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Terms of Use update

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I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found atTalk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version ofTerms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done atm:Terms of use (de), but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found atm:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 --Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 02:30, 27 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2011 (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

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I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Pleasehelp translate it.

  • Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
  • Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
  • Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visithttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships,Wikimedia Foundation 03:11, 22 Oṣù Kejìlá 2011 (UTC)

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

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Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new versionright now onbeta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read therelease notes or thestart of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

  • Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
  • New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
  • The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
  • Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
  • Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
  • Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
  • The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
  • More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
  • Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
  • Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
  • Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report anyproblems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. —Global message delivery 16:41, 15 Oṣù Kínní 2012 (UTC)

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is availablein the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via theGlobal message delivery system(wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:23, 12 Oṣù Kejì 2012 (UTC)

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well asthe full version of this announcement on Meta)

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 onWorld IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

  • At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g.w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (Seethe full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)
  • In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.
  • We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Readthe full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 01:31, 2 Oṣù Kẹfà 2012 (UTC)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

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македонски •norsk •polski

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be thePicture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commonswith more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be foundat the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during2011 and are now calledFeatured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, CommonsFeatures Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the imagesinto topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons!--Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:46, 5 Oṣù Kẹfà 2012 (UTC)

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Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year

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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

Hi,

As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and othereligible entities.

Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be theOmbudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read thecall for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 20:31, 19 Oṣù Keje 2012 (UTC)

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More opportunities for you to access free research databases

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The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.

  • Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. There are125 full Credo 350 accounts available, with access even to 100 more references works than in Credo's original donation. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign uphere.
  • HighBeam Research has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications including newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias. Thousands of new articles are added daily, and archives date back over 25 years covering a wide range of subjects and industries. There are250 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign uphere.
  • Questia is an online research library for books and journal articles focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Questia has curated titles from over 300 trusted publishers including 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as encyclopedia entries. There will soon be1000 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign uphere.

You might also be interested in the idea to create a centralWikipedia Library where approved editors would have access toall participating resource donors. Add your feedback to theCommunity Fellowship proposal. Apologies for the English message (translate here). Go sign up :) --Ocaasi (talk) 02:27, 16 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2012 (UTC)

Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

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I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting arequest for comment on aproposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate inthat discussion.

If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page atm:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)02:18, 6 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)

As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is calledm:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.

The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:

  1. language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
  2. infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
  3. lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)

It'd be great if you could join us, test thedemo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including anFAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter onthe Wikidata page on Meta.

For further discussions please usethis talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or pointme to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.

--Lydia Pintscher 13:43, 10 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2012 (UTC)

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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see theupgrade schedule &code details).

Please watch for problems with:

  • revision diffs
  • templates
  • CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
  • bots
  • PDF export
  • images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
  • the CologneBlue skin

If you notice any problems, pleasereport problems atour defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems attest2.wikipedia.org andmediawiki.org, which have already been updated.

Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 03:20, 16 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2012 (UTC)

P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, pleasewatch this schedule.

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed

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Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through.All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :)If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

Sent usingGlobal message delivery, 17:25, 17 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2012 (UTC)

Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

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Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.

I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.

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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (seeother timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is availablein the full announcement.

If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, considerbecoming a Tech ambassador andjoining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via theGlobal message delivery system(wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:48, 19 Oṣù Kínní 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

  1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registeredbefore Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
  2. This user account must have more than75 edits onany single Wikimedia projectbefore Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at thePOTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
  3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account throughSUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go tothe POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round byJanuary 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

This message was delivered based onm:Distribution list/Global message delivery. Translation fetched from:commons:Commons:Picture of the Year/2012/Translations/Village Pump/en --Rillke (ọ̀rọ̀) 00:02, 23 Oṣù Kínní 2013 (UTC)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

  • Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
  • Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
  • Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?

Please join us in theIdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visithttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:59, 30 Oṣù Kínní 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) coming to this Wikipedia

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Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally.

Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.

What is Wikidata?

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Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.

What is going to happen?

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Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions?

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Editors on en:wp have created agreat page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also anFAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have onthe FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata

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To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata pleasesubscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editionshere.

--Lydia Pintscher 16:20, 21 Oṣù Kejì 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) live on this Wikipedia

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Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement onde:Wikipedia:Kurier.

As I annonced 2 weeks ago,Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions?Editors on en:wp have created agreat page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also anFAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have onthe FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about WikidataTo stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata pleasesubscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 23:14, 6 Oṣù Kẹta 2013 (UTC)

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

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(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)

Greetings. As you might have seen on theWikimedia tech blog or thetech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today.Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.

If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week:one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) andone on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); seem:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help atmw:Talk:Lua scripting.

If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming aTech ambassador by subscribing to themailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Guillaume Paumier, via theGlobal message delivery system. 20:31, 13 Oṣù Kẹta 2013 (UTC)(wrong page? You can fix it.)

Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) coming to this Wikipedia

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Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement onde:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase ofWikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8.If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will updatethis part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.

What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here?Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)

How will this work?There are two ways to access the data:

  • Use a parser function like {{#property:p169}} in the wiki text of the article on Yahoo!. This will return “Marissa Mayer” as she is thechief executive officer of thecompany.
  • For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this ishere.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this ishere.

Where can I test this?You can already test it ontest2.

Where can I find more information and ask questions?We have collected the main questions in anFAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have onthe FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about WikidataTo stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata pleasesubscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 17:15, 5 Oṣù Kẹrin 2013 (UTC)

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(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translatingthe proposal.)

Read this message in English /Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu /বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন /Llegiu aquest missatge en català /Læs denne besked på dansk /Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch /Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn /Leer este mensaje en español /Lue tämä viesti suomeksi /Lire ce message en français /Ler esta mensaxe en galego /हिन्दी /Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom /Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia /Leggi questo messaggio in italiano /ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ /Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti /norsk (bokmål) /Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands /Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku /Citiți acest mesaj în română /Прочитать это сообщение на русском /Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali /Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) /อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย /Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою /Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt /使用中文阅读本信息。

Hello!

There isa new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.

We are also compiling alist of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.

All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.

Thanks,Billinghurst(thanks to all thetranslators!) 05:31, 24 Oṣù Kẹrin 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) is here

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Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement onde:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase ofWikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago andtwo days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.

