Cup o' Java

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::::I can't believe that none of it was there. Your edit was dated 9 January 2013, but you removed significantly older text - some was dated 7 January 2013. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 00:37, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

:::::Please take my statement in good faith. Don't assume that I am lying to you and that I have some alterior motive. If the content I removed was there while I was editing, deleting it was just an accident. It is unnecessary to reply to my comment saying you don't believe what I'm saying is true. It is a sign of disrespect, and I believe everyone here on Wikipedia deserves respect whether or not it seems as though he/she is lying. [[User:Cup o' Java|Cup o' Java]] 2013-01-10T19:45:00

== VisualEditor newsletter for 21 August 2013 ==

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|below='''Did you know?''' [[:mw:Parsoid|Parsoid]] is a tool that translates between the raw wikitext that Wikipedia articles are stored in, and the HTML/RDFa that VisualEditor uses on your screen. If you see chess pawn (♙) or snowman (☃) icons in an article, it usually means that Parsoid has encountered something confusing in the wikitext markup. Please report these problems to [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback]].}}

Both [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor|VisualEditor]] and [[:mw:MediaWiki 1.22/wmf12|MediaWiki]] were upgraded recently. For VisualEditor, this is the long-awaited post-[[Wikimania]] update with many bug fixes and enhancements. Work also continues on '''speed at opening and during use''', as well as on the bugs reported here and at other Wikipedias. The full report is [[:mw:VisualEditor/status#2013-08-15_.28MW_1.22wmf13.29|at Mediawiki]].

'''References''' are displaying properly, even when nested ({{bug|50749}}) or in image captions ({{bug|52427)}}. Reference lists are now always fully populated with references ([[bugzilla:50094|bug 50094]]). Firefox users can insert an existing reference in the first paragraph ({{bug|52159}}). Opera users no longer see corruption of categories when a reference was added ([[bugzilla:50385|bug 50385]]).

'''Stray spaces''' are being stripped from the start of paragraphs to end one of the common <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> problems ({{bug|51462}}). We also fixed a round-tripping bug that caused desirable '''whitespace in templates''' (used to make templates more legible, e.g., by putting each parameter in an infobox on a separate line) to get corrupted ([[bugzilla:51150|bug 51150]]).

'''Wikilink handling''' was improved. Users are not allowed to create internal links to invalid titles (titles that are actually impossible due to limits on acceptable character combinations in titles, not redlinks) ({{bug|33094}}). You can extend wikilinks, but it won't do so over a wordbreak (like a space) (bugs [[bugzilla:49931|49931]] and [[bugzilla:51463|51463]]).

A handful of fixes to the user interface were made. The '''toolbar''' doesn't float over personal tools after opening a dialog or the inspector ({{bug|52441}}). Toolbars were also re-written to be collapsible/expandable, with room for more icons. Buttons in dialogs can now be activated using the {{key press|Tab}} and {{key press|Shift|Tab}} key commands ([[bugzilla:50047|bug 50047]]). This saves time for editors, because you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to click a button. We fixed a handful of bugs that affected only certain articles or certain browsers, including toolbar buttons in Firefox ([[bugzilla:51986|bug 51986]]) and dialog panels that didn't always scroll correctly ([[bugzilla:51739|bug 51739]]). Bugs with undo/redo getting confused have been fixed ({{bug|52113}}).

'''Images''', in addition to getting references displaying correctly, also saw improvements with a set-empty {{para|link}} parameter no longer corrupted (51963). We corrected thumbnail images' display so that they look don't wrong in some contexts ([[bugzilla:51995|bug 51995]]). Inserted images no longer explicitly set their alignment, but instead inherit the default position in compliance with the Manual of Style ([[bugzilla:51851|bug 51851]]).

More '''edit notices, warnings, and metadata''' like information about [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|Pending Changes]] on an article now appear as appropriate ([[bugzilla:49699|bug 49699]]). When new articles are created, users are now shown the ''<newarticletext>'' message ([[bugzilla:51459|bug 51459]]). VisualEditor now handles templates that set "meta" items (like a category) and nothing else better ([[bugzilla:51322|bug 51322]]). If the database is locked when a user tries to save with VisualEditor, they now get a message telling them as such and an opportunity to try again, rather than a silent failure ([[bugzilla:51636|bug 51636]]).

When you '''save the page''', having the default preference set to "mark all my edits as minor by default" no longer overrides the setting in the save dialog ([[bugzilla:51515|bug 51515]]). If you open VisualEditor from a section edit link, the section's title will be pre-filled in in the edit summary box when you go to save it ([[bugzilla:50872|bug 50872]]). The size of the save dialog box in the Monobook skin has been fixed ([[bugzilla:50058|bug 50058]]). Also, wikipage content handlers like '''sortable tables''' are re-run automatically after saving ({{bug|51565}}).

A very early version of the '''mathematics equation editor''' is now available for testing on [[:mw:Mediawiki]]. If you would like to help improve the user interface for math editor, please test out the extension at [[:mw:Mediawiki:Sandbox]] and leave your comments directly at the discussion page for the [[:mw:User:Jiabao wu/GSoC 2013 Project Work/Math Node User Interface|Math Node User Interface]] at Mediawiki. You should be able to use your regular username and password should to login to Mediawiki.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback]] and other ideas at [[Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor]]. Thank you! [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] 17:41, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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