of those sections (Conception and Creation, Origin of the Name, Appearances and Abilities, Legal Rights) but have never been any good and simplifying multiple citations from the same source the way you have done.Giantdevilfish (talk) 15:01, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, sure. Give me a couple of days to get to it. Alaney2k (talk) 15:02, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks!Giantdevilfish (talk) 13:48, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Border edits

Thank you for the recent edits to Maine lakes. Wikipedia benefits greatly when Canadian perspectives are included. In the two cases I reverted, however, context indicated Maine as the opposite side of the border, and adding the United States to the border description seemed superfluous and less effective than the pipe appropriately created by your previous edit. I value your edits and hope you will continue to screen articles of border area subjects to make their descriptions useful to all readers. Thewellman (talk) 16:42, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

  • I have not had any reverts on Canadian articles, changing the name from American border, etc. to Canada-US. Only Americans seem to object to calling it an international name. Chew on that. Alaney2k (talk) 16:50, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Thomas Mooney (Chaplain) Draft

Hello there, I noticed that you contributed some content to the Mooney's Bay Park article. I just created an article about my father's cousin, Thomas Edmund Mooney, the first Canadian Catholic Chaplain to fall in WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Thomas_Mooney_(Chaplain)

I was wondering if you would be willing to contribute some of your expertise there, as it was declined yesterday. Maybe in Toronto you have more access to local references and citations? Were you the Wikipedian who added content re: the Mooney lockmasters at Mooney's Bay Park article? If so, you would be interested to learn that Thomas Edmund Mooney was the son of Michael Edmund Mooney, the third Michael Mooney lockmaster at Narrows Locks.

I know all this from digging into Ancestry. But one question I have is, how do I transfer that info to Wikipedia? (I have allowed my Ancestry subscription to lapse, as it's quite expensive.)

I look forward to hearing from you soon! --Patty Mooney (talk) 18:17, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

I have looked at the Toronto Star archives. Not much there. I will take a further look at other archives. Not sure how much I will find though, as he might not be notable enough for much coverage. I tidied up the draft a bit. I will return to it later this week. There is likely not much more at ancestry. Yeah, I agree, too expensive to subscribe for casual research. Alaney2k (talk) 19:04, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with options for editing the table structure

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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 mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

  • You can now set text as small or big.[1]
  • Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[2] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[3]
  • Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[4]
  • At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.[5]
  • The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[6] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
  • Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[7]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred 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) 18:18, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Food and Drink Barnstar   
Thanks for creating the new Shirriff article, and for expanding Wikipedia's coverage of food companies. North America1000 20:13, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
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