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- 1 Welcome!
- 2 Looking for a little guidance
- 3 Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!
- 4 Oh, dear.
- 5 Proposed deletion of Peggy Shaw
- 6 Back at you!
- 7 Disambiguation and such.
- 8 Western honey bee copyedit
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Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 07:40, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- I'd be happy to "adopt" you and answer any questions you have! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:07, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
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- Thank you so much! I would really appreciate any help or insight you could provide. How do we get started? Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 02:55, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
- Is there anything in particular you've had problems with while editing/exploring Wikipedia? Would you like suggestions for where you can help out? If so, what are your areas of interest? (Both in terms of the subject areas you'd like to improve, and--if you have any sense for this--what types of tasks you might want to take on, or skills you have that could be useful...) By the way, if you'd like to make sure I'm notified promptly of your messages on this page, you can use the code
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which pings me in the notification area at the top of the screen. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:06, 19 May 2014 (UTC)- @Calliopejen1: I'll be heading to an edit-a-thon this weekend and will develop a better idea of my weaker points. Right now I feel pretty confident in copyediting, and my areas for growth fall under "everything else". :)
- Good luck at the edit-a-thon! If you're looking for articles to copyedit, they can be found here (general category) or here (special requests). If you want to avoid seeing code while you are copyediting, you can try out the visual editor by enabling it in your settings (scroll down, check, and save -- you may also have to purge your browser if you don't see the "edit beta" tab). The visual editor is in beta, so just double-check that it hasn't done anything crazy to the page after you save edits made using the visual editor mode. Or you can just edit in the normal fashion, without the visual editor -- here is a useful cheatsheet to code you're likely to see/use. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:26, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
- @Calliopejen1: I'll be heading to an edit-a-thon this weekend and will develop a better idea of my weaker points. Right now I feel pretty confident in copyediting, and my areas for growth fall under "everything else". :)
- Is there anything in particular you've had problems with while editing/exploring Wikipedia? Would you like suggestions for where you can help out? If so, what are your areas of interest? (Both in terms of the subject areas you'd like to improve, and--if you have any sense for this--what types of tasks you might want to take on, or skills you have that could be useful...) By the way, if you'd like to make sure I'm notified promptly of your messages on this page, you can use the code
- Thank you so much! I would really appreciate any help or insight you could provide. How do we get started? Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 02:55, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!
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Oh, dear.
Welcome to the madness. :) RasputinAXP 20:38, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
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Proposed deletion of Peggy Shaw
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The article Peggy Shaw has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. G S Palmer (talk) 19:09, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
- @G S Palmer:I had a moment of panic then realized this is a 7-day warning. Phew! Thank you so much! Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 19:18, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Hi Rachel. I saw your message on my talk page: don't worry about it, proposed deletion isn't instant, like speedy deletion. You have a week before it might get deleted, and if you add sources you can remove the template from the page right away. No rush!
- By the way, you said you "could not figure out how to "@" [me] to get [my] attention". I believe what you're looking for is Template:Reply to, produced by
{{reply to|G S Palmer}}
, which renders as @G S Palmer:. Hope that helps! G S Palmer (talk) 19:28, 1 June 2014 (UTC)- Never mind the above. I see you already got it figured out while I was typing. G S Palmer (talk) 19:29, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Back at you!
It was such a pleasure to work with you at WikiCon - I'm looking forward to reading your final version of the Peggy Shaw article. You should consider nominating it for a Did You Know? front page article when you've finished.
Keep in touch, and keep being bold! Levendowski(talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:51, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Disambiguation and such.
