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== VisualEditor newsletter for Janaury 2014 == |
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Since the last newsletter, the [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor|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 ([[bugzilla:50910|bug 50910]]) a major bug that meant inserting any template or other transclusion failed ([[bugzilla:59002|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 ([[bugzilla:59867|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. |
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As of today, VisualEditor is now available as an opt-out feature to all users at 149 active Wikipedias. |
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* The '''character inserter tool''' in the "Insert" menu has a very basic set of characters. The character inserter is especially important for languages that use Latin and Cyrillic alphabets with unusual characters or frequent diacritics. {{highlight|Your [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback|feedback]] on the character inserter is requested.}} In addition to feedback from any interested editor, the developers would particularly like to hear from anyone who speaks any of the 50+ languages listed under Phase 5 at [[mediawikiwiki:VisualEditor/Rollouts|mw:VisualEditor/Rollouts]], including Breton, Mongolian, Icelandic, Welsh, Afrikaans, Macedonian, and Azerbaijani. |
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* '''[[m:Office hours|meta:Office hours]] on [[IRC]]''' have been heavily attended recently. The next one will be held this coming Wednesday, 22 January at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=01&year=2014 23:00 UTC]. |
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* You can now '''edit some of the page settings''' in the "options" dialog – <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code> as selection (forced on, forced off, or default setting; bugs [[bugzilla:56866|56866]] and [[bugzilla:56867|56867]]) and <code><nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki></code> as a checkbox ([[bugzilla:57166|bug 57166]]). |
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* The automated browser tests were adjusted to speed them up and bind more correctly to list items in lists, and updated to a newer version of their ruby dependencies. You can monitor the automated browser tests' results (triggered every twelve hours) live [https://wmf.ci.cloudbees.com/view/r-ve/ on the server]. |
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* [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide]] was updated recently to show some new and upcoming features. |
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'''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. |
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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! [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] 20:00, 17 January 2014 (UTC) |
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AFC Backlog Drive
Hello, Benzband:
WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
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The Wikipedia Library Survey
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:49, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Many thnaks for reviewing the article. I have introduced a link to the article in the last hour. If you could review it again for me I would be most obliged. Many thanks.Gomach (talk) 17:25, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey
Hey Ben...how've you (snicker) been? Teehee. Okay, enough chit-chat. I think we both know why I'm here. I decided that a template needs to exist and I'm useless at that. Any chance you can give me a hand again? Achowat (talk) 14:56, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: Sure! (If I can ;-) What needs doing? benzband (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- File:Puerto Rico National Merit.JPG has an image (which is being use) but no standard template. As I try to standardize the WP:Awards pages, that has become inconvenient to me. So I said, 'do you know what guy I used to work with a year ago would know how to fix this?' Then I spent 10 or so minutes digging through my old Talk Archives until I remembered! Achowat (talk) 16:17, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: Okay, what should it be called though? ("Puerto Rico Barnstar of National Merit" / "Puerto Rican Barnstar of National Merit" / "Puerto Rico National Merit Medal" / … ?) benzband (talk) 16:25, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- There seems to be 6 or 7 standards being used. Why not "The Puerto Rico Barnstar" and ignore the tricky question of Puerto Rican nation-hood. Achowat (talk) 16:28, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- WAIT!! It seems that the people using it the Puerto Rico National Merit Medal. What can we do about this? (and yes, by 'we', I mean primarily 'you') Achowat (talk) 16:39, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: I have just created it at Template:Puerto Rico Barnstar (before I saw this) on the model of other BoNM templates. (Is it okay or does it need any changes?) We could move it to "Template:Puerto Rico National Merit Medal" or leave it and create a redirect from that page, but I don't know which is the best solution. benzband (talk) 16:52, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Award looks great. As to what the best solution is; if it's a Template issue and you don't know, lord knows I don't. Achowat (talk) 18:45, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: I've asked at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico#Barnstar. benzband (talk) 19:42, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: The creator of the barnstar image was favorable to calling it "Puerto Rico National Merit Medal", and the WikiProject calls it that too so I have moved the template, leaving a redirect. I've also added a
