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DYK nomination of The Infiltrator (2016 film)[edit]

Hello! Your submission of The Infiltrator (2016 film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:53, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

April 2015 Wikification drive.[edit]

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the April drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) One hand on the mouse, one hand on the keyboard... and the feet can do the rest! Hee-hee! (talk) 03:14, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Tim Miller (director)[edit]

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:02, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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VisualEditor News #2—2015[edit]

Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:


Screenshot of Citoid's first dialog


Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:


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After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.


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 VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements[edit]

VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including AfrikaansAzerbaijaniBretonKyrgyzMacedonianMongolianTatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead (T90734).

Looking ahead[edit]

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.

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Today's articles for improvement[edit]

  • Hello Captain Assassin!:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 18 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
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Happy Easter![edit]

File:Chocolate-Easter-Bunny.jpg
All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 21:26, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2015)[edit]

The wheel is one of the most famous and useful inventions in the history of technology
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History of technology


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DYK for The Great Wall (film)[edit]

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Deadpool (film)[edit]

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for The Infiltrator (2016 film)[edit]

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Invite[edit]

A Barnstar!
Please participate

There's a voting going on here. It needs to close, but consensus is not certain. We need more participation. The issues can't remain without a resolution. Please, check it out. Closure of the discussion has started. (refresh) Please, hurry. 78.149.193.255 (talk) 16:31, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Today's articles for improvement[edit]

  • Hello Captain Assassin!:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 19 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
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Orphaned non-free image File:Mad Max Fury Road poster.jpg[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2015)[edit]

A saxophone is an example of an aerophone.
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DYK for The BFG (2016 film)[edit]

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:32, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film)[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Skr15081997 (talk) 08:09, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Meg LeFauve requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Favre1fan93 (talk) 02:55, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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A tag has been placed on Meg LeFauve requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Favre1fan93 (talk) 03:15, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Assassin, don't remove speedy tags from articles you have created. No way around that. I've removed the tag that Favre1fan93 placed. The rule states, "The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance." (emphasis not mine) An Emmy nominee and co-writer of a Pixar film certainly is a credible claim of significance. However, when Favre1fan93 originally placed the tag, the article was only two sentences. Once sentence was about a future film that does nothing for nobility. You need to write a little more than that next time. Bgwhite (talk) 04:41, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

April 2015 GOCE newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors April 2015 Newsletter

March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

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DYK for Joy (film)[edit]

Thanks from the DYK project and I Victuallers (talk) 08:02, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Beau Flynn[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Beau Flynn at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Mchuedem (talk) 20:18, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of The Big Short (film)[edit]

Hello! Your submission of The Big Short (film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 01:19, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Alone in Berlin (film)[edit]

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:01, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2015)[edit]

A satellite image demonstrating the Geography of Niger
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Geography of Niger


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Today's articles for improvement[edit]

  • Hello Captain Assassin!:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 20 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
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DYK QPQs[edit]

Hello Captain Assassin! I've noticed that you've made multiple submissions for DYK, going back to the end of March, and have yet to complete your QPQs on these. Could you please let me know if you intend to do them so that I can decide what to leave open and what to close. They are stacking up. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 12:20, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of The Childhood of a Leader (film)[edit]

Hello! Your submission of The Childhood of a Leader (film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 18:19, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur[edit]

PanydThe muffin is not subtle 14:32, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Today's articles for improvement[edit]

  • Hello Captain Assassin!:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 21 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
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DYK[edit]

Hello. I've been waiting for you to respond to my DYK. Just reminding you. Thanks! Yoshi24517Chat Online 17:23, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just to ask, which prep is the hook going into? Because I believe you are supposed to do that. Yoshi24517Chat Online 17:04, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Yoshi24517: Just relax and sit back now. I've done my duty, now only the promoter will take it to the prep. Thanks for asking nicely and contributing DYK. Cheers. --Captain Assassin! «TCG» 17:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Weren't you the promoter? Sorry, I'm new to DYK. Yoshi24517Chat Online 02:18, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Yoshi24517: No, I'm just a reviewer to accept or reject the nomination. --Captain Assassin! «TCG» 02:40, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2015)[edit]

Hydroelectric dams use hydropower to generate electricity
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Incomplete DYK nomination[edit]

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DYK for Captive (2015 film)[edit]

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:02, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for The Gift (2015 film)[edit]

Harrias talk 18:39, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Today's articles for improvement[edit]

  • Hello Captain Assassin!:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 22 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
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DYK for Jungle Book: Origins[edit]

Harrias talk 19:05, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2024)[edit]

An example of home appliances is this washing machine and clothes dryer combination.
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Home appliance


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WikiCup 2015 May newsletter[edit]

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by India The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Belarus Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:21, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Third Person poster.jpg[edit]

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DYK for The Free State of Jones (film)[edit]

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:40, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Ip Man 3[edit]

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:40, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Today's articles for improvement[edit]