Hello, Rachel! Everything you ever wanted to know about disambiguation can be found at WP:DPL. We have a monthly contest where the most linked-to disambiguation pages are listed, and editors vie for a place in the Hall of Fame by fixing as many as we can from the list. We do have other lists - lots and lots of lists. There are some editors who know how to make lists of links meeting certain conditions, for example R'n'B's lists of disambiguation links on pages where the title includes the disambiguation term. Also, download WP:AWB, you can do all sorts of things with that. Cheers! bd2412 T 23:18, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- Hi BD2412, thank you so much for this information! I'll take a spin around this and see what I can do :) --Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 03:16, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
I have picked out a disambiguation fix to get you started, so you can see how the process works. The article is Shereefa Lloyd, an Olympic sprinter. One link very early on this page points to a disambiguation page rather than the correct target article. Your mission: find that link, and fix it! The fix, in this case, is straightforward. You need only go to the disambiguation page, find the right target article there, and make it so that the errant link in the article points to that target article. bd2412 T 01:35, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
- I tried it, BD2412 Did I do it right? :D --Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 17:39, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
- Exactly right. There are a number of more complex disambiguation scenarios that you will run into eventually - for example, someone may write in an article that the subject was "born in Clarendon Park" without giving any indication which Clarendon Park is intended (in which case some research would be needed), or they may refer to a notable "Clarendon Park" that is missing from Wikipedia (in which case a red link should be created pointing to what would be the correct title), or they may refer to a non-notable "Clarendon Park" (in which case the term should be unlinked). For example, last month I fixed a number of links to Stacey Johnson and found that some were intended for an Olympic fencer with no article; I therefore created Draft:Stacey Johnson (fencer), which I (or someone) will eventually get into article shape and move from draft space to the mainspace. You will also occasionally run into messes like Fish stew, which up until this morning was tagged as a disambiguation page (clearly it's just a list of kinds of fish stew, which is its own topic).
- I see that you used Visual Editor to make the edit - it turns out to be good for this kind of work where the correct link is an expanded form of the incorrect link. I would like to show you the dabsolver, just so you can see another tool that does this with some additional useful bells and whistles. When you have passed 500 article space edits, you will be eligible to use the AutoWikiBrowser, which is a fantastic tool for making large numbers of common fixes, including disambiguation fixes. You might be able to get authorization to use it earlier based on your WMF role, but it's probably better for you to earn it the usual way. By the way, I must admit that disambiguation is not the most important thing to be done in Wikipedia; I happen to do a lot of it and therefore have an inflated sense of how important it is. However, if you keep at it, you may eventually place in the top three participants in the monthly disambiguation contest, in which case you will win a free Wikimedia t-shirt. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
- Squee! Thanks! I did use VE; probably next time I should use Wiki Markup. I hear you on it not being "the most important part" of editing Wikipedias, but I'd like to have a better sense of how it all works so that I feel more informed. I'll take a look at the other links you posted and see if I can help on any of them! :) -Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 20:06, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
- Actually, let's just throw you in at the deep end. Go to Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/October 2014, pick a disambiguation page from the list, and fix all of the incoming links to that page. Let me know which one you do. It shouldn't be too bad - most of these have only ten or eleven incoming links, which is much better than the lists from years ago, which had hundreds. In going through a few of these, you are bound to come across the usual assortment of problems. Never fear to be bold in cutting them down! bd2412 T 20:21, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
- Squee! Thanks! I did use VE; probably next time I should use Wiki Markup. I hear you on it not being "the most important part" of editing Wikipedias, but I'd like to have a better sense of how it all works so that I feel more informed. I'll take a look at the other links you posted and see if I can help on any of them! :) -Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 20:06, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
- I think I lost the plot, here - the link pages all mostly lead somewhere already, such as with the Guggenheim_Museum. So I tried adding a link to Antisymmetric on the Antisymmetry page (added the third link) - did I get it right? -Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 03:22, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
- Those both happen to be problematic pages (math dabs are always a headache, Guggenheim is a problem because the link may intentionally refer to multiple museums associated with the same family). Let's start with something more clear-cut - try Northern Pride, which has only three links on the page. Go there and click "What links here" to see what pages are linking to that disambiguation page. Then limit the view to those in article space. Those are pages with a link needing to be fixed. If you go to those pages, you should be able to find a link to "Northern Pride", which needs to be corrected to point to the right Northern Pride. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:56, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
- I think I got it! Thanks for the extra instruction! I need to turn in for the day but will try another list (I looked at Elizabeth and wasn't sure if it might be a bit of an overwhelming list for me - how do you all know whenthe links have all been fixed? I suppose I'll learn the tools as I get more into it all!) Thank you! -Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 04:55, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
