Викицитат:Трг/Архива 2

Мала помоћ за постављање чланака

Поштовани,

Сви знамо да је једно имати велику жељу а друго реализовати је! Овде како ствари стоје, присутна је моја жеља за постављањем чланака али начин како то Овде учинити за мене је сувише компликован! Када то кажем мислим на безброј упустава, правила, линкова итд. и имам осећај да сама без Ваше помоћи нећу ништа урадити. Другим речима, уколико неко од искусних чланова не достави ми у било којој форми, прецизна и сажета упутства 'како' да поставим један чланак, и даље ћу 'лутати' са осећајем непријатности да 'рабим' овај простор узалуд тражећи форму да бих поставила садржај. Наравно рећи ћете, ако имаш велику жељу потруди се! За мене је форма, начин представљања садржаја овде, односно на wикипедији, да будем искрена, велики лавиринт. I дозволите ми да скромно додам оно о чему се питам: да ли је овај простор привилегован за искусне чланове који су савладали технику постављања чланака? Зар начин, форма постављања истих не може бити достављена почетницима на начин како сам горе навела? I морам бити искрена, уколико се то не догоди, наравно да ћу одустати.

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Писмо коришћено за цитате је тешко читљиво

Писмо са овим словима требате под хитно да мењате. Веома је тешко читљиво а да не причам да се слово т не пише онако као што је код цитата.

Wикиманиа Сцхоларсхипс

Тхе цалл фор апплицатионс фор Wикиманиа Сцхоларсхипс то аттенд Wикиманиа 2010 ин Гданск, Поланд (Јулy 9-11) ис ноw опен. Тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион офферс Сцхоларсхипс то паy фор селецтед индивидуалс' роунд трип травел, аццоммодатионс, анд регистратион ат тхе цонференце. То апплy, висит тхе Wикиманиа 2010 сцхоларсхипс информатион паге, цлицк тхе сецуре линк аваилабле тхере, анд филл оут тхе форм то апплy. Фор аддитионал информатион, плеасе висит тхе Сцхоларсхипс информатион анд ФАQ пагес:

• Сцхоларсхипс
• Сцхоларсхипс ФАQ

Yоурс верy трулy, Царy Басс
Волунтеер Цоординатор
Wикимедиа Фоундатион

Бот полицy

Хелло. То фацилитате стеwард грантинг оф бот аццесс, I суггест имплементинг тхе стандард бот полицy он тхис wики. Ин партицулар, тхис полицy аллоwс стеwардс то аутоматицаллy флаг кноwн интерлангуаге линкинг ботс (иф тхис паге саyс тхат ис аццептабле), wхицх форм тхе васт мајоритy оф суцх реqуестс. Тхе полицy алсо енаблес глобал ботс он тхис wики (иф тхис паге саyс тхат ис аццептабле), wхицх аре трустед ботс тхат wилл бе гивен бот аццесс он еверy wики тхат аллоwс глобал ботс.

Тхис полицy макес бот аццесс реqуестинг муцх еасиер фор лоцал усерс, операторс, анд стеwардс. То имплемент ит wе онлy неед то цреате а редирецт то тхис паге фром Пројецт:Бот полицy, анд адд а лине ат тхе топ нотинг тхат ит ис усед хере. Плеасе реад тхе теxт ат м:Бот полицy бефоре цомментинг. Иф yоу објецт, плеасе саy со; I хопе то имплемент ит соон иф тхере ис но објецтион, синце ит ис партицуларлy wриттен то стреамлине бот реqуестс он wикис wитх литтле ор но цоммунитy интерестед ин бот аццесс реqуестс.
—Патхосцхилд 23:31:52, 18 април 2010 (УТЦ)

Доне. —Патхосцхилд 21:19:36, 21 фебруар 2011 (УТЦ)

2010 Фундраисинг Ис Алмост Хере

Хелло Wикимедианс, Мy наме ис Сам Цхапман анд I ам wоркинг фор тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион дуринг тхе 2010 Фундраисер. Мy јоб ис то бе тхе лиаисон бетwеен yоур цоммунитy анд тхе Фоундатион. Тхис yеар'с фундраисер ис интендед то бе а цоллаборативе анд глобал еффорт; wе рецогнизе тхат баннер мессагес wхицх маy перформ wелл ин тхе Унитед Статес дон'т нецессарилy транслате wелл, ор аппеал то интернатионал аудиенцес.

I'м цонтацтинг yоу ас I ам цуррентлy лоокинг фор транслаторс wхо аре wиллинг то цонтрибуте то тхис пројецт бy хелпинг транслате анд лоцализе мессагес инто дифферент лангуагес анд суггестинг мессагес тхат wоулд аппеал то yоур реадерс он тхе Фундраисинг Мета Паге. Wе'ве стартед тхе сетуп он мета фор ботх баннер субмиссион, статистицал аналyсис, анд гроупинг волунтеерс тогетхер.
Усе тхе талк пагес он мета, талк то yоур лоцал цоммунитиес, талк то отхерс, талк то ус, анд адд yоур феедбацк то тхе пропосед мессагес ас wелл! I лоок форwард то wоркинг wитх yоу дуринг тхис yеар'с фундраисер. Иф сомеоне цоулд транслате тхис мессаге I wоулд реаллy аппрециате ит со тхат еверyоне ис абле то ундерстанд оур гоалс анд цонтрибуте то тхис yеар'с цампаигн.
Сам Цхапман 07:07, 21. октобар 2010. (ЦЕСТ)

Обавештење о референдуму о филтеру за слике

Задужбина Викимедија под управом Одбора повереника ће одржати гласање како би се утврдило да ли чланови заједнице подржавају прављење и коришћење опционог личног филтера за слике, који би омогућио читаоцима да својевољно филтрирају одређене типове слика искључиво на свом налогу.

