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The Signpost: 17 June 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #163
This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2015)
The amounts of fat types in selected foods
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Tech News: 2015-26
15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 June 2015
- From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
- Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
- Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced
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Richard Lewis
The edit was in reference to his interview on The Daily Show tonight. - BA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.154.209.228 (talk) 03:39, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #164
This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2015)
A party in celebration of the Chinese Year of the Ox at a restaruant
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Tech News: 2015-27
15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Tunisian Arabic
Dear User,
As you are one of the contributors to Tunisian Arabic. You are kindly asked to review the part about Domains of Use and adjust it directly or through comments in the talk page of Tunisian Arabic.
Yours Sincerely,
--Csisc (talk) 14:23, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 01 July 2015
- News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
- In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
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- Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
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Wikidata weekly summary #165
Tech News: 2015-28
15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2015)
Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam. Pictured is the Masjid al-Haram during Hajj, 2007.
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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015
- These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
- Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
- 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
- Record featured article author recommends five Wikipedia articles
- How English Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
- Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder
The Signpost: 08 July 2015
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
- In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
- Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
- Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
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Wikidata weekly summary #166
Today's articles for improvement weekly vote
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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2015)
Hello, Quenhitran.
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Tech News: 2015-29
15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 July 2015
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Today's articles for improvement – discussion about changing project processes
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Wikidata weekly summary #167
This week's articles for improvement (week 30, 2015)
Hello, Quenhitran.
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Tech News: 2015-30
03:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 July 2015
- From the editor: Change the world
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- Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
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Wikidata weekly summary #168
This week's articles for improvement (week 31, 2015)
An example of an igloo
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Tech News: 2015-31
15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
No citation, it was simply an observation about an historical inconsistency after watching the film which despite the error was still enjoyable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark ridgway (talk • contribs) 02:08, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
TAFI's List of articles
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The Signpost: 29 July 2015
- News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
- Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
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Wikidata weekly summary #169
This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2015)
A farmhouse (bottom) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland
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Tech News: 2015-32
15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 August 2015
- Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google
- News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief
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VisualEditor News #4—2015
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
Wikimania
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.
For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Recent improvements
Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.
Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top.
In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
Future changes
The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
- Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help.
- If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
- Please file requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
- The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
- The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or directly, so that she can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
TAFI List of articles purge, part II
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Wikidata weekly summary #170
This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2015)
Berries for sale at a farmers' market
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Tech News: 2015-33
14:58, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from July 2015
- Konkani Wikipedia goes live
- “Becoming involved in making the changes you want to see”: Leigh Thelmadatter
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you
- Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
- ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT
The Signpost: 12 August 2015
- News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
- In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj
- Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
- Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom
- Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons
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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2015)
Three plates of soufflés
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