This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels byGregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent byNicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill thethree community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates areinclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) –Board nominations
April 7 – April 20 –Board candidates questions submission period
April 21 – April 30 –Board candidates answer questions
May 1 – May 14 –Board voting period
May 15–19 –Board vote checking
May 20 –Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be availableon Meta-Wiki.
One position is being filled. More information about this election will be availableon Meta-Wiki.
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be foundon Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on theelection talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,board-electionswikimedia.org.
TheWikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center onWednesday, 19 April 2017.OnWednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations inMediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.
We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positiveresults including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.
We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities.As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki atthe talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!
The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enablePage previews,a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.
A quick note on the implementation:
For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on fromtheir user preferences page.
For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of ourPublisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team 14:52, 2. Moi 2017 (EDT)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactAaron.
TheWikimedia 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.
From May 9, theTwo Column Edit Conflict View will be available as abeta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from theGerman Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!
Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Überprüfe deine Änderungen".
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translatethe user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Anew wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go toSpecial:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
A newvisual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components.
You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this.
The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow.
TheKategorien item has been moved to the top of theSeitenoptionen menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
You can now create<chem> tags (sometimes used as<ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
TheSonderzeichen menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer,Tpt.
A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption.
There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:Control+Shift+K on a PC, orCommand+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which isControl+K orCommand+K respectively.
The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of<ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
The kind of button used toVorschau zeigen,Enneringe zeige, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will useOOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding&ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to theTranslators mailing list orcontact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready.Danke!
I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.
One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.
The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal:fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia, via the Visual Editor.
We alreadyasked for feedback in 2015, and collected some interesting ideas which weshared with you in this thesis. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.
We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.
You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video,on this page. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.
RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from theGerman Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.
The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.
You are invited tojoin the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.
Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.
You may know thatWikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.
This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.
This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.
If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a commenton the Phabricator ticket.
Funds Dissemination Committee The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found atthe FDC elections page.
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found atthe FDC Ombudsperson elections page.
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28.You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.
The goal of this process is to fill thefive community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and thecommunity-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.
The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates areinclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) –Nominations
May 15 – May 28 –Candidates questions submission period
May 29 – June 2 –Candidates answer questions
June 3 – June 11 –Voting period
June 12–14 –Vote checking
June 15 –Goal date for announcing election results
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 onthe talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,board-electionswikimedia.org.
Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner throughm: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign theWikimedian appeal.
The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.
You can see and use theold andnew versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
Comparison of old and new styles
Buttons before the change
Buttons after the change
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system.If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please seemw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.
A quick update on the progress of enablingPage Previews (previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs.
Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as abeta feature. For more information seePage Previews. Questions can be lefton the talk page in your preferred language.
Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.
The Reading Infrastructure team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a cross-platform reading list service for the mobile Wikipedia app. Reading lists are like bookmark folders in your web browser. They allow readers using the Wikipedia app to bookmark pages into folders to read later. This includes reading offline. Reading lists do not create or alter content in any way.
To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.
In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.
The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recenttechnical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.
Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.
Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:
Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.
For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF.Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.
We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications forWikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted.Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.
Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit:wm2018:Scholarships.
It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page andthe associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at:wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!
"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions atTalk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.
Did you know that you can now use thevisual diff tool on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If youenable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.
You can read and help translatethe user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
The2017 wikitext editor isavailable as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted atmw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
Thevisual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can alsoenable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories andSpecial:RecentChanges.
Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contactDan Garry.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to theTranslators mailing list orcontact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation.Danke!
Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign uphere. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (Diskussion)10:28, 12. Matz 2018 (EDT)[Beantworten]
Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen
Mapframe is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. Butfifteen Wikipedias, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.
A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’sCollaboration team has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable.Nine Wikipedias that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.
Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us knowon the project talk page. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!
From May 8,AdvancedSearch will be available as abeta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances thesearch page through an advanced parameters form and aims to makeexisting search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project byWMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team 14:03, 30. Moi 2018 (EDT)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzenHi everyone. TheReaders web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.
The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
Readers care about page issues and consider them important
Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Pleasevisit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Pleaseleave feedback on the talk page.
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages likeMediaWiki:Common.css andMediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)A new user group,interface-admin, has been created.Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with.css or.js that is either in theMediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the changehere.
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats).This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.
TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.
TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.
It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.
This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.
asannounced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of theinterface-admin (Oberflächenadministratoren) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available atCreation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.
TheWikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center onWednesday, 12 September 2018.OnWednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations inMediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)
The Community Wishlist Survey.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia FoundationCommunity Tech should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on thewishlist survey page.
The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You canread the report.
The Language team releaseda new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, onInternational Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published.
The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website.Please readtheir ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to theTranslators mailing list orcontact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation.Danke!
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen
Example of improvements
Hello,
In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.
What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples likeTemplate:Unreferenced orTemplate:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.
The Community Wishlist Survey.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia FoundationCommunity Tech should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on thewishlist survey page.
Advanced Search will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on thesearch page, even if you don’t know anysearch syntax. Advanced Search originates from theGerman Community’s Technical Wishes project. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on thecentral feedback page.
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know onthe talk page.
Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.
Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.
The theme of 2019 iteration isCelebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.
Sign up your affiliate or individually atParticipants page.
To know more about the contest, check out ourCommons Page andFAQs
There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!
A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: TheFileExporter. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community:Please check your wiki'sconfiguration file if you want to use this feature.
The FileExporter has already been a beta feature onmediawiki.org,meta.wikimedia, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and onwikisource.org. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be foundon the project page.
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in youruser preferences. The best place for feedback is thecentral talk page. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland'sTechnical Wishes project.
You willnot be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis arenot affectedon this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning aglobal consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.
Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell ushow your group communicates.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team 13:40, 13. Matz 2019 (EDT)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
You willnot be able to edit most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on11 April 05:00 UTC. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. Youcan see which wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)
06:56, 8. Abr. 2019 (EDT)
Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request
Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it:)
Hello all,
Many language versions of Wikipedia use the content ofWikidata, the centralized knowledge base, to fill out the content of infoboxes. The data is stored in Wikidata and displayed, partially or completely, in the Wikipedia’s language, on the articles.This feature is used by many template editors, but brought several issues that were raised by communities in various places: not being able to edit the data directly from Wikipedia was one of them.
This is the reason why theWikidata Bridge project started, with the goal of offering a way to Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data more easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the infobox, that users can access directly from their local wiki.
The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot ofuser research has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project. The next steps ofdevelopment will be achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting now until the end of 2019.
In order to make sure that we’re building a tool that is answering editors’ needs, we’re using agile methods in our development process. We don’t start with a fixed idea of the tool we want to deliver: we will build it together with the editors, based on feedback loops that we will regularly organize. The first version will not necessarily have all of the features you want, but it will keep evolving.
Here’s the planned timeline:
From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version of the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give feedback.
Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration with the communities.
We will first focus on early adopters communities who already implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for example Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German, English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their potentially different needs.
Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other projects.
In any case, no deployment or big change will be enforced on the projects without talking to the communities first, and helping the template builders to prepare for the changes they will have to do on the infoboxes’ code.
If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:
More ideas will be addedon this page along the way
If you have any questions for the development team, feel free to ask themon the main talk page. You can also ask under this message, but if you expect an answer from me, please make sure to ping me.
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using themobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
The team studied this with an A/B test.This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
This is a list of our most active projects.Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.Go here to see how:📲Try Edit Cards.
Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks:Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attendingWikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in theCommunity Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will beginimproving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
TheVisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message atTalk:VisualEditor on mobile.
Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety teamannounced a future consultation about partial and/or temporaryoffice actions. We want to let you know that thedraft version of this consultation has now beenposted on Meta.
This is adraft. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.
For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted.Please post it on the draft talk page. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.
Please visitthe consultation draft on Meta-wiki and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.
Thank you for your input! -- TheTrust & Safety team 04:03, 16. Aug. 2019 (EDT)
The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.
We have an idea of what toolscould be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the projecton Meta andpost comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.
You can post in your language if you can't write in English.
In arecent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trusteesrequested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".
Hallo. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on someimprovements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.
We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.
We would like individual feedback on the following:
Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far
We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.
When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:
Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
Put things in logical and useful places
Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
Eliminate clutter
Plan for future growth
As well as the following constraints:
Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors
After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.
A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki:Reference Previews. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.
Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be foundon the project page.
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in youruser preferences and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is thecentral talk page. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland'sTechnical Wishes project.
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page.Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on thetalk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
TheTalk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. ThePhase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here:Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the"Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing thevisual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message atTalk:VisualEditor on mobile.
In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
Seamless switching: animproved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on theToolbar feedback talk page.
Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page:Getting involved.
Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:Edit Cards project page.
Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, referto our Meta page for organizers.
Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!
For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international teamon wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!
In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran,Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.
Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.
Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration asWiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest atWikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest atMeta-Wiki andCommons.
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project,please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please completethis simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!
Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.
You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look atthe planned feature. Let us know what you think on ourcentral feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team:Max Klemm (WMDE)09:15, 26. Han. 2020 (EST)[Beantworten]
The team is planning some upcoming changes.Pleasereview the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
a rich-text visual editing option, and
other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
This issue of theEditing newsletter includes information theTalk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Diskussions-Werkzeuge". The Beta Feature will getnew features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing@. You cantest the new features on theBeta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures inSpecial:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with theWikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.
The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.
Please visit thecampaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.
With kind regards,
Thank you,
Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 04:24, 1. Yuli 2020 (EDT)
feel free to translate this message to your local language when this helps your community
Hallo. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen if necessary.Danke!
There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.
Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running asurvey in 7 languages about3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in aCommunity Open Letter.
Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.
Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 15:42, 2. Yuli 2020 (EDT)
Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see thesurvey privacy statement.
More than50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
Seven years ago this month, theEditing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
More than50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
More than2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
The visual editor isincreasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
In 2019,35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage hasincreased every year.
Almost5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving themobile visual editor in 2018.
Editors have made more than7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting600,000 new articles in it. The2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You canenable it in your preferences.
It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.
This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020[1] after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.
The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.
As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation[2]. We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.
It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.
We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.
There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list[3]. We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.
Hallo. Apologies that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following message may be available onMeta.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.Danke!
At times, our contributor communities and projects have suffered from a lack of guidelines that can help us create an environment where free knowledge can be shared safely without fear. There has been talk about the need for a global set of conduct rules in different communities over time.
Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced aCommunity Culture Statement, asking for new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects.
The universal code of conduct will be a binding minimum set of standards across all Wikimedia projects, and will apply to all of us, staff and volunteers alike, all around the globe. It is of great importance that we all participate in expressing our opinions and thoughts about UCoC and its values. We should think about what we want it to cover or include and what it shouldn’t include, and how it may create difficulties or help our groups.
This is the time to talk about it. Before starting drafting the code of conduct, we would like to hear from you and to solicit the opinions and feedback of your colleagues. In order for your voice to be heard, we encourage and invite you to read more aboutthe universal code of conduct (UCoC) and then write down your opinions or feedbackon the discussion page.
To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcome to translatethe universal code of conduct main page from English into your respective local language. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.
TheFileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. How does it work?
Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.
Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki'sconfiguration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.
Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.
TheWikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre onTuesday, September 1st 2020.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations inMediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.Please share this information with your community.
A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in ourrecent blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects! --The Wikipedia Library Team 05:49, 3. Sep. 2020 (EDT)
Hallo. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available onMeta.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.Danke!
We are excited to sharea draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.
The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.
To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and theUniversal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.
Hallo. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library offunctions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.Danke! --Quiddity (WMF)
17:22, 29. Sep. 2020 (EDT)
Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
Hallo. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.
Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details,check the full announcement.
TheWikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center onTuesday, October 27 2020.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations inMediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.Please share this information with your community.
Hallo und Entschuldigung für die falsche Sprache! Welche der zehn Empfehlungen der Bewegungsstrategie Wikimedia 2030 sollen priorisiert und welche der Initiativen zuerst in Angriff genommen werden? Und von wem? Das ist ein partizipativer Prozess, bei dem alle eingeladen sind mitzumachen, so auch die Online- und Projekt-Communitys im deutschsprachigen Raum, also ihr! In dieser Phase soll auch verstanden werden, was die einzelnen Empfehlungen mit der täglichen Arbeit in den Projekten zu tun haben und wo schon gute Beispiele vorhanden sind, die die Communitys im deutschsprachigen Raum global einbringen können. Auf der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia ist dafür eine Umfrage angelegt worden, an der ihr euch vom2. bis 8. November 2020 sehr gerne beteiligen könnt. Ihr braucht keine Stimmberechtigung auf Wikipedia. Eure Priorisierungen und Wünsche werden dann zusammengefasst und als eine Grundlage für dieglobalen Gespräche dem Transition Support Team weitergegeben. Der Prozess, eine neue Strategie für Wikimedia zu entwickeln, wurde 2017 begonnen und geht nach dieser Phase in die Umsetzung. Wer davon noch gar nichts gehört hat und mehr wissen möchte oder sonst noch Fragen und Hinweise hat, kann mich gerne ansprechen. GrüßeChristoph Jackel (WMDE) (Diskussion)07:36, 31. Okt. 2020 (EDT)[Beantworten]
Hallo.Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki.Danke! --Quiddity (WMF)
DieUmfrage technische Wünsche 2021 ist ab jetzt eröffnet! Diese Umfrage ist der Prozess, durch den Communities entscheiden, woran dasCommunity Tech Team im kommenden Jahr arbeiten soll. Wir möchten jeden dazu ermutigen, sich bis zum30. Nowember 2020 daran zu beteiligen, oder die Vorschläge anderer zu kommentieren, um sie zu verbessern. Die Communities werden zwischen dem8. Disember und dem21. Disember über die Vorschläge abstimmen.
Das Community Tech-Team konzentriert sich auf Werkzeuge für erfahrene Wikimedia-Benutzer. Du kannst in jeder Sprache Vorschläge machen, wir werden sie für dich übersetzen. Vielen Dank, wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge von dir!
