User talk:Wittylama/Archive 7
your FAC; archiving
[edit]I have just added a web reference to my page you submitted for deletion. Hoping you will be kind enough to review again! User talk:Piconnie —Preceding undated comment added 09:20, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
- Your FAC has many reference errors; you really need to add this to your common.js:
importScript('User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js');- And.... archiving your talk page a bit...? • Serviceable†Villain 06:41, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
- Good point about the archiving - I keep forgetting to do it :-) But about the references - where are the errors?? I don't see any when just looking, and several peer reviewers have said there's nothing glaringly wrong. What kind of errors do you mean? Wittylama 06:49, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
- If you add the script, you'll see a sea of red errors. Now, some of them many be false alarms (I'm looking into that now), but some are simply absent. Forex, are there refs for arthur 2001 or selfe or...? • Serviceable†Villain 06:59, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
- Why do you have full cite book templates within inline refs, but then separate cite book templates in a Bibliography section? Is that some new style, or...? ... OK, I've got it all sorted out now. There are two instances of one genuine error; the others were all false alarms because the templates did not include the parameter ref=harv. Selfe 1990 seems to be a genuine error; perhaps should be Selfe 1900. As for the style I just mentioned... don't t\you think that maybe putting full templates within inline cites, and also in a bibliography section, might be confusing to editors who come after you? I'm just saying, maybe you should give them a break. I suggest putting all such templates in the appropriate section rather than inside inline cites; much less confusing for others... Good luck with your nom. • Serviceable†Villain 07:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
- I'll have a look at the comments you've made and work them directly into the FA review. I have some books listed in the references section as well as the bibliography section at the request of a previous reviewer. They asked me to identify the actual published books (as opposed to websites and original texts) that were cited. I can, if it is preferable, make the first footnote to those books a shortened footnote rather than duplicating it. Wittylama 03:27, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I have fixed most of the citation errors listed on the FAC page. A few others still need your attention, and a couple of sources have been questioned for reliability. Nothing to get too worried about. Brianboulton (talk) 15:35, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
- That is very kind of you Brian - thank you! Wittylama 03:27, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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New Article Feedback version available for testing
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As promised, we've built a set of improvements to the Article Feedback Tool, which can be tested through the links here. Please do take the opportunity to play around with it, let me know of any bugs, and see what you think :).
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[edit]Hello, Wittylama! As you may know, we've opened the community review period for the current funding round in the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) process. I'd like to invite you to review the 4 proposals (requests totaling $1.3 million USD) that were submitted to the FDC and to ask questions and share your thoughts about those proposals. You can help to ensure that they have high potential for creating impact in the Wikimedia movement. The FDC especially values comments by community members and will take them into account when they prepare their recommendations for funding allocations. Let me know if you have any questions! I hope you'll take a look. Katy Love, Senior Program Officer, Funds Dissemination Committee, Wikimedia Foundation, KLove (WMF) (talk) 18:31, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
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Tomorrow's Symposium
[edit]Just a quick reminder to everyone who has indicated their interest on-wiki. The Wikimedia in Higher Education symposium at The University of Sydney is on tomorrow. We have a full day of speakers and workshops, and about 45-50 participants. See you there. --99of9 (talk) 02:39, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]Hey Wittylama :). I'm dropping you a note because you have signed up for the Notifications, or Echo, newsletter.
If all goes according to plan, we should be launching Echo on en-wiki either tomorrow, or next Tuesday - I'll drop a followup tomorrow when we know what's happening. Should the launch succeed, we'll begin the process of triaging bugs and gathering feedback on what features work, what cause problems, and what we should do next; I hope you'll help us out on these fronts by leaving any comments you might have on the talkpage.
