User talk:Elitre/Archive 2

Ciao :) Sono appena diventata admin qui su Commons. Pare però che io abbia molto da studiare, e pertanto vi chiedo, finché questo messaggio sarà pubblicato, di non rivolgermi richieste troppo complicate, grazie! Potrete trovare un validissimo aiuto in Commons:Bar italiano. --Elitre (talk) 15:21, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

• Archive 1 (August 2006/July 2012, with history of this page)

In bocca al lupo!

Non è una richiesta ma un semplice complimento e un in bocca al lupo per la funzione di admin qui su Commons ;-) --Delfort (talk) 15:41, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Congrats! --PierreSelim (talk) 16:38, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Ciao Lucio.JPG

File:Ciao Lucio.JPG has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Prof. Professorson (talk) 16:42, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Hello, I was wondering if you could speedily delete the following? Thanks - [1][2].188.220.151.140 21:33, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Can't you get somebody else to do it instead? 188.220.151.140 21:38, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Francesco cirillo.jpg

Hi Elitre: Congratulations for your fresh and shiny admin tools and welcome to the admin team. I've something for you. This file was transfered from it.wikinews.org to Commons but on this path the information about the associated OTRS ticket got lost which caused this file to be deleted recently. I learnt about this through this discussion. I've restored that image but I have trouble understanding the associated ticket as I do not understand Italian. In particular I do not understand by whom this photograph was taken. Would you please take a look at it and decide whether it is warranted to keep it and to tag it with {{PermissionOTRS}}? Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 10:12, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Unimol.png

Hi Elitre,

Could you take a second look at the otrs permission of File:Unimol.png? It looks to me like a wikipedia-only permission.

PD: Congratulations for your new tools.

Platonides (talk) 14:42, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

wikimedia-only, yes. It needs to be deleted and uploaded to it.wikipedia if appropiate, then. Do you handle it? Platonides (talk) 15:45, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

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Congratulazioni ...

... e scusa se, mi sa, ti ho subito tirato una rogna :  otrs:2008012810015433. A proposito, qual è la situazione ?
Ciao -- Codicorumus  « msg 17:34, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Grazie dell'info e buon lavoro (quello che ti va di fare è sempre il migliore :-)  Per la questione permessi, intanto sto a vedere.
Ciao -- Codicorumus  « msg 17:58, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Ouch..

Ho visto l'arGhivio. Va bene, meglio una volta di più che niente :-) In bocca all'Upo e complimenti! -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 16:13, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

OTRS

Ciao. Mi servirebbe il giudizio di una terza parte. Il ticket è ticket:2012072810004944. Si tratta di una donazione di fotografie di una collezione. Ho suggerito io di creare una utenza ad hoc con cui caricare le foto autorizzate: si va un po' a buona fede se non si vuole diventare pignoli con i controlli, ma penso ci si possa fidare serenamente. Sostanzialmente si tratta di fotografie di dipinti antichi da caricare con {{Licensed-PD-Art-two|PD-old-100|PD-1923|cc-zero}} e inserire in una categoria apposta (e.g. Category:Mario Lanfranchi Collection) e di altre fotografie con solo {{Cc-0}} (da inserire nella Category:Mario Lanfranchi). Secondo me dovrebbe essere tutto ok, ma un tuo giudizio sarebbe apprezzato, in particolare sulla completezza della liberatoria finale. Vedi tu se ti vuoi occupare direttamente dell'ok del ticket o se mi vuoi dare solo un parere e poi vedo io (se vuoi anche privatamente via mail). Grazie--Trixt (talk) 20:20, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Ciao ho appena visto che esiste un numero di ticket, forse è quello che intendevi dire con ticket provvisorio. Ho cliccato sopra, e mi si è aperta la pagina OTRS, con relative richiesta per entrare. Ci devo entrare io, nel qual caso dove trovo le spiegazioni do a cosa serve, come fare ecc. oppure a me basta il numero, o sapere di averlo? Devo citarlo nelle foto che caricherò nella sandbox? Ciao --Crafty Roberto (talk) 20:25, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Richieste

Ciao, volevo chiedere se esiste da qualche parte un posto per richiedere file (tipo questa per intenderci), ho provato a cercare ma non ho trovato nulla, sai aiutarmi? Grazie. --Limonadis (talk) 23:41, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Il punto è che mi servivano su commons, perché ho da metterle sul wikizionario, scusa il ritardo della risposta --Limonadis (talk) 08:58, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Category:Smithsonian Institution Archives African pictures