I apologize for sending a message in English.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen. According tothe list, your wiki project currently is opted in to theglobal bot policy. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that is assigned directly by the stewards.
As the Wikimedia projects developed, the need for the current global bot policy decreased, and in the past years, no bots were appointed via that policy. That is mainly given Wikidata were estabilished in 2013, and it is no longer necessary to have dozens of bots that maintain interwiki links.
Aproposal was made at Meta-Wiki, which proposes that the stewards will be authorized to determine whether an uncontroversial task may be assigned a global bot flag. The stewards already assign permissions that are more impactful on many wikis, namely,global sysops andglobal renamers, and I do not think that trust should be an issue. The stewards will assign the permission only to time-proven bots that are already approved at a number of projects, likeListeriaBot.
By this message, I would like to invite you to commentin the global RFC, to voice your opinion about this matter.
Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available onthis page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!
As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.
Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.
This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.
Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.
If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to usethis Phabricator ticket. Thanks!
The ceremony of the 2020Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!
Wir laden alle registrierten NutzerInnen zum Abgabe ihrer Stimme bei derUmfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2021. Du kannst ab sofort bis zum21. Dezember bei so vielen Wünschen abstimmen wie du möchtest.
In der Umfrage werden die Wünsche für neue und verbesserte Werkzeuge für erfahrene AutorInnen gesammelt. Nach der Abstimmung werden wir unser Möglichstes tun, um die Wünsche umzusetzen. Wir werden mit den beliebtesten anfangen.
Wir, dasCommunity Tech Team, sind eins der Teams derWikimedia-Stiftung. Wir entwickeln und verbessern Werkzeuge, die das Schreiben und Moderieren/Administrieren betreffen. An was wir arbeiten wird durch die Ergebnisse dieser Umfrage bestimmt. Einmal im Jahr könnt Ihr Eure Wünsche anmelden. Nach zwei Wochen könnt Ihr darüber abstimmen, welche davon Euch am meisten interessieren. Danach wählen wir die Wünsche aus, an denen wir arbeiten werden. Einige Wünsche werden auch von freiwilligen EntwicklerInnen oder anderen Teams bearbeitet werden.
This is the announcement for theProject Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021. This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.
For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:
Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for#Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, andsubmit your proposal by February 10, 2021!
PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array ofother collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in ourblog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
You are humbly invited to participate in theWiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, andsubmitting them in this commons contest.
Please support us in translating theproject page and abanner message to help us spread the word in your native language.
You are invited to participate inFeminism and Folklore writing contest. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia. folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, etc.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles centered on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch-hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list ofsuggested articles here.
You can also support us in translating theproject page and help us spread the word in your native language.
Learn more about the contest and prizes from ourproject page. Thank you.
In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.
This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts likeWP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.
As far as I can see,Wikipedia currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.
Hello! Sorry for writing in English! I’ve been trying to find out if it’s allowed to use other varieties of Moselle Franconian in the Luxembourgish Wikipedia. I’ve also been trying to figure out if there is or has been a request for a Moselle Franconian Wikipedia edition. Unfortunately I haven’t received any response yet by contributors of the Luxembourgish Wikipedia. Does anyone here know something about it? --Son-of-my-comfort (Diskussion)08:25, 27. Han. 2021 (EST)[Beantworten]
Hallo. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at Meta-Wiki.Danke! --Quiddity (WMF)
TheUniversal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on itsproject page.
The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggestedkey questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, pleasecontact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.
I apologize for sending a message in English.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen. According tothe list, your wiki project is currently opted in to theglobal bot policy. As such, I want to let you know about some changes that were made after theglobal RfC was closed.
Global bots are now subject to a 2 week discussion, and it'll be publicized via a MassMessage list, available atBot policy/New global bot discussion on Meta. Please subscribe yourself or your wiki if you are interested in new global bots proposals.
For a bot to be considered for approval, it must demonstrate it is welcomed in multiple projects, and a good way to do that is to have the bot flag on at least 5 wikis for a single task.
The bot operator should make sure to adhere to the wiki's preference as related to the use of the bot flag (i.e., if a wiki doesn't want a bot to use the flag as it edits, that should be followed).
From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror extension), which is supported in the2010 and2017 wikitext editors.
From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added toTemplateData and will then be shown as a drop-down list inVisualEditor. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.
More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values:[1][2]. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedbackon this talk page.
Welcome to the first issue ofUniversal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need tosubscribe here.
You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Pleaseadd your name here if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.
Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)
Wikimania 2021 will behosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form theCore Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.
Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more informationhere.
Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.
Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement sectionhere.
Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be foundhere.
When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study ofthe Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helpednewer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool weremore likely to post a comment on a talk page.
The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were alsoless likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
TheWikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations inMediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.Please share this information with your community.
Additionally,De Gruyter andNomos have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Wikipedia. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in toThe Wikipedia Library with your Wikimedia login!
We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on theproject page on Meta.
Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (T132084). If you can translate the notification please do soat TranslateWiki!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 09:23, 11. Aug. 2021 (EDT)
Diese Leitlinien sind nicht endgültig - du kannst helfen, ihre Entwicklung zu verbessern. Das Komitee wird die Leitlinien basierend auf den Rückmeldungen der Community überarbeiten.
Kommentare können in jeder Sprache auf derDraft Review Talk Page undMultiple other venues geteilt werden. Community-Mitglieder sind eingeladen, eigenständig Unterhaltungen in ihren Communities zu organisieren.
Es sind Live-Diskussionen über den Entwurf der UCoC-Umsetzungsleitlinien geplant:
Thank you for participating in the2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as theElections Committee completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.
6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check thedata produced during the election.
Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.
06:03, 2. Sep. 2021 (EDT)
The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January
We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.
In the past, theCommunity Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran theWishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from theWishlist for 2020.
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities
We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet
We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in thetalk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meetingSeptember 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase
If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use thenew Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
Im Rahmen des Movement-Strategy-Prozesses werden Kandidierende für die Schreibgruppe (drafting committee) der Movement Charta gesucht. Die Kandidierenden-Suche beginnt am 2. August und läuft bis zum 14. September 2021.
Die Schreibgruppe wird um die 15 Mitglieder haben, die idealerweise die Vielfalt des Wikimedia-Movements repräsentieren, wie Geschlechter, Sprachen, geographische Herkunft, Erfahrung. Dazu gehört ebenfalls bspw. Engagement in den Onlineprojekten, Wikimedia-Organisationen und -Gruppen oder der Wikimedia Foundation.
Englischkenntnisse sind nicht erforderlich, um Mitglied zu werden. Bei Bedarf wird Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschunterstützung angeboten. Mitglieder können eine Aufwandsentschädigung erhalten, um die Teilnahmekosten auszugleichen. Sie beträgt alle zwei Monate 100 US-Dollar.
Wissen, wie man kollaborativ schreibt. (nachgewiesene Erfahrung ist ein Plus)
Kompromissbereit sind.
Sich auf Inklusion und Vielfalt konzentrieren.
Kenntnisse über Community-Konsultationen (z.B. Meinungsbilder) haben.
Erfahrung in interkultureller Kommunikation mitbringen.
Erfahrungen in der Leitung oder Organisation von Non-Profit-Organisationen oder Communities haben.
Erfahrung im Verhandeln mit verschiedenen Parteien haben.
Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass das Komitee anfangs 15 Personen umfasst. Wenn es 20 oder mehr Kandidierende gibt, findet ein gemischtes Wahl- und Auswahlverfahren statt. Gibt es 19 oder weniger Kandidierende, findet das Auswahlverfahren ohne Wahl statt.
Möchtest du dich gerne in diesem Prozess engagieren? Dann reiche deine Kandidaturhier ein. Wenn du Fragen hast, schreib gerne an strategy2030wikimedia.org.
TheWikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center onTuesday, 14 September 2021.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations inMediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.Please share this information with your community.
The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add themon the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Habt ihr bemerkt, dass einige Wikis eineveränderte Desktop-Oberfläche haben? Interessiert ihr euch für die nächsten Schritte? Vielleicht habt ihr Fragen oder Ideen zum Design oder technischen Details?
Das Treffen wird nicht aufgezeichnet oder gestreamt. Notizen werden in einemGoogle Doc aufgezeichnet. Der Präsentationsteil (die ersten zwei Punkte der Agenda) findet auf Englisch statt.
Wir können Fragen beantworten, die auf Englisch, Französisch, Polnisch und Spanisch gestellt werden. Wenn du im Voraus Fragen stellen möchtest, kannst du diese auf derDiskussionsseite stellen oder an sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org senden.
Olga Vasileva (Team-Manager) veranstaltet das Treffen.
Die Abstimmung für die Wahl der Mitglieder des Komitees zum Entwurf der Movement Charter ist jetzt eröffnet. Insgesamt kandidieren 70 Wikimedianerinnen und Wikimedianer aus der ganzen Welt für 7 Sitze bei diesen Wahlen.
Die Abstimmung läuft vom 12. bis 24. Oktober 2021 (Anywhere on Earth).
Das Komitee wird aus insgesamt 15 Mitgliedern bestehen: Die Online Communitys wählen 7 Mitglieder, 6 Mitglieder werden von den Wikimedia-Affiliates in einem parallelen Verfahren ausgewählt und 2 Mitglieder werden von der Wikimedia Foundation ernannt. Es ist geplant, das Komitee bis zum 1. November 2021 zusammenzustellen.
Für diese Wahl testen wir einen Wahl-o-Mat. Klick dich durch das Tool um zu sehen, welche Kandidat*innen dir am nächsten stehen! Probiere es unter <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>
Das Komitee wird demnächst zusammentreten, um seine Arbeit aufzunehmen. Das Komitee kann bis zu drei weitere Mitglieder ernennen, um Lücken in Bezug auf Vielfalt und Fachwissen zu schließen.
Das Board of Trustees bereitet eine Konsultation der Community vom 7. Januar bis 10. Februar 2022 zu den bevorstehenden Boardwahlen vor.
Obwohl die Details erst in der Woche vor der Konsultation festgelegt werden, stehen schon jetzt mindestens zwei Fragen fest, die während der Konsultation gestellt werden sollen:
Wie kann eine faire Vertretung aufstrebender Communities im Board am besten gewährleistet werden?
Wie sollten sich die Kandidierenden während der Wahl einbringen dürfen?
Es können noch weitere Fragen hinzukommen, aber das Movement Strategy and Governance Team möchte den Mitgliedern der Communitys und den Affiliates Zeit geben, sich bereits mit den bestätigten Fragen auseinanderzusetzen und Ideen vorzubereiten, bevor die Konsultation beginnt. Wir entschuldigen uns dafür, dass wir zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt noch keine vollständige Liste der Fragen haben. Die Liste der Fragen sollte nur um ein oder zwei Fragen erweitert werden. Wir wollen die Communitys nicht mit Anfragen überhäufen, aber wir möchten sie darauf hinweisen und freuen uns über Feedback zu diesen wichtigen Fragen.
Möchtest du bei der Organisation von lokalen Gesprächsrunden während dieser Konsultation helfen?
Bitte meldet euch, wenn ihr Fragen oder Bedenken habt. Das Team "Movement Strategy and Governance" wird bis zum 3. Januar nur in geringem Umfang besetzt sein. Bitte entschuldige eventuelle Verzögerungen während dieser Zeit. Wir wissen auch, dass einige Communitys und Affiliates über die Feiertage im Dezember offline sind. Wir entschuldigen uns, wenn unsere Nachricht dich während der Feiertage erreicht hat.
You are humbly invited to participate in theWiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the1st till the 28th of February.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, andsubmitting them in this commons contest.
You can alsoorganize a local contest in your country and support us in translating theproject pages to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on ourproject Talk page if you need any assistance.
Diese Umfrage ist der Prozess, durch den Communities entscheiden, woran dasCommunity Tech Team im kommenden Jahr arbeiten soll. Wir möchten jeden dazu ermutigen, sich bis zum23. Januar daran zu beteiligen, oder die Vorschläge anderer zu kommentieren, um sie zu verbessern.
Die Communities werden zwischen dem 28. Januar und dem 11. Februar über die Vorschläge abstimmen.
Das Community Tech-Team konzentriert sich auf Werkzeuge für erfahrene Wikimedia-Benutzer. Du kannst in jeder Sprache Vorschläge machen, wir werden sie für dich übersetzen. Vielen Dank, wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge von dir!SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk)13:12, 10. Yen. 2022 (EST)[Beantworten]
Greetings! You are invited to participate inFeminism and Folklore 2022 writing competion. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles focused on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articleshere.
You can also support us in organizing the contest on your local Wikipedia by signing up your community to participate in this project and also translating theproject page and help us spread the word in your native language.
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Feel free to contact us on ourtalk page or via Email if you need any assistance...
Der Call for Feedback: Wahlen zum Board ist jetzt eröffnet und läuft bis zum 7. Februar 2022.
Mit diesem Call for Feedback verfolgt das Team für Bewegungsstrategie und Governance einen neuen Ansatz. Er bezieht das Feedback der Community aus dem Jahr 2021 mit ein. Anstatt mit Vorschlägen zu beginnen, dreht sich der Call um Schlüsselfragen des Boards. Die Schlüsselfragen stammen aus den Rückmeldungen zur Boardwahl 2021. Ziel ist es, ein gemeinsames Gespräch und eine gemeinsame Entwicklung von Vorschlägen zu diesen Schlüsselfragen anzuregen.
Bring Entwürfe deiner Vorschläge mit und sprich mit einem Mitglied des Community Tech-Teams über deine Fragen, wie du deinen Vorschlag verbessern kannst
Format
Das Treffen wird nicht aufgezeichnet oder übertragen. Eine Mitschrift ohne Namensnennung wird erstellt und auf Meta veröffentlicht. Die Präsentation (die gesamte Tagesordnung mit Ausnahme der Fragen und Antworten) wird auf Englisch gehalten.