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WP:FOUR for Norman Selfe
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Notifications box replacement prototypes released
[edit]Hey Wittylama; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:32, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
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Main Page appearance: Norman Selfe
[edit]This is a note to let the main editors of Norman Selfe know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on June 8, 2013. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or one of his delegates (Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), Gimmetoo (talk · contribs), and Bencherlite (talk · contribs)), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 8, 2013. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Norman Selfe (1839–1911) was an Australian engineer, naval architect, inventor, urban planner and outspoken advocate of technical education. After immigrating to Sydney with his family from England as a boy he became an apprentice engineer, following his father's trade. Selfe designed many bridges, docks, boats, and much precision machinery for the city. He also introduced new refrigeration, hydraulic, electrical and transport systems. For these achievements he received international acclaim during his lifetime. Decades before the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built, the city came close to building a Selfe-designed steel cantilever bridge across the harbour after he won the second public competition for a bridge design. Selfe was commemorated in his lifetime by the name of the Sydney suburb of Normanhurst. He was energetically involved in organisations such as the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts and the Australian Historical Society, and fought consistently for the establishment of an independent system of technical education. He was acknowledged upon his death as one of the best-known people in, and greatest individual influences upon, the city of Sydney. (Full article...)
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Thank you for quality articles on Australian personalities such as Norman Selfe, your plans for Lörracher Skulpturenweg, your witty anagram of a user name, and your efforts to promote "debates on such topics as Truth, Authorship and Freedom", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
A year ago, you were the 510th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:55, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
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Norman Selfe
[edit]Congrats on getting it to FA, it's and article that certainly deserves it. James086Talk 20:44, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
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Wikis in Australian Aboriginal languages
[edit]Hello, Wittylama. I just want to tell you, as you were interested in australian aboriginal wikis, that two test wikis of pitjantjatjara language exist and there is also a test in Torres Strait Creole. Here are the links of the aboriginal wikis: Pitjantjatjara Wikipedia,Pitjantjatjara Wiktionary.--Biol. Cons. (talk) 01:59, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]Hey Liam, I've left a probably unsatisfactory reply for you on MediaWiki. PEarley (WMF) (talk) 16:43, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
WP:FOUR RFC
[edit]There are two WP:RFCs at WP:FOUR. The first is to conflate issues so as to keep people from expressing meaningful opinions. The second, by me, is claimed to be less than neutral by proponents of the first. Please look at the second one, which I think is much better.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:45, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
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Northern Times
[edit]Read like an add for trove and ignored local complexities - have messed it further - (therefore have maintained the silly season cynicism), apart from all that - have a good christmas! satusuro 09:15, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
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VisualEditor newsletter for Janaury 2014
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To add templates, go to the "Insert" menu and choose the "Transclusion" (puzzle piece) item. Enter the name of the template and click "Add template". If TemplateData exists for the template, then a list of possible parameters will appear. If not, you can add parameters yourself by typing the parameter name under "Add parameter". For unnamed parameters, use numbers ("1" for the first unnamed parameter).
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked mostly minor features and fixing bugs. A few significant bugs include working around a bug in CSSJanus that was wrongly flipping images used in some templates in right-to-left (RTL) environments (bug 50910) a major bug that meant inserting any template or other transclusion failed (bug 59002), a major but quickly resolved problem due to an unannounced change in MediaWiki core, which caused VisualEditor to crash on trying to save (bug 59867). This last bugs did not appear on any Wikipedia. Additionally, significant work has been done in the background to make VisualEditor work as an independent editing system.
As of today, VisualEditor is now available as an opt-out feature to all users at 149 active Wikipedias.
- The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has a very basic set of characters. The character inserter is especially important for languages that use Latin and Cyrillic alphabets with unusual characters or frequent diacritics. Your feedback on the character inserter is requested. In addition to feedback from any interested editor, the developers would particularly like to hear from anyone who speaks any of the 50+ languages listed under Phase 5 at mw:VisualEditor/Rollouts, including Breton, Mongolian, Icelandic, Welsh, Afrikaans, Macedonian, and Azerbaijani.
- meta:Office hours on IRC have been heavily attended recently. The next one will be held this coming Wednesday, 22 January at 23:00 UTC.
