User talk:Adam Cuerden/Archive 3

Re: Making Wikipedia accessible to screenreaders
Hi Adam, yes, I recall a few discussions we've had about sounds in the past ... :-)

Sure, I'll see what I can knock up. When would you need it by? Graham 87 08:55, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * No worries; I should have it in my userspace by tomorrow evening (my time) or some time on Tuesday. I'll let you know when it's done. Graham 87 13:09, 1 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I've written it up at User:Graham87/Signpost piece on accessibility. Feel free to make any tweaks, suggestions, etc. that you think are necessary. Graham 87 12:16, 2 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Cool! I'd actually never thought about using a bot to help with the first two ideas ..that's a good idea! The first item might need some context ... like when is aneditor *deliberately* trying to end an HTML list? It also gets a bit tricky with image syntax (which I hadn't thought of when writing the piece ... IMO it's a bit complicated to add though for a basic overview.
 * I've taken the liberty of unarchiving my side of the thread and putting it back on your talk page, so my end of the conversation is all in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham 87 16:06, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Or at the very least moving it, per this conversation? Graham 87 00:57, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll get the ball rolling once the Signpost piece is published. Graham 87 05:34, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * *bounce*. Graham 87 05:22, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Discussion about the statement you made
Just letting you know that my removal of your statement (and hence your statement and you) is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:24, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Now that I have an internet connection that can load your restorations...
I see that you've finished the first and second items in the set. I just wanted to let you know that, in my opinion, the first image still has too much pink speckling on the right side, outside of the border. I'm not sure if that's fixable, but it is noticeable, as the other three sides outside of the border are, even zoomed out, significantly greyer looking.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  16:19, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Re:Talk:Fullmetal Alchemist/GA2‎
I actually didn't realize I reverted that so I apologize. However, you deleted my own comment now and you ended the GA review before any other user could work. I feel the review was rushed and poorly done. Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 16:01, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Community GAR
Fullmetal Alchemist, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.--  十  八  21:03, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for September 5
This Thursday's VisualEditor update was mostly about stability and performance improvements, and some preparatory work for major planned improvements, along with bug fixes for non-English language support and right-to-left text. Everything that the English Wikipedia received today has been running on Mediawiki for a week already.

Officially, the problem with the link inspector not linking to a specific section on a page (bug 53219) was fixed in this release, although that critical patch actually appeared here earlier.

A number of bugs related to copy-and-paste functionality were fixed (48604, bug 50043, bug 53362, bug 51538, among others). Full rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor is expected "soon".

In other fixes, you can no longer add empty ref tags (bug 53345). Selecting both an image and some text, and then trying to add a link, previously deleted the selected image and the text. This was fixed in bug 50127. There was another problem related to using arrow keys to move the cursor next to an inline image that was fixed (bug 53507).

Looking ahead: The next planned upgrade is scheduled for next Thursday, and you should expect to find a redesigned toolbar with drop-down menus that include room for references, templates, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting. There will also be keyboard shortcuts for setting the format (paragraph vs section headings).

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being determined at this time. Generally speaking, languages that depend on the input method editor are not going to receive VisualEditor this month. The current target date is Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:39, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

File:St Matthew's Church - Paisley - Stained Glass Window.jpg
Adam, can you advise me on the copyright situation with this window. I believe it is by Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933) (see here). I've uploaded it with CC per my usual, but wonder if perhaps it is really PD. Thanks, Colin°Talk 21:16, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * - You are correct if Bell was indeed the artist. Underlying work would be PD-70 in the UK, PD-1923 in the US, based on my reading. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * However, Colin can claim copyright on the photograph, which I believe was his question. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:29, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah. If that's your question, agree with Adam. Can claim copyright (at the very least in the UK, and likely in the US), though since the UK does not have freedom of panorama for 2D works a note about the copyright of the underlying work would be worthwhile. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:34, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Is there a template for that, or do I just mention the copyright has expired somewhere in the text? Thanks for both your help. -- Colin°Talk 07:55, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * No template that I'm aware of for having different tags for different aspects (my style can be seen at File:Indonesian Military Headquarters, Gondokusuman, Yogyakarta.JPG, though naturally some variation could be expected). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:00, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Myself, I generally just put something like "For the photograph: [Template1] For the original work: [Template2]. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:19, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Exactly (I think Adam does it for some of his more in-depth restorations as well, as in the UK he can claim a new copyright if he wants to) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Aye. But only the most labour-intensive. Others just get a strong request for attribution or nothing. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:25, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I've tried PD-old-70-1923. It is all rather confusing. This window isn't original with the church in 1907 but was replaced as a memorial to the Great War. I don't really know when it was done but seems likely to be pre 1923. But I'm also confused as it wasn't "published" in the US at all. Colin°Talk 09:30, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The issue is that Commons requires images to be copyright free in both the US and the source country (Britain, here). The publication of the window was not in the US, but the work was "published" when it was installed in the UK in whatever year that was. In determining the copyright the US doesn't go by date of US publication, if any, but by date of first publication (i.e. in Britain, or w.e). Am I confusing? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:34, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I've long given up thinking copyright law made any sense. There also seems to be the issue of registering copyright with the US, which I can't imagine anyone doing for a window in Scotland. So do you think I've done the right thing or should use another template, or just stop worrying about it. Colin°Talk 09:40, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * That looks right to me. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 21:55, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/The Church at Auvers
Could you close Featured picture candidates/The Church at Auvers for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 18:12, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Evidence phase open - Manning naming dispute
Dear Adam Cuerden.

This is just a quick courtesy notice. You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Manning naming dispute. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Manning naming dispute/Evidence. Please add your evidence by September 19, 2013, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Manning naming dispute/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Seddon talk 23:33, 8 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, I noticed you were looking at media usage and I wonder if you thought any of this was useful: News agencies showing a general or current preference for Chelsea or Bradley Manning __Elaqueate (talk) 14:30, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

