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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:

The link tool has been re-designed:

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)

Your citation revision at Cawthorne (surname)

Hello, the edits you did at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cawthorne_%28surname%29&type=revision&diff=665757609&oldid=665714667 , you described this as fixing citations. However, this was not a fix - the citation was not broken; it was a change to match your user preference of which parameters to use. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 20:48, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@Ceyockey: Look again. I changed |page 166 to |page=166, which fixes a citation error. The parameter choice is trivial and doesn't, in this case, change the way the citation is rendered in practice. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 00:26, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

For the ref fix, I've used that book before and I forget it does that! I appreciate you watching my back!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 03:41, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

@Mike Searson: Glad to help! :) I'm actually double-guessing myself now because the places I looked are inconsistent on the formatting of the title, and I don't see many using slashes as I did. We could actually use pipe symbols within the citation templates if we write them in the source as HTML entities, i.e. |. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 04:22, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue V, May 2015 Headlines Arabic region report: World Digital Library, Arab Peninsula Regional Group meeting Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Catalan areas report: ORCID France report: GLAM, all over the place! Germany report: Make a (GLAM) change! Italy report: Wikimedia Italia still works with BEIC Library and bibliographic data Macedonia report: Wikiexpedition on bicycles and visiting one of the most remote areas in Macedonia Netherlands report: Birds and Expeditions Poland report: The Józef Burszta Digital Archives donation Spain report: Edit-a-thons about Contemporary artists and St. James's Way Sweden report: Slow GLAM-month in Sweden UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki Working Group USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities; Wikimania & Wikidata Wikidata report: SPARQL and arbitrary access are coming Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 03:00, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Template attempt, JSTOR number

Hello Nihiltres. Thanks for fixing Template:Cite doi/10.2307.2F353387, which I assume someone will delete some time or other... if I may ask, where did you find the JSTOR number, and how useful is adding it deemed to be these days? • Arch♦Reader 23:21, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

I first recognized the "#" in "10#07/353387" as being likely an artifact of improper encoding, and guessed the decoding as ".23" ("#" is percent-encoded to "%23"). Then, to confirm, I visited the fixed DOI. I realized that the target of the DOI was JSTOR, so I added the JSTOR number (the number in the URL) as a hedge against further issues with the DOI. I haven't paid too much attention to what's "deemed to be important" in citations. I generally view more information as being valuable than less: each available identifier usually makes the citation more resilient to link rot. It's also nice to make the connection—previously hidden in the DOI—more obvious to the reader. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 00:41, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

...how did you realize that the target of the DOI was JSTOR? • Arch♦Reader 04:03, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

I successfully guessed the correction needed and followed the DOI by prefixing http://dx.doi.org/ to it. It led me to JSTOR. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 04:50, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks for all your help & info. :-) • Arch♦Reader 05:08, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

ISBN fixes

I would like to thank you for the ISBN fixes you do. There are a few more ISBN errors around if you could help us. Please check:

• User talk:Magioladitis#ISBN code update
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISBN errors

-- Magioladitis (talk) 07:21, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: I've used the Check Wikipedia resources a bit—I'll probably use them more from here on out. I'm most of the way through development of a tool that helps deal with ISBNs (the prototype works but needs lots of polishing)—possibly that may prove helpful? {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 23:31, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes, this is very useful. I wonder whether the community would like a bot that will fix ISBN hyphenation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:14, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Why do your edits show up as 'pending changes'?

I just reviewed your edits to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant one by one, to make them visible. Then I find you are a sysop with much more en.wiki experience than me! Wikipedia:Reviewing says that "Administrators automatically have reviewer rights." Yet your changes were not "automatically accepted" as mine are. Do you know why? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:54, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

@Hroðulf: The article had previous unreviewed edits when I made mine, so reviewing mine would review those implicitly: I received the option to review my changes as I made them. I neglected to review all the pending changes because I'm not particularly familiar with the topic. If the latest versions had been already accepted, then my changes would have been automatically accepted. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 20:39, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

• A wise choice. Thanks for explaining. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 20:43, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VI, June 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Czech Republic report: Memorandum of Cooperation between the National Heritage Institute and the Wikimedia Czech Republic Finland report: Capturing public art with drones France report: Surfing on GLAMs' agenda Germany report: Open GLAM - How to create true participation Italy report: From Italian Parliament to libraries and Company Museums. And a Training Day too! Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence Netherlands report: Historical images of Dutch water works Sweden report: Maritime Sweden UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: Wikidata for Mappers Special story: Europeana 1914-1918 Open Access report: Wikipedia is an amplifier of open access; 20,000 media files uploaded from PubMed Central Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 00:27, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of the page "Data LiveSaver"

Hey ,

You delete my page 'Data LiveSaver'. The content of the page give no reasons to do this. There are several similar or more worst pages of data recovery software in this field. Please recover the page asap. I will prove the page and will make updates if it is necessary.

regards Dirk

I've restored it, since it was a proposed deletion. Two main points to be aware of:

1. It could be pushed to Articles for Deletion, which is more binding than the proposed deletion already used. Be sure to improve the article to address the deletion rationale!
2. "Other stuff exists" is a bad argument—those other pages probably ought to get fixed or deleted, too.

Cheers, {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 15:48, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

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).

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

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)

This Month in GLAM: July 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VII, July 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina France report: A GLAMourous summer Germany report: Fancy new apps based on GLAMorous data Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments at Toscana Foto Festival and two new GLAM projects Netherlands report: Radio broadcasts; historic atlases; GLAMetrics Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth, municipalities and concerts Sweden report: Hedemora; Mapillary UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: GLAM in Philadelphia Special story: Share what you know about Photo Events Open Access report: Wikimania: Citations and video Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 00:22, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

ISBN-fixing opportunity

Frietjes has listed a few hundred pages with duplicate |isbn= parameters at User:Frietjes/findargdups/status#isbn. I have fixed about half of them (the easy half), and I thought you might be interested in helping with the rest. Frietjes will update the list later today, which should remove the half that I have fixed.