What does having phase 2 enabled here mean?You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.

How will this work?There are two ways to access the data:

  • Use a parser function like {{#property:p159}} in the wiki text of the article on Wikimedia Foundation. This will return “San Francisco” as that is theheadquarter location of thenon-profit.
  • For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this ishere.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this ishere.

Where can I test this?You can test it ontest2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.

Where can I find more information and ask questions?We have collected the main questions in anFAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have onthe FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about WikidataTo stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata pleasesubscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.


We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together.--Lydia Pintscher 19:25, 24 Oṣù Kẹrin 2013 (UTC)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

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Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making.More details on Meta.

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[en] Change to section edit links

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The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.

Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.

(Distributed viaglobal message delivery 19:08, 30 Oṣù Kẹrin 2013 (UTC). Wrong page?Correct it here.)

Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

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LatestTech news from the Wikimedia technical community.Please inform other users about these changes.
Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
Future software changes
  • The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27.[11]
  • An updated version ofNotifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23.[12]
  • Thefinal version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software willautomatically rename some usernames.[13]
  • Anew discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users,test the prototype and discuss the interface.[14].
  • The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor.[15]
Tech news prepared bytech ambassadors and posted byGlobal message delivery •Contribute •Translate •Get help •Give feedback •Unsubscribe • 21:23, 20 Oṣù Kàrún 2013 (UTC)
Important note: This is the first edition of theTech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.

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

You can alsobecome a tech ambassador,help us write the next newsletter andtell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.guillom 21:23, 20 Oṣù Kàrún 2013 (UTC)

Trademark discussion

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Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see theTrademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)

Free Research Accounts from Leading Medical Publisher. Come and Sign up!

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gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. I want to alert you to our latest donation.
  • Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
  • Cochrane has generously agreed to givefree, full-access accounts to medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
  • If you are active as a medical editor, come andsign up :)

Cheers, 21:24, 16 Oṣù Kẹfà 2013 (UTC)

Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)

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My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for ' accounts at the. Cheers, 21:58, 16 Oṣù Kẹfà 2013 (UTC)

(Sorry for writing in English. You cantranslate the proposal.)

ShouldX!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged.Voice your input here.——cyberpowerChatAutomation 05:10, 23 Oṣù Kẹfà 2013 (UTC)

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

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

Please read the announcement onMeta-Wiki for more information.Siebrand 13:06, 4 Oṣù Keje 2013 (UTC)(viaGlobal message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

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Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this.Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is amanual for doing that and ablog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask inmw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit,mailing list, or in theIRC channel. BestAmir(viaGlobal message delivery). 13:57, 23 Oṣù Keje 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor and your Wikipedia

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(Please translate this message)

Greetings,

The Wikimedia Foundation will soon turn onVisualEditor for all users, all the time on your Wikipedia. Right now your Wikipedia does not have any local documents on VisualEditor, and we hope that your community can change that. To find out about how you can help with translations visit theTranslationCentral for VisualEditor and read the easy instructions onbringing information to your Wikipedia. TheUser Guide and theFAQ are very important to have in your language.

We want to find out as much as we can from you about VisualEditor and how it helps your Wikipedia, and having local pages is a great way to start. We also encourage you toleave feedback on Mediawiki where the community can offer ideas, opinions, and point out bugs that may still exist in the software that need to be reported toBugzilla. If you are able to speak for the concerns of others in English on MediaWiki or locally I encourage you to help your community to be represented in this process.

If you can help translate the user interface for VisualEditor to your language, you can help with that as well.Translatewiki has open tasks for translating VisualEditor. A direct link to translate the user interface ishere. You can see how we are doing with those translationshere. You need an account on Translatewiki to translate. This account is free and easy to create.

If we can help your community in any way with this process, please let me know and I will do my best to assist your Wikipedia with this |exciting development. You can contact me on mymeta talk page or byemail. You can also contactPatrick Earley for help with translations and documents on Mediawiki. We look forward to working with you to bring the VisualEditor experience to your Wikipedia!Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:17, 30 Oṣù Keje 2013 (UTC)

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HTTPS for users with an account

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Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be usingHTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available atm:HTTPS.

If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell uson bugzilla,on IRC (in the#wikimedia-operations channel) oron meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail tohttps@wikimedia.org.

Greg Grossmeier(via theGlobal message delivery system). 19:53, 20 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2013 (UTC)(wrong page?You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on this community logo

First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.

The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive.Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk)(via theGlobal message delivery system). 03:25, 24 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2013 (UTC)(wrong page?You can fix it.)

Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you -- and let you take quick action.

(This message is in English, please translate as needed)

Greetings!

Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.

We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined inthis release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.

There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visitthis project hub andthis help page.Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:26, 4 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2013 (UTC)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

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Hi all,

Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki:m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.

This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.

The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.

We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.

Thanks,Geoff &Yana 21:06, 8 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2013 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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

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

  1. Mark Dingemanse (administrator)

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

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify thestewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --MF-Warburg (ọ̀rọ̀) 19:24, 10 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2013 (UTC)

Introducting Beta Features

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(Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)

We would like to let you know aboutBeta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.

Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.

Beta Features is now ready for testing onMediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.

Here are the first features you can test this week:

Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on theBeta Features page.

After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think onthis discussion page -- or report any bugshere on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to jointhis IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.

Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think!Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:52, 5 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2013 (UTC)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

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Hi all,

The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.

Thecurrent trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect theWikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your reviewhere, and we encourage you to discuss ithere.

We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.

Thanks,
Yana &Geoff

Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?

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I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

The Wikimedia Foundation'smultimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support theMP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known asH.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow'sOffice hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic.Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 16 Oṣù Kínní 2014 (UTC)

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

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On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extensionUniversal Language Selector (ULS) wasdisabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. Anew checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

You can read theannouncement and thedevelopment plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you.Runa

Amendment to the Terms of Use

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Hello all,

Please join a discussion about aproposed amendment to theWikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please seethe discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you!Slaporte (WMF) 22:00, 21 Oṣù Kejì 2014 (UTC)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community?Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Wikipedia better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways toget involved!