- You can now edit some of the page settings in the "options" dialog –
__NOTOC__and__FORCETOC__as selection (forced on, forced off, or default setting; bugs 56866 and 56867) and__NOEDITSECTION__as a checkbox (bug 57166). - The automated browser tests were adjusted to speed them up and bind more correctly to list items in lists, and updated to a newer version of their ruby dependencies. You can monitor the automated browser tests' results (triggered every twelve hours) live on the server.
- Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide was updated recently to show some new and upcoming features.
Looking ahead: The character formatting menu on the toolbar will get a drop-down indicator next Thursday. The reference and media items will be the first two listed in the Insert menu. The help menu will get a page listing the keyboard shortcuts. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including support for alignment (left, right, and center) and better control over image size (including default and upright sizes). The developers are also working on support for editing redirects and image galleries.
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Sydney Meetup on Monday evening
[edit]There's a Meetup in Sydney on Monday (tomorrow) evening from 5:30pm at the Paragon Hotel Circular Quay. We even have an international guest. See the meetup page for more details and to sign up. Sorry for the late notice - I hope you can make it. --99of9 (talk) 05:54, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#Ask_A_Librarian_links_in_WP_Australia any comment there would be good if you can.. satusuro 11:22, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for that - has clarified things well - cheers satusuro 09:30, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- so much for editor loss... looks like a personal conversation between us there... go ahead with what is good and let the chooks that watch but dont comment - have it like joh used to say.... satusuro 01:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- As you can see I've just left a comment there. If no one else weighs in for a while then i suppose it's up to 99of9 to determine a consensus and act accordingly. Wittylama 01:48, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- wow when was the last time you edited? no consensus is the new black here, havent you noticed the new arrogance of bugger anyone elses idea here on wp? youre outta touch... :) - ok will wait for 99 or 9 to do his thing... satusuro 02:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- Are you both assuming I've got admin superpowers? I've passed on your edit request. --99of9 (talk) 04:24, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- he's a spook of some sort, just forgot what variety... satusuro 09:25, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- Are you both assuming I've got admin superpowers? I've passed on your edit request. --99of9 (talk) 04:24, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- wow when was the last time you edited? no consensus is the new black here, havent you noticed the new arrogance of bugger anyone elses idea here on wp? youre outta touch... :) - ok will wait for 99 or 9 to do his thing... satusuro 02:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- As you can see I've just left a comment there. If no one else weighs in for a while then i suppose it's up to 99of9 to determine a consensus and act accordingly. Wittylama 01:48, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- I want one too - if that came from brainstorming at an editathon, I'd cast off my cycnic hat, throw it in, and take on the eternal optimists hat - I wish the venture all the best of luck it can get - the new tag looks great - lets hope it gets some stats!!! (kpi's etc) - well done!! satusuro 10:15, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor Newsletter—February 2014
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You can easily re-use references by going to the Insert menu, choosing "Reference", and clicking on "Use an existing reference" in the lower left corner. A list of all references, their numbers, and their ref names (if any) will be shown. You can search the list for any author, title, date, or other keyword. Read the user guide for more information.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some small changes to the user interface, such as moving the reference item to the top of the Insert menu, as well as some minor features and fixing bugs, especially for rich copying and pasting of references.
The biggest change was the addition of more features to the image dialog, including the ability to set alignment (left, right, center), framing options (thumbnail, frame, frameless, and none), adding alt text, and defining the size manually. There is still some work to be done here, including a quick way to set the default size.
- The main priority is redesigning the reference dialog, with the goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs and URLs and streamlining the process. Current concept drawings are available at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
- A few bugs in the existing reference dialog were fixed. The toolbar was simplified to remove galleries and lists from the reference dialog. When you re-use references, it now correctly displays the references again, rather than just the number and name. If you paste content into a dialog that can't fit there (e.g.
==section headings==in references), it now strips out the inappropriate HTML. - You can now edit image galleries inside VisualEditor. At this time, the gallery tool is a very limited option that gives you access to the wikitext. It will see significant improvements at a later date.