What is an "African" picture? Is it related to an scientific collection within the Smithsonian institute? Then it maybe is ok. It is related to tags or personal impression? Then this category is out of scope, for files from the topic Africa we have our own categories, i.e. Category:Africa. --Martin H. (talk) 18:05, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Create a gallery as a subpage of the project page. Thats how other wikiprojects do this. Commons categories are for topics, creating a fantasy topic or creating a fantasy educational collection is not so good. --Martin H. (talk) 22:43, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

If a file is uploaded within a GLAM project then name the category after the GLAM cooperation to make clear that this is a maintenance, non-topic category and not some non-existing collection. And only include files in that category that have been uploaded inside that batch upload. If the file is a collection of a WikiProject create a project page with a gallery. If you are interested in the category intersection between files of a particular topic and a specific source, please use catscan. But a category created using POV criterions isnt good. This is still an educational project and categories follow a scope, the scope to organize media files by topic. --Martin H. (talk) 22:55, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Logo

Ciao! Posso romperti le scatole e chiederti di verificare questo? Grazie mille! PS: ti ho scritto una mail qualche giorno fa ;) --Delfort (talk) 13:31, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Angitola

Se vuoi ti ci porto... :P --Godzillante (talk) 21:59, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Oddio, ho letto adesso su G+... non credevo che il problema fosse così serio. Ti ho spiegato tutto lì, cmq se vuoi, per completezza, scrivo anche qui com'è andata. Questo tweet geolocalizzato dimostra in ogni caso che sono effettivamente stato in quel punto. Ciao! --Godzillante (talk) 17:23, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Ma scusa, l'hai detto tu che non scherzavi...! io ho solo approfittatto dei potenti mezzi :P cmq l'invito rimane valido, anzi vediamo il lago - sempre se non ci sparano addosso - e poi si sale a Serra per pranzo ;-) (a proposito, grazie del complimento ^_^ se la foto sembra semplice è perché non c'è mica tutto sto popò di roba da fotografare... ma da quel che ho letto è già tanto se in calabria ne possiamo fotografare UNO... che sfigati che siamo) --Godzillante (talk) 17:47, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Verifica immagine

Ciao E. al solito vengo qui con una richiesta (riuscirò mai a sdebitarmi offrendoti almeno una birra? ecchilosà!). Puoi fare una verifica di File:Colleferro 81-82.jpg, che risulta Opera propria: ciò è improbabile, essendo l'utente del 1991. Grazie come sempre --Delfort (talk) 16:15, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Visto che ci siamo, aggiungo anche File:Fidelis Andria 1993-1994.png e File:Fidelis Andria 1994-1995.png :-) --Delfort (talk) 16:22, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Ti ho scritto in simultanea...queste ultime due non sono delle stesso utente. Comunque non ho molta dimestichezza con i template di commons, quindi ti chiederei la cortesia di procedere con cancellazioni o con l'apposizione dei template necessari. Così almeno guardo e imparo un minimo! --Delfort (talk) 16:23, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Ok; se hai problemi di tempo avviso qualcun altro senza problemi! Ciao ;) --Delfort (talk) 20:34, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Edit: ho scritto a Blackcat, che in passato ha avuto a che fare più volte con l'utente, quindi no problem :-) Ciau!! --Delfort (talk) 06:03, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Doppioni

Ciao. Scusa ma non mi ricordo più se avevo risposto a questo, forse mi era sfuggito: comunque sì, vai pure di immediata, l'importante è che sia solo scalato (se hanno anche solo cambiato la luminosità meglio la regolare, qualcuno contesta anche questi dettagli).--Trixt (talk) 13:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Re: WikiAfrica

Thanks, my pleasure! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:48, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

File talk:ME 262 2.jpg

Ciao, non so bene come funzionano le cose su Commons, fatto sta che la foto della discussione in oggetto, su cui ho fatto presente la stessa cosa che sto dicendo a te, ha come fonte un sito internet rotto. Che fare? --Zerosei (talk) 18:03, 19 September 2012 (UTC) P.S. dove mi rispondi, qui o da me?