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of IndividualEngagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 19:44, 28 Oṣù Kejì 2014 (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

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Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Pleaseread about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks!Slaporte (WMF) 21:55, 13 Oṣù Kẹta 2014 (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

  • April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
  • April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter theirpersonal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Localcommon CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

--Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation'sUser Experience Design team


Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know thatMedia Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in yourBeta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in yourpreferences. I invite you toshare what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. -Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 Oṣù Kàrún 2014 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Commons logo

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki upload is not fully functional for users, who will experience a very difficult and/orillegal uploading. In fact, thelicenses/copyright tags dropdown is empty, making it hard or impossible to comply with copyright requirements during upload itself.

Presumably, you don't have interest nor energies to havehundreds templates with thenow required HTML, even less a localEDP.I propose to have

so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interfacein their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons andexisting files will not be affected.

All this will get done around 2014-07-03.

  1. If you disagree with the proposal, justremove your wiki from the list. Remember also to createMediaWiki:Licenses locally with any content (see asimple example), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting inversion 1.24wmf11).
  2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas oncommons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo 13:09, 19 Oṣù Kẹfà 2014 (UTC)

Sysop:User:Demmy. --Liuxinyu970226 (ọ̀rọ̀) 01:51, 25 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

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Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,

The Wikimedia Foundation'sMultimedia team is happy to announce thatMedia Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as aBeta Feature and has beenreleased to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in youryour preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn morein this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited toshare your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome totake this quick survey in English,en français,o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. -Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 19 Oṣù Kẹfà 2014 (UTC)

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VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014

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This is aone-time mailing to projects that may need this information. Future newsletters will be available asopt-in only. To receive future newsletters (about one per month), pleaseadd your page to the subscribers' list atm:VisualEditor/Newsletter. You're welcome to translate to your language.


The character formatting menu

Did you know?

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

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu?Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

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

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

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

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

Supporting your wiki

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Please readVisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the newcitation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

If you speak a language other than English,we need your help with translatingthe user guide. The guide is out of date or incomplete for many languages, and what's on your wiki may not be the most recent translation. Pleasecontact us if you need help getting started with translation work on MediaWiki.org.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product managerJames Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note atmw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining theoffice hours onSaturday, 19 July 2014 at21:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas and Pacific Islands) or onThursday, 14 August 2014 at9:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East, Asia).

If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe atMeta (or atw:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only). Thank you! --Elitre (WMF), 22:33, 25 Oṣù Kẹfà 2014 (UTC)

Updates related to VisualEditor

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Please help translate this message in your language. Thanks :)

Hi, everybody. This is a reminder that we invite you to discuss VisualEditor's recent development and plans ahead during thenext office hours with James Forrester (Product Manager):

If you are not able to attend but have a question for James, you can leave your questionat mediawiki.org or on my talk pageby the day before, and I will try to get a response. We plan to continue these monthly sessions as long as there is community interest, and to announce them through theVisualEditor global newsletter as well (please subscribe your talk page there to get the latest news about the software).

Most of the VisualEditor team will be atWikimania in London in August! You'll be able to meet the developers during the Hackaton or at the following sessions:

WMF community liaisons will share a booth with community advocates at the Community Village and look forward to talking to you there. Thanks for your attention! --User:Elitre (WMF) 16:02, 31 Oṣù Keje 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor global newsletter—July and August 2014

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

Screenshot of VisualEditor's link tool
Dialog boxes in VisualEditor have been re-designed to use action words instead of icons. This has increased the number ofitems that need to be translated.The user guide is also being updated.

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

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

The team posts details about planned work on theVisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor teamplans to addauto-fill features for citations soon.Yourideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support forupright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support foradding rows and columns to tables. Work to supportInternet Explorer is ongoing.

Feedback opportunities

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The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend atWikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal onSaturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal onSunday at 12:30. There is aVisualEditor Translation Sprint going on during Wikimania; whether you're in London or not, any contributions are welcome!

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at theVisualEditor feedback page or by joining theoffice hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).

If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe atw:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or atMeta for any project. Thank you! --Elitre (WMF), 14:40, 9 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2014 (UTC)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

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The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

--JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2014 (UTC)

Process ideas for software development

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’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has beenstarted on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest ofmy team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards,--Rdicerb (WMF)talk 22:15, 21 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2014 (UTC)

--This message was sent usingMassMessage. Was there an error?Report it!

Grants to improve your project

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Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! TheIndividual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11

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VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message atVisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing,Elitre (WMF) 07:29, 11 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2014 (UTC).

PS. Please subscribe to theglobal monthly newsletter to receive further news about VisualEditor.

VisualEditor News #8—2014

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Did you know?

TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.

With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.

Seethe help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData.The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, theEditing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixedover 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are postedon Mediawiki.org.

There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs69856 and69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that replaced some categories with a link to the system messageMediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.

Increased support for devices and browsers

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Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.

Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. Themobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697,bug 68828,bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.

TemplateData editor

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The tool for editingTemplateData has been deployed to 30 more Wikipedias this week. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template page or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Readthe help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editorin a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpageor on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

Several interfacemessages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme isavailable on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of theMonobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.

VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies themw-redirect andmw-disambig class onlinks to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these types of links can be created.

Templates' fields can be marked as 'required'in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358).

Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with adir attribute but nolang set (bug 69955).

The team posts details about planned work on theVisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor teamplans to addauto-fill featuresfor citations soon, perhaps in late October.

The team is also working on support foradding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month.Please comment on the designat Mediawiki.org.

In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.

Supporting your wiki

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At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people.Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go toसंजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar),Robby,Takot,Bachounda,Bjankuloski06 andАта. Asummary of the work achieved by the translation community is available. Thank you all for your work.

This was the first translatable VisualEditor newsletter, so thanks to everybody who made this possible! If it hasn't been delivered in your language, and you'd like to help with translations in the future, please subscribe to theTranslators mailing list or contactElitre (WMF), so that you will be notified when the next issue is due.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product managerJames Forrester or file anenhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please join theoffice hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at16:00 UTC onIRC.