- The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu is being redesigned. Your feedback on the special character inserter is still wanted, especially if you depend on Wikipedia's character inserters for your normal editing rather than using the ones built into your computer.
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- If you edit categories, your changes will now display correctly after saving the page (T50560).
- Saving the page should be faster now (T61660).
- Any community can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData by leaving a note at T53734.
Looking ahead: The link tool will tell you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. The warning about wikitext will hide itself after you remove the wikitext markup in that paragraph. Support for creating and editing redirects is in the pipeline. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including default and upright sizes. The developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments, some behavioral magic words like DISPLAYTITLE, and in-line language setting (dir="rtl").
If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]OK - this is getting a bit embrassing - as I do a lot of categories - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Rural_organizations_in_Australia - the improve the article message needs fixing for categories - I am sending this to you and 99 to hope someone will do it - please satusuro 10:29, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
British Museum
[edit]Hi Liam, per Wikipedia_talk:GLAM#Contacting_a_museum_to_get_permission_to_use_their_photos_-_British_Museum, I am planning to reach out to the BM to ask for permission to use their photos throughout wikipedia. Since you were lucky enough to work there in the past, I was wondering if you might have any insight or suggestions for me? Best regards, Oncenawhile (talk) 20:46, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
- I've responded on that discussion page. Wittylama 00:13, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor newsletter—March 2014
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The template dialog has been simplified to make it faster and easier to add parameter data. Read the user guide for more information.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on changes to the template and image dialogs.
The biggest change in the last few weeks was the redesign of the template dialog. The template dialog now opens in a simplified mode that lists parameters and their descriptions. (The complex multi-item transclusion mode can be reached by clicking on "Show options" from inside the simplified template dialog.) Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. With today's update, searching for template parameters will become case-insensitive, and required template parameters will display an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. In addition to making it quicker and easier to see everything when you edit typical templates, this work was necessary to prepare for the forthcoming simplified citation dialog. The main priority in the coming weeks is building this new citation dialog, with the ultimate goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs, URLs, DOIs and other quick-fills. This will add a new button on the toolbar, with the citation templates available picked by each wiki's community. Concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
- The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. Pages that exist, but are not indexed by the search engine, are treated like non-existent pages (T56361).
- Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from the paragraph you are editing.
- The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has been slightly redesigned, to introduce larger buttons. Your suggestions for more significant changes to the special character inserter are still wanted.
- The page options menu (three bars, next to the Cancel button) has expanded. You can create and edit redirect pages, set page options like
__STATICREDIRECT__,__[NO]INDEX__and__[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__, and more. New keyboard shortcuts are listed there, and include undoing the last action, clearing formatting, and showing the shortcut help window. If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. - It is easier to edit images. There are more options and they are explained better. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. You can now set image sizes to the default, if another size was previously specified. Full support for upright sizing systems, which more readily adapt image sizes to the reader's screen size, is planned.
- VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. These "slugs" are now smaller than normal blank lines, and are animated to be different from actual blank lines.
- You can use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+S shortcuts to open the save window, and you can preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window.
- After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed to the Interlingual Occidental Wikipedia, the Portuguese Wikibooks, and the French Wikiversity.
- Any community can ask for custom icons for their language in the character formatting menu (bold, italic, etc.) by making a request on Bugzilla or by contacting Product Manager James Forrester.
The developers apologize for a regression bug with the deployment on 6 March 2014, which caused the incorrect removal of |upright size definitions on a handful of pages on the English Wikipedia, among others. The root cause was fixed, and the broken pages were fixed soon after.
Looking ahead: Several template dialogs will become more compact. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. You will be able to see the Table of Contents change live as you edit the page, rather than it being hidden. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") may be offered to a few Wikipedias soon.
If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on 19 April 2014 at 2000 UTC. Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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DYK for The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers
[edit] | On 18 April 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that members of The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers perform full circle ringing in more than 60 bell towers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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brrrr
[edit]canberra looks cold at mo, trust you are keeping warm.
- it's only going to get colder!!
