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Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

• The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
• The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
• The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
• The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
• The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [1]

Let's work together

• The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
• The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
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—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:17, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Meta talk:Administrators

Hello,

There's an ongoing discussion about changing our inactive administrator policy. Any comment is welcome.

Regards. Matiia (talk) 23:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Changes to CentralNotice Access

A source of concern for some time has been that there are more people with access to CentralNotice than know how to or want to use the system. This is mainly been maintained because of CentralNotice's reliance on the MediaWiki namespace rather than a specific policy. Following the separation of interface-admin rights from general admins rights along with activity requirements for Meta Admin it has been decided to apply both of these policies to CentralNotice Administrators effective immediately as we look to proactively improve our security posture and promote a culture of security.

From today, only individuals with the “centralnotice-admin” user group will be able to modify campaigns and banners. Meta administrators will no longer be able access CentralNotice or make changes to centralnotice banners through the MediaWiki namespace.

CentralNotice-admins who have not made actions related to CN in the last 12 months as of November 16th 2018 will have the CentralNotice right removed but without prejudice. They will eligible to re-request the rights should the need arise or that they intend to work with CentralNotice on a longer term basis.

Meta-admins who have been active in the last 12 months in CentralNotice and will be added to the CentralNotice admin group by the Meta Bureaucrats shortly. Similarly Meta admins who have previously worked with CentralNotice but who have not done so in the last 12 months are eligible to re-request the rights should the need arise or that they intend to work with CentralNotice on a longer term basis without prejudice.

CentralNotice admins will also be required to undertake additional measures to secure their accounts.

It's understood this may cause some temporary disruption but I will be providing additional supports to communities in their access and use of CentralNotice through this period. Thank you all for your support and patience through this. Seddon (WMF) (talk) 05:25, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Seddon (WMF): and to where has this conversation been taking place? I haven't seen any invitation to participate. I was understanding that we operated with consensus, rather than by decree.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:34, 17 November 2018 (UTC)