Give feedback on VisualEditor atmw:VisualEditor/Feedback. Subscribe or unsubscribe atMeta. Thank you! —Elitre (WMF)

09:49, 13 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2014 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

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Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found atm:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found atm:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both atm:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards,Ajraddatz (talk) 18:04, 26 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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:

  • DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
  • Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
  • Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
  • British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
  • Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
  • Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
  • JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.23:19, 5 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Global AbuseFilter

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Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013,Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoingrequest for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request tothis list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found onthis page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask onm:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17,Glaisher
— 17:34, 14 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #9—2014

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Screenshot on an iPad, showing how to switch from one editor to the other

Did you know?

VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Log in and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings button in the upper-right corner to pick which editor to use. Choose "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-visual-editor⧽" to use VisualEditor, or "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-source-editor⧽" to use the wikitext editor.

It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available on the mobile website.

Since the last newsletter, theEditing Team has fixed manybugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are postedon Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were postedon Meta.

Recent improvements

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Basic support forinserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in them was just introduced to Wikipedias. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be added later.

To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus are now hidden behinda "Míràn" item, such as "Underline" in the styling menu.

The French Wikipedia should seebetter search results for links, templates, and media because thenew search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias this week, and the following week at the English Wikipedia.

The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support fornon-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.

VisualEditor is now provided to editors who useInternet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.

Thekeyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar menus are now shown in the menus.

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with anew theme from theUser Experience/Design group. The appearance of dialog boxes has already changed in the mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. You are welcome to comparethe old "Apex" design andthe new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.

Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search engine could not find the page. A link inside a template to a local page that does not exist will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to an error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like[16] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.

The tool for quickly editingTemplateData has been deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool was already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Readthe help page for TemplateData to learn more about it. You can test the TemplateData editorin a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpageor on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

You can use thenew autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as inthis example, or to add the most common value for that parameter. The autovalue can be overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.

In TemplateData, you maydefine a parameter as "required". The template dialog box in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.

The VisualEditor teamplans to addauto-fill featuresfor citations soon. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on theVisualEditor roadmap.

Theuser guide is being updated to add information about editing tables.The translations of the user guide for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date.Please helpcomplete the current translations for users who speak your language.Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.

You can influence VisualEditor's design! Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during theoffice hours viaIRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas atmw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Also,user experience researcherAbbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Pleasesign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.

If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to theTranslators mailing list or contactus directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe atMeta. Thank you!—Elitre (WMF)

23:29, 14 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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:

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:22, 18 Oṣù Kejìlá 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

VisualEditor News #10—2014

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VisualEditor
Screenshot showing how to add or remove columns from a table

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, theEditing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are postedon mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at theVisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-inbeta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration withProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

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Basic support forediting tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalidrowspan andcolspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now usefind and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing^ Ctrl+F or⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple<blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".

Somenew keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "*" will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ":" will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.

There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and editgalleries as wikitext code.

The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with anew theme designed by theUser Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview ofthe old "Apex" theme andthe new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing teamplans to addauto-fill featuresfor citations in January.

Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Let's work together

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—Elitre (WMF)

18:59, 26 Oṣù Kejìlá 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2015

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VisualEditor

Since the last newsletter, theEditing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are postedon mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at theVisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has namedits top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements.There will be weeklytriage meetingswhich will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of EngineeringDamon Sicore, Product ManagerJames Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted atmw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

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The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki'sFront-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of theOOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

  • starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog: blue,
  • takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green,
  • might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red, or
  • is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray.

TheTemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor. (T67815,T73746.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (T73077,T73078.)

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(T78234.)

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (T86688,T87027.) If your community would likeVisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

The Editing team will soon addauto-fill featuresfor citations. TheCitoid service takes aURL orDOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test thenew design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contactUser:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users atPhase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, includingAfrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

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—Elitre (WMF)

18:31, 5 Oṣù Kejì 2015 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.Wikipedia.org: (gbogbo) Ìṣàtúnṣe àwọn ojúewé

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MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like yo.m.wikipedia.org,unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens userspropose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English,Nemo 22:32, 1 Oṣù Kẹta 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)

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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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:

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 21:14, 2 Oṣù Kẹta 2015 (UTC)

Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team atour new coordinator page.
This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!)MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 20:01, 4 Oṣù Kẹta 2015 (UTC)

SUL finalization update

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Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please readthis page for important information and an update involvingSUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks.Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:45, 13 Oṣù Kẹta 2015 (UTC)

Stewards confirmation rules

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Hello, I madea proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:12, 10 Oṣù Kẹrin 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

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VisualEditor


Did you know?

WithCitoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:


Screenshot of Citoid's first dialog


Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:


Screenshot of Citoid's initial results


After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, theEditing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, theCitoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are postedon Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is availablein Phabricator.

The weeklytask triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" theEditing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs atmw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements

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VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% andnetwork speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly addingauto-fill featuresfor citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. TheCitoid service takes aURL orDOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support forISBNs,PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires goodTemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in theCitoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

Thespecial character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on thePhase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, includingAfrikaans,Azerbaijani,Breton,Kyrgyz,Macedonian,Mongolian,Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages useinput method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the"packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can nowdrag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead. (T90734)

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be postedat mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (T90666)

Let's work together

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  • Share your ideas and ask questions atmw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • Can you translate from English into any other language? Please checkthis list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language.Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
  • The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Pleasesign up for their research program.
  • File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menuin Phabricator.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered atMeta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

19:48, 10 Oṣù Kẹrin 2015 (UTC)

This is a message from the2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee.Translations are available.

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they havepublished letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee isaccepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.

This year, elections are being held for the following roles:

Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found atthe board elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found atthe FDC elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found atthe FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found onthe 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator,2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by theMediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) •Translate •Get help

This is a message from the2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee.Translations are available.

Voting has begun foreligible voters in the 2015 elections for theFunds Dissemination Committee (FDC) andFDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for theFunds Dissemination Committee (FDC) andFDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for theBoard of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.

TheFunds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.

TheFDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of theBoard of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10.Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time.Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question.Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the2015 FDC election page, the2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator,2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by theMediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) •Translate •Get help

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)

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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

TodayThe Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of ourPublisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

  • MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences (200 accounts)
  • Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
  • RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
  • Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States (10 accounts)
  • HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000 law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25 accounts)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, includingProject MUSE,JSTOR,DeGruyter,Newspapers.com andBritish Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:12, 4 Oṣù Kàrún 2015 (UTC)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team atGlobal our new coordinator signup.
This message was delivered via theMass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List

This is a message from the2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee.Translations are available.

