Wikinews:Water cooler/technical/archives/2020/July

Equals sign parser function template conflicts
Equals sign parser function template conflicts. This wiki is affected by this issue. Alexis Jazz (talk) 15:23, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. I've eliminated all use of undefined, and nommed it for deletion. --Pi zero (talk) 17:16, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3
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Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:


 * More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
 * 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.
 * The visual editor is increasingly popular . The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
 * In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
 * 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.
 * On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
 * 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.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:56, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Frankly speaking, if you are going to push for VE to show up by default, you will see a rise in the usage. There are times when I see the edit source code link, but that is 2017 source code editor -- it gets increasing difficult to find where to enable original source editor from.  (Analogy: if you run a site, and hide the option to opt-out of the newsletter -- you are going to see more people are receiving the news letter as they join.). In all fairness, you should also report stats on how many edits were made using the original editor, and how many established editors chose to use it despite seeing this non-userfriendly editor in their face. •–•  13:51, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Time not mentioned
In the topmost banner showing details about nomination for ArbCom elections, the date is mentioned, but time is not mentioned. If you think time is not needed, then I think the word 'UTC' needs to be removed. Adithyak1997 (talk) 18:41, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 2020 UTC July 17 means 8:20 pm UTC on July 17. Time in UTC does not have a colon, it is HHmm, not HH:mm.  However, I feel it is a typo, and should be 2000 UTC.  Thanks for making me look there. •–•  18:57, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * There was actually one mistake from my side too. I misread 2000 as 2020. Thanks for letting me know about that. Adithyak1997 (talk) 19:01, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Nope, I updated the siteheader after replying to you. •–• 19:07, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok. Adithyak1997 (talk) 19:09, 14 July 2020 (UTC)