|title=
parameter though, so that editors who wish to have it display a different name can do so. benzband (talk) 18:07, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: The creator of the barnstar image was favorable to calling it "Puerto Rico National Merit Medal", and the WikiProject calls it that too so I have moved the template, leaving a redirect. I've also added a
- @Achowat: I've asked at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico#Barnstar. benzband (talk) 19:42, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Award looks great. As to what the best solution is; if it's a Template issue and you don't know, lord knows I don't. Achowat (talk) 18:45, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: I have just created it at Template:Puerto Rico Barnstar (before I saw this) on the model of other BoNM templates. (Is it okay or does it need any changes?) We could move it to "Template:Puerto Rico National Merit Medal" or leave it and create a redirect from that page, but I don't know which is the best solution. benzband (talk) 16:52, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: Okay, what should it be called though? ("Puerto Rico Barnstar of National Merit" / "Puerto Rican Barnstar of National Merit" / "Puerto Rico National Merit Medal" / … ?) benzband (talk) 16:25, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- File:Puerto Rico National Merit.JPG has an image (which is being use) but no standard template. As I try to standardize the WP:Awards pages, that has become inconvenient to me. So I said, 'do you know what guy I used to work with a year ago would know how to fix this?' Then I spent 10 or so minutes digging through my old Talk Archives until I remembered! Achowat (talk) 16:17, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
VisualEditor newsletter • 19 December 2013
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:
- Rich copying and pasting is now available. If you copy text from another website, then character formatting and some other HTML attributes are preserved. This means, for example, that if you copy a pre-formatted suggested citation from a source like this, then VisualEditor will preserve the formatting of the title in the citation. Keep in mind that copying the formatting may include formatting that you don't want (like section headings). If you want to paste plain, unformatted text onto a page, then use Control+⇧ Shift+V or ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+V (Mac).
- Auto-numbered external links like [1] can now be edited just like any other link. However, they cannot be created in VisualEditor easily.
- Several changes to the toolbar and dialogs have been made, and more are on the way. The toolbar has been simplified with a new drop-down text styles menu and an "insert" menu. Your feedback on the toolbar is wanted here. The transclusion/template dialog has been simplified. If you have enabled mathematical formula editing, then the menu item is now called the formula editor instead of LaTeX.
- There is a new character inserter, which you can find in the new "insert" menu, with a capital Omega ("Ω"). It's a very basic set of characters. Your feedback on the character inserter is wanted here.
- Saving the page should seem faster by several seconds now.
- It is now possible to access VisualEditor by manually editing the URL, even if you are not logged in or have not opted in to VisualEditor normally. To do so, append
?veaction=edit
to the end of the page name. For example, changehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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) 20:35, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I wish I knew how to quit you.
So, aside from Templates...might your expertise extend to areas more tabley? Achowat (talk) 05:49, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: So far I've only had experience creating basic tables, but I'm eager to try! benzband (talk) 17:26, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
- So, I'm creating a sandbox to fix WP:RIB. But there is a problem here. See, usually there are three columns per row (1 of the award image, then three for the ribbons). The problem comes with those Incremental Service Awards. Now the image of the award in the first column applies to 4 row of the other three columns. So, the ideal solution would be to somehow have a row that was one box four rows long, and then three columns of the four individual rows or ribbons (or the space where ribbons should be). If that makes any sense...Achowat (talk) 20:25, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
Pratyya (Hello!) 04:58, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Soham (talk) 13:36, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Some baklava for you!
Maybe i'll get you some real baklava soon! Blackbird34 (talk) 23:52, 24 December 2013 (UTC) |
Merry Christmas! :-)
Merry Yuletides to you! (And a happy new year!)
