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Are you the Captain Raju?
I had not known until today there was an actual person in the world named Captain Raju. You should make a note on your user page to clarify whether or not you are this real person. (Actually, if you are not this real person, that's a real problem. See WP:IMPERSONATE.) WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:16, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I am not article Captain Raju.This article name is obviously unrelated with me.I am work in military.CAPTAIN is my job designation. CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)  18:46, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * It's actually not obvious. Captain Raju the actor apparently uses that moniker because he also served in the military. Per WP:IMPERSONATE, if your name happens to match that of a famous person, you should place a disclaimer on your user page stating that you are not that famous person. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:45, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Mineko Iwasaki
Hello Captain Raju,

I really need some advice, I want to translate the article about Mineko Iwasaki. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineko_Iwasaki ) I saw that article is not translated into my native language (Romanian) and I do not know how to do this on wiki. I do not want my translation in Romanian language to be seen when someone accesses the page in English.

I want to see it that way only those who want to read article in Romanian.

Can you help me? How can I translate this article.

Thank you. Best regrets Magda Cioclov — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magda.cioclov (talk • contribs) 20:05, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * (talk page stalker) I have moved your translation attempt to User:Magda.cioclov/De tradus. A Romanian translation of an article on the English Wikipedia belongs on the Romanian Wikipedia, just give proper credit in your edit summary. – Train2104 (t • c) 20:36, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Reverting my edit on Oath of office
Brother Razu,

For your kind information, the article Oath of Office didn't include the oaths of the officials of Bangladesh. The portion was wholly created by me. The English​ translation was not taken from anywhere, rather I translated them. In the official oath, the line is "bangladesher rashtropoti poder". So the translation should be, 'the President of Bangladesh'. Firstly, I wrote the President only. Later I changed it to President of Bangladesh. The original oath contains the phrase, 'jothajothovabe'. 'With equity' should not be a correct translation and I thought 'justly' would be a more perfect translation. So my humble opinion is my edit is justifiable. And the post for 'mohahisab niyontrok' in English is 'Comptroller and Auditor General.' I corrected the spelling.

That's all from the defence.

Sheikh Azizul Hakim

'Drag(physics)' --> 'Very low Reynolds numbers: Stokes' drag' --> 'Vg'
Good evening,

I thought you could get an answer by editing the data and making a question in the post, which seemed to be a mistake. Sorry for that.

I would like to ask on the current post 'Drag(physics)' --> 'Very low Reynolds numbers: Stokes' drag' --> 'Vg', what is 'Vg' in the equation given? If you don't know could you redirect me to someone who can answer to me this question?

King Regards, Theofanis Theodoulou — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.0.155 (talk) 22:21, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

wrt "one or more of your recent contributions to Wyomissing, Pennsylvania have been undone"
wrt "one or more of your recent contributions to Wyomissing, Pennsylvania have been undone"

Thank you for your prompt.

I did not do any edits to this or any page, I guess my IP number is or was the same as one used by the person who did.

My IP numbers are assigned to me by my ISP and are not subject to any control by me.

Would registering remove this problem?

thanks

82.132.235.129 (talk) 13:03, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #257
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
 * Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
 * Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
 * Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
 * Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
 * New template: d:Template:Film festivals


 * Development
 * Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (T138295)
 * Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (T163144)
 * Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (T110604)
 * Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (T159710)
 * Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (T160530)
 * Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (T162342)
 * Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (T160048)
 * Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (T157466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-17
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
 * When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.

Problems
 * Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.

Changes this week
 * The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
 * Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Message
What do you make of this? I think it's meant for you. Adam9007 (talk) 02:25, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Deletion sorting
Hi

You have incorrectly sorted 2 articles here as Rugby union which is not the same as Rugby league. WikiProject Deletion sorting/Rugby union. LibStar (talk) 17:38, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * also. How is a sport team an event? Please be more careful with your deletion sorting. Articles for deletion/Uralla Tigers. LibStar (talk) 07:42, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry yesterday I could not reply your question.Thanks for the advice.I've already removed incorrectly deletion sorting tag from Rugby union and Events page.I'll keep this my mind in the next time deletion sorting tag. I will be careful before to tag the deletion sorting.Thanks again. CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)  20:34, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Jack Beirnes
I'm his son and made the error that he was born in 1915 when he was actually born in 1914. I was hoping to correct my mistake. In the book by Hugh A. Halliday, Jack's birthdate is mentioned on page 192 as 1914. Please email me at gordi@telus.net if anymore information is required. Thank you, Gordon Beirnes

Gbeirnes (talk) 20:00, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for sending a message on my talk page.I can't find any reliable sources.Please do not added content without reference.Thanks. CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)  20:59, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Do right things
Hi Mr captain Raju.. Dadi chandro tomar is also a shooter and shooter dadi prakashi tomar also a shooter. But my point is shooter dadi prakashi tomar beat the DIG in shooting event not by dadi chandro tomar.. So please do correct the story ..you can search on Internet...

