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VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Did you know?

Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.

If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

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. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:

Remember my last editor,
Always give me the visual editor if possible,
Always give me the source editor, and
Show me both editor tabs. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.

Let's work together

Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Language engineer David Chan needs help from people who often type in these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Report your results on wiki (Korean – Japanese – all languages).
Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.

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– Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:47, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks again :) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:59, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

March 2016

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Reference errors on 10 March

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April 2016

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Do you want one Edit tab, or two? It's your choice

How to switch between editing environments

Click the [[ ]] to switch to the wikitext editor.

Click the pencil icon to switch to the visual editor.

The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.

You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.

There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 19:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 16

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

Read the full newsletter

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Kris Peeters

Was this a slip, or do you really think this is how Wikipedia should look like ? 80.132.103.98 (talk) 22:12, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, this was not a slip, merely an effort trying to have a correct translation for the word disdain.

Lotje (talk) 03:41, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

And what do you think of accusing a politician to have disdain for his voters without multiple reliable sources (from mainstream media) to back up such an extraordinary claim? I know the claim was not from you, but you should not "improve" such stuff. BTW, you forgot to sign the message on my Talk, that told me to always sign my messages. :-) 80.132.103.98 (talk) 03:53, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Oops!, I did forget to sign. Sorry! But since you are here, imo, if Mr. Peeters explained his words in a tweet, there is hardly anything I should change. Thank you for your time.

Lotje (talk) 04:11, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

What Tweet ? I know nothing about Peeters, but I know about WP:BLP. There was nothing about disdain in the single source given. If you can source that reliably I got no problem with it being in the article. 80.132.90.79 (talk) 04:33, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, I do not follow mr. Peeters, but I know he was al over the news in Belgium with this. Anyway: google it: "Iedereen in dit land leeft boven zijn stand" and you will see what comes up. EOD, I usually do not communicate with anonymous users. Lotje (talk) 04:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I does not matter if the claim is right when it is not reliably sourced, especially when it's a WP:BLP. You might also want to read WP:OR. Thank you for making an exception to your (unfounded) policy of not talking to anons for me. 80.132.90.79 (talk) 04:53, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I know, but there is also the Wikipedia:Bij twijfel niet inhalen.

Lotje (talk) 05:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I don't follow what BLP got to do with spelling,style or structure of an article. Anyway, I hope my check of your contribs won't turn up more of this, and we don't need to talk about this further. 80.132.90.79 (talk) 06:20, 20 April 2016 (UTC)