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VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

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


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


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.

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Your GA nomination of CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tomandjerry211 -- Tomandjerry211 (talk) 12:00, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

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All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 02:09, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder

The article CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tomandjerry211 -- Tomandjerry211 (talk) 23:00, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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Invite

A Barnstar!
Please participate
There's a voting going on here. It needs to close, but consensus is not certain. We need more participation. The issues can't remain without a resolution. Please, check it out. Closure of the discussion has started. (refresh) Please, hurry. 78.149.193.255 (talk) 16:20, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder

The article CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tomandjerry211 -- Tomandjerry211 (talk) 22:21, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from March 2015

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WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by India The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Belarus Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:53, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Highlights from April 2015

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re: Barnstar

Thank you! One of the most important cricket tours of recent years. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 18:42, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Yup. A sensation here in Pakistan. Faizan (talk) 18:51, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
I can imagine. I found it staggering that only 5 players in the squad had played a home international match before today. Hopefully the start of great things. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 18:54, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Pakistani Air Forces

Hello,Since I Was To Know That Was No Relible Sorces in PAF Iventory,As Far aS i Know That.JF-17 Deliverys In This Year is 59 Aircraft.85 F-16s,All Are Increase Expert J-7PG.I Hope You Will Apologize.175.141.22.214 (talk) 10:02, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

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Some delete/edit contents in bahawalnagar page

Hassam din (talk) 20:59, 2 June 2015 (UTC)hassam din I delete some contents in bahawalnagar city page because they have no reference under the title of "notable person" While in delete with title "unrest" because it was too old and moreover, it is only based on politics foundation

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

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

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


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.
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Kashmir Conflict

Sir, kindly see the last few edits for non neutral behavior of few editors on elected chief minister Mufti giving credit to Pakistan on sucessfull election. Regards 115.186.146.225 (talk) 09:00, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from May 2015

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visit @ Talk:Battle of Longewala

visit @ Talk:Battle of Longewala KnightWarrior25 (talk) 11:50, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Help me

hello! what's the use of Sandbox , can you please tell me! KnightWarrior25 (talk) 08:43, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

KnightWarrior25, the Sandbox is a place for you to experiment with Wikipedia editing in an appropriate environment. RegistryKey(RegEdit) 09:03, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

thank you very much! @ RegistryKey(RegEdit) — Preceding unsigned comment added by KnightWarrior25 (talk • contribs) 09:12, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

IPs Pushing POV

Need your comments on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bangladesh_Liberation_War#What.27s_up_with_the_recent_IP_Edits.3F, please.PakSol talk 08:39, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

How to post the diff of reverts with time/date and comments of the editor who have caused the revert here —PakSol talk 18:01, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

An editor is blocked if he makes upto four reverts in an article. If you think that IP made 4 or 4+ reverts, then you can use the "ARV" under the Twinkle tab, but I would request you to stay calm, even if you are right, stay away from AN, you are already reported, eh? Faizan (talk) 18:06, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Your warning for 'vandalism' on Gulf War

Hello. IP 82.11.33.86's edit on Gulf War was not vandalism, just a simple content dispute. Issuing vandalism warnings to 'opponents' in content disputes is abusing warning templates, and is totally unacceptable, so don't do it again. Thomas.W talk 16:38, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

I am sorry, I clicked on the wrong button. That was not deliberate. I ought to warn him for removal of content instead. Faizan (talk) 16:40, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

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Your edit summary

No, it's not harassment, I've posted the same discretionary sanctions notice on the talk page of all editors in this sudden flare-up who, from what I could see, hadn't already been given such notice, including The last Watch. Thomas.W talk 17:41, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Thomas.W But It was just a repetition, I had received that notice two years ago. Secondly you did not log these warnings. Yeah, The last watch has recently created account, as you know, but was not warned. Faizan (talk) 17:58, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
A) An automated search in your talk page history, which is how it's done, returned nothing (it wouldn't matter anyway since a notice that is two years old is too old, and should be renewed). B) Discretionary sanctions notices are logged automatically nowadays (since May of last year), and not manually entered into a log. C) The last Watch was indeed given a discretionary sanctions notice. D) I always treat both sides fairly and equally in a conflict, always have and always will. Thomas.W talk 18:17, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
I didn't say you were biased towards a specific editor. Anyway, Cheers. Faizan (talk) 18:25, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Acceptable compromise.