Wir können Fragen auf Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Polnisch und Spanisch beantworten. Wenn du vorab Fragen stellen möchtest, füge sie auf derDiskussionsseite der Abstimmung über die Technischen Wünsche ein oder sende sie an sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us bysubscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or bysharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.
If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.
Older versions of this newsletter can be found in thecomplete archive.
Hallo. Hier möchte ich ein Update zum Projekt zuDesktopverbesserungen geben, an denen das Web-Team der Wikimedia Foundation seit einigen Jahren arbeitet.
Ziele des Projekts sind die Benutzeroberfläche zweckmäßig für fortgeschrittene Nutzer und komfortabler und einladender für Leser zu gestalten. Das Projekt besteht aus einer Serie von Verbesserungen der Funktionen, welche das Lesen und Lernen, die Navigation auf der Seite, die Suche, den Wechsel zwischen Sprachen, die Nutzung von Artikel-Tabs und des Nutzer-Menüs, sowie weiteres betreffen.
Die Verbesserung sind nun als Standard für Leser und Editoren auf 24 Wikipedias festgesetzt, darunter für diefranzösische, dieportugiesische und diepersische Wikipedia.
Die Veränderungen gelten nur für dasVector Design.Monobook undTimeless sind davon nicht betroffen.
Wenn man der Meinung ist dass dies als Standard für alle Leser und Redakteure des Wikis gut wäre, kann man gerne eine Diskussion mit der Gemeinschaft beginnen und mich kontaktieren.
In Wikis, in denen die Änderungen standardmäßig für alle sichtbar sind, können angemeldete Benutzer jederzeit den klassischen Vektor aktivieren. Es gibt einen leicht zugänglichen Link in der Seitenleiste des neuen Vektors.
Erfahre mehr und werde Teil unserer Veranstaltungen
Willkommen zur fünften Ausgabe der Movement Strategy und Governance Newsletter (früher bekannt als Universal Code of Conduct News)! Dieser neu gestaltete Newsletter enthält relevante Neuigkeiten und Ereignisse über die Movement Charta, den Universellen Verhaltenskodex, Grants zur Umsetzung der Movement Strategy, Board-Wahlen und andere relevante MSG-Themen.
Dieser Newsletter wird vierteljährlich verschickt, während häufigere Updates auch wöchentlich oder zweiwöchentlich an Abonnenten verschickt werden. Bitte denk daran, dichanzumelden, wenn du diese Updates erhalten möchtest.
Call for Feedback zu den Board-Wahlen - Wir laden Euch ein, Euch Euer Feedback zu den anstehenden Wahlen zum WMF Board of Trustees zu geben. Der Call for Feedback wurde am 10. Januar 2022 veröffentlicht und wird am 16. Februar 2022 enden. (Weiterlesen)
Ratifizierung des Universellen Verhaltenskodex - Im Jahr 2021 befragte die WMF die Communitys, wie der Text des Universellen Verhaltenskodexes umgesetzt werden soll. Der überarbeitete Entwurf der Umsetzungsleitlinien sollte im März zur Abstimmung durch die Community bereit sein. (Weiterlesen)
Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - Während wir weiterhin viele interessante Vorschläge prüfen, ermutigen und begrüßen wir weitere Vorschläge und Ideen, die auf eine spezifische Initiative aus den Empfehlungen der Movement Strategy abzielen. (Weiterlesen)
Die Neuausrichtung des Newsletters - Da der UCoC-Newsletter in den MSG-Newsletter übergeht, können Sie gemeinsam mit dem Moderatorenteam über die Neuausrichtung des Newsletters nachdenken und entscheiden. (Weiter lesen)
Diff Blogs - Die neuesten Veröffentlichungen über MSG findest Du auf Wikimedia Diff. (Weiterlesen)
Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,
We are pleased to inform you thatWiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.
We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with thetranslation of project pages and share a word in your local language.
Im Rahmen des Ratifikationsverfahrens für die Leitlinien zur Umsetzung des Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) ist eineAbstimmung in SecurePoll vom 7. bis 21. März 2022 geplant. Wahlberechtigte sind eingeladen, eine Umfragefrage zu beantworten und Kommentare zu teilen.Siehe Wahlinformationen und Details zur Wahlberechtigung. Bei der Umfrage werden die Wähler*innen gefragt, ob sie die Umsetzung des Universal Code of Conduct auf der Grundlage der vorgeschlagenen Leitlinien unterstützen.
DerUniversal Code of Conduct (UCoC) bietet eine Grundlage für akzeptables Verhalten für das gesamte "Movement". Dierevidierten Leitlinien zur Umsetzung wurden am 24. Januar 2022 als Vorschlag für die Anwendung der Richtlinien im gesamten Movement veröffentlicht. In einer Erklärung desWikimedia Foundation Board wird zu einemRatifikationsverfahren aufgerufen, bei dem die Stimmberechtigten die Möglichkeit haben, die Umsetzung der UCoC-Leitlinien in einer Abstimmung zu unterstützen oder abzulehnen. Wikimedianerinnen und Wikimedianer sind eingeladen, wichtige Informationen zuübersetzen und zu teilen. Weitere Informationen über den UCoC findest du auf derProjektseite und denhäufig gestellten Fragen im Meta-Wiki.
Folgende Veranstaltungen sind geplant, um mehr zu erfahren und zu diskutieren:
EinCommunity-Panel am 18. Februar 2022 um 15:00 UTC zeigt die Perspektiven von Teilnehmern kleiner und mittelgroßer Communities auf.
DasMovement Strategy and Governance (MSG) Team veranstaltet Gesprächsrunden am 25. Februar 2022 um 12:00 Uhr UTC und am 4. März 2022 um 15:00 Uhr UTC. Bittemelde dich für diese Gesprächsrunden an, um mit dem Projektteam und dem Entwurfskomitee über die aktualisierten Leitlinien für die Umsetzung und das Ratifikationsverfahren zu sprechen. Siehe dieGesprächsrunde Hour summaries für Notizen vom 4. Februar 2022.
Du kannst auf Diskussionsseiten im Meta-Wiki in jeder Sprache kommentieren. Du kannst beide Teams auch per E-Mail kontaktieren: msgwikimedia.org oder ucocprojectwikimedia.org
Herzlichst,
Movement Strategy and Governance Wikimedia Foundation
and improvements in the syntax highlighting extensionCodeMirror (4,5) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).
All these changes are part of the “Templates” project byWMDE Technical Wishes. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.
Der Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) enthält die Grundregeln für akzeptables Verhalten im gesamten "Movement". Die überarbeiteten Leitlinien zur Umsetzung wurden am 24. Januar 2022 als Vorschlag für die Anwendung der Richtlinie im gesamten "Movement" veröffentlicht. Du kannstmehr über das UCoC-Projekt lesen.
Du kannst auf Diskussionsseiten im Meta-Wiki in jeder Sprache kommentieren. Du kannst beide Teams auch per E-Mail kontaktieren: ucocprojectwikimedia.org
Der Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) enthält die Grundregeln für akzeptables Verhalten im gesamten "Movement". Die überarbeiteten Leitlinien zur Umsetzung wurden am 24. Januar 2022 als Vorschlag für die Anwendung der Richtlinie im gesamten "Movement" veröffentlicht. Du kannstmehr über das UCoC-Projekt lesen.
Du kannst auf Diskussionsseiten im Meta-Wiki in jeder Sprache kommentieren. Du kannst beide Teams auch per E-Mail kontaktieren: ucocprojectwikimedia.org
International photographic contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.
The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if yourlocal Wikipedia is participating
A special competition calledWiki Loves Falles is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture andFalles in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it onCatalan Wikipedia project page.
Feminism and Folklore 2022 which is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia ends soon that is on31 March 2022 11:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to write about feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics such asfolk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more
Keep an eye on the project page for declaration of Winners.
Die Abstimmung über die Ratifizierung derrevidierten Leitlinien zur Umsetzung desUniversal Code of Conduct (UCoC) ist am 21. März 2022 zu Ende gegangen. Über2300 Wikimedianer/innen haben in verschiedenen Regionen unseres "Movements" abgestimmt. Vielen Dank an alle, die sich an diesem Prozess beteiligt haben! Die Prüfergruppe überprüft jetzt die Abstimmung auf ihre Richtigkeit. Bitte gib ihnen bis zu zwei Wochen Zeit, um ihre Arbeit abzuschließen.
Die endgültigen Ergebnisse der Abstimmung werdenhier bekannt gegeben, zusammen mit den relevanten Statistiken und einer Zusammenfassung der Kommentare, sobald sie verfügbar sind. Bitte sieh dirdie Wählerinformationsseite an, um mehr über die nächsten Schritte zu erfahren. Du kannst auf der Projekt-Talkseiteim Meta-Wiki in jeder Sprache Kommentare abgeben. Du kannst das UCoC-Projektteam auch per E-Mail kontaktieren: ucocprojectwikimedia.org
Habt ihr bemerkt, dass einige Wikis eine veränderte Desktop-Oberfläche haben? Interessiert ihr euch für die nächsten Schritte? Vielleicht habt ihr Fragen oder Ideen zum Design oder technischen Details?
Das Treffen wird nicht aufgezeichnet oder gestreamt. Notizen werden in einemGoogle Doc aufgezeichnet.Olga Vasileva (Produkt-Manager) veranstaltet das Treffen. Der Präsentationsteil findet auf Englisch statt.
Wir können Fragen beantworten, die auf Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch und Polnisch. Wenn du im Voraus Fragen stellen möchtest, kannst du diese auf derDiskussionsseite stellen oder an sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org senden.
Wiley – journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences
OECD – OECD iLibrary, Data, and Multimedia published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
SPIE Digital Library – journals and eBooks on optics and photonics applied research
Many other sources are freely available for experienced editors, including collections which recently became accessible to all eligible editors: Cambridge University Press, BMJ, AAAS, Érudit and more.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: log in today! --The Wikipedia Library Team 09:17, 26. Abr. 2022 (EDT)
Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:
Thetemplate dialog in VisualEditor and in the2017 Wikitext Editor (beta) will beimproved fundamentally: This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.
New editors were more successful with this new tool.
TheNew topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You canread the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off atSpecial:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
Hallo. Hier möchte ich ein Update zum Projekt zuDesktopverbesserungen geben, an denen das Web-Team der Wikimedia Foundation seit einigen Jahren arbeitet. Unsere Arbeit ist fast beendet! 🎉
Wir würden uns freuen, wenn diese Verbesserungen der Standard für alle Leser und Autoren in allen Wikis werden würden.In den kommenden Wochen werden wir Gespräche mit weiteren Wikis beginnen, darunter auch deins. 🗓️ Gerne lesen wir eure Anregungen!
Ziele des Projekts sind die Benutzeroberfläche zweckmäßig für fortgeschrittene Nutzer und komfortabler und einladender für Leser zu gestalten. Das Projekt besteht aus einer Serie von Verbesserungen der Funktionen, welche das Lesen und Lernen, die Navigation auf der Seite, die Suche, den Wechsel zwischen Sprachen, die Nutzung von Artikel-Tabs und des Nutzer-Menüs sowie Weiteres betreffen. Die Verbesserungen sind bereits auf mehr als 30 Wikis in den Standardeinstellungen für Leser und Autoren sichtbar, unter anderem in den Wikipedias aufFranzösisch,Portugiesisch undPersisch.
Die Veränderungen gelten nur für dasVector-Design.Monobook undTimeless sind davon nicht betroffen.
Die neuesten Funktionen
Inhaltsverzeichnis - Unsere Version ist einfacher zu erreichen, erhält den Kontext der Seite und ermöglicht die Navigation auf der Seite, ohne zu scrollen. Es wird derzeit in unseren Pilot-Wikis getestet. Es ist auch für Benutzer verfügbar, die den Skin Vector 2022 aktiviert haben.
Seitenwerkzeuge - Es gibt nun zwei Arten von Links in der Seitenleiste. Es gibt Aktionen und Werkzeuge für einzelne Seiten (wieÄnderungen an verlinkten Seiten) und Links für das ganze Wiki (wieLetzte Änderungen). Wir werden diese in zwei intuitive Menüs aufteilen.
In Wikis, in denen die Änderungen standardmäßig für alle sichtbar sind, können angemeldete Benutzer jederzeit den klassischen Vektor aktivieren. Es gibt einen leicht zugänglichen Link in der Seitenleiste des neuen Vektors.
Erfahre mehr und werde Teil unserer Veranstaltungen
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see imageshere
Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.
We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.
Ein Wahl-o-mat ist ein Instrument, das den Wähler*innen hilft, die Kandidat*innen auszuwählen, die am besten mit ihren Überzeugungen und Ansichten übereinstimmen. Community-Mitglieder schlagen den Kandidat*innen Aussagen vor, die sie mit Hilfe einer Lickert-Skala (zustimmen/neutral/ nicht zustimmen) beantworten sollen. Die Antworten der Kandidat*innen auf die Aussagen werden in den Wahl-o-mat eingepflegt. Die Wähler/innen nutzen das Tool, indem sie ihre Antwort auf die Aussagen eingeben (zustimmen/ablehnen/neutral). Die Ergebnisse zeigen die Kandidat*innen, die am besten mit den Überzeugungen und Ansichten der Wähler*innen übereinstimmen.
Hier ist die Zeitleiste für den Wahl-o-mat:
8. bis 20. Juli: Freiwillige schlagen Aussagen für den Wahl-Kompass vor
21. - 22. Juli: Der Wahlausschuss überprüft die Erklärungen auf ihre Klarheit und streicht themenfremde Erklärungen.
23. Juli - 1. August: Die Communitys stimmen über die Erklärungen ab
2. bis 4. August: Der Wahlausschuss wählt die 15 besten Stellungnahmen aus
5. bis 12. August: Kandidat*innen positionieren sich zu den Aussagen
15. August: Der Wahl-o-mat steht ab jetzt den Wahlberechtigten zur Verfügung, um sie bei ihrer Wahlentscheidung zu unterstützen.
Der Wahlausschuss wird Anfang August die 15 besten Aussagen auswählen. Der Wahlausschuss wird den Prozess überwachen, unterstützt vom Movement Strategy and Governance Team. MSG prüft, ob die Fragen klar sind, ob es keine Duplikate gibt, ob es Tippfehler gibt und so weiter.
