Wikipedia:De Staminee/Archiv2014/Oktober-Dezember

VisualEditor News #8—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 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 66697, bug 68828, bug 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

The tool for editing TemplateData has been deployed to 30 more Wikipedias this week. 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 page or a subpage, and then click the "Donnéeë vun der Schabloun änneren" 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 and mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these 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 is available. Thank you all for your work.

This was the first translatable VisualEditor newsletter, so thanks to everybody who made this possible! If it hasn't been delivered in your language, and you'd like to help with translations in the future, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre (WMF), so that you will be notified when the next issue is due.

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. Thank you! —Elitre (WMF)

09:49, 13. Okt. 2014 (UTC)

Charte du bénévolat

D'Agence vum Benevolat huet mech ugeschriwwen an eis virgeschloen, d'Charte du bénévolat z'ënnerschreiwen. Hei de Mail:

APPEL à la SIGNATURE de la nouvelle CHARTE DU BENEVOLAT de l’Association du Bénévolat Luxembourg a.s.b.l. !

La Charte du Bénévolat a été élaborée par le groupe de travail du projet « Label de Qualité pour associations ». Cette charte s’inscrit dans un processus de qualité et s’adresse à TOUTE association, club, fondation, etc établis au Luxembourg.

« Cette charte a été créée pour donner un cadre de fonctionnement commun à toutes les associations et à toutes les personnes bénévoles au Luxembourg. Elle s’appuie sur des valeurs communes : la solidarité, la citoyenneté et le respect de l’autre ». Cette démarche de qualité témoigne, de manière visible, de l’engagement responsable de l’association.

La Charte du Bénévolat pourra, une fois signée et enregistrée auprès de l’Agence du Bénévolat, être affichée dans vos locaux.

Avec le soutien et dans les locaux de l’Œuvre Nationale Grande-duchesse Charlotte à Leudelange, votre association pourra figurer parmi les premiers signataires de la Charte du Bénévolat le 5 décembre à 17:30 lors de la cérémonie de lancement en présence de Son Altesse Royale, de la Ministre de la Famille, de l’Intégration et à la Grande Région et de nombreux partenaires importants.

Pour cela, il est obligatoire de renvoyer par courrier postal la charte signée par votre Président ou Responsable avant le 20 Novembre 2014 à l’Agence du Bénévolat. Votre charte encadrée vous sera remise par SAR. Une invitation avec le programme exact vous parviendra dans les meilleurs délais.

D'Charte selwer fanne mer hei um Site vum Benevolat

Solle mer als lb.Wikipedia déi Charte ënnerschreiwen?

• Pro - Ech fannen dat eng gutt Saach a mengen eis Wiki sollt do derbäi sinn. --Sultan Edijingo (Diskussioun) 10:11, 18. Okt. 2014 (UTC)
• U sech keng schlecht Saach, mee mir hu weder e "Présidnet" nach e "Responsable" geschweigs da"locaux" fir déi Charte opzehanken. Wa se deemno iergendwous méi Visibilitéit fir lb:Wiki brége géif, giff ech soen: dajee alt, soss: nujee alt. --Zinneke (Diskussioun) 19:04, 18. Okt. 2014 (UTC)

Eis "locaux" sinn Um Spaweck. Ech deelen dem Pecalux säi Virschlag d'Charte dann op eiser Haaptsäit digital opzehänken. Op der anerer Säit si mer am Beräich vum Benevolat dann och offiziell a sichtbar derbäi. Ob mer doduerch eventuell méi oder nei Mataarbechter kréien, steet op engem anere Blat. Wa keen eppes dergéint huet, da wier ech bereet am Numm vun der ganzer lb.communautéit déi Charte zënnerschreiwen. Well mer weder e President nach e Responsablen hunn, wier et gutt, wa mer dës Charte ganz bewosst zu e puer ënnerschreiwe géifen. --Sultan Edijingo (Diskussioun) 17:20, 19. Okt. 2014 (UTC)

