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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)]] [[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|(talk)]] 21:47, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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== VisualEditor newsletter on 16 October 2013 ==

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<p>You can create and edit multi-level lists in VisualEditor. The first two icons let you set or remove list formatting.

<p>The last two are used to increase or decrease the indentation level. This can also be done from the keyboard, by using {{Key press|Tab}} to indent the list and {{Key press|Shift|Tab}} to outdent it.

<p>For more information, read [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide]].}}

VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at [[Mediawiki]] during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing|your preferences]] and choosing the item, "<code>{{MediaWiki:visualeditor-preference-enable}}</code>".

{{highlight|The '''reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles [[Wikipedia:Citation templates|citation templates]]''', is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at [[:mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog]]. |yellow}} (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also '''drag and drop references''' (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption ([[bugzilla:50459|bug 50459]]).

There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected ([[bugzilla:54443|bug 54443]]). Several improvements have been made to '''scrollable windows, panels, and menus''' when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances ([[bugzilla:54791|bug 54791]]). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances ([[bugzilla:54332|bug 54332]]). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories ([[bugzilla:54727|bug 54727]]). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias ([[bugzilla:54935|bug 54935]]). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes ([[bugzilla:54712|bug 54712]]).

'''Looking ahead:''' Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar|simplifying the toolbar]]. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can [[:mw: VisualEditor/Portal/Localization|'''help with translating the documentation''']].

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)]] [[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|(talk)]] 18:48, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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