Beste Grüße,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Diese Nachricht wurde versandt im Namen der Board of Trustees Task Force und des Wahlausschusses
Das Team "Movement Strategy and Governance" sucht nach Community-Mitgliedern, die sich als Wahlhelfer bei den anstehenden Wahlen zum Board of Trustees zur Verfügung stellen.
Die Idee für das Wahlhelferprogramm entstand während der Wahlen zum Wikimedia Board of Trustees 2021. Das Programm erwies sich als erfolgreich. Mit Hilfe der Wahlhelfer*innen konnten wir die Reichweite und die Beteiligung an der Wahl im Vergleich zu 2017 um 1.753 Wähler/innen erhöhen. Die Wahlbeteiligung lag insgesamt bei 10,13%, 1,1 Prozentpunkte höher, und 214 Wikis waren bei der Wahl vertreten.
Aber in insgesamt 74 Wikis, die 2017 nicht teilgenommen haben, haben bei der Wahl 2021 Wähler*innen mitgemacht. Willst du mithelfen, die Beteiligung zu verbessern?
Wahlhelfer*innen werden in den folgenden Bereichen helfen:
Übersetzen von Kurznachrichten und Ankündigung der laufenden Wahlen in den Kanälen der Communitys
Optional: Beobachte die Community-Kanäle auf Kommentare und Fragen der Communitys
Freiwillige sollten:
Bei Gesprächsrunden und Veranstaltungen die Friendly-Space-Politik aufrechterhalten
Der Community die Leitlinien und Abstimmungsinformationen auf neutrale Art und Weise präsentieren
Möchtest du dich als Wahlhelfer*in engagieren und dafür sorgen, dass deine Community bei der Wahl vertreten ist? Melde dichhier an, um aktuelle Informationen zu erhalten. Du kannst dieDiskussionsseite für Fragen zur Übersetzung nutzen.
Das Wahlverfahren der Affiliates (Chapter und Usergroups) ist abgeschlossen. Vertreter*innen der einzelnen Affiliates (Chapter und Usergroups) haben sich über die Kandidat*innen informiert, indem sie die Erklärungen der Kandidat*innen gelesen, die Antworten der Kandidat*innen auf die Fragen geprüft und die vom Analyse-Komitee erstellten Bewertungen der Kandidat*innen berücksichtigt haben. Die ausgewählten Kandidat*innen für das Board of Trustees 2022 sind:
Du kannst mehr Informationen über dieErgebnisse undStatistiken dieser Boardwahlen sehen.
Bitte nimm dir einen Moment Zeit, um den Vertretern der Affiliates (Chapter und Usergroups) und den Mitgliedern des Analyse-Komitees dafür zu danken, dass sie an diesem Prozess teilgenommen und dazu beigetragen haben, das Board of Trustees in seiner Kapazität und Diversität zu erweitern. Diese Stunden ehrenamtlicher Arbeit verbinden uns über Verständnis und Perspektive hinweg. Vielen Dank für deine Teilnahme.
Vielen Dank an die Community-Mitglieder, die sich als Kandidat*in für das Board of Trustees zur Verfügung gestellt haben. Die Entscheidung, in das Board of Trustees einzutreten, ist keine leichte Entscheidung. Die Zeit und das Engagement, das die Kandidat*innen bis jetzt gezeigt haben, sprechen für ihr Engagement in diesem "Movement". Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die Kandidat*innen, die ausgewählt worden sind. Große Anerkennung und Dankbarkeit für die Kandidat*innen, die nicht ausgewählt wurden. Bitte stellt Wikimedia weiterhin eure Führungsqualität zur Verfügung.
Vielen Dank an alle, die bei dieser Boardwahl das Affiliate-Verfahren verfolgt haben. Du kannst die Ergebnisse der Wahl der Affiliates (Chapter und Usergroups) einsehen.
Der nächste Teil der Boardwahlen ist die Community-Wahlperiode.Hier kannst du den Zeitplan für die Boardwahlen einsehen. Zur Vorbereitung der Community-Wahlperiode gibt es einige Dinge, an denen sich Community-Mitglieder auf folgende Weise beteiligen können:
Die Community-Abstimmung für die Wahl zum Board of Trustees 2022 begann am 23. August 2022 und endet am 6. September 2022 um 23:59 Uhr UTC. Du hast noch die Möglichkeit, an der Wahl teilzunehmen. Wenn du noch nicht gewählt hast, besuche bitte dieSecurePoll-Wahlseite, um jetzt abzustimmen. Um dich über deine Stimmberechtigung zu informieren, besuche bitte dieSeite mit Informationen zur Stimmberechtigung.Wenn du Hilfe bei deiner Entscheidung brauchst, findest du hier einige hilfreiche Links:
Probiere denWahl-o-mat aus, der zeigt, wie die Kandidat*innen zu 15 verschiedenen Themen stehen.
Hello. I'm writing on behalf of theWikimedia Foundation Web team.In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average87% of active logged-in users of those wikis use Vector 2022.
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch toany other skins. No changes are expected for users of these skins.
[Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects.The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.
[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, theCommunity Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins.We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes and test results] The skin introduces aseries of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab inyour preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.
It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check outour repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.
Mit demMovement Strategy Forum (MS Forum) gibt es seit einiger Zeit einen mehrsprachigen Raum für Diskussionen zu allen Themen rund um die Umsetzung der Movement Strategy.
Alle Mitglieder der Community sind eingeladen, am MS Forum teilzunehmen. Ziel des Forums ist es, die Zusammenarbeit in der Community durch eine mehrsprachige Plattform zu fördern.
DieMovement Strategy ist ein gemeinschaftliches Projekt, um die Zukunft des Wikimedia Movements zu gestalten. Jeder kann sich an der Movement Strategy beteiligen, von einem Kommentar bis hin zu einem Vollzeitprojekt.
Tritt diesem Forum mit deinem Wikimedia-Konto bei und beteilige dich an Diskussionen in deiner Sprache. Über vielfältige Teilnahme würde ich mich freuen!
Hello. I'm sorry for not communicating in your language. I'll be grateful if you translated my message. I'm writing on behalf of theWeb team working on the new skin,Vector 2022.
We wanted to apologize for the delays in the deployment of Vector 2022. We know many of you are waiting for this eagerly. We have been delaying the deployment because we have been working on the logos. It has taken us more time than originally expected. Once the logos are ready, we will let you know the exact date of deployment.We are planning for either the next (more likely) or the following week. If your wiki doesn't currently have a localized logo, we encourage you toreach out to us and we can help make one.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them inthe CWS sandbox.
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen We are really sorry for posting in English
Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contesthas started. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help chose the sound that will identify Wikimedia content on audio devices.Learn more on Diff.
The sound logo team is grateful to everyone who participated in this global contest. We received 3,235 submissions from 2,094 participants in 135 countries. We are incredibly grateful to the team ofvolunteer screeners and theselection committee who, among others, helped bring us to where we are today. It is now up to Wikimedia to choose the Sound Of All Human Knowledge.
You are humbly invited to organize theFeminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with aWiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from alist of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a fountain tool or dashboard.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
Request local admins for site notice.
Link the local page and the fountain/dashboard link on themeta project page.
This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill inthis Google form and mark a mail tosupport@wikilovesfolklore.org with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.
Learn more about the contest and prizes on ourproject page. Feel free to contact us on ourmeta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
DieRechtsabteilung der Wikimedia Foundation organisiert eine Feedbackphase mit Community-Mitgliedern, um die Überarbeitung der Wikimedia-Nutzungsbedingungen zu besprechen.
Die Nutzungsbedingungen (Terms of Use, ToU) sind die rechtlichen Bestimmungen, die die Nutzung der von der Wikimedia Foundation gehosteten Websites regeln. Wir werden von Februar bis April euer Feedback zu einem Entwurf einholen. Der Entwurf wird in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt, wobei schriftliche Rückmeldungen in jeder Sprache möglich sind.
Diese Aktualisierung ist eine Reaktion auf mehrere Dinge:
Umsetzung des Universal Code of Conduct
Aktualisierung des Projekttextes auf die Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 Lizenz
Vorschlag für einen besseren Umgang mit nicht offengelegten bezahlten Bearbeitungen
Anpassung unserer Bedingungen an aktuelle und kürzlich verabschiedete Gesetze, die die Foundation betreffen, einschließlich des European Digital Services Act
Im Rahmen des Feedback-Zyklus werden zwei Sprechstunden abgehalten, die erste am 2. März, die zweite am 4. April.
Tagesquote Fertigstellung von Bearbeitungen aufgeschlüsselt nach Versuchsgruppe: DiscussionTools (Versuchsgruppe) und MobileFrontend Einblendung (Kontrollgruppe)
DieWikimedia-Foundation testet den Wechsel zwischen ihrem ersten und dem Ersatz-Rechenzentrum. Dadurch sollen Wikipedia und die anderen Wikimedia-Wikis auch nach einem Notfall erreichbar bleiben. Um sicherzustellen, dass alles funktioniert, muss der Wechsel zwischen den Servern getestet werden. Dieser Test wird zeigen, ob sicher von einem auf das andere Rechenzentrum umgeschaltet werden kann. Dafür benötigt es viele Teams, die den Test vorbereiten und die bereitstehen, um unerwartet auftretende Probleme zu beheben.
Der gesamte Datenverkehr wird am1 März umgeleitet. Der Test wird um14:00 UTC beginnen.
Leider können aufgrund einiger Einschränkungen derMediaWiki-Software keine Bearbeitungen vorgenommen werden, während die Umschaltung duchgeführt wird. Wir entschuldigen uns für diese Unterbrechung, und wir werden uns bemühen, derartige Einschränkungen in der Zukunft auf ein Minimum zu beschränken.
Für eine kurze Zeit können zwar alle Wikis gelesen, aber nicht bearbeitet werden.
AmMittwoch 1 März 2023, wird bis zu einer Stunde lang das Bearbeiten nicht möglich sein.
In dieser Zeit wird beim Versuch, Bearbeitungen zu speichern, eine Fehlermeldung ausgegeben. Wir hoffen, dass dadurch keine Bearbeitungen verloren gehen, können das aber leider nicht garantieren. Falls eine Fehlermeldung erscheint, warte bitte, bis alles wieder normal ist. Dann sollte es möglich sein, die Bearbeitungen zu speichern. Sicherheitshalber empfehlen wir jedoch, dass du zunächst eine Kopie deiner Änderungen machst.
Weitere Folgen:
Im Hintergrund ablaufende Prozesse (eingebundene Skripte beispielsweise) werden langsamer als sonst ablaufen, einige werden möglicherweise gar nicht ausgeführt. Es kann vorkommen, dass Rotlinks nicht so schnell wie üblich aktualisiert werden. Falls du einen Artikel erstellst, der bereits an einer anderen Stelle verlinkt ist, dann wird der Link an dieser Stelle länger rot bleiben als üblich. Einige lang laufende Skripte werden wir stoppen müssen.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass die Codebereitstellung wie in jeder anderen Woche erfolgen wird. Allerdings kann es von Fall zu Fall zu einem Code-Freeze kommen, wenn der Vorgang dies erfordert.
GitLab wird für etwa 90 Minuten nicht verfügbar sein.
Falls nötig, kann der Test verschoben werden. Der Zeitplan istunter wikitech.wikimedia.org zu finden. Einzelheiten sind dem Plan zu entnehmen. Weitere Benachrichtigungen folgen. Auf allen Wikis wird es 30Minuten im Voraus einen Banner geben.Bitte gib diese Benachrichtigung an deine Community weiter!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine andUkrainian Institute, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receiveprizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up abanner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
Möchtest du bei der Wikimania 2023 eine Sitzung vor Ort oder virtuell anbieten? Vielleicht ein praktischer Workshop, eine lebhafte Diskussion, ein unterhaltsamer Auftritt, ein einprägsames Poster oder ein denkwürdiger Kurzvortrag?Programmeinreichungen sind bis zum 28. März möglich. Die Veranstaltung wird spezielle hybride Teile haben, sodass virtuelle Programmeinreichungen und vorab aufgezeichnete Inhalte ebenfalls willkommen sind. Wenn du Fragen hast, nimm bitte an einem der bevorstehenden Gespräch am 12. oder 19. März teil oder wende dich per E-Mail an wikimania@wikimedia.org oder über Telegram an uns. Weitere Informationen finden sich im Wiki.
DieWikimedia-Foundation testet den Wechsel zwischen ihrem ersten und dem Ersatz-Rechenzentrum. Dadurch sollen Wikipedia und die anderen Wikimedia-Wikis auch nach einem Notfall erreichbar bleiben. Um sicherzustellen, dass alles funktioniert, muss der Wechsel zwischen den Servern getestet werden. Dieser Test wird zeigen, ob sicher von einem auf das andere Rechenzentrum umgeschaltet werden kann. Dafür benötigt es viele Teams, die den Test vorbereiten und die bereitstehen, um unerwartet auftretende Probleme zu beheben.
Der gesamte Datenverkehr wird am26. April 2023 umgeleitet. Der Test wird um14:00 UTC beginnen.
Leider können aufgrund einiger Einschränkungen derMediaWiki-Software keine Bearbeitungen vorgenommen werden, während die Umschaltung duchgeführt wird. Wir entschuldigen uns für diese Unterbrechung, und wir werden uns bemühen, derartige Einschränkungen in der Zukunft auf ein Minimum zu beschränken.
Für eine kurze Zeit können zwar alle Wikis gelesen, aber nicht bearbeitet werden.
Am26. April 2023 wird bis zu einer Stunde lang das Bearbeiten nicht möglich sein.
In dieser Zeit wird beim Versuch, Bearbeitungen zu speichern, eine Fehlermeldung ausgegeben. Wir hoffen, dass dadurch keine Bearbeitungen verloren gehen, können das aber leider nicht garantieren. Falls eine Fehlermeldung erscheint, warte bitte, bis alles wieder normal ist. Dann sollte es möglich sein, die Bearbeitungen zu speichern. Sicherheitshalber empfehlen wir jedoch, dass du zunächst eine Kopie deiner Änderungen machst.
