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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers

In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap

Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide

Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation

Featured content: A bit fruity

Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

Test

Test Redalert2fan (talk) 18:36, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 January 2015

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Fixed. Redalert2fan (talk) 10:00, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Redirect templates

Hello. Please take a look at these two edits. I "fixed" it, but I was wondering what was really wrong with the way it was in the first place? Functionally they are the same and serve the same purpose, right? It's just one way uses the redirect template, the other does not. I would recommend either ignoring this particular situation, or if there is a good reason that the template should be used, convert to the template while you are at it instead of adding the disambiguation tag, which seemed mistakenly placed at first until I looked at what was going on in the edit window. Thoughts? --RacerX¹¹ Talk to me^{Stalk me} 14:02, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

You seem to be totally right, cant say more than that. My mistake of not paying attention and Wikipedia:WPCleaner not understanding. Thanks for the heads up! Redalert2fan (talk) 14:16, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Oops, did you see this? Turns out it was I who was wrong. Eesh. Not paying attention... --RacerX¹¹ Talk to me^{Stalk me} 14:40, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I probably shouldn't have changed it in the first place. Redalert2fan (talk) 10:01, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 January 2015

From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief

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Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing

News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections

Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better

In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers

Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess

Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens

A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks for your work completing bare references. Keep up the hard work. Mariordo (talk) 21:03, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you :) Redalert2fan (talk) 21:05, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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February 2015 Wikification drive

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the February drive has been started. Better late than never! Come on, sign up! :) Grinding, grinding, grinding... what are we finding, finding, finding... (talk) 23:52, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 January 2015

From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog: blue ,
takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray.

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

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

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Let's work together

Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
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Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Contact James F. for more information.
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The Signpost: 04 February 2015

News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia