Användardiskussion:MickOhrberg
Translation request
[redigera wikitext]Greetings. A while ago you helped with translation for single-user login finalization. Could you take some time to review the two messages that will be sent of affected community members soon? The pages are here and here. Thank you for your time, happy editing to you. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 4 februari 2015 kl. 05.10 (CET)
- Hello! I sure will - thanks! -- ЩαяяαЖК (diskussion) 4 februari 2015 kl. 05.32 (CET)
VisualEditor News #4—2015
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![VisualEditor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
Did you know?
You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.
Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).
![Screenshot showing the special character tool, selected text, and the special character that will be inserted](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/VisualEditor_Special_character_inserter_quotation_2.png/230px-VisualEditor_Special_character_inserter_quotation_2.png)
Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.
![Screenshot showing the special character tool and the same text after the special character has been inserted](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/VisualEditor_Special_character_inserter_quotation_3.png/230px-VisualEditor_Special_character_inserter_quotation_3.png)
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
Wikimania
[redigera wikitext]The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.
For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Recent improvements
[redigera wikitext]Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.
Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
Future changes
[redigera wikitext]The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
Let's work together
[redigera wikitext]- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now using Flow instead of LiquidThreads.
- Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mediawiki.org if you can help.
- If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
- Please file requests for language-appropriate "Fet" and "Kursiv" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
- The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
- The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
—Elitre (WMF), 15 augusti 2015 kl. 00.27 (CEST)
VisualEditor News #5—2015
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![VisualEditor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
Did you know?
![Screenshot showing the menu for switching from the wikitext editor to the visual editor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Switching_edit_modes_to_VisualEditor_on_Mobile_web.png/230px-Switching_edit_modes_to_VisualEditor_on_Mobile_web.png)
Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Byt till visuell redigering".
The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
[redigera wikitext]Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Länk and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.
Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.
Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Infoga Bilder och media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.
Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Radera" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.
Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.
On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.
Future changes
[redigera wikitext]You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
Let's work together
[redigera wikitext]- Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
- Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
- Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then 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 weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
—Elitre (WMF), 30 oktober 2015 kl. 19.18 (CET)
VisualEditor News #6—2015
[redigera wikitext]![The visual editor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
Did you know?
A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.
![Screenshot showing a pop-up dialog for switching from the wikitext editor to the visual editor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/VisualEditor_single_edit_tab_preference_dialog.png/223px-VisualEditor_single_edit_tab_preference_dialog.png)
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:
![Screenshot showing a drop-down menu in Special:Preferences](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/VisualEditor_single_edit_tab_in_preferences_2015-12-18.png/230px-VisualEditor_single_edit_tab_in_preferences_2015-12-18.png)
The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
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Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
[redigera wikitext]You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
Future changes
[redigera wikitext]The single edit tab project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Redigering tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Redigeringsläge:".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)
Testing opportunities
[redigera wikitext]- Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
- Kom ihåg min senaste redigerare,
- Ge mig alltid den visuella redigeraren om möjligt,
- Ge mig alltid källtextredigeraren, and
- Visa mig båda redigeringsflikarna. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
- Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Tack!
Elitre (WMF), 25 december 2015 kl. 01.03 (CET)
VisualEditor News #1—2016
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![The visual editor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
Visste du att?
Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.
![Screenshot showing a pop-up menu for column operations in a table](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/VisualEditor_table_menu_move_column.png/230px-VisualEditor_table_menu_move_column.png)
If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.
Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
Senaste ändringar
[redigera wikitext]You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
Framtida ändringar
[redigera wikitext]The single edit tab project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Redigering tab of Special:Preferences:
- Kom ihåg min senaste redigerare,
- Ge mig alltid den visuella redigeraren om möjligt,
- Ge mig alltid källtextredigeraren, and
- Visa mig båda redigeringsflikarna. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.
Let's work together
[redigera wikitext]- Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
- Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer David Chan needs to know. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org.
- If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Tack!
Elitre (WMF), 26 februari 2016 kl. 20.22 (CET)
Editing News #2—2016
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![VisualEditor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
It's quick and easy to insert a references list.
![Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with many items](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/VisualEditor_References_List_Insert_Menu-en.png/150px-VisualEditor_References_List_Insert_Menu-en.png)
Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Infoga" menu and click the "Referenslista" icon (three books).
If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "Infoga" in the dialog to insert the Referenslista. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
Recent changes
[redigera wikitext]The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Redigering" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
Future changes
[redigera wikitext]The "Spara sidan" button will say "Publicera sida". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
Let's work together
[redigera wikitext]- Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
- Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Tack!
3 juli 2016 kl. 19.18 (CEST)
Editing News #3—2016
[redigera wikitext]Läs detta på ett annat språk • Prenumerationslista för detta flerspråkiga nyhetsbrev
![VisualEditor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
![Skärmbild som visar en dropdownmeny med valmöjligheter för att redigera tabellstruktur](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/VisualEditor_table_editing_menu.png/220px-VisualEditor_table_editing_menu.png)
Välj en cell i den kolumn eller rad du vill flytta. Klicka på pilen i början på raden eller kolumnen för att öppna dropdownmenyn (visad). Välj antingen "Flytta framför" eller "Flytta bakom" för att flytta kolumnen eller "Flytta upp" eller "Flytta ner" för att flytta raden.
Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarhandledningen, som har mer information om hur man använder den visuella redigeraren.
Sedan det sista nyhetsbrevet har VisualEditor-teamet primärt arbetat på en ny wikitextredigerare. De har också släppt några nya små funktioner och det nya kartredigeringensverktyget. Deras arbetstavla finns på Phabricator. Du kan hitta länkar till listor på arbete som slutförts varje vecka på mw:VisualEditor/Veckovisa triagemöten. Deras nuvarande prioriteter är att reparera fel, utgivningen av 2017 års wikitextredigerare som en betafunktion, och videreutveckling av språkstöd.
Senaste ändringar
[redigera wikitext]- Du kan nu göra text liten eller stor.[1]
- Osynliga mallar har visats som en pusselbitsikon. Nu visas även namnet på den osynliga mallen bredvid pusselbitsikonen.[2] En liknande funktion kommer att visa första delen av gömda HTML-kommentarer.[3]
- Kategorier visas mot slutet av varje sida. Om du klickar på kategorierna öppnas en dialogruta för att redigera kategorier.[4]
- På många wikis kan du nu lägga till kartor på sidor. Gå till Infoga-menyn och välj "Kartor". Discoveryavdelningen håller på att lägga till funktioner här, såsom geoshapes. Du kan läsa mer på mediawiki.org.[5]
- "Spara"-knappen säger nu "Spara sida" när du skapar en sida, och "Spara ändringar" när du redigerar en existerande sida.[6] I framtiden kommer "Spara sidan"-knappen att säga "Publicera sida". Denna ändring påverkar både det visuella och wikitextredigeringssystemet. Mer information finns tillgängligt på Meta.
- Bildgallerier använder nu ett visuellt redigeringsläge. Du kan se miniatyrversioner av bilderna, lägga till nya filer, ta bort bilder, arrangera om bilderna genom att dra och släppa, och lägga till bildtexter för varje bild. Använd fliken "Val" för att sätta galleriets visningsläge, bildstorlekar, och ge galleriet en titel.[7]
Framtida ändringar
[redigera wikitext]Den visuella redigeraren kommer att erbjudas till alla skribenter på de 10 kvarvarande Wikipedias i fas 6 under den kommande månaden. Utvecklarna vill veta om du tycker att det känns naturligt att skriva i ditt eget språk i den visuella redigeraren. Posta gärna dina kommentarer och det eller de språk du testade på återkopplingstråden på mediawiki.org. Detta påverkar ett flertal språk, inklusive thai, burmesiska och arameiska.
Teamet jobbar på en modern wikitextredigerare. Wikitextredigeraren för 2017 kommer att se ut som den visuella redigeraren och kunna hantera citoid-servicen samt andra moderna verktyg. Det nya redigeringssystemet kan komma att göras tillgängligt som en betafunktion på desktopsystem i oktober 2016. Du kan läsa om projektet på en allmän statusuppdatering på Wikimedias epostlista.
Låt oss jobba tillsammans
[redigera wikitext]- Visar du nya skribenter hur man använder den visuella redigeraren? Hjälpte du till med att ställa in den automatiska referensfunktionen Citoid på din wiki? Har du skrivit eller importerat TemplateData för de viktigaste källmallarna? Skulle du vara villig att hjälpa nya ny skribenter och små gemenskaper med den visuella redigeraren? I så fall - anmäl dig till den nya VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
- Om du inte läser detta i ditt föredragna språk, hjälp gärna till med översättningar! Prenumerera på Translators epostlista eller kontakta oss direkt så vi kan tala om för dig när nästa utskick är redo. Tack!
15 oktober 2016 kl. 19.48 (CEST)
Editing News #1—2017
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![VisualEditor](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
Visste du att du kan granska dina ändringar med en visuell diff?