• Pro - Trotzdem si mer eng "Organisatioun" vu Benevolen a mir hunn eng riiseg Platform, genannt lb.wikipedia.org, wou mer d'Charte kinnten "ophänken"; Z.B.: als Bild mat kurzer Beschreiwung op eiser Haaptsäit. --Pecalux (Diskussioun) 05:40, 19. Okt. 2014 (UTC)
• Pro - A wéi wier dann och vläicht mat der Grënnung vun engem Veräin? --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 17:27, 19. Okt. 2014 (UTC)
• Pro - E bëssche spéit vu mir dann och e Pro. D'Fro vun der Grënnung vun engem Veräin (oder enger méi inoffizieller Struktur) kënne mer jo bei där nächster Versammlung diskutéieren.--MMFE (Diskussioun) 10:19, 4. Jan. 2015 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:04, 26. Okt. 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses

Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (Diskussioun) 12:23, 31. Okt. 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I have added a few tables from the 2011 census. --Zinneke (Diskussioun) 23:06, 31. Okt. 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

• DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
  • English signup
  • Deutsch signup
• Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
• Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
• British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
• Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
• Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
• JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.23:19, 5. Nov. 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Kategorie:Rockgruppen a Kategorie:Rockbands ass dat net dat selwecht?

Ech wollt just emol nofroen ob déi zwou Kategorie sech net ob dat selwecht bezéien? --Robby (Diskussioun) 21:57, 7. Nov. 2014 (UTC)

Moien, Géing ech och mengen - dat eent héiert sech wuel méi "trendy" un. --Jwh (Diskussioun) 22:11, 7. Nov. 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to the prize giving ceremony of Wiki Loves Monuments 2014

Logo Wiki Loves Monuments

In the past weeks, the jury has judged the photos and has came to their conclusion. Out of the more than 2500 uploaded photos, the ten best photos have been selected. The uploaders of these ten photos will receive a prize at 26 November 2014. We also give away some extra prizes.

The prize giving ceremony will take place on 26 November 2014 at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels and starts at 19:00. The doors will open at 18:30. Afterwards the host of the venue will offer us a snack and a drink and we have the opportunity to talk with each other.

More information can be found at our website and on the wiki of Wikimedia Belgium:

• wmbe:Uitnodiging voor de prijsuitreiking van Wiki Loves Monuments 2014
• http://www.wikilovesmonuments.be/w/index.php/Prize_giving_ceremony_26_November_2014

Please inform us before 26 November at wmbe@wikimedia.org if you will be there.

See you at the prize ceremony!

On behalf of the team of Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium and Luxembourg, Romaine (Diskussioun) 21:12, 13. Nov. 2014 (UTC)

PS: Other meetings in Belgium can be found at wmbe:Meetings. 19 November: founding event in Brussels. Romaine (Diskussioun) 21:12, 13. Nov. 2014 (UTC)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:36, 14. Nov. 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #9—2014

Wosst Dir?

VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Log in and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings button in the upper-right corner to pick which editor to use. Choose "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-visual-editor⧽" to use VisualEditor, or "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-source-editor⧽" to use the wikitext editor.

It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available on the mobile website.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.

Rezent Verbesserungen

Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in them was just introduced to Wikipedias. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be added later.

To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus are now hidden behind a "Méi" item, such as "Ënnersträichen" in the styling menu.

The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias this week, and the following week at the English Wikipedia.

The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.

VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.

The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar menus are now shown in the menus.

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience/Design group. The appearance of dialog boxes has already changed in the mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. You are welcome to compare the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.

Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search engine could not find the page. A link inside a template to a local page that does not exist will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to an error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [1] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.

TemplateData

The tool for quickly editing TemplateData has been deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool was already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. 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 "Donnéeë vun der Schabloun änneren" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData to learn more about it. 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.

You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common value for that parameter. The autovalue can be overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.

In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog box in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "virgeschlo" or "fakultativ" in TemplateData instead.

Virausgekuckt

The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.

The user guide is being updated to add information about editing tables. The translations of the user guide for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.

You can influence VisualEditor's design! Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.