RSI=DISABILITY2!!
BUTIGETPURGD!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-09-04/Technology_report140.117.120.229 (talk) 08:47, 9 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I can't see any edits by you that have been reverted. I'm afraid I don't follow. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:13, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Renomination of a picture for FP status?
Adam, About five years ago someone uploaded this image of a soldier in Vietnam and nominated it for candidacy as an FP. It received a split vote: 6 in support, 5 against: the majority was not 2/3rds, so it did not become an FP. I just saw the picture today, and immediately thought, "Featured picture!" Then saw that it had indeed been, and that somehow, for what looked to me to be trivial reasons, it had failed. I would like to renominate the picture, as I am all but certain that it would pass if nominated a second time, but I am not sure there is a procedure for this (or maybe there is NO procedure, and all I have to do is nominate it as though it had never been nominated before? (but maybe that would overwrite the original discussion).  Or else that it is not possible to renominate an image once it has failed candidacy?). Can you advise me on this? Thanks! KDS 4444 Talk  01:10, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * According to the image page it passed the FP nomination (and has been on the main page). As for failed nominations: there is no policy against more than one nomination. You just make sure to give it a different title at the nomination page (my picture of a kris took 2 noms, for instance). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:06, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Your friendly meetup reminder service!
Hi Adam, just a reminder about the Newcastle meetup on Sunday (1pm onwards). I chose a venue that was nice and close to the station because I'm coming up by train myself (I think my train ends up in Edinburgh, and they're hourly, so I imagine they're about the same in the opposite direction). Hope to see you there. Best, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  14:10, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Question regarding image:
What do you think of this? That's an interesting image, and has its own article, but I'm not too crazy over the lines where the pages met up. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:09, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Ida B. Wells
Thank you! Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:29, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Tech report
Hey Adam, what will we have for the tech report this week? Pinging User:Kirill Lokshin too. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 16:36, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 16:40, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Poke. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 02:35, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Your reply at the evidence page
I've removed your reply, simply, because evidence is not for threaded discussions and your not supposed to put your arguments in my section. However, I'm not trying to avoid your response so I'm willing to discuss it with you here, on the workshop page, or the evidence talk page, if you wish.--v/r - TP 15:05, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I've replied on my talk page--v/r - TP 16:13, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Your Arbitration evidence is too long
Hello, Adam Cuerden. Thank you for your recent submission of evidence for the Manning naming dispute Arbitration case. As you may be aware, the Arbitration Committee asks that users submitting evidence in cases adhere to limits regarding the length of their submissions. These limits, currently at 1000 words and 100 diffs for parties and 500 words and 50 diffs for all others, are in place to ensure that the Arbitration Committee receives only the most important information relevant to the case, and is able to determine an appropriate course of action in a reasonable amount of time. The evidence you have submitted currently exceeds at least one of these limits, and is presently at 1650 words and 1 diffs. Please try to reduce the length of your submission to fit within these limits; this guide may be able to provide some help in doing so. If the length of your evidence is not reduced soon, it may be refactored or removed by a human clerk within a few days. Thank you! If you have any questions or concerns regarding the case, please contact the drafting Arbitrator or case clerk (who are listed on the case pages); if you have any questions or concerns about this bot, please contact the operator. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Hers fold ArbClerkBOT(talk) 04:21, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for September 19, 2013
VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.

As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add  (underline),   (subscript), and   (superscript),   (strikethrough) and   (computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.

In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references (bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label (bug 51670).

In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl up to Ctrl sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl sets it as pre-formatted (bug 33512). Ctrl, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.

Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" (bug 50452).

Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application (bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.

Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate (bug 53503).

Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter (bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again (bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:39, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Scotland in the Early Middle Ages
Just a prompt over this GA review. I was wondering if you knew when you would be able to get back to complete this. All the best.--  SabreBD  (talk ) 08:02, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
Hello Adam. I'd be glad if you'll state your opinion regarding Colin's comment on the above nomination. Tomer T (talk) 17:07, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom majority passage
Hi Adam, I was confused by your "THE ARBCOM PROPOSAL TO DELAY MOVE DISCUSSIONS IS FAILING" and "vanishingly unlikely this will pass" comments over at Talk:Chelsea Manning. Isn't only a simple majority of 7 votes needed for a pass, as described in the lede of WP:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Manning naming dispute/Proposed decision? So I don't understand how 6-4 with two votes remaining signifies "failing" and "vanishingly unlikely to pass". I do understand your "highly controversial ... with so much opposition", but your other remarks sounded like saying that a competitor up 6-4 with two more matches to run was loosing, which confused me. Now that WTT has opposed and the vote stands at 6-5, -sche has written that it is "impossible for the final outstanding Arbitrator to sway the decision unless another Arbitrator changes votes". But isn't the remaining active arbitrator in a position to cast a deciding vote? What am I misunderstanding here? -- ToE 11:42, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Now I see that temporary injunctions need "4 net support votes", as you described. Thanks. -- ToE 12:28, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification


Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Birmingham.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 14, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-10-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:09, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Road Maker (Aríìhiriš) A Hidatsa Chief
Think I got everything. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:28, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks :)
Perhaps you'd like to review the closely related 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash as well? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:30, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 September newsletter
In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. , —who has never participated in the competition before—and follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

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Puss in Boots
Hey, I was working on something over on Wikidata that led me to the image File:Édition_Curmer_(1843)_-_Le_Chat_botté_-_1.png. It doesn't look to me like it needs any restoration, but I have very little knowledge of these things so I figured I would bring it to you. It's a tad small at 1,240 by 1,920 pixels, and the source that's given isn't acceptable, but I wanted to get your thoughts on it's worthiness for FP (assuming that an actual source can be found, of course).  S ven M anguard  Wha?  22:37, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Resolution is a big put-off for me. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:06, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Set: Puck of Pook's Hill

 * That took up three full screens' worth of space on my laptop. Wow.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  21:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Four on mine. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:29, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * To be fair, that was almost a month of work. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:12, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You might want to put one of these in the Kipling article? -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:26, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

What we do is not restoration
According to this. I've fully protected the page now, as the editor has continued to edit war to add information which is not needed for the main page, but seriously. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:59, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Sleeping Venus
This might be worth your perusal

Amandajm (talk) 07:03, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good point. Adam, you didn't vote here, so you can close it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:05, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I have the tool installed, so that was easy. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:02, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Another bit of Kipling

 * Do you think the millions of white speckles at File:Kipling nd.jpg would hold it back from FAC? I'm getting the obvious damage out (that upload was a quick and dirty clean) but I don't think I could get all the dust. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:04, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Final version is up. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:21, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think they'd cause any problems at FAC. FPC, now...
 * More seriously, I think it'd really depend on the date. Given literally everything on that file description page is wrong, save that it's of Kipling (source isn't linked, date is given as 2011, etc) it's hard to say. If it's reasonably early photography, I'd say go for it. If this is 1910s or something, best to look for something else. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:45, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * (EC) LOL, typo alert. Yeah, I thought as much. Tried to minimise 'em, but... meh. Anyways, Muhammad Ali is a better choice (lede image). Just gotta wait 7 days...
 * Second post: LOC says 1899, so fairly early. Will fix description page. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:50, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't bother waiting on Muhammad Ali; it's just a restoration and better scan of an otherwise stable image. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:53, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Perhaps, but I just nommed two this morning so am gonna hold off for at least two days — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:15, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter on 16 October 2013
VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to your preferences and choosing the item, " ".

The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug 50459).

There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected (bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances (bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories (bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias (bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes (bug 54712).

Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:41, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Pirates of Penzance
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Pirates of Penzance you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TonyTheTiger -- 08:30, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Seeking Advice and possible collaboration...
Hi Adam- I recently nominated a complete type set of United States Fractional currency for Wikipedia FP. It was unopposed, but only received 4 support votes. Since it closed I have re-cropped the images and increased the file size. As someone who regularly nominates sets of images do you have any additional suggestions? I really don't want to break the collection into sections because it is a complete set. Also, in my work at the Smithsonian, I have been able to scan original proof prints of U.S. Treasury Seals (and many other original engravings). They require some light cleaning/restoration (which is beyond my ability). I thought one or two I had in mind could become the lead image for Symbols of the United States Department of the Treasury, and we could co-nominate the image for Wikipedia FP. (The originals are no more than 2 inches in diameter). If that is something you might consider I will load the tiff file (88mb, 5892x5227, scanned at 2400dpi). Thanks-Godot13 (talk) 20:14, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Bedroom in Arles
Could I ask you to close this? I've voted, and so has Armbrust. Really close vote. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:29, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Pirates of Penzance
The article The Pirates of Penzance you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:The Pirates of Penzance for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TonyTheTiger -- 23:30, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter
Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013 by , Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved... New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted. New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis?? New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration Read the full newsletter ''Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 21:05, 27 October 2013 (UTC)''

Wiki PR Account
Regarding your recent edits to Agoda; I would like to get some help understanding the reasons behind the removed content. Across Asia, where I'm based, Agoda is a large organization with significant brand recognition. I feel that BKKGreg has been active in keeping the page up-to-date and providing an impartial source of information for users researching the dominant businesses within the Asia/APAC region. During my time watching Agoda I haven't viewed this page as Wiki PR at all, I've come to see it as verifiable reference material that is relevant to Asia markets. Bra1nfr33z3 (talk) 03:24, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Assume good faith
At least you didn't accuse Bkkgreg of being this guy. Or Pedalissimo.

