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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".
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 * 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.

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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2014
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement About &middot; Subscribe/unsubscribe, 13:31, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
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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)

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List of recipients of the Star of Courage
In February you added an "underlinked" tag to the above mentioned page. I agree with you, but have no idea how to address the problem. Have you any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Pdfpdf (talk) 12:36, 9 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, I searched the names of the recipients of the decoration, and I could not find an article of theirs. Most of them red links? Star of Courage seems to be a notable reward and the articles should be created for the notable recipients as per the criteria. That's my suggestion. Fai  zan  11:12, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

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You're invited here.  SAMI  talk 16:31, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I have given my comment. Fai  zan  13:19, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Warid
Hello Faizan! I think Warid should not have been moved to Warid Pakistan. The article clearly stated about being a mobile operator in Pakistan and for other uses see Warid Telecom. The company's name is not Warid Pakistan. It's the first project in Pakistan and is mostly referred to as Warid extensively in official social sites as well. In Congo, Warid is officially recognised as Warid Congo while in some other countries Warid was merged with Airtel. Please undo the move.  SAMI  talk 15:17, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the belated reply. I think that the move can be discussed or requested at the talk page if you have reservations. But the Warid is not only the telecom operating in Pakistan solely, so we need a specification, to distinguish from its operations in other countries. Likewise, Telenor (Pakistan) is an example. Fai  zan  13:23, 16 May 2014 (UTC)  SAMI  talk 14:02, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I think you've mistaken Telenor PK. The official name of Telenor is Telenor Pakistan and that's why we have an article Telenor Pakistan not Telenor (Pakistan), the latter is a mere redirect. For Warid global operations, there is a page Warid Telecom International. Warid is widely publicised as Warid in Pakistan and it is even evident in official social pages of Warid. Other countries like Republic of Congo, officially states as Warid Congo everywhere. --  SAMI  talk 13:28, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The publication of Warid in both Uganda and Congo is the same. Both the countries have websites as waridtel.cg/com. But the international reader may be mislead by such. I bet we needed disambiguation. WP:RM can be requested for Warid Pakistan. Social media cannot be used as a criterion in Wikipedia. Fai  zan  13:43, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * This phrase clearly distinguish Warid from Warid Telecom International: This article is about the mobile network operator in Pakistan. For Warid Telecom International, see Warid Telecom. --  SAMI  talk 13:44, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * This phrase is not a verdict itself. The same can be used for Telenor too. Fai  zan  13:46, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * This can't be used for Telenor's operation in Pakistan because its the full name is Telenor Pakistan. Yes, social media can't be taken as criteria but I had referred to Official social pages. There is no rational in saying This phrase is not a verdict itself but a tag to distinguish. --  SAMI  talk 13:54, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Please proceed to the article's talk page for a controversial move. Fai  zan  13:56, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't have serious concerns over Warid Pakistan title. As you're happy with Warid Pakistan, I see no room for requested move yet.  SAMI  talk 14:02, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * My happiness should have nothing to do. Fai  zan  14:06, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

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Notification of a June AfC BackLog Drive
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WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a  month long Backlog Elimination Drive!

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014.

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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.

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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.


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 * 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.
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 * 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.
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 * 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.
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Wikimedia Highlights from April 2014
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Faizan
Where from you are — Preceding unsigned comment added by Police guys (talk • contribs) 17:11, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I have origin in Pakistan. Fai  zan  14:24, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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Wiki Loves Monuments - Pakistan


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Wiki Loves Monuments, the world's largest photography competition, will be taking place in Pakistan this September. The competition is all about capturing the cultural monuments and heritage sites of Pakistan and uploading these images on Commons to create an online repository which will be freely available to all.

Start taking photos of the sites enlisted here and upload them in September to be eligible for national and international prizes.

Email: contact@wikilovesmonuments.pk Official website: wikilovesmonuments.pk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonumentsPK Posted by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:07, 8 June 2014 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Pakistan

Edit on 'Ajay Devgan' page
Hello, I need some help editing the page for the actor 'Ajay Devgan'. I'm trying to change the title to 'Ajay Devgn' which is now the official spelling of his name. There is a page for this spelling already, but that redirects to this page. Please let me know if you can help me out with this. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mnayak001 (talk • contribs) 06:33, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * You will have to discuss it on the talk page of the article. I think the move will be a controversial one. Anyhow, an article move can be requested here. Fai  zan  17:37, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Dear Brother
Peace upon he who who follows truth

Good day brother i trust you are well, brother i am here to talk to you about what you said about the battle of Karbala i am here to ask you to please refrain from editing it, i come asking with all respect as taught by islam, brother when it even says in Imam Hussein's wiki page that he's denomination is Shia Islam why do you go to a reference that is Sunni not Shiite and even if you did why would the reference be Al Tabari, his book is not even one of the Sunni sahih 6, i know brother you are most likely a Sunni muslim but please receive correct information when it comes to religion, the shiite sahih 4 are more authentic than Al Tabari's book.

Thank you brother for listening peace upon you the holy prophet and his family. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Islamthetruth123 (talk • contribs) 14:16, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I reverted this edit of yours, as it replaced the referenced info with dubious unsourced content. You need to stop edit-warring with several users, please take the matter to the article's talk. Fai  zan  16:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Input on image decision
Hi you are invited to vote for the image to be used on the LG G2 infobox page at Talk:LG G2. Thanks! GadgetsGuy (talk) 04:04, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

assalamualykum
assalamualykum, how are you? What about user ascetic rose? Do you know anything about him? However you and him are my favourites wikipedians — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.154.0.226 (talk) 16:07, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello! I am fine and hope the same for you and AsceticRose. I don't know anything about him anyway. Thanks for the commendation. Fai  zan  17:25, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Are you of pakistani ancestry? However wikipedia needs good users like you. 109.154.0.226 (talk) 17:28, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. I have Pakistani ancestry, does it seem unlikely? I suggest you should also join Wikipedia. Fai  zan  17:36, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I asked this question because you have edited also bengali artcles. Are you good in bengali? I think we should talk by email. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.154.90.192 (talk) 20:38, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure, I will be available. Fai  zan  21:19, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
 * But you will have to sign up for emailing me. Fai  zan  21:22, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * this. We were not informed that a wide scale operation will be launched in North Waziristan,” PTI National Assembly (Pakistan)|MNA , Dr Arif Alvi said. He added that his party has always maintained that an operation of this
 * Fai zan  19:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)