Више информација и упутстава ће бити доступно ускоро. Референдум ће трајати од 12. до 27. августа 2011, и биће спроведен на серверима које хостује неутрална трећа страна. Детаљи о референдуму, званичници, услови за гласање и додатни материјали ће бити доступни на Мети ускоро.

У име координационог комитета,
Пхилиппе
Цброwн1023
Рискер
Мардетанха
ПетерСyмондс
Роберт Харрис

Поздрав, --МикyМ 03:44, 2. јул 2011. (ЦЕСТ)

Термс оф Усе упдате

I апологизе тхат yоу аре рецеивинг тхис мессаге ин Енглисх. Плеасе хелп транслате ит.

Хелло,

Тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион ис дисцуссинг цхангес то итс Термс оф Усе. Тхе дисцуссион цан бе фоунд ат Талк:Термс оф усе. Еверyоне ис инвитед то јоин ин. Бецаусе тхе неw версион оф Термс оф усе ис нот ин финал форм, wе аре нот абле то пресент оффициал транслатионс оф ит. Волунтеерс аре wелцоме то транслате ит, ас Герман волунтеерс хаве доне ат м:Термс оф усе/де, бут wе аск тхат yоу ноте ат тхе топ тхат тхе транслатион ис уноффициал анд маy бецоме оутдатед ас тхе Енглисх версион ис цхангед. Тхе транслатион реqуест цан бе фоунд ат м:Транслатион реqуестс/WМФ/Термс оф Усе 2 -- Маггие Деннис, Цоммунитy Лиаисон 03:18, 27. октобар 2011. (ЦЕСТ)

Опен Цалл фор 2012 Wикимедиа Феллоwсхип Апплицантс

I апологизе тхат yоу аре рецеивинг тхис мессаге ин Енглисх. Плеасе хелп транслате ит.

• До yоу wант то хелп аттрацт неw цонтрибуторс то Wикимедиа пројецтс?
• До yоу wант то импрове ретентион оф оур еxистинг едиторс?
• До yоу wант то стренгтхен оур цоммунитy бy диверсифyинг итс басе анд инцреасинг тхе овералл нумбер оф еxцеллент партиципантс ароунд тхе wорлд?

Тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион ис сеекинг Цоммунитy Феллоwс анд пројецт идеас фор тхе Цоммунитy Феллоwсхип Програм. А Феллоwсхип ис а темпорарy поситион ат тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион ин ордер то wорк он а специфиц пројецт ор сет оф пројецтс. Субмиссионс фор 2012 аре енцоурагед то фоцус он тхе тхеме оф импровинг едитор ретентион анд инцреасинг партиципатион ин Wикимедиа пројецтс. Иф интерестед, плеасе субмит а пројецт идеа ор апплy то бе а феллоw бy Јануарy 15, 2012. Плеасе висит https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships фор море информатион.

Тханкс!

--Сико Боутерсе, Хеад оф Цоммунитy Феллоwсхипс, Wикимедиа Фоундатион 04:05, 22. децембар 2011. (ЦЕТ)

Дистрибутед виа Глобал мессаге деливерy. (Wронг паге? Фиx хере.)

Анноунцинг Wикипедиа 1.19 бета

Wикимедиа Фоундатион ис геттинг реадy то пусх оут 1.19 то алл тхе WМФ-хостед wикис. Ас wе финисх wраппинг уп оур цоде ревиеw, yоу цан тест тхе неw версион ригхт ноw он бета.wмфлабс.орг. Фор море информатион, плеасе реад тхе релеасе нотес ор тхе старт оф тхе финал анноунцемент.

Тхе фоллоwинг аре тхе ареас тхат yоу wилл пробаблy бе мост интерестед ин:

• Фастер лоадинг оф јавасцрипт филес макес депенденцy трацкинг море импортант.
• Неw цоммон*.цсс филес усабле бy скинс инстеад оф хавинг то цопy пилес оф генериц стyлес фром МоноБоок ор Вецтор'с цсс.
• Тхе дефаулт усер сигнатуре ноw цонтаинс а талк линк ин аддитион то тхе усер линк.
• Сеарцхинг блоцкед усернамес ин блоцк лог ис ноw цлеарер.
• Беттер тимезоне рецогнитион ин усер преференцес.
• Импровед дифф реадабилитy фор цолорблинд пеопле.
• Тхе интерwики линкс табле цан ноw бе аццессед алсо wхен тхе интерwики цацхе ис усед (усед ин тхе АПИ анд тхе Интерwики еxтенсион).
• Море гендер суппорт (фор инстанце ин логс анд усер листс).
• Лангуаге цонвертер импровед, е.г. ит ноw wоркс депендинг он тхе паге цонтент лангуаге.
• Тиме анд нумбер-форматтинг магиц wордс алсо ноw депенд он тхе паге цонтент лангуаге.
• Бидирецтионал суппорт фуртхер импровед афтер 1.18.

Репорт анy проблемс он тхе лабс бета wики анд wе'лл wорк то аддресс тхем бефоре тхеy софтwаре ис релеасед то тхе продуцтион wикис.

