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As you may know,
VisualEditor ("Edit beta") is currently available on the English Wikipedia only for registered editors who choose to enable it. Since you have made 100 or more edits with VisualEditor this year, I want to make sure that you know that you can enable VisualEditor (if you haven't already done so) by going to
your preferences and choosing the item, "
MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable
". This will give you the option of using VisualEditor on articles and userpages when you want to, and give you the opportunity to spot changes in the interface and suggest improvements. We value your feedback, whether positive or negative, about using VisualEditor, at
Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you,
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk)
18:24, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
I have started a discussion concerning your latest edit to the article Hunnic Empire. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 17:57, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at
Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to
your preferences and choosing the item, "
MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable
".
The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption ( bug 50459).
There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected ( bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances ( bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances ( bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories ( bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias ( bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes ( bug 54712).
Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:45, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
You may want to edit No More Hell to Pay. HotHat ( talk) 21:33, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.
A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.
There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:
/wiki/Foobar?veaction=edit
and /?title=Foobar&veaction=edit
both now have text links that work if triggered (
bug 48915).$wgVisualEditorParsoidForwardCookies
set to true) (
bug 44483). (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)Looking ahead:
If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:10, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hello!. Stryper's last album " No More Hell to Pay" is the ELEVENTH (11) in his career (you can count them and keep running).
Why do you say that is the eighth? How is the source? Remember to include until the last two without original songs. -- Apega71 ( talk) 13:44, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello!. I see you have many doubts about it, nor mention the immediately preceding Second Coming. In my opinion, The Covering is a studio album, and it may be that Second Coming is a compilation album. In addition, The Yellow and Black Attack may be an EP (not studio album). In any case, this will then NINTH album with No More Hell to Pay. Do not you think? -- Apega71 ( talk) 13:46, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
Well, is quite valid to say that Sacond Coming is a real studio album. Is true, are new versions of old songs, but it is a studio album, after all. I agree, is a better studio album.-- Apega71 ( talk) 16:26, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello friend.
I did the article on this same album in Spanish. But I can´t put the link to the English version. You can do that? Thank you. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Hell_to_Pay -- Apega71 ( talk) 13:38, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 7 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Anthony House (Adams, Massachusetts), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Anthony House in Adams, Massachusetts, is the birthplace of women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anthony House (Adams, Massachusetts). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:48, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
I created Christmas Is Here if you want to look at it because I learned my lesson from No More Hell to Pay DYK. HotHat ( talk) 13:32, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
I worked on Christmas in Diverse City's critical reception section. HotHat ( talk) 23:30, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 19 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article No More Hell to Pay, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that critics praised the band Stryper for featuring their classic 1980s sound on their latest album No More Hell to Pay? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/No More Hell to Pay. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Harrias talk 13:47, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
Church Clothes 2 at the
Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath
your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!
Lihaas (
talk)
17:23, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some toolbar improvements, fixing bugs, and improving support for Indic languages as well as other languages with complex characters. The current focus is on improving the reference dialog and expanding the new character inserter tool.
There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:
?veaction=edit
to the end of the page name. For example, change
/info/en/?search=Special:Random
to
/info/en/?search=Special:Random?veaction=edit
to open a random page in VisualEditor. This is intended to support bug testing across multiple browsers, without requiring editors to login repeatedly.Looking ahead: The transclusion dialog will see further changes in the coming weeks, with a simple mode for single templates and an advanced mode for more complex transclusions. The new character formatting menu on the toolbar will get an arrow to show that it is a drop-down menu. The reference dialog will be improved, and the Reference item will become a button in the main toolbar, rather than an item in the Insert menu.
If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:40, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 21 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Beautiful Eulogy, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the hip-hop group Beautiful Eulogy experiments with other music styles such as folk, electronic, hymn tunes, and contemporary worship music? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Beautiful Eulogy. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 12:48, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you please look at the copy at Katy Hudson. I don't want my bias to be imposed on the article. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 23:49, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello 3family6: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, HotHat ( talk) 05:20, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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I just hope your year of editing ahead will be great! HotHat ( talk) 05:20, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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If you want to comment, go here to do so. HotHat ( talk) 05:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked mostly minor features and fixing bugs. A few significant bugs include working around a bug in CSSJanus that was wrongly flipping images used in some templates in right-to-left (RTL) environments ( bug 50910) a major bug that meant inserting any template or other transclusion failed ( bug 59002), a major but quickly resolved problem due to an unannounced change in MediaWiki core, which caused VisualEditor to crash on trying to save ( bug 59867). This last bugs did not appear on any Wikipedia. Additionally, significant work has been done in the background to make VisualEditor work as an independent editing system.
As of today, VisualEditor is now available as an opt-out feature to all users at 149 active Wikipedias.
__NOTOC__
and __FORCETOC__
as selection (forced on, forced off, or default setting; bugs
56866 and
56867) and __NOEDITSECTION__
as a checkbox (
bug 57166).Looking ahead: The character formatting menu on the toolbar will get a drop-down indicator next Thursday. The reference and media items will be the first two listed in the Insert menu. The help menu will get a page listing the keyboard shortcuts. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including support for alignment (left, right, and center) and better control over image size (including default and upright sizes). The developers are also working on support for editing redirects and image galleries.
Subscriptions to this newsletter are managed at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Please add or remove your name to change your subscription settings. If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:05, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Good day! I am an author of all edits, reverted by me! Why did you undo it? Yes, I created the information about singles, hoping for "good-faith" edits but after one situation with citations, I decided to delete this! Sorry, but I think that these actions are not respectful and don't want my text to remain there! If you want, you can rewrite the summary about videos and singles in your own words. With respect -- ВікіПЕДист ( talk) 15:22, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
I have no real vested interested one way or the other. I just wanted to make sure that you weren't deleting things out of simple frustration. If you don't want the content, than just undo my edit.-- ¿3fam ily6 contribs 16:15, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
Church Clothes 2 at the
Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath
your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!
BlueMoonset (
talk)
20:47, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 30 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Church Clothes 2, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the extended version of Lecrae's single " Round of Applause", from Church Clothes 2, was featured by Pepsi as one of "three songs you need to hear right now"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Church Clothes 2. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady ( talk) 16:03, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 30 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Round of Applause (Lecrae song), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the extended version of Lecrae's single " Round of Applause", from Church Clothes 2, was featured by Pepsi as one of "three songs you need to hear right now"? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady ( talk) 16:04, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bloodbath of B-R5RB is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bloodbath of B-R5RB until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — scetoaux ( T| C) 06:32, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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:
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)
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.
==section headings==
in references), it now strips out the inappropriate HTML.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 (dir="rtl"
).
If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 20 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bloodbath of B-R5RB, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the massive video game battle Bloodbath of B-R5RB from Eve Online involved over 7,500 players, making it potentially the largest player versus player battle ever? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bloodbath of B-R5RB. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it may be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Thank you Victuallers ( talk) 16:02, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I made this to display their rating methodology more accurately. So, what do you think?
HotHat (
talk)
04:34, 17 March 2014 (UTC)