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VisualEditor News #3—2015

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Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

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

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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

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  • 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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Your citation revision at Cawthorne (surname)

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Hello, the edits you did at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cawthorne_%28surname%29&type=revision&diff=665757609&oldid=665714667 , you described this as fixing citations. However, this was not a fix - the citation was not broken; it was a change to match your user preference of which parameters to use. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 20:48, 6 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Ceyockey: Look again. I changed |page 166 to |page=166, which fixes a citation error. The parameter choice is trivial and doesn't, in this case, change the way the citation is rendered in practice. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 00:26, 7 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thank you

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For the ref fix, I've used that book before and I forget it does that! I appreciate you watching my back!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 03:41, 10 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Mike Searson: Glad to help! :) I'm actually double-guessing myself now because the places I looked are inconsistent on the formatting of the title, and I don't see many using slashes as I did. We could actually use pipe symbols within the citation templates if we write them in the source as HTML entities, i.e. |. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 04:22, 10 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

This Month in GLAM: May 2015

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Template attempt, JSTOR number

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Hello Nihiltres. Thanks for fixing Template:Cite doi/10.2307.2F353387, which I assume someone will delete some time or other... if I may ask, where did you find the JSTOR number, and how useful is adding it deemed to be these days? • ArchReader 23:21, 20 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

I first recognized the "#" in "10#07/353387" as being likely an artifact of improper encoding, and guessed the decoding as ".23" ("#" is percent-encoded to "%23"). Then, to confirm, I visited the fixed DOI. I realized that the target of the DOI was JSTOR, so I added the JSTOR number (the number in the URL) as a hedge against further issues with the DOI. I haven't paid too much attention to what's "deemed to be important" in citations. I generally view more information as being valuable than less: each available identifier usually makes the citation more resilient to link rot. It's also nice to make the connection—previously hidden in the DOI—more obvious to the reader. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 00:41, 21 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
...how did you realize that the target of the DOI was JSTOR? • ArchReader 04:03, 21 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
I successfully guessed the correction needed and followed the DOI by prefixing http://dx.doi.org/ to it. It led me to JSTOR. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 04:50, 21 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
Many thanks for all your help & info. :-) • ArchReader 05:08, 21 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

ISBN fixes

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I would like to thank you for the ISBN fixes you do. There are a few more ISBN errors around if you could help us. Please check:

-- Magioladitis (talk) 07:21, 24 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Magioladitis: I've used the Check Wikipedia resources a bit—I'll probably use them more from here on out. I'm most of the way through development of a tool that helps deal with ISBNs (the prototype works but needs lots of polishing)—possibly that may prove helpful? {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 23:31, 24 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
Yes, this is very useful. I wonder whether the community would like a bot that will fix ISBN hyphenation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:14, 25 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Why do your edits show up as 'pending changes'?

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I just reviewed your edits to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant one by one, to make them visible. Then I find you are a sysop with much more en.wiki experience than me! Wikipedia:Reviewing says that "Administrators automatically have reviewer rights." Yet your changes were not "automatically accepted" as mine are. Do you know why? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:54, 1 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Hroðulf: The article had previous unreviewed edits when I made mine, so reviewing mine would review those implicitly: I received the option to review my changes as I made them. I neglected to review all the pending changes because I'm not particularly familiar with the topic. If the latest versions had been already accepted, then my changes would have been automatically accepted. {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 20:39, 1 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

This Month in GLAM: June 2015

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Deletion of the page "Data LiveSaver"

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Hey ,

You delete my page 'Data LiveSaver'. The content of the page give no reasons to do this. There are several similar or more worst pages of data recovery software in this field. Please recover the page asap. I will prove the page and will make updates if it is necessary.

regards Dirk

I've restored it, since it was a proposed deletion. Two main points to be aware of:
  1. It could be pushed to Articles for Deletion, which is more binding than the proposed deletion already used. Be sure to improve the article to address the deletion rationale!
  2. "Other stuff exists" is a bad argument—those other pages probably ought to get fixed or deleted, too.
Cheers, {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 15:48, 17 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

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).

Screenshot showing the special character tool, selected text, and the special character that will be inserted


Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

Screenshot showing the special character tool and the same text after the special character has been inserted


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

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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

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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

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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

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  • 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 contact Elitre directly, so that she can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

This Month in GLAM: July 2015

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ISBN-fixing opportunity

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Frietjes has listed a few hundred pages with duplicate |isbn= parameters at User:Frietjes/findargdups/status#isbn. I have fixed about half of them (the easy half), and I thought you might be interested in helping with the rest. Frietjes will update the list later today, which should remove the half that I have fixed.

