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The Signpost: 25 February 2015
- News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Gallery: Far from home
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
The Signpost: 25 February 2015
- News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Gallery: Far from home
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
The Center Line: Winter 2015
Volume 8, Issue 1 • Winter 2015 • About the Newsletter | ||
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Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS |
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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2015)
![]() There are many backup dancers accompanying the dances of the main dancer.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Trailer Trash • Ice cream parlour Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:58, 2 March 2015 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost: 04 March 2015
- From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
- Traffic report: Attack of the movies
- Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes
- Interview: Meet a paid editor
- Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2015)
![]() Turkish cuisine
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Backup dancer • Trailer Trash Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:26, 9 March 2015 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost: 11 March 2015
- Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey
- In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West
- Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time
- Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –
- Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters
This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2015)
Hello, Presidentman.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Cuisine • Backup dancer Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 03:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost: 18 March 2015
- From the editor: A salute to Pine
- Featured content: A woman who loved kings
- Traffic report: It's not cricket
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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2015)
![]() A antagonist is a character, group of characters, institution, or concept that stands in, or represents, opposition against which the protagonist(s) must contend.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Dinner • Cuisine Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:06, 23 March 2015 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy
- Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude
- Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014
- Traffic report: Oddly familiar
- Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes
The Bugle: Issue CVIII, March 2015
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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2015)
![]() A man garbage picking through a skip (dumpster)
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Antagonist • Dinner Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 30 March 2015 (UTC) • |
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Today's articles for improvement
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- Hello Presidentman:
- Please consider participating in this week's vote for TAFI's upcoming Week 17 collaboration. Last week's voting did not receive many participants. Thanks for your consideration. North America1000 16:23, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost, 1 April 2015
- In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
- Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
- Traffic report: All over the place
- Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015
The Signpost: 01 April 2015
- In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
- Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
- Traffic report: All over the place
- Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015
VisualEditor News #2—2015
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With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:
![Screenshot of Citoid's first dialog](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Citoid_in_VisualEditor_Screen_Shot_2015-04-02.png/230px-Citoid_in_VisualEditor_Screen_Shot_2015-04-02.png)
Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:
![Screenshot of Citoid's initial results](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Citoid_results_in_VisualEditor_Screen_Shot_2015-04-02.png/230px-Citoid_results_in_VisualEditor_Screen_Shot_2015-04-02.png)
After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). 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. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.
Recent improvements
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. 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 improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this 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.
The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead (T90734).
Looking ahead
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.
The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.
Let's work together
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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2015)
![]() The wheel is one of the most famous and useful inventions in the history of technology
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Garbage picking • Antagonist Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:14, 6 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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Today's articles for improvement
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- Hello Presidentman:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 18 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
The Signpost: 08 April 2015
- Traffic report: Resurrection week
- Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
- Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2015)
Hello, Presidentman.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: History of technology • Garbage picking Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:25, 13 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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Today's articles for improvement
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- Hello Presidentman:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 19 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
The Signpost: 15 April 2015
- Traffic report: Furious domination
This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2015)
![]() A satellite image demonstrating the Geography of Niger
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Aerophone • History of technology Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 20 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost: 22 April 2015
- In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
- Featured content: Vanguard on guard
- Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
- Gallery: The bitter end
Today's articles for improvement
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- Hello Presidentman:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 20 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Today's articles for improvement
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- Hello Presidentman:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 21 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
The Bugle: Issue CIX, April 2015
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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2015)
![]() Hydroelectric dams use hydropower to generate electricity
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Geography of Niger • Aerophone Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 27 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost: 29 April 2015
- Featured content: Another day, another dollar
- Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
- Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy
- Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates
Today's articles for improvement
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- Hello Presidentman:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 22 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2024)
Hello, Presidentman.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Hydropower • Geography of Niger Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 00:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost: 06 May 2015
- News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
- Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
- Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
- Traffic report: The grim ship reality
Today's articles for improvement
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- Hello Presidentman:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 23 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2015)
![]() The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply much of the food and food energy consumed by the world population.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:07, 11 May 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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The Signpost: 13 May 2015
- Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
- Traffic report: Round Two
- In the media: Grant Shapps story continues
- Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2015)
![]() Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried.
Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth
The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Previous selections: Food industry • Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC) • |
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Today's articles for improvement
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- Hello Presidentman:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 24 of 2015. Thanks for participating!