User talk:Mvolz/Archive 1

Citoid gadget feedback
Hi! I've poked around with your Citoid gadget a little bit. Nice! One bug I found is that the resulting citation doesn't include the URL field, even though it should know the url because you already gave it one. Another issue (a Zotero scraper issue rather than an issue with the gadget, I expect) is that, for a PubMed page like this one, it doesn't capture the PMID or PMC fields. (Compare to the output of the citation template filler tool that is the standard for medical content.)--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:48, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I've added those to known bugs and hopefully I will fix it soon :). Mvolz (talk) 19:42, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata citation bot
Hi, we've started the project to import citation data into Wikidata that we talked about yesterday! There are a few details on the weekend's etherpad and Mitar has started a github repo if you want to take a look. - Lawsonstu (talk) 13:11, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Citoid service
Hi, I tried to test the service (citoid.wmflabs.org/url) so I can use it in gadget, but it failed to fill the title parameter (it was filled with the URL). I'm not sure what websites are supported, but I would like to suggest using open graph to extract title and other metadata from URL. Facebook use it to extract meta data after scraping, so many websites implement it. Eran (talk) 11:54, 30 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks Eran! I will look into it. Mvolz (talk) 12:19, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Major development in GCI TemplateData tasks
Hi.

I am writing this in case you hadn't received my previous pings, or noticed the recent developments. It is by far the biggest.

Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 01:03, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've marked two tasks as done.


 * It is a fiasco: People use Ping indiscriminately, not knowing that it does not work. The mention of a user's name must be placed in a signed post, otherwise nothing happens. The most annoying part is when they insert in my own talk page. Worthless there.


 * Anyway, I've bookmarked the page. More reliable that way. Codename Lisa (talk) 00:29, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Ack! I've been telling them to use ping. I thought it would always work; I get notifications on ping and also on just mentions. It's been hard enough to get them to do that! Is there something different I should be saying in the task descriptions? Mvolz (talk) 00:54, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm... This ping didn't appear in my notifications list either. (Must study notification behavior...) Anyway, GCI students need to sign their messages. Ping or not, I will see their contribution to User:Mvolz/GCI TemplateData Tasks before I see anything else on English Wikipedia. I have bookmarked it and I open it before opening my Watchlist. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 02:47, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * One more is done.


 * And I am not receiving any ping notifications from that page at all. (Do you?) Someone told me notifications only register on talk pages.
 * Best regards,
 * Codename Lisa (talk) 00:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I get notified when my username is mentioned, regardless of ping, so that may be the difference. The ping suffices as a mention, but perhaps won't actually notify you on a non-talk page unless you have mentions turned on? Mvolz (talk) 16:34, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, if I needed a testimony, I did get notified this last time that Ajeet47 mentioned me. (And my notification settings is "default".)
 * By the way, Ajeet47 has claimed responsibility for a task the NetworkOP already did it. I had revert Ajeet47's edit because of its sheer destructiveness. NetworkOP's work was complete already. Check the tasks page for details.
 * Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 11:52, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Module:Cite
I am wondering about Module:Cite and made a note on Module talk:Cite. Do you know whether it is suppose to work? &mdash; fnielsen (talk) 21:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC) Nope it doesn't, I made further comments on talk page. Sorry! Mvolz (talk) 15:00, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Userscript throwing errors
Hi Marielle, wanted to let you know that your userscript: User:Mvolz/veCiteFromURL.js is generating errors for people because 'ext.visualEditor.mwreference' is no longer a defined RL module. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 22:43, 17 May 2016 (UTC)


 * User:TheDJ: Thanks! It was defunct anyway and didn't do anything so I just blanked it entirely. Mvolz (talk) 08:42, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2016
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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "" menu and click the "" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.

Finally, click "" in the dialog to insert the. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

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. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes
The "" button will say "". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready.
 * Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor?  Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
 * Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 21:09, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?



Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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 mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

 * You can now set text as small or big.
 * Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.  A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
 * Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
 * At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.
 * The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page. In the future, the "" button will say "".  This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems.  More information is available on Meta.
 * Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image.  Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.

