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88   Bantayan Island (talk) Add sources
820   Frankfurt Airport (talk) Add sources
5   2012 Motocross des Nations (talk)     Add sources
60   Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (talk)     Add sources
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469   Munich Airport (talk)   Add sources
15   Yahoo! Shopping (talk)       Cleanup
169   ATA Airlines (talk)   Cleanup
128   Ontario International Airport (talk)     Cleanup
7   De Kooy Airfield (talk)           Expand
339   Madrid–Barajas Airport (talk)   Expand
9   Texel International Airport (talk)           Expand
1,929   Higurashi When They Cry (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,901   Electronic Arts (talk) Unencyclopaedic
513   London Stansted Airport (talk) Unencyclopaedic
19   KLM uk (talk)         Merge
24   5th Canadian Division (talk)     Merge
8   Cluster File Systems (talk)           Merge
1,706   AOL (talk) Wikify
384   Ben Gurion Airport (talk) Wikify
109   Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield (talk)   Wikify
7   Dynamic Airlines (talk)         Orphan
3   Ambouli (talk)         Orphan
2   Armorial of the Presidents of Finland (talk)         Orphan
9   Datadog (talk)           Stub
8   North Sea Airways (talk)           Stub
17   Sky Wings Airlines (talk)       Stub
4   ELISA (satellite) (talk)         Stub
25   AIS Airlines (talk)         Stub
20   Jade Cargo International (talk)       Stub

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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:

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VisualEditor newsletter on 16 October 2013

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You can create and edit multi-level lists in VisualEditor. The first two icons let you set or remove list formatting.

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For more information, read Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide.

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.

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

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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
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Headings
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Images
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Links
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Sources
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Thanks

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Thank you very much for welcoming me on wikipedia! I'm new here so I really don't know much about editing and all this stuff. I'm not even sure if I post this a t the right place, but if you got this message, let me tell you: Thank you! And yes I remember you from Youtube :D "Should I set it up for you as on my userpage (edit count)?" - Feel free to do that :D Thank you again AustrianA330 (talk) 10:03, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

You found the right page. I will set it up right now ;) Redalert2fan (talk) 10:56, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
I added the Edit count for you, and filled in the number of "20" because that is your current edit count. You can see that by clicking on it. It is up to you how often you will change it, I do it every 100 edits, but you maybe can do every 10. You can change the number by just simply filling in a different number. Example: change "20" in to "30" When you have reached 31 edits because the Text sais ... Has made over X edits. You also may have noticed that there are allot of white line's between "babel" and "contribs" when you are editing, Please don't remove them or add anymore because it will mess up the alignment. You can edit freely below "userboxbottom". Anyways if you have any more questions feel free to ask! Redalert2fan (talk) 11:23, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
79   Specials (Unicode block) (talk)         Add sources
494   Low-level programming language (talk)         Add sources
245   Royal Jordanian (talk)   Add sources
462   Saudia (talk)   Add sources
44   Curaçao International Airport (talk)       Add sources
1,092   Non-stop flight (talk)   Add sources
177   Jet airliner (talk)       Cleanup
25   Cyprus Turkish Airlines (talk)     Cleanup
90   Dan-Air (talk) Cleanup
19   Iran Airtour (talk)       Expand
1,660   Trans World Airlines (talk)   Expand
751   Airbus A300 (talk)   Expand
2   Burdekin Catholic High School (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
8   Air Alpes (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
31   Kenn Navarro (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
8   Chirakkal Raja (talk)       Merge
91   Operation Moshtarak (talk) Merge
19   Associated Aviation (talk)         Merge
233   TACA Airlines (talk)     Wikify
4   Denis O'Regan (talk)           Wikify
38   Radarsat-1 (talk)     Wikify
18   The True Story (talk)         Orphan
1   Midwest Airlines destinations (talk)         Orphan
0   Helvetic Airways destinations (talk)           Orphan
4   Arak Airport (talk)         Stub
31   AMC Airlines (talk)       Stub
29   Corendon Dutch Airlines (talk)       Stub
22   Avianca Peru (talk)       Stub
78   Freebird Airlines (talk)       Stub
66   Corendon Airlines (talk)         Stub

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VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013

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Did you know?

 

VisualEditor's toolbar has a new feature (currently working only in some browsers), "Switch to source editing". By choosing this item, you can move directly into the wikitext source editor without saving. This is particularly useful if you need to make significant changes to tables, image galleries, or other elements that are not currently supported.

