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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your ongoing work in relisting AfD discussions, an oft-unnoticed contribution area that helps to keep things running smoothly. North America1000 09:41, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind words, User:Northamerica1000. —Tom Morris (talk) 13:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

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


Screenshot of Citoid's first dialog


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


Screenshot of Citoid's initial results


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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looking ahead

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

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Today's articles for improvement

  • Hello Tom Morris:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 18 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by User:Northamerica1000 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:26, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #152

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2015)

The wheel is one of the most famous and useful inventions in the history of technology
Hello, Tom Morris.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

History of technology


Previous selections: Garbage picking • Antagonist


Get involved with the TAFI project! You can...
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Seeking refund for Harmony Rose article following largest FCC fine

Dear Tom Morris,

I've just been reading the Columbia Journalism Review, and the station WDBJ has received the largest fine in the history of the FCC for broadcasting a story on Harmony Rose. The local station introduced the former porn star, volunteering as an EMT - including clips from historical porn films, and mistakenly including three seconds of hardcore material on the edge of the screen, which they say was not visible in the editing window. The Columbia Journalism Review is a respected outlet, not a tabloid, that treats this case as an interesting case study in First Amendment issues, and I think there is also interest in whether former porn stars can be treated in a tasteful manner by the news media.

Harmony Rose/Tracy Rolan is named in the original article and in 2015 outlets (Roanoke Times, The Blot, Statter911). I think this satisfies GNG.

There has been substantial media debate on the ethics of publishing the real names of porn performers, and Aurora Snow's article in the Daily Beast generated substantial coverage on how former porn stars should be treated in the mainstream media - I believe this is notable.

Can you please move the deleted article into my userspace, or the Draft: space? I'll add 2015 discussion of the FCC and ask you if it is notable, or submit to AFC.

Harmony Rose (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Thank you. -- Aronzak (talk) 12:35, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Also, if Janet Jackson's nipple gets a whole article (Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy) this is probably GNG, even with less coverage. -- Aronzak (talk) 12:50, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Aronzak: my only concern is that the community has already determined that as a porn star, Ms Rose/Rolan is not notable. The article that has been deleted is primarily concerned with her pornography care and is written in that rather strange and obsessed way that a lot of biographies of pornography actresses are (including details of the subject's pre-porn background). Notability is not the only bar to clear: BLP concerns weigh heavy on my mind, as does the duty of care we really ought to try and afford article subjects. While I would dearly love to live in a world where a background in the sex industry or involvement in pornographic movies does not haunt careers, we sadly do not live in such a society.
The fact that the FCC have handed out such a large fine in response to a station accidentally broadcasting three seconds of pornographic material does not mean that the subject of the offending broadcast inherits notability from it. Rose/Rolan is only tangentially connected to the fine. The analogy with the Janet Jackson Superbowl controversy is not quite applicable here: Janet Jackson was not of questionable notability before the incident at the Super Bowl—she was already a Grammy-winning, multi-platinum musical performer without the Super Bowl incident.
There's no reason that the issue here cannot be addressed in the article about the station, about the FCC or some other place. Using the tangential connection between a non-notable porn star and this rather extravagant fine seems to be a bit of a WP:COATRACK. On that basis, I'm not keen on userfying the article. —Tom Morris (talk) 19:04, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Ok, thanks for taking the time to respond. I've added a line in the article WDBJ. The FCC chose not to mention her by name in their release. I wasn't sure whether COATRACK would be an issue. -- Aronzak (talk) 19:48, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

A new reference tool

Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #153

Precious again

clear thoughts cleanly expressed
Thank you, Tom, for quality articles "covering all sorts of things", for welcoming users and dealing with articles for deletion, for telling us who runs Wikipedia (we do) and fighting delusions, all with "a taste for clear thoughts being cleanly expressed", even for saddest news, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:49, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 822nd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again, Gerda for the award and the kind words. The thought of it is much appreciated. —Tom Morris (talk) 08:31, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement

  • Hello Tom Morris:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 19 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by User:Northamerica1000 on 12:00, 12 April 2015 (UTC) using Mass message sender.

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2015)

A saxophone is an example of an aerophone.
Hello, Tom Morris.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Aerophone


Previous selections: History of technology • Garbage picking


Get involved with the TAFI project! You can...
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Holiday

For just over two weeks, I shall be on holiday, visiting Paris, San Francisco and Los Angeles. During this time, I am intending to try and spend as little time as possible hunched over a laptop dealing with wiki-related matters. I will periodically check email but anything non-urgent will not happen until I am back in London. If you need someone to review an administrator action I have taken, please feel free to ask another administrator to look into it. Don't do anything stupid while I'm gone. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:55, 17 April 2015 (UTC)