Ноте тхат тхис цлустер доес хаве СУЛ бут ит ис нот интегратед wитх СУЛ ин продуцтион, со yоу'лл неед то цреате анотхер аццоунт. Yоу схоулд авоид усинг тхе саме пассwорд ас yоу усе хере. — Глобал мессаге деливерy 17:34, 15. јануар 2012. (ЦЕТ)

МедиаWики 1.19

(Апологиес иф тхис мессаге исн'т ин yоур лангуаге.) Тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион ис планнинг то упграде МедиаWики (тхе софтwаре поwеринг тхис wики) то итс латест версион тхис монтх. Yоу цан хелп то тест ит бефоре ит ис енаблед, то авоид дисруптион анд бреакаге. Море информатион ис аваилабле ин тхе фулл анноунцемент. Тханк yоу фор yоур ундерстандинг.

Гуиллауме Паумиер, виа тхе Глобал мессаге деливерy сyстем (wронг паге? Yоу цан фиx ит.). 16:19, 12. фебруар 2012. (ЦЕТ)

ЕлеференБот

Хелло, I ам оператор оф а бот ЕлеференБот, анд wоулд лике то хаве тхе бот флаг.

• Оператор: Усер:Елеферен.
• Фунцтион суммарy: Усинг пywикипедиа.
• Фунцтион детаилс: адд\цханге интерwики (глобал едитс. Фор еxампле: пл.wикиqуоте цонтрибутионс).
• Программинг лангуаге: пyтхон
• Флаг он: wикиqуоте: 45 wикиqуотес анд 40 wикипедиас.

--Елеферен (разговор) 20:16, 13. април 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

Упдате он ИПв6

(Апологиес иф тхис мессаге исн'т ин yоур лангуаге. Плеасе цонсидер транслатинг ит, ас wелл ас тхе фулл версион оф тхис анноунцемент он Мета)

Тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион ис планнинг то до лимитед тестинг оф ИПв6 он Јуне 2-3. Иф тхере аре нот тоо манy проблемс, wе маy фуллy енабле ИПв6 он Wорлд ИПв6 даy (Јуне 6), анд кееп ит енаблед.

Wхат тхис меанс фор yоур пројецт:

• Ат леаст он Јуне 2-3, 2012, yоу маy сее а смалл нумбер оф едитс фром ИПв6 аддрессес, wхицх аре ин тхе форм "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". Сее е.г. w:ен:ИПв6 аддресс. Тхесе аддрессес схоулд бехаве лике анy отхер ИП аддресс: Yоу цан леаве мессагес он тхеир талк пагес; yоу цан трацк тхеир цонтрибутионс; yоу цан блоцк тхем. (Сее тхе фулл версион оф тхис анноунцемент фор нотес он ранге блоцкс.)

• Ин тхе мид терм, соме усер сцриптс анд тоолс wилл неед то бе адаптед фор ИПв6.

• Wе суспецт тхат ИПв6 усаге ис гоинг то бе верy лоw инитиаллy, меанинг тхат абусе схоулд бе манагеабле, анд wе wилл ассист ин тхе мониторинг оф тхе ситуатион.

Реад тхе фулл версион оф тхис анноунцемент он хоw то тест тхе бехавиор оф ИПв6 wитх вариоус тоолс анд хоw то леаве буг репортс, анд то финд а фуллер аналyсис оф тхе имплицатионс оф тхе ИПв6 мигратион.

--Ерик Мöллер, ВП оф Енгинееринг анд Продуцт Девелопмент, Wикимедиа Фоундатион 03:24, 2. јун 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

Дистрибутед виа Глобал мессаге деливерy. (Wронг паге? Фиx хере.)

2011 Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар цомпетитион

македонски • норск • полски

Деар Wикимедианс,

Wикимедиа Цоммонс ис хаппy то анноунце тхат тхе 2011 Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар цомпетитион ис ноw опен. Wе аре интерестед ин yоур опинион ас то wхицх имагес qуалифy то бе тхе Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар 2011. Анy усер регистеред ат Цоммонс ор а Wикимедиа wики СУЛ-релатед то Цоммонс wитх море тхан 75 едитс бефоре 1 Април 2012 (УТЦ) ис wелцоме то воте анд, оф цоурсе еверyоне ис wелцоме то виеw!

Детаилед информатион абоут тхе цонтест цан бе фоунд ат тхе интродуцторy паге.

Абоут 600 оф тхе бест оф Wикимедиа Цоммон'с пхотос, аниматионс, мовиес анд грапхицс wере цхосен –бy тхе интернатионал Wикимедиа Цоммонс цоммунитy– оут оф 12 миллион филес дуринг 2011 анд аре ноw цаллед Феатуред Пицтурес.

Фром профессионал анимал анд плант схотс то бреатхтакинг панорамас анд скyлинес, ресторатионс оф хисторицаллy релевант имагес, имагес портраyинг тхе wорлд'с бест арцхитецтуре, мапс, емблемс, диаграмс цреатед wитх тхе мост модерн тецхнологy, анд импрессиве хуман портраитс, Цоммонс Феатурес Пицтурес оф алл флаворс.

Фор yоур цонвениенце, wе хаве сортед тхе имагес инто топиц цатегориес.

Wе регрет тхат yоу рецеиве тхис мессаге ин Енглисх; wе интендед то усе баннерс то нотифy yоу ин yоур нативе лангуаге бут тхере wас ботх, хуман анд тецхницал ресистанце.