![Skärmdump som visar ändringar i en artikel. Textformatering lyfter fram de flesta ändringar.](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/VisualEditor_visual_diff_tool_-_visual_diff.png/219px-VisualEditor_visual_diff_tool_-_visual_diff.png)
I visuellt läge kan du se tillägg, borttagningar, nya länkar och textformatering. Andra ändringar, så som ändrad storlek av bild, beskrivs vid sidan av.
![Du kan växla mellan visuell- och wikitextredigering; visuell redigering är vald.](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/VisualEditor_visual_diff_tool_-_toggle_button.png/220px-VisualEditor_visual_diff_tool_-_toggle_button.png)
Klicka på växlingsknappen för att byta mellan visuella diffar och wikitextdiffar.
![Skärmdump som visar samma ändringar, med tvåkolumnswikitextdiffvisningen.](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/VisualEditor_visual_diff_tool_-_wikitext_diff.png/219px-VisualEditor_visual_diff_tool_-_wikitext_diff.png)
Wikitextdiffarna är samma redigeringsverionsverktyg som används wikitexteditorn och sidhistoriken. Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarguiden som har mer information om hur man använder VisualEditor.
Sedan det senaste nyhetsbrevet har VisualEditor-teamet ägnat större delen av sin tid åt stöd för det nya wikitextredigeringsläget 2017 vilket finns inom VisualEditor som betafunktion och lägger till visuella redigeringsversionsjämförelseverktyget. Deras arbete går att följa på Phabricator. Du kan hitta länkar till listor på arbete som slutförts varje vecka på mw:VisualEditor/Veckovisa triagemöten. Deras nuvarande prioriteringar är att fixa buggar, utveckla den nya wikitexteditorn från 2017 som betafunktion, och förbättra de visuella diffarna.
Senaste ändringar
[redigera wikitext]- Ett nytt wikitextredigeringsläge' finns som betafunktion för enheter som använder datorvyn. 2017 års wikitexteditor har samma verktygsfält som VisualEditor och kan använda Citoid och andra moderna verktyg. Gå till Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures för att slå på ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
- Ett nytt visuellt redigeringsverionsjämförelseverktyg finns i VisualEditors visuella läge. Du kan växla mellan wikitextdiffar och visuella diffar. Fler funktioner kommer att läggas till detta senare. I framtiden kan det här verktyget komma att integreras i flera MediaWiki-komponenter. [8]
- Teamet har lagt till flerkolumnstöd för fotnoter.
<references />
kan nu automatiskt visa långa källistor i kolumner på breda skärmar. Detta göra fotnoter enklare att läsa. Du kan begära att få flerkolumnsstöd för din wiki. [9] - Du kan nu använda din webbläsares funtkion för att växla åt vilket håll du skriver i det nya wikitextläget. Det är särskilt hjälpsamt för språk som skrivs från höger till vänster, som urdu eller hebreiska, när de måste skiva javascript eller CSS. Du kan använda Kommando+Shift+X eller Kontroll+Shift+X för detta. [10]
- Hur du växlar mellan wikitext och VisualEditor är nu konsekvent. Det finns en nedfällningsbar meny som visar de båda alternativen. Detta är samma i mobilvy och datorvy och i funktioner som bäddar in redigering, som Flow. [11]
- Kategorier-knappen har flyttats till toppen av Sidalternativ-menyn (från att klicka på "hamburgar"-ikonen) för snabbare och smidigare tillgänglighet. [12] Det finns nu också en "mallar som används på den här sidan"-funktion där. [13]
- Du kan nu skapa
<chem>
-taggar (ibland används<ce>
) för kemiska formler i VisualEditor. [14] - Tabeller kan ställas in som minimerade eller ej. [15]
- Specialtecken-menyn innehåller nu tecken för att skriva kanadensiska ursprungsspråk samt vinkelcitationstecken. Teamet vill tacka till Tpt för detta. [16]
- En bugg gjorde att en del avsnittsredigeringskonflikter ledde till att resten av sidan togs bort. Detta har fixats. Teamet ber om ursäkt. [17]
- Det finns ett nytt kortkommando för att citera källor:
Kontroll
+Shift
+K
på PC ellerKommando
+Shift
+K
på mac. Detta är baserat på kortkommandot för att göra länkar, vilket ärKontroll
+K
respektiveKommando
+K
. [18]
Framtida ändringar
[redigera wikitext]- Teamet arbetar på ett verktyg för att göra det enklare att skilja på brödtext och wikikod. Det kommer att göra det enklare att se matchande
<ref>
-taggspar och andra delar av wikikoden. Du kommer att kunna slå på och av det. Det kommer först att komma i VisualEditors inbyggda wikitextläge, kanske sent 2017. [19] - Den typ av knapp som används för Visa förhandsgranskning, Visa ändringar och för att spara en redigering kommer att ändras i alla Wikimedia Foundation-stödda wikitextredigerare. De nya knapparna kommer att använda OOjs-utseendet. Knapparna kommer att vara större, ljusare och enklare att läsa. Deras namn kommer att förbli vad de är. Du kan testa de nya knapparna genom att redigera en sida och lägga till
&ooui=1
i slutet av webbadressen, som här https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 Det gamla utseendet kommer inte att kunna bevaras, ens med lokala CSS-ändringar. [20] - Det gamla wikitextredigeringsläget från 2006 kommer att tas bort senare i år. Det används av uppskattningsvis 0,03 % av våra aktiva användare. Se listan över redigeringsverktyg på mediawiki.org om du är osäker på vilken du använder. [21]
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12 maj 2017 kl. 19.59 (CEST)
Editing News #1—2018
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![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
Känner du till att du nu kan använda det visuella verktyget för "diffar" på alla sidor?
