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VisualEditor newsletter for Janaury 2014
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 –    and   as selection (forced on, forced off, or default setting; bugs 56866 and 56867) and   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.
 * 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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DYK for Odell Great Wood
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DYK for Lepiota cristata
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DYK for The Riddy
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Shaolin Kung Fu
This page has been vandalized a lot. Extend PC1-protection time, or upgrade to semi-protection? --George Ho (talk) 05:48, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * - When you say the page has been vandalized a lot - what do you mean? During protection or before it? :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 19:14, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Never mind. I must have overreacted. You can disregard this request. --George Ho (talk) 02:17, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Gamlingay Cinques Common
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WikiCup 2014 January newsletter
The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer, whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:


 * and were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
 * scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
 * scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Featured topics/She Wolf.
 * scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
 * has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Requests for adminship/Piotrus 3
Hi Acather96, I wanted to inform you that I have moved myself into the neutral column at Requests for adminship/Piotrus 3. I wanted to inform you since you directly cited my 'support' rationale, which has now changed, so that you may adjust your comment if you deem it necessary. Just wanted to give you the heads up; please don't take it to mean I'm wanting you to change your position. Regards, Mkdw talk 17:57, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I saw this too late but I appreciate you taking the time to notify me. Thanks, :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 18:37, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Ahem
Sorry about that. I'm on a different IP (Really dynamic IP, I've sent an unblock request but I didn't get a message). I'd like to discuss with you my IP block. Please restate my block reasons and I'll try to give an good explanation. And heads up, I'm a weird person, and some of my answers may open your eyes to a persons hidden depths. 74.248.58.76 (talk) 03:52, 19 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Also, why I'm doing this is because,... someone reminded me who I really am. I feel an odd sense of good that I haven't felt in a long time. 74.248.58.76 (talk) 03:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm more than happy to discuss reasons for your block, but first of all you'll need to tell me which account/IP I blocked that you want me to review. :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 08:30, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

The one where I put up rainbow bitfly links on anon talk pages or those "personal attack" messages even though I'm fairly certain one was an ominous worded compliment and the others were trying to make things here a little less dull (I'm... peculiar), if you catch my drift. Also further hint, anon who signs his posts. 74.248.51.29 (talk) 17:17, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * - Okay, I get you. I originally blocked your IP as you made several, disruptive, uncivil and rude comments which did not contribute anything. You were asked to stop multiple times and failed to engage or desist. It looked like you knew what you were doing, as you weren't just inserting 'gay' into the George W. Bush or the suchlike, but finding IP user talk pages and dabbling around with wikicode, and were, as you say, signing your post - hence the 2 days and 12 hours block. There's a difference between a kid at school vandalising and someone with knowledge of Wikipedia (even a rudimentary one) actively trying to disrupt it, hence when you then starting editing my talk-page messages maliciously, stating you didn't care etc. that didn't really help your case, and when you finally left an edit summary saying 'Not illegal to have fun', it confirmed my suspicions that you were here to disrupt and waste volunteer's time - hence the extension of the block and revocation of talk page access. As you know what you are doing here on enwp, if you really do want to contribute constructively I am more than willing to lift the block if you can explain what kind of editing activity you would like to undertake. I hope this explains why I took the course of action I did and seems reasonable to you. Thank-you. Acather96 (click here to contact me) 17:29, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Honestly uninterested with any editing (except reverting the usual vandalism that you can spot by refreshing recent changes) Also those warnings where after I'd stopped. Also my talk page thing was purely boredom, and those bit links where mainly because I find it disheartening that anons waste their time on lame vandalism. It was more of attempt to take out the make vandalism have more humor so when it gets reverted you'd have some incentive to go back and enjoy. My life here is boring, by the way, and my statements about "not caring" is true, as I've stopped caring about a lot of things, and that can't be healed. 74.248.51.29 (talk) 18:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * - Well reverting vandalism counts as constructive editing in my book, so consider the block lifted (whilst I know you're on a dynamic IP and can just switch, those can be blocked as SOCKS)! On a person-to-person level, I feel for you, as you seem to be going through tough times - I'm no professional counselor by any stretch of the imagination, but I hope whatever is wrong either improves or that if not time will heal the pain. Whilst I would of course advise you to seek advice etc. from friends, family or professionals, I'll also add that my talkpage is always open for anything, and if it's private then e-mail me. I really do believe that we are (or at least should try to be) and if one our editors is feeling down or going through a rough patch, I'd be privileged to give what little help I can and I know others on here will do the same. Acather96 (click here to contact me) 18:09, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your offer, my kind of, pit... Imagine a pit you dug yourself, that your house it built on. Imagine you can't ever leave your house, and you know you have limited time. Any thing that has kept your house from collapsing has long rotted away and been replaced with cheap material that slowly gives in. And you know your predicament is entirely on you. You know how to escape, but you're too weak. You know what happens when it collapses, but you don't care. You know it's your fault. There's things that make your eyes start water, but the times where you can feel your soul give in just makes you contemplate. Also, before I go, do end this on a lighter mood, "Lucas Nicodemus", nice name, don't you think? 74.248.51.29 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:17, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * - Again, I struggle to know what to offer, I only have words. Is there anyone off-wiki you can talk to about this? Or is this not feasible? If not, I can give you some websites which should be able to help. Whilst again this isn't a professional suggestion, I guess you can find a kind of recluse and enjoyment online - editing Wikipedia is something I do as a hobby and I find it constructive and enjoyable. Though I do feel it's important to not let the internet absorb you -remember the outside world as well :)! And Lucas Nicodemus is a nice name - is it yours? If so, I feel obliged to ask you to read WP:REALNAME, as there are certain dangers that can come with on-wiki real names. I can't say I've heard it before. Acather96 (click here to contact me) 20:02, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * And just for you, I'll have a look at the VAC article tomorrow. :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 20:05, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Also it was someone else had it on their user space. You can tell he had some good parents. It feels smart yet calm. 74.248.51.29 (talk) 21:30, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor Newsletter—February 2014
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 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.   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.
 * You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu (three bars next to the Cancel button).
 * If you edit categories, your changes will now display correctly after saving the page.
 * Saving the page should be faster now.
 * Any community can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData by leaving a note at.

