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 * Thanks for your kind words, User:Northamerica1000. —Tom Morris (talk) 13:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #2—2015
Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:



Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:



After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. 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 improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead (T90734).

Looking ahead
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.

Let's work together

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 * File requests for language-appropriate "" and "" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

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Today's articles for improvement



 * Hello Tom Morris:


 * This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 18 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

Sent by User:Northamerica1000 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:26, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #152
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 15:12, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
 * The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
 * The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
 * Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
 * Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
 * A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
 * Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
 * Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
 * Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
 * Development
 * Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
 * Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
 * Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
 * Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
 * Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (T92831)
 * Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-15
 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
 * You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs.
 * You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap.
 * The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month.
 * You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends.

Problems
 * The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary.
 * Labs was broken several times this week.

'''Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
 * You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor.
 * Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed.
 * You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15
 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
 * You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs.
 * You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap.
 * The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month.
 * You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends.

Problems
 * The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary.
 * Labs was broken several times this week.

'''Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
 * You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor.
 * Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed.
 * You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2015
Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 05:36, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Seeking refund for Harmony Rose article following largest FCC fine
Dear Tom Morris,

I've just been reading the Columbia Journalism Review, and the station WDBJ has received the largest fine in the history of the FCC for broadcasting a story on Harmony Rose. The local station introduced the former porn star, volunteering as an EMT - including clips from historical porn films, and mistakenly including three seconds of hardcore material on the edge of the screen, which they say was not visible in the editing window. The Columbia Journalism Review is a respected outlet, not a tabloid, that treats this case as an interesting case study in First Amendment issues, and I think there is also interest in whether former porn stars can be treated in a tasteful manner by the news media.

Harmony Rose/Tracy Rolan is named in the original article and in 2015 outlets (Roanoke Times, The Blot, Statter911). I think this satisfies GNG.

There has been substantial media debate on the ethics of publishing the real names of porn performers, and Aurora Snow's article in the Daily Beast generated substantial coverage on how former porn stars should be treated in the mainstream media - I believe this is notable.

Can you please move the deleted article into my userspace, or the Draft: space? I'll add 2015 discussion of the FCC and ask you if it is notable, or submit to AFC.

Thank you. -- Aronzak (talk) 12:35, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, if Janet Jackson's nipple gets a whole article (Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy) this is probably GNG, even with less coverage. -- Aronzak (talk) 12:50, 9 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Aronzak: my only concern is that the community has already determined that as a porn star, Ms Rose/Rolan is not notable. The article that has been deleted is primarily concerned with her pornography care and is written in that rather strange and obsessed way that a lot of biographies of pornography actresses are (including details of the subject's pre-porn background). Notability is not the only bar to clear: BLP concerns weigh heavy on my mind, as does the duty of care we really ought to try and afford article subjects. While I would dearly love to live in a world where a background in the sex industry or involvement in pornographic movies does not haunt careers, we sadly do not live in such a society.
 * The fact that the FCC have handed out such a large fine in response to a station accidentally broadcasting three seconds of pornographic material does not mean that the subject of the offending broadcast inherits notability from it. Rose/Rolan is only tangentially connected to the fine. The analogy with the Janet Jackson Superbowl controversy is not quite applicable here: Janet Jackson was not of questionable notability before the incident at the Super Bowl—she was already a Grammy-winning, multi-platinum musical performer without the Super Bowl incident.
 * There's no reason that the issue here cannot be addressed in the article about the station, about the FCC or some other place. Using the tangential connection between a non-notable porn star and this rather extravagant fine seems to be a bit of a WP:COATRACK. On that basis, I'm not keen on userfying the article. —Tom Morris (talk) 19:04, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for taking the time to respond. I've added a line in the article WDBJ. The FCC chose not to mention her by name in their release. I wasn't sure whether COATRACK would be an issue. -- Aronzak (talk) 19:48, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

A new reference tool
Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #153
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 21:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata by country, or: The Wealth of Nation's Data
 * Wikidata the Game - one year in
 * Ongoing: GLAM-Wiki 2015
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Build a RSS image feed based on a query
 * Periodic table based on Wikidata data by Ricordisamoa
 * ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements
 * Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
 * Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
 * Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at T95287.
 * Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code
 * Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
 * New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
 * New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
 * Development
 * We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (T94404)
 * Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (T95287)
 * Implemented arbitrary access for the parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using  . So far this is only Wikidata itself.
 * Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
 * Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
 * Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
 * Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
 * Fixed in other language box showing old data (T90893)
 * Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
 * Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Precious again
  clear thoughts cleanly expressed

Thank you, Tom, for quality articles "covering all sorts of things", for welcoming users and dealing with articles for deletion, for telling us who runs Wikipedia (we do) and fighting delusions, all with "a taste for clear thoughts being cleanly expressed", even for saddest news, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:49, 11 April 2014 (UTC) A year ago, you were the 822nd recipient of my  Pumpkin Sky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 11 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks again, Gerda for the award and the kind words. The thought of it is much appreciated. —Tom Morris (talk) 08:31, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement



 * Hello Tom Morris:


 * This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 19 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

Sent by User:Northamerica1000 on 12:00, 12 April 2015 (UTC) using Mass message sender.

Tech News: 2015-16
 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
 * You can read the latest news about VisualEditor.
 * You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page.
 * The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta.

Problems
 * Some wikis had issues on Wednesday.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
 * Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis.
 * All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Holiday
For just over two weeks, I shall be on holiday, visiting Paris, San Francisco and Los Angeles. During this time, I am intending to try and spend as little time as possible hunched over a laptop dealing with wiki-related matters. I will periodically check email but anything non-urgent will not happen until I am back in London. If you need someone to review an administrator action I have taken, please feel free to ask another administrator to look into it. Don't do anything stupid while I'm gone. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:55, 17 April 2015 (UTC)