Сее yоу он Цоммонс! --Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар 2011 Цоммиттее 20:40, 5. јун 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

Дистрибутед виа Глобал мессаге деливерy. (Wронг паге? Фиx хере.)

Мобиле виеw ас дефаулт виеw цоминг соон

(Апологиес иф тхис мессаге исн'т ин yоур лангуаге. Плеасе цонсидер транслатинг ит, ас wелл ас тхе инструцтионс он Мета)

Тхе мобиле виеw оф тхис пројецт анд отхерс wилл соон бецоме тхе дефаулт виеw он мобиле девицес (еxцепт таблетс). Соме лангуаге версионс оф тхесе пројецтс цуррентлy схоw но цонтент он тхе мобиле хоме паге, анд ит ис а гоод тиме то до а литтле форматтинг со усерс гет а мобиле-фриендлy виеw, ор то адд то еxистинг мобиле цонтент иф соме алреадy еxистс.

Иф yоу аре ан администратор, плеасе цонсидер хелпинг wитх тхис цханге. Тхере аре инструцтионс wхицх аре беинг транслатед. Тхе пропосед дате оф сwитцхинг тхе дефаулт виеw ис Јулy 5.

То цонтацт тхе мобиле теам, емаил мобиле-феедбацк-ллистс.wикимедиа.орг.

--Пхил Иње Цханг, Продуцт Манагер, Мобиле, Wикимедиа Фоундатион 06:52, 29. јун 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

Дистрибутед виа Глобал мессаге деливерy. (Wронг паге? Фиx хере.)

Хелп дециде абоут море тхан $10 миллион оф Wикимедиа донатионс ин тхе цоминг yеар

(Апологиес иф тхис мессаге исн'т ин yоур лангуаге. Плеасе цонсидер транслатинг ит)

Хи,

Ас манy оф yоу аре аwаре, тхе Wикимедиа Боард оф Трустеес рецентлy инитиатед импортант цхангес ин тхе wаy тхат монеy ис беинг дистрибутед wитхин тхе Wикимедиа мовемент. Ас парт оф тхис, а неw цоммунитy-лед "Фундс Диссеминатион Цоммиттее" (ФДЦ) ис цуррентлy беинг сет уп. Алреадy ин 2012-13, итс рецоммендатионс wилл гуиде тхе децисионс абоут тхе дистрибутион оф овер 10 миллион УС долларс амонг тхе Фоундатион, цхаптерс анд отхер елигибле ентитиес.

Ноw, севен цапабле, кноwледгеабле анд трустwортхy цоммунитy мемберс аре соугхт то волунтеер он тхе инитиал Фундс Диссеминатион Цоммиттее. Ит ис еxпецтед то таке уп итс wорк ин Септембер. Ин аддитион, а цоммунитy мембер ис соугхт то бе тхе Омбудсперсон фор тхе ФДЦ процесс. Иф yоу аре интерестед ин јоининг тхе цоммиттее, реад тхе цалл фор волунтеерс. Номинатионс аре планнед то цлосе он Аугуст 15.

--Анасуyа Сенгупта, Дирецтор оф Глобал Леарнинг анд Грантмакинг, Wикимедиа Фоундатион 22:25, 19. јул 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

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Реqуест фор Цоммент: Легал Феес Ассистанце Програм

I апологизе фор аддрессинг yоу ин Енглисх. I wоулд бе гратефул иф yоу цоулд транслате тхис мессаге инто yоур лангуаге.

Тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион ис цондуцтинг а реqуест фор цоммент он а пропосед програм тхат цоулд провиде легал ассистанце то усерс ин специфиц суппорт ролес wхо аре намед ин а легал цомплаинт ас а дефендант бецаусе оф тхосе ролес. Wе wантед то бе суре тхат yоур цоммунитy wас аwаре оф тхис дисцуссион анд wоулд хаве а цханце то партиципате ин тхат дисцуссион.

Иф тхис паге ис нот тхе бест плаце то публицизе тхис реqуест фор цоммент, плеасе хелп спреад тхе wорд то тхосе wхо маy бе интерестед ин партиципатинг. (Иф yоу'д лике то хелп транслатинг тхе "реqуест фор цоммент", програм полицy ор отхер пагес инто yоур лангуаге анд дон'т кноw хоw тхе транслатион сyстем wоркс, плеасе цоме бy мy усер талк паге ат м:Усер талк:Мденнис (WМФ). I'лл бе хаппy то ассист ор то цоннецт yоу wитх а волунтеер wхо цан ассист.)

Тханк yоу! --Мденнис (WМФ)04:13, 6. септембар 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

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Wикидата ис геттинг цлосе то а фирст ролл-оут

(Апологиес иф тхис мессаге исн'т ин yоур лангуаге.)

Ас соме оф yоу мигхт алреадy хаве хеард Wикимедиа Деутсцхланд ис wоркинг он а неw Wикимедиа пројецт. Ит ис цаллед м:Wикидата. Тхе гоал оф Wикидата ис то бецоме а централ дата репоситорy фор тхе Wикипедиас, итс систер пројецтс анд тхе wорлд. Ин тхе футуре ит wилл холд дата лике тхе нумбер оф инхабитантс оф а цоунтрy, тхе дате оф биртх оф а фамоус персон ор тхе ленгтх оф а ривер. Тхесе цан тхен бе усед ин алл Wикимедиа пројецтс анд оутсиде оф тхем.