Hi Benzband, Wishing you a very Happy and Wonderful Merry Christmas! Hope you are having a great time with family and friends :-) Best wishes. ~TheGeneralUser (talk) 21:32, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Re: Yo Ho Ho
A beer on me! | ||
Thank you so much for your greetings. Happy Holiday to You and Your Family |
Yup, this again
Oh great Duke of all things Template and wondrous. I come again to you, hat in hand, in this my hour of need. If you have a sec. I don't even begin to know how difficult my requests are. So if they're particularly egregious, feel free to smack me (trout or otherwise). Achowat (talk) 15:10, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: You flatter me :) What's to be done? (Also, I hope you had a Merry Christmas!) ~ benzband (talk) 20:42, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- Merry enough. I hope you had a sufficiently joyous occasion yourself. So I'm working on getting Portal:Canada up to FPO standards. And one thing I need is work on the "Selected Panorama" template. Essentially, I need the "More information" that populates to disappear and another criteria to give a photo credit (similar to the "Selected Picture" template of the same portal). Achowat (talk) 21:00, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: Yup, same here, thankyou. I've added the extra parameters from Portal:Canada/Selected picture/Layout to Portal:Canadian/Selected panoramic picture/Layout (see diff), but I figured I'd better check before editing all the /Selected panorama/# subpages; does this first one: Portal:Canada/Selected panorama/1 (see diff) now look as it should? benzband (talk) 22:59, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- I believe so, yes. Achowat (talk) 23:01, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: Done the 19 selected panoramas. All good? benzband (talk) 23:45, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- Things look pretty good (I'm having cacheing issues, but I checked a few). Did you legit research and add the image credits? Achowat (talk) 23:47, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: I used the image credits that were given in the file descriptions.
- As for the cache, I had that too at first, but I use a gadget which gives a link for purging the cache (you probably already know these though; under Appearances: there's a "purge tab" one, and one which combines a purge button with a UTC clock - I use the latter). benzband (talk) 23:57, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- Things look pretty good (I'm having cacheing issues, but I checked a few). Did you legit research and add the image credits? Achowat (talk) 23:47, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: Done the 19 selected panoramas. All good? benzband (talk) 23:45, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- I believe so, yes. Achowat (talk) 23:01, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Achowat: Yup, same here, thankyou. I've added the extra parameters from Portal:Canada/Selected picture/Layout to Portal:Canadian/Selected panoramic picture/Layout (see diff), but I figured I'd better check before editing all the /Selected panorama/# subpages; does this first one: Portal:Canada/Selected panorama/1 (see diff) now look as it should? benzband (talk) 22:59, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
- Merry enough. I hope you had a sufficiently joyous occasion yourself. So I'm working on getting Portal:Canada up to FPO standards. And one thing I need is work on the "Selected Panorama" template. Essentially, I need the "More information" that populates to disappear and another criteria to give a photo credit (similar to the "Selected Picture" template of the same portal). Achowat (talk) 21:00, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
MOTD's Barnstars 2013
The MOTD Barnstar | ||
We at Motto of the Day (MOTD) would like to thank you for your participation and contributions to MOTD during 2013. We hope to see you around at MOTD next year. Happy 2014!!! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 15:36, 31 December 2013 (UTC) |
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
I hereby award The Working Man's Barnstar to Benzband for his tireles and endless contributions and work at Motto of the day. Without YOU we're nothing! Happy New Year!!! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 15:36, 31 December 2013 (UTC) |
Happy New Year, Benzband
--Pratyya (Hello!) 13:25, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
December 2013 wikification awards.
Is it the end already? It felt like we were just getting started! (talk) 01:46, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thankyou, Wilhelmina Will! ~ benzband (talk) 12:57, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
for your comprehensive and accurate help to a new editor at the teahouse --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:41, 3 January 2014 (UTC) |
- Thankyou Demiurge1000! benzband (talk) 22:16, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello User:Benzband...
