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The cite menu offers quick access to up to five citation templates.  If your wiki has enabled the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, press "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" and select the appropriate template from the menu.

Existing citations that use these templates can be edited either using the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" tool or by selecting the reference and choosing the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu.

Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on the new citation tool, improving performance, reducing technical debt, and other infrastructure needs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks is the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". The new citation menu offers a locally configurable list of citation templates on the main toolbar. It adds or opens references using the simplified template dialog that was deployed last month. This tool is in addition to the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu, and it is not displayed unless it has been configured for that wiki. To enable this tool on your wiki, see the instructions at VisualEditor/Citation tool.

Eventually, the VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for these citations. When this long-awaited feature is created, you could add an ISBN, URL, DOI or other identifier to the citation tool, and VisualEditor would automatically fill in as much information for that source as possible. The concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog, and your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted.

• There is a new Beta Feature for setting content language and direction.  This allows editors who have opted in to use the "Language" tool in the "Insert" menu to add HTML span tags that label text with the language and as being left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL), like this:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span>. This tool is most useful for pages whose text combines multiple languages with different directions, common on Right-to-Left wikis.
• The tool for editing mathematics formulae in VisualEditor has been slightly updated and is now available to all users, as the "⧼math-visualeditor-mwmathinspector-title⧽" item in the "Insert" menu. It uses LaTeX like in the wikitext editor.
• The layout of template dialogs has been changed, putting the label above the field.  Parameters are now called "fields", to avoid a technical term that many editors are unfamiliar with.
• TemplateData has been expanded:  You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData, and VisualEditor will display them in the template dialogs like required ones.  "Suggested" is recommended for parameters that are commonly used, but not actually required to make the template work.  There is also a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name, for file names.  The template tool can now tell you if a parameter is marked as being obsolete.
• Some templates that previously displayed strangely due to absolute CSS positioning hacks should now display correctly.
• Several messages have changed: The notices shown when you save a page have been merged into those used in the wikitext editor, for consistency.  The message shown when you "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽" out of an edit is clearer. The beta dialog notice, which is shown the first time you open VisualEditor, will be hidden for logged-in users via a user preference rather than a cookie.  As a result of this change, the beta notice will show up one last time for all logged-in users on their next VisualEditor use after Thursday's upgrade.
• Adding a category that is a redirect to another category prompts you to add the target category instead of the redirect.
• In the "Images and media" dialog, it is no longer possible to set a redundant border for thumbnail and framed images.
• There is a new Template Documentation Editor for TemplateData.  You can test it by editing a documentation subpage (not a template page) at Mediawiki.org: edit mw:Template:Sandbox/doc, and then click "Manage template documentation" above the wikitext edit box.  If your community would like to use this TemplateData editor at your project, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
• There have been multiple small changes to the appearance:  External links are shown in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.  This is a lighter shade of blue than the internal links.  The styling of the "Style text" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin.  VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽" dialog, now use a "loading" animation of moving lines, rather than animated GIF images.  Other changes were made to the appearance upon opening a page in VisualEditor which should make the transition between reading and editing be smoother.
• The developers merged in many minor fixes and improvements to MediaWiki interface integration (e.g., edit notices), and made VisualEditor handle Education Program pages better.
• At the request of the community, VisualEditor has been deployed to Commons as an opt-in. It is currently available by default for 161 Wikipedia language editions and by opt-in through Beta Features at all others, as well as on several non-Wikipedia sites.

Looking ahead:  The toolbar from the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. More buttons and icons will be accessible from the keyboard.  The "Keyboard shortcuts" link will be moved out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) and inline images is being developed. You will be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. VisualEditor will be available to all users on mobile devices and tablet computers. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

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Considering the game is technically "episodic", would it be safe to make an episode chart similar to Final Fantasy IV: The After Years and Final Fantasy Dimensions? Lucia Black (talk) 20:15, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, alright, but given that the game is in its infancy, I think that one of us should build up the list in their sandbox until the thing is complete. Also, there are very strong hints of a localization of either this title alone or this and Type-0. But, given its episodic status, yes I'm happy with a list. --ProtoDrake (talk) 20:24, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

I'll make one in my sandbox. the good thing is, its not so complicated as the previous episodic games. Lucia Black (talk) 20:25, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

