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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor update

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)

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FYI [6] NE Ent 01:53, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

@NE Ent: Ooh, finally we have a truly important day for all mankind! Marshmallow fluff for everyone! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 04:29, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi! A summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. It mostly follows the lead section; how does it look? - Dank (push to talk) 02:04, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

@Dank: Thank you for for being interested in something I shined up! The blurb you've put together looks pretty comprehensive, but I am a little concerned about putting a BLP about a crime involving children on the main page, particularly when the article subject has contested the verdict(s) levied against her (which is why I avoided nominating it for TFA back when it passed FAC). I tend to fall on the cautious end of the BLP spectrum, so I may be worrying for nothing and it would actually be fine for the main page, but is there a way to get some community input beyond you and me on whether people feel it's appropriate to feature or whether putting it front and center may be unfair to or exploitative of Ms Green? I'm fairly ignorant of TFA practices/standards, so I may be overlooking some obvious discussion space there... A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 04:37, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll pull in Chris here ... I just write the summary; he selects the articles this month. Note that I removed the names of the children from the summary ... another thing we could do would be to remove the names from the lead section. The Main Page gets 10M hits a day, but the articles linked to rarely get more than 20K hits on their Main Page day, and only a small percentage of those readers will get to the third or fourth section of the article. - Dank (push to talk) 12:32, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
  • Dan's right about the raw numbers, and if the privacy of the children is a concern their names could be removed from the lead. We have previously run crime articles related to minors: Disappearance of Natalee Holloway (which ran before she was legally declared dead), the Jena Six, Murder of Leigh Leigh (in which BLP still applies to the perpetrators and family of the victim). Admittedly in none of the cases was the person convicted of the crime still arguing their innocence, but there would still have been the possibility of BLP issues when they ran. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:12, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks Geraldshields11, I replied last night to the email you sent yesterday. If you've sent me another since then, I don't think I got it. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 12:53, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Wednesday October 28, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project!

We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, to see if the chapter is able to fiscally sponsor more ongoing projects tied to our core mission of expanding and diversifying free knowledge.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 17:44, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Bonus events, RSVP now for our latest upcoming editathons:

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015

October 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2015 Newsletter

September drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 25 editors who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

October blitz: The one-week October blitz, targeting requests, has just concluded. Of the nine editors who signed up, seven copyedited at least one request; check your talk page for your barnstar!

The month-long November drive, focusing on our oldest backlog articles (June, July, and August 2014) and the October requests, is just around the corner. Hope to see you there!

Thanks again for your support; together, we can improve the encyclopedia! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis and Pax85.

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

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?
You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Screenshot showing the menu for switching from the wikitext editor to VisualEditor

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 ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ 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. (T74108T91285) 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 Images and 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

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Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:16, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Personal Attacks

You are not going to block Giano for making personal attacks against GorillaWarfare. He can get away after calling GorillaWarfare as Militant Female Editor here :

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&diff=prev&oldid=687546780 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.39.38.106 (talk) 07:11, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Your SinglePageAC

Hello. It seems that you are also transcluding the Questions pages into a single userpage.

Since all these pages are poorly programmed, the categories also are transcluded. And your userpages are appearing in the Main:categories. This can be cured by protecting the category by a pair noinclude.../noinclude in the original mainpage. I will do that for the current problem. Feel free to do the same if the problem reappears. Pldx1 (talk) 23:03, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

D'oh. I fixed that for the Statements pages the first day, but didn't think to look further to the Questions pages. Thank you for cleaning up, Pldx1! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 03:33, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Two options for this Sunday: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for one of two edit-a-thons this Sunday, just bring your laptop and an interest in participating!

No special knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia knowledge is required, and there will be Wikipedia training workshops for new folks.


Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon @ Center for Jewish History

  • 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
  • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Sun Nov 22

Join at the Center for Jewish History (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the American Soviet Jewry movement.


Women In Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences

  • 7 World Trade Center - 40th Floor
  • 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Sun Nov 22

Join at the NY Academy of Sciences, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women scientists. Note that seating is limited for the Women in Science event, as well as signing up on-wiki, please RSVP by email.


Bonus event:

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:50, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Oversight question

Sorry to drag you into wiki-politics (context is [50] and my talk) but could you address claims that the oversight team would refuse to suppress an editor's a) a date of birth, or b) zip code posted onwiki without their consent? Thanks. NE Ent 10:38, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi NE Ent. As you of course know, we can't discuss individual oversight cases publicly, so I can't go into detail about what may or may not have been oversighted in a specific case, but I will say that I can't remember the last time we declined to oversight either a DOB or a zip code. There are of course hypothetical cases I can think of where we might not have - mostly of the "I know it's sourced in my article, but I don't *like* it!" type - but assuming a good faith oversight request and a reasonable case for it being not-already-sourced-and-public, my sense is that it would be pretty unusual for the OS team to decline such a request. However, it is also true that the majority of oversight requests are actioned by individual oversighters based on their own judgment of how that case matches the criteria, and each oversighter interprets the criteria slightly differently. So I can't say that it's impossible that such a request was declined and I didn't see it go past, but if that happened I would be very interested in having the OS team review it so that we can attempt to standardize among ourselves (and I would urge anyone concerned about such a case to ask us to do that, because if we can't even present a coherent explanation to our users about what we can/can't do, they're going to find it very difficult to know if we can help them when they need us). A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:26, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Wednesday December 9, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project!

We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:38, 4 December 2015 (UTC)


Bonus events, RSVP now for our upcoming editathons:

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

The Signpost: 02 December 2015

17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 December 2015

17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)