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Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
1,205   Bihar (talk) Add sources
54   Bacha Khan International Airport (talk)     Add sources
66   Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram (talk)           Add sources
10   Harihara II (talk)           Add sources
1,383   Madhya Pradesh (talk)   Add sources
771   Comparison of webmail providers (talk)     Add sources
1,074   Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (talk) Cleanup
192   The Purpose Driven Life (talk)         Cleanup
1,507   Adult Swim (talk) Cleanup
44   Timeline of Yahoo! (talk)   Expand
46   Sedki Sobhi (talk)         Expand
530   2014 Indian Premier League (talk)   Expand
38   Mahanubhava (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
235   Hindu nationalism (talk) Unencyclopaedic
50   Indian human spaceflight programme (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
6   Strongly correlated quantum spin liquid (talk)           Merge
513   Landing page (talk)         Merge
114   2011 Indian anti-corruption movement (talk) Merge
60   G. Madhavan Nair (talk)       Wikify
453   Christianity in India (talk) Wikify
42   Information sharing (talk)           Wikify
28   Business Connexion Group (talk)           Orphan
183   Money market in India (talk)         Orphan
56   Swell Radio (talk)           Orphan
20   Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan (talk)           Stub
14   IMS-1 (talk)           Stub
88   Criticism of Hinduism (talk)         Stub
29   Anjan Chatterjee (talk)           Stub
44   Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (talk)           Stub
29   Elections in Uttar Pradesh (talk)       Stub

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VisualEditor newsletter—July and August 2014

 

The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

 
Dialog boxes in VisualEditor have been re-designed to use action words instead of icons. This has increased the number of items that need to be translated. The user guide is also being updated.

The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.

  • Hidden HTML comments (notes visible to editors, but not to readers) can now be read, edited, inserted, and removed. A small icon (a white exclamation mark on a dot) marks the location of each comments. You can click on the icon to see the comment.
  • You can now drag and drop text and templates as well as images. A new placement line makes it much easier to see where you are dropping the item. Images can no longer be dropped into the middle of paragraphs.
  • All references and footnotes (<ref> tags) are now made through the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, including the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Insert" menu. The "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip⧽" is still added via the "Insert" menu.
  • When you add an image or other media file, you are now prompted to add an image caption immediately. You can also replace an image whilst keeping the original caption and other settings.
  • All tablet users visiting the mobile web version of Wikipedias will be able to opt-in to a version of VisualEditor from 14 August. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu.
  • The link tool has a new "Open" button that will open a linked page in another tab so you can make sure a link is the right one.
  • The "Cancel" button in the toolbar has been removed based on user testing. To cancel any edit, you can leave the page by clicking the Read tab, the back button in your browser, or closing the browser window without saving your changes.

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.

Feedback opportunities

The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30.

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at the VisualEditor feedback page or by joining the office hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2014)

 
Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the leading ghost story writers of the nineteenth century
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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2014)

 
A historical map of West Africa from 1707
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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

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Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
2,229   Partition of India (talk) Add sources
85   Kinnaur district (talk)     Add sources
35   Ministry of Textiles (talk)         Add sources
55   History of Madhya Pradesh (talk)         Add sources
312   V. P. Singh (talk) Add sources
67   Vasudev Balwant Phadke (talk)     Add sources
2,491   Oracle Corporation (talk) Cleanup
551   Intuit (talk) Cleanup
254   Skype Technologies (talk) Cleanup
926   I, Robot (film) (talk)     Expand
796   2014–15 FA Cup Qualifying Rounds (talk)     Expand
3   Amrabad (talk)           Expand
303   ReCAPTCHA (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
12,508   2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (talk) Unencyclopaedic
41   Reverse Turing test (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
68   Shalivahana era (talk)           Merge
28   Kirata (talk)           Merge
1,703   Mitochondrion (talk) Merge
210   Indian settlement systems (talk)     Wikify
7   Hastividyarnava (talk)           Wikify
1,929   Dell (talk) Wikify
15   Magine (talk)           Orphan
1   Penumalli Madhu (talk)           Orphan
58   Urjit Patel (talk)         Orphan
77   Ministry of Corporate Affairs (talk)           Stub
5   P. R. Rajan (talk)           Stub
140   Pusapati Ashok Gajapati Raju (talk)         Stub
18   Cartosat-2B (talk)       Stub
48   Ministry of Urban Development (talk)           Stub
7   Kantilal Bhuria (talk)           Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2014)

 
A solar flare erupts from the Sun, an example of solar activity.
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