I find your change to the 14-15 border skirmish article acceptable, however dispute that it "needs to be talked about". The article should remain neutral, not push a narrative.65.209.62.115 (talk) 02:48, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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Adminship

And it's an honor to have been supported by you. Thanks very much for placing your trust in me; I shall do my best to be worthy of it. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:30, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Chatr logo.png

A tag has been placed on File:Chatr logo.png requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 14:28, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Bissell Logo.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Bissell Logo.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 14:32, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Replied here. Faizan (talk) 16:47, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the award "Barn Star" to me

Thanks Faizan for encouragement!This Barn Star you awarded me, will enhance my contributions to Wikipedia.Zarghun11 (talk) 13:17, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Thankyou for mine too, sorry I just noticed when archiving! Faizan, I'd like to get a Pakistan-related article up to GA. I think it's time we had more quality articles on Pakistan. Any suggestions? I was thinking something like Islamabad, that would be an achievement wouldn't it? I'd be happy to work with you on something. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:27, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld: Thank you Sir! I am on an education wiki-break, and it would take some months for me to be fully active again after my exams. I suggest we work on the article Pakistan too. It would be an honour to work with you. You are an ideal example of commitment and dedication to building the encyclopedia. Faizan (talk) 16:54, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

--Tag Teaming (talk) 04:15, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Note I have removed this section from ANI due to it being posted through the inappropriate use of an alternate account. Whoever "Tag Teaming" is can use their regular account to make such posts. Chillum 04:27, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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PAF roll back is non neutral

This article has factual discrepancies. The article was corrected of dead links and added more independent researched numbers. Ironically the article has become more non-neutral to a user by your rolled back edits. Are more independent research papers giving out figures not acceptable than websites with no referenced figures? [1]1971 war witnessed the most action by PAF yet it has the smallest space given? It makes me wonder. You rightly said "Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view" yet I see it more as Pakistani side of view. 2008 air alert:- You edit the article and write "...after Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee threatened Pakistani President" and yet provide the reference where it is reported as hoax.

I am amused by the explanation given out to roll back the edits as being neutral which itself either suppresses the information or gives out only one side of the view. That being said I am undoing the roll back for the neutrality of the article. Zenoxas (talk) 10:15, 4 July 2015 (UTC)zenoxas

Welcome to Wikipedia. Regarding the edit, I in fact restored the figures from the concerned Wikipedia article on the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Further discussion to take place at the article's talk. Opening a thread there. Faizan (talk) 10:24, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ http://orbat.info/cimh/iaf/IAF_1971_kills_rev1.pdf

India-Pakistan stand off

The article has now been protected from sock user WCIWS you can now revert back to pre edit war version. 2.218.42.208 (talk) 13:55, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Indian socks again WCIW,F-INSAS etc

Hi I have gathered information on several socks of user WCIWS look at his diffs [1] every single article he has edited has been edited the same way by this new sock account [2] this sock appeared when his original account (WCIW) was blocked for pov pushing notice how this account only make specific reverts based entirely on WCIW edits. Now this is his ip from Delhi [3] diffs show he used his ip earlier to vandalise the MM Alam article then when I reverted it his sock account F-INSAS came along with the SAME edit history please get rid of this vandal file a SPA I suspect the original to be Cosmicemperor or KnightWarrior25 both of which who were blocked indefinitely but first file under user WCIW get his sock ip and his new sock account F-INSAS he will make more but atleast we can protect the article from his vomit inducing pov. Freebuzzle1 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:55, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015