Тхе пројецт ис дивидед инто тхрее пхасес анд "wе аре геттинг цлосе то ролл-оут тхе фирст пхасе". Тхе пхасес аре:

1. лангуаге линкс ин тхе Wикипедиас (макинг ит поссибле то сторе тхе линкс бетwеен тхе лангуаге едитионс оф ан артицле јуст онце ин Wикидата инстеад оф ин еацх линкед артицле)
2. инфобоxес (макинг ит поссибле то сторе тхе дата тхат ис цуррентлy ин инфобоxес ин оне централ плаце анд схаре тхе дата)
3. листс (макинг ит поссибле то цреате листс анд симилар тхингс басед он qуериес то Wикидата со тхеy упдате аутоматицаллy wхен неw дата ис аддед ор модифиед)

Ит'д бе греат иф yоу цоулд јоин ус, тест тхе демо версион, провиде феедбацк анд таке парт ин тхе девелопмент оф Wикидата. Yоу цан финд алл тхе релевант информатион инцлудинг ан ФАQ анд сигн-уп линкс фор оур он-wики неwслеттер он тхе Wикидата паге он Мета.

Фор фуртхер дисцуссионс плеасе усе тхис талк паге (иф yоу аре унцомфортабле wритинг ин Енглисх yоу цан алсо wрите ин yоур нативе лангуаге тхере) ор поинт ме то тхе плаце wхере yоур дисцуссион ис хаппенинг со I цан ансwер тхере.

--Лyдиа Пинтсцхер 15:38, 10. септембар 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

Дистрибутед виа Глобал мессаге деливерy. (Wронг паге? Фиx хере.)

Упцоминг софтwаре цхангес - плеасе репорт анy проблемс

(Апологиес иф тхис мессаге исн'т ин yоур лангуаге. Плеасе цонсидер транслатинг ит)

Алл Wикимедиа wикис - инцлудинг тхис оне - wилл соон бе упградед wитх неw анд поссиблy дисруптиве цоде. Тхис процесс стартс тодаy анд финисхес он Оцтобер 24 (сее тхе упграде сцхедуле & цоде детаилс).

Плеасе wатцх фор проблемс wитх:

• ревисион диффс
• темплатес
• ЦСС анд ЈаваСцрипт пагес (лике усер сцриптс)
• ботс
• ПДФ еxпорт
• имагес, видео, анд соунд, еспециаллy сцалинг сизес
• тхе ЦологнеБлуе скин

Иф yоу нотице анy проблемс, плеасе репорт проблемс ат оур дефецт трацкер сите. Yоу цан тест фор поссибле проблемс ат тест2.wикипедиа.орг анд медиаwики.орг, wхицх хаве алреадy беен упдатед.

Тханкс! Wитх yоур хелп wе цан финд проблемс фаст анд гет тхем фиxед фастер.

Сумана Харихаресwара, Wикимедиа Фоундатион Енгинееринг Цоммунитy Манагер (талк) 05:13, 16. октобар 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

П.С.: Фор тхе регулар, смаллер МедиаWики упдатес еверy тwо wеекс, плеасе wатцх тхис сцхедуле.

Дистрибутед виа Глобал мессаге деливерy. (Wронг паге? Фиx хере.)

Фундраисинг лоцализатион: волунтеерс фром оутсиде тхе УСА неедед

Плеасе транслате фор yоур лоцал цоммунитy

Хелло Алл,

Тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион'с Фундраисинг теам хаве бегун оур 'Усер Еxпериенце' пројецт, wитх тхе гоал оф ундерстандинг тхе донатион еxпериенце ин дифферент цоунтриес оутсиде тхе УСА анд енханцинг тхе лоцализатион оф оур донатион пагес. I ам сеарцхинг фор волунтеерс то спенд 30 минутес он а Скyпе цхат wитх ме, ревиеwинг тхеир оwн цоунтрy'с донатион пагес. Ит wилл бе доне он а 'усабилитy' формат (I wилл аск yоу то реад тхе теxт анд го тхроугх тхе донатион флоw) анд wилл бе аскинг yоур феедбацк ин тхе меанwхиле.

Тхе онлy пре-реqуисите ис фор тхе волунтеер то ацтуаллy ливе ин тхе цоунтрy анд то хаве аццесс то ат леаст оне донатион метход тхат wе оффер фор тхат цоунтрy (маинлy цредит/дебит цард, бут алсо реал-тиме банкинг лике ИДЕАЛ, Е-wаллетс, етц...) со wе цан до а ливе тест анд сее иф тхе донатион гоес тхроугх. Алл волунтеерс wилл бе реимбурсед оф тхе донатионс тхат евентуаллy суццеед (анд тхеy wилл бе лоw амоунтс, лике 1-2 долларс)

Бy хелпинг ус yоу аре ацтуаллy хелпинг тхоусандс оф пеопле то суппорт оур миссион оф фрее кноwледге ацросс тхе wорлд. Плеасе синг уп анд хелп ус wитх оур 'Усер Еxпериенце' пројецт! :) Иф yоу аре интерестед (ор кноw оф анyоне wхо цоулд бе) плеасе емаил ппена@wикимедиа.орг. Алл цоунтриес неедед (еxцептинг УСА)!

Тханкс!
Патс Пена
Глобал Фундраисинг Оператионс Манагер, Wикимедиа Фоундатион

Сент усинг Глобал мессаге деливерy, 19:19, 17. октобар 2012. (ЦЕСТ)

Бе а Wикимедиа фундраисинг "Усер Еxпериенце" волунтеер!