- the library ref in project tags on oz articles - any feedback yet?
- There have been a couple of Wikipedians use the service successfully however the NLA privacy policy forbids staff from giving specifics of other people's research enquiries. We ar going to publish a blogpost on the NLA 'behind the scenes' blog soonish talking about the project.
- same - they need tweaking still - that possible - you or 99 ?
- best would be 99of9. What tweaks do you need?
- starting a maritime subject - ? - didnt know your eclectic range of subjects...
- I visited the wreck site for the SS Monaro over the Easter break (it's just a rusting boiler sitting on the rocks at Bingie Point on the NSW South Coast) and thought to myself "THIS needs a WP article" :-)
- london?
- for Wikimania? Perhaps. in fact, much more possible than it was a couple of weeks ago. More news on that front soonish.
cheers for the mo... satusuro 01:52, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor newsletter—April 2014
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You can use VisualEditor to make redirects. First, remove any unwanted content from the page. Then go to the "Page options" menu (next to "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽") and choose the "Page settings" item. Click the box to "Redirect this page to". In the box, type in the name of the page that you want to redirect this page to.
You can also set or remove categories for the redirect in the "Page options" menu. Read the user guide for more information.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on performance improvements, image settings, and preparation for a simplified citation template tool in its own menu.
- In an oft-requested improvement, VisualEditor now displays red links (links to non-existent pages) in the proper color. Links to sister projects and external URLs are still the same blue as local links.
- You can now open templates by double-clicking them or by selecting them and pressing Return. This also works for references, images, galleries, mathematical equations, and other "nodes".
- VisualEditor has been disabled for pages that were created as translations of other pages using the Translate extension (common at Meta and MediaWiki.org). If a page has been marked for translation, you will see a warning if you try to edit it using VisualEditor.
- When you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor, the full protection notice and most recent log entry are displayed. Blocked users see the standard message for blocked users.
- The developers fixed a bug that caused links on sub-pages to point to the wrong location.
- The size-changing controls in the advanced settings section of the media or image dialog were simplified further. VisualEditor's media dialog supports more image display styles, like borderless images.
- If there is not enough space on your screen to display all of the tabs (for instance, if your browser window is too narrow), the second edit tab will now fold into the drop-down menu (where the "Move" item is currently housed). On the English Wikipedia, this moves the "Edit beta" tab into the menu; on most projects, it moves the "Edit source" tab. This is only enabled in the default Vector skin, not for Monobook users. See this image for an example showing the "Edit source" and "View history" tabs after they moved into the drop-down menu.
- After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed as an opt-in feature at Meta and on the French Wikinews.
Looking ahead: A new, locally controlled menu of citation templates will put citations immediately in front of users. You will soon be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) is being developed. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") will be offered as a Beta Feature soon. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.
If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Monday, 19 May 2014 at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this on your own page, subscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor#Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
AFoWV and The Dawn
[edit]This is a great article but it claims The Dawn was the official publication of the group. The Dawn was published between 1888 and 1905 and AFoWV was founded in 1921. Something's not right there. The Drover's Wife (talk) 21:07, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
- You're quite right , I noticed that too. But, nevertheless that is what the (very) reliable sources that I've cited say... My theory off the top of my head is that over time the organisation began to use the pre-existing publication more and more, to the point that the leadership of each became the same people. I will try to follow the issue up and get a bit of an explanation that I can distill into the article. Wittylama 00:31, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
- I've located a reference to the right Dawn. Mark Hurd (talk) 03:21, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
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VisualEditor newsletter—May 2014
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The cite menu offers quick access to up to five citation templates. If your wiki has enabled the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, press "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" and select the appropriate template from the menu.
Existing citations that use these templates can be edited either using the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" tool or by selecting the reference and choosing the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu.
Read the user guide for more information.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on the new citation tool, improving performance, reducing technical debt, and other infrastructure needs.