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Eid Greetings

This auspicious moment comes once in a year
And makes us happy
And gives us the chance
To revitalize our commitments
To each other.
Wishing you and your family the best of Almighty Allah's infinite grace. -AsceticRosé 17:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Faizan (talk) 17:32, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Human. Anyway, I am not sure. Faizan (talk) 16:04, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
I know you are an atheist, your user page has picture of Bhagat Singh who was a hardcore atheist and nationalist. You also have photo of Israel, and few people do have allergy with word "Israel". But it doesn't matters, I'm also atheist but I do wish people on various occasions. I think we should respect all religions and nations. I think you are a liberal person and thats good for humanity and Wikipedia. --Human3015 knock knock • 06:19, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Punjab solar summit 2015

Hi , plz make changes to article actualy i am not promoting this article.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AshokaChadha (talk • contribs) 03:13, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

The article could be improved to make it encyclopedic but I am also concerned with its notability. A Google search did not give any reliable source implying non-notability; although I found a government press release. Anyway, it has been speedy deleted. Faizan (talk) 09:05, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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Appreciation

For which work you have appreciated me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreenCricket (talk • contribs) 09:43, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

For your overall contributions, Good work! We need more participants active at WP:PAK. Consider joining? Faizan (talk) 15:43, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello

The changes I made for the article "Battle of Sarrin" have been reverted. I assume this is so because the source "SOHR" is deemed unreliable? Or is there another reason?

Greetings.

Thunderlips11 (talk) 12:41, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

@Thunderlips11: Hi. No, in your edit to Battle of Sarrin (March–April 2015), you did not cite any source. Actually, this battle took place in several phases, the latest and decisive of which was June–July 2015. As YPG defeated the Islamic State in July, we cannot say that YPG defeated IS during March–April 2015 as the battle remained indecisive. The current article has been updated. Faizan (talk) 14:08, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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Regarding Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite

Dear Faizan, You have edited the launch vehicle section of the page Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite. You have mentioned the launch vehicle as a Shaheen-III which actually is a ballistic missile and not a satellite launch vehicle but more importantly no source was provided for the claim. Moreover Long Range Launch tracker of Spaceflight101 mentions the launch vehicle of PRSS as a Chinese one in it's 2016/17 section though the exact model is unknown as of now.

http://www.spaceflight101.com/long-range-launch-tracker.html Warrior Covert (talk) 13:06, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

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Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. 

In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.  

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

  • Share your ideas and ask questions at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help.
  • If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
  • Please file requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
  • The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in July 2015.
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The Signpost: 12 August 2015

Wishes

Happy Independence Day

Hi Faizan, Wish you Happy Independence Day. --Human3015Send WikiLove  08:46, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For your tireless contributions on stub pages started by me and other Pakistani wikipedians. Umais Bin Sajjad (talk) 11:26, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

RFPP

I'll look, but no promises - I'm a relatively green admin, still, so I'm sort of slowly feeling my way around. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:10, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

As I say, I'll have a look - will have to be later as I'm getting ready to head out. I'll let you know later tonight, though. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:15, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
OK, I am watching your talk-page. Faizan (talk) 20:16, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

Notice

Discussion involving you is going on WP:ANI HERE. --Human3015Send WikiLove  21:16, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

September 2015

Stop icon with clock
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.  CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 08:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Faizan (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I am a bit disappointed with the block. I want to make the background of the block known to the reviewing admin. I was blocked for this edit on Afghan Jalebi (Ya Baba) after I notified the blocking admin. I was not involved in that article, but as it had been nominated for deletion, I made my comment there via WP:DELSORTPAK, and in my single edit to the article, I did not "repeatedly override" the edits of the opposing editor. The removed text was heavily discussed at the AfD and there was no consensus to instate the chart, so being an uninvolved editor, I thought restoring the article to pre-dispute version per WP:ONUS would be fine for now till the AfD ends with consensus. I request to be unblocked, I returned from a Wikibreak two days ago and was making constructive edits and had no plans of turning my edit into an edit-war. I accept the responsibility for what I did and I do undertake that I will avoid even a single revert in contentious case like this one in the future and will be more prudent. I made up to 1000 edits with AWB in the past 24 hours. Given the quality of my contributions, I think I should be unblocked and given a chance. I will leave the article alone, If someone has a question, I am willing to answer it below.Faizan (talk) 09:44, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I am really sorry that I blocked you. It was an error on my part and you should have never been blocked at all. For some reason I confused your name with another editor. One again I am sorry about the block. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 20:28, 1 September 2015 (UTC)