Wann Dir bei der Iwwersetzung vun dëser Newsletter hëllef wëllt, da schreift Iech w.e.g. op d'Mailinglëscht vun den Iwwersetzer oder kontaktéiert eis direkt, datt mir Iech direkt informéiere kënne wann déi nächst Ausgab fäerdeg ass. Aschreiwen oder ofmellen op Meta. Villmools merci! —Elitre (WMF)

23:29, 14. Nov. 2014 (UTC)

WLM 2014 BE & LU: Gewënner

Gëschter owend goufen zu Bréissel d'Gewënner vum Fotosconcours Wiki Loves Monuments Belgium & Luxembourg 2014 bekannt gemaach. Den 1. Präis goung um Msemmett säi Bild vum Haaptgebai vun der fréierer Kuelegrouf Hasard zu Cheratte.

Déi aner 9 Gewënner sinn hei zu gesinn.

--Zinneke (Diskussioun) 09:12, 27. Nov. 2014 (UTC)

Koordinate-Problem

Moien,

Zanter e puer Deeg hu mer e Problem hei beim Uklicke vu Koordinaten. Aplaz eng Kaart ugewisen ze kréien, kritt een folgende Message. Op anere Wikien trëtt dee Problem net op. Kann do een hëllefen? --MMFE (Diskussioun) 14:03, 15. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Salut ech hu beim Bedreiwer vum Tool nogefrot, wat do ze maache wier. Iwwer Ëmweeër sinn ech du gewuer ginn datt dee fir den Ament am Spidol leit. Menger Meenung no missten déi Schablounen all nei mat frësche Basisinformatiounen iwwerschafft ginn. Ech wwes awer lo nach net wéi dat kéint gemaach ginn. Enn dewr Woch gi mer vläicht eppes gewuer. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 17:19, 15. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

'n Owend - op Commons schéngt dee Problem net ze sinn. --Jwh (Diskussioun) 22:54, 15. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Ech hunn eng Ännerung gemaach an et schéngt nees alles an der Rei ze sinn.--Robby (Diskussioun) 08:07, 16. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Alles nees an der Rei, Merci fir d'Hëllef. --MMFE (Diskussioun) 08:49, 16. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
• Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
• Pelican Books - ebook monographs
• Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:22, 18. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Ënnerkategorien op Commons

Gudden Owend,

Ech hunn e klenge “Problem” mat Ënnerkategorien op Commons. An der Category:Buildings in Luxembourg City hunn ech verschidden Ënnerkategorie ugeluecht, sou z. B. Category:Villa Elisabeth, Category:Bonn Frères an Category:Haus Pierre Gilbert. Bei der éischter ass alles OK, bei deenen zwou aneren hunn ech ënnert den Ënnerkategorien awer och elo nach zwou “Säiten an der Kategorie "Buildings in Luxembourg City"“.

Wat hunn ech „falsch“ gemaach datt déi elo do sti resp. wéi kréien ech se rëm ewech?

Merci am viraus fir d’Hëllef. --GilPe (Diskussioun) 17:45, 23. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Salut

Du hues näischt falsch gemaach. Déi zwou Säite weise just op den Artikel hin a sti sou gesinn an der richteger Kategorie. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 18:31, 23. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Moien, Dir wollt warscheinlech just eng Kategorie maachen, hutt awer "Category:" vergiess virdrun ze setzen an doduerch goufen dat "Galleries" - wat sou ongeféier enger Säit op Wikipedia entsprécht. Menger Meenung no gëtt dat net vill Sënn déi "Galleries" ze halen, besonnescht och well se eidel sinn.

Et geet duer op d'Säit, also an d'"Gallery" dës Schabloun ze setzen fir datt se nees geläscht ginn.

{{Speedydelete|should have been Category:Bonn Frères, not a gallery}} Heihin

an och dohin {{Speedydelete|should have been Category:Haus Pierre Gilbert, not a gallery}}

da geheit ee se raus. --Jwh (Diskussioun) 20:06, 23. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Moien, Hei sti guttgemengt Rotschléi, mee ech mengen, d'Fro gouf falsch verstanen: Wann een e puer Fotoen huet vun engem Sujet, déi allen dräi als Kategorie A, B an C hunn, an et wëll een deenen eng eege Kategorie ginn (nenne mer se D), da setzt ee sengessäits an déi nei Kategorie D d'Kategorien A, B, an C (fir an der Arboreszenz no uewen ze verlinken). Mee fir vollstänneg ze sinn, muss een dann op de Säite vun den eenzele Biller net nëmmen d'Kategorie D derbäisetzen ma och (an do louch de Probleem), d'Kategorien A, B an C ewech maachen.