I got a notice today saying "User:Formerly6697 was reviewed by Benzband" timestamped about 12:28 WP time. It didn't link to anything except my own Userpage. I am not familiar with this process at Wikipedia and the only thing I could find was this article but I am confused since apparently that is supposed to be by request which I did not do. Can you help me understand what this is all about? Why was I reviewed? Is there a report of some sort connected with this review and if so where is it? Did I pass/fail some kind of test? What are the plus's and minus's in all this? Please enlighten me. Thanks. F6697 FORMERLY 66.97.209.215 TALK 04:18, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
- I responded to this here. Newyorkadam (talk) 04:46, 4 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
- @Formerly6697: indeed, Newyorkadam has summed up exactly what I did. I was using the curation toolbar at the time; you can find out more about the new page review process at Wikipedia:New pages patrol. benzband (talk) 12:02, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
- @Benzband:: Thanks for the clarification. I am curious about everything and I like to understand new stuff. I like the idea of NPP and ER, it looks like a place to do good deeds, and I may just try out my hand at these in time when I feel a little more skilled. Keep up the good work. You might consider, however, that some newcomers are less curious and more
paranoidnervous (which is why we have guidelines like WP:DONTBITE) so I wrote a suggestion on the talk page with Newyorkadam. Check it out. F6697 FORMERLY 66.97.209.215 TALK 21:06, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
- @Benzband:: Thanks for the clarification. I am curious about everything and I like to understand new stuff. I like the idea of NPP and ER, it looks like a place to do good deeds, and I may just try out my hand at these in time when I feel a little more skilled. Keep up the good work. You might consider, however, that some newcomers are less curious and more
- @Formerly6697: indeed, Newyorkadam has summed up exactly what I did. I was using the curation toolbar at the time; you can find out more about the new page review process at Wikipedia:New pages patrol. benzband (talk) 12:02, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Titusfox + Chessy!
For Removing This Game From Wikipedia Games
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
- @Titusfox: Aye, well deserved! Have replied on your talkpage.
Yummy! Benzband has eaten the trout. It tasted good! |
I shouldn't of challenged Bluecollarchessplayer if it was for the public to play, so I kinda deserve a trout too!
Rudy Buttignol-One line addition & ref to end of career section
Hello Benzband, How are you? And happy 2014.
I haven't contacted you in awhile. However I'd like to add something to Rudy Buttignol's Wikipedia page.
I need to add the following line and Marsha Lederman's Globe & Mail ref to the end of paragraph 1 of his Career section.
Here is the info:
<ref> He has also been sited for making the distinction between the documentary genre and reality-based entertainment http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/a-new-er-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-public-health-care/article16177576/ <ref>
Would you help me please?
Many thanks!
Sofiabrampton
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sofiabrampton (talk • contribs) 16:39, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
((attempt#1 above, attempt#2 below, I have inserted nowiki tags to keep the unmatched html from busting the talkpage. HTH. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 18:35, 14 January 2014 (UTC) ))
- Hello Sofiabrampton. I am fine, thanks! Happy New Year to you too.
- I think that to stick to the meaning of source the line should include a little more context. Here's an example of what I might suggest:
Rudy Buttignol originated the idea behind the 2014 television series ''Emergency Room: Life and Death at VGH''. He stressed the distinction between the genre of the series, which is a [[Television documentary|documentary]], and that of reality-based [[entertainment]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Lederman |first=Marsha |url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/a-new-er-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-public-health-care/article16177576/ |title=A real-life ER pulls back the curtain on public health care |newspaper=[[The Globe And Mail]] |date=7 January 2014 |accessdate=14 January 2014}}</ref>
- Also, if when the series airs it gathers sufficient coverage in reliable third-party sources to assert notability, you could then create an article on it.