For more information about how to use VisualEditor, read Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

  • Accidental deletion of infoboxes and other items: You now need to press the Delete or ← Backspace key twice to delete a template, reference or image. The first time, the item becomes selected, and the second time, it is removed. The need to press the delete key twice should make it more obvious what you are doing and help avoid accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336).
  • Switch from VisualEditor to the wikitext editor: A new feature lets you make a direct, one-way editing interface change, which will preserve your changes without needing to save the page and re-open it in the wikitext editor (bug 50687). It is available in a new menu in the action buttons by the Cancel button (where the "Page Settings" button used to be). Note that this new feature is not currently working in Firefox.
  • Categories and Languages are also now directly available in that menu. The category suggestions drop-down was appearing in the wrong place rather than below its input box, which is now fixed. An incompatibility between VisualEditor and the deployed Parsoid service that prevented editing categories and language links was fixed.
  • File:, Help: and Category: namespaces: VisualEditor was enabled for these namespaces the on all wikis (bug 55968), the Portal: and Viquiprojecte: namespaces on the Catalan Wikipedia (bug 56000), and the Portal: and Book: namespaces on the English Wikipedia (bug 56001).
  • Media item resizing: We improved how files are viewed in a few ways. First, inline media items can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones (like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug 54298). While you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the current dimensions (bug 54297). Once you have resized it, we fetch a new, higher resolution image for the media item if necessary (bug 55697). Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and should be available next week. If you hold down the ⇧ Shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. The media item resize label now is centered while resizing regardless of which tool you use to resize it.
  • Undo and redo: A number of improvements were made to the transactions system which make undoing and redoing more reliable during real-time collaboration (bug 53224).
  • Save dialogue: The save page was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug 48566), and in the process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it loses focus (bug 50722), or if you review a null edit (bug 53313); its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions options now layout much more cleanly (bug 52175), and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug 51918). There was a bug in the save dialog that caused it to crash if there was an error in loading the page from Parsoid, which is now fixed.
  • Links to other articles or pages sometimes sent people to invalid pages. VisualEditor now keeps track of the context in which you loaded the page, which lets us fix up links in document to point to the correct place regardless of what entry point you launched the editor from—so the content of pages loaded through /wiki/Foobar?veaction=edit and /w/index.php?title=Foobar&veaction=edit both now have text links that work if triggered (bug 48915).
  • Toolbar links: A bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343).
  • Numbered external links: VisualEditor now supports Parsoid's changed representation of numbered external links (bug 53505).
  • Removed empty templates: We also fixed an issue that meant that completely empty templates became impossible to interact with inside VisualEditor, as they didn't show up (bug 55810).
  • Mathematics formulae: If you would like to try the experimental LaTeX mathematics tool in VisualEditor, you will need to opt-in to Beta Features. This is currently available on Meta-wiki, Wikimedia Commons, and Mediawiki.org. It will be available on all other Wikimedia sites on 21 November.
  • Browser testing support: If you are interested in technical details, the browser tests were expanded to cover some basic cursor operations, which uncovered an issue in our testing framework that doesn't work with cursoring in Firefox; the Chrome tests continue to fail due to a bug with the welcome message for that part of the testing framework.
  • Load time: VisualEditor now uses content language when fetching Wikipedia:TemplateData information, so reducing bandwidth use, and users on multi-language or multi-script wikis now get TemplateData hinting for templates as they would expect (bug 50888).
  • Reuse of VisualEditor: Work on spinning out the user experience (UX) framework from VisualEditor into oojs-ui, which lets other teams at Wikimedia (like Flow) and gadget authors re-use VisualEditor UX components, is now complete and is being moved to a shared code repository.
  • Support for private wikis: If you maintain a private wiki at home or at work, VisualEditor now supports editing of private wikis, by forwarding the Cookie: HTTP header to Parsoid ($wgVisualEditorParsoidForwardCookies set to true) (bug 44483). (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)

Looking ahead:

  • VisualEditor will be released to some of the smaller Wikipedias on 02 December 2013. If you are active at one or more smaller Wikipedias where VisualEditor is not yet generally available, please see the list at VisualEditor/Rollouts.
  • Public office hours on IRC to discuss VisualEditor with Product Manager James Forrester will be held on Monday, 2 December, at 1900 UTC and on Tuesday, 3 December, at 0100 UTC. Bring your questions. Logs will be posted on Meta after each office hour completes.
  • In terms of feature improvements, one of the major infrastructure projects affects how inserting characters works, both using your computer's built-in Unicode input systems and through a planned character inserter tool for VisualEditor. The forthcoming rich copying and pasting feature was extended and greater testing is currently being done. Work continues to support the improved reference dialog to quickly add citations based on local templates.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:28, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

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