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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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Food science


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Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)Opt-out instructionsReply

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

Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

February 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors February 2015 Newsletter
 

 

Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 38 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We were able to remove August 2013 from the general copyediting backlog and November 2014 from the request-page backlog. Many thanks, everyone!

Blitz: The February Blitz will run from February 15–21 and again focuses on the requests page. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one request article. Sign up here!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2015)

 
Empire Field, stadium made with temporary structures, cheaper than permanent.
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Stadium


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Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:16, 9 February 2015 (UTC)Opt-out instructionsReply

16:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations#DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered → Dbak (alternative only, no direct move)

  You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations#DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered → Dbak (alternative only, no direct move). Thanks! Sorry, elderly, confused etc etc :) Thanks. DBaK (talk) 20:26, 10 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Sheesh, blimey, sorry, I didn't know that Please See flavour of tb did all that "join the discussion" weeble. I'll stick to plain old vanilla next time! :) DBaK (talk) 20:29, 10 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
lolwut.
Yeah, {{Ping}} is sometimes better than a talkback template. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 20:53, 10 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Glenn Ogura page

Hello, is there anyway for me to know why my page about Glenn Ogura was flagged for a conflict of interest. I have absolutely no link or affiliation with him other than being a fan of his book. I also feel that I have a significant number of sources cited, but there are also flags for that. I would like to have this moved to the draft namespace for the time being until I can sort out these issues. Some direction as to the reasons for these flags would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Gdesigner1 (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gdesigner1 (talkcontribs) 21:27, 10 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Some other friendly editors have responded on your own talk page. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 02:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 11 February 2015

Name usurpation

Thank you very much for your help with this. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 19:37, 12 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Response to recent message, re: Cranbrook Elementary School

K6ka - I received the following message from you within the past hour: Hello, I'm K6ka. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Cranbrook Elementary School, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. K6ka (talk | contribs) 21:34, 15 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

As an IT professional, I couldn't help but be curious. I've been very much a bit player myself on Wikipedia, having only (one time) corrected a grammatical construction in a contribution separate and apart from the aforementioned one for Cranbrook Elementary School. I'm sure that I have never been in the least familiar with this school, and I'm equally sure that I never contributed to this particular reference section, and my historical contributions as recognized by Wikipedia corroborate this.

Nevertheless, I did indeed move to Columbus, OH only two weeks ago (also the location of that particular school), which I take to be more than coincidental. Is it perhaps possible that you identified the contributor by IP address - an addressing scheme that doesn't always positively identify an individual? Shorter version - I'm sure your message to me was actually intended for someone else.

Regards - Thenekkidtruth (talk) 14:42, 14 February 2015 (UTC)ThenekkidtruthReply

@Thenekkidtruth: Hi. IP addresses can and do change owners over time. Doing an IP lookup reveals that the IP address (24.145.144.196) is a dynamic IP address, which means it can change owners very frequently. More than likely the person who made the edit is no longer assigned this IP address, and this IP went to you instead, which is why you saw the message. Just ignore the message, especially considering it is over a year old now. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 14:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! Thenekkidtruth (talk) 15:14, 14 February 2015 (UTC)ThenekkidtruthReply

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2015)

 
Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Ice cream parlour


Previous selections: Stadium • Food science


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Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:27, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Opt-out instructionsReply

17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

cb25

Hi, thanks for noting the broken direct quote on the Inconvenient Truth page. I actually left the " in the wrong place. However, I have now edited it to a simpler version to balance the perspective and points about the IT page.

Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cb25 (talkcontribs) 04:32, 17 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 18 February 2015

GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2015 Newsletter
 

 

Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 21 people who signed up, eight copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: The blitz removed 16 articles from the requests list, and we're almost done with December 2014. Many thanks, everyone!

Drive: The month-long March drive begins in about a week. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

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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Trailer Trash


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Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:55, 23 February 2015 (UTC)Opt-out instructionsReply

16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2015