User talk:Numbermaniac/Archive 9

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on the new citation tool, improving performance, reducing technical debt, and other infrastructure needs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks is the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". The new citation menu offers a locally configurable list of citation templates on the main toolbar. It adds or opens references using the simplified template dialog that was deployed last month. This tool is in addition to the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu, and it is not displayed unless it has been configured for that wiki. To enable this tool on your wiki, see the instructions at VisualEditor/Citation tool.

Eventually, the VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for these citations. When this long-awaited feature is created, you could add an ISBN, URL, DOI or other identifier to the citation tool, and VisualEditor would automatically fill in as much information for that source as possible. The concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog, and your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted.

• There is a new Beta Feature for setting content language and direction.  This allows editors who have opted in to use the "Language" tool in the "Insert" menu to add HTML span tags that label text with the language and as being left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL), like this:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span>. This tool is most useful for pages whose text combines multiple languages with different directions, common on Right-to-Left wikis.
• The tool for editing mathematics formulae in VisualEditor has been slightly updated and is now available to all users, as the "⧼math-visualeditor-mwmathinspector-title⧽" item in the "Insert" menu. It uses LaTeX like in the wikitext editor.
• The layout of template dialogs has been changed, putting the label above the field.  Parameters are now called "fields", to avoid a technical term that many editors are unfamiliar with.
• TemplateData has been expanded:  You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData, and VisualEditor will display them in the template dialogs like required ones.  "Suggested" is recommended for parameters that are commonly used, but not actually required to make the template work.  There is also a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name, for file names.  The template tool can now tell you if a parameter is marked as being obsolete.
• Some templates that previously displayed strangely due to absolute CSS positioning hacks should now display correctly.
• Several messages have changed: The notices shown when you save a page have been merged into those used in the wikitext editor, for consistency.  The message shown when you "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽" out of an edit is clearer. The beta dialog notice, which is shown the first time you open VisualEditor, will be hidden for logged-in users via a user preference rather than a cookie.  As a result of this change, the beta notice will show up one last time for all logged-in users on their next VisualEditor use after Thursday's upgrade.
• Adding a category that is a redirect to another category prompts you to add the target category instead of the redirect.
• In the "Images and media" dialog, it is no longer possible to set a redundant border for thumbnail and framed images.
• There is a new Template Documentation Editor for TemplateData.  You can test it by editing a documentation subpage (not a template page) at Mediawiki.org: edit mw:Template:Sandbox/doc, and then click "Manage template documentation" above the wikitext edit box.  If your community would like to use this TemplateData editor at your project, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
• There have been multiple small changes to the appearance:  External links are shown in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.  This is a lighter shade of blue than the internal links.  The styling of the "Style text" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin.  VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽" dialog, now use a "loading" animation of moving lines, rather than animated GIF images.  Other changes were made to the appearance upon opening a page in VisualEditor which should make the transition between reading and editing be smoother.
• The developers merged in many minor fixes and improvements to MediaWiki interface integration (e.g., edit notices), and made VisualEditor handle Education Program pages better.
• At the request of the community, VisualEditor has been deployed to Commons as an opt-in. It is currently available by default for 161 Wikipedia language editions and by opt-in through Beta Features at all others, as well as on several non-Wikipedia sites.

Looking ahead:  The toolbar from the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. More buttons and icons will be accessible from the keyboard.  The "Keyboard shortcuts" link will be moved out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) and inline images is being developed. You will be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. VisualEditor will be available to all users on mobile devices and tablet computers. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

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In reference to your point 1.B., I thought you might be interested in the following, from Wikipedia:Citing sources#When and why to cite sources:

.... Citations are also often discouraged in the lead section of an article, insofar as it summarizes information for which sources are given later in the article, although such things as quotations and particularly controversial statements should be supported by citations even in the lead.

