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Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library
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Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for:
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- British Newspaper Archive
: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
- Highbeam
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- 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!
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The Wikipedia Library Team
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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
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m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter
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Did you know?
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
.
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 "Mas" item
, such as "Subrayar" 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.
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 "Editar los datos de la plantilla" 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 "sugerido" or "opcional" in TemplateData instead.
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.
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
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. Thank you!
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