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Wikimania Scholarships
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The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference.
To apply, visit the
Wikimania 2010
scholarships information page
, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply.
For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:
Scholarships
Scholarships FAQ
Yours very truly,
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Call for image filter referendum
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The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.
Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at
Meta:Image filter referendum
shortly.
Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the
translators mailing list
For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris
Terms of Use update
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I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at
Talk:Terms of use
. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of
is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at
m:Terms of use/de
, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at
m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2
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Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison
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Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants
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I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please
help translate it.
Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit
for more information.
Thanks!
--
Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships,
Wikimedia Foundation
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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta
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Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version
right now
on
beta.wmflabs.org
. For more information, please read the
release notes
or the
start of the final announcement
The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:
Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.
Report any
problems
on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.
Note
that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. —
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MediaWiki 1.19
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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available
in the full announcement
. Thank you for your understanding.
Guillaume Paumier
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Update on IPv6
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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as
the full version of this announcement on Meta
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on
World IPv6 day
(June 6), and keep it enabled.
What this means for your project:
At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
". See e.g.
w:en:IPv6 address
. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See
the full version of this announcement
for notes on range blocks.)
In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.
We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.
Read
the full version of this announcement
on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.
--
Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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2011 Picture of the Year competition
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македонски
norsk
polski
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the
2011 Picture of the Year competition
is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the
Picture of the Year 2011
. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons
with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC)
is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!
Detailed information about the contest can be found
at the introductory page
About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during
2011
and are now called
Featured Pictures
From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons
Features Pictures
of all flavors.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images
into topic categories
We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.
See you on Commons!
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Mobile view as default view coming soon
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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the
instructions on Meta
The mobile view of this project and others will soon become the default view on mobile devices (except tablets). Some language versions of these projects currently show no content on the mobile home page, and it is a good time to do a little formatting so users get a mobile-friendly view, or to add to existing mobile content if some already exists.
If you are an administrator, please consider helping with this change. There are
instructions
which are being translated. The proposed date of switching the default view is July 5.
To contact the mobile team, email
mobile-feedback-l
lists.wikimedia.org
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Phil Inje Chang, Product Manager, Mobile, Wikimedia Foundation
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Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year
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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)
Hi,
As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "
Funds Dissemination Committee
" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other
eligible entities
Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the
Ombudsperson
for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the
call for volunteers
. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.
--
Anasuya Sengupta
, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation
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Extension:Narayam
installation request
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Hello, Apologies this message is in English, I am Srikanth from the
wmf:Localisation team
. I am trying to get the input tool
mw:Extension:Narayam
deployed on all wikis whose language is supported by the extension. For Marathi, I see that Marathi Wikipedia has already installed Narayam extension. I would request members of the community to also consider installing the extension so that typing Marathi using a common tool will be easy for users. You can request installation of tool by filing a bug using this
link
. Let me know if you have any questions. Please feel free to email me slakshmanan@wikimedia.org Thanks
Srikanth WMF
चर्चा
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Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program
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I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.
The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a
request for comment
on a
proposed program
that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in
that discussion
If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at
m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF)
. I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)
Thank you! --
Mdennis (WMF)
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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out
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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)
As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called
m:Wikidata
. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.
The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:
language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)
It'd be great if you could join us, test the
demo version
, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an
FAQ
and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on
the Wikidata page on Meta
For further discussions please use
this talk page
(if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point
me
to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.
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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems
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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)
All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the
upgrade schedule
code details
).
Please watch for problems with:
revision diffs
templates
CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
bots
PDF export
images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
the CologneBlue skin
If you notice any problems, please
report problems
at
our defect tracker site
. You can test for possible problems at
test2.wikipedia.org
and
mediawiki.org
, which have already been updated.
Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.
Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager
talk
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P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please
watch this schedule
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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed
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Please translate for your local community
Hello All,
The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.
The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through.
All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed
(and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)
By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :)
If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!
Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
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Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!
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Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.
I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.
The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**
By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!
Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.
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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see
other timezones
on timeanddate.com). More information is available
in the full announcement
If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider
becoming a Tech ambassador
and
joining the ambassadors mailing list
. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.
Thank you for your help and your understanding.
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Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab
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I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.
Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?
Please join us in the
IdeaLab
, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit
for more information.
Thanks! --
Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation
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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful
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(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)
Greetings. As you might have seen on the
Wikimedia tech blog
or the
tech ambassadors list
, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today.
Lua
is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.
If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week:
one on Wednesday
(for Oceania, Asia & America) and
one on Friday
(for Europe, Africa & America); see
m:IRC office hours
for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at
mw:Talk:Lua scripting
If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a
Tech ambassador
by subscribing to the
mailing list
. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.
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Request for comment on inactive administrators
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(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating
the proposal
.)
Read this message in English
Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu
বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন
Llegiu aquest missatge en català
Læs denne besked på dansk
Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch
Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn
Leer este mensaje en español
Lue tämä viesti suomeksi
Lire ce message en français
Ler esta mensaxe en galego
हिन्दी
Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom
Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia
Leggi questo messaggio in italiano
ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ
Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti
norsk (bokmål)
Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands
Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku
Citiți acest mesaj în română
Прочитать это сообщение на русском
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Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском)
อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย
Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою
Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt
使用中文阅读本信息。
Hello!
There is
a new request for comment
on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.
We are also compiling a
list of projects
with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.
All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.
Thanks,
Billinghurst
(thanks to all the
translators
!)
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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming
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Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making.
More details on Meta
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[en] Change to section edit links
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The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.
Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.
Detailed information and a timeline
is available on meta.
Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.
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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions
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Latest
Tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community.
Please inform other users about these changes.
Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
The latest version of MediaWiki (version
1.22/wmf4
) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22.
[१]
[२]
A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please
report any problems
you notice.
[३]
MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new
schemes
. Users can now link to
SSH
XMPP
and
Bitcoin
directly from wikicode.
[४]
VisualEditor was added to
all content namespaces
on mediawiki.org on May 20.
[५]
A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to
edit templates
[६]
New sites:
Greek Wikivoyage
and
Venetian Wiktionary
joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794.
[७]
[८]
The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to
version 2.0
in a
third group of updates
[९]
The
UploadWizard
on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (
bug 33513
).
[१०]
Future software changes
The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27.
[११]
An updated version of
Notifications
, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23.
[१२]
The
final version
of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will
automatically rename
some usernames.
[१३]
new discussion system
for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users,
test the prototype
and discuss the interface.
[१४]
The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor.
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Trademark discussion
संपादन
Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the
Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki)
for more information. Thank you! --
Mdennis (WMF)
talk
Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts extensions
संपादन
On June 11, 2013, the
Universal Language Selector
(ULS) will replace the features of Mediawiki extensions Narayam and WebFonts. The ULS provides a flexible way of configuring and delivering language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings).
Please read the
announcement on Meta-Wiki
for more information.
Runab
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पान वगळा
संपादन
नमस्कार! मी इथे एक लेख वगळण्यात यावा ह्या साठी विनंती करीत आहे. तो लेख आहे
केदार जोशी
. जोशी हे स्वतःला विचारवंत म्हणून घेतात. पण तशी त्यांची पात्रता नाही. हे माझे एकट्याचे मत नसून ह्यांच्या विषयीचे लेख इतर जीगे वरून पण काढण्यात आले आहेत. उदाहरणार्थ :
Wikiquote
Wikiversity
English Wiki
Marathi Wikipedia
. जोशींचे
भारत देशाबद्दलचे "सुविचार"
तर निंदनीय आहेत. तरी आपणास विनंती आहे कि हा लेख इथून त्वरित वगळावा.
Dharmadhyaksha
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X!'s Edit Counter
संपादन
(Sorry for writing in English. You can
translate the proposal
.)
Should
X!'s edit counter
retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged.
Voice your input here
.—
cyberpower
Chat
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Pywikipedia is migrating to git
संपादन
Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this.
Pywikipedia
is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a
manual
for doing that and a
blog post
explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in
mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit
mailing list
, or in the
IRC channel
. Best
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HTTPS for users with an account
संपादन
Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using
HTTPS
to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at
m:HTTPS
If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us
on bugzilla
on IRC
(in the
#wikimedia-operations
channel) or
on meta
. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to
https@wikimedia.org
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Request for consultation on community logo
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Request for consultation on this community logo
First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.
The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive.
Your input would be invaluable
in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.
Thank you! --
Mdennis
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Notifications
संपादन
Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you -- and let you take quick action.
(This message is in English, please translate as needed)
Greetings!
Notifications
will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.
We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in
this release plan
. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.
There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:
Echo on translatewiki for user interface
- you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
Thanks on translatewiki for user interface
- you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
Notifications help on mediawiki.org
. This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia. You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.
Checklist
Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit
this project hub
and
this help page
Keegan (WMF)
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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.
संपादन
Hi all,
Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki:
m:Community Logo/Request for consultation
This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.
The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.
We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.
Thanks,
Geoff
Yana
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Introducting Beta Features
संपादन
(Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)
We would like to let you know about
Beta Features
, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.
Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.
Beta Features is now ready for testing on
MediaWiki.org
. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.
Here are the first features you can test this week:
Media Viewer
— view images in large size or full screen
VisualEditor Formulæ
(for wikis with
VisualEditor
) — edit algebra or equations on your pages
Typography Refresh
— make text more readable (coming Thursday)
Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the
Beta Features page
After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on
this discussion page
-- or report any bugs
here on Bugzilla
. You're also welcome to join
this IRC office hours chat
on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.
Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.
Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think!
Keegan (WMF)
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Call for comments on draft trademark policy
संपादन
Hi all,
The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.
The
current trademark policy
was introduced in 2009 to protect the
Wikimedia marks
. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review
here
, and we encourage you to discuss it
here
We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.
Thanks,
Yana
Geoff
Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?
संपादन
I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.
The Wikimedia Foundation's
multimedia team
seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the
MP4 video format
. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as
H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC
Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).
However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.
We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.
Please join this RfC -- and share your advice
All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.
You are also welcome to join tomorrow's
Office hours chat on IRC
, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.
We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic.
Keegan (WMF)
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Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014
संपादन
On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension
Universal Language Selector
(ULS) was
disabled
on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.
We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A
new checkbox
has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.
You can read the
announcement
and the
development plan
for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you.
Runa
Amendment to the Terms of Use
संपादन
Hello all,
Please join a discussion about a
proposed amendment
to the
Wikimedia Terms of Use
regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see
the discussion on Meta Wiki
for more information. Thank you!
Slaporte (WMF)
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Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments
संपादन
I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.
Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community?
Individual Engagement Grants
from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Wikiquote better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.
Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:
Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia
($350 for materials)
Improving gadgets for Visual Editor
($4500 for developers)
Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians
($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
Building community and strategy for Wikisource
(€10000 for organizing and travel)
Proposals
are due by 31 March 2014.
There are a number of ways to
get involved
Hope to have your participation,
--
Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual
Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation
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Language links (interwiki) via Wikidata are coming
संपादन
Hey everyone :)
I just wanted to let you know that Wikiquote will be the next sister project to be supported by Wikidata. Initially you will be able to maintain the links between the language editions of Wikiquote on Wikidata. This means you will no longer have to maintain them in the wiki text of each article. (However you will still be able to if you want to and local links will overwrite the ones from Wikidata in that case.) We plan to enable this on April 8th for you. At a later point (depending on how this initial roll-out goes) you will also get access to the other data on Wikidata like the date of birth of a scientist for example.
If you have any questions please come to
d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
where we'll try to answer all of them. If you're already familiar with Wikidata and want to act as an ambassador please add your name to the list there to help people find you.
I'm looking forward to welcoming you all to Wikidata.
Cheers
Lydia Pintscher
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Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment
संपादन
Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please
read about these optional changes on Meta wiki
and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks!
Slaporte (WMF)
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Changes to the default site typography coming soon
संपादन
This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:
April 1st
: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
April 3rd
: Wikipedias will see this change live
This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their
personal CSS
, if they prefer a different appearance. Local
common CSS
styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.
For more information:
Summary of changes and FAQ
Discussion page
for feedback or questions
Post
on blog.wikimedia.org
--
Steven Walling
(Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's
User Experience Design
team
Interwiki links via Wikidata are here!
संपादन
(Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me where needed.)
Hi everyone,
As previously announced we have just enabled the first part of
Wikidata
support. This means from now on you can maintain your interwiki links on Wikidata and no longer need to keep them in the wikitext locally. The local links will continue to work and overwrite what is coming from Wikidata. A community member is currently running a bot to take care of the migration where possible so you don't have to do it by hand in most cases.