Desi daru was created by Human3015, you moved the page to Desi Sharaab. Google hits give 6,60,000 for Desi daru and 5,51,000 for Desi sharaab. Human3015 filed an SPI against you recently. You even reverted Human3015's edit Afghan jalebi page for which Human3015 got blocked. Are you following Human3015's edits? Aero Slicer 10:33, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
I did not move the article on the basis of "Google hits", I provided another rationale. Anyway, I don't want to discuss it further and I have already said that I will not touch this issue again. I don't follow anybody's edits, I have a watchlist of 10,000 and I followed it via Delsort. Faizan (talk) 15:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
@Aero Slicer:Thanks for this. Still I regret that moment when I plunged into this article's history. Faizan (talk) 16:25, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

You might want to stay away from Human3015's contribution's other than India-Pakistan conflicts. Articles created by Human3015 as Desi daru or Afghan Jalebi. Aero Slicer 16:33, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

I will. I myself am under great stress these days, I want to avoid edit-warring. Faizan (talk) 16:35, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
@CambridgeBayWeather: - Please reconsider the block please? That was my first block and probably Human's second. Still, I was blocked for 48 hours. Nevertheless, I have taken the responsibility of my edits above in my unblock request, and I have undertaken not to repeat that. Faizan (talk) 18:04, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
@CambridgeBayWeather: I am thankful to you for the unblock. Anyway, the block was not without a lesson. Hopefully, now I can continue the edits which I could not perform 12 hours ago. Faizan (talk) 20:35, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2015 Chattanooga shootings

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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Scotland Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Philadelphia Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

  1. Belarus Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
  2. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
  3. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
  4. Somerset Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
  5. Washington, D.C. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
  6. Somerset Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
  7. United States Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
  8. England Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Requesting your input

Greetings sir,

I'm seeking your input regarding the starter class article on G.A.Parwez, within the wiki-project Pakistan scope. It is a controversial topic so I've collected twenty 3rd party mainstream sources, on which the discussion is on-going currently at: [4]. I would like to build a consensus on the sources/content before I edit the main page. Your contribution of an opinion, as a very experienced editor within the project-scope, will be greatly appreciated. I hope you can spare some time for this. Thank you.

Code16 ... Logic Bomb ! 15:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

OK, I will look at this and give my comment. Faizan (talk) 15:31, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Thank you again sir for your suggestions/advice & encouragement, much appreciated. cӨde1+6 L o g i c B o m b ! 19:25, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
You are Welcome! Feel free to ping me in future too. Faizan (talk) 19:31, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 September 2015

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
It a kindness Barnstar for you. Sagardev1998 (talk) 02:12, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Harshhussey. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, 2016 Pakistan Super League, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Harsh 03:32, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Invitation

Greetings sir, I'd like to invite you to check out the new page I created: Ideas and Contributions of Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, resulting from the discussion/advice/suggestions from all the editors involved in the Parwez discussion. We have a strong consensus on all the major issues now. The bio page and this newly created page are both in a stable state and on the path towards growth, on account of everyone's contributions. cӨde1+6 LogicBomb! 16:10, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

@Code16: I have made some fixes. In your WP:CUTPASTE try to move the article to Ideas of Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, you split the article's history. To fix it, I have reverted your manual move and have requested a non-controversial move at WP:RM. The administrator may move the article again shortly. Cheers. Faizan (talk) 16:04, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Thank you, and apologies, was not aware of the move/cut-paste guidelines. cӨde1+6 LogicBomb! 16:08, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015.
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