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The Signpost: 17 July 2013

July 2013

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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…
47   Nambiar (Nair subcaste) (talk)           Add sources
85   Ural Airlines (talk)       Add sources
2   Centralwings destinations (talk)         Add sources
25   Triprayar (talk)         Add sources
395   Warsaw Chopin Airport (talk)   Add sources
1,658   Labyrinthitis (talk)       Add sources
545   Copenhagen Airport (talk)   Cleanup
49   Malik Deenar (talk)     Cleanup
9   State Management of Affairs (Ukraine) (talk)     Cleanup
619   Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (talk)   Expand
322   Boryspil International Airport (talk) Expand
18   León Airport (talk)       Expand
48   Gurram Jashuva (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
7   Siege of Tellicherry (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
2,363   Higurashi When They Cry (talk) Unencyclopaedic
16   Madrid–Torrejón Airport (talk)         Merge
125   Hitachi Data Systems (talk)     Merge
1   MetroJet destinations (talk)         Merge
415   Vienna International Airport (talk)   Wikify
132   Available seat miles (talk)           Wikify
15   Kamov Ka-37 (talk)           Wikify
1   Kaitheri (talk)           Orphan
6   Groupe Atlantic (talk)           Orphan
4   MyTravelLite Airlines (talk)         Orphan
1,524   The Walking Dead Season Two (talk)         Stub
18   Kannur railway station (talk)         Stub
20   Tirur railway station (talk)           Stub
24   Non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber (talk)           Stub
62   Muzhappilangad Beach (talk)       Stub
80   Polet Airlines (talk)       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) 23:23, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

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Note to self: User talk:Redalert2fan/Archive 3 was reported full today Redalert2fan (talk) 20:20, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXVIII, July 2013

 
Your Military History Newsletter

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The Signpost: 24 July 2013

WP:NASCAR Newsletter (July 2013)

This newsletter was delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 03:31, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Netherlands

Hi Redalert2fan, welcome to WikiProject Netherlands for Netherlands-related content on Wikipedia!

If you have any questions related to the project, feel free to ask them.

Redalert2fan (talk) 04:16, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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…
20   Datadog (talk)           Add sources
22   Gilze-Rijen Air Base (talk)       Add sources
472   Reboot (fiction) (talk)       Add sources
12   Leeuwarden Air Base (talk)       Add sources
246   Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai (talk)           Add sources
843   Frankfurt Airport (talk)   Add sources
159   ATA Airlines (talk)   Cleanup
7   Brad D. Smith (talk)           Cleanup
268   Joe Anderson (actor) (talk)         Cleanup
443   Munich Airport (talk)   Expand
5   Vostok Aviation Company (talk)       Expand
5   LUKoil-Avia (talk)       Expand
436   London Stansted Airport (talk) Unencyclopaedic
538   Air transports of heads of state and government (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
34   Kenn Navarro (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
16   Finncomm Airlines (talk)     Merge
747   Air traffic control (talk)   Merge
266   Computer reservations system (talk)       Merge
993   Dubai International Airport (talk) Wikify
252   WordStar (talk)     Wikify
30   Nitya Chaitanya Yati (talk)     Wikify
2   Jet Link Holland (talk)           Orphan
2   Skynet (airline) (talk)         Orphan
4   Dynamic Airlines (talk)         Orphan
7   CHC Airways (talk)           Stub
11   Woensdrecht Air Base (talk)         Stub
3   Vlieland Heliport (talk)           Stub
12   AIS Airlines (talk)         Stub
9   North Sea Airways (talk)           Stub
33   Cuatro Vientos Airport (talk)         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) 01:54, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Test

Test 46.189.183.90 (talk) 20:56, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Ok Redalert2fan (talk) 20:59, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXIX, August 2013

 
Your Military History Newsletter

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VisualEditor newsletter for 21 August 2013

Both VisualEditor and MediaWiki were upgraded recently. For VisualEditor, this is the long-awaited post-Wikimania update with many bug fixes and enhancements. Work also continues on speed at opening and during use, as well as on the bugs reported here and at other Wikipedias. The full report is at Mediawiki.

References are displaying properly, even when nested (T52749) or in image captions (T2000. Reference lists are now always fully populated with references (bug 50094). Firefox users can insert an existing reference in the first paragraph (T54159). Opera users no longer see corruption of categories when a reference was added (bug 50385).

Stray spaces are being stripped from the start of paragraphs to end one of the common <nowiki> problems (T53462). We also fixed a round-tripping bug that caused desirable whitespace in templates (used to make templates more legible, e.g., by putting each parameter in an infobox on a separate line) to get corrupted (bug 51150).

Wikilink handling was improved. Users are not allowed to create internal links to invalid titles (titles that are actually impossible due to limits on acceptable character combinations in titles, not redlinks) (T35094). You can extend wikilinks, but it won't do so over a wordbreak (like a space) (bugs 49931 and 51463).