You can not yet access the other data on Wikidata like the date of birth of a person. This will come in the near future. I will let you know when I have a date for it.
If you have any questions please come to
d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
. There we have a bunch of helpful people to answer them.
Welcome to the Wikidata family! I'm excited about this first step. More to come. I am looking forward to seeing how this will help you make Wikiquote even better in the future.
Cheers
Lydia
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Wikidata Phase 2 for Wikiquote
संपादन
Hey,
(Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me where necessary.)
Not long ago we enabled language links via Wikidata for Wikiquote. This seems to have gone rather smoothly. Thanks to everyone who helped! But as you know this was only the start. What is actually more interesting is access to the data in Wikidata. We have planned this for June 10th (unless any issues arise). You will then be able to use the data in your articles. I hope this will open up a lot of new opportunities for you.
If you have any questions
d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
is a good place to find help.
On behalf of
Lydia Pintscher
John F. Lewis
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Using only
UploadWizard
for uploads
संपादन
Hello! It was noted that on this wiki you have
less than 10 local files
. Presumably, you therefore don't have interest nor energies to have
hundreds templates
with the
now required HTML
, even less a local
EDP
. However, this means that users here will experience a mostly broken and/or
illegal
uploading.
I propose to
have
local upload
restricted
to the "प्रचालक" group (for emergency uploads) and
the
sidebar point to
commons:Special:UploadWizard
so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface
in their own language
. All registered users can upload on Commons and
existing files
will not be affected.
I'll get this done in one week from now.
If you disagree with the proposal, just
remove your wiki from the list
To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on
commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback
Nemo
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Media Viewer
संपादन
Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.
I wanted to let you know that
Media Viewer
will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your
Beta Features
. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your
preferences
. I invite you to
share what you think
about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.
Thank you for your time. -
Keegan (WMF)
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Wikidata Phase 2 is here
संपादन
Hey,
(Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me where necessary.)
Today the ability for all Wikiquotes to query and access the data available in Wikidata has been enabled. This will open the opportunity for all Wikiquote's to start sharing the same data as other languages as well as other projects. You can read up on the Lua implementation of Wikidata at
this page
which includes basics of how to query the data and display certain properties.
This section
may also be of use to the community.
If you have any questions
d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
is a good place to find help.
Thanks,
John F. Lewis
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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki
संपादन
Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size
Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,
The Wikimedia Foundation's
Multimedia team
is happy to announce that
Media Viewer
was just released on this site today.
Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a
Beta Feature
and has been
released
to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.
If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your
your preferences
) whether you have an account or not. Learn more
in this Media Viewer Help page
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to
share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org
in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to
take this quick survey in English
en français
o español
We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. -
Fabrice Florin (WMF)
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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions
संपादन
The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.
If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.
Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
Letter on change.org
--
JurgenNL
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Process ideas for software development
संपादन
’’My apologies for writing in English.’’
Hello,
I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been
started on Meta
to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.
I and the rest of
my team
welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.
Kind regards,
--
Rdicerb (WMF)
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Grants to improve your project
संपादन
Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.
Greetings! The
Individual Engagement Grants program
is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet.
Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.
Submit your proposal
Get help
: In
IdeaLab
or an upcoming
Hangout session
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Meta RfCs on two new global groups
संपादन
Hello all,
There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at
m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group
. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at
m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review
We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.
It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at
m:Stewards' noticeboard
Thanks and regards,
Ajraddatz
talk
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Global AbuseFilter
संपादन
Hello,
AbuseFilter
is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013,
Global AbuseFilters
were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "
small wikis
". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "
medium sized wikis
" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing
request for comment
on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to
this list
on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on
this page
at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on
m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter
Thanks,
PiRSquared17
Glaisher
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VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature
संपादन
Hello. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you translated this message!
VisualEditor
, a rich-text editor for MediaWiki, will soon be available on this wiki as a
Beta Feature
. The estimated date of activation is Wednesday, 26 November.
To access it, you will need to visit the बीटा तोंडवळे
page
after the deployment and tick the box next to "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (If you have enabled the "सर्व नवीन बीटा फिचर्स आपोआप सक्षम करा" option, VisualEditor will be automatically available for you.) There will also be a "⧼Visualeditor-preference-language-label⧽" that you can enable if you need it.
Then, you just have to click on "संपादन" to start VisualEditor, or on "स्रोत संपादित करा" to edit using wikitext markup. You can even begin to edit pages with VisualEditor and then switch to the wikitext editor simply by clicking on its tab at any point, and you can keep your changes when doing so.
A guide was just published at mediawiki.org
so that you can
learn how to support your community with this transition
: please read and translate it if you can! You will find all the information about the next steps there. Please report any suggestions or issues at
the main feedback page
. You will also receive the next issues of the multilingual monthly newsletter here on this page: if you want it delivered elsewhere, for example at your personal talk page, please add the relevant page
here
Thanks for your attention and happy editing,
Elitre (WMF)
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VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature (errata)
संपादन
Please notice the correct direct link to access बीटा तोंडवळे
is this one
. Thanks for your understanding!
Elitre (WMF)
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VisualEditor News #10—2014
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Did you know?
Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. Upcoming plans are posted at the
VisualEditor roadmap
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis
as an opt-in
beta feature
at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with
ProofreadPage
).
Recent improvements
संपादन
Basic support for
editing tables
is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid
rowspan
and
colspan
elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use
find and replace
in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing
^ Ctrl
or
⌘ Cmd
You can now create and edit simple
paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "परिच्छेद" into a "चौकटीमधील अवतरण".
Some
new keyboard sequences
can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "
" will make the line a bullet list; "
1.
" or "
" will make it a numbered list; "
==
" will make it a section heading; "
" will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.
There are also two other keyboard sequences: "
[[
" for opening the link tool, and "
{{
" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like
^ Ctrl
to open the link editor, still work.
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit
galleries
as wikitext code.
Looking ahead
संपादन
The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a
new theme
designed by the
User Experience group
. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of
the old "Apex" theme
and
the new "MediaWiki" one
which will replace it.)
The Editing team
plans to add
auto-fill features
for citations
in January.
Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
Let's work together
संपादन
Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
Translations of the
user guide
for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help
complete the current translations
for users who speak your language.
Talk to the Editing team during the
office hours
via
IRC
. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at
22:00 UTC
File requests for language-appropriate "ठळक" and "तीरपी मुद्राक्षरे" icons for the character formatting menu
in Phabricator
The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please
sign up for their research program
If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at
Meta
. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
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VisualEditor News #1—2015
संपादन
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements.
Status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. Upcoming plans are posted at the
VisualEditor roadmap
The Wikimedia Foundation has named
its top priorities for this quarter
(January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements.
There will be weekly
triage meetings
which
will be open to volunteers
beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at
12:00 (noon) PST
(20:00 UTC).
Tell Vice President of Engineering
Damon Sicore
, Product Manager
James Forrester
and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at
mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal
shortly before the meeting begins.
Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.
Recent improvements
संपादन
The
new design for VisualEditor
aligns with MediaWiki's
Front-End Standards
as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the
OOjs UI
library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog:
blue
takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation:
green
might remove or lose your work, like removing a link:
red
, or
is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:
gray
The
TemplateData editor
has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor. (
T67815
T73746
.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (
T73077
T73078
.)
Search and replace
in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(
T78234
.)
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (
T86688
T87027
.) If your community would like
VisualEditor enabled on another namespace
on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
Looking ahead
संपादन
The Editing team will soon add
auto-fill features
for citations
. The
Citoid service
takes a
URL
or
DOI
for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.
We will need editors to help test the
new design of the special character inserter
, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact
User:Whatamidoing (WMF)
if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at
Phase 5 Wikipedias
. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including
Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh
. The date for this change has not been determined.
Let's work together
संपादन
Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
Please help
complete translations of the user guide
for users who speak your language.
Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at
12:00 (noon) PST
(20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at
mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal
shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact
James F.
to learn more about this initiative.
Talk to the Editing team during the
office hours
via
IRC
. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at
19:00 UTC
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[Global proposal] m.Wikiquote.org: (सर्व) पाने संपादा
संपादन
MediaWiki mobile
Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like mr.
.wikipedia.org,
unregistered users cannot edit
. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users
propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites
. Please read and comment!
Thanks and sorry for writing in English,
Nemo
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Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content
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This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.
All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!
Inspire Campaign main page
(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!)
MediaWiki message delivery
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SUL finalization update
संपादन
Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read
this page
for important information and an update involving
SUL finalization
, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks.
Keegan (WMF)
talk
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Stewards confirmation rules
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Hello, I made
a proposal on Meta
to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --
MF-W
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VisualEditor News #2—2015
संपादन
Did you know?
With
Citoid
in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:
Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:
After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the
Citoid
reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted
on Mediawiki.org
. The worklist for April through June is available
in Phabricator
The weekly
task triage meetings
continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at
11:00 (noon) PDT
(18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the
Editing team's Q4 blocker project
with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal
Recent improvements
संपादन
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and
network speed
by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding
auto-fill features
for citations
. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The
Citoid service
takes a
URL
or
DOI
for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for
ISBNs
PMIDs
, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
Citoid requires good
TemplateData
for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the
Citoid project on Phabricator
. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The
special character inserter
has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the
Phase 5
list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including
Afrikaans
Azerbaijani
Breton
Kyrgyz
Macedonian
Mongolian
Tatar
, and
Welsh
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use
input method editors
("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the
"packed" mode in image galleries
. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now
drag and drop categories
to re-arrange their order of appearance on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon
so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead. (
T90734
Looking ahead
संपादन
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted
at mediawiki.org
The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (
T90666
Let's work together
संपादन
Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check
this list
to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language.
to get an account if you want to help!
The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please
sign up for their research program
File requests for language-appropriate "ठळक" and "तीरपी मुद्राक्षरे" icons for the character formatting menu
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Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections
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This is a message from the
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Translations
are available.
Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have
published letters
describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is
accepting nominations
for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.
This year, elections are being held for the following roles:
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the board elections page
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC elections page
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC Ombudsperson elections page
The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on
the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (
User:Varnent
Coordinator,
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
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on behalf of the
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) •
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Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015
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This is a message from the
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Translations
are available.
Voting has begun
for
eligible voters
in the 2015 elections for the
Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) and
FDC Ombudsperson
. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the
Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) and
FDC Ombudsperson
will continue during the voting. Nominations for the
Board of Trustees
will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.
The
Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.
The
FDC Ombudsperson
receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the
Board of Trustees
, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10.
Click here to vote
Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time.
Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question
Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question
More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
2015 FDC election page
, the
2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page
, and the
2015 Board election page
on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (
User:Varnent
Volunteer Coordinator,
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the
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03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) •
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015
संपादन
This is a message from the
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Translations
are available.
Voting has begun
for
eligible voters
in the 2015 elections for the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the
Board
will continue during the voting.
The
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31.
Click here to vote
More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
2015
Board
election page
on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (
User:Varnent
Volunteer Coordinator,
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
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Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core
संपादन
Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot
(then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g.
T101524
). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a
migration guide
, and please
if you have any problem.
There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in
this list
, your bot will most likely break.
Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core
संपादन
Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot
(then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g.
T101524
). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a
migration guide
, and please
if you have any problem.
There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in
this list
, your bot will most likely break.
Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming
संपादन
(Sorry for writing in English)
When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for a number of projects. Your project is one of the next ones:
11 June 2015: all Wikiquote, all remaining Wikivoyage
15 June 2015: Wikipedias: ar, ca, es, hu, ko, ro, uk, vi
We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to
d:Wikidata:Contact the development team
How to use it, once it is enabled:
Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital from the item about Germany
Lua: see
mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua
I hope it will be helpful for you and allow you to do useful things with the help of Wikidata.
Cheers
Lydia Pintscher
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VisualEditor News #3—2015
संपादन
Did you know?
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. The worklist for April through June is available
in Phabricator
test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors
at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial
results will be posted at Meta
later this month.
Recent improvements
संपादन
Auto-fill features
for citations
are available at a few Wikipedias through the
citoid service
. Citoid takes a
URL
or
DOI
for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.
The
link tool
has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (
T98085
The
special character inserter
in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list
at mediawiki.org
. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (
T70425
Several improvements have been made to
templates
. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (
T95696
) The team added a
new property for TemplateData
, "उदाहरण", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (
T53049
The
design
of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of
non-existent images
. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
Let's work together
संपादन
Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the
VisualEditor Q4 blocker project
with the bug.