Email
I've sent you an email -- Colin°Talk 08:52, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 October newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is. Our final nine were as follows:

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:


 * wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
 * wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
 * wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
 * wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
 * wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
 * wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
 * wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
 * The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to, for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
 * Finally, the judges are awarding the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:28, 1 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Congratulations - nicely done! Let's do it again next year :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:39, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Re:Featured pictures on the Wikicup
Look, I really think you're being unfair here. Pictures were mentioned in the newsletter, several times. January's newsletter, August's newsletter and October's newsletter all mentioned your work on featured pictures. This is despite the fact that you were one of the only people working on featured pictures in the WikiCup. Like it or not, the featured picture process is a smaller area of Wikipedia; did you knows, good articles and featured articles at least (and likely featured lists too) have to be a higher priority for the WikiCup. They are more primarily what Wikipedia is about (we could have an encyclopedia without news, pictures, sounds, topics and portals, but we couldn't have an encyclopedia without articles). As I have said (and as you've resolutely chosen to ignore) this is actually explicitly written into the featured picture criteria. Articles necessarily have a certain priority over pictures. Look at other less-traversed content types; we had one user above all others who was interested in in the news this year, producing as many ITN articles in one round as you produced FPs in the final round. There were three mentions in the newsletter of ITN. Featured lists were produced by many users; they were only mentioned twice in the newsletter. You know I love featured pictures; this certainly isn't a personal prejudice of mine. Remember that Durova won the first big WikiCup through her featured picture work, and that the WikiCup effectively led the way in terms of recognising valued pictures and featured sounds. I'm just trying to keep things interesting for everyone else. J Milburn (talk) 09:17, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Okay, let's review:

January

FP "Adam Cuerden (submissions) was the first to score for a featured picture, with File:Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg."

Meanwhile, everything actually featured got at least a couple sentences describing it:

Non FP:
 * 1) Hawkeye7 (submissions) has the highest overall bonus points, as well as the highest scoring article, thanks to his work on Enrico Fermi, now a good article. The biography of such a significant figure to the history of science warrants nearly five times the normal score.
 * 2) HueSatLum (submissions) claimed bonus points for René Vautier and Nicolas de Fer, articles that did not exist on the English Wikipedia at the start of the year; a first for the WikiCup. The articles were eligible for bonus points because of fact they were both covered on a number of other Wikipedias.
 * 3) Also, a quick mention of British Empire The C of E (submissions), who may well have already written the oddest article of the WikiCup this year: did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery? The gauntlet has been thrown down; can anyone beat it?

As can be seen, while the existence of FPs was mentioned, unlike other content, they were not described in any way.

August

FP: He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing. [...] . Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone.

Non FP:
 * 1) Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work.
 * 2) Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. # Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. #Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles.

Again, the other content mentioned has actual descriptions of what was done.

October

FP: Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.

So, no. In the entire Wikicup, you never wrote a single word describing anything about any featured picture, ever, and didn't even link to a single one outside of the first one promoted.

I'm sorry, but seriously? Reading what you actually wrote about Featured pictures - trivial mentions, only in a single case linking to any example, do you really think you've acted fairly?

I'm not complaining that you didn't mention them more often, I'm complaining that you never described a single featured picture at all. Never. Not once.

Seriously, if you really want the Wikicup to not be article-only, you need to make an effort to actually describe the content being produced outside of article space. Simply saying that a type of content exists, then moving on to lengthy, enthusiastic descriptions of content of other types is hardly helpful.

However, I will agree with you on one point: You also utterly failed with Lists and ITN. You should have tried harder with them too.

Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:40, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Scotland in the Early Middle Ages
I hope the operas have gone well. Any chance we can complete this soon, as it now stretching into months. I don't really want to relist, but if you don't have time we could fail it and do that.--  SabreBD  (talk ) 19:14, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikicup 2014
Are you going to participate? I am. I plan on a challenge... I'll begin by gathering some resources. Just as a slight note. Chances are I'll need over 600-800 different references for each one of the articles I am planning on doing as what I envision to be nearly a year long endeavor. I might have more than a pressing need for your skills if I am to complete such articles... perhaps we could suggest a Feature pictures for a featured article bonus point system? I think a 1.5x multiplier should be given to featured pictures on featured articles. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 02:33, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Adam signed up quite early. He's flying the flag of Scotland Edward Teach Bartholomew Roberts. Which is awesome, by the way. The competition now has a pirate flag, several micronations, a kingdom of Middle Earth, a former Javanese monarchy, and a conceptual nation founded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It's much more fun now that people have disregarded the whole "extant political entity" requirement. (This is coming from someone who has, for several years, flown the flag of a former micronation that was raided by Italian commandos and then blown up from sea.)   S ven M anguard   Wha?  03:46, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit intimidated by a few of the participant's ability to put up such high quality work when I have not a FA to my name, but what I do know is lots of seemingly useless facts that cover a wide range of topics, the ability to get nearly any source I really need (through my own ability or through networking) and confidence. It'll take me 7-8 months to gather everything I need, but a few top importance articles are worth the wait. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 04:01, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Pirates
Adam, please rejoin the GA page for Pirates. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:41, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:


 * Accidental deletion of infoboxes and other items: You now need to press the Delete or Backspace key twice to delete a template, reference or image. The first time, the item becomes selected, and the second time, it is removed.  The need to press the delete key twice should make it more obvious what you are doing and help avoid accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336).
 * Switch from VisualEditor to the wikitext editor: A new feature lets you make a direct, one-way editing interface change, which will preserve your changes without needing to save the page and re-open it in the wikitext editor (bug 50687). It is available in a new menu in the action buttons by the Cancel button (where the "Page Settings" button used to be). Note that this new feature is not currently working in Firefox.
 * Categories and Languages are also now directly available in that menu. The category suggestions drop-down was appearing in the wrong place rather than below its input box, which is now fixed. An incompatibility between VisualEditor and the deployed Parsoid service that prevented editing categories and language links was fixed.
 * File:, Help: and Category: namespaces: VisualEditor was enabled for these namespaces the on all wikis (bug 55968), the Portal: and Viquiprojecte: namespaces on the Catalan Wikipedia (bug 56000), and the Portal: and Book: namespaces on the English Wikipedia (bug 56001).
 * Media item resizing: We improved how files are viewed in a few ways. First, inline media items can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones (like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug 54298). While you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the current dimensions (bug 54297). Once you have resized it, we fetch a new, higher resolution image for the media item if necessary (bug 55697). Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and should be available next week. If you hold down the shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. The media item resize label now is centered while resizing regardless of which tool you use to resize it.
 * Undo and redo: A number of improvements were made to the transactions system which make undoing and redoing more reliable during real-time collaboration (bug 53224).
 * Save dialogue: The save page was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug 48566), and in the process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it loses focus (bug 50722), or if you review a null edit (bug 53313); its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions options now layout much more cleanly (bug 52175), and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug 51918). There was a bug in the save dialog that caused it to crash if there was an error in loading the page from Parsoid, which is now fixed.
 * Links to other articles or pages sometimes sent people to invalid pages. VisualEditor now keeps track of the context in which you loaded the page, which lets us fix up links in document to point to the correct place regardless of what entry point you launched the editor from—so the content of pages loaded through   and   both now have text links that work if triggered (bug 48915).
 * Toolbar links: A bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343).
 * Numbered external links: VisualEditor now supports Parsoid's changed representation of numbered external links (bug 53505).
 * Removed empty templates: We also fixed an issue that meant that completely empty templates became impossible to interact with inside VisualEditor, as they didn't show up (bug 55810).
 * Mathematics formulae: If you would like to try the experimental LaTeX mathematics tool in VisualEditor, you will need to opt-in to Beta Features. This is currently available on Meta-wiki, Wikimedia Commons, and Mediawiki.org. It will be available on all other Wikimedia sites on 21 November.
 * Browser testing support: If you are interested in technical details, the browser tests were expanded to cover some basic cursor operations, which uncovered an issue in our testing framework that doesn't work with cursoring in Firefox; the Chrome tests continue to fail due to a bug with the welcome message for that part of the testing framework.
 * Load time: VisualEditor now uses content language when fetching TemplateData information, so reducing bandwidth use, and users on multi-language or multi-script wikis now get TemplateData hinting for templates as they would expect (bug 50888).
 * Reuse of VisualEditor: Work on spinning out the user experience (UX) framework from VisualEditor into oojs-ui, which lets other teams at Wikimedia (like Flow) and gadget authors re-use VisualEditor UX components, is now complete and is being moved to a shared code repository.
 * Support for private wikis: If you maintain a private wiki at home or at work, VisualEditor now supports editing of private wikis, by forwarding the Cookie: HTTP header to Parsoid ( set to true) (bug 44483).  (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)

