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VisualEditor Newsletter—February 2014
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some small changes to the user interface, such as moving the reference item to the top of the Insert menu, as well as some minor features and fixing bugs, especially for rich copying and pasting of references.

The biggest change was the addition of more features to the image dialog, including the ability to set alignment (left, right, center), framing options (thumbnail, frame, frameless, and none), adding alt text, and defining the size manually. There is still some work to be done here, including a quick way to set the default size.


 * The main priority is redesigning the reference dialog, with the goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs and URLs and streamlining the process. Current concept drawings are available at VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
 * A few bugs in the existing reference dialog were fixed. The toolbar was simplified to remove galleries and lists from the reference dialog.  When you re-use references, it now correctly displays the references again, rather than just the number and name.  If you paste content into a dialog that can't fit there (e.g.   in references), it now strips out the inappropriate HTML.
 * You can now edit image galleries inside VisualEditor. At this time, the gallery tool is a very limited option that gives you access to the wikitext.  It will see significant improvements at a later date.
 * The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu is being redesigned. Your feedback on the special character inserter is still wanted, especially if you depend on Wikipedia's character inserters for your normal editing rather than using the ones built into your computer.
 * You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu (three bars next to the Cancel button).
 * If you edit categories, your changes will now display correctly after saving the page.
 * Saving the page should be faster now.
 * Any community can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData by leaving a note at.

Looking ahead: The link tool will tell you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. The warning about wikitext will hide itself after you remove the wikitext markup in that paragraph. Support for creating and editing redirects is in the pipeline. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including default and upright sizes. The developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments, some behavioral magic words like DISPLAYTITLE, and in-line language setting.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #98
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 13:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
 * 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
 * Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
 * Development
 * Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
 * Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (61308)
 * Worked on an Apache redirect issue (54273)
 * Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (61446)
 * Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
 * Kept poking TimeParsers
 * Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
 * Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
 * Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help develop the next summary here!

WikiProject Articles for creation March 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive
 Hello Numbermaniac:

WikiProject AFC 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 March 1, 2014 to March 31, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script has been released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code enhancements, and more. If you want to see a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks. Posted by on 02:12, 28 February 2014 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk), on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation

Wikidata weekly summary #99
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 18:38, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about defining lists
 * Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
 * Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
 * Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
 * Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
 * Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
 * Development
 * Made loading items a lot faster
 * Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
 * Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
 * Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
 * Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
 * Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
 * Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
 * Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #100
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 15:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata
 * Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: portal's main topic, Finnish municipality number, carries scientific instrument, upper stage booster, river basin category, mode of inheritance
 * Development
 * Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
 * More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
 * Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
 * Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (61911)
 * Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
 * test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
 * Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
 * Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
 * Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #101
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 22:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Notability of items
 * Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
 * Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Happy Pi Day
 * paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
 * Development
 * Changed the parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
 * Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
 * Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
 * Continued research for user interface redesign
 * Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (54374)
 * Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (62149)
 * Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
 * Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

VisualEditor newsletter—March 2014
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on changes to the template and image dialogs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks was the redesign of the template dialog. The template dialog now opens in a simplified mode that lists parameters and their descriptions. (The complex multi-item transclusion mode can be reached by clicking on "Show options" from inside the simplified template dialog.) Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. With today's update, searching for template parameters will become case-insensitive, and required template parameters will display an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. In addition to making it quicker and easier to see everything when you edit typical templates, this work was necessary to prepare for the forthcoming simplified citation dialog. The main priority in the coming weeks is building this new citation dialog, with the ultimate goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs, URLs, DOIs and other quick-fills. This will add a new button on the toolbar, with the citation templates available picked by each wiki's community. Concept drawings can be seen at VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.


 * The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. Pages that exist, but are not indexed by the search engine, are treated like non-existent pages.
 * Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from the paragraph you are editing.
 * The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has been slightly redesigned, to introduce larger buttons. Your suggestions for more significant changes to the special character inserter are still wanted.
 * The page options menu (three bars, next to the Cancel button) has expanded. You can create and edit redirect pages, set page options like ,   and   , and more.  New keyboard shortcuts are listed there, and include undoing the last action, clearing formatting, and showing the shortcut help window.  If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged.
 * It is easier to edit images. There are more options and they are explained better.  If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size.  You can now set image sizes to the default, if another size was previously specified. Full support for upright sizing systems, which more readily adapt image sizes to the reader's screen size, is planned.
 * VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. These "slugs" are now smaller than normal blank lines, and are animated to be different from actual blank lines.
 * You can use the Ctrl or Command shortcuts to open the save window, and you can preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window.
 * After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed to the Interlingual Occidental Wikipedia, the Portuguese Wikibooks, and the French Wikiversity.
 * Any community can ask for custom icons for their language in the character formatting menu (bold, italic, etc.) by making a request on Bugzilla or by contacting Product Manager James Forrester.

The developers apologize for a regression bug with the deployment on 6 March 2014, which caused the incorrect removal of  size definitions on a handful of pages on the English Wikipedia, among others. The root cause was fixed, and the broken pages were fixed soon after.

Looking ahead:  Several template dialogs will become more compact. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. You will be able to see the Table of Contents change live as you edit the page, rather than it being hidden. In-line language setting may be offered to a few Wikipedias soon.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on 19 April 2014 at 2000 UTC. Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #102
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 15:00, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Wikiquote notability
 * Belongs to jurisdiction
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
 * Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
 * The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
 * Spaghetti Open Data, Bologna. March 28th - 30th
 * GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
 * Development
 * Continued making the UI faster
 * Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (62149)
 * Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
 * Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
 * wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
 * Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
 * Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
 * Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
 * Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
 * Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #103
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 19:05, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Wikiquote notability
 * Discussion relating to DBpedia
 * Discussion over Wikidata data
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID,  National Archives topical subject ID,  National Archives geographic ID,  National Archives organization ID,  National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
 * Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
 * Development
 * Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
 * Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (62868)
 * Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (62567)
 * Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (45812)
 * Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
 * Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
 * Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
 * Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
 * The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #104
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:42, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Merge project chats
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.1.0 released!
 * Wikidata development has been going on for two years!
 * Wikiquote gets Phase I on Tuesdays (April 8th)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: JSTOR journal code, Openpolis ID, Philippine Standard Geographic Code ID
 * Newest task forces: France task force, US legislation task force
 * Development
 * Property of an existing claim can no longer be changed through API with wbeditentity (62425)
 * UI for simple query SpecialPage (55593)
 * minor fixes in the UI
 * UI for claims on property pages
 * worked on review of property suggester (review)
 * still looking for a working student/intern
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #105
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; John F. Lewis 20:20, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Quality is measurable
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Announcing ToolScript. With ToolScript can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
 * Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
 * A Rijksmuseum representative indicated what kind of information she hopes Wikidata will deliver
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
 * Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
 * Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website! How awesome is this? Very!
 * Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
 * Development
 * Still looking for an awesome intern. Do you know someone who'd fit?
 * Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
 * Finishing touches for Statements on properties
 * Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
 * Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
 * Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
 * Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
 * Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
 * Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
 * Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
 * Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
 * Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
 * Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item