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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
235 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA Lisbon Portela Airport (talk) Add sources
246 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Palma de Mallorca Airport (talk) Please add more sources Add sources
933 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: B Airline (talk) Add sources
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Waalhaven (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
37 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub White Airways (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Add sources
367 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (talk) Please add more sources Add sources
318 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: List, Predicted class: C World's busiest passenger air routes (talk) Please add more sources Cleanup
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Gface (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
120 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Kane (Command & Conquer) (talk) Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Cleanup
128 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA TAAG Angola Airlines (talk) Expand
720 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Continental Airlines (talk) Expand
2,144 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA United Airlines (talk) Expand
125 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Scott Thompson (businessman) (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
346 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Ryne Sandberg (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
458 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Software-defined radio (talk) Please add more images Please add more sources Merge
528 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Air Serbia (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
142 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: List, Predicted class: B American Airlines accidents and incidents (talk) Please add more images Please add more sources Merge
156 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Wikify
22 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Rod Humble (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
153 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Merpati Nusantara Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Wikify
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Hong Kong Airport Services (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Automation Studio (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ann Itto Leonardo (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Noordoostpolder Airport (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Amsterdam Heliport (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ameland Airport (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Amsterdam Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
28 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Nesma Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Stub
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Drachten Airfield (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day
Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality
Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content
Is more content needed?
Headings
Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images
Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links
Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources
For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:30, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for September 19, 2013

VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.

As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add <u> (underline), <sub> (subscript), and <sup> (superscript), <s> (strikethrough) and <code> (computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.

In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references (bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label (bug 51670).

In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl+0 sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl+1 up to Ctrl+6 sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl+7 sets it as pre-formatted (bug 33512). Ctrl+2, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.

Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" (bug 50452).

Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application (bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.

Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate (bug 53503).

Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter (bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again (bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:58, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
416 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Copenhagen Airport (talk) Please add more sources Add sources
266 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Rolls-Royce Trent (talk) Please add more sources Add sources
33 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start Nambiar (Nair subcaste) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
217 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Hamburg Airport (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
1,203 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Los Angeles International Airport (talk) Add sources
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Movement Coordination Centre Europe (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
345 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA American Eagle Airlines (talk) Please add more sources Cleanup
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Enterprise Engine (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start State Management of Affairs (Ukraine) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
234 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Boryspil International Airport (talk) Expand
559 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Scandinavian Airlines (talk) Expand
825 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Vegeta (talk) Please add more sources Expand
744 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Product placement (talk) Unencyclopaedic
45 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Surinam Airways Flight 764 (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
26 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Ganas (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Unencyclopaedic
135 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Airphil Express (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
21 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA AirUK (talk) Merge
1,569 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Bloody Mary (folklore) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
101 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Air Seychelles (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Wikify
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Swiss Private Aviation (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start The Ohio University Marching 110 (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Wikify
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub MyTravelLite Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Orphan
1 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Kaitheri (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub Aata Pita (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
49 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Richard Grey, 6th Earl Grey (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
1,627 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Property Brothers (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
19 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Uzhhorod International Airport (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
16 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Alexandria Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub MCA Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Dov Weissglass (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day
Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality
Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content
Is more content needed?
Headings
Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images
Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links
Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources
For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:11, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
88 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Bantayan Island (talk) Add sources
820 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Frankfurt Airport (talk) Add sources
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start 2012 Motocross des Nations (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
60 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
17 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Soesterberg Royal Netherlands Air Force Base (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
469 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Munich Airport (talk) Please add more sources Add sources
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Yahoo! Shopping (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Cleanup
169 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B ATA Airlines (talk) Please add more sources Cleanup
128 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Ontario International Airport (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub De Kooy Airfield (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
339 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Madrid–Barajas Airport (talk) Please add more sources Expand
9 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Texel International Airport (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
1,929 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Higurashi When They Cry (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,901 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Electronic Arts (talk) Unencyclopaedic
513 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B London Stansted Airport (talk) Unencyclopaedic
19 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start KLM uk (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start 5th Canadian Division (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Cluster File Systems (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
1,706 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA AOL (talk) Wikify
384 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA Ben Gurion Airport (talk) Wikify
109 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield (talk) Please add more sources Wikify
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Dynamic Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ambouli (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: List, Predicted class: Stub Armorial of the Presidents of Finland (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
9 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Datadog (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub North Sea Airways (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
17 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Sky Wings Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Stub
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub ELISA (satellite) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
25 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub AIS Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
20 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Jade Cargo International (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day
Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality
Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content
Is more content needed?
Headings
Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images
Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links
Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources
For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:56, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter on 16 October 2013

VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to your preferences and choosing the item, "MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable".

The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug 50459).

There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected (bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances (bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories (bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias (bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes (bug 54712).

Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:00, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue XCI, October 2013

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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (October 2013)

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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

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IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
307 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Barcelona–El Prat Airport (talk) Please add more sources Add sources
547 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA Northwest Airlines (talk) Add sources
201 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Leeds Bradford International Airport (talk) Add sources
495 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA Berlin Brandenburg Airport (talk) Add sources
587 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Miami International Airport (talk) Add sources
108 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Myanmar Airways International (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
324 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Iran Air (talk) Please add more sources Cleanup
395 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: GA To the Moon (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
78 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Air Busan (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
1,666 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B London Heathrow Airport (talk) Expand
212 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (talk) Expand
3,367 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Coconut (talk) Expand
406 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Comac C919 (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
1,409 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Matthew Bellamy (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
363 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: List, Predicted class: B Air transports of heads of state and government (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
12 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Kolathunadu (talk) Please add more sources Merge
0 Quality: Low, Assessed class: List, Predicted class: Stub MetroJet destinations (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Merge
20 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub Finncomm Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
69 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: C Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Wikify
9 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C History of Cubana de Aviación (talk) Please add more sources Wikify
354 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (talk) Please add more sources Wikify
1 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Arzubiaga (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
0 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Arnaldo Rosin (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
0 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub (58052) 2003 AN1 (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
12 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Tristar Air (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub The End of Time (film) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Sky Work Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Stub
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Jarral Shareef (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
9 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub KoralBlue Airlines (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Stub
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Nile Air (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day
Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality
Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content
Is more content needed?
Headings
Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images
Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links
Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources
For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:52, 29 October 2013 (UTC)