Weitere Folgen:
Im Hintergrund ablaufende Prozesse (eingebundene Skripte beispielsweise) werden langsamer als sonst ablaufen, einige werden möglicherweise gar nicht ausgeführt. Es kann vorkommen, dass Rotlinks nicht so schnell wie üblich aktualisiert werden. Falls du einen Artikel erstellst, der bereits an einer anderen Stelle verlinkt ist, dann wird der Link an dieser Stelle länger rot bleiben als üblich. Einige lang laufende Skripte werden wir stoppen müssen.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass die Codebereitstellung wie in jeder anderen Woche erfolgen wird. Allerdings kann es von Fall zu Fall zu einem Code-Freeze kommen, wenn der Vorgang dies erfordert.
GitLab wird für etwa 90 Minuten nicht verfügbar sein.
Falls nötig, kann der Test verschoben werden. Der Zeitplan istunter wikitech.wikimedia.org zu finden. Einzelheiten sind dem Plan zu entnehmen. Weitere Benachrichtigungen folgen. Auf allen Wikis wird es 30Minuten im Voraus einen Banner geben.Bitte gib diese Benachrichtigung an deine Community weiter!
As follow-up tothe message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
Community members in good standing
Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please eithersign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023.Read more on Meta-Wiki.
Der nächste Schritt im Prozess des universellen Verhaltenskodex ist die Zusammenstellung eines Aufbaukomitees, das die Charta für das Koordinationskomitee des universellen Verhaltenskodex (U4C) erstellt. Das Aufbaukomitee wurde nun ausgewählt.Lies mehr über die Mitglieder und die bevorstehende Arbeit im Meta-Wiki.
We are glad to announcethe new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. TheElections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.
Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
DieDurchsetzungsleitlinien erfordern einAufbaukomitee, das eine Charter entwirft, in der Abläufe und Details für ein globales Komitee namensKoordinationskomitee des universellen Verhaltenskodex (U4C) enthalten sind. Im Lauf der vergangenen Monate hat das U4C-Aufbaukomitee als Gruppe zusammengearbeitet, um die U4C-Charter zu besprechen und zu entwerfen. Das U4C-Aufbaukomitee freut sich über Feedback zum Entwurf der Charter bis zum 22. September 2023. Nach diesem Datum wird das U4C-Aufbaukomitee die Charter nach Bedarf überarbeiten und im Anschluss wird eine Community-Abstimmung gestartet.
DieWikimedia-Foundation wird den Datenverkehr zwischen ihren Rechenzentren wechseln. Dadurch sollen Wikipedia und die anderen Wikimedia-Wikis auch nach einem Notfall erreichbar bleiben. Um sicherzustellen, dass alles funktioniert, muss der Wechsel zwischen den Servern getestet werden. Dieser Test wird zeigen, ob sicher von einem auf das andere Rechenzentrum umgeschaltet werden kann. Dafür benötigt es viele Teams, die den Test vorbereiten und die bereitstehen, um unerwartet auftretende Probleme zu beheben.
Der gesamte Datenverkehr wird am20. September 2023 umgeleitet. Der Test wird um14:00 UTC beginnen.
Leider können aufgrund einiger Einschränkungen derMediaWiki-Software keine Bearbeitungen vorgenommen werden, während die Umschaltung duchgeführt wird. Wir entschuldigen uns für diese Unterbrechung, und wir werden uns bemühen, derartige Einschränkungen in der Zukunft auf ein Minimum zu beschränken.
Für eine kurze Zeit können zwar alle Wikis gelesen, aber nicht bearbeitet werden.
Am20. September 2023 wird bis zu einer Stunde lang das Bearbeiten nicht möglich sein.
In dieser Zeit wird beim Versuch, Bearbeitungen zu speichern, eine Fehlermeldung ausgegeben. Wir hoffen, dass dadurch keine Bearbeitungen verloren gehen, können das aber leider nicht garantieren. Falls eine Fehlermeldung erscheint, warte bitte, bis alles wieder normal ist. Dann sollte es möglich sein, die Bearbeitungen zu speichern. Sicherheitshalber empfehlen wir jedoch, dass du zunächst eine Kopie deiner Änderungen machst.
Weitere Folgen:
Im Hintergrund ablaufende Prozesse (eingebundene Skripte beispielsweise) werden langsamer als sonst ablaufen, einige werden möglicherweise gar nicht ausgeführt. Es kann vorkommen, dass Rotlinks nicht so schnell wie üblich aktualisiert werden. Falls du einen Artikel erstellst, der bereits an einer anderen Stelle verlinkt ist, dann wird der Link an dieser Stelle länger rot bleiben als üblich. Einige lang laufende Skripte werden wir stoppen müssen.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass die Codebereitstellung wie in jeder anderen Woche erfolgen wird. Allerdings kann es von Fall zu Fall zu einem Code-Freeze kommen, wenn der Vorgang dies erfordert.
GitLab wird für etwa 90 Minuten nicht verfügbar sein.
Falls nötig, kann der Test verschoben werden. Der Zeitplan istunter wikitech.wikimedia.org zu finden. Einzelheiten sind dem Plan zu entnehmen. Weitere Benachrichtigungen folgen. Auf allen Wikis wird 30 Minuten im Voraus einen Banner erscheinen.Bitte gib diese Benachrichtigung an deine Community weiter!
Hi everyone! TheAffiliations Committee (AffCom),Ombuds commission (OC), and theCase Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on theMeta-wiki page.
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.More on the Meta-wiki page.
Eine neue Funktion wird bald in deinem Wiki eingeführt: Vorschauen für Einzelnachweise sind Popups für Einzelnachweise. Solche Popups gab es in Wikis für viele Jahre als lokale Helferleins. Nun gibt es eine zentrale Lösung, die in allen Wikis verfügbar und konsistent mit derSeitenvorschau-Funktion ist.
Vorschauen für Einzelnachweise weden für alle sichtbar sein, auch für Leser. Wenn du sie nicht sehen möchtest,kannst du sie deaktivieren. Wenn dudie Helferleins Tooltips für Einzelnachweise oder Navigations-Popups nutzt, wirst du die Vorschauen für Einzelnachweise nicht sehen, sofern du das Helferlein nicht deaktivierst.
Vorschauen für Einzelnachweise waren seit 2019 eine Beta-Funktion in vielen Wikis und seit 2021 eine Standard-Funktion in einigen davon. Die Einführung ist für den 22. November geplant.
Seit September 2022 ist es möglich, Geopunkte mithilfe einer QID zu erstellen. Viele Autoren haben sich diese Funktion gewünscht, jedoch wird sie wenig genutzt. Daher möchten wir dich daran erinnern. Weitere Informationen finden sich auf derProjektseite. Wenn du Anmerkungen dazu hast, teile sie uns bitte auf derDiskussionsseite mit. – Beste Grüße, das Team Technische Wünsche bei Wikimedia Deutschland
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Hello, theWikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in thisRegistration form. Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we wouldcompensate you for your time.
For more information, visit ourproject issue page where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview. We look forward to speaking with you,Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning tomake reusing references easier. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.
The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen.More information here.
Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
You are humbly invited to organize theFeminism and Folklore 2024 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with aWiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a campaign onCampWiz tool.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include theArticle List Generator by Topic andCampWiz. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on ourproject page. Feel free to contact us on ourmeta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
Dear Wiki Community,You are humbly invited to participate in theWiki Loves Folklore 2024 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the1st till the 31st of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, andsubmitting them in this commons contest.
You can alsoorganize a local contest in your country and support us in translating theproject pages to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on ourproject Talk page if you need any assistance.
danke für das Interesse an der Entwicklung des universellen Verhaltenskodex. Ich möchte hiermit die Ergebnisse derAbstimmung zur Ratifizierung derSatzung des UCoC-Koordinationskomitees ankündigen. 1746 Beitragende haben an dieser Abstimmung teilgenommen, wovon 1249 Abstimmende der Satzung zustimmen und 420 Abstimmende sie ablehnen. Im Rahmen der Ratifizierung war es Abstimmenden möglich, Kommentare zur Satzung abzugeben.
Ein Bericht mit Statistiken zur Abstimmung und einer Zusammenfassung der Kommentare wird in den kommenden Wochen im Meta-Wiki veröffentlicht werden.
Wir werden bald über die nächsten Schritte berichten!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with theMFA of Ukraine andUkrainian Institute, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up abanner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk)
Der Bericht zur Ratifizierung der U4C-Satzung und zur U4C-Bewerbung ist jetzt verfügbar
DasKoordinationskomitee des universellen Verhaltenskodex (U4C) ist eine globale Gruppe, die für eine gerechte und konsequente Umsetzung des Verhaltenskodex sorgen soll. Communitymitglieder sind eingeladen, sich für das U4C zu bewerben. Weitere Informationen zum U4C sind in derSatzung zu finden.
Gemäß der Satzung hat das U4C 16 Sitze: acht für die Gesamtcommunity und acht regional verteilte, um sicherzustellen, dass das U4C die Diversität des Movements widerspiegelt.
ImMeta-Wiki gibt es mehr Informationen. Dort werden auch die Bewerbungen entgegengenommen.
In diesem Jahr endet die Amtszeit von vier (4) Trustees im Board of Trustees der Wikimedia Foundation, die von Affiliates und der Community gewählt wurden [1]. Das Board of Trustees lädt das gesamte Movement ein, am diesjährigen Auswahlprozess teilzunehmen und über die freigewordenen Sitze abzustimmen.
DasWahlkomitee wird diesen Prozess mit Unterstützung von Angestellten der Foundation beaufsichtigen [2]. Das Komitee für Board Governance hat eine Arbeitsgruppe für die Board-Auswahl ins Leben gerufen, die aus Trustees besteht, die im diesjährigen Auswahlprozess für Community und Affiliates nicht kandidieren können: Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra’a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins und Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. Diese Gruppe hat die Aufgabe, den Trustee-Auswahlprozess 2024 für das Board zu überwachen und dieses darüber zu informieren. Mehr Details zu den Rollen des Wahlkomitees, des Boards und der Angestellten gibt es hier [4].
Das sind die wichtigsten geplanten Daten:
Mai 2024: Aufruf zur Bewerbung und zum Stellen von Fragen
Juni 2024: Affiliates stimmen ab, um eine Shortlist aus zwölf Personen zu bestimmen (es gibt keine Shortlist, wenn sich 15 oder weniger Personen bewerben) [5]
Juni–August 2024: Kampagne
Ende August / Anfang September 2024: zweiwöchige Abstimmung durch die Community
Oktober–November 2024: Hintergrundüberprüfung der gewählten Personen
Board-Sitzung im Dezember 2024: Einführung der neuen Trustees
Du kannst aufdieser Seite im Meta-Wiki den genauen Zeitplan, das Bewerbungsverfahren, die Regeln für die Kampagne und die Kriterien für Wahlberechtigung ansehen und deine Pläne entsprechend ausrichten.
Freiwillige Wahlhelfer:innen
Eine weitere Möglichkeit, sich am Auswahlprozess 2024 zu beteiligen, ist die Teilnahme als freiwillige:r Wahlhelfer:in. Diese Freiwilligen sind Verbindungspersonen zwischen dem Wahlkomitee und ihren jeweiligen Communitys. Sie helfen dabei, sicherzustellen, dass ihre Communitys vertreten sind, und rufen diese zur Wahl auf. Erfahreauf dieser Seite im Meta-wiki mehr über das Programm und wie du teilnehmen kannst.
Beste Grüße
Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Arbeitsgruppe für die Board-Auswahl)
[5] Auch wenn die ideale Anzahl zwölf Kandidierende für vier freie Sitze sind, wird das Shortlist-Verfahren nur angewendet, wenn mehr als 15 Personen zur Auswahl stehen, da sich ansonsten die ein bis drei Kandidierenden, die es nicht durch das Verfahren schaffen, ausgeschlossen fühlen könnten und der Aufwand für die Affiliates im Verhältnis zur kleinen Anzahl sehr groß wäre.
DieWikimedia-Foundation wird den Datenverkehr zwischen ihren Rechenzentren wechseln. Dadurch sollen Wikipedia und die anderen Wikimedia-Wikis auch nach einem Notfall erreichbar bleiben.
Der gesamte Datenverkehr wird am20. März 2024 umgeleitet. Der Test wird um14:00 UTC (15:00 MEZ) beginnen.
Leider können aufgrund einiger Einschränkungen derMediaWiki-Software keine Bearbeitungen vorgenommen werden, während die Umschaltung duchgeführt wird. Wir entschuldigen uns für diese Unterbrechung, und wir werden uns bemühen, derartige Einschränkungen in der Zukunft auf ein Minimum zu beschränken.
Für eine kurze Zeit können zwar alle Wikis gelesen, aber nicht bearbeitet werden.
Am20. März 2024 wird bis zu einer Stunde lang das Bearbeiten nicht möglich sein.
In dieser Zeit wird beim Versuch, Bearbeitungen zu speichern, eine Fehlermeldung ausgegeben. Wir hoffen, dass dadurch keine Bearbeitungen verloren gehen, können das aber leider nicht garantieren. Falls eine Fehlermeldung erscheint, warte bitte, bis alles wieder normal ist. Dann sollte es möglich sein, die Bearbeitungen zu speichern. Sicherheitshalber empfehlen wir jedoch, dass du zunächst eine Kopie deiner Änderungen machst.
Weitere Folgen:
Im Hintergrund ablaufende Prozesse (eingebundene Skripte beispielsweise) werden langsamer als sonst ablaufen, einige werden möglicherweise gar nicht ausgeführt. Es kann vorkommen, dass Rotlinks nicht so schnell wie üblich aktualisiert werden. Falls du einen Artikel erstellst, der bereits an einer anderen Stelle verlinkt ist, dann wird der Link an dieser Stelle länger rot bleiben als üblich. Einige lang laufende Skripte werden wir stoppen müssen.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass die Codebereitstellung wie in jeder anderen Woche erfolgen wird. Allerdings kann es von Fall zu Fall zu einem Code-Freeze kommen, wenn der Vorgang dies erfordert.