Looking ahead: 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) 22:05, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * VisualEditor will be released to some of the smaller Wikipedias on 02 December 2013. If you are active at one or more smaller Wikipedias where VisualEditor is not yet generally available, please see the list at VisualEditor/Rollouts.
 * Public office hours on IRC to discuss VisualEditor with Product Manager James Forrester will be held on Monday, 2 December, at 1900 UTC and on Tuesday, 3 December, at 0100 UTC. Bring your questions.  Logs will be posted on Meta after each office hour completes.
 * In terms of feature improvements, one of the major infrastructure projects affects how inserting characters works, both using your computer's built-in Unicode input systems and through a planned character inserter tool for VisualEditor. The forthcoming rich copying and pasting feature was extended and greater testing is currently being done.  Work continues to support the improved reference dialog to quickly add citations based on local templates.

If you want these
Below is a list of images that I picked out back when I was thinking of working on Portal:Games. As that portal is no longer one of my priorities, I don't need the list anymore. If you do any of them, I'd be happy to stick them in the portal, but I don't see that portal as having enough content to make FP any time in the near future, and there are dozens of portals that need my attention more urgently.


 * http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007675305/ - No article, but this might be an adaptation of Snakes and Ladders
 * http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002716792/ - Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (already in use)
 * http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632884/ - History of Go
 * http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001695089/ (different version here) - Pope Joan (card game)
 * http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004670574/ - Something in the Chess family of articles
 * http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002719589/ - Something in the Playing cards family of articles. Also military history?
 * http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010652157/ - Something in the gambling family, Saratoga Springs, New York

If you have any use for the list, it's yours. If not, feel free to discard it.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  05:15, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification


Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience - The Lamb.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 25, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-12-25. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:18, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Kipling by the score
Well, it only took about an hour and a half on my end, but you've got a heck of an exhibition coming up on 30 December (Check it out). That's all 20, by my reckoning. Though I'll have to skip Auld Lang Syne for now, since it's so similar in style. May use Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket instead... dunno yet. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:05, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Pirates of Penzance
The article The Pirates of Penzance you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:The Pirates of Penzance for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TonyTheTiger -- 06:03, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasit &#124; c 15:25, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter • 19 December 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some toolbar improvements, fixing bugs, and improving support for Indic languages as well as other languages with complex characters. The current focus is on improving the reference dialog and expanding the new character inserter tool.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

Looking ahead: The transclusion dialog will see further changes in the coming weeks, with a simple mode for single templates and an advanced mode for more complex transclusions. The new character formatting menu on the toolbar will get an arrow to show that it is a drop-down menu. The reference dialog will be improved, and the Reference item will become a button in the main toolbar, rather than an item in the Insert menu.
 * Rich copying and pasting is now available. If you copy text from another website, then character formatting and some other HTML attributes are preserved.  This means, for example, that if you copy a pre-formatted suggested citation from a source like this, then VisualEditor will preserve the formatting of the title in the citation.  Keep in mind that copying the formatting may include formatting that you don't want (like section headings).  If you want to paste plain, unformatted text onto a page, then use Control or Command  (Mac).
 * Auto-numbered external links like can now be edited just like any other link.  However, they cannot be created in VisualEditor easily.
 * Several changes to the toolbar and dialogs have been made, and more are on the way. The toolbar has been simplified with a new drop-down text styles menu and an "insert" menu. Your feedback on the toolbar is wanted here.  The transclusion/template dialog has been simplified.  If you have enabled mathematical formula editing, then the menu item is now called the formula editor instead of LaTeX.
 * There is a new character inserter, which you can find in the new "insert" menu, with a capital Omega ("Ω"). It's a very basic set of characters.  Your feedback on the character inserter is wanted here.
 * Saving the page should seem faster by several seconds now.
 * It is now possible to access VisualEditor by manually editing the URL, even if you are not logged in or have not opted in to VisualEditor normally. To do so, append   to the end of the page name.  For example, change   to   to open a random page in VisualEditor.  This is intended to support bug testing across multiple browsers, without requiring editors to login repeatedly.

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) (talk) 20:38, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Jingle Bells sheet music
A Google search of "sheet music with lyrics" showed most with beamed notes that cross syllables. In fact, nearly [https://www.google.ie/images?q=sheet+music+with+lyrics every. single. one. of. them.] (Also, all of them that have a distinct vocal staff are unchorded, but whatever). *sigh* So, you want me to throw all this work out and start over from scratch then. So be it. Despite your somewhat condescending tone ("I take it you don't sing?"), I'm going to attempt to give you what you want. So, please provide -- in detail -- exactly what you want here on your talk page or mine and I'll see what I can do to make you happy. Niamh (talk) 07:53, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2014 WikiCup!
Hello Adam Cuerden, and welcome to the 2014 WikiCup! Your submission page can be found here. The competition will begin at midnight tonight (UTC). There have been a few small changes from last year; the rules can be read in full at WikiCup/Scoring, and the page also includes a summary of changes. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work, and nominated, in 2014 is eligible for points in the competition- the judges will be checking! As ever, this year's competition includes some younger editors. If you are a younger editor, you are certainly welcome, but we have written an advice page at WikiCup/Advice for younger editors for you. Please do take a look. Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! , and  17:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

FP work
Adam, good for you to put a version of that not on the talk page of the FC page—the 1% bit. Tony  (talk)  03:49, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification


Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Detroit Publishing Co. - A Yeoman of the Guard (N.B. actually a Yeoman Warder), full restoration.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 31, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-01-31. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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.