Voting has begun foreligible voters in the 2015 elections for theWikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for theBoard will continue during the voting.

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.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31.Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the2015Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator,2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

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

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

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Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g.T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is amigration guide, and pleasecontact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is inthis list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

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VisualEditor

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, theEditing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are postedon mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is availablein Phabricator.

Atest of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initialresults will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

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Auto-fill featuresfor citations are available at a few Wikipedias through thecitoid service. Citoid takes aURL orDOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

Thelink tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (T98085)

Thespecial character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the listat mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (T70425)

Several improvements have been made totemplates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added anew property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

Thedesign of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling ofnon-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

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  • Share your ideas and ask questions atmw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs atmw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" theVisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
  • If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contactJames Forrester.
  • If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in theCitoid project on Phabricator. Include links to theTemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
  • The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please followthis task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered atMeta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

10:44, 13 Oṣù Kẹfà 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

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VisualEditor

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, theEditing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are postedon mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is availablein Phabricator.

Atest of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initialresults will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

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Auto-fill featuresfor citations are available at a few Wikipedias through thecitoid service. Citoid takes aURL orDOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

Thelink tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (T98085)

Thespecial character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the listat mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (T70425)

Several improvements have been made totemplates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added anew property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

Thedesign of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling ofnon-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

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  • Share your ideas and ask questions atmw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs atmw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" theVisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
  • If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contactJames Forrester.
  • If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in theCitoid project on Phabricator. Include links to theTemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
  • The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please followthis task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered atMeta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

12:42, 13 Oṣù Kẹfà 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

TodayThe Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of ourPublisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

  • Taylor & Francis — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
  • World Bank eLibrary — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
  • AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journalScience among other sources (50 accounts)

New French-Language Branch!

  • Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
  • Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
  • L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, including an expansion of accounts forRoyal Society journals and remaining accounts onProject MUSE,JSTOR,DeGruyter,HighbeamNewspapers.com andBritish Newspaper Archive. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access tomake a request! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team atour new coordinator signup.
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation hasbeen working towards enablingHTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch withus if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

22:00, 19 Oṣù Kẹfà 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

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The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.
How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is aproposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to theproposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) &MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 05:08, 24 Oṣù Keje 2015 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community.Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questionson the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

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The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

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Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 23:42, 31 Oṣù Keje 2015 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community.Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questionson the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

[àtúnṣe àmìọ̀rọ̀]

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

[àtúnṣe àmìọ̀rọ̀]


Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 04:05, 1 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

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(Sorry for writing in English)

When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.

We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come tod:Wikidata:Contact the development team.

A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.

How to use it, once it is enabled:

CheersLydia PintscherMediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 17:46, 3 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here

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Hi everyone,

As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come tod:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier.CheersLydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:32, 12 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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VisualEditor

Did you know?

You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).

Screenshot showing the special character tool, selected text, and the special character that will be inserted


Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

Screenshot showing the special character tool and the same text after the special character has been inserted


You can read and help translatethe user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, theEditing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reportson mediawiki.org. Their workboard is availablein Phabricator. Theircurrent priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations aboutVisualEditor and thefuture of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for theVisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to usersHalan-tul,Renessaince,जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta),Vahe Gharakhanyan,Warrakkk, andEduardogobi.

Forinterface messages (translated attranslatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

Fordocumentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

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Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses thecitoid service to convert aURL orDOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick,simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow theinstructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of thespecial character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow theinstructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. In other changes, if you need to fill in aCAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and editVega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.

The team will be changing theappearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. Arecent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of theJuly 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

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  • Share your ideas and ask questions atmw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now usingFlow instead of LiquidThreads.
  • Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineerDavid Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions atmediawiki.org if you can help.
  • If your wiki would likeVisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
  • Please file requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the styling menuin Phabricator.
  • The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Pleasesign up for their research program.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs atmw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the mainVisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 22:28, 14 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2015 (UTC)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we canreimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF),Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.

(Opt-out Instructions)This message was sent byI JethroBT (WMF) throughMediaWiki message delivery. 00:49, 19 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2015 (UTC)

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

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Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal:https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate thestatements on Meta Wiki. You canread more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana andStephen (Talk) 18:13, 2 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2015 (UTC)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! TheIndividual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF),Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2015 (UTC)

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New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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:

  • EBSCOHost - this is one of our largest access donations so far: access to a wide variety of academic, newspaper and magazine sources through their Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and MasterFILE Complete
  • Newspaperarchive.com - historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, UK and 20 other countries, and includes an Open Access "clipping" feature (1000 accounts)
  • IMF Elibary- a digital collection of the IMF's reports, studies and research on global economics and development (50 accounts)
  • Sabinet - one of the largest African digital publishers, based in South Africa, with a wide range of content in English and other European and African languages (10 accounts)
  • Numérique Premium - a French language social science and humanities ebook database, with topical collections on a wide range of topics (100)
  • Al Manhal - an Arabic and English database with a wide range of sources, largely focused on or published in the Middle East (60 accounts)
  • Jamalon - an Arabic book distributor, who is providing targeted book delivery to volunteers (50 editors)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, including expanded accounts forElsevier ScienceDirect,British Medical Journal andDynamed and additional accounts forProject MUSE,DeGruyter,Newspapers.com,Highbeam andHeinOnline. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 19:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

We need help! Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team atour new coordinator signup.
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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)

There is still one week left to submitIndividual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF),Community Resources 21:01, 22 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2015 (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report

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(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated!A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.

Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome onthe outcomes discussion page.

With thanks,I JethroBT (WMF) 16:56, 28 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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VisualEditor

Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Screenshot showing the menu for switching from the wikitext editor to the visual editor

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

You can read and help translatethe user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, theVisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reportson mediawiki.org. Their workboard is availablein Phabricator. Theircurrent priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

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Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108,T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498,T110347,T63558) These"magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can nowupload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Images and media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and editsheetmusic in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227,T113354) When editingformulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types ofgraphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On theEnglish Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, underSpecial:Preferences.

