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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2015)
The skyline of Frankfurt, Germany
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Tech News: 2015-01
16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 December 2014
- News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
- In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
- Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
- Featured content: A bit fruity
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Wikidata weekly summary #139
This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2015)
Dishwashing liquid is a detergent used in dishwashing
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The Signpost: 07 January 2015
- In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
- Featured content: Kock up
- Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne
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Hello!
Chào bạn, hóa ra bạn cũng đóng góp trên Wikipedia tiếng Anh à! Simon (talk) 03:53, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #140
This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2015)
The history of Mongolia includes the foundation, expansion, and fragmentation of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century
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Tech News: 2015-03
16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 14 January 2015
- WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story
- News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
- Featured content: Citations are needed
- Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
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Wikidata weekly summary #141
This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2015)
An example of prose, a type of writing that simulates the natural flow of language
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Tech News: 2015-04
18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 January 2015
- From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
- Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
- News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
- In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
- Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
- Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
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Wikidata weekly summary #142
This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2015)
The opening of the Beethoven Symphony No. 5, a famous symphony.
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Tech News: 2015-05
16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 January 2015
- From the editor: An editorial board that includes you
- In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia
- Traffic report: A sea of faces
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2015)
Freeze dried coffee, an example of the application of food science
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Wikidata weekly summary #143
Tech News: 2015-06
16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News 2015—#1
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.
Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.
Recent improvements
The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
- starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog: blue ,
- takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
- might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
- is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray.
The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.
Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
Looking ahead
The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. 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 contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.
We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
- Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
- Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Contact James F. for more information.
- Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.
Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 February 2015
- Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue
- Traffic report: The American Heartland
- Featured content: It's raining men!
- Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate
- WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
- Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
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Wikidata weekly summary #144
This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2015)
Empire Field, stadium made with temporary structures, cheaper than permanent.
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Tech News: 2015-07
16:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 11 February 2015
- From the editors: We want to know what you think!
- In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?
- Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...
- Traffic report: Bowled over
- WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled
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Wikidata weekly summary #145
This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2015)
A Sicilian ice cream parlour
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Hi Quenhitran I hope you are well. I did some research on "Bill D'Arcy" -- the entry asked for more information on this person which I researched with great difficulty. The case is complicated. But I listed and have secondary sources for the story since his release from jail. I can give you more detail but all I can say is all my sources are publicly available and I only reported that which was factual. I have never been to dispute resolution before - and maybe I won't have to - as this person may be just a crank. But he took out the bulk of the article out with an assertion that I did not have sources and there was "possible bias" -( I am interested in his case but I am not biased) just like that. He is perfectly free to research and put in his own findings. I put the whole lot back. Have you any advice to give me? With best wishes, Gladiator Citizen Gladiator-Citizen (talk) 05:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-08
17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from January 2015
- Wikipedia turns 14, receives prestigious Erasmus Prize 2015
- Civility, Wikipedia, and the conversation on Gamergate
- How high school student Jack Andraka used Wikipedia to research a new test for cancer
- Wellcome Library donates 100,000 medical images to Wikimedia Commons
- Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
- Try Content Translation: A quick way to create new articles from other languages
- Weekly edit-a-thons help create new articles about women and literature in Sweden
(The Wikimedia Highlights issues from some recent months have not been distributed via this notice, but can be found in the archive.)
The Signpost: 18 February 2015
- In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia
- Special report: Revision scoring as a service
- Gallery: Darwin Day
- Traffic report: February is for lovers
- Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
- Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?
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Wikidata weekly summary #146
This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2015)
Trailer Trash is a US derogatory term for poor people living in trailers or caravans. It appears that these trailer trash happen to live on a trailer park.
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Tech News: 2015-09
16:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 February 2015
- News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Gallery: Far from home
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
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The Signpost: 25 February 2015
- News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Gallery: Far from home
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
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Wikidata weekly summary #147
This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2015)
There are many backup dancers accompanying the dances of the main dancer.
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Tech News: 2015-10
16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Flynn Rider GAN
Hi there! It's been about three weeks since you acknowledged that you would be reviewing my GA of Flynn Rider, but I have yet to see any comments on the article's talk page. I just wanted to know how things are going? Please don't feel pressured to rush in any way; a steady, slow, thorough review is better than a quick, brash one. Thanks!--Changedforbetter (talk) 15:30, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 March 2015
- From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
- Traffic report: Attack of the movies
- Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes
- Interview: Meet a paid editor
- Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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