Future changes
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce. If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Mvolz!


Happy New Year! Mvolz, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Codename Lisa (talk) 07:10, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Editing News #1—2017
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 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.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:19, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Module:Linguistic
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MfD nomination of Module:Cite
Module:Cite, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Miscellany for deletion/Wikidata-imported cite modules and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Module:Cite during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. P p p er y 18:31, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Notice of discretionary sanctions
Jytdog (talk) 02:41, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi there, I still disagree that what I added was Soapboxing. What I edited was literally the only thing on that person's page that seems to be of organic interest (received significant news coverage) etc. as opposed to what appears to be mostly paid editing. But whatevs. I would at the very least like to add the marital status back in, as that seems pretty uncontroversial. Cheers. Mvolz (talk) 02:46, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

User:Mvolz/displayContributions
Hi,  won't work on meta due to it looking for the script locally, so its looking for the script on meta, not enwiki. Also you can use  to load the script in global.js (example: User:Eizzen/AutoPurge). -- Terra  (talk) 04:38, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Women's Health Cochrane Reviews
That was a great idea to make a list of the reviews pertaining to women's health. Would you like me to add your initiative here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration-Wikipedia_Initiative/Projects? If you don't mind me asking, how did you identify and pull out the reviews you were interested in? Manually? I would love to categorize all the reviews to make it easier for volunteers, but 5000 seems daunting to do by hand. If you have any other ideas of ways that we can work together, please let me know. I will watch your page and project with interest.

Kind Regards, Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 15:17, 20 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, yes, that's great! Basically manually but with some help from my text editor (sublime-text-3) so it wasn't actually that much work - basically searched for keywords or roots (i.e. pregnanc or breast or endomet or uter - that last one got me some false positives from "computer" instead of "uterine"!) and then copy pasted the lines. Ctrl+f, click "find all", Ctrl+l to select the whole line, then Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v to copy/paste. Then eliminate duplicate lines (because some lines contain multiple keywords) with Edit->Permute lines->Unique Mvolz (talk) 14:13, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

A page you started (Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, Mvolz!

Wikipedia editor Babymissfortune just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

"Please expand, if possible. Thank you."

To reply, leave a comment on Babymissfortune's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

Happy holidays! Baby miss fortune 15:55, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Oxford 58
Hi, please see m:Talk:Meetup/Oxford/58 and indicate which option would most suit you. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:21, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

International Women's Day Training & Editathon
I'm not sure that it's a good idea to have two pages, International Women's Day Training & Editathon, Oxford, 2018 and Meetups/UK/International Women's Day Oxford 2018. Although not against WP:MULTI, because is not a Wikimedia Foundation wiki, it could encourage split signup lists.

BTW I have known Suzi Horsley in real life, she was a trainer/jobseekers' assistant when I was jobhunting three or four years ago. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 00:10, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for organising the editathon for International Women's Day - I was glad to be part of it. Fugitivedave (talk) 21:56, 9 March 2018 (UTC) (PS I finally published Sexual harassment in the military and have developed it a bit more since.)

Women in Red: Invitation for March
Hi there, Mvolz. Thanks for organizing Meetups/UK/International Women's Day Oxford 2018. Here's the Women in Red invitation for March. We've also put together Ten Simple Rules for Creating Women's Biographies which any newcomers might find useful. Let me know if you need any further assistance.


 * Thanks, that's very useful! Mvolz (talk) 18:21, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018
Read this in another language • Subscription list for the English Wikipedia • Subscription list for the multilingual edition Did you know? Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?



Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

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

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.



This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

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 Editing 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 improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

 * The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools.  The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments.  They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing.  The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January.  Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor.  Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits.  More information will be posted at Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
 * The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor.  When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs.  You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs".  The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges.
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.
 * The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time.  It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up.  Other wikis can have this service, too.  Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

 * The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
 * Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
 * The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens.  This makes footnotes easier to read.  This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia.  If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either   or the plain (no parameters)   template.  If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki.
 * If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

—User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:15, 28 February 2018 (UTC)