  • Hello Captain Assassin!:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 23 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 09:18, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The Childhood of a Leader (film)[edit]

PanydThe muffin is not subtle 15:10, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2015)[edit]

The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply much of the food and food energy consumed by the world population.
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Food industry


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DYK for Beau Flynn[edit]

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 15:00, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Dave Green (director)[edit]

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 15:00, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Arms and the Dudes[edit]

Harrias talk 06:25, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Precious[edit]

Pakistan and film
Thank you, Rafhan, for quality articles "mostly on the Pakistan topics like geography, sports, actors, televisions, government, politics and education", beginning with your hometown on Pakistan Bhawana, and for your focus on films such as Alone in Berlin and Pacific Rim, for creating and applying categories, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Manchester-by-the-Sea (film)[edit]

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 18:40, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Inferno (2016 film)[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Inferno (2016 film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 12:38, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Ip Man (film series)[edit]

Thank you for your help with DYK Victuallers (talk) 19:09, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell[edit]

Coffee // have a cup // beans // 19:41, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Argo (2012 film)[edit]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Argo (2012 film) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Viriditas -- Viriditas (talk) 21:01, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Per the review page, I am not comfortable as the reviewer so I have closed the discussion. You are welcome and within your rights to do whatever it takes to find another reviewer. The easiest way to do this is to close the review (as if you were failing it per the instructions) and then immediately renominate it. You can also request that the original review page (GA1) be deleted. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 02:45, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of I Am Wrath[edit]

Hello! Your submission of I Am Wrath at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 15:39, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of 13 Hours (film)[edit]

Hello! Your submission of 13 Hours (film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 15:41, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Inferno (2016 film)[edit]

Harrias talk 20:11, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Birdman (film)[edit]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Birdman (film) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Rusted AutoParts -- Rusted AutoParts (talk) 03:23, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled Cold War thriller listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2015)[edit]

Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried. Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth
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Today's articles for improvement[edit]

  • Hello Captain Assassin!:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 24 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
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Million Award[edit]

The Million Award
For your contributions to bring Gravity (film) (estimated annual readership: 826,607) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Bobnorwal (talk) 16:06, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Birdman (film)[edit]

The article Birdman (film) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Birdman (film) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Rusted AutoParts -- Rusted AutoParts (talk) 13:02, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Million Award[edit]

The Million Award
For your contributions to bring Birdman (film) (estimated annual readership: 4,681,070) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Bobnorwal (talk) 14:44, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't I just here giving you another award a few days ago? You're on a roll, man. Great job! Bobnorwal (talk) 14:44, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PS Do you know anybody else I should give this award to for helping to get the Birdman article to GA? Bobnorwal (talk) 14:46, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Bobnorwal, thank you for both awards. I really don't know if there's anyone other, I'm sorry. --Captain Assassin! «TCG» 15:44, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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A tag has been placed on Khatm-e-Nabuwat Chowk requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content or organised event, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Proposed deletion of Khatm-e-Nabuwat Chowk[edit]

The article Khatm-e-Nabuwat Chowk has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No notability shown. I could not find this to be a notable landmark in any way. Is it historical? Is it importance because of architecture? WP:MILL appears to be the policy of note here. It is just a local square, nothing more.

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DYK for I Am Wrath[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2015)[edit]

Chocolate most commonly comes in dark (bottom), milk (middle), and white (top) varieties
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TAFI week 22, 2015 update[edit]

Please note that Personality is also an article for improvement for week 22, 2015. Thank you.

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Your GA nomination of Argo (2012 film)[edit]

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DYK nomination of Birdman (film)[edit]

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GA Review[edit]

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DYK for The Big Short (film)[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2015)[edit]

The term Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight automobile with off road capabilities and sparse bodywork.
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DYK for Deepwater Horizon (film)[edit]

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June 2015 Wikification drive.[edit]

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the June drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) "A wiki of beauty is a joy forever." Seriously. That's how long it'd take to read! (talk) 04:16, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE June 2015 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2015 News

May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, and we got within 50 articles of our all-time low in the backlog. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Coordinator elections: Nominations are open through June 15 for GOCE coordinators, with voting from June 16–30. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88.

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VisualEditor News #3—2015[edit]

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements[edit]

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together[edit]

  • Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.
  • If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
  • If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2015)[edit]

An example of sport – a view of the 1906 unofficial Olympic Games
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DYK for How to Be Single (film)[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2015)[edit]

People enjoying the nightlife at a nightclub in Cape Town, South Africa
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DYK for 13 Hours (film)[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2015)[edit]

The amounts of fat types in selected foods
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Your GA nomination of The Interview (2014 film)[edit]

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Timeless (2014 film) listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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DYK nomination of Goon: Last of the Enforcers[edit]

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DYK nomination of USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage[edit]

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DYK nomination of The Greens Are Gone[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2015)[edit]

A party in celebration of the Chinese Year of the Ox at a restaruant
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Your GA nomination of The Interview (2014 film)[edit]

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