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1,165	GM small-block engine (talk)	Add sources
524	W. Somerset Maugham (talk)	Add sources
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84	Chevrolet Deluxe (talk)	Cleanup
351	ISU-152 (talk)	Cleanup
674	Typhoon-class submarine (talk)	Cleanup
677	Volkswagen Golf Mk5 (talk)	Expand
318	Intel Turbo Boost (talk)	Expand
871	Hyundai Motor Company (talk)	Expand
435	Honda City (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
150	Mercury Sable (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
178	Type 97 Chi-Ha (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
944	Volkswagen Type 2 (talk)	Merge
17	Ford Retail Group (talk)	Merge
149	Chevrolet Monza (talk)	Merge
129	Energy-efficient driving (talk)	Wikify
205	Sturmgeschütz IV (talk)	Wikify
722	Opel (talk)	Wikify
1	Brennabor Juwel 8 (talk)	Orphan
1	Association of Friends of India and South Asia (talk)	Orphan
2	Aurora Apartment Hotel (talk)	Orphan
34	MG 5 (talk)	Stub
51	Toyota AE85 (talk)	Stub
46	Autoblog.com (talk)	Stub
12	Tim Kempton (talk)	Stub
87	Joy Air (talk)	Stub
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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

Traffic report: Inner Core

News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

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359	Saab 900 (talk)	Add sources
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179	Fuck You (CeeLo Green song) (talk)	Cleanup
154	Sunbeam Alpine (talk)	Cleanup
375	Isuzu Motors (talk)	Cleanup
226	Kia Soul (talk)	Expand
256	Mercedes-Benz C-Class (W202) (talk)	Expand
534	Pontiac Grand Prix (talk)	Expand
1,364	Chevrolet C/K (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
118	Hardcore (electronic dance music genre) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
409	Honda Civic (seventh generation) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
88	Pontiac G5 (talk)	Merge
99	Toyota Cresta (talk)	Merge
439	Chevrolet Colorado (talk)	Merge
43	Autobianchi Y10 (talk)	Wikify
16	Nissan Sway (talk)	Wikify
397	Panzer II (talk)	Wikify
86	Arden Hayes (talk)	Orphan
3	Ahodwo, Kumasi (talk)	Orphan
2	Anjumani-shuara (talk)	Orphan
236	Lexus RC (talk)	Stub
6	TechArt 997 Turbo (talk)	Stub
81	ADGZ (talk)	Stub
109	AWD (vehicle) (talk)	Stub
13	Sioux Falls Police Department (talk)	Stub
48	Shelby Charger (talk)	Stub

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June 2015 Wikification drive.

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the June drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) "A wiki of beauty is a joy forever." Seriously. That's how long it'd take to read! (talk) 04:53, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

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

The link tool has been re-designed:

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

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

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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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out

Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition

Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia

Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings

Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013

In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim

Traffic report: A rather ordinary week

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief

Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity

In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel

Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am

Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only

Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

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544	Windows 10 editions (talk)	Add sources
342	AMX-13 (talk)	Add sources
64	Rebadging (talk)	Add sources
80	St. Bonaventure University (talk)	Add sources
1,819	Honda Accord (talk)	Add sources
729	Opel Corsa (talk)	Add sources
331	T29 Heavy Tank (talk)	Cleanup
76	Volvo 440/460 (talk)	Cleanup
44	TVR T350 (talk)	Cleanup
160	History of the transistor (talk)	Expand
70	Monroney sticker (talk)	Expand
642	Chevrolet Malibu (talk)	Expand
375	Turbo-Hydramatic (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
103	Subaru Legacy (first generation) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,539	Catalytic converter (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
291	Chevrolet Vega (talk)	Merge
156	Active suspension (talk)	Merge
346	Toyota Chaser (talk)	Merge
769	American Gods (talk)	Wikify
559	Electronic stability control (talk)	Wikify
174	Subaru Legacy (third generation) (talk)	Wikify
3	Honda TRX 700XX (talk)	Orphan
1	Karvajal Designs (talk)	Orphan
14	Jaguar C-XF (talk)	Orphan
27	Automobile (magazine) (talk)	Stub
107	Brembo (talk)	Stub
119	Abrasion (geology) (talk)	Stub
22	Eagle Vista (talk)	Stub
8	SEAT Bolero (talk)	Stub
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