You can install a script that tells you which template has the duplicated parameter; see User:Frietjes/findargdups. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:03, 15 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Editor abusing their rollback privilege

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Hi, I came to your page via Category:Wikipedia_administrators_willing_to_grant_rollback_requests, and would like to request the removal of Gob Lofa rollback privilege due to abuse. They are using it to push their edits on articles, but more so just to revert my reverts of their contentious edits. None of the examples of their use of the rollback meet the requirement for their use and can be classified as edit-warring/pushing:

  • Used on 5 September to push an edit that was challenged back on 8 July, citing the talk page as if there is a consensus for their edit when none exists and despite the objections to their edit.
  • Used on 5 September to push an edit that I reverted back on 6 July. Once again they restored their inaccurate and unsourced opinion whilst at the same time removing sourced information. Another editor has since reverted them citing "original more accurate".
  • Used on 29 August to push an edit I reverted on 1 May with a highly misleading and uncivil edit summary, which anyone can see is clearly nonsense considering the reasoning I gave in my edit summary.
  • An older example is on 8 August when they used it on a revert I made on 7 August.

There are other examples further back and regardless of content dispute or whatever, or who is right or wrong, Gob Lofa is clearly misusing their rollback privilege to push their own agenda on articles and this is contrary to the principles of what the privilege is for. Mabuska (talk) 00:01, 6 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

(talk page stalker) @Mabuska: None of those edits involved the rollback privilege. I see some uses of the "undo" button and Twinkle rollback which is part of Twinkle, not an actual right, but none of those involve the actual rollback right, so you don't have much of a case here. If you want to argue that this user is being disruptive, go ahead and do so (so long as you use the proper forum), but I am afraid to say that removing rollback rights would not do anything to change this editor's behavior. Dustin (talk) 00:11, 6 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
So your saying there is actually a way of telling if the privilege was used on a specific reversion? I doubt it would change their behaviour anyways, however they do have the rollback privilege, yet if you can simply do it via "Twinkle", which I have enabled myself, then what would the purpose of anyone getting the rollback privilege even be? In fact just testing out the "undo" feature on my own user page, I see now how it works. Yet if they misuse the undo and Twinkle, how can they be trusted to use rollback itself properly? Mabuska (talk) 00:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
@Mabuska: Rollback edits are marked as minor and have edit summaries in the form "Reverted edits by PersonBeingRolledBack (talk) to last version by LastPersonWhoEditedBeforePersonBeingRolledBack". This is an example of me using rollback. Twinkle rollbacks will normally be marked with "(TW)", aren't as fast, and can have extra details added by the person using them. Uses of "undo" are marked with "Undid..." I hope that helps. Dustin (talk) 01:14, 6 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
Yep does indeed, thanks! Mabuska (talk) 13:55, 7 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

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Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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The Technical Barnstar
Thank you so much for you help! Jarodalien (talk) 07:35, 11 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

Got your email, fixed the filter

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Thanks! NawlinWiki (talk) 17:22, 11 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

This Month in GLAM: August 2015

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  • UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon
  • Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more
  • Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth
  • Wikidata report: Wikidata this month
  • Calendar: September's GLAM events



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Foreign affairs

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Hello - would you please recreate the special redirect at Foreign affairs (disambiguation) (redirect)? it's there intentionally, for statistical gathering purposes. If you have any questions about the redirect, please let me know. Thanks. Dohn joe (talk) 16:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Dohn joe: What can you do with the redirect that you can't do otherwise? I'd rather we avoided awkward redirects like that. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 16:38, 22 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
You can track the number of people who click on the hatnote. It's really the only way to do this (that I know of at least). It's a temporary thing, and essentially invisible to the reader. I can point you to other examples where this has been done if you'd like. Dohn joe (talk) 17:02, 22 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
@Dohn joe: Why is the statistic useful? {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 17:23, 22 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
There is an ongoing discussion at Talk:Foreign Affairs about where readers who search for "Foreign Affairs" on WP want to go. If a significant number of people coming to the Foreign Affairs article click on the hatnote to the disambiguation page, then it would be reasonable to point the title to the dab page or another article, and disambiguate the journal article. If only a few people click on the hatnote, that's good evidence that the current setup is preferable. Dohn joe (talk) 18:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
@Dohn joe: I agree that that's a good rationale. I guess … recreate it if you want, but please a) include an edit summary indicating its special purpose and b) make sure to remember to tag it G7 once you're done with it. :) {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 19:08, 22 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
Will do. I thought I included an edit summary the first time, but I'll clarify it. And maybe add a hidden comment in the article.... Dohn joe (talk) 01:30, 23 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
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VisualEditor update

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This note is only delivered to English Wikipedia subscribers of the visual editor's newsletter.

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)Reply

This Month in GLAM: September 2015

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