You will soon be able toswitch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible asingle edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Àtúnṣe" and "Àtúnṣe àmìọ̀rọ̀" tabs into a single "Àtúnṣe" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Àtúnṣe" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

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If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 18:17, 30 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2015 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.

TheCommunity Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting aCommunity Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team viaMediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 21:57, 9 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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Hello!Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, seeScholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you canvolunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translatescholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:48, 10 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2015 (UTC)

Harassment consultation

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Please help translate to your language

The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic ofharassment onMeta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)

Regards,Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

This is a message regarding theproposed 2015 Free Bassel banner.Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that astraw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist,Bassel Khartabil. An exemplarybanner and anexplanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seekingyour involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone toget involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindlytranslate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by theMediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) •Translate •Get help

Community Wishlist Survey

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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team'sCommunity Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 14:38, 1 Oṣù Kejìlá 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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:

  • Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
  • Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
  • Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
  • Magiran (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
  • Civilica (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, includingEBSCO,DeGruyter, andNewspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org
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This is a message from theWikimedia Foundation.Translations are available.

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding theirevents on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

Everything is linked on theWikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and alist of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contactZachary McCune orJoe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by theMediaWiki message delivery, 20:59, 18 Oṣù Kejìlá 2015 (UTC) •Please help translate to your language •Ìrànlọ́wọ́

VisualEditor News #6—2015

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The visual editor

Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

Screenshot showing a pop-up dialog for switching from the wikitext editor to the visual editor

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going toSpecial:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

Screenshot showing a drop-down menu in Special:Preferences

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

You can read and help translatethe user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Read this in another language •Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter

Since the last newsletter, thevisual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is availablein Phabricator. Theircurrent priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

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You canswitch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. TheLaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Thesingle edit tab project will combine the "Àtúnṣe" and "Àtúnṣe àmìọ̀rọ̀" tabs into a single "Àtúnṣe" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398,T58337) Initially, the "Àtúnṣe" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Àtúnṣe ṣíṣẹ tab ofSpecial:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:Amharic,Buginese,Min Dong,Cree,Manx,Hakka,Armenian,Georgian,Pontic,Serbo-Croatian,Tigrinya,Mingrelian,Zhuang, andMin Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested atthe feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, thefeedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

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  • Please try the new system for thesingle edit tab ontest2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system atthe feedback topic on mediawiki.org orsign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
    • Remember my last editor,
    • Always give me the visual editor if possible,
    • Always give me the source editor, and
    • Show me both editor tabs. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
  • Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineerDavid Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions atWhat to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean -Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean -Japanese).

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to theTranslators mailing list orcontact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

Elitre (WMF), 00:06, 25 Oṣù Kejìlá 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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Please help translate to your language

A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:

Patrick Earley (WMF) viaMediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 01:49, 5 Oṣù Kínní 2016 (UTC)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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Please help translate to your language

Hello, all.

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)

Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion,2016 Strategy/Community consultation.

Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We createdm:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)

If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.

I hope you'll join us!Maggie Dennis viaMediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 19:06, 18 Oṣù Kínní 2016 (UTC)

Completion suggestor

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Updates to wiki search auto completion are arriving 10 March

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Hello!

Please help translate to your language. Thank you!

Thecompletion suggester beta feature will become the default at the first group of wikis onThursday, 10 March. This initial rollout will start with some of the smaller wikis to ensure the change happens in an organized way. The remaining wikis will receive the update on Wednesday, 16 March. This update brings three major improvements to search. Improved search result ordering, a tolerance for a small number of spelling errors, and suggests fewer typos.

Since December 2015, 19,000 editors have already opted into the completion suggester beta feature. Contributors are encouraged totry out the feature ahead of the release. Please share any comments on the Completion Suggesterdiscussion page in any language.

To learn more about the work of the Discovery department and other improvements to search, please check outthe Wikimedia blog. Read aboutCirrusSearch, the MediaWiki extension that makes wiki search possible.
-User:CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:09, 7 Oṣù Kẹta 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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 access to research materials from:

  • Cambridge University Press - a major publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. Access includes both Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books. 25 accounts.
  • Alexander StreetAcademic Video Online - a large academic video collection good for a wide range of subjects, including news programs (such as PBS and BBC), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. 25 accounts.
  • Baylor University Press - a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. 50 accounts.
  • Future Science Group - a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. 30 accounts.
  • Annual Reviews - a publisher of review articles in the biomedical sciences. 100 accounts.
  • Miramar Ship Index - an index to ships and their histories since the early 19th century. 30 accounts.

Non-English

  • Noormags - Farsi-language aggregator of academic and professional journals and magazines. 30 accounts.
  • Kotobna - Arabic-language ebook publishing platform. 20 accounts.

Expansions

  • Gale - aggregator of newspapers, magazines and journals. 50 accounts.
  • Elsevier ScienceDirect - an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. 100 accounts.

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, includingProject MUSE,De Gruyter,EBSCO,Newspapers.com andBritish Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 20:30, 17 Oṣù Kẹta 2016 (UTC)


You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
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Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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Greetings! TheIndividual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

With thanks,I JethroBT (WMF) 15:47, 31 Oṣù Kẹta 2016 (UTC)

Server switch 2016

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TheWikimedia Foundation will be testing its newest data center in Dallas.This will make sure 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 new data center onTuesday, 19 April.
OnThursday, 21 April, 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 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).

If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.Then you should be able to save your edit.But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

  • Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.

Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.

  • There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April.

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22.April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org.They will post any changes on that schedule.There will be more notifications about this.Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:07, 17 Oṣù Kẹrin 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon

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Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix ithere.

This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please,join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best,Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:35, 21 Oṣù Kẹrin 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun

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Hello, after six weeks of community discussion aboutWikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today,you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best,Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:31, 10 Oṣù Kẹfà 2016 (UTC)


Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves

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Ẹpẹ̀lẹ́ o ẹ̀yin olóòtú Yoruba Wikipedia,

Inú mi dùn lati fi tó yin létí wípé ìdíje Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves pẹ̀lú àjọṣepò UNESCO ti bẹ̀rẹ̀ lóṣù yí. Fún ẹ̀kun rẹ́rẹ́ àlàyé nípa ìdíje yìí ẹ woibí. Ẹsé adúpẹ́.Wikicology (ọ̀rọ̀) 17:03, 11 Oṣù Kẹfà 2016 (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in theTech News.Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the soon for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in theproject documentation.