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.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Answer to your question
I have no objection about your deletion to my uploaded image (File:Mushfiqur Rahim training, February, 2009, Dhaka SBNS.jpg) as it was my fault for not putting a clear description. Some ofthe images are my own and some are copyrights which are exceptable to wikipedia. But this image was not so good because I did not describe the actual use because, I again say it was my fault. --Abir Rahman Saif (talk) 11:25, 20 February 2014 (UTC)--Abir Rahman Saif (talk) 11:25, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your understanding and quick response, and for all the work you do on Wikipedia - we're all volunteers after all! Please could you list out the files that you've not made yourself and that someone else owns the copyright on so I can have a look through and workout what we can keep and what we'll have to delete? Whilst I know this might seem over the top, we have to be very careful when using others work so as to avoid getting sued by professional photographers, which would reflect badly on the project and cost donors money in legal fees. Thank-you. Acather96 (click here to contact me) 11:28, 20 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks once again those are some excellent images of high quality and high encyclopedic value. However, you seem to have misunderstood my request - I asked if you could give me a list of files you have uploaded that were not you're own work. Thank-you. Acather96 (click here to contact me) 11:47, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

This is the official movie CD/DVD cover for Bank Roll.


 * Thanks for the clarification - so are you saying that the photographs (not the DVD cover, that's fine) is not you're own work? It's made by someone else? Who's is it? Acather96 (click here to contact me) 12:33, 20 February 2014 (UTC)


 * If I may interject here, those images were all uploaded by an entirely different user, . I can see no indication that is in any way related to that editor. Instead, he appears to be a sock who makes extensive use of fake imitated userpage content. The list of articles allegedly authored by him on his userpage seems to be wrong too – or if it is right, he's a sock. Most probably a sock of, in fact. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:43, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

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That was my account page. I went ahead and deleted it since I used to be a retard. If you need me to log in whatever, I'll try to remember the info. 75.97.208.21 (talk) 23:06, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * - Yep, if you could that'd be great, we kinda need to verify it before you start blanking other's user pages! I hope you can understand why this is the case :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 23:08, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * name="EHreport" /> Classified by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England as a Class A: Homestead Moat site, the moated enclosure is not currently open to the general

DYK for County Wildlife Site
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DYK for Stratton Park Moated Enclosure
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Stratton Park Moated Enclosure
Hi, I reviewed your County Wildlife Site but don't have any more time tonight for this one. I just want to mention that Stratton Park Moated Enclosure is a true orphan, with no other Wikipedia pages linking to it. You may want to link it to at least 3 pages so it won't be tagged. Best, Yoninah (talk) 23:32, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review, I really appreciate it. :) The moated enclosure article has now been reviewed and promoted, and I've found two places where it can link from, and have added links appropriately (Biggleswade and Biggleswade Castle) - a third would be great but I can't think of anything - I do plan on creating a List of Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Bedfordshire one day though, so we'll see. If you've got any ideas where a link could be added, please do it! Thanks, Acather96 (click here to contact me) 20:38, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Articles for creation March 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive
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WikiCup 2014 February newsletter
And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:


 * , a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
 * , a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
 * , another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:


 * , who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
 * , who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
 * , who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

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VisualEditor newsletter—March 2014
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 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.
 * 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 ,   and   , 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 or Command 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  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.

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Requesting an assessment
Hello, I posted an article on WikiProject Biography/Assessment for assessment about a month ago. The process is painfully slow, and that list is not moving anywhere. Can you please asses the following articles: '''Need reassessment. Significant contributions by me''' '''Unassessed. Started by me''' Need reassessment
 * Muhammad Asad
 * King Faisal International Prize
 * Arafat: A Monthly Critique of Muslim Thought,
 * Timeline of Muhammad Asad's life,
 * The Road to Mecca (book),
 * The Principles of State and Government in Islam,
 * Islam at the Crossroads,
 * Sahih Al-Bukhari: The Early Years of Islam,
 * A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad
 * Murad Wilfried Hofmann
 * The Message of The Qur'an
 * This Law of Ours and Other Essays
 * Civil decorations of Pakistan. Looking forward. Thanks.--Fasi100 (talk) 09:36, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure - I'll try and start having a look at some of them over the weekend, but it will probably take a while I'm afraid as I'm super-busy in real-life at the moment. No promises :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 21:21, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, please. Go ahead and take your time. Most of them are really short articles. Please start assessing in the order they are mentioned above. Many Thanks. --Fasi100 (talk) 05:01, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 March newsletter
A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. , who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

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Hi there- this is just a quick note to apologise for a small but important mistake in the last WikiCup newsletter; it is not 64 users who will progress to the next round, but 32. J Milburn (talk) 18:55, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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