Hi Pine 

Thanks for the suggestion! I think this is a little too specific/technical for our general Wikimedia accounts and more appropriate for on-wiki channels for now. We also are doing some planning right now about how to get the word out about VE to a more general audience. 

Juliet 

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From: Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:35 PM
Subject: [Social-media] Improved reference handling in VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News
To: Social media discussion list for Wikimedia projects <social-media@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wiki Research-l <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Raymond Leonard <raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com>

This is cool for the reference enthusiasts:

"VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [48][49]"

Could this be included in a WMF social media post? I anticipate that relatively few people will test the new functionality, but the message feeds into the theme of helping users to understand that Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that (almost) anyone can edit. Readers of social media who would be especially valuable contributors because they understand what ISBNs and PMIDs are, might take an interest if this news is sent over the social media channels.

Pine

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