File:Female coffee farmer in Ethiopia (5762538117).jpg

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Gyrofrog (talk) 22:11, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Re: an beer for you.

Grazie per la birra, pur se virtuale... non sono un grande bevitore ma una birra (meglio le lager o quelle trappiste, le pale non riesco a farmele piacere...) l'apprezzo sempre. ;-) Ti confesso che però l'apprezzamento forse è sopravvalutato, non so se hai sbirciato i miei contrubuti nel loro complesso, e forse ne abbiamo già parlato, che riguardano essenzilmente chiese, oratori e comunque edifici religiosi in genere, strano per uno che in it.wiki si occupa di aviazione eh? La cosa mi ha incuriosito sempre più ed ho scoperto, come molto ho approfondito sempre in it.wiki, che ciò che ci circonda è spesso simile ad una scatola cinese (o una matrioska se preferisci) e chi ha la sana curiosità di aprire tutte le "repliche" che vi sono dentro, sempre rimanendo nella metafora, può accorgersi che ogniuna può avere un particolare da condividere. Fiore S. Barbato da un lato mi risparmia un bel po' di tempo di ricerca (semmai ci fossero foto a tema già in licenze compatibili) e dall'altro da la possibilità a me e a chi naviga tra le cat commonare di fare come Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon Novecento, ovvero di viaggiare nei ricordi e nei racconti, in questo caso fissati nelle immagini, degli altri, magari discutibile ma assolutamente più comodo che non recarsi personalmente in ogni angolo (almeno) d'Italia. Ricordo bene che hai dato rilevanza all'accordo "portato a casa" con Barbato e che (forse) la cosa è stata un po' snobbata (soprattutto per la quantità industriale di lavoro sporco altrove) ma sono certo che faccia piacere che qualcuno "sfrutti" gli sforzi profusi a suo tempo. La mia pecca è lasciare indietro le immagini delle procesioni a meno che non contengano delle statue di santi che possono venire utili anche per quelo specifico settore, ma piuttosto di addentrarmi in un argomento che non conosco creando categorie inutili o difficilmente raggiungibili mi concentro in settori a me più congeniali. Grazie ancora per la birra e a rileggerci :-)--Threecharlie (talk) 08:26, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you in return

Grazie di nulla ;) Anzi, a proposito di quelle immagini, è corretto lasciare le info sulla licenza preesistenti o bisogna modificarla, visto che l'immagine non è più *esattamente* quella che Barbato ha caricato su flickr? --Decan (talk) 17:07, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

File:Firenze 1857-1861.PNG

Ciao, ti segnalo questa discussione (io ho un po di difficoltà a farmi intendere bene in inglese) --Assianir (talk) 14:13, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Grazie del tuo intervento. Anche se non è ancora stata ripristinata. Io non potevo far altro che fidarmi, mi sembrava di aver messo il tag della licenza ma lui affermava il contrario. Tra l'altro, a seguito della cancellazione è stata tolta anche su una voce di it.wikipedia.org ma non ricordo quale. Grazie ancora. --Assianir (talk) 09:45, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

è vero, ma come ti ho detto l'inglese non è il mio forte. Comunque basterebbe cancellare con un attimo di calma. In fondo anche il titolo riporta una data di due secoli fa ...; PS probabilmente è presto ma ancora l'immagine non è stata recuperata, te riesci a scoprire in quale pagina di it.wikipedia era inserita? --Assianir (talk) 12:37, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Immagini di qualità

Ciao Elitre, hai già segnalato alcune delle tue foto preferite di WLM come immagini di qualità? Grazie per il post di oggi (certo che non ce la fai a non essere sempre un po' acida, eh :-P --Aubrey (talk) 14:34, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Mi ero perso quel passaggio: ad ogni modo il mio era un commento svicolato dal post e dal concorso, pensavo che avendo tu trovato delle belle immagini forse valeva candidarle, tutto qui. --Aubrey (talk) 14:53, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Afewerk Tekle

Hi Elitre! As I could verify you transferred (using File Upload Bot Magnus Manske) some images regarding paintings of Ethiopian artist & painter en:Afewerk Tekle who died in 2012 --> Search (ignore File:The Queen of Sheba (2131716999).jpg and File:King Solomon Meeting the Queen of Sheba (3434884321).jpg = not works from Tekle). The question is: The indicated Flickr-sources are undoubtable free in terms of Commons but the work of Tekle may be copyrighted via {{PD-Ethiopia}} = (...) It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author). IMHO these files are COM:DW from copyrighted material and need permission. I also have no COM:FOP-information about Ethiopia regarding indoor public locations... Do you have other information or am I misinterpreting this case? Gunnex (talk) 12:04, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Thx for your response. Considering the unclear situation... I tagged the files:

• File:"King Solomon meets the Queen of Sheba," by Maître Afewerk Tekle (2128339616).jpg
• File:"The Last Judgement," by Maître Afewerk Tekle, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2790650035).jpg
• File:"Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I" by Maître Afewerk Tekle (2127581061).jpg
• File:"Demera" by Maître Afewerk Tekle, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2802849111).jpg

Gunnex (talk) 12:26, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Category:Files created by A.Davey

Hi, can you please explain this? --Elitre (talk) 21:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for the delay, I wasn't at home. OK, I hope I haven't done anything stupid.
If the photograph is unknown, a category similar to the above one is rather useless for the other commons users, except satisfying the ego of the author, isn't it? All the others Category: created by that I've seen were hidden (for example [[3]]), that's why I've done that. But I must admit, I haven't checked what is the usual commons rule for such categories, my bad. In my opinion, Commons is a collection of documents, a collection of contents: the originator of the document is important but is a second row information, the content is first row. Hence the two levels of categories. It's for me similar to the categories "photo taken with the Canon D123". But I may be wrong, undo it if you think it's better. Ciao! You may answer here if you prefer, I'll follow anyhow Vonvon (talk) 11:32, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Cortona - San Michele Arcangelo a Metelliano.jpg

Can you look up history of two files at it.wiki? See Commons:Deletion requests/File:Cortona - San Michele Arcangelo a Metelliano.jpg. --Jarekt (talk) 15:30, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Segnalazione

Un puritano di mia conoscenza mi fa presente, dopo aver visto Category:Gang bang che anche se qualcuno il cui account è poi rapidamente sparito le ha caricate un giorno su Flickr un giorno dichiarandole CC 2.0, dubita forte che la Kink.com [4], compagnia realizzatrice di quello spettacolino e quindi del set di immagini, e il cui motto sembrerebbe essere più o meno "tutto per denaro", si sia mai sognata di pubblicare alcunché con licenza libera. Come si fa per convicere qualcuno che conta da queste parti che in realtà tutte quelle meraviglie sono abbastanza evidenti copyviol? Saluti --Cotton (talk) 21:34, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Dice che a Kink non scrive: dopo rapida escursione nel sito teme, se rivela propria posizione, di essere catturato a tradimento ed essere preso, ben che vada, a scudisciate... :-) --Cotton (talk) 12:36, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

File:Patalano leaves U.S. Army Africa to command tank battalion (8115607943) (2).jpg

File:Patalano leaves U.S. Army Africa to command tank battalion (8115607943) (2).jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

High Contrast (talk) 16:24, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Winning Photos - WLM in Ghana

Hi

The initial winning photos were juried by only one member of the Planning Wikimedia Ghana (User:Nkansahrexford). Since that idea wasn't the best, other two WLM organizers, Sophie (from Sweden) and Limoke (from Kenya) helped prepare the second instance. The second instance was therefore accepted and used.

thanks

Potresti controllare per cortesia?

Ciao, facendo un po' di lavoro sporco ho trovato File:S Antuono.jpg dove come autore campeggia un bel "Copyright © Pro Loco di Teggiano, all rights reserved."... non c'è più religione ;-) Quel che mi chiedo è semmai ci fosse stato un OTRS sfuggito all'uploader, in caso contrario credo sia il caso di controllare tutti i suoi contributi e cancellare a vista. Grazie per l'attenzione :-)--Threecharlie (talk) 07:02, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome)

Can you give your opinion (in inglese) in this thread or close it if necessary? thanks Raoli ✉ (talk) 21:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Spero che non reputi la questione troppo delicata. --Raoli ✉ (talk) 21:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

File:C4ISR Senior Leaders Conference, February 2011 (5416501756).jpg

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208.54.39.227 03:58, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

