22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Anna Holmlund in 2015 at the FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 Finals Hello, Quenhitran. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Anna Holmlund Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Invention • Abu Nuwas Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

The Panama Canal is an example of a ship canal. Hello, Quenhitran. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Ship canal Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Anna Holmlund • Invention Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to (probably) 8 November 1810. He later published Tonga Islands, an account of his experiences that is now one of the major sources of information on Tonga before it was significantly influenced by European culture and Christianity. Pictured is Mariner in Tongan attire. Hello, Quenhitran. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: William Mariner (writer) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Ship canal • Anna Holmlund Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Apelles painting Campaspe, an artwork by Willem van Haecht, circa 1630, depicting people surrounded by fine art Hello, Quenhitran. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Fine art Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: William Mariner (writer) • Ship canal Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

16:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:

• The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)