GitLab wird für etwa 90 Minuten nicht verfügbar sein.
Falls nötig, kann der Test verschoben werden. Der Zeitplan istunter wikitech.wikimedia.org zu finden. Einzelheiten sind dem Plan zu entnehmen. Weitere Benachrichtigungen folgen. Auf allen Wikis wird 30 Minuten im Voraus einen Banner erscheinen.Bitte gib diese Benachrichtigung an deine Community weiter!
ich schreibe euch, um anzukündigen, dass die Abstimmungsphase für das Koordinationskomitee des universellen Verhaltenskodex (U4C) begonnen hat und bis zum 9. Mai 2024 läuft. Auf derWahlseite im Meta-Wiki könnt ihr mehr über die Wahl und die Wahlberechtigung erfahren.
Das Koordinationskomitee des universellen Verhaltenskodex (U4C) ist eine globale Gruppe, die sich für eine gerechte und konsequente Umsetzung des UCoC einsetzt. Communitymitglieder waren eingeladen, sich für das U4C zu bewerben. Mehr Informationen über das U4C und seine Aufgaben sind inder U4C-Satzung zu finden.
Bitte teile diese Nachricht mit Mitgliedern deiner Community, sodass sie sich auch beteiligen können.
Das nächste Sprachengemeinschaftstreffen ist für in ein paar Wochen geplant - den 31. Mai um 16:00 Uhr UTC. Solltest du Interessse haben, kannst du dichauf dieser Wiki-Seite anmelden.
Es handelt sich um ein teilnehmerorientiertes Treffen, bei dem wir sprachspezifische Neuigkeiten zu verschiedenen Projekten teilen, gemeinsam technische Probleme der Sprach-Wikis diskutieren und zusammenarbeiten um mögliche Lösungen zu finden. Themen des letzten Treffens waren beispielsweise der maschinelle Übersetzungsdienst (MinT) und die Sprachen und Modelle die davon unterstützt werden, Lokalisierungsbemühungen des Kiwix-Teams und technische Schwierigkeiten mit numerischer Sortierung in Dateien, die in der bengalischen Wikisource genutzt werden.
Hast du Ideen für Themen, zu denen du technische Neuigkeiten zu deinem Projekt teilen möchtest? Irgendwelche Probleme, die du gerne während dem Treffen diskutieren möchtest? Benötigst du Dolmetscherunterstützung vom Englischen in eine andere Sprache? Bitte melde dich bei mir unter ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org undfüge Dinge für die Agenda zu diesem Dokument hinzu.
Ihr könnt die Details aufdieser Seite finden, sowie Möglichkeiten, um eure Rückmeldung von heute bis zum Ende des23. Juni 2024 anywhere on Earth (entspricht dem 24. Juni 2024 14:00 Uhr MESZ) abzugeben.
Ihr könnt Informationen hierüber auch mit interessierten Projektgemeinschaften, mit denen ihr arbeitet oder die ihr unterstützt, teilen und ihr könnt uns auch dabei helfen diese Prozedur in mehr Sprachen zu übersetzen, damit die Leute der Diskussion mit ihrer eigenen Sprache beitreten können.
Vielen Dank erneut an alle, die an diesem Prozess teilgenommen haben und viel Anerkennung an die Kandidaten für eure Führung und euer Engagement für die Wikimediabewegung und -gemeinschaft.
Über die nächsten Wochen wird das U4C damit anfangen, sich zu treffen und das Jahr 2024-25 zu planen, um die Umsetzung und Überprüfung des universellen Verhaltenskodex (UCoC) und der Durchsetzungsrichtlinien zu unterstützen. Verfolge ihre Arbeit imMeta-Wiki.
Der endgültige Text derCharta der Wikimedia-Bewegung ist jetzt auf Meta in mehr als 20 Sprachen zur Durchsicht verfügbar.
Was ist die Charta der Wikimedia-Bewegung?
Die Charta der Wikimedia-Bewegung ist ein vorgeschlagenes Dokument, in dem die Rollen und Zuständigkeiten aller Mitglieder und Bestandteile der Wikimedia-Bewegung definiert werden sollen, inklusive der Schaffung eines neuen Gremiums – des Globalen Rats – zur Leitung des Movements.
Nimm an der „Launchparty“ der Charta der Wikimedia-Bewegung teil
Nimm am20. Juni 2024 um14:00–15:00 UTC (in deiner Zeitzone) an der„Launchparty“ teil. Während dieses Videogesprächs werden wir die Veröffentlichung der endgültigen Version der Charta feiern und ihren Inhalt präsentieren. Beteilige dich und erfahre mehr über die Charta, bevor du deine Stimme abgibst.
Abstimmung zur Ratifizierung der Charta der Wikimedia-Bewegung
Die Abstimmung, um dieCharta der Wikimedia-Bewegung zu ratifizieren, hat begonnen. Die Charta der Wikimedia-Bewegung ist ein Dokument, in dem die Rollen und Zuständigkeiten aller Mitglieder und Bestandteile der Wikimedia-Bewegung definiert werden sollen, inklusive der Schaffung eines neuen Gremiums – des Globalen Rats – zur Leitung des Movements.
Apologies, as this message is not in your native language;Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.
TheWMF Language team proposes to enable the Section and Content translation tool by default to your Wikipedia if there are no objections from members of your community. TheSection Translation extends the capabilities ofContent Translation to support mobile devices. Below is background information about the tools and how to test the Section translation tool.
Background information
Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. More than one million articles have been created across all languages since the tool was released in 2015. However, the tool is not out of beta in Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, limiting the discoverability of the tool and its use and blocking the enablement of the Section translation in your Wikipedia.
Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:
Guide you to translate one section at a time to expand existing articles or create new ones
Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device
So, we will enable the tools on Pennsylvania German Wikipedia by July 11th, 2024, if there are no objections from your community.
Try the Section translation tool
Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool inour testing instance. Once it is enabled in your Wikipedia, you’ll have access tohttps://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation with your mobile device. You can select an article and translate it from scratch. Currently, there is no machine translation support for your Wikipedia. Often, this is due to the lack of parallel data to train translation models for your language. Considering that making translations of Wikipedia articles isa way to generate such parallel corpora, we consider that enabling these tools by default for visibility and more use can benefit your language.
Request for feedback
Please provide feedback about the Section translation in this thread or onthis project talk page. We want to hear about your impressions on
The section translation tool
What do you think about our plans to enable it
Your ideas for improving the tool
Thanks, and we look forward to your feedback and questions.
Hiermit möchten wir freundlich daran erinnern, dass die Abstimmungsphase zur Ratifizierung derCharta der Wikimedia-Bewegung am9. Juli 2024 um23:59 UTC endet.
Falls du noch nicht abgestimmt hast, hole das bitteauf SecurePoll nach.
A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.
TheUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of theUCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review theU4C Charter.
In this special election, according tochapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C:four community-at-large seats andfive regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.
Read more and submit your application onMeta-wiki.
Nachdem dieWahlkommission alle Stimmen ausgezählt hat in der individuellen Abstimmung und in der Affiliateabstimmung, wird hiermit das Ergebnis verkündet.
Wie bereitsauf Meta verkündet, wurden für beide Abstimmungen die Quoren erreicht vor Wahlende am9. Juli, 23:59 UTC. Wir danken allen 2.451 Teilnehmern in der individuellen Abstimmung und den 129 Vertretern der Affiliates die teilnahmen. Eure Voten und Kommentare sind wertvoll für künftige Schritte bezüglich der Movementstrategie.
Die endgüligen Ergebnisse der Ratifizierung derMovementcharter, die zwischen dem 25. Juni und 9. Juli 2024 stattfand, sind folgendermaßen:
Individuelle Abstimmung / (Communityabstimmung)
Von den 2.451 Personen die abstimmten bis zum 9. July 23:59 (UTC), gab es 2.446 gültige Stimmen. Darunter1.710 mal "Ja";623 mal "Nein"; und113 mal "-" (Neutral). Da die neutralen Voten nicht mitzählen, liegt die Zustimmungsrate bei 73,30% (1719/2333), während 26,70% die Charter ablehnten (623/2333).
Von den 129 Personen die von den Affiliates designiert wurden, stimmten alle 129 bis zum 9. July 23:59 (UTC) ab. Es gab 129 gültige Stimmen. Darunter93 mal "Ja";18 mal "Nein"; und ebenfalls18 mal "-" (Neutral). Da die neutralen Voten nicht mitzählen, liegt die Zustimmungsrate bei 83,78% (93/111), während 16,22% die Charter ablehnten (18/111).
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now throughAugust 10, 2024. Read the information on thevoting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, pleasereview the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information onthe voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
Hallo. Seit vielen Jahren wünschen sich Communitymitglieder einen unkomplizierten Weg, Einzelnachweise mit unterschiedlichen Details wiederzuverwenden. Nun kommt eine MediaWiki-Lösung: Die neue Subreferenzierungsfunktion wird das bestehende Einzelnachweissystem ergänzen und im Wikitext sowie im Visual Editor funktionieren. Ihr könnt weiterhin andere Arten von Einzelnachweisen nutzen, aber werdet womöglich Subreferenzen in Artikeln anderer Autor*innen sehen. Mehr Informationenauf der Projektseite.
Wir wollen euer Feedback, damit das Feature optimal für euch funktioniert:
Tragt euch hier ein, um Updates zum Projekt zu bekommen und/oder Einladung zu Tests mit Nutzer*innen zu erhalten.
DasTechnische-Wünsche-Team vonWikimedia Deutschland plant, die neue Funktion gegen Jahresende in Wikimediaprojekten zu veröffentlichen. Zuvor werden wir Entwickler*innen von Tools und Vorlagen mit Bezug zu Einzelnachweisen Bescheid geben.
Bitte helft uns, die Neuerung bekannt zu machen. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you cansign up on this wiki page.
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the documenthere and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work onMeta-Wiki.
Wenn du so weit bist, auf dieSecurePoll-Wahlseite wechseln, um abzustimmen.Die Abstimmungsphase beginnt am 3. September um 00:00 UTC und endet am 17. September um 23:59 UTC.
DieWikimedia-Foundation wird den Datenverkehr zwischen ihren Rechenzentren wechseln. Dadurch sollen Wikipedia und die anderen Wikimedia-Wikis auch nach einem Notfall erreichbar bleiben.
Der gesamte Datenverkehr wird am25. September 2024 umgeleitet. Der Test wird um15:00 UTC (17:00 MESZ) beginnen.
Leider können aufgrund einiger Einschränkungen derMediaWiki-Software keine Bearbeitungen vorgenommen werden, während die Umschaltung duchgeführt wird. Wir entschuldigen uns für diese Unterbrechung, und wir werden uns bemühen, derartige Einschränkungen in der Zukunft auf ein Minimum zu beschränken.
Auf allen Wikis wird 30 Minuten im Voraus ein Banner erscheinen. Dieses Banner bleibt bis zum Ende des Vorgangs sichtbar.
Für eine kurze Zeit können zwar alle Wikis gelesen, aber nicht bearbeitet werden.
Am25. September 2024 wird bis zu eine Stunde lang das Bearbeiten nicht möglich sein.
In dieser Zeit wird beim Versuch, Bearbeitungen zu speichern, eine Fehlermeldung ausgegeben. Wir hoffen, dass dadurch keine Bearbeitungen verloren gehen, können das aber leider nicht garantieren. Falls eine Fehlermeldung erscheint, warte bitte, bis alles wieder normal ist. Dann sollte es möglich sein, die Bearbeitungen zu speichern. Sicherheitshalber empfehlen wir jedoch, dass du zunächst eine Kopie deiner Änderungen machst.
Weitere Folgen:
Im Hintergrund ablaufende Prozesse (eingebundene Skripte beispielsweise) werden langsamer als sonst ablaufen, einige werden möglicherweise gar nicht ausgeführt. Es kann vorkommen, dass Rotlinks nicht so schnell wie üblich aktualisiert werden. Falls du einen Artikel erstellst, der bereits an einer anderen Stelle verlinkt ist, dann wird der Link an dieser Stelle länger rot bleiben als üblich. Einige lang laufende Skripte werden wir stoppen müssen.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass die Codebereitstellung wie in jeder anderen Woche erfolgen wird. Allerdings kann es von Fall zu Fall zu einem Code-Freeze kommen, wenn der Vorgang dies erfordert.
GitLab wird für etwa 90 Minuten nicht verfügbar sein.
Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.Moddel:Tracked
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.TheWikidata itemsitelink currently found under theGeneral section of theTools sidebar menu will move into theIn Other Projects section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on theDiscussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.More information can be found onthe project page.
Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.We are excited to announce the upcomingWiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
TheContribute entry point is based on collaborative work with other product teams in the Wikimedia Foundation onEdit discovery, which validated the entry point as a persistent and constant path that contributors took to discover ways to contribute content in Wikipedia.
Therefore, enabling this entry point in your Wikipedia will help contributors quickly discover available tools and immediately click to start using them. This entry point is designed to be a central point for discovering contribution tools in Pennsylvania German Wikipedia.
Who can access it
Once it is enabled in your Wikipedia, newcomers can access the entry point automatically by just logging into their account, click on the User drop-down menu and choose the "Contribute" icon, which takes you to another menu where you will find a self-guided description of what you can do to contribute content, as shown in the image below. An option to "view contributions" is also available to access the list of your contributions.
For experienced contributors, the Contribute icon is not automatically shown in their User drop-down menu. They will still see the "Contributions" option unless they change it to the "Contribute" manually.
This feature is available in four Wikipedia (Albanian, Malayalam, Mongolian, and Tagalog). We have gotten valuable feedback that helped us improve its discoverability. Now, it is ready to be enabled in other Wikis. One major improvement was tomake the entry point optional for experienced contributors who still want to have the "Contributions" entry point as default.