- Those both happen to be problematic pages (math dabs are always a headache, Guggenheim is a problem because the link may intentionally refer to multiple museums associated with the same family). Let's start with something more clear-cut - try Northern Pride, which has only three links on the page. Go there and click "What links here" to see what pages are linking to that disambiguation page. Then limit the view to those in article space. Those are pages with a link needing to be fixed. If you go to those pages, you should be able to find a link to "Northern Pride", which needs to be corrected to point to the right Northern Pride. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:56, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Try this - go to Princeton, and click "What links here". Near the top of the page, go to the "Namespace" field and select "(Article)", then click "Go". You can see now that there are many links, but most point to Princeton (disambiguation). These are okay, since that redirect indicates that they are intentionally pointing to the disambiguation page. You can see the two links that are not redirects, and are not in the indented section under Princeton (disambiguation). Go to those pages and fix those links (both easy fixes, 90% of the time when someone links Princeton they intend Princeton University). Once you have fixed them, go refresh the "(Article)" selection on the "What links here" page for Princeton, and you will see that nothing is left that links to it outside of that redirect. A page is done for disambiguation purposes when the only incoming links are redirects and links to the "Foo (disambiguation)" link. bd2412 T 17:11, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
- I think I finally got it! Let me see if I can go it alone on my next editing try - I'll start with the main list and see if I can self-select and figure it out (finally :D) --Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 21:12, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- Excellent. Be aware, however, that there are some easy pages, and some disambig hornets nests. It usually does not take long to figure out when a particular disambig is one or the other of those. Where you come across one, never fear to ask for help on the appropriate Wikiproject (I leave notes for the math people all the time, and for the Catholicism project for the countless "Saint"-something disambiguation pages). Happy hunting! bd2412 T 21:30, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Western honey bee copyedit
Hi, Rachel. Are you still planning to copyedit this article? All the best, Miniapolis 20:31, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Mini - I'm really sorry; I haven't any edits to this yet. I'll respond on the Copy Editing page. Please accept my apologies! --Rachel.dicerbo (talk) 19:32, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- No apology needed, Rachel, and thanks for your help; I'll take a break from Sherlock Holmes and do it. Welcome to the GOCE and all the best, Miniapolis 02:16, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Rachel, Here's a link to some tools which I find helpful: User:Rosiestep/Tools. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:57, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- Never followed up on this - thank you so much! I ended up adding an ISBN citation :) --rachel (talk) 17:23, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks
Thank you for helping organize that outstanding edit-a-thon yesterday. It was a pleasure meeting you. If you ever need the perspective of an experienced editor, feel free to ask. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 19:52, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Cullen328 - so sorry I missed this message! Thank you so much for attending. I actually would like to put you in touch with the mobile team at the Foundation if that would be OK with you - considering you were editing on mobile I think it would be great to speak with you about your experience! Could I put you in touch with my team member? Cheers, rachel (talk) 20:30, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, and a photo for you
Thanks again. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
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VisualEditor News #4—2015
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You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.
Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).
Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
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.
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- 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.
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GOCE August 2015 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors August 2015 Newsletter
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VisualEditor update
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The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.
This action has not changed anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab is still after the “Edit source” one. You can learn more at the visual editor’s talk page.
We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
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October 2015 GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors October 2015 Newsletter
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VisualEditor News #5—2015
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Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".
The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
Educational features: The first time you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and Cite tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.
Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.
Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.
Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use the visual editor on any size of device. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.
Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227 and T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.
On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.
Future changes
You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
- 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, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
- Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
- The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. 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, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.
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VisualEditor News #6—2015
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A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.
The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
Future changes
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing tabs".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)
Testing opportunities
- Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
- Remember my last editor,
- Always give me the visual editor if possible,
- Always give me the wikitext editor, and
- Show me both editor tabs. (This is the current state for people using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
- 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, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
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