If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact
James Forrester
If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the
Citoid project on Phabricator
. Include links to the
TemplateData
for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow
this task on Phabricator
for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.
Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at
Meta
. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
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VisualEditor News #3—2015
संपादन
Did you know?
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. The worklist for April through June is available
in Phabricator
test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors
at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial
results will be posted at Meta
later this month.
Recent improvements
संपादन
Auto-fill features
for citations
are available at a few Wikipedias through the
citoid service
. Citoid takes a
URL
or
DOI
for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.
The
link tool
has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (
T98085
The
special character inserter
in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list
at mediawiki.org
. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (
T70425
Several improvements have been made to
templates
. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (
T95696
) The team added a
new property for TemplateData
, "उदाहरण", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (
T53049
The
design
of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of
non-existent images
. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
Let's work together
संपादन
Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the
VisualEditor Q4 blocker project
with the bug.
If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact
James Forrester
If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the
Citoid project on Phabricator
. Include links to the
TemplateData
for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow
this task on Phabricator
for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.
Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at
Meta
. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
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HTTPS
संपादन
Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has
been working
towards enabling
HTTPS
by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS
has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with
us
if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
Johan (WMF)
२२:००, १९ जून २०१५ (UTC)
HTTPS
संपादन
Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has
been working
towards enabling
HTTPS
by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS
has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with
us
if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
Johan (WMF)
२३:२५, १९ जून २०१५ (UTC)
Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images
संपादन
The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.
How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like
There is a
proposal
at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)
This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the
proposal page
. Thank you. --
McZusatz
talk
) &
MediaWiki message delivery
चर्चा
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reply
Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images
संपादन
The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.
How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like
There is a
proposal
at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)
This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the
proposal page
. Thank you. --
McZusatz
talk
) &
MediaWiki message delivery
चर्चा
०६:३२, २४ जुलै २०१५ (UTC)
reply
What does a Healthy Community look like to you?
संपादन
Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community.
Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!
Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions
on the campaign's page.
Why get involved?
संपादन
The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming.
As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.
More information
संपादन
All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
All eligible contributions must be done until
August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
Wiki link:
Community Health learning campaign
URL
Contact:
María Cruz
/ Twitter:
साचा:@
WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: eval
साचा:@
wikimedia
साचा:Dot
org
Happy editing!
MediaWiki message delivery
चर्चा
२३:४२, ३१ जुलै २०१५ (UTC)
reply
What does a Healthy Community look like to you?
संपादन
Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community.
Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!
Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions
on the campaign's page.
Why get involved?
संपादन
The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming.
As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.
More information
संपादन
All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
All eligible contributions must be done until
August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
Wiki link:
Community Health learning campaign
URL
Contact:
María Cruz
/ Twitter:
साचा:@
WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: eval
साचा:@
wikimedia
साचा:Dot
org
Happy editing!
MediaWiki message delivery
चर्चा
००:५९, १ ऑगस्ट २०१५ (UTC)
reply
VisualEditor News #4—2015
संपादन
Read this in another language
Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?
You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.
Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).
Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports
on mediawiki.org
. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
Wikimania
संपादन
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about
VisualEditor
and the
future of editing
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the
VisualEditor 2015 Translathon
. Our thanks and congratulations to users
Halan-tul
Renessaince
जनक राज भट्ट
(Janak Bhatta)
Vahe Gharakhanyan
Warrakkk
, and
Eduardogobi
For
interface messages
(translated at
translatewiki.net
), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (
+21.7%
). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For
documentation messages
(on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (
+20.3%
). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs
showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Recent improvements
संपादन
Auto-fill features for citations
can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the
citoid service
to convert a
URL
or
DOI
into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick,
simple process at mediawiki.org
. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the
instructions at mediawiki.org
Your wiki can customize the first section of the
special character inserter
in VisualEditor. Please follow the
instructions at mediawiki.org
to put the characters you want at the top.
In other changes, if you need to fill in a
CAPTCHA
and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit
Vega-based graphs
. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
Future changes
संपादन
The team will be changing the
appearance of selected links
inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A
recent controlled trial
showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the
July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase
. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
Let's work together
संपादन
Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
. This feedback page is now using
Flow
instead of LiquidThreads.
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese?
Language engineer
David Chan
needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at
mediawiki.org
if you can help.
If your wiki would like
VisualEditor enabled on another namespace
, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
Please file requests for language-appropriate "ठळक" and "तीरपी मुद्राक्षरे" icons for the styling menu
in Phabricator
The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please
sign up for their research program
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main
VisualEditor project
with the bug.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
२२:२८, १४ ऑगस्ट २०१५ (UTC)
reply
VisualEditor News #4—2015
संपादन
Read this in another language
Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?
You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.
Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).
Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports
on mediawiki.org
. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
Wikimania
संपादन
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about
VisualEditor
and the
future of editing
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the
VisualEditor 2015 Translathon
. Our thanks and congratulations to users
Halan-tul
Renessaince
जनक राज भट्ट
(Janak Bhatta)
Vahe Gharakhanyan
Warrakkk
, and
Eduardogobi
For
interface messages
(translated at
translatewiki.net
), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (
+21.7%
). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For
documentation messages
(on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (
+20.3%
). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs
showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Recent improvements
संपादन
Auto-fill features for citations
can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the
citoid service
to convert a
URL
or
DOI
into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick,
simple process at mediawiki.org
. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the
instructions at mediawiki.org
Your wiki can customize the first section of the
special character inserter
in VisualEditor. Please follow the
instructions at mediawiki.org
to put the characters you want at the top.
In other changes, if you need to fill in a
CAPTCHA
and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit
Vega-based graphs
. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
Future changes
संपादन
The team will be changing the
appearance of selected links
inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A
recent controlled trial
showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the
July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase
. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
Let's work together
संपादन
Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
. This feedback page is now using
Flow
instead of LiquidThreads.
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese?
Language engineer
David Chan
needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at
mediawiki.org
if you can help.
If your wiki would like
VisualEditor enabled on another namespace
, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
Please file requests for language-appropriate "ठळक" and "तीरपी मुद्राक्षरे" icons for the styling menu
in Phabricator
The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please
sign up for their research program
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main
VisualEditor project
with the bug.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
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reply
How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?
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My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can
reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants
, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:
Respond to questions on
the discussion page of the idea
Join a
small group conversation
Learn more about
this consultation
Feedback is welcome in any language.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF)
Community Resources
, Wikimedia Foundation.
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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site
संपादन
Hi all,
We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.
Visit the public policy portal:
Please help translate the
statements on Meta Wiki
. You can
read more on the Wikimedia blog
Thanks,
Yana
and
Stephen
Talk
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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants
संपादन
My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.
Greetings! The
Individual Engagement Grants program
is accepting proposals
until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Submit
a grant request
Get help
with your proposal in IdeaLab
or
an upcoming Hangout session
Learn from examples
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There is still one week left to submit
Individual Engagement Grant
(IEG) proposals
before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!
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(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)
There is still one week left to submit
Individual Engagement Grant
(IEG) proposals
before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
Submit
a grant request
Get help
with your proposal in IdeaLab
Learn from examples
of completed Individual Engagement Grants
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Reimagining WMF grants report
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Last month, we asked for community feedback on
a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs
. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated!
A report
on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.
Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on
the outcomes discussion page
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Reimagining WMF grants report
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(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)
Last month, we asked for community feedback on
a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs
. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated!
A report
on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.
Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on
the outcomes discussion page
With thanks,
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VisualEditor News #5—2015
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Did you know?
You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.
Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".
The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.
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
VisualEditor Team
has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports
on mediawiki.org
. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
संपादन
Educational features:
The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the दुवा and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (
T108620
) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (
T112354
) More in-software educational features are planned.
Links:
It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (
T74108
T91285
) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (
T109498
T110347
T63558
) These
"magic links"
use a custom link editing tool.
Uploads:
Registered editors can now
upload images
and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "समाविष्ट करा माध्यम (मिडिया)" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.
Mobile:
Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (
T85630
) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (
T111894
) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "वगळा" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (
T62110
) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.
Rich editing tools:
You can now add and edit
sheet
music
in the visual editor. (
T112925
) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (
T114227
T113354
) When editing
formulæ
and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of
graphs
; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.
On the
English Wikipedia
, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under
Special:Preferences
Future changes
संपादन
You will soon be able to
switch from the wikitext to the visual editor
after you start editing. (
T49779
) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a
single edit tab.
T102398
) This project will combine the "संपादन" and "स्रोत संपादित करा" tabs into a single "संपादन" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "संपादन" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
Let's work together
संपादन
Share your ideas and ask questions at
VisualEditor/Feedback
. This feedback page uses
Flow
for discussions.
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese?
Language engineer
David Chan
needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at
What to test
if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (
Korean
Japanese
) or on Wikipedia (
Korean
Japanese
).
Local admins can
set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki
. If you need help, then please post a request in the
Citoid project on Phabricator
. Include links to the
TemplateData
for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main
VisualEditor project
with the bug.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
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Community Wishlist Survey
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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.
The
Community Tech team
at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a
Community Wishlist Survey
to find the most useful projects that we can work on.
For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.
While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.
Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.
We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!
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Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed
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Hello!
Wikimania 2016
scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see
Scholarship committee
for details.
If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can
volunteer as "ambassador"
: you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate
scholarship applications written in your language
to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.
Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam
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Harassment consultation
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of
harassment
on
Meta
. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)
Harassment consultation 2015
Regards,
Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign
संपादन
This is a message regarding the
proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner
Translations
are available.
Hi everyone,
This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a
straw poll seeking your involvement
has just been started on Meta-Wiki.
As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist,
Bassel Khartabil
. An exemplary
banner
and an
explanatory page
have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.
We are seeking
your involvement to decide
if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.
Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to
get involved with the poll and the discussion
to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.
(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly
translate
this message into your own language.)
Thank you for your participation!
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Community Wishlist Survey
संपादन
Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.
We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's
Community Wishlist Survey
, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.
Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.
The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!
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Get involved in Wikipedia 15!
संपादन
This is a message from the
Wikimedia Foundation
Translations
are available.
As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!
People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their
events on Meta Page
. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.
Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:
Join/host an event
. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
Talk to local press
. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a
handy summary
of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a
press release template
and
resources on working with the media
, are also available.
Design a Wikipedia 15 logo
. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
Share a message on social media
. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!
Everything is linked on the
Wikipedia 15 Meta page
. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a
list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos
that community members have already designed.
If you have any questions, please contact
Zachary McCune
or
Joe Sutherland
Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team
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VisualEditor News #6—2015
संपादन
Did you know?
A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to
Special:Preferences
and choosing the setting that you want:
The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Read this in another language
Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Since the last newsletter, the
visual editor team
has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
संपादन
You can
switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor
after you start editing.
The
LaTeX mathematics formula editor
has been significantly expanded. (
T118616)
You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
Future changes
संपादन
The
single edit tab
project will combine the "संपादन" and "स्रोत संपादित करा" tabs into a single "संपादन" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (
T102398
T58337
) Initially, the "संपादन" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the संपादन tab of
Special:Preferences
in the drop-down menu about "संपादन पद्धती:".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:
Amharic
Buginese
Min Dong
Cree
Manx
Hakka
Armenian
Georgian
Pontic
Serbo-Croatian
Tigrinya
Mingrelian
Zhuang
, and
Min Nan
. (
T116523
) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the
feedback pages
for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (
T92661
Testing opportunities
संपादन
Please try the new system for the
single edit tab
on
test2.wikipedia.org
. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.
Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at
the feedback topic on mediawiki.org
or
sign up for formal user research
(type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
माझा शेवटी वापरलेला संपादक लक्षात ठेवा,
जर शक्य असेल तर मला सदैव यथादृश्यसंपादक पुरवा,
मला सदैव स्रोत संपादकच द्या, and
मला दोन्हीही संपादन कळी दाखवा. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese?
Language engineer
David Chan
needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at
What to test
if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (
Korean
Japanese
) or on Wikipedia (
Korean
Japanese
).
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. आपणास धन्यवाद!
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VisualEditor News #6—2015
संपादन
Did you know?
A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to
Special:Preferences
and choosing the setting that you want:
The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Read this in another language
Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Since the last newsletter, the
visual editor team
has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
संपादन
You can
switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor
after you start editing.