- P.S.: When using html tags (such as <ref></ref>) but you don't won't them to work, for instance when using them in an example on a talk page, you can enclose them in <nowiki></nowiki> to prevent them from working. Regards, benzband (talk) 19:12, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear Benzband, Thanks for reading the Marsha Lederman Globe & Mail article so closely and I agree that the addition of context for the "ER" television series works. I can't top your work. Okay if I post as is at the end of para 1 Career?
Many thanks,
Sofiabrampton Sofiabrampton (talk) 23:33, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- @Sofiabrampton: Of course, please feel free to do so!
- Also, I took the liberty of moving your comment down into this section (if you don't mind) as it was clearly a reply to my post. When replying to a comment on a discussion page, it is considered good practice to post below said comment and using indentation (by inserting the right amount of colons :) if needed. Additionally, new sections are usually placed at the bottom of a page (Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions constitutes a rare exception). These are just conventional practices, meant to help maintain the flow and readability of a discussion, and it obviously doesn't matter if you make mistakes (no harm is done as they can easily be fixed should they pose a problem). You can see also Help:Using talk pages and Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#Technical and format standards if you haven't already seen those pages and wish to learn more.
- As for the brief exchange with titusfox on your talkpage, I thought I'd just make clear that while modifying another editor's comment is frowned upon, every editor is indeed welcome to join an ongoing discussion and add their own comments (no one "owns" a discussion). benzband (talk) 20:02, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello again benzband. Thanks for your help with Rudy Buttignol and I will make the addition to the Career section now. And thanks for the Wikipedia etiquette lesson. I can't understand "(by inserting the right amount of colons :)" and so I tried to indent manually. Sorry about the trout thing. I was looking for you and it went on the other page by mistake. I have so much to learn! Sofiabrampton (talk) 22:03, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
- @Sofiabrampton: The more colons (Colon (punctuation)) you add the more the indentation. Here's a little example:
Comment. ''-- User 1'' :Reply. ''-- User 2'' ::Reply to User 2. ''-- User 1'' :::Reply to that and bla bla bla bla bla. :::Bla bla bla bla bla. ''-- User 2'' :Reply to first comment. ''-- User 3'' ::Reply to User 3 with numbered list: ::#Firstly ::#Secondly ::''-- User 1'' :::How about with bullets: :::*Like this. :::You see? ''-- User 3'' ::::Reply to bullets. ''-- User 1'' ::::Reply to bullets also. ''-- User 2''
- Which produces:
Comment. -- User 1
- Reply. -- User 2
- Reply to User 2. -- User 1
- Reply to that and bla bla bla bla bla.
- Bla bla bla bla bla. -- User 2
- Reply to first comment. -- User 3
- Reply to User 3 with numbered list:
- Firstly
- Secondly
- -- User 1
- How about with bullets:
- Like this.
- You see? -- User 3
- Reply to bullets. -- User 1
- Reply to bullets also. -- User 2
VisualEditor newsletter for Janaury 2014
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.
- The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has a very basic set of characters. The character inserter is especially important for languages that use Latin and Cyrillic alphabets with unusual characters or frequent diacritics. Your feedback on the character inserter is requested. In addition to feedback from any interested editor, the developers would particularly like to hear from anyone who speaks any of the 50+ languages listed under Phase 5 at mw:VisualEditor/Rollouts, including Breton, Mongolian, Icelandic, Welsh, Afrikaans, Macedonian, and Azerbaijani.
- meta:Office hours on IRC have been heavily attended recently. The next one will be held this coming Wednesday, 22 January at 23:00 UTC.
- You can now edit some of the page settings in the "options" dialog –
__NOTOC__
and__FORCETOC__
as selection (forced on, forced off, or default setting; bugs 56866 and 56867) and__NOEDITSECTION__
as a checkbox (bug 57166). - The automated browser tests were adjusted to speed them up and bind more correctly to list items in lists, and updated to a newer version of their ruby dependencies. You can monitor the automated browser tests' results (triggered every twelve hours) live on the server.
- Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide was updated recently to show some new and upcoming features.
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) 20:00, 17 January 2014 (UTC)