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to useMassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated onthis page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team:Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-13:06, 29 Oṣù Kẹfà 2016 (UTC)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found inthe documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox underUser Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on theproject talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are onthis phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to useMassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team:Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-03:05, 1 Oṣù Keje 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit

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Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find anoverview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!

Best,Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 14:10, 1 Oṣù Keje 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2016

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VisualEditor
Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with many items

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "Àkójọpọ̀ àwọn ìtọ́kasí" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the Àkójọpọ̀ àwọn ìtọ́kasí. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

You can read and help translatethe user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, theVisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is availablein Phabricator. Theircurrent priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

The visual editor is now available to all users at mostWikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

Thesingle edit tab feature combines the "Àtúnṣe" and "Àtúnṣe àmìọ̀rọ̀" tabs into a single "Àtúnṣe" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Àtúnṣe ṣíṣẹ" tab ofSpecial:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

The "Ìdásí ojúewé" button will say "Ṣàtẹ̀jáde ojú ewé". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. Moreinformation is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining"Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested atthe feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including:Arabic,Hindi,Thai,Tamil,Marathi,Malayalam,Urdu,Persian,Bengali,Assamese,Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in ageneral status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

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m:User:Elitre (WMF), 17:20, 3 Oṣù Keje 2016 (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants

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Greetings! TheProject Grants program is accepting proposals from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Also accepting candidates tojoin the Project Grants Committee through July 15.
With thanks,I JethroBT (WMF) 15:25, 5 Oṣù Keje 2016 (UTC)

TheEditing team is planning to change the name of the“Ìdásí ojúewé” button to“Ṣàtẹ̀jáde ojú ewé” and“Ṣàtẹ̀jáde àtúnṣe”. “Ṣàtẹ̀jáde ojú ewé” will be used when you create a new page. “Ṣàtẹ̀jáde àtúnṣe” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[17][18]

This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced inTech News when it happens.

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for“Ṣàtẹ̀jáde ojú ewé” and“Ṣàtẹ̀jáde àtúnṣe”.

The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that“Ìdásí ojúewé” would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “Ìdásí ojúewé” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.

Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. TheLegal team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.

Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes{{int:Publishpage}} and{{int:Publishchanges}} to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings inyour account preferences, these wikitext codes produce “Ṣàtẹ̀jáde ojú ewé” and “Ṣàtẹ̀jáde àtúnṣe”.

Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:03, 9 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of ourpublisher donation program. You can now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

  • Nomos – Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
  • World Scientific – Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
  • Edinburgh University Press – Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
  • American Psychological Association – Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
  • Emerald – Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, includingProject MUSE,EBSCO,DeGruyter,Gale andNewspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:39, 30 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2016 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language! Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
From September 13th on,RevisionSlider will be available as abeta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from theGerman Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!
Birgit Müller (WMDE) 15:08, 12 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2016 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project

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Greetings! TheProject Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:11, 30 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2016 (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0

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Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested,take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki.

Apologies that this message is only in English.This message can be read and translated in more languages here.Joe Sutherland (talk) 01:35, 6 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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VisualEditor
Did you know?
Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?
Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with options for editing the table structure


Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translatethe user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, theVisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is availablein Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week atmw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Theircurrent priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as abeta feature, and improving language support.

  • You can now set text as small or big.[19]
  • Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[20] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[21]
  • Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[22]
  • At many wikis, you can now addmaps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.[23]
  • The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[24] In the future, the "Ìdásí ojúewé" button will say "Ṣàtẹ̀jáde ojú ewé". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. Moreinformation is available on Meta.
  • Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[25]

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10"Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested atthe feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, includingThai,Burmese andAramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in ageneral status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

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  • 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

17:49, 15 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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:

Expansions

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:30, 1 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2016 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

I apologise that this message is in English.⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽

We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.

Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.

In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation.Joe Sutherland (ọ̀rọ̀) /MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 23:59, 13 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2016 (UTC)

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

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Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!".Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) /MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 00:11, 14 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2016 (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext

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Summary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of awikitext mode for the visual editor. Pleasego try it out.


We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improvingthe visual editor based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.

Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to thecitoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.

All wikis now have access to this mode as aBeta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existingwikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly anopt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Automatically enable most beta features".

The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does thecurrent wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (andvice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy towork with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.

This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new modeon the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:32, 14 Oṣù Kejìlá 2016 (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.

This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.

The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.

Regular updates are being sent to theWikimedia-l mailing list, and postedon Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well.Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:

More information about the movement strategy is available on theMeta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted byMediaWiki message delivery on behalf of theWikimedia Foundation, 20:30, 15 Oṣù Kejì 2017 (UTC) •Please help translate to your language •Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

Regular updates are being sent to theWikimedia-l mailing list, and postedon Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well.Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:

More information about the movement strategy is available on theMeta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted byMediaWiki message delivery on behalf of theWikimedia Foundation, 19:43, 9 Oṣù Kẹta 2017 (UTC) •Please help translate to your language •Get help

We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)

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This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels 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).

Track B (individual contributors):On Meta or yourlocal language or project wiki.

This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?

We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.

Sincerely,

Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & theengagement support teams
05:09, 18 Oṣù Kẹta 2017 (UTC)

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message.This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.

TheBoard of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be foundon Meta-Wiki. Please read theletter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.

Thecandidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20.You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.

Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.

The goal of this process is to fill 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.
  • Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
    • 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-elections(at)wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair,Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted byMediaWiki message delivery on behalf of theWikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:37, 7 Oṣù Kẹrin 2017 (UTC) •Please help translate to your language •Get help

Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May

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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.

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:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 17:34, 11 Oṣù Kẹrin 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

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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!

-DBrant (WMF) 08:41, 14 Oṣù Kẹrin 2017 (UTC)

New Page previews feature

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New Page previews feature

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Hello,

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.

You can read more aboutthe feature andthe tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questionson the talk page.

Thank you,MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 16:52, 19 Oṣù Kẹrin 2017 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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:

Expansions

  • Gale – Biography In Context database added
  • Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, includingProject MUSE,EBSCO,Taylor & Francis andNewspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52, 2 Oṣù Kàrún 2017 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactAaron.
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This is a message from theWikimedia Foundation Elections Committee.Translations are available.

