User talk:Ged UK/Archives/2015/February

VisualEditor News 2015—#1


Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements
The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action: The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.
 * starts a new task, like opening the dialog: blue ,
 * takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
 * might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red, or
 * is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead
The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

 * Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
 * Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
 * Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Contact James F. for more information.
 * Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.

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Twitch.tv
Extend PC time? --Gh87 in the public computer (talk) 23:10, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Couldn't work that noe out to start with, it was set on Twitch (website). Done now. Ged  UK  13:16, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Bull of Heaven#Genres
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Bull of Heaven. Thanks. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 11:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC) Thank you. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 11:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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Toy Story 2
Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 16:05, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. Ged  UK  14:46, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Valentine Greets!!!

 * Thanks! Ged  UK  12:58, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Directus Article Deleted
Hello Ged UK – I am writing because I believe that this article (Directus) was deleted in err by you on January 23rd. This page serves as a reference for this software's history and an explanation of it's function – not for marketing purposes. Directus is a keystone framework that existed within https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems but was removed due to not having a parent article.

If you take issue with specific language within this article please let me know so that I can adjust that. Again, the desire is not to market the software, only to give an overview of its purpose and provide a repository for it's history.

Thank you,

// — Preceding unsigned comment added by Contactbenhaynes (talk • contribs) 02:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi there! The language wasn't the worst I've ever seen from a promtional persepective, but it is still there. The overall tone is somewhat advertorial. I may have been overzealous. However, as far as I can see, all the references were self-published/related to the company/product. That means it would fail our Notability requirements and the need for reliable sources. I'm happy to restore the page to your personal userspace for you to work on, if you like. Let me know. Cheers! Ged  UK  12:08, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

PC-protection expiring on or before 20 February 2015
John Logie Baird and Logic? --George Ho (talk) 18:48, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Ged  UK  12:11, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

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Notability (people)
Hi,

I noticed that you protected Notability (people) for "persistent vandalism". I don't think any vandalism has been occurring on that page, and instead thing the edits are good faith but misguided attempts to submit biographies to the encyclopedia. I'm guessing that some page (either internal to Wikipedia or external) is confusing people into thinking that is the place to submit a biographical article. It doesn't look to me like it is just one person or group of people submitting the biographies, and the edits have been going on for more than a year, so I don't think semi-protecting the page for one week will do any good. I think the page should probably just be left unprotected, unless the edits become so frequent that reverting them is a real hassle (in which case it might need to be semi-protected for a longer term . . . regardless though, I don't think one week semi-protection will do any good). Calathan (talk) 16:11, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Yennai Arindhaal
Please unprotect Yennai Arindhaal, or perform these edits:
 * Remove Parvathy Nair from Infobox as her role is small and low-billed.
 * An IP user has requested that the BO collections be updated, and he has a source for that. Kailash29792 (talk) 13:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I've updated the box office. I'm not changing the casting until you can demonstrate consensus on the talk page, as this was the source of the dispute. Ged  UK  12:13, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

24 (TV series): editor now blocked
Please see Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Since the editor was reverting on style matters for several days, and on more than one article, and seemed likely to continue I decided to block. It's up to you whether you think the full protection needs to be kept on 24 (TV series). Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 20:08, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I've removed the protection, it seems unnecessary now. Ged  UK  12:05, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Macaulay Culkin
Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 07:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks. Ged  UK  12:10, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

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