A user on FF Wikia is playing the game at the moment and has put up the prologue chapter's title: Chapter 0: Those Closest to Agito (第零章 アギトにもっとも近い者, Dai Reishō Agito ni Mottomo Chikaimono)

thank you, here is the link to my Sandbox User:Lucia_Black/sandbox#Final_Fantasy_Agito_list. It looks completely simplified for ow, but i suspect that will change as these episodes will be released in "packs". Lucia Black (talk) 21:33, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Where did you hear about the pack releases? If there's a reference, I can add it to the article. I'm aiming to get that article to GA in time. --ProtoDrake (talk) 21:47, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

oH no, my mistake. i misread the information is all. Lucia Black (talk) 22:02, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

alert me when theres a new chapter. i heard theyll come up every 2 weeks. it should be soon. Lucia Black (talk) 10:25, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Got it. On your sandbox's talk page, your talk page or my talk page? And there's already one up so I'll just put it here: Chapter 1: Battlefield of the Chosen (第一章 撰ばれし子らの戦場, Dai Isshō Erabareshikora no Senjō) --ProtoDrake (talk) 10:43, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

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Just an FYI that I've noted you have Drakengard up at FAC and I'm taking a look at it. (I feel obliged seeing as I've helped out at GA and PR before). I should get some comments up by the end of the weekend, but in the meantime I may need to do some copy-editing here and there, just to avoid a vexatious list of minor things I could fix myself. Cheers. CR4ZE (t • c) 14:42, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

The article Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tezero -- Tezero (talk) 14:42, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

I'll go ahead and set up another one then! Agreed on the music thing- I looked around for sources last week when I saw you had gotten a couple good paragraphs about it, but it hasn't gotten the attention that even XIII-2 did. Shame, if for no other reason than consistency. --PresN 18:20, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

nominated! --PresN 18:28, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

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Finally got to this; tracklists added. --PresN 22:13, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

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The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

• They have moved the "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
• You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
• The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type  "date" for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and  "boolean" for values which are true or false. Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like ((citeweb)) → ((cite web))) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964). You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
• Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
• They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references. When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead. 
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed. Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
• You can now add and edit ((DISPLAYTITLE)) and __DISAMBIG__ in the "Page options" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
• The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler.

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The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

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The article Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tezero -- Tezero (talk) 17:02, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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	The level of detail in the Final Fantasy video game articles has never been higher, and is simply incredible! Here's to the tireless working Wikipedian ProtoDrake! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 16:20, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

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The article Drakengard (series) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Drakengard (series) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tezero -- Tezero (talk) 00:21, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

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As much as I like the song/theme, I don't think the article needs a section on it. "Aerith's Theme" is a special case- it's heavily associated with the character, primarily due to the Flowers in the Church and Aeris's Death scenes. "Blinded by Light", even though it's ostensibly "Lightning's" theme, is really more just battle music that plays when she's in the party. Versions of it showed up in the arrangement and piano albums for XIII, but it never made it to live performances, and it wasn't reused in XIII-2 (and in fact Hamauzu made "Knight of the Goddess" as a battle theme that he wanted to be as good of one as "Blinded by Light", which is telling- even the composer didn't think it was just "Lightning's Theme".) It may have come back as a leitmotif in XIII-3, but there's just not much to say about it- Lightning has a leitmotif, just like every FF character for the past decade. Not worth it's own section, in my opinion any more than it did in the Music of XIII article. --PresN 18:04, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

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I have to do a supplemental nomination, but it's basically perfunctory. Did two before for XIII and XIII-2- one, two. --PresN 17:11, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

If an article changes status you can just update the topic directly, no need for a new nomination or discussion; in the same vein, if the increases from GA->FA push it over the line to meet the requirements for an FT instead of a GT, we just post a notice on the FTC talk page and someone (probably GamerPro64) handles all the backend stuff to move it from one to another, without a nomination. You only need a formal discussion if you actually add articles to the topic. --PresN 17:20, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello! Your submission of Taro Yoko at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! czar ♔ 17:11, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

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On 1 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Taro Yoko, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that video game director and scenario writer Taro Yoko uses a writing method he calls "backwards scriptwriting", by which he builds the narrative starting with the ending? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Taro Yoko. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.

• Hidden HTML comments (notes visible to editors, but not to readers) can now be read, edited, inserted, and removed. A small icon (a white exclamation mark on a dot) marks the location of each comments. You can click on the icon to see the comment.
• You can now drag and drop text and templates as well as images. A new placement line makes it much easier to see where you are dropping the item. Images can no longer be dropped into the middle of paragraphs.
• All references and footnotes (<ref> tags) are now made through the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, including the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Insert" menu. The "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip⧽" is still added via the "Insert" menu.
• When you add an image or other media file, you are now prompted to add an image caption immediately. You can also replace an image whilst keeping the original caption and other settings.
• All tablet users visiting the mobile web version of Wikipedias will be able to opt-in to a version of VisualEditor from 14 August. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu.
• The link tool has a new "Open" button that will open a linked page in another tab so you can make sure a link is the right one.
• The "Cancel" button in the toolbar has been removed based on user testing. To cancel any edit, you can leave the page by clicking the Read tab, the back button in your browser, or closing the browser window without saving your changes.