Subscriptions to this newsletter are managed at VisualEditor/Newsletter. Please add or remove your name to change your subscription settings. 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) 20:03, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Images
Can you show me what they are? Please don't delete anything without discussion. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:49, 18 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I replied on my talk page to your new message. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:09, 18 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Oldham only played Hilarion in 1921 and 1922, when he left the company, so the image is safe. Again, I am asking that you do not delete things until we discuss them.  The Darwin-monkey image is from 1872 - Princess Ida was 1884; was Gilbert still on the Fun staff in 1872? It's such a wonderful illustration, and sets up such a wonderful juxtaposition with Gilbert's illustration.  It would be a shame to lose it. I don't see why we would volunteer to remove it.  As for the Flint illustrations, I don't think we should use more than two of them in any particular opera article -- one gives a good representation of the style of this artist. -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Photoshopping old prints
Hi Adam! Hope it was okay to take your name in vain :-)

The post was a follow-up to a question User:Aa77zz asked me a couple of a days ago on my talk page, really about how far to go, when cleaning up some of the 1 million free images the British Library has just dropped onto Flickr; and also etiquette etc for when to overwrite vs when to fork images on Commons.

I answered as best I could, but I'd be very grateful if you could look over what I wrote and give your thoughts.

I also mentioned a series -- Commons:Le Keux, Memorials of Cambridge -- that I cleaned quite aggressively, but now don't look quite right to me, and I'm not sure why. They seem too dark to me, and don't have quite the right feel any more (I don't know if you'd agree?) -- so I'd be very interested in any instincts you had. Is it that I made the background to harsh? Is a slightly warmer off-white than #FFFFFF what's needed to fix the problem?

Finally, I was wondering whether there was a forum anywhere on Commons or WP for this sort of thing, that reviews the best approaches, with a talk-page for discussion. There are the archives of Commons:VP, but I was wondering if there was anywhere more specific, with more of an ongoing discussion?

So thoughts in any of those areas would be very welcome. Thanks very much, Jheald (talk) 18:22, 22 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for your incredibly useful detailed thoughts on the Le Keux images. Really useful.
 * One thing about the pink and the blue -- it wasn't tiny dots that I was thinking of because of the scanner going out of alignment, but large areas of pink and blue starting to appear, if I've got a rather dark image from, say, a print-shop site on the internet, and then upped the brightness / contrast / saturation. (Or used 'divide' to achieve something similar) Because broad areas are becoming less grey, they can start to become noticeably pink or blue.  It maybe that I'm not using sophisticated enough methods; I don't know if it's because I'm not using something more like a CIELAB-like space. Or just because I'm going too far with my brightening (things aren't as bad if only go to/row back to an off-white background, which is probably what I want anyway, but they're still not perfect).  I just wondered whether you had ever come across something like that?
 * I think your key point is dead-on: that if one wants to re-create the very best reference versions of images, one needs start with the best possible scans. To which the converse probably applies, that if one doesn't start with the best possible scans, it may not be worth sweating too much to try to produce the very best possible restoration.
 * Really nice stuff is really nice -- as indeed your featured images prove in spades. But on the other hand I suppose I feel there's still some nice stuff out there that's well worth having, and cleaning up at least a bit, even if it's just found material, without the quality of personal hand-scanned care from the beginning.  But for such material, perhaps indeed "good enough" is good enough.  But do let me know if you've any more thoughts about the blue/pink thing. Jheald (talk) 19:51, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * One other thing I've wondered about -- Durova in her notes said that she fine-rotated images to be really straight, as a matter of course. But with the medium-res-only Le Keux pics, I did wonder if that was losing me sharpness in any way I could avoid. Are there any tricks to avoid this, eg trying to up-res the image by interpolation before rotation; or do you think this is something that just has to be taken on the chin, if I will insist on working with flotsam and jetsam originals? Jheald (talk) 19:57, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for the update of the Wikiversity article. I've now added a link to it from the Commons BL1million project page.  Hope this is okay; feel free to correct anything that could be improved. Jheald (talk) 21:10, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Potential image restoration
Hello there. I see you have a project going, but I stumbled upon an image of Blackbeard that looks like it's a good target for restoration and FP. I figured I'd let you know about it, especially considering this.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  19:31, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Flint; Princess Ida
The images on Flint's page look great, but I also like your idea of creating an article just for the book and its images, and just leaving a couple of the G&S ones on Flint's article itself, otherwise the G&S images take over his page. Up to you, if you think you can make a sub-article about the book stick. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:18, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, I have Crowther's new book, and he doesn't mention it at all, not even in his bibliography. -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:38, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Lawson image: I moved it because she is facing to the right. If you put it at right, she faces off the page. I don't care that much. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:28, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Władysław_Sikorski's_death_controversy
As the GA reviewer, would you mind looking at this RM? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 13:37, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

GAR
Hello Adam Cuerden,

A while ago, I nominated the article about Frederik Magle to GA. It has not been reviewed yet, but that has allowed me, and other editors, to improve it further in the meantime (The nomination - my first - was probably slightly premature, but now I hope it is ready). Since you have reviewed several articles about classical music-topics in the past, I was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing this one. I would be very grateful. With kind regards, --Danmuz (talk) 16:22, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Break, Break, Break.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 16, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-02-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:31, 29 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I think I'm going to run this set as individual images, simply because they are split across multiple pages. No worries there, right? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:31, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Dog dance
File:Moenitarri warrior in the costume of the dog danse 0056v.png - How's this? If you think it's ready I'll upload the JPG. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:36, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Request for Clarification in naming and photoshopping.
Hi Adam - I know all images are doctored somewhat, merely by reproducing them digitally. It would be helpful to me, and perhaps other readers, if you were very clear about what process each of your photos went through. "Restoration" is a good clue. In the Yeoman shot, it was listed as a "photograph", but as produced on a date preceding colour photography. Is there a more technical term, such as "photograph which was later tinted" etc., that would be more accurate? Thanks. PS: I'm all for more images in Wikipedia. More articles could use them. I wish there was a pool of photos pre-approved for article writers to pic from. Wiki could run a side business selling usage of public domain shots. cheers Billyshiverstick (talk) 21:43, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Adam again, thanks for the clarification. I was referring to yesterday's featured picture, of a Yeoman Warder. It actually didn't say what the medium was, just that the Warder was "photographed in 1890 or 1900", so the casual reader would think they were looking at a photograph. I'm just suggesting with these old techniques, to use the word "photocrom", if that's what it was, as a link, so people can learn more about what they are seeing. Kids these days, of course, would think little of seeing a colour photograph from 1890. I was kidding my daughter the other day, that she is actually older than Google, and that I am older than colour TV.