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Sannio by Fiore S. Barbato

Come da istruzioni nella pagina apposita, ti scrivo che dovrei aver finito di copiare su Commons tutto il set "Sannio" di Fiore S. Barbato. Mi sono risparmiato di caricare alcune foto di volti di persone che non mi dicevano gran che, ma per il resto e' tutto. Quando ho tempo mi metto a eliminare i watermark da quelle di loro che mi sembrano piu' utili su Wikipedia. Ciao! --Decan (talk) 17:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Immagini da cancellare

Ciao Elitre, un utente ha messo in cc-by-sa tutte le sue foto su Flickr, queste foto sono state trasferire su Commons, solo che poi si sono accorti che fra queste c'erano alcune foto della figlia che ha quindi rimesso in (C) e sarebbero da cancellare (se non per il copyright per COM:PEOPLE). Ho cominciato a elencarle io al bar italiano, ma immagino non siano ancora tutte. --Jaqen (talk) 10:36, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Qua le altre, grazie :) --Jaqen (talk) 12:45, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Foto di Simpio

Ciao, hai ragione e con questa risposta io non voglio delegare nulla a nessuno, però io ho più volte detto a Simpio e nel bar italiano che non sono esperto in materia e ho più volte detto una frase simile a questa "interverrà un utente più esperto di me a darti tutti i dettagli". Il fatto Elitre è che io non me ne intendo proprio di queste cose però gli è stato spiegato sul bar italiano le dinamiche, tuttavia non posso dirti con certezza se è stato informato a sufficienza perché come ho più volte sottolineato io non sono un utente esperto di commons e non me ne intendo di licenze, ho chiesto anche pareri ad altri utenti e la conversazione la hanno seguita anche degli admin, quindi ero un po' tranquillo. Si sono verificati dei problemi? --Pava (talk) 21:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Comunque non posso che ringraziarti per avermi fatto notare questa cosa, dimmi se posso fare qualcosa a riguardo, senza scrupoli :) ciao --Pava (talk) 21:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Schifezza

Ciao, ho prodotto una schifezza e, in attesa di capire meglio come funzionano i cosi vettoriali, ti chiederei il piacere di farla sparire... File:Balkans regions map(it).png è talmente in < understatement >low res</ understatement > che non viene utile manco su un francobollo  :-( Grazie mille! --Civvì (talk) 21:54, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

File:Giampaolo Pazzini (15 02 2011).jpg

Hi Elitre, as you had added the OTRS ticket to this image, please look at the recent edit-history for the somewhat strange edits of User:Dexterolo and eventually revert them if incorrect. --Túrelio (talk) 15:18, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: WLM 2013

Porta pazienza, se riuscissimo a fare una chiacchierata mi verrebbe più facile che non lasciare scritto qui. Dici che si può fare? :-)--Threecharlie (talk) 11:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Category:Beiersdorf

Hi, Won't you mind having a look at Category:Beiersdorf.

There are a lot of USARAF and other files uploaded by you - I can't get a relation to the that german company. Cheers --Jwh (talk) 19:40, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Pontus Hultén.jpg

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80.171.56.128 11:25, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

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File:Ethiopian Doomsday (2131684555).jpg

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- Jcb (talk) 22:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Autorizzazione doual'art

Laurentius mi ha scritto e ho parlato ieri con doual'art. Abbiamo preparato il testo per permission su tutto il loro archivio (immagini, presentazioni, mappe, testi...) con restrizioni per materiale coperto da questioni di privacy. abbiamo anche preparato una bozza di notizia per annunciare la cosa sul loro sito e al loro network, e un regolamento interno per tutte le nuove produzioni. questa mattina ho mandato tutto a loro e agli avvocati per una revisione. nei prossimi giorni dovrei avere la mail da doual'art inviata a permission. riesci a temporeggiare ed evitare che venga cancellato materiale? non avendo accesso ai ticket (e dimenticandomi cosa c'è scritto) ho fatto un po' di confusione. abbiamo anche già le autorizzazioni di tutta una serie di persone. alcune (quelli che più materiale o materiale strano) le ho fatte inviare a permission (Sandrine Dole ed Emiliano Gandolfi per esempio). --iopensa (talk) 14:33, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

ho scritto a doual'art di mettere in cc Laurentius. e ho appena rimandato una mail per avvisarli di inviare il permesso velocemente. ieri ne abbiamo parlato a lungo ed è tutto a posto. molto contenti. in effetti davo per scontato che fosse già incluso. grazie per il link al messaggio su template, non l'avevo visto. non capisco perché non mi abbiano scritto visto che ho fatto praticamente tutti gli upload. per la questione panorama stiamo risolvendo con accordi gestiti direttamente da doual'art sulle opere di arte pubbliche e sui loro autori. per questo ho coinvolto gli avvocati. la gestione dei diritti però viene fatta direttamente da doual'art non attraverso OTRS; è più semplice. in più stiamo inserendo nel loro regolamento generale le specifiche sulle licenze. sono cose un po' macchinose ma è bello che corrisponde bene alla loro visione. --iopensa (talk) 14:47, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Appropriately Licensed