![Screenshot showing some changes, in the two-column wikitext diff display](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Wikitext_diff_paragraph_move_correcting_vandalism_2018.png/250px-Wikitext_diff_paragraph_move_correcting_vandalism_2018.png)
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
![Toggle button showing visual and wikitext options; visual option is selected](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/VisualEditor_visual_diff_tool_-_toggle_button.png/200px-VisualEditor_visual_diff_tool_-_toggle_button.png)
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Andra ändringar, såsom ändring av bildstorlek, beskrivs i notiser på sidan.
![Screenshot showing the same changes to an article. Most changes are highlighted with text formatting.](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Visual_diff_paragraph_move_correcting_vandalism_2018.png/250px-Visual_diff_paragraph_move_correcting_vandalism_2018.png)
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.
Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarhandledningen, där det finns mer information om hur man använder den visuella redigeraren.
Sedan det senaste nyhetsbrevet har redigerings-teamet lagt ned det mesta av sin tid på att supporta 2017 års nya wikikod-editor, som finns tillgänglig som beta-version i VisualEditor. De har också arbetat med att förbättra det visuella diff-verktyget. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Du hittar länkar till föregående veckas slutförda arbetsuppgifter på mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
Senaste ändringar
[redigera wikitext]- The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Utvecklarna har jämfört prestandan i olika redigeringsverktyg. De har studerat hur länge det tar att öppna en sida och börja skriva. Studien omfattar data från mer än en million redigeringar under december och januari. En del ändringar har genomförts för att förbättra hastigheten i 2017 års wikikod-editor och VisualEditor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. Du kan se mer information på mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
- The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [22]
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [23]
- Citoid-verktyget konvertrar automatiskt URL-adresser, DOI- och ISBN-nummer samt PubMed id-nummer till källhänvisningar i wikikod. Det är ett mycket populärt och användbart verktyg, men kan vara svårt att konfigurera. Din wiki kan få access till verktyget, vänligen läs vägledningen om hur du går tillväga. Du kan be utvecklar-teamet om hjälp med att aktivera verktyget på din wiki.
Låt oss samarbeta
[redigera wikitext]- The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
- Wikibooks, Wikiversity och andra wikier i gemenskapen kan få tillgång till VisualEditor som förvald standard. Vänligen kontakta Dan Garry ifall din wiki önskar använda VisualEditor som förvalt redgeringssätt.
- The
<references />
block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [24] - If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Tack!
2 mars 2018 kl. 21.54 (CET)
Editing News #2—2018
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![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
![Screenshot showing the location of the pencil icon](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Mobile_editing_watchlist_star_editing_pencil.png/250px-Mobile_editing_watchlist_star_editing_pencil.png)
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
![Toolbar with menu opened](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Visual_editing_mobile_switch_wikitext.png/250px-Visual_editing_mobile_switch_wikitext.png)
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
[redigera wikitext]- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [25]
Let's work together
[redigera wikitext]- The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Tack!
2 november 2018 kl. 15.15 (CET)
Editing News #1—July 2019
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![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/VisualEditor-logo.svg/200px-VisualEditor-logo.svg.png)
Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.
Edit Cards
![Toolbar with menu opened](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/EditCards-v.20.png/250px-EditCards-v.20.png)
This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases
[redigera wikitext]The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
[redigera wikitext]This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
[redigera wikitext]- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
[redigera wikitext]The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
23 juli 2019 kl. 20.33 (CEST)
Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Hjälp
[redigera wikitext]What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Berätta hur du har använt en diskussionssida. Dela en länk till en minnesvärd diskussion eller sammanfatta den på det här projektets diskussionssida. Teamet vill gärna ha dina exempel. Dessa kommer att hjälpa oss att skapa en gemensam förståelse för vad det här projektet borde stödja och uppmuntra.