We plan to enable iton mobile for Wikis, where the Section translation tool is enabled. In this way, we will provide a main entry point to the mobile translation dashboard, and the exposure can still be limited by targeting only the mobile platform for now. If there are no objections to having the entry point for mobile users from your community, we will enable it by 24th October 2024.
We welcome your feedback and questions in this thread on our proposal to enable it here. Suppose there are no objections, we will deploy the "Contribute" entry point in your Wikipedia.
Diese Kandidierenden haben die meisten Stimmen erhalten, müssen aber noch ins Kuratorium berufen werden. Dafür müssen sie erfolgreich eine Hintergrundüberprüfung durchlaufen und alle Kriterien erfüllen, die in den Statuten genannt werden. Die neuen Kuratoriumsmitglieder werden bei der nächsten Sitzung des Kuratoriums im Dezember 2024 ernannt.
Die Bewerbungsphase für die Komitees startet am 16. Oktober 2024. Sie endet für das Affiliations-Komitee am 18. November 2024 und für die Ombudskommission sowie das Fallprüfungskomitee am 2. Dezember 2024. Erfahre, wie du dich bewirbst, indem dudie Ernennungsseite im Meta-Wiki besuchst. Bitte melde dich mit etwaigen Fragen auf der Diskussionsseite oder über E-Mail ancst@wikimedia.org.
Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that theWikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from theGeneral section into theIn Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2.Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE)07:28, 22. Okt. 2024 (EDT)[Beantworten]
Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success
We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.
Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!
Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
We’re happy to announce the launch ofWiki Loves Ramadan 2025, an annual international campaign dedicated to celebrating and preserving Islamic cultures and history through the power of Wikipedia. As an active contributor to the Local Wikipedia, you are specially invited to participate in the launch.
This year’s campaign will be launched for you to join us write, edit, and improve articles that showcase the richness and diversity of Islamic traditions, history, and culture.
To get started, visit thecampaign page for details, resources, and guidelines: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025.
Addyour community here, and organized Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your local language.
Whether you’re a first-time editor or an experienced Wikipedian, your contributions matter. Together, we can ensure Islamic cultures and traditions are well-represented and accessible to all.
Feel free to invite your community and friends too. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or need support as you prepare to participate.
My apologies for writing in English.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.
I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta.
You are humbly invited to organize theFeminism and Folklore 2025 writing competition from February 1, 2025, to March 31, 2025 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with aWiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a campaign onCampWiz tool.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include theArticle List Generator by Topic andCampWiz. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on ourproject page. Feel free to contact us on ourmeta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
Dear Wiki Community,You are humbly invited to participate in theWiki Loves Folklore 2025 an international media contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the1st till the 31st of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, andsubmitting them in this commons contest.
You can alsoorganize a local contest in your country and support us in translating theproject pages to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on ourproject Talk page if you need any assistance.
My apologies for writing in English.Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.
This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes throughthe end of day, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
Wir freuen uns, ankündigen zu können, dass das nächsteTreffen des Sprachkomitees bald stattfindet, am28. Februar um 14:00 UTC! Wenn du teilnehmen möchtest, melde dich einfach über dieWikiseite an.
Dies ist ein von den Teilnehmenden angetriebenes Treffen, bei dem wir Neuigkeiten zu sprachbezogenen Projekten austauschen, über technische Herausforderungen in Sprach-Wikis sprechen und gemeinsam an Lösungen arbeiten. In unserem letzten Treffen haben wir Themen wie die Entwicklung von Sprachtastaturen, den Start der Mòoré-Wikipedia und Neuigkeiten aus den Veranstaltungen zur Sprachunterstützung auf der Wiki Indaba behandelt.
Du hast ein Thema, das du einbringen möchtest? Egal, ob es um technische Neuigkeiten aus deinem Projekt, eine Herausforderung, bei der du Hilfe suchst, oder eine Anfrage um Simultanübersetzung geht, wir freuen uns, von dir zu hören! Du kannst gerneauf diese Nachricht antworten oder Tagesordnungspunkte zudiesem Dokument hinzufügen.
Außerdem wollten wir darauf hinweisen, dass die sechste Ausgabe des Newsletters „Sprache und Internationalisierung“ (Januar 2025) verfügbar ist:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January. Dieser Newsletter enthält Informationen aus dem Quartal Oktober-Dezember 2024 über die Entwicklung neuer Funktionen, Verbesserungen verschiedener sprachbezogener technischer Projekte und Unterstützungsmaßnahmen, Details über Communitytreffen und Ideen für das Beitragen zu Projekten. Um auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben, kannst du den Newsletter über seine Wiki-Seite abonnieren:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter.
Wir freuen uns auf deine Ideen und deine Teilnahme am Treffen des Sprachkomitees, bis bald!
Apologies as this message is not in your language,Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.
TheLanguage and Product Localization team has improved theContent Translation dashboard to create a consistent experience for all contributors using mobile and desktop devices. The improved translation dashboard allows all logged-in users of the tool to enjoy a consistent experience regardless of their type of device.
With a harmonized experience, logged-in desktop users now have access to the capabilities shown in the image below.
Notice that in this screenshot, the new dashboard allows: Users to adjust suggestions with the "For you" and "...More" buttons to select general topics or community-created collections (like the example of Climate topic). Also, users can use translation to create new articles (as before) and expand existing articles section by section. You can see how suggestions are provided in the new dashboard in two groups ("Create new pages" and "Expand with new sections")-one for each activity.In the current dashboard, you will notice that you can't adjust suggestions to select topics or community-created collections. Also, you can't expand on existing articles by translating new sections.
We will implementthis improvement on your wikion Monday, March 17th, 2025 and remove the current dashboardby May 2025.Please reach out with any questions concerning the dashboard in this thread.
Thank you!
On behalf of the Language and Product Localization team.
DieWikimedia-Foundation wird den Datenverkehr zwischen ihren Rechenzentren wechseln. Dadurch sollen Wikipedia und die anderen Wikimedia-Wikis auch nach einem Notfall erreichbar bleiben.
Der gesamte Datenverkehr wird am19. März 2025 umgeleitet. Der Test wird um14:00 UTC (15:00 MESZ) beginnen.
Leider können aufgrund einiger Einschränkungen derMediaWiki-Software keine Bearbeitungen vorgenommen werden, während die Umschaltung duchgeführt wird. Wir entschuldigen uns für diese Unterbrechung, und wir werden uns bemühen, derartige Einschränkungen in der Zukunft auf ein Minimum zu beschränken.
Auf allen Wikis wird 30 Minuten im Voraus ein Banner erscheinen. Dieses Banner bleibt bis zum Ende des Vorgangs sichtbar.
Für eine kurze Zeit können zwar alle Wikis gelesen, aber nicht bearbeitet werden.
Am19. März 2025 wird bis zu eine Stunde lang das Bearbeiten nicht möglich sein.
In dieser Zeit wird beim Versuch, Bearbeitungen zu speichern, eine Fehlermeldung ausgegeben. Wir hoffen, dass dadurch keine Bearbeitungen verloren gehen, können das aber leider nicht garantieren. Falls eine Fehlermeldung erscheint, warte bitte, bis alles wieder normal ist. Dann sollte es möglich sein, die Bearbeitungen zu speichern. Sicherheitshalber empfehlen wir jedoch, dass du zunächst eine Kopie deiner Änderungen machst.
Weitere Folgen:
Im Hintergrund ablaufende Prozesse (eingebundene Skripte beispielsweise) werden langsamer als sonst ablaufen, einige werden möglicherweise gar nicht ausgeführt. Es kann vorkommen, dass Rotlinks nicht so schnell wie üblich aktualisiert werden. Falls du einen Artikel erstellst, der bereits an einer anderen Stelle verlinkt ist, dann wird der Link an dieser Stelle länger rot bleiben als üblich. Einige lang laufende Skripte werden wir stoppen müssen.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass die Codebereitstellung wie in jeder anderen Woche erfolgen wird. Allerdings kann es von Fall zu Fall zu einem Code-Freeze kommen, wenn der Vorgang dies erfordert.
GitLab wird für etwa 90 Minuten nicht verfügbar sein.
The proposed modifications to theUniversal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and the U4C Charterare now on Meta-wiki for community notice in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted onthe wiki page for the election soon.
Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with theMFA of Ukraine andUkrainian Institute, has launched the fifth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from14th April until16th May 2025. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design, and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contributions in every language!
The most active contesters will receive prizes.
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up abanner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk)
12:11, 16. Abr. 2025 (EDT)
Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
TheUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you mayreview the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
Get a sneak peak and help shape theVisual Editor user designs
Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions –sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will startMay 14th.
We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.
Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!
DasUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ist eine globale Gruppe, die sich für eine gerechte und einheitliche Umsetzung des UCoC einsetzt. Diese jährliche Überprüfung wurde vom U4C geplant und durchgeführt. Weitere Informationen und die Aufgaben des U4C finden Sie in derreview the U4C Charter.
Bitte teilen Sie diese Botschaft mit Mitgliedern Ihrer Community in Ihrer Sprache, sofern dies angemessen ist, damit auch sie teilnehmen können.
Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, theold Graph extension was disabled in 2023due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed theCharts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also theEasyTimeline extension.
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start fromMay 6. Please, consultour page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can alsoconsult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to theproject’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on thetalk page or atPhabricator.
The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter isavailable on Meta-wiki.
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Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development ofAbstract Wikipedia: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.
We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
In diesem Jahr wird das Mandat zweier (2) von der Community und den Affiliates gewählten Trustees im Kuratorium der Wikimedia Foundation enden [1]. Das Kuratorium lädt das gesamte Movement dazu ein, am diesjährigen Auswahlverfahren teilzunehmen und über die zwei offenen Sitze abzustimmen.
Das Wahlkomitee wird dieses Verfahren mit Unterstützung durch Angestellte der Foundation beaufsichtigen [2]. Das Governance-Komitee, bestehend aus Trustees, die im Auswahlprozess 2025 für Community und Affiliates nicht kandidieren (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina und Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], hat die Aufgabe, den Auswahlprozess 2025 für das Kuratorium zu beobachten und das Kuratorium laufend darüber zu informieren. Mehr zur Rolle des Wahlkomitees, des Kuratoriums und der Angestellten ist hier zu finden [4].
Das sind die wichtigsten geplanten Daten:
22. Mai – 5. Juni: Ankündigung (dieser Beitrag) und Fragephase [6]
17. Juni – 1. Juli 2025: Bewerbungsphase
Juli 2025: Wenn es mehr als 10 Kandidaturen gibt, stimmen die Affiliates über eine Shortlist ab [5]
Kuratoriumssitzung im Dezember 2025: Amtseinführung der neuen Trustees
Erfahre mehr über das Auswahlverfahren 2025 – einschließlich des detaillierten Zeitplans, des Kandidaturverfahrens, der Kampagnenregeln und der Wahlkriterien – auf dieser Seite im Meta-Wiki[link].
Fragephase
In jedem Auswahlverfahren hat die Community die Möglichkeit, den für das Kuratorium Kandidierenden Fragen zur Beantwortung vorzulegen. Das Wahlkomitee wählt aus der von der Community zusammengestellten Liste Fragen aus, die Kandidierende beantworten müssen. Kandidierende müssen alle Pflichtfragen beantworten, um zur Wahl antreten zu können, andernfalls wird die Kandidatur ausgeschlossen. In diesem Jahr wird das Wahlkomitee fünf Fragen an die Kandidierenden auswählen. Die ausgewählten Fragen können Communityvorschläge kombinieren, wenn sie ähnlich sind oder zusammenhängen.[link]
Freiwillige Wahlhelfer:innen
Du kannst auch als freiwillige:r Wahlhelfer:in am Auswahlverfahren 2025 mitwirken. Freiwillige Wahlhelfer:innen bilden die Schnittstelle zwischen dem Wahlkomitee und ihrer jeweiligen Community. Sie helfen dabei, sicherzustellen, dass ihre Community vertreten ist, und diese zu mobilisieren. Erfahre auf dieser Seite im Meta-Wiki[link] mehr über das Programm und darüber, wie du dich beteiligen kannst.
(Apologies for posting in English if English is not your first language. Please help translate to your language.)
The Campaigns Product Team is planning a global deployment of theCampaignEvents extension to all Wikipedias, including this wiki, during theweek of June 23rd.
This extension is designed to help organizers plan and manage events, WikiProjects, and other on-wiki collaborations - and to make these efforts more discoverable.
Invitation Lists: A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions.
Note: The extension comes with a new user right called"Event Organizer", which will be managed by administrators on this wiki. Organizer tools like Event Registration and Invitation Lists will only work if someone is granted this right. The Collaboration List is available to everyone immediately after deployment.
The extension is already live on several wikis, includingMeta, Wikidata, English Wikipedia, and more ( See the full deployment list)
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free to share them on the extension talkpage. We’d love to hear from you before the rollout.
Dieses Jahr wird die Wikimedia-Community von Ende August bis September 2025 über zwei (2) Sitze im Kuratorium der Foundation abstimmen. Bist du möglicherweise ein:e gute:r Kandidat:in - oder kennst du jemanden, der gut ins Kuratorium passen würde? [3]
Du kannst aufdieser Seite im Meta-Wiki mehr darüber erfahren, worauf es bei einer Kandidatur für eine derartige Leitungsfunktion ankommt und wie du deine Kandidatur einreichst, oder jemand anderen dazu ermutigen, diesmal zu kandidieren.
Beste Grüße
Abhishek Suryawanshi Vorsitzender des Wahlkomitees
Eine Vision relevanten, zugänglichen und wirkungsvollen freien Wissens hat die Wikimedia-Bewegung immer angeleitet. Da sich das Ökosystem der Wikimedia-Projekte stetig weiterentwickelt, ist es entscheidend, dass wir die bestehenden Projekte regelmäßig überprüfen, um sicherzustellen, dass sie noch immer unseren Zielen und den Kapazitäten der Community entsprechen.