Тханк yоу то еверyоне wхо волунтееред ласт yеар он тхе Wикимедиа фундраисинг 'Усер Еxпериенце' пројецт. Wе хаве талкед то манy дифферент пеопле ин дифферент цоунтриес анд тхеир феедбацк хас хелпед ус имменселy ин реструцтуринг оур пагес. Иф yоу хавен'т хеард оф ит yет, тхе 'Усер Еxпериенце' пројецт хас тхе гоал оф ундерстандинг тхе донатион еxпериенце ин дифферент цоунтриес (оутсиде тхе УСА) анд енханцинг тхе лоцализатион оф оур донатион пагес.

I ам (стилл) сеарцхинг фор волунтеерс то спенд соме тиме он а Скyпе цхат wитх ме, ревиеwинг тхеир оwн цоунтрy'с донатион пагес. Ит wилл бе доне он а 'усабилитy' формат (I wилл аск yоу то реад тхе теxт анд го тхроугх тхе донатион флоw) анд wилл бе аскинг yоур феедбацк ин тхе меанwхиле.

Тхе онлy пре-реqуисите ис фор тхе волунтеер то ацтуаллy ливе ин тхе цоунтрy анд то хаве аццесс то ат леаст оне донатион метход тхат wе оффер фор тхат цоунтрy (маинлy цредит/дебит цард, бут алсо реал тиме банкинг лике ИДЕАЛ, Е-wаллетс, етц...) со wе цан до а ливе тест анд сее иф тхе донатион гоес тхроугх. **Алл волунтеерс wилл бе реимбурсед оф тхе донатионс тхат евентуаллy суццеед (анд тхеy wилл бе верy лоw амоунтс, лике 1-2 долларс)**

Бy хелпинг ус yоу аре ацтуаллy хелпинг тхоусандс оф пеопле то суппорт оур миссион оф фрее кноwледге ацросс тхе wорлд. Иф yоу аре интерестед (ор кноw оф анyоне wхо цоулд бе) плеасе емаил ппена@wикимедиа.орг. Алл цоунтриес неедед (еxцептинг УСА)!!

Тханкс!

Патс Пена
Глобал Фундраисинг Оператионс Манагер, Wикимедиа Фоундатион

Сент усинг Глобал мессаге деливерy, 22:18, 8. јануар 2013. (ЦЕТ)

Wикимедиа ситес то мове то примарy дата центер ин Асхбурн, Виргиниа. Реад-онлy моде еxпецтед.

(Апологиес иф тхис мессаге исн'т ин yоур лангуаге.) Неxт wеек, тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион wилл транситион итс маин тецхницал оператионс то а неw дата центер ин Асхбурн, Виргиниа, УСА. Тхис ис интендед то импрове тхе тецхницал перформанце анд релиабилитy оф алл Wикимедиа ситес, инцлудинг тхис wики. Тхере wилл бе соме тимес wхен тхе сите wилл бе ин реад-онлy моде, анд тхере маy бе фулл оутагес; тхе цуррент таргет wиндоwс фор тхе мигратион аре Јануарy 22нд, 23рд анд 24тх, 2013, фром 17:00 то 01:00 УТЦ (сее отхер тимезонес он тимеанддате.цом). Море информатион ис аваилабле ин тхе фулл анноунцемент.

Иф yоу wоулд лике то стаy информед оф футуре тецхницал упградес, цонсидер бецоминг а Тецх амбассадор анд јоининг тхе амбассадорс маилинг лист. Yоу wилл бе абле то хелп yоур феллоw Wикимедианс хаве а воице ин тецхницал дисцуссионс анд бе нотифиед оф импортант децисионс.

Тханк yоу фор yоур хелп анд yоур ундерстандинг.

Гуиллауме Паумиер, виа тхе Глобал мессаге деливерy сyстем (wронг паге? Yоу цан фиx ит.). 16:42, 19. јануар 2013. (ЦЕТ)

Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар вотинг роунд 1 опен

Деар Wикимедианс,

Wикимедиа Цоммонс ис хаппy то анноунце тхат тхе 2012 Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар цомпетитион ис ноw опен. Wе'ре интерестед ин yоур опинион ас то wхицх имагес qуалифy то бе тхе Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар фор 2012. Вотинг ис опен то естаблисхед Wикимедиа усерс wхо меет тхе фоллоwинг цритериа:

1. Усерс муст хаве ан аццоунт, ат анy Wикимедиа пројецт, wхицх wас регистеред бефоре Туе, 01 Јан 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [УТЦ].
2. Тхис усер аццоунт муст хаве море тхан 75 едитс он анy сингле Wикимедиа пројецт бефоре Туе, 01 Јан 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [УТЦ]. Плеасе цхецк yоур аццоунт елигибилитy ат тхе ПОТY 2012 Цонтест Елигибилитy тоол.
3. Усерс муст воте wитх ан аццоунт меетинг тхе абове реqуирементс еитхер он Цоммонс ор анотхер СУЛ-релатед Wикимедиа пројецт (фор отхер Wикимедиа пројецтс, тхе аццоунт муст бе аттацхед то тхе усер'с Цоммонс аццоунт тхроугх СУЛ).

Хундредс оф имагес тхат хаве беен ратед Феатуред Пицтурес бy тхе интернатионал Wикимедиа Цоммонс цоммунитy ин тхе паст yеар аре алл ентеред ин тхис цомпетитион. Фром профессионал анимал анд плант схотс то бреатхтакинг панорамас анд скyлинес, ресторатионс оф хисторицаллy релевант имагес, имагес портраyинг тхе wорлд'с бест арцхитецтуре, мапс, емблемс, диаграмс цреатед wитх тхе мост модерн тецхнологy, анд импрессиве хуман портраитс, Цоммонс феатурес пицтурес оф алл флаворс.

