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VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014  Did you know? Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button. 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 table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap. VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage). Recent improvementsBasic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F. You can now create and edit simple Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1. " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work. If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red. You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code. Looking aheadVisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.) The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier. Help
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC) User BlockedGreetings, I was reading your notes from earlier today regarding my IP address. I went to the link provided [5]. I'm not sure what I'm reading, old and not computer lit. I think this a link to my actual IP address so that when I post when on the VPN it will automatically revert to the actual IP address. If that is so wouldn't the block on me when using the VPN have been cleared? Also if that is correct is this data for internal use for Wikipedia and will not be published elsewhere? Sure would appreciate any help. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by NigelCovington85 (talk • contribs) 21:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC) Greetings, Regarding supporting citations I am working on those next and will be happy to provide them asap. Thank you again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NigelCovington85 (talk • contribs) 21:23, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
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2015 alreadyHi Fluff. No frills - just a quiet ‘’all the best’’ to you for 2015 and I hope you’ll continue to be around on Wikipedia for a long time to come. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC) The Signpost: 31 December 2014
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 2 January 2015 (UTC) Beautiful[6] Seriously, I was about to give you a barnstar for it. --AmaryllisGardener talk 03:29, 5 January 2015 (UTC) FYI, I have unblocked this user to change username, following fairly prolonged discussion on their talk page. I will keep an eye on them. JohnCD (talk) 21:56, 8 January 2015 (UTC) Draft:Kesh Malek (checkmate)Hi. I made a few changes to Draft:Kesh Malek (checkmate). Also left a message for the creator but with no response I can only assume that he has more important things to tend to, especially considering what he may be going through just now if he's living in that part of the world. Please let me know what you think. I can spend some more time on it if needed; it seems a worthwhile article so I hope it doesn't get dumped through lack of interest. Jodosma (talk) 22:38, 8 January 2015 (UTC) The Signpost: 07 January 2015
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Future changes Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC) Would you have any suggestions?A few months ago during the eventually unsuccessful Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Piotrus_3 you voted "oppose". I wonder if you'd like to discuss any concerns of yours, or if you would have any suggestions in the event I'd decide to run again (which I am not planning to do anytime soon, but might consider in the future). For a better sense of my work and activities around the project, I invite you to consider reviewing my userpage, my talk page archives (which are not redacted), to watchlist my talk page, or use edit analysis tools like Wikichecker, content.paragr, dewkin, xtools-pages or xtools-ec (which in theory should work as of late 2014...). I would be more than happy to talk about your concerns over the 2009 ArbCom case, my hopefully improved understanding of WP:CANVASS, and what have I learned / how my editing/views have changed in the recent years. Thank you for your time, (PS. If you reply here, I'd appreciate a WP:ECHO or {{talkback}} ping). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:33, 13 January 2015 (UTC) The Signpost: 14 January 2015
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ANIHi! I wanted to ask if it's appropriate or permissible for me to comment on the BLP discussion on ANI? I'm still fairly new here and I wanted to begin a discussion on the BLP Noticeboard addressing the BLP violations but I didn't know how to go about doing that. Anyway, please let me know if it's ok for me to comment there. I'm not sure of the policy regarding ANI discussions. I haven't read anything either way on he subject of ANI discussions. Thanks.🐍shark310 20:07, 22 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shark310 (talk • contribs)
Thank you so much. I just did and attempted to sincerely explain my position based on my understanding of policy. I would like to ask, if you feel its appropriate, what you might suggest I would have done differently. In an attempt to learn from any mistakes I may have made. IN other words, is there perhaps a more appropriate approach I could have taken in this matter? Thanks again.Shark310 07:21, 23 January 2015 (UTC) Help with Batyr moveHey, so, I was attempting to undo a move, and I made a complete mess of it. I was trying to move the Batyr (animal) article back to Batyr (as Batyr is just a redirect now), and failed miserably. I was wondering if you would be willing to help fix the issue. Thank you very much. Charwinger21 (talk) 14:06, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.) EpiphanyHi Fluffernutter, I had a bit of an epiphany about the whole Shark310/Nate Moore debacle and one that I wish I'd had sooner as it would have cleared up the whole matter for me. Granted, I was over focusing on Shark's efforts (being a Sockmaster and such), but it occurred to me that I was adding content that (among other things) drew attention to a criminal for their crime which in this case was murder. Even Shark seemed to establish that Moore's acting career was non-notable and I should have realized far sooner that his heinous act was just as non-notable. Shark's efforts were the first time that I had dealt with such an extensive Sock and admittedly I was inexperienced in dealing with that kind and level of deception. But that should not have deterred me from seeing the bigger picture which was that all of it was fairly useless information, sourced or not. I'm sorry that it took an ANI to make me realize that. Best Regards, --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 18:29, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Well, I felt like I did, but I also wanted you to know that I'm not one of these hardcore types that holds an indefinte grudge. I constantly "evolve" my thinking about Wikipedia. That said, I really felt like a "lost ship in a storm" during that entire issue and was just doing my best to keep sourced content on the site. There were Socks on all sides and agendas running a muck IMO, but at the end of the day, I would like to think that the Project was not harmed. The presence of Shark310's account still concerns me given that's it a fairly blatant WP:SPA, but only time and activity will tell if that User is WP:HERE or WP:NOTHERE. For the time being, I'm going to keep working on the Special:PendingChanges list. I literally start and end my day with a review of it. Regards, --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 18:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC) Just for the record, scalhotrod, the incident you were attempting to include was a run of the mill "manslaughter." Not a "murder." (you ought to know, you wrote no less than Five articles on this subject.) And while I appreciate your concern regarding my intentions, I think you might recall that your co-author Neptune's Trident was also banned for "socking." So, go ahead and try to save face now if you must, but you might want to remember that regardless of what you think of me or my intentions, it's just as deceptive to intentionally "game" the system to make a point. Also I might suggest that attempting to "Out" someone on this site, regardless of your reasons for doing so, is specifically prohibited by Wikipedia Policy. @fluffer, I thank you for your calm perspective and for your integrity. Thankfully it appears that there are editors on this project who care more about maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia than for allowing it to become a platform for scorekeeping or bullying. thank you for your time and for your wisdom in this matterShark310 05:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC) The Signpost: 28 January 2015
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC) VisualEditor News 2015—#1Since 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 improvementsThe 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:
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 aheadThe 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. We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined. Let's work together
Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC) QuestionI don't think you were wrong to collapse the "discussion" between myself and Viriditas on AN/I, but I'm a bit perplexed that you left his inital comment out of the collapsing:
True, he does make one relevant comment ("I'm not seeing anything actionable"), but mixed in with it is an arch dig at "a certain someone" (me), an accusation that I'm possibly harassing RAN (the untruth of which I presented in the collapsed section), and "dragging [RAN's] ass here", when, in fact, previous discussions were not fruitful. The tone of his comment is what set me off -- plus my probable misinterpretation of his saying "Not here", which I took to mean WP:NOTHERE, i.e. accusing me of not being here to build an encyclopedia - to me, them's fightin' words. (I've been here 9 1/2 years and I've never heard of Template:Nothere, and have never, to my knowledge, seen it used in talk page discussion.) Given the pointed personal negativity of V's comment, is there any way you could see yourself clear to including it in the collapsing? BMK (talk) 13:07, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
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Wifione-paid editing amendment requestI've filed an amendment request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Amendment_request:_Wifione. I think everybody has had their say at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Wifione/Proposed decision, so perhaps this notice is just a formality. All the best, Smallbones(smalltalk) 16:00, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
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