The
LaTeX mathematics formula editor
has been significantly expanded. (
T118616)
You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
Future changes
संपादन
The
single edit tab
project will combine the "संपादन" and "स्रोत संपादित करा" tabs into a single "संपादन" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (
T102398
T58337
) Initially, the "संपादन" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the संपादन tab of
Special:Preferences
in the drop-down menu about "संपादन पद्धती:".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:
Amharic
Buginese
Min Dong
Cree
Manx
Hakka
Armenian
Georgian
Pontic
Serbo-Croatian
Tigrinya
Mingrelian
Zhuang
, and
Min Nan
. (
T116523
) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the
feedback pages
for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (
T92661
Testing opportunities
संपादन
Please try the new system for the
single edit tab
on
test2.wikipedia.org
. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.
Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at
the feedback topic on mediawiki.org
or
sign up for formal user research
(type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
माझा शेवटी वापरलेला संपादक लक्षात ठेवा,
जर शक्य असेल तर मला सदैव यथादृश्यसंपादक पुरवा,
मला सदैव स्रोत संपादकच द्या, and
मला दोन्हीही संपादन कळी दाखवा. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese?
Language engineer
David Chan
needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at
What to test
if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (
Korean
Japanese
) or on Wikipedia (
Korean
Japanese
).
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. आपणास धन्यवाद!
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Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:
Wikimania 2016 Scholarships
Patrick Earley (WMF)
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2016 WMF Strategy consultation
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello, all.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)
Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion,
2016 Strategy/Community consultation
Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created
m:2016 Strategy/Translations
to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)
If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.
I hope you'll join us!
Maggie Dennis
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VisualEditor News #1—2016
संपादन
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Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?
Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.
If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.
Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.
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
VisualEditor Team
has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
Recent changes
संपादन
You can
switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor
after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local
feedback pages
for the visual editor have been redirected to
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in
tables
, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The
formula editor
has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
Future changes
संपादन
The
single edit tab
project will combine the "संपादन" and "स्रोत संपादित करा" tabs into a single "संपादन" tab.
This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (
T102398
) Initially, the "संपादन" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the संपादन tab of
Special:Preferences
माझा शेवटी वापरलेला संपादक लक्षात ठेवा,
जर शक्य असेल तर मला सदैव यथादृश्यसंपादक पुरवा,
मला सदैव स्रोत संपादकच द्या, and
मला दोन्हीही संपादन कळी दाखवा. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
The visual editor uses the same search engine as
Special:Search
to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others:
Japanese
Korean
Urdu
Persian
Arabic
Tamil
Marathi
Malayalam
Hindi
Bengali
Assamese
Thai
Aramaic
Let's work together
संपादन
Please try out the newest version of the
single edit tab
on
test2.wikipedia.org
. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of
test2wiki:Special:Preferences
) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see
the large preferences dialog box
when you started editing an article there?
Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts?
Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer
David Chan
needs to know. Please see the instructions at
mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test
if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
Learn how to improve the "automagical"
citoid
referencing system in the visual editor, by creating
Zotero
translators for popular sources in your language! Join the
Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it"
with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. आपणास धन्यवाद!
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Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा:
Greetings! The
Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program
is accepting proposals
until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Submit
a grant request
or
draft
your proposal
in IdeaLab
Get help
with your proposal
in an upcoming Hangout session
Learn from examples
of completed Individual Engagement Grants
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF)
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Server test
संपादन
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन विदाकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे. सध्याच्या विदाकेन्द्रात काही आपत्ती आल्यास या विदाकेन्द्रामुळे विकिमीडियाचे प्रकल्प बंद न पडता सेवारत ठेवता येतील. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the new data center on
Tuesday, 19 April
On
Thursday, 21 April
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April. No non-essential code deployments will take place.
This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
Johan (WMF)
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Compact Links coming soon to this wiki
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list
Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki, which you may already seen in the latest issue of
Tech News
Compact Language Links
has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the coming week for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the
project documentation
Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use
MassMessage
for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team:
Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF)
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आज या विकिवर आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे सक्षम करण्यात आलेले आहेत
संपादन
आटोपशीर भाषा दुव्यांच्या आंतरभाषा यादीचे पटलचित्र
आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे
हे सर्व विकिमिडिया विकिंवर सन २०१४ पासून, एक बीटा फिचर म्हणून उपलब्ध आहेत.आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे सक्षम करण्याने, सदस्यांना,लेखाच्या आंतरभाषिक दुवा भागात, एक बरीच छोटी भाषांची यादी दाखविण्यात येते (चित्र बघा).त्यांचेसाठी, ही अनेक मुद्यांवर आधारित असलेली ही भाषांची छोटी यादी, जास्त प्रसंगोचित असणे अपेक्षित आहे व त्याच लेखासारखा आशय, ते जाणत असलेल्या इतर भाषांत शोधणे, त्यांचेसाठी मौलिक ठरु शकते. आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे या बाबतची अधिक माहिती
दस्ताऐवजीकरण
येथे बघता येऊ शकते.
आजपासून,आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे हे, या विकिवर, आंतरभाषिक दुव्यांसाठी एक अविचल यादी असतील. तरीपण,खाली असलेली कळ वापरुन,आपण संबंधित लेख ज्या-ज्या भाषेत लिहिल्या गेला आहे, त्या सर्व भाषांची विस्तृत यादीपण बघु शकता.
आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे हे फिचर, विकिमिडिया भाषिक चमू द्वारे, ज्यांनी यास विकसित केले, अधिक विस्तृतपणे तपासल्या गेले आहे. तरीपण, त्यात काही समस्या असतील तर, किंवा प्रतिसाद असेल तर आम्हास तो
प्रकल्प चर्चा पान
येथे द्या. याची कृपया नोंद घ्या कि, काही विकिंवर उपलब्ध असलेले जूने गॅजेट, जे यासारख्याच कामासाठी वापरल्या जात होते,ते, या आटोपशीर भाषा यादीसाठी त्रासदायक ठरू शकते.हे आम्ही या विकिच्या प्रशासकांच्या लक्षात आणून देऊ ईच्छितो.या बाबतचा संपूर्ण तपशील (इंग्रजीत)
या फॅब्रिकेटर तिकिटावर
आहे.
(या संदेशाचे भाषांतर, द्वारा : विजय नरसीकर.)
On behalf of Wikimedia Language team: -
Runab WMF
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Editing News #2—2016
संपादन
Read this in another language
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Did you know?
It's quick and easy to insert a references list.
Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "समाविष्ट करा" menu and click the "संदर्भ यादी" icon (three books).
If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.
Finally, click "समाविष्ट करा" in the dialog to insert the संदर्भ यादी. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.
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
VisualEditor Team
has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
Recent changes
संपादन
The visual editor is now available to all users at most
Wikivoyages
. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The
single edit tab
feature combines the "संपादन" and "स्रोत संपादित करा" tabs into a single "संपादन" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "संपादन" tab of
Special:Preferences
. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
Future changes
संपादन
The "हा लेख साठवा" button will say "पानाचे प्रकाशन करा". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More
information is available on Meta
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. This will affect several languages, including:
Arabic
Hindi
Thai
Tamil
Marathi
Malayalam
Urdu
Persian
Bengali
Assamese
Aramaic
and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (
T138966
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a
general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list
Let's work together
संपादन
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help
set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki
? Have you written or imported
TemplateData
for your most important citation templates?
Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new
VisualEditor Community Taskforce
Learn how to improve the "automagical"
citoid
referencing system in the visual editor, by creating
Zotero
translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the
Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher
for more information.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. आपणास धन्यवाद!
m:User:Elitre (WMF)
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Open call for Project Grants
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा:
Greetings! The
Project Grants program
is accepting proposals
from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Submit
a grant request
or
draft
your proposal
in IdeaLab
Get help with your proposal
in an upcoming Hangout session
Learn from examples
of completed
Individual Engagement Grants
or
Project and Event Grants
Also accepting candidates to
join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF)
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Save/Publish
संपादन
The
Editing
team is planning to change the name of the
हा लेख साठवा
button to
पानाचे प्रकाशन करा
and
बदल प्रकाशित करा
. “
पानाचे प्रकाशन करा
” will be used when you create a new page. “
बदल प्रकाशित करा
” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.
[१६]
[१७]
This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in
Tech News
when it happens.
If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for
पानाचे प्रकाशन करा
and
बदल प्रकाशित करा
The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that
हा लेख साठवा
would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “
हा लेख साठवा
” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.
Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The
Legal team
at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.
Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes
{{int:Publishpage}}
and
{{int:Publishchanges}}
to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in
your account preferences
, these wikitext codes produce “
पानाचे प्रकाशन करा
” and “
बदल प्रकाशित करा
”.
Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.
Whatamidoing (WMF)
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RevisionSlider
संपादन
From September 13th on,
RevisionSlider
will be available as a
beta feature
in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!
Birgit Müller (WMDE)
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Grants to improve your project
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा:
Greetings! The
Project Grants program
is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
Submit a grant request
Get help
: In
IdeaLab
or an upcoming
Hangout session
Learn from examples
of completed
Individual Engagement Grants
or
Project and Event Grants
I JethroBT (WMF)
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Creative Commons 4.0
संपादन
Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested,
take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki
Apologies that this message is only in English.
This message can be read and translated in more languages here
Joe Sutherland
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Editing News #3—2016
संपादन
Read this in another language
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?
Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.
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
VisualEditor Team
has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a
beta feature
, and improving language support.
Recent changes
संपादन
You can now set text as small or big.
[१८]
Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.
[१९]
A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
[२०]
Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
[२१]
At many wikis, you can now add
maps
to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.
[२२]
The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.
[२३]
In the future, the "हा लेख साठवा" button will say "पानाचे प्रकाशन करा". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More
information is available on Meta
Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.
[२४]
Future changes
संपादन
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. This will affect several languages, including
Thai
Burmese
and
Aramaic
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The
2017 wikitext editor
will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a
general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list
Let's work together
संपादन
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help
set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki
? Have you written or imported
TemplateData
for your most important citation templates?
Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new
VisualEditor Community Taskforce
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. आपणास धन्यवाद!
Elitre (WMF)
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Password reset
संपादन
I apologise that this message is in English.
⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽
We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.
Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.
In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.
Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation.
Joe Sutherland
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) /
MediaWiki message delivery
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Adding to the above section (Password reset)
संपादन
Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "
Help with translations!
".
Joe Sutherland (WMF)
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Help test offline Wikipedia
संपादन
Hello! The Reading team at the Foundation is looking to support readers who want to take articles offline to read and share later on their phones - a use case we learned about from
deep research earlier this year
. We’ve built a few prototypes and are looking for people who would be interested in testing them. If you’d like to learn more and give us feedback,
check out the page on Meta
Joe Sutherland (WMF)
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New way to edit wikitext
संपादन
Summary
: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a
wikitext mode for the visual editor
. Please
go try it out
We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving
the visual editor
based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.
Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the
citoid service
for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.
All wikis now have access to this mode as a
Beta Feature
. When enabled, it replaces your existing
wikitext editor
everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an
opt-in-only
Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "सर्व नवीन बीटा फिचर्स आपोआप सक्षम करा".
The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the
current wikitext editor
). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and
vice versa
), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to
work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work
with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.
This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode
on the feedback page
. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.
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Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
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Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
Regular updates are being sent to the
Wikimedia-l mailing list
, and posted
on Meta-Wiki
. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well.
to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:
Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(15 December 2016)
Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(23 December 2016)
Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(8 January 2017)
Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(11 January 2017)
Introduction of williamsworks
Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(2 February 2017)
The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(10 February 2017)
Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks
More information about the movement strategy is available on the
Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal
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Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
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Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
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As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.
Regular updates are being sent to the
Wikimedia-l mailing list
, and posted
on Meta-Wiki
. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well.
to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:
Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(16 February 2017)
Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(24 February 2017)
Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(2 March 2017)
Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions
More information about the movement strategy is available on the
Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal
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We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
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This message, "
We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
", was sent through multiple channels by
Gregory Varnum
on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by
Nicole Ebber
to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups)
: Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).
Track B (individual contributors):
On Meta
or your
local language or project wiki
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Find out more about the movement strategy process
Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator
Sincerely,
Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the
engagement support teams
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Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the
2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections
The
Board of Trustees
(Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found
on Meta-Wiki
. Please read the
letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates
The
candidacy submission phase
will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20.
You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the
three community-selected seats
on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are
inclusive
, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) –
Board nominations
April 7 – April 20 –
Board candidates questions submission period
April 21 – April 30 –
Board candidates answer questions
May 1 – May 14 –
Board voting period
May 15–19 –
Board vote checking
May 20 –
Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available
on Meta-Wiki
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available
on Meta-Wiki
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found
on Meta-Wiki
. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the
election talk page on Meta-Wiki
, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
board-elections
wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan
, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland
, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
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Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
On
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
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Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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This is a message from the
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Translations
are available.