Cheers and thanks for answering, and restoring and mounting so many photos... Ben — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billyshiverstick (talk • contribs) 01:17, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for replying Adam - I realize that you weren't actually mounting the POTD, just providing it. I then looked at todays POTD, and noticed a similar issue, with what looks like an unlabelled super wide angle format or panoramic view of a French town. Perhaps, as people will be curious about the technical side of the pictures, and want to understand how they came to be, Wikipedia could put in the POTD instructions, that there should be a small technical area in POTD stating what format the image is, and what modifications happened. I love photo books where the authors throw in a little "Leica lens, 2 1/4 sq film emulsion, F8 60th sec, tripod, double exposure" or for instance Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith worked in Polaroid a lot, etc. Food for thought. Again, thanks for all the pics, and Cheers, Ben Billyshiverstick (talk) 17:02, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Ben, Adam pinged me as I'm the one who generally schedules the picture of the day (actually I just finished scheduling one, which surprisingly is almost ten years old). As the English Wikipedia's picture of the day is dedicated more to providing encyclopedic information rather than pure photography, including technical information (especially where no technical information has been provided by the uploader) would cramp the box a bit too much. Main Page space is extremely valuable, and thus unilaterally including information may draw ire. However, if you are interested in the technical aspects of the photographs/illustrations/paintings etc., the image page generally has a lot of it; many photographers (myself included) do not remove the EXIF data, which is viewable at the bottom of the page, and most will note how many images they used for a panorama.
 * Regarding "photographed", it is technically the correct term (originating from a b&w negative... I don't think "photochromed" is in the OED), although I agree that a link to photochrom would have helped. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:43, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Next opera
I replied on my Talk page. -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:05, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Soldier Tales
Please drop me a note once the Soldier Tales series has made FP, in case I don't see it myself.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  19:38, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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)

Updated Feature Picture Nomination
Hello, changes has been made at Featured picture candidates/Bixby Creek Bridge, an edited image has been added. Feel free to change your vote. Thank you. Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of ///Euro Car  GT  04:30, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Noël Coward

 * While looking through Warren's contributions, I found this. I think it certainly has possibilities. Do you? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * BTW is there a reason, why this isn't listed in the 2014 section of your userpage, or at your WikiCup submissions page? Armbrust The Homunculus 00:21, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Long story short, I don't think a mere levels/balance adjustment is enough to justify claiming credit. It was only a few minutes' work. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:26, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that makes sense. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 00:30, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * (ec) Very wise, Adam, and the same reason I didn't credit myself with any edits to the file. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:31, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Copyright issue
Since you seem more expert in copyright issues than me, is this logo copyrightable according to Wikimedia guidelines? Can it be uploaded to Commons? I asked Village pump/Copyright with no reply.--Carnby (talk) 08:07, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Planers - Google Art Project.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 24, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-02-24. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:54, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Oenone.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 25, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-02-25. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:38, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Ida B. Wells
Hi Adam, I'm thinking of using this file to open up Black History Month next year, and was wondering if you based your restoration on Chick Bowen's edit (for credit). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:10, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Fair point. But isn't the Google Art image also stored as a JPG, or rendered a JPG? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright. So basically the same reason I immediately resave files as PSD when working with them. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:25, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/SMS Ägir

 * Congrats on the FP Adam - and thanks for making the restorations, I didn't see it until you put them in the articles this morning. Parsecboy (talk) 14:22, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

re: Lightning Bolt (Pearl Jam album)
Thanks and thanks!  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 09:03, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:SMS Odin
No problem. The work you do on FPs is really terrific, I wouldn't even know where to start! Miyagawa (talk) 13:04, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Voltairine de Cleyre (Age 35).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 8, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-08. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:55, 18 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)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Mariana.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 9, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Updated it a bit. Check it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:57, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks peachy. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:17, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

GANs
I have re-nominated the articles on Viralheat and SAS (software) for GA status and am pinging you here as requested. As discussed, in both cases I am affiliated with the subject of the article. CorporateM (Talk) 18:10, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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Possible candidate for restoration
It would be very cool if you could find the time to restore File:"Atlanta" (Confederate Ram) on James River after capture - NARA - 527533.jpg. Right now it's in too crappy a shape to use as the lead photo, but I'd switch it in a heartbeat if it got cleaned up.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 09:41, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
Herald talk with me 04:34, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Fair/free
In an edit summary on File:Apolinère Enameled by Marcel Duchamp.jpg, you said "I wish people wouldn't fair use free use files". The reason I did it Fair Use was that, although it was created in 1916–1917, I found no indication that it was published before 1923. Did you find evidence of publication before that year? M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  23:42, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

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.

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) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Thurston, the famous magician - East Indian Rope Trick.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 18, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-18. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Redningsbåden køres gennem klitterne (high resolution).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 19, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:12, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

"anything I touch doesn't pass of late"
Agree. I think it's reviewer fatigue. We had two months of very successful nominations. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:44, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture nomination - Ed Koch
Hello Adam,

Please support or oppose this nomination: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Koch_%E2%80%93_Mayor_of_the_City_of_New_York.jpg

DmitryBorshch (talk) 21:06, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Razing of McPhersonville.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 22, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:15, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Bayard images
I just remembered this note you left me. I think some of the images on my latest FAC, Thomas F. Bayard, are LOC images that might use restoring. If so, and if you're inclined to take a look at them: thank you! --Coemgenus (talk) 01:13, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK N1
Hello, Adam Cuerden. Thank you for helping out at DYK. May I have your attention at Did you know/Preparation areas, please? N1: "... it is also best to avoid promoting the same article that you reviewed, nominated, or created." Just a friendly reminder. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 03:38, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It's no big deal... Shall I undo? I would like to avoid edit conflicts. BTW, please don't forget about Template:Did you know nominations/Alfred Dörffel? It was "promoted" an hour ago, but currently the hook is not on WP:DYKQ yet. --PFHLai (talk) 03:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I should leave the undoing for you. It's bedtime for me now.... Good night. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 03:57, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Urania's Mirror
This is excellent. I have raised a point at Template:Did you know nominations/Urania's Mirror, I look forward to your reply. Moonraker (talk) 07:36, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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POTD notification
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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Julia Margaret Cameron - John Herschel (Metropolitan Museum of Art copy, restored).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 26, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-26. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:13, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Photo
Thanks for putting together Prep4. I can't help but ask about your choice of lead hook. It's not one I would have chosen instinctively because the image is rather poor for DYK. However, I think it could be salvaged using a better pic. I would suggest that you substitute this cropped version for the one in the prep area. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 03:27, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I also just noticed that you put 5 bios in Prep4. What we did for IWD is rather exceptional, and our usual practice is to limit ourselves to half bios and half American subjects. I can't find the rule right now, but I'll try and locate it if you're interested. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 03:42, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Why was Template:Did you know nominations/Mass surveillance in China‎ rejected?
Adam, the infringing material was removed, and the remainder of the article was awaiting a new reviewer. If you found further copyvios, then you should have mentioned it in the nomination template proper. If not, I don't understand the rejection. With the HectorMoffet copyvio material removed, the remaining article as created and edited by Rybec is eligible for consideration. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:21, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Sarah Vaughan - William P. Gottlieb - No. 1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 27, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-27. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:15, 10 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I've used just the one. The other can probably run in another year or two. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:15, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/We shall resume our occupations

 * [P.S.: It seems you added the wrong image to your WikiCup submissions page. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:32, 10 March 2014 (UTC)]

Princess Ida
I've got the first five scheduled (30 March, right?). Please feel free to copyedit them as needed, but I only ask that what changes are made to one are made to all (so we don't end up with a mess on the MP). Good luck with the performance! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:10, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright, looks good. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:45, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Urania's Mirror
The DYK project (nominate) 17:36, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Re: Bolshoy Ice Dome GAN
Hey Adam! Not to rush you, but are you planning to complete the Bolshoy Ice Dome GA review? Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 23:48, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Re: Georgian alphabet
Hi, would you please respond on the GA review page? Jaqeli (talk) 12:22, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Gazelle
Re S.M. kleiner kreuzer Gazelle, in naval terms, it shows the pronounced ram bow well, but aesthetically I don't care for the red paint — it's too fire-engine red — and the reflections in the water look almost like blood. If we have another of the same class, it might be best to skip this one — ? Sca (talk) 13:21, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Reur reply — Sounds like a plan!
 * (I'd like the pic better if the red were more like the red on SM Kaiser Wilhelm II.) Sca (talk) 13:56, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Re Fürst Bismarck, very nice. Sca (talk) 14:17, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 3, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-04-03. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:04, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification

 * Three Ida illustrations for Template:POTD/2014-04-04. I'd appreciate it if you could give a bit more context regarding the content of the illustration (short though! one or two sentences should be enough) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:56, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

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Talkback
--Jakob (talk) 14:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Urania's Mirror
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Wells Cathedral
Unfortunately, the picture that the team selected as the best image that Rod took of Wells Cathedral is one of the least useful in terms of placement in the article. The article already contains the winter picture, and another blue picture similar to the featured image, but horizontal. As well as several more of Rod's exterior views of the east end.