Just a friendly heads-up for future GA reviews. Thanks!—D'Ranged 1 VT^alk 18:06, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

I somehow missed this. Thanks for the heads up :) -- ^t numbermaniac ^c 23:46, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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Hello Numbermaniac. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

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Since you self-identify as a road geek, and are interested in the current activity of Kilauea, you might enjoy Chain of Craters Road. Awien (talk) 23:10, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi there Numbermaniac, Just to explain my reversion at Monash Freeway:

• MOS:ICON – icons (including route shields/markers) should not be placed within prose – MOS:RJL specifies that they should be at the beginning of the line.
• MOS:ACCESS – We need to remember accessibility for those users that can't see well or at all, and use a screen reader, or those that have turned all images off in there browser. Therefore, we need to provide text for the road routes, not just the shield – which additionally helps readers who don't know what those symbols actually mean, such as people from elsewhere in the world (Wikipedia has a global audience). This is actually specified in MOS:RJL
• Another issue is that junctions should be in the destination column, including those at the beginning and end of a road, not the notes column, which is for additional notes about that junctions – also in MOS:RJL

Thanks, - Evad37 [talk] 02:14, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Fair enough then. Thanks. -- ^t numbermaniac ^c 05:20, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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In Wuzi of Han (Spring and Autumn) it talks much about "Han Wan"-- is he the same person as this Wuzi of Han? The page nowhere says. tahc ^chat 06:17, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

@Tahc: I only edited that article to fix a redirect, so I don't know much about the subject. You might be better off contacting the author of the article. Thanks. -- numbermaniac (talk) 04:20, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I've been using User:Numbermaniac/goToTop.js for a little while, and I find it useful. But do you think it would improve it to have a "▼ Go to bottom" button when at the top? This would help me on long talk pages. Eman235/talk 19:14, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

I didn't realise people were finding it useful! Thanks for the idea, I'll try and add it in. -- numbermaniac (talk) 04:00, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Yep, the VPs (and some talk pages) get very long sometimes. Eman235/talk 05:07, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@Eman235: Turns out I'm having trouble making it work. Would you be able to help? -- numbermaniac (talk) 08:21, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Not me, I don't know much about js other than installing it. Perhaps someone at WP:VP/T would be able to help? Eman235/talk 14:41, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

@Eman235: I kind of did it. It works, except it doesn't disappear when you're at the bottom of a page. If you want to test it, you can add importScript('User:Numbermaniac/goToBottom.js'), and it should appear at the bottom right (rather than the bottom left, since Go to top is already there). Thanks! -- numbermaniac (talk) 04:04, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

That works very well, other than the bug. Thanks!

Maybe you should try reversing the "if" and "else" statements—if the page is scrolled to the bottom, $topButton.css('bottom', '-30px'); else $topButton.css('bottom', '4px');. (Does that make any sense at all, or am I just crazy?) Eman235/talk 23:57, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

The idea is that, if your current scroll position is less than the height of the document minus the height of the footer, you're most likely not at the bottom. Otherwise, you probably are. I tried reversing it as you suggested, didn't work. I've found a possible solution, I'm going to try it now. -- numbermaniac (talk) 11:02, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Right, so that function doesn't do what I thought it'd do. It's late now, I'll be back tomorrow. :) -- numbermaniac (talk) 11:12, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

@Eman235: Ok, instead what it'll do is that it will disappear when you're more than 80% down the page. That means it may not disappear on very short pages, but otherwise it should. :) -- numbermaniac (talk) 03:25, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

That's great, thanks! Eman235/talk 01:19, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Numbermaniac,

As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).

Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.

Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.

It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.

(Sent to all active AfC reviewers) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

16:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for patrolling new pages. I'm just letting you know that I have removed the tags you placed on SS Lawton B. Evans and passed the article for inclusion. Articles you tag will not be passed as reviewed until checked by a New Page Reviewer. Please consider reading the instructions for patrolling new pages. Thanks.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:40, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. -- numbermaniac (talk) 08:09, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))

AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)