Voting has begun
for
eligible voters
in the 2017 elections for the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
The
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14.
Click here to vote
More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
2017 Board of Trustees election page
on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
Katie Chan
, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland
, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
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Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View
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From May 9, the
Two Column Edit Conflict View
will be available as a
beta feature
on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!
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Editing News #1—2017
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "आपल्या बदलांची झलक पहा".
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. 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
VisualEditor Team
has spent most of their time supporting
the 2017 wikitext editor mode
which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding
the new visual diff tool
. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a
beta feature
, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
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new wikitext editing mode
is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The
2017 wikitext editor
has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
A new
visual diff tool
is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components.
[२५]
The team have added
multi-column support for lists of footnotes
. The
block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can
request multi-column support
for your wiki.
[२६]
You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this.
[२७]
The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow.
[२८]
The वर्ग item has been moved to the top of the पान पर्याय menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access.
[२९]
There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
[३०]
You can now create
tags (sometimes used as
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
[३१]
Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
[३२]
The विशेष वर्ण menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer,
Tpt
[३३]
A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption.
[३४]
There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:
Control
Shift
on a PC, or
Command
Shift
on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is
Control
or
Command
respectively.
[३५]
Future changes
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The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of
tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
[३६]
The kind of button used to झलक दाखवा, बदल दाखवा, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use
OOjs UI
. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding
&ooui=1
to the end of the URL, like this:
The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
[३७]
The
outdated 2006 wikitext editor
will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See
a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org
if you are uncertain which one you use.
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RevisionSlider
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RevisionSlider
will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.
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Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)
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Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified
5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations
- each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.
You are invited to
join the online and offline discussions taking place
on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.
Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
Healthy, Inclusive Communities
The Augmented Age
A Truly Global Movement
The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem
On the
movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki
, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.
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Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections
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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the
2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee
and
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at
on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal
Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC elections page
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC Ombudsperson elections page
The
candidacy submission phase
will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28.
You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki
Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.
The goal of this process is to fill the
five community-selected seats
on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the
community-selected ombudsperson
. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.
The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are
inclusive
, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) –
Nominations
May 15 – May 28 –
Candidates questions submission period
May 29 – June 2 –
Candidates answer questions
June 3 – June 11 –
Voting period
June 12–14 –
Vote checking
June 15 –
Goal date for announcing election results
More information on this year's elections can be found at
the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on
the talk page on Meta-Wiki
, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
board-elections
wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan
, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland
, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
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Columns for references
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Hello,
At the request of Wikipedia editors, a new feature has been added to MediaWiki. Long lists of references (also called citations or footnotes) will automatically be displayed in columns. This will make it easier for most people to read the references, especially on narrow screens. Short lists of references will not be affected.
I plan to enable this new feature at this wiki on Monday, 24 July 2017. After that date, use the normal
tag on any page with many references to see this feature. If you do not want columns used on that page, then use this wikitext code instead:
If you believe that this new feature is not appropriate for this wiki, or if you need help adjusting templates, then please contact me at
mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns for references
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Accessible editing buttons
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The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.
You can see and use the
old
and
new
versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
Comparison of old and new styles
Buttons before the change
Buttons after the change
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system.
If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see
mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons
for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.
This change will probably reach this wiki on
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
. Please leave a note at
mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons
if you need help.
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Changes to the global ban policy
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Hello. Some changes to the
community global ban policy
have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at
m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy
. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially.
Matiia
Matiia
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New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
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New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it
easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website
Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from
the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India
. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The
prototype evaluation
received positive feedback and results, so development continued.
For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF.
Mobile print styles
will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.
The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see
the project page on MediaWiki.org
आपणास धन्यवाद!
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Editing News #1—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can now use the
visual diff tool
on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you
enable the Beta Feature
for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.
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 spent most of their time supporting
the 2017 wikitext editor mode
, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving
the visual diff tool
. Their work board is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
संपादन
The
2017 wikitext editor
is
available as a Beta Feature
on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at
mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance
The
visual diff tool
was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also
enable the new Beta Feature
for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and
Special:RecentChanges
[३९]
Wikitext syntax highlighting
is available as a Beta Feature for both
the 2017 wikitext editor
and the 2010 wikitext editor.
[४०]
The
citoid service
automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up.
Your wiki can have this service. Please
read the instructions
. You can
ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki
Let's work together
संपादन
The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming
Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting
Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact
Dan Garry
The
block can
automatically display long lists of references in columns
on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can
request multi-column support
for your wiki.
[४१]
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. आपणास धन्यवाद!
Elitre (WMF)
२०:५६, २ मार्च २०१८ (UTC)
AdvancedSearch
संपादन
From May 8,
AdvancedSearch
will be available as a
beta feature
in your wiki. The feature enhances the
search page
through an advanced parameters form and aims to make
existing search options
more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by
WMDE Technical Wishes
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!
Birgit Müller (WMDE)
१४:५३, ७ मे २०१८ (UTC)
reply
Global preferences are available
संपादन
Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new
global preferences page
. Visit
mediawiki.org for information on how to use them
and
leave feedback
. --
Keegan (WMF)
talk
१९:१९, १० जुलै २०१८ (UTC)
New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS
संपादन
(कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा)
Hi all!
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like
MediaWiki:Common.css
and
MediaWiki:Vector.js
which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)
A new user group,
interface-admin
, has been created.
Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with
.css
or
.js
that is either in the
MediaWiki:
namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the change
here
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats).
This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
Thanks!
Tgr
talk
१७:४४, ३० जुलै २०१८ (UTC)
(via
global message delivery
reply
Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now
संपादन
(कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा)
Hi all,
as
announced previously
, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the
interface-admin
(तांत्रिक प्रचालक) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at
Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.
Thanks!
Tgr
talk
१२:४०, २७ ऑगस्ट २०१८ (UTC)
(via
global message delivery
reply
Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October
संपादन
Read this message in another language
• कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
On
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
User:Johan(WMF)
talk
१३:३३, ६ सप्टेंबर २०१८ (UTC)
The Community Wishlist Survey
संपादन
The Community Wishlist Survey. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech
should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the
wishlist survey page
User:Johan (WMF)
११:०६, ३० ऑक्टोबर २०१८ (UTC)
Editing News #2—2018
संपादन
Read this in another language
Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
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
संपादन
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.
[४२]
Let's work together
संपादन
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.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. आपणास धन्यवाद!
Whatamidoing (WMF)
talk
१४:१७, २ नोव्हेंबर २०१८ (UTC)
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
संपादन
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Example of improvements
Hello,
In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.
What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like
Template:Unreferenced
or
Template:More citations needed
. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.
For template editors we have
some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly
and also further
documentation on our work so far
If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile,
please leave a note on the project talk page
or
file a task in Phabricator
and we will help you.
आपणास धन्यवाद!
CKoerner (WMF)
talk
१९:३४, १३ नोव्हेंबर २०१८ (UTC)
reply
Community Wishlist Survey vote
संपादन
The Community Wishlist Survey. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech
should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the
wishlist survey page
User:Johan (WMF)
१८:१३, २२ नोव्हेंबर २०१८ (UTC)
Advanced Search
संपादन
Advanced Search
will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the
search page
, even if you don’t know any
search syntax
. Advanced Search originates from the
German Community’s Technical Wishes project
. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the
central feedback page
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
talk
११:०३, २६ नोव्हेंबर २०१८ (UTC)
reply
New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new
password policy and requirements
You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on
the talk page
आपणास धन्यवाद!
CKoerner (WMF)
talk
२०:०३, ६ डिसेंबर २०१८ (UTC)
reply
Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.
Wiki Loves Love (WLL)
is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.
The theme of 2019 iteration is
Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.
Sign up your affiliate or individually at
Participants
page.
To know more about the contest, check out our
Commons Page
and
FAQs
There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!
Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Love Team
Imagine... the sum of all love!
--
MediaWiki message delivery
चर्चा
१०:१३, २७ डिसेंबर २०१८ (UTC)
reply
FileExporter beta feature
संपादन
Coming soon: the beta feature
FileExporter
A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The
FileExporter
. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community:
Please check your wiki's
configuration file
if you want to use this feature.
The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on
mediawiki.org
meta.wikimedia
, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on
wikisource.org
. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found
on the project page
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your
user preferences
. The best place for feedback is the
central talk page
. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's
Technical Wishes project
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
०९:४१, १४ जानेवारी २०१९ (UTC)
reply
No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January
संपादन
You will
not be able to edit
the wikis for up to 30 minutes on
17 January 07:00 UTC
. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are
not
affected
on this page
. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /
Johan (WMF)
१८:४९, १६ जानेवारी २०१९ (UTC)
Talk to us about talking
संपादन
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a
global consultation about communication
. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
First,
sign up your group here.
Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
Finally, please go to
Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org
and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.
You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.
Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us
how your group communicates
You can read more about
the overall process
on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can
leave feedback about the consultation process
in the language you prefer.
Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.
Trizek (WMF)
१५:०१, २१ फेब्रुवारी २०१९ (UTC)
reply
Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April
संपादन
You will
not be able to edit
most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on
11 April 05:00 UTC
. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You
can see which wikis are affected
. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /
Johan (WMF)
१०:५६, ८ एप्रिल २०१९ (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The Wikimedia Foundation has published a
Medium-Term Plan proposal
covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on
the talk page
, by April 20. आपणास धन्यवाद!
Quiddity (WMF)
talk
१७:३५, १२ एप्रिल २०१९ (UTC)
reply
Editing News #1—July 2019
संपादन
Read this in another language
Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon
to start editing.
Edit Cards
This is what the new
Edit Cards for editing links
in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here:
📲 Try Edit Cards
Welcome back to the
Editing
newsletter.
Since
the last newsletter
, the team has released two new features for the
mobile visual editor
and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to
make editing on mobile web simpler
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
📲 Try Edit Cards
Recent releases
संपादन
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the
mobile site
. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
Section editing
The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
The team studied this with an A/B test.
This test showed
that contributors who could use section editing were
1% more likely to publish
the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
Loading overlay
The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are
now available to everyone
using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
संपादन
This is a list of our most active projects.
Watch
these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
Edit cards
: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.
Go here to see how:
Try Edit Cards
Mobile toolbar refresh
: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
Mobile visual editor availability
: This A/B test asks:
Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?
We are collaborating with
20 Wikipedias
to answer this question.
Usability improvements
: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
संपादन
Wikimania:
Several members of the Editing Team will be attending
Wikimania
in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the
Community Growth space
. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
Talk Pages:
In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin
improving talk pages
and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
संपादन
The
VisualEditor on mobile
is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at
Talk:VisualEditor on mobile
PPelberg (WMF)
talk
) &
Whatamidoing (WMF)
talk
१८:३२, २३ जुलै २०१९ (UTC)
Update on the consultation about office actions
संपादन
Hello all,
Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team
announced
a future consultation about partial and/or temporary
office actions
. We want to let you know that the
draft version
of this consultation has now been
posted on Meta
This is a
draft
. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.
For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted.
Please post it on the draft talk page
. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.
Please visit
the consultation draft on Meta-wiki
and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.
Thank you for your input! -- The
Trust & Safety team
०८:०३, १६ ऑगस्ट २०१९ (UTC)
New tools and IP masking
संपादन
Hey everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.
We have an idea of what tools
could
be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project
on Meta
and
post comments and feedback
. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.
You can post in your language if you can't write in English.
Johan (WMF)
१४:१८, २१ ऑगस्ट २०१९ (UTC)
The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started
संपादन
Hello,
In a
recent statement
, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
requested that staff hold a consultation
to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".
Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians
to join this consultation and give their feedback
from 30 September to 30 October.
How can you help?
Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);
Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or
Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.
We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!
--
Kbrown (WMF)
१७:१४, ३० सप्टेंबर २०१९ (UTC)
reply
Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some
improvements to the desktop interface
over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.
We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.
We would like individual feedback on the following:
Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far
We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.
When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:
Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
Put things in logical and useful places
Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
Eliminate clutter
Plan for future growth
As well as the following constraints:
Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors
Please give all feedback (in any language) at
mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements
After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.
आपणास धन्यवाद!
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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the
Editing team
talks about their work on the
mobile visual editor
, on
the new talk pages project
, and at
Wikimania 2019
Help
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What talk page interactions do you remember?
Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page.
Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the
talk page for this project
The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk pages project
संपादन
The
Talk Pages Consultation
was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The
Phase 2 Report
of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here:
Talk Page Project project page
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the
"Getting involved"
section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
संपादन
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the
visual editor on mobile
. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at
Talk:VisualEditor on mobile
Edit Cards
संपादन
What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.