You participated at the earlier discussion on licence choice for Featured Pictures. A number of users felt that such restrictions should be made at policy level. Please comment at Commons:Requests for comment/AppropriatelyLicensed. This is a proposal to amend this licence policy to disallow future uploads where the sole licence is inappropriate for the media (e.g., GFDL for images). In earlier discussions there were a number of comments that, while reasonable opinions, did not align with Wikimedia's mission for free content. Please read the FAQ before commenting. Thanks -- Colin (talk) 22:55, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

OTRS

Hi, you promissed me that the Italian queue would be dealt with, but it appears still nothing happens. Do I need to use my IT-0,5 skills again to resolve this or will IT-N people finally take action? Jcb (talk) 12:15, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I understand. Maybe we should recruit some new volunteers as well. Jcb (talk) 12:32, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

That's what I always do. I only lock a ticket when I am currently working on it, to avoid two people processing the same ticket. The system automatically unlocks it as soon as I send the reply. Jcb (talk) 12:49, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

For me the only reason not to deal with Permissions-IT all the time is that it's not the only queue with structural backlogs. In general we have far too few active people at OTRS. Jcb (talk) 13:17, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

File:Bugfixing.jpg

Quando si caricano immagini raster da siti esterni, è opportuno verificare l'esistenza di versioni ad alta risoluzione: il più delle volte, infatti, quelle incorporate nelle pagine web sono solo anteprime ridotte. --Ricordisamoa 19:26, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Image you loaded

You loaded this image: [File:U.S. Army Africa deputy commander meets Djiboutian leaders at Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti while in the region to participate in the CJTF-HOA change of command ceremony (4498891937).jpg]. The image talks about a meeting with Djibouti officials. However, only Americans are in the picture. Can you correct this SVP? Merci. S. Rich (from California)

Notification about possible deletion

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Yours sincerely, LGA _talk^edits 00:26, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

File:U.S. Fan Club, Sam’s Army, Walks to U.S. vs. Algeria World Cup Match.jpg

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Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013/JuryTool

FYI --Nemo 14:07, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Sí sí, segnalavo solo in caso cercassi le istruzioni per avere accesso e non volessi scavare nella lista. :) --Nemo 16:13, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

E comunque arrivi seconda, avevo già fatto presente la lista :PPPP --Patafisik (talk) 10:18, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Complimenti

Ciao, grazie mille per i complimenti. Sono molto contento che abbiate scelto come vincitrice la mia foto. Ciao, a presto! Alexis

File:Martyr (2129050620).jpg

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Eleassar ^(t/p) 10:16, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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Yours sincerely, Eleassar ^(t/p) 10:21, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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Yours sincerely, LGA _talk^edits 07:44, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

De-adminship warning

Dear Elitre/Archive 2, I am writing to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section/Feb-Mar 2014 within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you, odder (talk) 20:35, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Richiesta permesso immagini via email

Ciao Elitre! Mi hanno detto di contattare un amministratore di commons per inviare una richiesta di donazione di immagini storiche, e l'utente Giovanni dall'Orto mi ha formulato anche il testo da inviare ma mi ha detto che la procedura la deve svolgere un utente che abbia appunto funzioni amministrative. Ieri ho provato a contattare Sergio, in quanto amministratore di lingua italiana, ma non mi ha risposto e siccome credo sia una questione delicata da sbrigare il prima possibile sono andata allora a guardare la lista degli amministratori di lingua italiana e ho trovato te! Puoi aiutarmi con questa richiesta da spedire? --Mikystar (talk) 11:46, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Allora posso inviarla io? L'utente Giovanni mi aveva detto che mi serviva un amministratore... per questo pensavo doveste farlo voi. Scusami ma ci sono un'infinità di regole da imparare e cadere è molto facile:) ok, allora provvedo a inviare e poi devo girare a voi la risposta che lui mi darà? --Mikystar (talk) 12:35, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Ci provo:) ma appena mi risponde torno da te per sapere il resto della procedura! --Mikystar (talk) 12:41, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #9—2014

Did you know?

VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Log in and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings button in the upper-right corner to pick which editor to use. Choose "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-visual-editor⧽" to use VisualEditor, or "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-source-editor⧽" to use the wikitext editor.

It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available on the mobile website.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.

Recent improvements

Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in them was just introduced to Wikipedias. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be added later.

To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus are now hidden behind a "More" item, such as "Underline" in the styling menu.

The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias this week, and the following week at the English Wikipedia.

The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.

VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.

The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar menus are now shown in the menus.

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience/Design group. The appearance of dialog boxes has already changed in the mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. You are welcome to compare the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.

Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search engine could not find the page. A link inside a template to a local page that does not exist will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to an error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [5] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.

TemplateData

The tool for quickly editing TemplateData has been deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool was already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData to learn more about it. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common value for that parameter. The autovalue can be overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.

In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog box in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.

Looking ahead

The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.

The user guide is being updated to add information about editing tables. The translations of the user guide for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.

You can influence VisualEditor's design! Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.

If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you! —Elitre (WMF)

23:28, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

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• File:Fans Show Their Team Spirit (2).jpg

Yours sincerely, 1989 23:31, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.

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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.

There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.

Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

18:56, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2015

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

• starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog: blue ,
• takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
• might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray .

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor. (T67815, T73746.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (T73077, T73078.)

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(T78234.)

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (T86688, T87027.) If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

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

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
• Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact James F. to learn more about this initiative.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.
• Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please 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)

18:08, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

LOL, te la canti e te la suoni. :D --Nemo 08:54, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Procedura rapida

Certo che qui le pagine di aiuto rimangono parecchio indietro, non essendoci tu ad aggiornarle. :) Ma proviamo a recuperare! A (s)proposito, ti sei ripresa dal jet lag? Spero non ti abbia fatto dannare. --Nemo 08:53, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Scusa Eli, ma perché? Lei non è nota con quel nome. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 13:40, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

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

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

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

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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looking ahead

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

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (T90666)

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language. Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

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— Elitre (WMF)

19:45, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

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

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages. The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday 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 Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the VisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow this task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. 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)

10:45, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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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).

Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

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

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

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

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

• 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 "Bold" and "Italic" 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), 22:27, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".

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

Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link 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 "Insert Images and 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 "Delete" 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

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 "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

• 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), 18:18, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #6—2015

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.

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:

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

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

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Edit" 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 Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".

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

• 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:
  • Remember my last editor,
  • Always give me the visual editor if possible,
  • Always give me the source editor, and
  • Show me both editor tabs. (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. Thank you!

Elitre (WMF), 00:03, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

De-adminship warning

Dear Elitre, I am writing to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section/Feb-Mar 2016 within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you, odder (talk) 22:13, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Did you know?

Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.

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.

Recent changes

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.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" 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 Editing tab of Special:Preferences:

• Remember my last editor,
• Always give me the visual editor if possible,
• Always give me the source editor, and
• Show me both editor tabs. (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

• 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.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.

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), 19:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

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Taivo (talk) 11:06, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Borse Alessio Guidetti per Wikimania 2016

Ciao, un messaggio dalla Commissione Borse Alessio Guidetti Ciao, come forse saprai quest'anno Wikimania, il raduno annuale delle comunità Wikimedia, si terrà a Esino Lario (Lecco) dal 22 al 28 giugno. Come per le scorse edizioni dell'evento, anche per il 2016 l'associazione Wikimedia Italia intende rendere disponibili alcune borse di partecipazione. Potete trovare il bando di partecipazione con tutti i dettagli a questo link. La scadenza è il 30 aprile 2016, ore 23:59 CEST. Trovate invece tutte le informazioni su Wikimania Esino Lario sul sito ufficiale dell'evento Grazie, e un sincero augurio di buon lavoro e buon divertimento sull'enciclopedia libera :-) per non ricevere più questa tipologia di messaggi rimuovi il tuo nome da queste liste

Alexmar983 11:58, 26 April 2016 (UTC)