Фор yоур цонвениенце, wе хаве сортед тхе имагес инто топиц цатегориес. Тwо роундс оф вотинг wилл бе хелд: Ин тхе фирст роунд, yоу цан воте фор ас манy имагес ас yоу лике. Тхе фирст роунд цатегорy wиннерс анд тхе топ тен овералл wилл тхен маке ит то тхе финал. Ин тхе финал роунд, wхен а лимитед нумбер оф имагес аре лефт, yоу муст дециде он тхе оне имаге тхат yоу wант то бецоме тхе Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар.

То сее тхе цандидате имагес јуст го то тхе ПОТY 2012 паге он Wикимедиа Цоммонс.

Wикимедиа Цоммонс целебратес оур феатуред имагес оф 2012 wитх тхис цонтест. Yоур вотес дециде тхе Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар, со ремембер то воте ин тхе фирст роунд бy Јануарy 30, 2013.

Тханкс,
тхе Wикимедиа Цоммонс Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар цоммиттее

Тхис мессаге wас деливеред басед он м:Дистрибутион лист/Глобал мессаге деливерy. Транслатион фетцхед фром: цоммонс:Цоммонс:Пицтуре оф тхе Yеар/2012/Транслатионс/Виллаге Пумп/ен -- Риллке (разговор) 00:43, 23. јануар 2013. (ЦЕТ)

Хелп турн идеас инто грантс ин тхе неw ИдеаЛаб

I апологизе иф тхис мессаге ис нот ин yоур лангуаге. Плеасе хелп транслате ит.

• До yоу хаве ан идеа фор а пројецт то импрове тхис цоммунитy ор wебсите?
• До yоу тхинк yоу цоулд цомплете yоур идеа иф онлy yоу хад соме фундинг?
• До yоу wант то хелп отхер пеопле турн тхеир идеас инто пројецт планс ор грант пропосалс?

Плеасе јоин ус ин тхе ИдеаЛаб, ан инцубатор фор пројецт идеас анд Индивидуал Енгагемент Грант пропосалс.

Тхе Wикимедиа Фоундатион ис сеекинг неw идеас анд пропосалс фор Индивидуал Енгагемент Грантс. Тхесе грантс фунд индивидуалс ор смалл гроупс то цомплете пројецтс тхат хелп импрове тхис цоммунитy. Иф интерестед, плеасе субмит а цомплетед пропосал бy Фебруарy 15, 2013. Плеасе висит https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 21:52, 30. јануар 2013. (CET)

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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful

(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.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 21:23, 13. март 2013. (CET) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

Zahtev za komentar na neaktivne administratore

(Molimo vas da razmotrite prevođenje ove poruke zbog koristi vaših kolega Vikimedijaca. Takođe vas molimo da razmotrite prevođenje predlog.)

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 / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / 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。

Zdravo!

Ima novi zahtev za komentar na Meta-Viki povodom ukidanja administrativnih prava od dugoročnih neaktivnih Vikimedijaca. Obično, ovaj predlog od nadzornika be se odnosilo na Viki bez procesa revizije administratora.

Mi takođe sastavljamo listu projekata sa procedurama za uklanjanje neaktivnih administratora na stranici "Priča" zahteva za komentar. Slobodno dodajte svoj projekat(projekte) na listu ako imate politiku na neaktivnost administratora.

Svaki unos je dobrodošao. Diskusija se može zatvoriti naj ranije 21 Maja 2013(21-05-2013), ali će se produžiti po potrebi.

Hvala, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 07:20, 24. април 2013. (CEST)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

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

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

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. [1] [2]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
• 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. [13]
• A 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. [14].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe • 23:13, 20. мај 2013. (CEST)

Important note: This is the first edition of the Tech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.

If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.

You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 23:13, 20. мај 2013. (CEST)

Trademark discussion

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)

X!'s Edit Counter

(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_Automation 07:01, 23. јун 2013. (CEST)

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Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09

On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 14:57, 4. јул 2013. (CEST) (via Global message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

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 Amir (via Global message delivery). 15:47, 23. јул 2013. (CEST)

HTTPS for users with an account

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.

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 21:42, 20. август 2013. (CEST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo

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 (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 05:12, 24. септембар 2013. (CEST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Notifications

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) (talk) 21:15, 4. октобар 2013. (CEST)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

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 22:52, 8. октобар 2013. (CEST)

Introducting Beta Features

(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) (talk) 21:39, 5. новембар 2013. (CET)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

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?

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) (talk) 07:46, 16. јануар 2014. (CET)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014

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

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) 23:00, 21. фебруар 2014. (CET)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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 Викицитат 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 20:44, 28. фебруар 2014. (CET)

Language links (interwiki) via Wikidata are coming

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 22:58, 7. март 2014. (CET)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

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) 22:56, 13. март 2014. (CET)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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!

(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 via MediaWiki message delivery (разговор) 19:53, 8. април 2014. (CEST)

Wikidata Phase 2 for Wikiquote

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 (talk) 18:03, 17. мај 2014. (CEST)

Using only UploadWizard for uploads

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 "Администратори" 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.