The biggest change in the last few weeks is the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". The new citation menu offers a locally configurable list of citation templates on the main toolbar. It adds or opens references using the simplified template dialog that was deployed last month. This tool is in addition to the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu, and it is not displayed unless it has been configured for that wiki. To enable this tool on your wiki, see the instructions at VisualEditor/Citation tool.
Eventually, the VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for these citations. When this long-awaited feature is created, you could add an ISBN, URL, DOI or other identifier to the citation tool, and VisualEditor would automatically fill in as much information for that source as possible. The concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog, and your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted.
- There is a new Beta Feature for setting content language and direction. This allows editors who have opted in to use the "Language" tool in the "Insert" menu to add HTML span tags that label text with the language and as being left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL), like this:
<span lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span>. This tool is most useful for pages whose text combines multiple languages with different directions, common on Right-to-Left wikis. - The tool for editing mathematics formulae in VisualEditor has been slightly updated and is now available to all users, as the "⧼math-visualeditor-mwmathinspector-title⧽" item in the "Insert" menu. It uses LaTeX like in the wikitext editor.
- The layout of template dialogs has been changed, putting the label above the field. Parameters are now called "fields", to avoid a technical term that many editors are unfamiliar with.
- TemplateData has been expanded: You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData, and VisualEditor will display them in the template dialogs like required ones. "Suggested" is recommended for parameters that are commonly used, but not actually required to make the template work. There is also a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name, for file names. The template tool can now tell you if a parameter is marked as being obsolete.
- Some templates that previously displayed strangely due to absolute CSS positioning hacks should now display correctly.
- Several messages have changed: The notices shown when you save a page have been merged into those used in the wikitext editor, for consistency. The message shown when you "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽" out of an edit is clearer. The beta dialog notice, which is shown the first time you open VisualEditor, will be hidden for logged-in users via a user preference rather than a cookie. As a result of this change, the beta notice will show up one last time for all logged-in users on their next VisualEditor use after Thursday's upgrade.
- Adding a category that is a redirect to another category prompts you to add the target category instead of the redirect.
- In the "Images and media" dialog, it is no longer possible to set a redundant border for thumbnail and framed images.
- There is a new Template Documentation Editor for TemplateData. You can test it by editing a documentation subpage (not a template page) at Mediawiki.org: edit mw:Template:Sandbox/doc, and then click "Manage template documentation" above the wikitext edit box. If your community would like to use this TemplateData editor at your project, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
- There have been multiple small changes to the appearance: External links are shown in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. This is a lighter shade of blue than the internal links. The styling of the "Style text" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin. VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽" dialog, now use a "loading" animation of moving lines, rather than animated GIF images. Other changes were made to the appearance upon opening a page in VisualEditor which should make the transition between reading and editing be smoother.
- The developers merged in many minor fixes and improvements to MediaWiki interface integration (e.g., edit notices), and made VisualEditor handle Education Program pages better.
- At the request of the community, VisualEditor has been deployed to Commons as an opt-in. It is currently available by default for 161 Wikipedia language editions and by opt-in through Beta Features at all others, as well as on several non-Wikipedia sites.
Looking ahead: The toolbar from the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. More buttons and icons will be accessible from the keyboard. The "Keyboard shortcuts" link will be moved out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) and inline images is being developed. You will be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. VisualEditor will be available to all users on mobile devices and tablet computers. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.
If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 10:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:16, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Wikipedians_in_residence and feel free to remove your name, or that whole sentence, or put your user name in instead (with a link). Smallbones(smalltalk) 19:35, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
- I'm honoured to be quoted in the WP COI rules Smallbones :-) I'd suggest that the less idealistic and more policy-driven quote you'd like to use is that one of the principles I required for working at the British Museum was that "neither the GLAM nor the Wikimedia communities could oblige the WiR to undermine the policies and principles of the other". This recognises there were fears on both sides - the Wikimedians could be reassured that I wasn't going to try and whitewash articles that the museum didn't like, but equally the museum could be reassured that I wasn't going to try to extract all their high-res images from their internal servers. Wittylama 00:18, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
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