Thanku — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seematomar (talk • contribs) 15:50, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

NAC of AfDs
Hello Cap, and thanks for helping out at AfD. While your closures have been good, I noticed that a lot of them were closed a tad bit prematurely. AfDs are generally allowed to run through a 7-day course unless the result is very obvious. I see that you've been closing discussions a few hours before they hit the 7-day mark. Even though the outcome may seem unanimous, it's a good idea to allow an AfD to stay open for the entire 7-day period. Say for example, you close an AfD at 00:11 (UTC) which is actually scheduled to end at 19:19 (UTC) on the same day, you're closing the discussion 19 hours earlier. That 19 hour period (just an example, and might not need that long) might allow someone to voice a new opinion and might stir the discussion in a different direction, at AfDs that are not (close to) a snowball case. Even I have made early closures but only when a different outcome seemed very unlikely. Nothing wrong with your closures in general but I'd suggest waiting a little longer, unless it's a slam dunk. Closing discussions a few hours late won't hurt anybody. I appreciate your work and you've improved a lot. Keep up the good work. Cheers, — Yashtalk stalk</b> 05:43, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice. I will be careful and keep this my mind in the next time closing AfD (NAC) after 7 days.Thanks again. <font color="#008080">CAPTAIN RAJU <font color="#FF0000"> (✉)  21:11, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
 * 🇯🇵 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
 * Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
 * Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. 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 nominations, 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

This Month in Education: [April 2017]
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Tech News: 2017-18
<section begin="technews-2017-W18"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add  block for your scripts also, or add   dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.
 * The,   and   buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding   to the URL.

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Wikidata weekly summary #258
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
 * Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
 * Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
 * Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
 * new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
 * Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
 * Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
 * Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
 * Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username


 * Query examples:
 * 15415 people who died in 2016
 * Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
 * Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
 * Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
 * A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format


 * Development
 * Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
 * Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
 * The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
 * Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (T107595)
 * Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
 * Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
 * Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
 * There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
 * Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous
 * Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:19, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

6gig edits undone
Hi Captain – You recently sent me a message, stating that my edits were undone because they weren't relevant. I was a member of the band that this page is about. I went through and edited all instances of 6Gig to 6gig. The name of the band is spelled with a lower case g. All instances should be 6gig, not 6Gig. I don't mind editing the page again, but maybe you'd leave the correct capitalization?

Thank you!

walter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.2.209.180 (talk) 13:45, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #259
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Updating References for External Data


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
 * Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
 * Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
 * You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
 * We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
 * Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
 * Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work


 * Query examples:
 * All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
 * Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
 * Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
 * Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
 * Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
 * Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-19
<section begin="technews-2017-W19"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on  in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off   in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
 * There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.

Changes this week
 * When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say  and   instead of   and  . This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If  is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use   in a template:  . This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis.

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Editing News #1—2017
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<div style="float:right;width:230px;margin-left:1em;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;padding:1em;"> Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "". In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.



Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.



The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes
A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences to enable the.

A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. 

The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. 

Other changes:
 * You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this.
 * The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow.
 * The item has been moved to the top of the  menu (from clicking on the  VisualEditor - Icon - Menu.svg icon) for quicker access.  There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
 * You can now create   tags (sometimes used as  ) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
 * Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
 * The menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) .  The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt.
 * A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed.  The team are sorry for the disruption.
 * There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:  + +  on a PC, or  + +  on a Mac.  It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is  +  on a PC or  +  on a Mac.

Future changes

 * The VisualEditor team is working with the Community Tech team on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of   tags and other types of wikitext syntax.  You will be able to turn it on and off.  It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
 * The kind of button used to, , and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI.  The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read.  The labels will remain the same.  You can test the new button by editing a page and adding   to the end of the URL, like this:  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1  The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
 * The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors.  See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use.

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Notes on AfD
A suggestion: could you leave a blank line between when adding notes on the AfDs? Makes editing a lot cleaner. Anmccaff (talk) 22:34, 11 May 2017 (UTC)