1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list.
2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo 22:38, 19. мај 2014. (CEST)

Media Viewer

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) 23:29, 23. мај 2014. (CEST)

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Wikidata Phase 2 is here

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 (talk) 20:48, 10. јун 2014. (CEST)

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

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) (talk) 23:54, 19. јун 2014. (CEST)

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IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new admin activity review here.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. Fica Blok38 (administrator)
2. Loshmi (administrator)
3. Милант (administrator)
4. Горан Анђелковић (bureaucrat, administrator)
5. Саша Стефановић (bureaucrat, administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 01:02, 19. јул 2014. (CEST)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

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 (talk) 19:35, 21. август 2014. (CEST)

Process ideas for software development

’’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) talk 00:15, 22. август 2014. (CEST)

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Grants to improve your project

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 MediaWiki message delivery (разговор) 18:52, 2. септембар 2014. (CEST)

Change in renaming process

Part or all of this message may be in English. Please help translate if possible.

Single-user login (SUL) finalisation's goal is so that every Wikimedia editor has a single, recognized global account with one username across all projects. As you may know, after a long delay, it's now underway as an effort between bureaucrats, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation engineers. This will also allow for development of cross-wiki tools like global notifications and watchlists. There is no set date for the completion of single-user login finalization at this time.

The process involves changing all rename processes into one global renaming process. The ability for local bureaucrats to rename users on this wiki will be turned off on Monday, 15 September 2014, as one of the first steps. Global renamers are in the process of being created to make sure projects and languages are represented by the time this occurs. I sent a note to every bureaucrat about this process three weeks ago with an invitation to participate and many have begun requesting to be a part of the group. Together with the stewards, the global renamers will be empowered to help editors work through the often difficult process of getting a global name.

In parting, visit Special:MergeAccount to unify your account if you have never done so. If your local pages about renaming still need to be updated, please do so and consider pointing people to m:SRUC for future rename requests, especially if this project does not have bureaucrats that hold global renamer permissions. If you have any questions, you can read more on the help page on Meta. You can also follow the technical progress on mediawiki.org. Contact me on Meta any time with questions as well. Thank you for your time.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:22, 9. септембар 2014. (CEST)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

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) 19:05, 26. октобар 2014. (CET)

Global AbuseFilter

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

— 18:36, 14. новембар 2014. (CET)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature

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 Бета функције page after the deployment and tick the box next to "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (If you have enabled the "Аутоматски укључи већину бета функција" 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 "Уреди" to start VisualEditor, or on "Уреди извор" 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) 19:12, 21. новембар 2014. (CET)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature (errata)

Please notice the correct direct link to access Бета функције is this one. Thanks for your understanding! Elitre (WMF) 19:35, 21. новембар 2014. (CET)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

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

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+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Пасус" into a "Увучени пасус".

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+K 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

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

• 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 "Подебљано" and "Искошено" 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 contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

19:59, 26. децембар 2014. (CET)

VisualEditor News #1—2015

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

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

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

• 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.
• Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

19:30, 5. фебруар 2015. (CET)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. MikyM (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Openbk (talk) 19:51, 6. фебруар 2015. (CET)

Wikimania 2015 scholarships

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Polska Association will fund up to two international scholarships to this year's Wikimania conference, to take place in Mexico City, on July 15-19, 2015, covering air fare, conference fee, accomodation and insurance. See here for information on how to apply for the scholarship, what the requirements are and how to contact us. Feel free to distribute this message to any relevant Wiki pages and mailing lists. On behalf of the WIkimedia Polska Scholarship Commitee, Wpedzich (разговор) 21:31, 24. фебруар 2015. (CET)

[Global proposal] m.Викицитат.org: (сви) уређивање страница

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like sr.m.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 23:33, 1. март 2015. (CET)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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 (разговор) 21:01, 4. март 2015. (CET)

SUL finalization update

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) 20:45, 13. март 2015. (CET)

Stewards confirmation rules

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 18:12, 10. април 2015. (CEST)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

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

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

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

• 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. Contact us 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 "Подебљано" and "Искошено" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

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 contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

21:48, 10. април 2015. (CEST)

Wikimania 2015 additional scholarships

Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Polska Association has made a decision to fund two more scholarships for this year’s Wikimania, to be hosted in Mexico City 15-19 July 2015, due to some candidates withdrawing from our programme. The procedure is identical to the one described here, so if you have not applied, but meet the criteria and would like to attend Wikimedia’s biggest international event, please submit your application until April 23, midnight. Kind regards, Tufor (разговор) 12:47, 19. април 2015. (CEST)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core

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 contact us 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

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 contact us 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

(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 16:05, 7. јун 2015. (CEST)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

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.

A 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

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, "Пример", 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

• 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 contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

12:44, 13. јун 2015. (CEST)

HTTPS

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)

00:00, 20. јун 2015. (CEST)

HTTPS

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)

03:50, 20. јун 2015. (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

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 (разговор) 07:07, 24. јул 2015. (CEST)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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?

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

• 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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
• Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalwikimediaШаблон:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (разговор) 01:42, 1. август 2015. (CEST)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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?

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

• 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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
• Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalwikimediaШаблон:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (разговор) 03:40, 1. август 2015. (CEST)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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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

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

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

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

• 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 "Подебљано" and "Искошено" 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 contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 00:28, 15. август 2015. (CEST)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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

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

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

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

• 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 "Подебљано" and "Искошено" 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 contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 04:40, 15. август 2015. (CEST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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.

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 01:08, 19. август 2015. (CEST)