That image is a pretty pic of the pool and reflection, but it is not useful in describing the architecture, and is less useful than the winter picture in giving an image of the environs.

The article on Wells Cathedral is a featured article, and to attain that status, the layout of the images has undergone a really intense degree of scrutiny. Placing a vertical picture right under the info box, where it doesn't match the size of the box, and is partly displaced by the box simply doesn't work as a successful layout. It doesn't work, visually. Rod's other images are only slightly less good.

I have put the featured image at the top of the article Reflecting pool. Amandajm (talk) 02:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm rather sorry that it wasn't one of the others that was promoted. Anyway, as I am writing about churches pretty often, I will probably find another place  to use it. Amandajm (talk) 04:58, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/delist/Strelitzia 2
I've renominated, as the last one didn't get the requisite number. This is probably a violation of some rule, but the fact this wasn't delisted feels like a violation of common sense to me, so there you go. I'd appreciate it if you'd drop by again. J Milburn (talk) 11:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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.

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 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 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)

Your GA nomination of Urania's Mirror
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March 2014
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Cossacks
Just a heads up, I've started a D&R nomination on an image you nominated previously. It can be found at Featured picture candidates/delist/The Zaporozhian Cossacks write a letter to the Sultan of Turkey. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:52, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

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Talk:United States presidential election, 1844/GA1
Adam, it's been over three weeks since you were going to return to this review the next day, so I'm guessing it fell off your radar. Can you please continue the review soon? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:41, 23 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Adam, another week has gone by. Do you know when you can come back to this review? Please respond here or there next time you're editing. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:06, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
--Jakob (talk) 19:09, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
Armbrust The Homunculus 13:10, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Nils Kock
Adam, can you please revisit this DYK review and see whether your issues have been addressed? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:28, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi Adam,

I wanted to thank you for your review of my nomination. Your advices and suggestions made it possible to make it a really good article so thank you again. Jaqeli (talk) 16:52, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Advert in mainspace
I found an article that reads like an advertisement. There is even a link to a YouTube video. The article may also be non-notable. I'm not good at fixing adverts on Wikipedia but I have seen you do a good job cleaning up adverts in mainspace. I thought you might be interested in fixing the Drop Stop article. QuackGuru ( talk ) 20:20, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

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.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. 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) 22:54, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Today's featured photo
An excellent restoration job on a rare image. Well done. :-) Nthep (talk) 09:05, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Howard Thurston
I thought about nominating File:Thurston magician poster.jpg for FP status, but after a closer look I think it could need some restoration. Could you help me with that? Armbrust The Homunculus 17:20, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Portal:Literature
Hey there. I've addressed the concerns from the reviews, and was hoping you could go take another look.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  02:34, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup error
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) 18:52, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Verbosity
Hello, Adam Cuerden. A couple of weeks ago you added a 'POV section' tag to Verbosity. I think the issue is more likely to be addressed if you start a discussion on the talk page. The template (and I know this is standard, and not down to you) says, "Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page," but there is no such discussion. An editor would have to check your hidden comment, and even then I think a bit more detail would be appreciated. That's just my opinion, but I think it would help. Happy editing, Cnilep (talk) 01:33, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
Armbrust The Homunculus 12:29, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Aesthetic teapot image used in Patience (opera)
Can you please look in on the discussion here? Perhaps a different licensing tag would clear up the matter, or it could be moved back to English Wikipedia if that would help: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:AestheticTeapotMale.jpg Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:59, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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FC is a hoot!
Nice work. Tony  (talk)  05:15, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
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FYI: Featured picture candidates/A great big moon is always flaring
Regarding your "We'll resort after the next nomination." statement of the page. All Urania's Mirror images are already in Featured pictures/Space/Understanding. Armbrust The Homunculus 23:59, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:The Duchess of Padua.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 28, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-04-28. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:30, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Courtesy notice: impending removal as reviewer of Talk:United States presidential election, 1844/GA1
Adam, it's been well over a month, and you haven't responded to any pings regarding this review. This is a courtesy notice that I'll shortly be placing this GA nomination back into the reviewing pool, since you've effectively abandoned it—your last comment was March 1, 2014, over six weeks ago. If you do actually still intend to complete the review in the next couple of days, please let me know and I'll hold off for the moment. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:26, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - St. Simeon Stylites.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 6, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-05-06. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:25, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Visible Pinball III - Pacific Pinball Museum cropped.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 26, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-04-26. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:33, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter—April 2014
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 "" item is currently housed). On the English Wikipedia, this moves the "Edit beta" tab into the menu; on most projects, it moves the "" tab. This is only enabled in the default Vector skin, not for Monobook users. See this image for an example showing the "" and "" 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 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 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 VisualEditor for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:HMS Hood (51) - March 17, 1924.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 24, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-05-24. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:58, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Being Catalytic
...and things like Fringe theories/Noticeboard.

"When something needs done, make steps, reasonably small and balanced, to get it done."

Please consider putting things to the right place, where people have best access and knowledge to solve them.

(Additionally this discussion had forced me to look at blackmail word origin, now, and I learned. It's nice to see educational value where one least expects it.)

--Gryllida (talk) 03:43, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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Re:WikiCup
I do not understand what you are saying. If you are talking about my half-finished newsletter, I'd rather you let me finish it first... J Milburn (talk) 10:25, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

J Milburn
Aye, apologies for that, my sausage fingers occasionally let me down. I was trying to revert a vandal on me watchlist but clicked the one above which was your edit, honest guv'nor!  Green Giant  supports  NonFreeWiki  ( talk )  03:25, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Literature
Perhaps you could have another look at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Literature ? &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:03, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 22, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-05-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:59, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter
Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's, whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included, who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and , who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from, tiger from and The Lion King from. We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to and  for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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) 17:56, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Picture of Musca
Adam, the caption to your new picture of Musca from the Bayer atlas says it can be seen "in the upper left". As oriented on the page, it's in the upper right. Either the picture should be turned or the caption amended. Skeptic2 (talk) 10:40, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

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The Last of the Mohicans
I found something from this book (haven't uploaded the original yet) on LOC earlier and did a little bit of restoration on it here. Do you think that the paper should be lightened a bit more? It's a greyscale scan by the looks of it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:12, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

FC Signpost
Hi,

I thought of writing this week's FC report (may not finish it before my vacation). I doubt where to add Featured picture candidates/The Impact of Wikipedia by Adrianne Wadewitz in the report. Hopefully in featured sounds. Any idea?  The herald  15:28, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 * - Herald, it's a featured picture. Hence why it went through FPC. Videos are, after all, moving pictures. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:48, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Just to keep you updated
Hi Adam, I hope all is well with you lately. I figured I ought to let you know where I'm at/my current plans - the current FAC I have running has one of the Graf lithographs that you could restore, and SMS Kaiser Friedrich III is next on my list to be overhauled, and it is also one of the fortunate articles to have one of the Hugo Graf lithographs. There's no real rush, since the article won't go to FAC until after the Wörth and the next one in line are done at the earliest. I thought you might want some help getting to that 2% ;) Parsecboy (talk) 15:23, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * BTW, if you did restore it, feel free to note that in the authors field. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:09, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Alrighty. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:39, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
StringTheory11 (t • c) 03:57, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter—May 2014


Did you know? The cite menu offers quick access to up to five citation templates. If your wiki has enabled the "" menu, press "" and select the appropriate template from the menu.