You can install a script that tells you which template has the duplicated parameter; see User:Frietjes/findargdups. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:03, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Editor abusing their rollback privilege

Hi, I came to your page via Category:Wikipedia_administrators_willing_to_grant_rollback_requests, and would like to request the removal of Gob Lofa rollback privilege due to abuse. They are using it to push their edits on articles, but more so just to revert my reverts of their contentious edits. None of the examples of their use of the rollback meet the requirement for their use and can be classified as edit-warring/pushing:

• Used on 5 September to push an edit that was challenged back on 8 July, citing the talk page as if there is a consensus for their edit when none exists and despite the objections to their edit.
• Used on 5 September to push an edit that I reverted back on 6 July. Once again they restored their inaccurate and unsourced opinion whilst at the same time removing sourced information. Another editor has since reverted them citing "original more accurate".
• Used on 29 August to push an edit I reverted on 1 May with a highly misleading and uncivil edit summary, which anyone can see is clearly nonsense considering the reasoning I gave in my edit summary.
• An older example is on 8 August when they used it on a revert I made on 7 August.

There are other examples further back and regardless of content dispute or whatever, or who is right or wrong, Gob Lofa is clearly misusing their rollback privilege to push their own agenda on articles and this is contrary to the principles of what the privilege is for. Mabuska ^(talk) 00:01, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Mabuska: None of those edits involved the rollback privilege. I see some uses of the "undo" button and Twinkle rollback which is part of Twinkle, not an actual right, but none of those involve the actual rollback right, so you don't have much of a case here. If you want to argue that this user is being disruptive, go ahead and do so (so long as you use the proper forum), but I am afraid to say that removing rollback rights would not do anything to change this editor's behavior. Dustin (talk) 00:11, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

So your saying there is actually a way of telling if the privilege was used on a specific reversion? I doubt it would change their behaviour anyways, however they do have the rollback privilege, yet if you can simply do it via "Twinkle", which I have enabled myself, then what would the purpose of anyone getting the rollback privilege even be? In fact just testing out the "undo" feature on my own user page, I see now how it works. Yet if they misuse the undo and Twinkle, how can they be trusted to use rollback itself properly? Mabuska ^(talk) 00:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

@Mabuska: Rollback edits are marked as minor and have edit summaries in the form "Reverted edits by PersonBeingRolledBack (talk) to last version by LastPersonWhoEditedBeforePersonBeingRolledBack". This is an example of me using rollback. Twinkle rollbacks will normally be marked with "(TW)", aren't as fast, and can have extra details added by the person using them. Uses of "undo" are marked with "Undid..." I hope that helps. Dustin (talk) 01:14, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Yep does indeed, thanks! Mabuska ^(talk) 13:55, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal ^talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you so much for you help! Jarodalien (talk) 07:35, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Got your email, fixed the filter

Thanks! NawlinWiki (talk) 17:22, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Two edit-a-thons France report: August in Brittany Germany report: Sharing is Caring Mexico report: Pilot program to make freely licensed animation clips Spain report: Museum of African Art "Jiménez-Arellano Alonso"; Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain Sweden report: Odd submarines, new strategy and an old contest UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 15:14, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-38

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 use the Wikidata query service. [1]
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [2]
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [3][4]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [5]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [6]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [7]
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [8]

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16:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [9][10]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [11][12][13][14]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [15]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [16]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [17]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [18][19]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [20]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [21]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [22]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [23]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Foreign affairs

Hello - would you please recreate the special redirect at Foreign affairs (disambiguation) (redirect)? it's there intentionally, for statistical gathering purposes. If you have any questions about the redirect, please let me know. Thanks. Dohn joe (talk) 16:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dohn joe: What can you do with the redirect that you can't do otherwise? I'd rather we avoided awkward redirects like that. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 16:38, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

You can track the number of people who click on the hatnote. It's really the only way to do this (that I know of at least). It's a temporary thing, and essentially invisible to the reader. I can point you to other examples where this has been done if you'd like. Dohn joe (talk) 17:02, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dohn joe: Why is the statistic useful? {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 17:23, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

There is an ongoing discussion at Talk:Foreign Affairs about where readers who search for "Foreign Affairs" on WP want to go. If a significant number of people coming to the Foreign Affairs article click on the hatnote to the disambiguation page, then it would be reasonable to point the title to the dab page or another article, and disambiguate the journal article. If only a few people click on the hatnote, that's good evidence that the current setup is preferable. Dohn joe (talk) 18:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dohn joe: I agree that that's a good rationale. I guess … recreate it if you want, but please a) include an edit summary indicating its special purpose and b) make sure to remember to tag it G7 once you're done with it. :) {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 19:08, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Will do. I thought I included an edit summary the first time, but I'll clarify it. And maybe add a hidden comment in the article.... Dohn joe (talk) 01:30, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-40

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

• In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [24]
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [25]
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [26]
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [27]
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [28]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [29]
• MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [30]

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [31][32]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
• There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [33]
• The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [34]

Meetings

• You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [35]
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41

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

• The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [36]
• The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [37]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
• UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [38]
• UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [39]
• A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [40]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:33, 5 October 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)

This Month in GLAM: September 2015

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Tech News: 2015-42

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

• The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [41]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [42]
• Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [43]

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 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-43

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

• Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [44]

Problems

• A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [45]
• Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [46]
• The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [47]

Changes this week

• Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [48]
• Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [49][50][51][52]

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 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)