User talk:-revi/Archives/2014/October

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I recently updated the project membership list and noticed the User:Hym411 account is not registered and redirects to this account. May I change the name on the WikiProject Trains membership list to User:-revi so your contributions will be visible to persons using that list, or would you prefer to make the change yourself? Thewellman (talk) 16:07, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, yes... I renamed from that name to this name few days ago, and forgot about wikiprojects membership. Feel free to fix it! :) &mdash; revi  ^  16:10, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes - Issue 8
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Issue 8, August-September2014 by, ,

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 * TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
 * Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
 * New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
 * Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com

VisualEditor newsletter—September and October 2014
Did you know? TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.

With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.

See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.

There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that caused replaced some categories with a link to the system message, MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.

Increased support for devices and browsers
Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.

Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.

TemplateData editor
A tool for editing TemplateData will be deployed to more Wikipedias soon.  Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

Other changes
Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.

VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the  or   class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these in types of links can be created.

Templates' fields can be marked as ' required ' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358).

Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a  attribute but no   set (bug 69955).

Looking ahead
The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.

The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.

In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.

Supporting your wiki
At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community has been posted here. Thank you all for your work.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.

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주원 사진 도움 좀 주세요.
배우 주원의 사진을 첨부하고 싶은데 안올려지네요ㅠ 위키피디아 저작권이 확인된 사진인데 안되서 도움청합니다! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tksgk262 (talk • contribs) 07:43, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 공용에 파일을 올리고 를 공용 파일의 맨 아래에 붙인 다음, permissions-ko@undefinedwikimedia.org 로 이용 허가를 보내시면 됩니다. &mdash; revimsg  08:06, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

See also for context. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:32, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, my answer should be modified then
 * 정보상자에 사진을 넣을 때는 File(파일:) 부분을 빼고 넣으면 됩니다. 참고로 한국어 위키백과의 저작권 정책을 읽어 보세요. &mdash; revimsg 09:40, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

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이 기사 한글 번역이 없는데 알려주시면 감사하겠습니다!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates 위키피디아에 저작권이 있는 사진 이용 허가에 대한 글 같은데 이해가 잘 되지않아요~ 그런데 한글 버전이 없어서 이해에 어려움이 있습니다. 부탁드려요~^^Tksgk262 (talk) 07:41, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * c:COM:메일 양식에 번역이 이미 되어 있습니다. :) &mdash; revimsg 08:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * See above.
 * @Revi: Any idea how to add Korean language to the list of languages at Email templates then? Others may be failing to find it and giving up. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:59, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * c:COM:Email templates has "한국어" link, linking to Korean page. &mdash; revimsg 08:27, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

re: Soc of Glob, treasures
Expect to see more edits related to Soc of Glob soon, but it is not a wiki-heavy course. I will try to have the students post drafts in sandboxes next week.

Regarding the red links in Template:Heritage preservation in South Korea I'd say yes, but it does depend on sources available. But if culture park is notable (and I think it is, despite the poor sources in the current en version), so would they be, too. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:58, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * /me points to /Editnotice ... Ok, got it. &mdash; revimsg 08:30, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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