Existing citations that use these templates can be edited either using the "" tool or by selecting the reference and choosing the "" item in the "" 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 "". 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 "" item in the "" 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 "" tool in the "" 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:   .  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 "" item in the "" 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 "" 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 "" 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 "" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin.  VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "" 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 "" link will be moved out of the "" menu, into the "" 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.

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Ready

 * I love that Helen Allingham image, by the way. If I can get definite proof it's from before 1923, and we can get an article on her, methinks I see Featured picture. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:41, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

I fixed that, it is used. if you are still interested... Helen Allingham Hafspajen (talk) 19:36, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Help over FA candidate
Hi Adam, how's work going? If you're not too busy these days, can you check whether Megadeth fulfills the FA criteria and eventually leave a comment at the review page? If you find the article lengthy or if you're not interested in the subject, feel free to ignore the message. Have a good time.--Вик Ретлхед (talk) 10:54, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster
Hi Adam- I appreciate you're busy with WikiCup FP candidates, so feel free to tell me to jog on, but could you give me a hand with an image? The frontispiece of this book (see here, a bigger version may be extractable) would make a great lead image for Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster (which I'm reviewing at GAC). Currently, we have the rather awful File:Countess of Munster 1904 frontispiece.jpg. Would you be able to do the necessary cropping/minimal cleaning to give us a better version for the lead, and give us a separate signature image for the infobox? (The copyright issue I've asked about separately . It's definitely PD for our purposes, it's just working out what to do with it.) J Milburn (talk) 10:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Rep. Marriott H. Brosius
Could you specify, whether you support alt. 2 or not? Thanks. Armbrust The Homunculus 23:42, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I do understand the oppose...-Godot13 (talk) 05:40, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * As I indicated above, you made your point by simply opposing and giving an explanation. I don't intend to support cropping design elements in the future. However, Strongest Possible "Burn It To The Ground" Oppose, added to amend your oppose after voting closed, I do not understand...--Godot13 (talk) 23:58, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Rep. Marriott H. Brosius
Hi Adam- You had supported the Original but may not have seen the ALT2. If you have a moment would you mind taking a quick look? Thanks--Godot13 (talk) 23:47, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

I had not seen the message above...-Godot13 (talk) 23:49, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

This week's FC report
Adam and this week's FC report is done. The zombie lead image is a little gruesome for my taste but since it passed FPC and Adam justifiably wanted to highlight Sven's good licensing work, unless we're willing to wait for a more benign image from Sven's work, I'll live with the zombies. --Pine✉ 06:49, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks pretty good. I think I'll tweak some of the images; it doesn't have a footer at the moment, but has one after the lists. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:40, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Garden at Somersby Rectory.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 13, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-06-13. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:14, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Georges Rochegrosse's poster for Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 17, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-06-17. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:15, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Re: Signpost and accessibility
Hi Adam, nope, besides the issue I fixed in my edit to the News and Notes section (i.e. the image breaking up the HTML lists). Graham 87 16:26, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Signpost barnstar

 * Hey Adam, do you need any help with FC this week? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:19, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, fuck. I'll have it set up by tonight, and start filling it in. Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:22, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Shoot me a message if you need help; my Internet issues may just be over. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:57, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Not insignificant
Adam, your encouragement of my image under consideration for featured picture status... That kind of enthusiasm, especially the bit about textbooks, when what you DON'T know is that I am trying to get the courage to get together a kind of portfolio for just such a purpose...  Well, it makes a big difference. I sometimes think barnstars are kinda silly things to throw around, so consider this a personal barnstar, from me to you: The Encouragement Barnstar. It is small, and might seem casual to some, but it is not insignificant. Here it is: *    (Also, THANK YOU!) <font face="Verdana"> KDS 4444  Talk  19:05, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

FC
Hey Adam, I'll finish the FLs if you want to take on the FPs? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:31, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Rep. Francis B. Spinola
I too will oppose any alternative that does not include the caption...-Godot13 (talk) 22:47, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Signpost
I've started the FC report. On a personal note, may I ask you to archive your old talk page discussions? Thanks, --<span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 07:10, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Annelid diagram
An alternative image was added with white background. Could you re-evaluate the nomination? Armbrust The Homunculus 11:05, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

UserGogo21212121 Hello Adam Cuerden Here you sit on 0 How can I make them 10 examples

First edit: Apr 03, 2014 13:12:09 User groups: *, user, autoconfirmed Unique Pages Edited: 58 Average edits per page: 3.14 Live edits: 182 Deleted edits: 0 Total edits (including deleted): 182 Executed in 0.99 seconds.

can not be 0 and the 10 --Gogo212121 (talk) 13:51, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

UserGogo212121 Hello Adam Guerden how to become admin how the contribution should have in Wikipedia how do you become an admin on Wikipedia--Gogo212121 (talk) 14:10, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

UserGogo212121 Hello Adam Guerden if I have 5000 edits can I become an admin--Gogo212121 (talk) 14:17, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Car Shop's, etc.
Re your comment at, ever seen this site?
 * http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com
 * Quite funny. Sca (talk) 21:56, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 3, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-07-03. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:05, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup list
Thank you for the offer to review my GAs for the Wikicup. The three nominations I currently have out for review are Plastic Brit, Billy Boys and Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury. I go away on the 23rd (not trying to set a time limit!).  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 08:52, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't wish to rush you but I go away on the 23rd so if you can give Talk:Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury/GA1 the full review between today or tomorrow, it would be appreciated please.  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 07:22, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm so sorry, my allergy season started, and I always have a really bad week when that happens. I'll do my best to get it done today. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:You need only one soap, Ivory soap - Strobridge & Co. Lith. - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 7, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-07-07. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:31, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014
Did you know? The character formatting menu, or "" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.


 * They have moved the "" link out of the "" menu, into the "" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
 * You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
 * The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type "  for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and  "  for values which are true or false.  Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like   →  ) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964).  You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
 * Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
 * They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references.  When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead.
 * It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed.  Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
 * You can now add and edit  and   in  the "" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
 * The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler.

Looking ahead
The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

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Please read VisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the new citation template menu, labeled "". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

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Ulysses S. Grant lede photo
I appreciate your work on the Ulysses S. Grant article. The photo you put in would be better if cropped closer. The lede photo needs to have a closer image of Grant's face. I recommend cropping the photo to get a closer image of Grant's face. Discussing the photo change in the articles talk section before making the photo change to a lede photo, would be beneficial to the article. Editors would be allowed to make comments on and approve the photo. Thanks. Cmguy777 (talk) 17:47, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Delftsevaart
Thank you for your help with the image of the Delftsevaart in Rotterdam. – Editør (talk) 08:32, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Could you make it clear on the nomination page whether you support Alt 1. or not? Armbrust The Homunculus 08:48, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I wanted to thank Adam Cuerden for his effort, despite my doubts about the colors on Alt 1. – Editør (talk) 09:02, 26 June 2014 (UTC)