On 3 September, the Editing team released
version 3 of Edit Cards
. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
There is an
updated design
on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new,
combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target
Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the
Edit cards talk page
Toolbar
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The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together.
Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar
In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
One toolbar:
All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
New navigation:
The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
Seamless switching:
an
improved workflow
for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the
Toolbar feedback talk page
Wikimania
संपादन
The Editing Team attended
Wikimania 2019
in Sweden. They led a session on
the mobile visual editor
and a session on
the new talk pages project
. They tested
two
new
features
in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in
the team's report on Wikimania 2019
Looking ahead
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Talk Pages Project:
The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page:
Getting involved
Testing the mobile visual editor as the default:
The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:
VisualEditor as mobile default project page
Measuring the impact of Edit Cards:
This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:
Edit Cards project page
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Whatamidoing (WMF)
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Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project
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Hello
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project,
please visit the Meta page
. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete
this simple Google form
. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!
--
LMiranda (WMF)
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Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages
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Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.
You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at
the planned feature
. Let us know what you think on our
central feedback page
! -- For the Technical Wishes Team:
Max Klemm (WMDE)
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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.
The
Editing team
has been working on
the talk pages project
. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the
Talk pages consultation 2019
In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.
The team is building a
new tool for replying
to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically.
Please
test the new Reply tool
On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a
Beta Feature
editors at four Wikipedias:
Arabic
Dutch
French
, and
Hungarian
. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact
User:Whatamidoing (WMF)
The team is planning some upcoming changes.
Please
review the proposed design
and share your thoughts on the talk page.
The team will test features such as:
an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
a rich-text visual editing option, and
other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the
"Get involved"
section of the project page. You can also watch
these pages:
the main project page
Updates
Replying
, and
User testing
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Whatamidoing (WMF)
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Editing news 2020 #2
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The new features include a toolbar.
What do you think should be in the toolbar?
This issue of the
Editing
newsletter includes information the
Talk pages project
, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
Reply tool
: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Discussion tools". 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
now. 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)
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Feedback on movement names
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Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा if necessary. आपणास धन्यवाद!
There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.
Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a
survey
in 7 languages about
3 naming options
. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a
Community Open Letter
Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.
Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --
The Brand Project team
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Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the
survey privacy statement
Editing news 2020 #3
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डेस्कटॉप व्हिज्युअल एडिटर वापरून ५० मिलियनहून अधिक सुधारणा केल्या गेल्या आहेत.
सात वर्षांपूर्वी याच महिन्यात बहुतेक विकिपीडिया संपादकांना व्हिज्युअल एडिटचा प्रस्ताव दिला होता. तेव्हा पासून संपादकांनी अनेक मैलाचे दगड गाठले आहेत.
डेस्कटॉप वर व्हिज्युअल एडिटरच्या सहाय्याने ५० मिलियनहून अधिक संपादने/सुधारणा करण्यात आल्या.
वर्ष २०१९ मध्ये व्हिज्युअल एडिटरमध्ये दोन मिलियनहून अधिक नवे लेख तयार केले गेले.
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)
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Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia
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Hi all,
It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.
This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020
after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.
The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.
As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation
. We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.
It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.
We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.
There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list
. We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.
Yours,
Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)
Abstract Wikipedia
User:Denny
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Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis
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The
FileExporter and FileImporter
will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history.
How does it work?
Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.
Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's
configuration file
which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.
Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.
If you want to know more about the
FileImporter extension
or the
Technical Wishes Project
, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:
Max Klemm (WMDE)
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Important: maintenance operation on September 1st
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हा संदेश ईतर भाषेत वाचा
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे. हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात. सर्व काही कार्यरत आहे हे सुनिश्चित करण्यासाठी, विकिमिडिया तंत्रज्ञान विभागास नियोजित चाचणी करणे आवश्यक आहे. ही चाचणी दर्शविते की ते एका डेटा सेंटर वरून दुसर्या डेटा सेंटरवर विश्वासार्हपणे स्विच करू शकतात का?. यासाठी अनेक संघांना चाचणीची तयारी करणे आवश्यक आहे आणि कोणतीही अनपेक्षित समस्या दूर करण्यासाठी उपलब्ध असणे आवश्यक आहे.
ते
मंगळवार, दिनांक १ सप्टेंबर २०२०
रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील.
दुर्दैवाने,
MediaWiki
मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
मंगळवार दिनांक १ सप्टेंबर रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही.
चाचणी [वेळ १४:०० यूटीसी] वाजता सुरू होईल (१५:०० बीएसटी, १६:०० सीएसटी, १०:०० ईडीटी, १९:३० आयएसटी, ०७:३० पीडीटी, २३:०० जेएसटी, आणि न्यूझीलंडमध्ये ०२:०० वाजता एनझेडएसटी बुधवार दिनांक २ सप्टेंबर रोजी
आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव
पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
दिनांक १ सप्टेंबर २०२० च्या आठवड्यात कोड गोठवले जातील. अनावश्यक कोड उपयोजित होणार नाही.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण
wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता
. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील. या बाबतीत पुढे आणखी अधिसूचना असतील.
कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
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संभाषणात सहभागी होण्यासाठी आमंत्रण
संपादन
सर्वांना नमस्कार. जागतिक आचारसंहितेचा (Universal Code of Conduct), जी विकिमिडिया फाऊंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ ट्रस्टीज (Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees) ने या वर्षी पूर्वी बंधनकारक केली, तिचा एक मसूदा आपल्या आढाव्यासाठी आणि फीडबॅकसाठी शेअर करण्याबाबत आम्ही खूप उत्तेजित आहोत. आपल्यासाठी किंवा आपल्या कामासाठी मसूद्याचे कोणते भाग आव्हान सादर करतील हे UCoC मसूदा समिती (Drafting Committee) यांना जाणून घ्यायचे आहे. या मसूद्यात काय राहिले आहे? कृपया संभाषणात सामील व्हा आणि ज्या इतरांना सामील होण्यात रुची असेल त्यांनाही आमंत्रण द्या.
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Wiki of functions naming contest
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of
functions
. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
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Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
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Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details,
check the full announcement
आपणास धन्यवाद!
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Important: maintenance operation on October 27
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on
Tuesday, October 27 2020
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2
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Hello.
Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at Meta-wiki.
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Community Wishlist Survey 2021
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The
2021 Community Wishlist Survey
is now open!
This survey is the process where communities decide what the
Community Tech
team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on
३० नोव्हेंबर
, or comment on other proposals to help make them better.
The communities will vote on the proposals between ८ डिसेंबर and २१ डिसेंबर.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors.
You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist
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Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on
this page
. Feel free to translate it in more languages!
As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (
in your preferences
). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.
Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.
This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.
Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.
If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use
this Phabricator ticket
. Thanks!
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2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th
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Hello all,
The ceremony of the 2020
Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award
will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!
You will find more information
here
about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention,
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Community Wishlist Survey 2021
संपादन
We invite all registered users to vote on the
2021 Community Wishlist Survey
. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the
Community Tech
, are one of the
Wikimedia Foundation
teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
You can view and vote all proposals here.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event
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Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा. आपणास धन्यवाद!
Wikimania will be a virtual event this year
, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again,
the ESEAP Core Organizing Team
will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how
you
can get involved in the planning
process and other aspects of the event.
Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l
ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team
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Project Grant Open Call
संपादन
This is the announcement for the
Project Grants program
open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.
For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:
Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for
#Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions
with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
Video tutorials
for writing a strong application
General
planning page
for Project Grants
Program guidelines and criteria
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and
submit your proposal
by February 10, 2021!
Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrants
साचा:At
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Wikifunctions logo contest
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Hello. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
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Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations
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Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its
project page
Drafting Committee: Call for applications
संपादन
The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see
Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee
2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators
संपादन
From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested
key questions
. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please
in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see
Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations
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Line numbering coming soon to all wikis
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Example
From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (
CodeMirror extension
), which is supported in the
2010
and
2017
wikitext editors.
More information can be found on
this project page
. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback
on this talk page
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Suggested Values
संपादन
From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to
TemplateData
and will then be shown as a drop-down list in
VisualEditor
. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.
More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values:
[1]
[2]
. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback
on this talk page
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Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1
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Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021
Read the full newsletter
Welcome to the first issue of
Universal Code of Conduct News
! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to
subscribe here
You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please
add your name here
if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.
Affiliate consultations
– Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (
continue reading
2021 key consultations
– The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (
continue reading
Roundtable discussions
– The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (
continue reading
Phase 2 drafting committee
– The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (
continue reading
Diff blogs
– The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (
continue reading
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Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions
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Dear all,
Wikimania 2021 will be
hosted virtually
for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the
Core Organizing Team
(COT) for Wikimania 2021.
Event Program
- Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information
here
Below are some links to guide you through;
Program Submissions
Session Submission Guidelines
FAQ
Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.
Announcements
- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section
here
Office Hour
- If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found
here.
Best regards,
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On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team
Editing news 2021 #2
संपादन
इतर भाषेत वाचा
या बहुभाषीक वार्तापत्रासाठीची वर्गणीदारांची यादी
जेव्हा नवीन सदस्यांना प्रत्युत्तराचे साधन होते आणि त्यांनी चर्चा पृष्ठावर लिहण्याचा प्रयत्न केला तेव्हा ते अधिक यशस्वी झाले. (
स्त्रोत
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of
the Reply Tool
. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped
newer editors
communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
याचे मुख्य परिणाम होते:
Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were
more likely
to post a comment on a talk page.
The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also
less likely
to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
हे परिणाम संपादन कार्यसंघाला आत्मविश्वास देतात की हे साधन उपयुक्त आहे.
पुढे पहाता
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to
resolve a technical challenge
. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the
Wikipedias that participated in the study
. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion tools"
in Beta Features
now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
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Read this message in another language
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January
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Hello everyone,
We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.
Summary:
We will be running the
Community Wishlist Survey
2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a
dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes
Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year
संपादन
In the past, the
Community Tech
team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the
Wishlist for 2021
in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the
Wishlist for 2020
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities
संपादन
We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet
संपादन
We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the
talk page
, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting
September 15th at 23:00 UTC
. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase
संपादन
If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the
new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox
. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
Feedback
संपादन
What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
How would you like to use our new
sandbox?
What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the
talk page
(in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
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Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021
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Movement Strategy announces
the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.
The Committee is expected to represent
diversity in the Movement
. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.
We are looking for people who have some of the following
skills
Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
Are ready to find compromises.
Focus on inclusion and diversity.
Have knowledge of community consultations.
Have intercultural communication experience.
Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
Have experience negotiating with different parties.
The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.
Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy
here
. Please contact strategy2030
wikimedia.org with questions.
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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Talk to the Community Tech
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello!
As we have
recently announced
, we, the team working on the
Community Wishlist Survey
, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on
September 15th, 23:00 UTC
on Zoom, and will last an hour.
Click here to join
Agenda
How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
Why we decided to change the date
from November 2021 to January 2022
Update on the
disambiguation
and the
real-time preview
wishes
Questions and answers
Format
The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them
on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page
or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Natalia Rodriguez
(the
Community Tech
manager) will be hosting this meeting.
Invitation link
Join online
Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
One tap mobile
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+16699006833,,89828615390# US (San Jose)
Dial by your location
See you!
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Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,
We are pleased to inform you that
Wiki Loves Folklore
an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the
15th of March 2022
. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.
We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the
translation
of project pages and share a word in your local language.
Best wishes,
International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore
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Coming soon
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Several improvements around templates
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Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:
Fundamental improvements of the
VisualEditor template dialog
),
Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (
) (for the template dialogs in
VisualEditor
2010 Wikitext
and
New Wikitext Mode
),
and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension
CodeMirror
) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).
All these changes are part of the “
Templates
” project by
WMDE Technical Wishes
. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow
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International photographic contest
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.
The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your
local Wikipedia is participating
A special competition called
Wiki Loves Falles
is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and
Falles
in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on
Catalan Wikipedia project page
We look forward for your immense co-operation.
Thanks
Wiki Loves Folklore international Team
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Coming soon: Improvements for templates
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Fundamental changes in the template dialog.
Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:
The
template dialog
in VisualEditor
and in the
2017 Wikitext Editor
(beta) will be
improved fundamentally
This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.
project page
talk page
In
syntax highlighting
CodeMirror
extension), you can activate a
colorblind-friendly
color scheme with a user setting.
project page
talk page
Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from
WMDE Technical Wishes'
focus area “
Templates
”.
We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!
--
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Editing news 2022 #1
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New editors were more successful with this new tool.