Einige Projekte können möglicherweise – trotz der besten Absichten – ihren ursprünglichen Zweck nicht mehr effektiv erfüllen.Die Überprüfung solcher Projekte bedeutet nicht, dass wir aufgeben – es geht darum, mit den gemeinsamen Ressourcen verantwortungsvoll umzugehen. Die Zeit der Freiwilligen, die Unterstützung durch Angestellte, die Infrastruktur und die Aufmerksamkeit der Community sind endlich, und die nichttechnischen Kosten steigen erheblich, da unser Ökosystem in ein anderes Internetzeitalter eingetreten ist als das, in dem wir gegründet wurden. Die Unterstützung inaktiver Projekte oder von Projekten, die unseren Ambitionen nicht gerecht werden konnten, kann diese Ressourcen ungewollt Bereichen mit größerer potenzieller Wirkung entziehen.
Außerdem birgt die Weiterführung von Projekten, die nicht mehr die Qualität und Zuverlässigkeit des Wikimedia-Namens widerspiegeln, ein Reputationsrisiko. Ein verlassenes oder weniger zuverlässiges Projekt beeinträchtigt das Vertrauen in die Wikimedia-Bewegung.
Schließlichkann es schwieriger werden, neue Projekte zu starten, wenn man Projekte, die nicht mehr funktionieren, nicht auslaufen lässt oder grundlegend erneuert. Wenn sich die Community an jede Entscheidung der Vergangenheit gebunden fühlt – egal wie veraltet – riskieren wir Stagnation. Ein gesundes Ökosystem muss Raum für Weiterentwicklung, Anpassung und – bei Bedarf – auch Schließung bieten. Wenn wir die Erwartung schaffen, dass jedes Projekt ewig existieren muss, schränken wir unsere Fähigkeit, zu experimentieren und zu erneuern, empfindlich ein.
Aus diesem Grund hat die SPTF zwei Anfragen zum Lebenszyklus der Schwesterprojekte bearbeitet, um den Überprüfungsprozess durchzugehen und zu illustrieren. Wir haben Wikispore als Fallstudie für die mögliche Eröffnung eines neuen Schwesterprojekts und Wikinews als Fallstudie zur Überprüfung eines bestehenden Projekts gewählt. Die vorläufigen Ergebnisse wurden auf der Sitzung des CAC am 11. September 2024 diskutiert und das CAC empfahl eine Communitydiskussion zu beiden Vorschlägen.
Der Antrag,Wikispore als neues Schwesterprojekt in Betracht zu ziehen, wurde 2019 eingereicht. SPTF beschloss, diese Anfrage gründlicher zu überprüfen, da Wikispore sich nicht – wie die meisten vorgeschlagenen Schwesterprojekte – auf ein bestimmtes Thema konzentriert, sondern das Potenzial hat, mehrere neue Schwesterprojekte zu fördern.
Nach sorgfältiger Überlegung hat die SPTF beschlossen, Wikisporenicht als Wikimedia-Schwesterprojekt zu empfehlen. Die derzeitige Situation ermöglicht angesichts des aktuellen Aktivitätsniveausmehr Flexibilität und Experimentierung, während die WMF die zentrale Infrastruktur bereitstellt.
Wir sehen das Potenzial der Initiative und fragen die Community um Ideen dazu, was ein ausreichendes Maß an Aktivität darstellen würde, um den Status von Wikispore in Zukunft zu überdenken.
Im Rahmen des Verfahrens haben wir die Entscheidung der Wikispore-Community mitgeteilt und einen führenden Vertreter, Pharos, zu einem SPTF-Treffen eingeladen.
Momentan bitten wir insbesondere um Rückmeldungen zu messbaren Kriterien, die die Bereitschaft des Projekts anzeigen, wie die Anzahl der Beiträge, den inhaltlichen Umfang und die nachhaltige Unterstützung der Community. Dies würde die Kriterien für die Eröffnung eines neuen Schwesterprojekts, einschließlich einer möglichen erneuten Bewerbung von Wikispore, verdeutlichen. Die Zahlen werden jedoch immer ein Leitfaden sein, denn jede Zahl kann manipuliert werden.
Von den bestehenden Schwesterprojekten haben wir uns entschieden, Wikinews zu überprüfen, weil wir für dieses Projekt die meisten Bedenken wahrgenommen haben.
Seit die SPTF 2023 gegründet wurde, haben ihre Mitglieder während Konferenzen und Communitygesprächen nach den Meinungen der Community über Schwesterprojekte gefragt, die den Erwartungen der Wikimedia-Bewegung nicht gerecht wurden.[1][2][3] Wikinews führte die Liste an, auch weil Personen aus mehreren Sprachcommunitys das Projekt vorgeschlagen hatten. Außerdem war es nach den meisten Maßstäben das am wenigsten aktive Schwesterprojekt sowie jenes mit dem größten Rückgang an Aktivität im Laufe der Jahre.
Auch wenn das Sprachkomitee regelmäßig Sprachversionen von Schwesterprojekten in kleinen Sprachen eröffnet oder schließt, gab es noch nie einen gültigen Antrag, Wikipedia in großen Sprachen oder ein Projekt auf Englisch zu schließen. Anders Wikinews, für das es einen Antrag gab, die englischsprachige Version zu schließen, der länger diskutiert wurde, aber zu keinen weiteren Schritten führte,[4][5], siehe Abschnitt 5 sowie einen Antragsentwurf für die Schließung sämtlicher Sprachversionen[6].
Auf Grundlage dieses Berichts empfiehlt die SPTF eine Neubewertung von Wikinews durch die Community. Wir erkennen, dass das aktuelle Aktivitätsniveau das niedrigste der bestehenden Schwesterprojekte ist. Die SPTF empfiehlt außerdem, die Eröffnung neuer Sprachversionen während der Beratungsphase auszusetzen.
SPTF legt diese Analyse zur Diskussion vor und begrüßt Diskussionen über alternative Ergebnisse, einschließlich potenzieller Umstrukturierungen oder Einbindungen in andere Wikimedia-Initiativen.
Die bisher genanntenOptionen (die nur auf Sprachversionen mit geringer Aktivität oder auf alle Sprachversionen angewendet werden können) sind unter anderem:
Restrukturierung der Funktionsweise von Wikinews und seiner Verknüpfung mit anderen Initiativen zu aktuellen Ereignissen in den Projekten,
Verschiebung der Wikinews-Inhalte in die zugehörige Wikipedia-Sprachversion, möglicherweise in einen neuen Namensraum,
Verschiebung der Inhalte in externe Projekte mit kompatiblen Lizenzen,
Archivierung der Wikinews-Projekte.
Deine Ideen und Perspektiven sind für die Gestaltung der Zukunft dieser Projekte von unschätzbarem Wert. Wir laden alle interessierten Communitymitglieder ein, ihre Gedanken auf den entsprechenden Diskussionsseiten oder über andere vorgesehene Kanäle zu teilen.
Wir wären dankbar, wenn du an einem Gespräch über die Zukunft dieser Projekte und den Überprüfungsprozess teilnehmen möchtest. Wir erstellen zwei verschiedene Projektseiten:Public consultation about Wikispore undPublic consultation about Wikinews. Bitte nimm zwischen 27. Juni und 27 Juli. teil; anschließend werden wir die Diskussion für die weiteren Schritte zusammenfassen. Du kannst in deiner eigenen Sprache schreiben.
Ich werde außerdem am Mittwoch, den 16. Juli um 11:00 UTC und am Donnerstag, den 17. Juli um 17:00 UTC eine Community-Videokonferenz veranstalten und während der Wikimania für weitere Gespräche zur Verfügung stehen.
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Hello everyone, theWikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in yourWatchlists andRecent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See theWikidata:Glossary for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for17.07.2025, between1300 - 1500 UTC.The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on thisproject task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicatedTalk page.
Hallo zusammen! Ich freue mich, euch mitteilen zu können, dass als nächster Schritt des ProjektsParser-Vereinheitlichung Parsoid bald als Standard-Renderer für Artikel in deinem wiki aktiviert wird. Wir erhöhen schrittweise die Anzahl der Wikis, die Parsoid verwenden, mit der Absicht, es zum Standard-Wikitext-Parser für die nächste langfristig unterstützte Version von MediaWiki zu machen. Dadurch werden unsere Wikis für Autoren, Leser und Tools zuverlässiger und konsistenter und die Entwicklung zukünftiger Wikitext-Funktionen wird einfacher.
Wenn dies deinen Arbeitsablauf stört, mache dir keine Sorgen! Du kannst dies immer noch über eine Benutzereinstellung deaktivieren oder Parsoid auf der aktuellen Seite über das Werkzeuge-Untermenü deaktivieren, wie in der Dokumentation zurErweiterung:ParserMigration beschrieben.
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users whomeet the relevant requirements will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users whomeet the requirements will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (Special:IPContributions). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to theIP Info feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors:
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects theautoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at ourprevious message about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check outour FAQ – you will find many useful answers there. You may alsolook at the updates (we have just posted one) andsubscribe to our new newsletter. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
Hallo zusammen! Ich freue mich, euch mitteilen zu können, dass als nächster Schritt des ProjektsParser-Vereinheitlichung Parsoid bald als Standard-Renderer für Artikel in deinem $wiki aktiviert wird. Wir erhöhen schrittweise die Anzahl der Wikis, die Parsoid verwenden, mit der Absicht, es zum Standard-Wikitext-Parser für die nächste langfristig unterstützte Version von MediaWiki zu machen. Dadurch werden unsere Wikis für Autoren, Leser und Tools zuverlässiger und konsistenter und die Entwicklung zukünftiger Wikitext-Funktionen wird einfacher.
Wenn dies deinen Arbeitsablauf stört, mache dir keine Sorgen! Du kannst dies immer noch über eine Benutzereinstellung deaktivieren oder Parsoid auf der aktuellen Seite über das Werkzeuge-Untermenü deaktivieren, wie in der Dokumentation zurErweiterung:ParserMigration beschrieben.
DieWikimedia-Foundation wird den Datenverkehr zwischen ihren Rechenzentren wechseln. Dadurch sollen Wikipedia und die anderen Wikimedia-Wikis auch nach einem Notfall erreichbar bleiben.
Der gesamte Datenverkehr wird am24. September 2025 umgeleitet. Der Test wird um15:00 UTC (17:00 MESZ) beginnen.
Leider können aufgrund einiger Einschränkungen derMediaWiki-Software keine Bearbeitungen vorgenommen werden, während die Umschaltung duchgeführt wird. Wir entschuldigen uns für diese Unterbrechung, und wir werden uns bemühen, derartige Einschränkungen in der Zukunft auf ein Minimum zu beschränken.
Auf allen Wikis wird 30 Minuten im Voraus ein Banner erscheinen. Dieses Banner bleibt bis zum Ende des Vorgangs sichtbar. Du kannst zurÜbersetzung oder zum Korrekturlesen dieses Bannertextes beitragen.
Für eine kurze Zeit können zwar alle Wikis gelesen, aber nicht bearbeitet werden.
Am24. September 2025 wird bis zu eine Stunde lang das Bearbeiten nicht möglich sein.
In dieser Zeit wird beim Versuch, Bearbeitungen zu speichern, eine Fehlermeldung ausgegeben. Wir hoffen, dass dadurch keine Bearbeitungen verloren gehen, können das aber leider nicht garantieren. Falls eine Fehlermeldung erscheint, warte bitte, bis alles wieder normal ist. Dann sollte es möglich sein, die Bearbeitungen zu speichern. Sicherheitshalber empfehlen wir jedoch, dass du zunächst eine Kopie deiner Änderungen machst.
Weitere Folgen:
Im Hintergrund ablaufende Prozesse (eingebundene Skripte beispielsweise) werden langsamer als sonst ablaufen, einige werden möglicherweise gar nicht ausgeführt. Es kann vorkommen, dass Rotlinks nicht so schnell wie üblich aktualisiert werden. Falls du einen Artikel erstellst, der bereits an einer anderen Stelle verlinkt ist, dann wird der Link an dieser Stelle länger rot bleiben als üblich. Einige lang laufende Skripte werden wir stoppen müssen.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass die Codebereitstellung wie in jeder anderen Woche erfolgen wird. Allerdings kann es von Fall zu Fall zu einem Code-Freeze kommen, wenn der Vorgang dies erfordert.
GitLab wird für etwa 90 Minuten nicht verfügbar sein.
Hallo! Bitte hilf mit, einen Namen für das neue Wiki-Projekt der Abstrakten Wikipedia zu finden. Dieses Projekt wird ein Wiki sein, das es Benutzern ermöglicht, Funktionen ausWikifunctions und Daten aus Wikidata zu kombinieren, um Sätze in natürlicher Sprache in allen unterstützten Sprachen zu generieren. Diese Sätze können dann von jeder Wikipedia (oder anderswo) verwendet werden.
Es wird zwei Abstimmungsrunden geben, denen jeweils eine rechtliche Überprüfung der Kandidaten folgt. Die Abstimmungen beginnen am 20. Oktober und 17. November 2025. Unser Ziel ist es, Mitte Dezember 2025 einen endgültigen Projektnamen auszuwählen. Wenn du teilnehmen möchtest, dannerfahre mehr im Meta-Wiki und stimme jetzt ab.Danke!
Die Bewerbungsphase für die Komitees startet am 30. Oktober 2025. Sie endet für das Affiliations-Komitee am 11. Dezember 2025 und für die Ombudskommission sowie das Fallprüfungskomitee am 11. Dezember 2025. Erfahre, wie du dich bewirbst, indem dudie Ernennungsseite im Meta-Wiki besuchst. Bitte melde dich mit etwaigen Fragen auf der Diskussionsseite oder über E-Mail ancst@wikimedia.org.
Hallo! Erinnerung: Bitte hilf mit, den Namen für das neue Wiki-Projekt der Abstrakten Wikipedia zu wählen. Die Abstimmung über die Finalisten beginnt heute. Die Finalisten für den Namen sind:Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. Wenn du teilnehmen möchtest, dannerfahre mehr im Meta-Wiki und stimme jetzt ab.Danke!
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