User talk:RYasmeen (WMF)

Staff account
Just to note that this is a valid staff account, and I am requesting unblocking. This does not reflect on the blocking administrator, who exercised 100% correct judgment in protecting the wiki. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 01:46, 12 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Account unblocked.

RYasmeen (WMF), before doing any further editing on this project, please create your userpage that confirms you are a WMF staffer; several of your colleagues have used a standard format that will do nicely. I understand that you were attempting to reproduce certain VisualEditor bugs through your test edits. Please do not create pages in article space to test functions. You can create a page in your own userspace instead; VisualEditor works fine. In order to create a new page in your userspace, type User:RYasmeen (WMF)/[test page name] into the search box. If necessary, please go to IRC and most channels that WMF staff frequent will have one or more English Wikipedia editors who can assist you in creating a new "sandbox" page. Welcome to Wikipedia. Risker (talk) 01:52, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Welcome to Wikipedia! It's great to have you here! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 21:06, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Unspeedy
Firstly, I echo what Risker has said above. As a staff member, your user page is a disgrace. Please create a proper one.

Please note that with this edit you added an hangon tag. This placed the page into CAT:CSD and thereby put it at risk of speedy deletion. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 23:47, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Please take more care
I have just deleted RYasmeen (WMF)/test, one of your test pages that was in article space, and I note that another of your pages was just speedy deleted in article space. Your unblock is on my logs, and I am concerned that you're reverting to the behaviour that caused your block in the first place. I don't expect you to be perfect, but I do expect you to be able to identify when you have made an error, and to clean up (in the case of testing in existing articles) or ask for help (when you need a page deleted). Please take more care. Risker (talk) 17:40, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for erroneous edits
Hello Risker, Thanks for pointing out these issues to me.I am extremely sorry for the errors I made while testing production sites.I have talked with Rob Lanphier about it and decided to limit my test coverage to test sites only and will not do any testing on production site from now on. Please feel free to give me further feedbacks. ThanksRYasmeen (WMF) (talk) 16:40, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello RYasmeen - It's my understanding that there are sometimes variations in the versions of VE between this production site and some of the testing sites, so there may be times where you have to test something here. Just as long as you're staying in your user space, everything should work out fine. It does take some conscious effort to work in user space. Maybe someone can write you a script to put in your common.js to warn you that you're in the wrong namespace - it shouldn't be a hard script to write, but it's well outside of my capabilities - that would help to flag when you're somewhere you're not supposed to be.  I'm thinking something that keeps the screen looking "normal" in userspace, but changes the background to some garish, obvious colour if you're editing anywhere else. Thanks for recognizing the issues and resolving to avoid them in the future.  Risker (talk) 17:18, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Feedback needed on using special characters
Hello. Thank you for using VisualEditor! Having editors use it is the best way for the Wikimedia Foundation to develop it into the best tool it can be.

While we always welcome general feedback (please report any issues in Bugzilla in the "VisualEditor" product or drop your feedback on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org), the developers are especially interested right now in feedback on the special character inserter. This new tool is used for inserting special characters (including symbols like ₥, IPA pronunciation symbols, mathematics symbols, and characters with diacritics). It is intended to help people whose computers do not have good character inserters. For example, many Mac users prefer to use the extensive "Special Characters..." tool present at the bottom of the Edit menu in all applications or to learn the keyboard shortcuts for characters like ñ and ü.

The current version of the special characters tool in VisualEditor is very simple and very basic. It will be getting a lot of work in the coming weeks and months. It does not contain very many character sets at this time. (The specific character sets can be customized at each Wikipedia, so that each project could have a local version with the characters it wants.) But the developers want your ideas at this early stage about ways that the overall concept could be improved. I would appreciate your input on this question, so please try out the character inserter and tell me what changes to the design would (or would not!) best work for you.

Issues you might consider:
 * How often do you normally use Wikipedia's character inserters?
 * Which character sets are useful to you? Should it include all 18 of the character sets provided in the wikitext editor's newer toolbar at the English Wikipedia, the 10 present in the older editor toolbar, or some other combination of character sets?
 * How many special characters would you like to see at one time?
 * Should there be a "priority" or "favorites" section for the 10 or 12 characters that most editors need most often? Is it okay if you need an extra click to go beyond the limited priority set?
 * How should the sections be split up? Should they be nested? Ordered?
 * How should the sections be navigated? Should there be a drop-down? A nested menu?
 * The wikitext editor has never included many symbols and characters, like ℗ and ♀. Do you find that you need these missing characters?  If the character inserter in VisualEditor includes hundreds or thousands of special characters, will it be overwhelming? How will you find the character you want? What should be done for users without enough space to display more than a few dozen characters?
 * Should the character inserter be statically available until dismissed? Should it hover near the mouse? Should it go away on every selection or 10 seconds after a selection with no subsequent ones?
 * Some people believe that the toolbar already has too many options—how would you simplify it?

The developers are open to any thoughts on how the special character inserter can best be developed, even if this requires significant changes. Please leave your views on the central feedback page, or, if you'd prefer, you can contact me directly on my talk page. It would be really helpful if you can tell me how frequently you need to use special characters in your typical editing and what languages or other special characters are important to you.

Thank you again for your work with VisualEditor and for any feedback you can provide. I really do appreciate it.

P.S. You might be interested in the current ideas about improving citations, too. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)