The
New topic tool
helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can
read the report
. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
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Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hi, Greetings
The winners for
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
is announced!
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images
here
Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.
We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.
Thank you,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
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The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?
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The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022
Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average
87% of active logged-in users
of those wikis use Vector 2022.
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to
any other skins
. No changes are expected for users of these skins.
Top of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
A section of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
About the skin
संपादन
[Why is a change necessary]
The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects.
The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.
[Objective]
The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the
Community Wishlist Surveys
, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins.
We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%
. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes and test results]
The skin introduces a
series of changes
that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Try it out]
Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in
your preferences
and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.
How can editors change and customize this skin?
संपादन
It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out
our repository
for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.
Our plan
संपादन
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022
. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.
Request for more time to discuss the change
If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the
talk page of the project
. We will gladly answer! Also,
see our FAQ
. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January
संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
(There is
a translatable version of this message on MetaWiki
Hello
The
Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023
, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday,
23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC
and will continue annually.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in
the CWS sandbox
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
आपणास धन्यवाद!
Community Tech,
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Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
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Per the
Global bans
policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment:
m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2)
about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--
Lemonaka
talk
) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the
Editing
team's work:
The Editing team will finish adding new features to the
Talk pages project
and deploy it.
They are beginning a new project,
Edit check
Talk pages project
Some of the upcoming changes
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the
Talk pages project
. Nearly all
new features
are available now in the
Beta Feature for Discussion tools
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "विषय जोडा" button. You will be able to turn them off at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
. Please
tell them what you think
Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)
An A/B test for
Discussion tools on the mobile site
has finished. Editors were
more successful with Discussion tools
. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning
a project to help new editors of Wikipedia
. It will help people identify some problems before they click "बदल प्रकाशित करा". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please
watch
that page for more information. You can
join a conference call on 3 March 2023
to learn more.
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Your wiki will be in read only soon
संपादन
हा संदेश ईतर भाषेत वाचा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे. हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात. सर्व काही कार्यरत आहे हे सुनिश्चित करण्यासाठी, विकिमिडिया तंत्रज्ञान विभागास नियोजित चाचणी करणे आवश्यक आहे. ही चाचणी दर्शविते की ते एका डेटा सेंटर वरून दुसर्या डेटा सेंटरवर विश्वासार्हपणे स्विच करू शकतात का?. यासाठी अनेक संघांना चाचणीची तयारी करणे आवश्यक आहे आणि कोणतीही अनपेक्षित समस्या दूर करण्यासाठी उपलब्ध असणे आवश्यक आहे.
ते
दिनांक १ मार्च
रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील.
चाचणी [वेळ १४:०० यूटीसी] वाजता सुरू होईल (१५:०० बीएसटी, १६:०० सीएसटी, १०:०० ईडीटी, १९:३० आयएसटी, ०७:३० पीडीटी, २३:०० जेएसटी, आणि न्यूझीलंडमध्ये ०२:०० वाजता एनझेडएसटी $date
दुर्दैवाने,
MediaWiki
मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
बुधवार १ मार्च २०२३ रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही.
आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव
पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण
wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता
. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील. या बाबतीत पुढे आणखी अधिसूचना असतील.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
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Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions
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Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk?
Submissions are open until March 28
. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.
Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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हा संदेश ईतर भाषेत वाचा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे. हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात. सर्व काही कार्यरत आहे हे सुनिश्चित करण्यासाठी, विकिमिडिया तंत्रज्ञान विभागास नियोजित चाचणी करणे आवश्यक आहे. ही चाचणी दर्शविते की ते एका डेटा सेंटर वरून दुसर्या डेटा सेंटरवर विश्वासार्हपणे स्विच करू शकतात का?. यासाठी अनेक संघांना चाचणीची तयारी करणे आवश्यक आहे आणि कोणतीही अनपेक्षित समस्या दूर करण्यासाठी उपलब्ध असणे आवश्यक आहे.
ते
दिनांक २६ एप्रिल
रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील. चाचणी
१४:०० UTC
ला सुरू होईल.
दुर्दैवाने,
MediaWiki
मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
बुधवार २६ एप्रिल २०२३ रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही.
आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव
पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण
wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता
. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील. या बाबतीत पुढे आणखी अधिसूचना असतील.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
MediaWiki message delivery
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Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
संपादन
अधिक भाषा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello,
As follow-up to
the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
Community members in good standing
Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either
sign up on the Meta-Wiki page
, or contact ucocproject
wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023.
Read more on Meta-Wiki
Best regards,
Xeno (WMF)
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Selection of the U4C Building Committee
संपादन
The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected.
Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki
--
UCoC Project Team
, ०४:२१, २७ मे २०२३ (UTC)
नवीन निवडणूक समिती सदस्यांची घोषणा
संपादन
तुम्हाला हा संदेश मेटा-विकीवर अतिरिक्त भाषांमध्ये अनुवादित सापडेल.
अधिक भाषा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
सर्वांना नमस्कार,
आम्हाला
निवडणूक समितीचे नवीन सदस्य आणि सल्लागारांसंबंधी
घोषणा करताना आनंद होत आहे.
निवडणूक समिती
ही विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन विश्वस्त मंडळासाठी समुदाय- आणि संलग्न-निवडलेले विश्वस्त निवडण्यासाठी प्रक्रियेची रचना आणि अंमलबजावणी करण्यास मदत करते. खुल्या नामांकन प्रक्रियेनंतर, सर्वात मजबूत उमेदवार मंडळाशी बोलले आणि चार उमेदवारांना निवडणूक समितीमध्ये सामील होण्यास सांगण्यात आले आहे. इतर चार उमेदवारांना सल्लागार म्हणून सहभागी होण्यास सांगण्यात आले आहे.
विचारार्थ नावे सादर करणाऱ्या सर्व समुदाय सदस्यांचे आभार. आम्ही नजीकच्या भविष्यात निवडणूक समितीसोबत काम करण्यास उत्सुक आहोत.
विकिमिडीया प्रतिष्ठानच्या वतिने,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
संपादन
अधिक भाषा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the
Universal Code of Conduct
work. The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter
is now ready for your review.
The
Enforcement Guidelines
require a
Building Committee
form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
. Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the
conversation hours
or on
Meta-wiki
Best,
RamzyM (WMF)
, on behalf of the U4C Building Committee,
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
संपादन
हा संदेश ईतर भाषेत वाचा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे.
हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात. सर्व काही कार्यरत आहे हे सुनिश्चित करण्यासाठी, विकिमिडिया तंत्रज्ञान विभागास नियोजित चाचणी करणे आवश्यक आहे. ही चाचणी दर्शविते की ते एका डेटा सेंटर वरून दुसर्या डेटा सेंटरवर विश्वासार्हपणे स्विच करू शकतात का?. यासाठी अनेक संघांना चाचणीची तयारी करणे आवश्यक आहे आणि कोणतीही अनपेक्षित समस्या दूर करण्यासाठी उपलब्ध असणे आवश्यक आहे.
ते
दिनांक २० सप्टेंबर
रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील. चाचणी
१४:०० UTC
ला सुरू होईल.
दुर्दैवाने,
MediaWiki
मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
बुधवार २० सप्टेंबर २०२३ रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही.
आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव
पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण
wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता
. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील. या बाबतीत पुढे आणखी अधिसूचना असतील.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
Trizek_(WMF)
talk
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== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==
संपादन
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
अधिक भाषा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hi everyone! The
Affiliations Committee
(AffCom),
Ombuds commission
(OC), and the
Case Review Committee
(CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the
Meta-wiki page
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
Keegan (WMF)
talk
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Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package
संपादन
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
अधिक भाषा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Dear all,
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.
More on the Meta-wiki page
Best,
Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee
०१:१३, १७ ऑक्टोबर २०२३ (UTC)
The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?
संपादन
Read this in your language
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
• Please tell other users about these changes
Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
वैश्विक पसंतीक्रम
If you prefer keeping the current skin
select "Vector legacy (2010)" on
the appearance tab of the global preferences
and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.
Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.
If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a
local
(but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.
Top of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
A section of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
About the skin
संपादन
Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation.
You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English)
[Why is a change necessary]
When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways.
The old Vector does not meet their needs
[Objective]
The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the
Community Wishlist Surveys
, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins.
The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%
. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes in a nutshell]
The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jump to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the tested wikis.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Customize this skin]
It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out
the repository
for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.
Our plan
संपादन
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 31 October
. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out
our FAQ
. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
चर्चा
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(New) Feature on
Kartographer
: Adding geopoints via QID
संपादन
Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the
project page
. If you have any comments, please let us know on the
talk page
. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland
Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
१२:३१, १३ डिसेंबर २०२३ (UTC)
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Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences
संपादन
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Hello, the
Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this
Registration form
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would
compensate
you for your time.
For more information, visit our
project issue page
where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you,
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
talk
) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?
संपादन
Apologies for writing in English.
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to
make reusing references easier
. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.
The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen.
More information here
Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
Compensation is available
Sessions will be held in January and February.
Sign up here if you are interested.
Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
We’re looking forward to seeing you,
Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
संपादन
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
now through
2 February 2024
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C Charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
१८:०८, १९ जानेवारी २०२४ (UTC)
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Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
संपादन
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) charter will close on
2 February 2024
. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
१७:००, ३१ जानेवारी २०२४ (UTC)
reply
Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote
संपादन
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Dear all,
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the
ratification vote
on the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter
. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.
A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.
Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the
report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification
is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection
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अधिक भाषा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Dear all,
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The
Elections Committee
will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
June-August 2024: Campaign period
End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on
this Meta-wiki page
, and make your plan.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this
Meta-wiki page
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak
(Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
संपादन
हा संदेश ईतर भाषेत वाचा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे.
हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात.
ते
दिनांक २० मार्च
रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील. चाचणी
१४:०० UTC
ला सुरू होईल.
दुर्दैवाने,
MediaWiki
मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
बुधवार २० मार्च २०२४ रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही.
आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव
पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण
wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता
. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील. या बाबतीत पुढे आणखी अधिसूचना असतील.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
Trizek (WMF)
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Vote now to select members of the first U4C
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC
संपादन
Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and
add agenda items to the document here
We look forward to your participation!
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Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Dear community members,
The
Community Affairs Committee
(CAC) of the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
invites you to give feedback on a
draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the
Language Committee
or
closing projects policy
You can find the details on
this page
, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on
June 23, 2024
, anywhere on Earth.
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
On behalf of the CAC,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
North America (USA and Canada)
Northern and Western Europe
Ghilt
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Ibrahim.ID
East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
0xDeadbeef
South Asia
The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:
Barkeep49
Superpes15
Civvì
Luke081515
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hi everyone,
The final text of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.
What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?
The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”
Join the
“Launch Party”
on
June 20, 2024
at
14.00-15.00 UTC
your local time
). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.
Movement Charter ratification vote
Voting will commence on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC.
You can read more about the
voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details
on Meta.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the
Meta talk page
or email the MCDC at
mcdc@wikimedia.org
On behalf of the MCDC,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello everyone,
The voting to ratify the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is
available on Meta in different languages
and attached
here in PDF format
for your reading.
Voting commenced on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC
. Please read more on the
voter information and eligibility details
After reading the Charter, please
vote here
and share this note further.
If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at
cec@wikimedia.org
On behalf of the CEC,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello everyone,
This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
will be closed on
July 9, 2024
, at
23:59 UTC
If you have not voted yet, please vote
on SecurePoll
On behalf of the
Charter Electoral Commission
RamzyM (WMF)
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U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello all,
A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the
UCoC
. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the
U4C Charter
In this special election, according to
chapter 2 of the U4C charter
, there are 9 seats available on the U4C:
four
community-at-large seats and
five
regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki
. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
In cooperation with the U4C,
--
Keegan (WMF)
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Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello everyone,
After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the
Charter Electoral Commission
is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.
As
communicated
by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on
July 9, 23:59 UTC
. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.
The final results of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:
Individual vote:
Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these,
1,710
voted “yes”;
623
voted “no”; and
113
selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).
Affiliates vote:
Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these,
93
voted “yes”;
18
voted “no”; and
18
selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted
not to ratify
the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv,
shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps
With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is
not ratified
We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.
The Charter Electoral Commission,
Abhinav619
Borschts
Iwuala Lucy
Tochiprecious
Der-Wir-Ing
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Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through
August 10, 2024
. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
In cooperation with the U4C,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
संपादन
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कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Dear all,
The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on
the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility
. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote?