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.

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The article Tales (series) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Tales (series) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Erachima -- Erachima (talk) 18:20, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

...here.

Thanks for the contributions to the article. Samsara (FA • FP) 06:52, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Hey Drake, how's it going! I read your comment in the Payday 2 peer review and saw how in your user page you say that you're a member of the Square Enix project. I was wondering if you were interested in helping me, Tezero, and Czar take one of Square's games Sleeping Dogs (video game) to FA after it passes the GA review which is under right now. It's an intermediate job, mostly just references and prose issues, so overall it shouldn't take much longer than two weeks to finish! What do you say? URDNEXT (talk) 18:20, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

My problem is this paragraph: Dialogue was also one of the team's biggest focuses while developing the game. In the early stages of development, the dialogue was recorded in Los Angeles by Asian actors who were natives from the area, but was later scrapped when the developers decided to re-record all of it in Hong Kong. The team had a contact in Hong Kong by the name of Eddie Cheung, who runs a business named Drum Music, a recording facility that specializes in music composition and dialogue production. He provided the castings for the team during the development, which was done remotely; the team sent him the scripts from Vancouver, and he sent the recordings back to them, from which the developers chose the ones they liked best and discarded the unfit parts. Kaskamanidis did not have trouble reviewing dialogue in a language he did not understand, because "you can always detect quality acting through a person’s performance." The language choice was a controversial one. Some members of the development team were pushing for English, since most gamers would not understand Cantonese. Regardless, the team eventually decided that most of the ambient dialogues would be in Hong Kong Cantones, as it would contribute to the immersive atmosphere.[20] -- Can you improve or even re write this if possible? URDNEXT (talk) 19:11, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi, ProtoDrake. It's been a while. I've been thinking about taking Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII to FA status. What are your thoughts about this? Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:42, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

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Fixed it; all album/video game infoboxes by default try to italicize the title, so they conflict with any displaytitle that's been set up if different. To fix it, you just add "| Italic title= no" to the infoboxes. --PresN 17:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

This might help http://na.square-enix.com/us/blog/square-enix-members-interview-hajime-tabata-director-final-fantasy-type-0-hd Tintor2 (talk) 22:54, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Here's another http://sqex.info/tgs-2014-famitsu-interviews-ffxv-director-hajime-tabata/ Tintor2 (talk) 16:31, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Drakengard 3 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 16:22, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

This is to inform you that Drakengard , which you nominated at WP:FAC, will appear on the Wikipedia Main Page as Today's Featured Article on 12 October 2014. The proposed main page blurb is here; you may amend if necessary. Please check for dead links and other possible faults before the appearance date. Brianboulton (talk) 16:30, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

The article Drakengard 3 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Drakengard 3 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 18:41, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

The article Drakengard 3 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Drakengard 3 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 13:02, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Music of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 18:22, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I think there's enough to fill out a dedicated album article. Might be able to pad out the official soundtrack section with bits from reviews of the game itself, though that can be hit or miss to find anything. Let me know if you split it out and I can work on it. I did notice something, though- you're using vgmdb as a reference; it's user-generated (though almost always accurate), so you'll get dinged for that at FAC if you take it there. You can just source tracknames, etc. to the album itself if you need to. Also, you refer to GMO as both Game Music Online and Video Game Music Online in references. --PresN 19:31, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

That... wow. I was expecting you to throw out a quick Start-class article, and then we'd fill it out, not just bust out with a full article that looks like it just needs a copyedit to go to GAN. Great job! Looks like I can retire from doing music discography articles in the future! I'll give the article a run-through today or tomorrow, and then I think you can nominate it at GAN straight away. --PresN 19:12, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Oh, well spotted on the Oricon pages- no idea why those albums don't have their own album pages that are searchable, except maybe because they're blu-rays. I've added those refs and the new Reborn review to the MoFF14 article. --PresN 19:30, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Will do, though you did do a lot on the FF14 music article GAN, and they're not usually as hard to pass as that one was. --PresN 20:16, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

The article Music of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Music of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 15:22, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

The article Music of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Music of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 17:22, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

I have to say: impressive work on the Drakengard series. You're just three GAs away from a good topic, and the relevant articles (Characters of the Drakengard series, Zero (Drakengard) and Music of the Drakengard series) are already very solid. I wanted to make sure you knew that your work was appreciated—but I'm also curious as to why you haven't GAN'd any of those pages yet, since they seem close to GA status already. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 04:02, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

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Thought you'd be interested in this recent article: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-12-the-fans-who-would-fix-tomb-raiders-most-broken-adventure czar ♔ 03:16, 13 October 2014 (UTC)