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Wikidata weekly summary #155
This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2015)
Hydroelectric dams use hydropower to generate electricity
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Tech News: 2015-18
15:11, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 April 2015
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- Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
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Today's articles for improvement
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Wikidata weekly summary #156
This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2024)
Hello, Quenhitran.
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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2015
- Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance
- Womens History Month
- Growing free knowledge through open data
- Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity
- Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge
- Welcome new members of Wikimedia Foundation
Tech News: 2015-19
15:14, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 06 May 2015
- News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
- Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
- Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
- Traffic report: The grim ship reality
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Wikidata weekly summary #157
Today's articles for improvement
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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2015)
The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply much of the food and food energy consumed by the world population.
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Tech News: 2015-20
15:48, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from April 2015
- New features on Wikipedia iOS app help readers access, explore, and share knowledge
- Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City
- The first Wikipedia TV spots and awareness campaign in Cameroon (VIDEO)
- Celebrity photographer Allan Warren shares the big shots on Wikipedia
- Introducing the new Wikipedia store
- A Wikimedian asks European Parliament members for copyright reform
- Join Wiki Loves Earth 2015: help capture our natural heritage
The Signpost: 13 May 2015
- Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
- Traffic report: Round Two
- In the media: Grant Shapps story continues
- Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2015)
Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried.
Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth
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Wikidata weekly summary #158
Tech News: 2015-21
15:27, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 May 2015
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- Traffic report: Inner Core
- News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
- Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2015)
Chocolate most commonly comes in dark (bottom), milk (middle), and white (top) varieties
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TAFI week 22, 2015 update
Please note that Personality is also an article for improvement for week 22, 2015. Thank you.
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Tech News: 2015-22
16:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #159
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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2015)
The term Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight automobile with off road capabilities and sparse bodywork.
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Tech News: 2015-23
15:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello Quenhitran
My source for that information is Pastor Baxter himself. I met with him in early 2000 and he claimed Jesus would come back by the end of the year 2000. And of course he is still claiming that Jesus is coming back with other dates....Just saying... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.173.50.158 (talk) 05:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #3—2015
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.
Recent improvements
Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.
The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).
Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).
The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
- The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. 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.
- If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
- If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference 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.
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The Signpost: 03 June 2015
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- Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
- Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings
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Wikidata weekly summary #161
This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2015)
An example of sport – a view of the 1906 unofficial Olympic Games
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Tech News: 2015-24
17:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Highlights from May 2015
- Meet the Inspire grantees working to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia
- A dark side of comedy: John Oliver asks TV viewers to vandalize Wikipedia articles on U.S. politicians
- Fundraising made in Germany: lessons learned by Wikimedia Deutschland
- Editing the Uzbek Wikipedia: Kamarniso Vrandečić
- First ever WikiArabia conference gathers Wikipedians in Tunisia to connect and share experiences
- Wikimania and the differences between online and offline cultures
The Signpost: 10 June 2015
- News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
- Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
- Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am
- Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
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Wikidata weekly summary #162
This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2015)
Hello, Quenhitran.
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Tech News: 2015-25
15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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Albion College
I work at Albion College and can scan and send yearbook pages that show past sororities. Would you prefer to just replace my edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.124.32.235 (talk) 14:57, 18 June 2015 (UTC)