Konkret: Hunn d'Biller mat dem Haus Bonn Frères d'Kategorien "Ville Haute", Buidings in Luxembourg" an "Art Deco Architecture in Luxembourg", an et wëll een s'an eng eege Kategorie tässelen, dann hëlt een déi dräi ewech an ersetzt se duerch d'Kategorie Bonn Frères". Déi ass ufanks rout. Klikt een drop, kopéiert een déi Kategoiren, déi ee bei de Biller erausgejholl huet, do drann. (Ech hunn et bei e puer gemaach).--Zinneke (Diskussioun) 00:31, 31. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Moien a Merci alleguer. Dem Jwh säin Tipp grad wéi och dem Zinneke seng Erklärungen hu mer dat ganzt (hoffen ech...) méi kloer gemaacht. --GilPe (Diskussioun) 08:31, 31. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.

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 table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Abschnitt" into a "Blockzitat".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.

There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.

Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Fett" and "Kursiv" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

19:00, 26. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Ech beschwéiere mech emol iwwer de Benotzer:Les_Meloures

Bon, ech si jo schonn zënter laangem kee Frënd vum Benotzer:Les_Meloures wéinst senger offensiver an asozialer Aart a Weis, mat de Leit ëmzegoen. Mee elo wëll ech festhalen, dat et net an der Rei ass, datt hien alleng entscheed, den Artikel [2] ze blockéieren an eng Referenz ze läschen, well se him net gefält. Déi Referenz stéiert net, a wann se den anere Useren och net passt, ka se no enger Zäit erëm erausgeholl ginn. Dat de Les Meloures alleng entscheed, se ze läschen, an den Artikel ze blockéieren bis d'Diskussiounen eriwwer sinn, ass net demokratesch an huet nëmme mat sengem verletzte Stolz ze dinn. Wien entscheed, wéini d'Diskussiounen eriwwer sinn? Sécherlech wann et dem LM op eemol an de Krom passt. Et ass jo bekannt, dat et op Wikipedia vill Diskussioune ginn, déi ni en Enn hunn. Ech erwaarden näischt, ech meckeren elo mol just a wënsche (bal) jidderengem e gudde Rutsch. --Bdx (Diskussioun) 16:37, 31. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Ech biede jiddwereen deen dat hei liest och d'Diskussioun:Calquepabeier ze kucken, den Historique vun de Versioune vun der Säit mat all dem onnëtze Geréckels an Zrécksetzen an dës Ufro a sech dann e Bild ze maachen firwat datt ech faschistesch Manéieren hunn, an dat nëmme just well een net wëll verstoen wat eng Quell am Sënn vun der Wikipedia bezunn op eis Schreifweis ass. Hie schwätzt hei vun Demokratie. Ech menge wann oppen Diskussioune lafen dat wier demokratesch genuch an et soll sech un d'Spillregele gehale ginn, d.h. näischt méi um Artikel ze kniwwelen bis eng Méizuel vu Mataarbter hir Meenung gesot huet. Dofir hunn ech den Artikel gespaart. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 17:25, 31. Dez. 2014 (UTC)

Ech hu mäi Commentaire op d'Diskussioun:Calquepabeier gesat an hoffen, d'Gemidder hu sech mëttlerweil e bësse berouegt. Eng friddlech Hënnt gewënscht.--Zinneke (Diskussioun) 23:04, 1. Jan. 2015 (UTC)

Neptunmounden

• Merci fir d'Läschen vun der Säit "Neptunmounden", déi ëmgeännert ass an "Lëscht vun den Neptunmounden".SITCK (Diskussioun) 22:30, 8. Jan. 2015 (UTC)

Gouf gemaach, wéi gewënscht --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 06:14, 9. Jan. 2015 (UTC)