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Tech News: 2015-50
 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 Problems
 * Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias.
 * Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles.
 * IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature.
 * You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be.
 * It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead.
 * You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor.
 * UploadWizard will look a bit different.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
 * New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays.

Meetings
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 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default.

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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world. 
 * Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
 * Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
 * Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
 * Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
 * Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
 * Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
 * Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
 * Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
 * Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
 * Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
 * France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
 * Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
 * Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
 * Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
 * Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
 * Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
 * Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
 * Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
 * Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
 * Sweden: Science Outreach on Wikipedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
 * Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Wikipedia as a learning tool
 * Global: The Wikipedia Education Program now on Twitter
 * Global: Recent improvements to the Wikipedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
 * Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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Wikidata weekly summary #187
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:49, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
 * notes
 * example queries
 * a few images
 * Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
 * Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
 * Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
 * Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
 * Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
 * Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
 * Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
 * The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
 * Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
 * We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
 * I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
 * Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
 * Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
 * Map of narrative locations in Denmark
 * Experimental REST API for Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
 * Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
 * Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
 * Development
 * Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
 * Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
 * Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
 * Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
 * Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
 * Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
 * Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
 * Worked on PHP7 support
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Books and Bytes - Issue 14
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 * New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
 * Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
 * Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

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Wikidata weekly summary #188
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
 * Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
 * Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
 * Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
 * Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
 * query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
 * WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
 * Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fhigh%20%3Fhighl%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%3Flow%20%3Flowl%20%3Flow_elevation%20%3Fspan%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ160016%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP610%20%3Fhigh%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP610%20%3Fhigh_statement%20.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20wdt%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fhigh_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fhighl%20filter%20(lang(%3Fhighl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1589%20%3Flow%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1589%20%3Flow_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Flow_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Flow_elevation%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flow%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flowl%20filter%20(lang(%3Flowl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20-%20%3Flow_elevation%20as%20%3Fspan%20)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fspan)%20DESC(%3Flow_elevation)%20DESC(%3Fhigh_elevation)%20%3Fhigh%20%3FitemLabel places by elevation span], people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
 * Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
 * Development
 * Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Further work on a separate section for identifiers
 * Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
 * Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
 * Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
 * Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
 * Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Getting ready for the holidays :)
 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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Tech News: 2015-51
<section begin="technews-2015-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes this week
 * Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

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 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0.

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015
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Tech News: 2015-52
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Tech News
 * Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
 * The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes
 * CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
 * The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week
 * There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
 * No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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Wikidata weekly summary #189
Wikidata weekly summary #186

<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;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
 * You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
 * Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
 * Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
 * Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
 * WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
 * WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
 * Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
 * Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
 * Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%201945%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20(year(%3Fdate)as%20%3Fyear)%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A works created by females who died in 1945]
 * Development
 * <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
 * We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (T103102)
 * Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (T110648)
 * Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (T95682, T121274)
 * Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (T95684)
 * Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (259171)
 * More work on cleaning up the statement section (T121390)
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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...
Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

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Thank you for taking part in the Community Health learning campaign!
Hi, apologies for writing in English, if this is not your first language. I want to thank you once more for engaging in conversation on the Community Health learning campaign. It took us a while, but we can finally announce the winner of the prize, as well as share the outcomes of this conversation.
 * The winner of the Wikimania 2016 scholarship is Basak! Congratulate her on her Talk page!
 * The analysis of the consultation can now be found on Commons. It was presented at Wikiconference USA 2015, together with a more extensive research project on Community Health.

You might also be interested in taking part in the 2015 Harassment consultation. This is the first of several planned consultations on this topic, intended to provide a place to discuss ideas, concerns, proposals and possible solutions regarding Wikimedia communities’ harassment-related challenges.

This conversation would not have been the same without you. If you have more ideas, or follow up comments on the findings of the campaign, don't hesitate to leave me a message my talk page.

Have a great day,

María

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VisualEditor News #6—2015
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A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want: The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently. 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 fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.

The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes
The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities
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 * Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.  Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in).  The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome.  The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
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 * . (This is the current state for people using the visual editor.  None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
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 * . (This is the current state for people using the visual editor.  None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
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The Bugle: Issue CXVII, December 2015
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