The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
In cooperation with the U4C,
--
Keegan (WMF)
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लवकरच येत आहे: एक नवीन उप-संदर्भ वैशिष्ट्य – वापरून पहा!
संपादन
नमस्कार. बऱ्याच वर्षांपासून, समुदाय सदस्यांनी वेगवेगळ्या तपशीलांसह संदर्भ पुन्हा वापरण्याचा सोपा मार्ग विनंती केली आहे. आता, एक मिडीया विकी उपाय येत आहे: नवीन उप-संदर्भ वैशिष्ट्य विकिटेक्स्ट आणि व्हिज्युअल एडिटरसाठी कार्य करेल आणि विद्यमान संदर्भ प्रणाली सुधारेल. तुम्ही संदर्भाचे वेगवेगळे मार्ग वापरणे सुरू ठेवू शकता, परंतु तुम्हाला कदाचित इतर वापरकर्त्यांनी लिहिलेल्या लेखांमध्ये उप-संदर्भ आढळतील.
प्रकल्प पृष्ठ
वर अधिक माहिती.
हे वैशिष्ट्य तुमच्यासाठी चांगले काम करते याची खात्री करण्यासाठी '
आम्हाला तुमचा अभिप्राय हवा आहे
कृपया प्रयत्न करा
बीटा विकीवरील विकासाची सद्यस्थिती आणि
तुम्हाला काय वाटते ते आम्हाला कळवा
अपडेट्स आणि/किंवा वापरकर्ता संशोधन क्रियाकलापांमध्ये सहभागी होण्यासाठी आमंत्रित करण्यासाठी
येथे साइन अप करा
विकीमिडीया ड्यूशलँड
ची
तांत्रिक शुभेच्छा
टीम या वर्षाच्या अखेरीस विकिमीडिया विकीवर हे वैशिष्ट्य आणण्याचा विचार करत आहे. आम्ही संदर्भांशी संबंधित साधने आणि टेम्पलेट्सचे निर्माते/ देखभाल करणाऱ्यांपर्यंत आधीच पोहोचू.
कृपया आम्हाला माहिती पसरविण्यात मदत करा. --
Johannes Richter (WMDE)
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) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC
संपादन
Hi all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document
here
and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
MediaWiki message delivery
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Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
संपादन
Original message at wikimedia-l
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello all,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the
Elections Committee
have certified the
results
for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on
Meta-Wiki
On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!
संपादन
Hello all,
The voting period for the
2024 Board of Trustees election
is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.
Learn more about the candidates by
reading their statements
and their
answers to community questions
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll
voting page to vote.
The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
संपादन
हा संदेश ईतर भाषेत वाचा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे.
हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात.
ते
दिनांक २५ सप्टेंबर
रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील. चाचणी
१५:०० UTC
ला सुरू होईल.
दुर्दैवाने,
MediaWiki
मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
बुधवार २५ सप्टेंबर २०२४ रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही.
आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव
पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण
wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता
. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील.
कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
Trizek_(WMF)
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'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...
संपादन
Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.
साचा:Tracked
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The
Wikidata item
sitelink
currently found under the
General
section of the
Tools
sidebar menu will move into the
In Other Projects
section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the
Discussion page
before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.
More information can be found on
the project page
We welcome your feedback and questions.
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Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey
संपादन
Dear all,
Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.
We are excited to announce the upcoming
Wiki Loves Ramadan
event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
Survey link:
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!
Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.
Warm regards,
User:ZI Jony ०३:२०, ६ ऑक्टोबर २०२४ (UTC)
Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team
Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
संपादन
Hello all,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the
2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.
The following four candidates were the most voted:
Christel Steigenberger
Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
Victoria Doronina
Lorenzo Losa
While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.
Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
MPossoupe_(WMF)
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
संपादन
Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by
visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki
. Post to the talk page or email
cst@wikimedia.org
with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
--
Keegan (WMF)
talk
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'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.
संपादन
Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the
Wikidata item
sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the
General
section into the
In Other Projects
section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2.
Please let us know
if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success
संपादन
Dear all,
We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.
Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.
Survey Link:
Complete the Survey
Deadline: November 10, 2024
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!
Volunteer Opportunity
: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.
Application Link:
Apply Here
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here:
Position Descriptions
Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team ०५:१२, २९ ऑक्टोबर २०२४ (UTC)
Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC
संपादन
Hello everyone,
The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <
>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
>.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers,
Srishti
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Launching! Join Us for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025!
संपादन
Dear All,
We’re happy to announce the launch of
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025
, an annual international campaign dedicated to celebrating and preserving Islamic cultures and history through the power of Wikipedia. As an active contributor to the Local Wikipedia, you are specially invited to participate in the launch.
This year’s campaign will be launched for you to join us write, edit, and improve articles that showcase the richness and diversity of Islamic traditions, history, and culture.
Topic:
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 Campaign Launch
When: Jan 19, 2025
Time: 16:00 Universal Time UTC and runs throughout Ramadan (starting February 25, 2025).
Join Zoom Meeting:
Zoom meeting hosted by
Wikimedia Bangladesh
To get started, visit the
campaign page
for details, resources, and guidelines: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025.
Add
your community here
, and organized Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your local language.
Whether you’re a first-time editor or an experienced Wikipedian, your contributions matter. Together, we can ensure Islamic cultures and traditions are well-represented and accessible to all.
Feel free to invite your community and friends too. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or need support as you prepare to participate.
Let’s make Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 a success!
For the
International Team
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: provide your comments on the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines
संपादन
My apologies for writing in English.
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
talk
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Reminder: first part of the annual UCoC review closes soon
संपादन
My apologies for writing in English.
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes through
the end of day
, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
talk
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Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter
संपादन
Hello everyone!
We’re excited to announce that the next
Language Community Meeting
is happening soon,
February 28th at 14:00 UTC
! If you’d like to join, simply sign up on the
wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates from the language support track at Wiki Indaba.
Got a topic to share?
Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to
reply to this message
or add agenda items to the document
here
Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here:
Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January
. This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page:
Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the language community meeting, see you there!
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment
संपादन
My apologies for writing in English.
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
I am writing to you to let you know that
proposed changes
to the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
and
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter
are open for review.
You can provide feedback on suggested changes
through the
end of day
on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. This is the second step in the annual review process, the final step will be community voting on the proposed changes.
Read more information and find relevant links about the process on the UCoC annual review page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
संपादन
हा संदेश ईतर भाषेत वाचा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे.
हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात.
ते
दिनांक १९ मार्च
रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील. चाचणी
१४:०० UTC
ला सुरू होईल.
दुर्दैवाने,
MediaWiki
मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
बुधवार १९ मार्च २०२५ रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही.
आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव
पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण
wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता
. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील.
कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
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Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted
संपादन
The proposed modifications to the
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
and the U4C Charter
are now on Meta-wiki for community notice
in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on
the wiki page for the election
soon.
Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
संपादन
The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
In cooperation with the U4C --
Keegan (WMF)
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Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
संपादन
The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.
In cooperation with the U4C --
Keegan (WMF)
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We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!
संपादन
(Apologies for posting in English)
Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, the
old Graph extension
was disabled in 2023
due to security reasons
. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the
Charts extension
, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the
EasyTimeline extension
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from
May 6
. Please, consult
our page on MediaWiki.org
to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also
consult the documentation
about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the
project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org
, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the
talk page
or at
Phabricator
Thank you in advance! --
User:Sannita (WMF)
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Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
संपादन
The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is
available on Meta-wiki
You may now
submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C
through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about
eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki
. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
If you have any questions, you can ask on
the discussion page for the election
. -- in cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)
संपादन
(Apologies for posting in English, if this is not your first language)
Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of
Abstract Wikipedia
: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.
We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at
Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content
. Thank you in advance! --
Sannita (WMF)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions
संपादन
अधिक भाषा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Dear all,
This year, the term of 2 (two) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 trustee selection process and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
August 2025: Campaign period
August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page
[link]
Call for Questions
In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related.
[link]
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2025 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page
[link].
Thank you!
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
Best regards,
Victoria Doronina
Board Liaison to the Elections Committee
Governance Committee
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Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election
संपादन
Apologies for writing in English.
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the
2025 Election information page
. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at
12:00 UTC
Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates
संपादन
अधिक भाषा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello all,
The
call for candidates for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open
from June 17, 2025 – July 2, 2025 at 11:59 UTC [1]. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [2]. This is a volunteer position.
This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]
Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy on
this Meta-wiki page
or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair of the Elections Committee
On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee
[1]
[2]
[3]
MediaWiki message delivery
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Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews
संपादन
Dear Wikimedia Community,
The
Community Affairs Committee (CAC)
of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assigned
the Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF)
to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wiki
projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.
Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose.
Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources
. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.
Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.
Lastly,
failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones
. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.
Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.
Wikispore
संपादन
The
application to consider Wikispore
was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.
After careful consideration, the SPTF has decided
not to recommend
Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allows
better flexibility
and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.
We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.
As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.
Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.
Wikinews
संपादन
We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.
Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.
[1]
[2]
[3]
Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.
While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action
[4]
[5], see section 5
as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews
[6]
Initial metrics
compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.
Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.
SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.
Options
mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:
Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
Archive Wikinews projects.
Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.
Feedback and next steps
संपादन
We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages:
Public consultation about Wikispore
and
Public consultation about Wikinews
. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.
I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.
--
Victoria
on behalf of the Sister Project Task Force,
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Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes
संपादन
(Apologies for posting in English, you can help by translating into your language)
Hello everyone, the
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your
Watchlists
and
Recent Changes
lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the
Wikidata:Glossary
for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for
17.07.2025
, between
1300 - 1500 UTC
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this
project task page
. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated
Talk page
Thank you, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team.
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Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon
संपादन
Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation
Product Safety and Integrity
team. We would like to announce that
we plan to enable
temporary accounts
for this wiki in the week of September 1
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67
(a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who
meet the relevant requirements
will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers
who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who
meet the requirements
will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (
Special:IPContributions
). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the
IP Info
feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the
autoblock
option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
Our requests for you, and next steps
If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on
testwiki
or
test2wiki
. If you are a volunteer developer,
read our documentation for developers
, and in particular, the section on
how your code might need to be updated
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at our
previous message
about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check out
our FAQ
– you will find many useful answers there. You may also
look at the updates
(we have just posted one) and
subscribe to our new newsletter
. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
NKohli (WMF)
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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Server switch - Your wiki will be read-only for a short time soon
संपादन
हा संदेश ईतर भाषेत वाचा
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Wikimedia Foundation
आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे.
हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात.
ते
दिनांक २४ सप्टेंबर
रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील. चाचणी
१५:०० UTC
ला सुरू होईल.
दुर्दैवाने,
MediaWiki
मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
You can contribute to the
translation or proofreading
of this banner text.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
बुधवार २४ सप्टेंबर २०२५ रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही.
आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव
पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण
wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता
. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील.
कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
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Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees
संपादन
Hello all,
The voting period for the
2025 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Learn more about them by
reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll voting page to vote
The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee
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Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
संपादन
Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from
Wikifunctions
and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
आपणास धन्यवाद!
--
User:Sannita (WMF)
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
संपादन
Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply by
visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki
. Post to the talk page or email cst
wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
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Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
संपादन
Hello. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
आपणास धन्यवाद!
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Thank You for Last Year – Join Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
संपादन
Dear Wikimedia communities,
We hope you are doing well, and we wish you a happy New Year.
Last year, we captured light. This year, we’ll capture legacy.
In 2025, communities around the world shared the glow of Ramadan nights and the warmth of collective iftars. In 2026,
Wiki Loves Ramadan
is expanding, bringing more stories, more cultures, and deeper global connections across Wikimedia projects.
We invite you to explore the
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
Meta page
to learn how you can participate and
your community.
Photo campaign on
Wikimedia Commons
If you have questions about the project, please refer to the FAQs:
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia Commons
Early registration for updates is now open via the
Event page
Stay connected and receive updates:
Telegram channel
Mailing list
We look forward to collaborating with you and your community.
The Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 Organizing Team
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Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines
संपादन
I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 9 February 2026. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)
संपादन
Hello everyone,
This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as
Module:Itemgroup/list
).
The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property
P1846
, combined with the qualifier
P180
Q19571328
We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property:
P14226
What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from
P14226
instead of the old
P1846
P180
structure. A
list of pages
was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.
Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on
P1846
to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old
P1846
statements will be removed after
May 1, 2026
. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.
Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help!
ZI Jony
using
MediaWiki message delivery
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