Diskussionssideprojektet
[redigera wikitext]The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Den visuella redigeraren för mobila enheter
[redigera wikitext]The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Edit_Cards-before-v3-comparison.png/486px-Edit_Cards-before-v3-comparison.png)
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Toolbar-comparison-v1.png/486px-Toolbar-comparison-v1.png)
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
[redigera wikitext]Redigerarteamet besökte Wikimania 2019 i Sverige. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
[redigera wikitext]- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
29 oktober 2019 kl. 12.11 (CET)
Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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![Screenshot showing what the Reply tool looks like](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/TalkPages-Reply-v1.0.png/300px-TalkPages-Reply-v1.0.png)
The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
![Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png/300px-TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png)
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new svara tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
- an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
- a rich-text visual editing option, and
- other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
8 april 2020 kl. 21.05 (CEST)
Editing news 2020 #2
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![Mockup of the new reply feature, showing new editing tools](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png/400px-TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png)
This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Diskussionsverktyg". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@
. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
17 juni 2020 kl. 22.29 (CEST)
Editing news 2020 #3
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![A gold star with a blue ribbon, and the text 50m](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/50M%402x.png)
Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
- More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩🚀
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
9 juli 2020 kl. 14.48 (CEST)
Editing news 2020 #4
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Reply tool
[redigera wikitext]![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Reply_Tool_weekly_edits-_March_-_June%2C_2020.png/247px-Reply_Tool_weekly_edits-_March_-_June%2C_2020.png)
The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.
- More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
- Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
- Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[26]
The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).
The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.
New requirements for user signatures
[redigera wikitext]- The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
- Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.
Next: New discussion tool
[redigera wikitext]Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.
31 augusti 2020 kl. 17.11 (CEST)
Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
[redigera wikitext]![Graph of Reply tool and full-page wikitext edit completion rates](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Junior_Contributor_Reply_Tool_and_full_page_edit_completion_rate.png/300px-Junior_Contributor_Reply_Tool_and_full_page_edit_completion_rate.png)
The Reply tool is available at most Wikipedias.
- The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
- It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.
Research notes:
- As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
- We have preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[27]
- The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[28] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
A large A/B test will start soon.[29] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. You can still turn it on or off for your own account in Special:Preferences.
New discussion tool
[redigera wikitext]![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/New_Discussion_Tool_v1.0.png/380px-New_Discussion_Tool_v1.0.png)
The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[30] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.
Next: Notifications
[redigera wikitext]![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/White_square_with_question_mark.png/60px-White_square_with_question_mark.png)
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at notifications-talk.
21 januari 2021 kl. 19.38 (CET)
Editing news 2021 #2
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![Junior contributors comment completion rate across all participating Wikipedias](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Reply_Tool_A-B_test_comment_completion.png/296px-Reply_Tool_A-B_test_comment_completion.png)
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
- The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Diskussionsverktyg" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
24 juni 2021 kl. 16.12 (CEST)
Redigeringsnyheter 2022 #1
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Det nya ämnesverktyget hjälper redigare skapa nya ==Avsnitt== på diskussionssidor. Nya redigerare lyckas bättre med det nya verktyget. Du kan läsa rapporten. Snart kommer redigeringsgruppen att erbjuda detta till alla redaktörer på de 20 Wikipedior som deltog i testet. Det kommer gå att stänga av den på Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
Whatamidoing (WMF) 2 maj 2022 kl. 20.43 (CEST)
Editing news 2022 #2
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![Grafik över en 90-minuters responstid utan det nya verktyget och 39-minuters responstid med verktyget](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Desktop_Topic_Subscriptions_median_response_time.png/250px-Desktop_Topic_Subscriptions_median_response_time.png)
Den nya [följ]-knappen meddelar folk när någon svarar på deras kommentarer. Det hjälper nykomlingar få svar på sina frågor. Folk svarar snabbare. Man kan läsa rapporten. Redigeringsteamet aktiverar verktyget för alla. Det kommer gå att stänga av det i sina inställningar.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) 30 augusti 2022 kl. 01.35 (CEST)
Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:
- The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
- They are beginning a new project, Edit check.
Talk pages project
![Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png/300px-Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png)
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Diskussionsverktyg.
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Nytt ämne" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.
![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Daily_edit_completion_rates_mobile_talk_pages.png/300px-Daily_edit_completion_rates_mobile_talk_pages.png)
An A/B test for Diskussionsverktyg on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Diskussionsverktyg. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publicera ändringar". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (Diskussion) 23 februari 2023 kl. 00.17 (CET)