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Scar

I'd just like to thank you for taking interest in reviewing my Scar (The Lion King) article. I've already started making the changes you've suggested and will try my best to make this as quick and painless as possible for the both of us --Changedforbetter (talk) 15:57, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #125

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2014)

Arches were used in Ancient Roman architecture to build aqueducts, such as the Aqueduct of Segovia
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Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:03, 15 September 2014 (UTC)Opt-out instructions

08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Edit

On the "Sinking of the RMS Titanic" article, I made a very small edit, changing the obvious typo "founder" to "flounder" in the context of a sinking ship. I have to tell you I have consistently found that Wikipedia's more prolific editors are really not welcoming of help from average readers without accounts. If you would prefer for the article to be of lower quality and contain such an elementary spelling error then you are doing a disservice to Wikipedia, and as a final note, there is truly no more patronizing way of dismissing my edit (which you clearly did not even review) than to tell me to go play in the Sandbox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.112.148.213 (talk) 15:34, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

checkY Answered on user's talk page. —ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 15:37, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2014)

Arches were used in Ancient Roman architecture to build aqueducts, such as the Aqueduct of Segovia
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Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:03, 22 September 2014 (UTC)Opt-out instructions

09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Because there were so many edits between my removal of , since her decision to sacrifice herself to save her sister constitutes an "act of true love", I don't think you realized that piece of information ever existed in the article in the first place. The entire plot section is unsourced. You are allowed to add information into a Wikipedia article when you can't find a source for that information as long as a source exists which somebody else might find later but I suspect no reliable source exists for the specific piece of information you added. Blackbombchu (talk) 03:32, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2014)

Aerial photograph of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, an international airport in Houston, United States
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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #126

The Signpost: 01 October 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #127

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2014)

Seasoned and chargrilled lamb fillet steak
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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter—September and October 2014

Did you know?

TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.

With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.

See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.

There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that caused replaced some categories with a link to the system message, MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.

Increased support for devices and browsers

Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.

Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697bug 68828bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.

TemplateData editor

A tool for editing TemplateData will be deployed to more Wikipedias soon.  Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation.  When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top.  Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

Other changes

Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.

VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect or mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these in types of links can be created.

Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358). 

Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir attribute but no lang set (bug 69955).

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.

The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.

In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.

Supporting your wiki

At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community has been posted here. Thank you all for your work.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.

Give feedback on VisualEditor at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. To help with translations, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre at Meta. Thank you!

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:11, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #128

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2014)

Central America is the geographic region that connects North America and South America.
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Central America


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Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 13 October 2014 (UTC)Opt-out instructions

08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2014)

Inside an ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
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Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 20 October 2014 (UTC)Opt-out instructions

13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #129

The Signpost: 22 October 2014