A handful of fixes to the user interface were made. The toolbar doesn't float over personal tools after opening a dialog or the inspector (T54441). Toolbars were also re-written to be collapsible/expandable, with room for more icons. Buttons in dialogs can now be activated using the Tab ↹ and ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ key commands (bug 50047). This saves time for editors, because you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to click a button. We fixed a handful of bugs that affected only certain articles or certain browsers, including toolbar buttons in Firefox (bug 51986) and dialog panels that didn't always scroll correctly (bug 51739). Bugs with undo/redo getting confused have been fixed (T54113).

Images, in addition to getting references displaying correctly, also saw improvements with a set-empty |link= parameter no longer corrupted (51963). We corrected thumbnail images' display so that they look don't wrong in some contexts (bug 51995). Inserted images no longer explicitly set their alignment, but instead inherit the default position in compliance with the Manual of Style (bug 51851).

More edit notices, warnings, and metadata like information about Pending Changes on an article now appear as appropriate (bug 49699). When new articles are created, users are now shown the <newarticletext> message (bug 51459). VisualEditor now handles templates that set "meta" items (like a category) and nothing else better (bug 51322). If the database is locked when a user tries to save with VisualEditor, they now get a message telling them as such and an opportunity to try again, rather than a silent failure (bug 51636).

When you save the page, having the default preference set to "mark all my edits as minor by default" no longer overrides the setting in the save dialog (bug 51515). If you open VisualEditor from a section edit link, the section's title will be pre-filled in in the edit summary box when you go to save it (bug 50872). The size of the save dialog box in the Monobook skin has been fixed (bug 50058). Also, wikipage content handlers like sortable tables are re-run automatically after saving (T53565).

A very early version of the mathematics equation editor is now available for testing on mw:Mediawiki. If you would like to help improve the user interface for math editor, please test out the extension at mw:Mediawiki:Sandbox and leave your comments directly at the discussion page for the Math Node User Interface at Mediawiki. You should be able to use your regular username and password should to login to Mediawiki.

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) 17:47, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 August 2013

WP:NASCAR Newsletter (August 2013)

This newsletter was delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:15, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Test

Test via my mobile 84.105.55.39 (talk) 10:18, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Ok Redalert2fan (talk) 10:23, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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…
6   Still Be Love in the World (talk)         Add sources
387   Malpensa Airport (talk)   Add sources
32   Nador International Airport (talk)     Add sources
42   Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium (talk)       Add sources
14   Schiphol Group (talk)         Add sources
61   Nonperson (talk)       Add sources
36   Cyprus Turkish Airlines (talk)     Cleanup
1,458   Metro: Last Light (talk)     Cleanup
288   Spetsnaz GRU (talk)       Cleanup
765   Trans World Airlines (talk)   Expand
205   Battlefield Play4Free (talk)         Expand
132   Leipzig/Halle Airport (talk)     Expand
251   Ben Croshaw (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
144   Good Game (talk) Unencyclopaedic
740   Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (talk) Unencyclopaedic
7   Chirakkal Raja (talk)       Merge
189   Hyderabad (talk)           Merge
185   Grass Mud Horse (talk)       Merge
164   Pelvic thrust (talk)           Wikify
240   TACA Airlines (talk)     Wikify
91   Dan-Air (talk) Wikify
0   2008 Egyptian bus accident (talk)           Orphan
3   Alice Artzt (talk)           Orphan
1   Asfal al-`Ayn (talk)           Orphan
33   AMC Airlines (talk)       Stub
78   The Impossible Dream (Richard & Adam album) (talk)           Stub
7   Mattannoor Sankarankutty (talk)         Stub
3   TrafficPort Venlo (talk)           Stub
87   Freebird Airlines (talk)       Stub
11   The Humble Brothers (talk)           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) 23:48, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for September 5

This Thursday's VisualEditor update was mostly about stability and performance improvements, and some preparatory work for major planned improvements, along with bug fixes for non-English language support and right-to-left text. Everything that the English Wikipedia received today has been running on Mediawiki for a week already.

Officially, the problem with the link inspector not linking to a specific section on a page (bug 53219) was fixed in this release, although that critical patch actually appeared here earlier.

A number of bugs related to copy-and-paste functionality were fixed (48604, bug 50043, bug 53362, bug 51538, among others). Full rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor is expected "soon".

In other fixes, you can no longer add empty ref tags (<ref/>) (bug 53345). Selecting both an image and some text, and then trying to add a link, previously deleted the selected image and the text. This was fixed in bug 50127. There was another problem related to using arrow keys to move the cursor next to an inline image that was fixed (bug 53507).

Looking ahead: The next planned upgrade is scheduled for next Thursday, and you should expect to find a redesigned toolbar with drop-down menus that include room for references, templates, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting. There will also be keyboard shortcuts for setting the format (paragraph vs section headings).

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being determined at this time. Generally speaking, languages that depend on the input method editor are not going to receive VisualEditor this month. The current target date is Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only. 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) 21:51, 5 September 2013 (UTC)