Voting has begun foreligible voters in the 2017 elections for theWikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

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.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14.Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair,Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

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19:15, 3 Oṣù Kàrún 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

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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!
Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:41, 8 Oṣù Kàrún 2017 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2017

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VisualEditor
Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

Screenshot showing some changes to an article. Most changes are highlighted with text formatting.
When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Review your changes".

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.


Toggle button showing visual and wikitext options; visual option is selected.


Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.


Screenshot showing the same changes, in the two-column wikitext diff display.


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.


Since the last newsletter, theVisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supportingthe 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and addingthe new visual diff tool. Their workboard is availablein Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week atmw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Theircurrent priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as abeta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

  • 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.[26]
  • The team have addedmulti-column support for lists of footnotes. The<references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You canrequest multi-column support for your wiki.[27]
  • 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.[28]
  • 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.[29]
  • The Àwọn ẹ̀ka item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access.[30] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.[31]
  • You can now create<chem> tags (sometimes used as<ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.[32]
  • Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.[33]
  • The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer,Tpt.[34]
  • 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.[35]
  • 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.[36]
  • 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.[37]
  • The kind of button used to Àyẹ̀wò, Ìfihàn àwọn àtúnṣe, 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.[38]
  • Theoutdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. Seea list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use.[39]
  • 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

18:06, 12 Oṣù Kàrún 2017 (UTC)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

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Hello,

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.

Thanks,Lea Lacroix (WMDE)

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.
Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:44, 16 Oṣù Kàrún 2017 (UTC)
Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have 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:

On themovement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.

Posted byMediaWiki message delivery on behalf of theWikimedia Foundation •Please help translate to your language •Get help
21:08, 16 Oṣù Kàrún 2017 (UTC)
Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee andFunds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates aton the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found 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.

Thecandidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28.You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.

The goal of this process is to fill 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

More information on this year's elections can be found atthe 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted onthe talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,board-elections(at)wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair,Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

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21:06, 23 Oṣù Kàrún 2017 (UTC)

Accessible editing buttons

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The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.

You can see and use 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 before the change
  • Buttons after 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.

This change will probably reach this wiki onTuesday, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note atmw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 10 Oṣù Keje 2017 (UTC)

Page Previews (Hovercards) update

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Hello,

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.

Thank you again.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:32, 20 Oṣù Keje 2017 (UTC)

RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"

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There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."

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.

Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf ofUser:Doc James.

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 21:06, 17 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2017 (UTC)

Discussion on synced reading lists

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Discussion on synced reading lists

Hello,

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.

Why not watchlists

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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.

More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.

Thank you

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35, 20 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2017 (UTC)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make iteasier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas fromthe research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. Theprototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF.Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, seethe project page on MediaWiki.org.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2017 (UTC)

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

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Hi all,

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.

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

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!

Best regards,David Richfield andMartin Rulsch for theScholarship Committee 19:24, 20 Oṣù Kejìlá 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians

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Greetings,

"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.

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 10:46, 21 Oṣù Kejìlá 2017 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use thevisual diff tool on any page?

Screenshot showing some changes, in the two-column wikitext diff display

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.

Toggle button showing visual and wikitext options; visual option is selected

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.

Screenshot showing the same changes to an article. Most changes are highlighted with text formatting.

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.

Sincethe last newsletter, theEditing Team has spent most of their time supportingthe 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improvingthe visual diff tool. Their work board is availablein Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week atmw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Theircurrent priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

  • 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.[40]
  • Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for boththe 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.[41]
  • Thecitoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up.Your wiki can have this service. Pleaseread the instructions. You canask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

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—Elitre (WMF)

20:56, 2 Oṣù Kẹta 2018 (UTC)
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!
Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 Oṣù Kàrún 2018 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of ourPublisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on theLibrary Card platform:

  • Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
  • Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
  • Termsoup – Translation tool

Expansions

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, includingBaylor University Press,Loeb Classical Library,Cairn,Gale andBloomsbury.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:03, 30 Oṣù Kàrún 2018 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Tidy to RemexHtml

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TheParsing team will bereplacing Tidy with RemexHtml at this wiki on 5 July 2018.

Some pages at this wiki use outdated HTML. This change may change the appearance of those pages.Special:LintErrors has a complete list of affected pages.

Readthis e-mail message for more information. Read the instructions atmw:Help:Extension:Linter. You can ask questions atmw:Talk:Parsing/Replacing Tidy. Thank you for helping fix these problems.

m:User:Elitre (WMF) 14:38, 2 Oṣù Keje 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

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Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your newglobal preferences page. Visitmediawiki.org for information on how to use them andleave feedback. --Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19:20, 10 Oṣù Keje 2018 (UTC)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

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Hi all!

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).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17:45, 30 Oṣù Keje 2018 (UTC)(viaglobal message delivery)

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

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Hi all,

asannounced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of theinterface-admin (Interface administrators) 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.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:40, 27 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2018 (UTC)(viaglobal message delivery)

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

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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)

13:33, 6 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Screenshot showing the location of the pencil icon

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

Toolbar with menu opened

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translatethe user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, theEditing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the2017 wikitext editor andthe visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is availablein Phabricator. Theircurrent priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Let's work together

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  • 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.
  • TheCommunity Wishlist Survey begins next week.
  • 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. Thank you!

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:17, 2 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2018 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

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Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Please help translate to your language

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.

For template editors we havesome recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also furtherdocumentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile,please leave a note on the project talk page orfile a task in Phabricator and we will help you.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:35, 13 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2018 (UTC)
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.
Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:03, 26 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2018 (UTC)

Hi!

I'm very happy to announce that the keyboard support for five languages of Africa has improved!

The languages are Ewe, Fon, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba. The improved typing support is usable on any desktop computer with a browser with JavaScript enabled. It is installed in Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, and also on translatewiki.net.

These typing tools don't require the installation of any software on your computers, or using any key combinations (like Alt or Ctrl). Most special characters are typed on these keyboards by typing the tilde (~) character before the special letter.

See the full documentation here:

Some thanks and credits:The Fon keyboard was originally made by Mahuton Possoupe at the Barcelona Hackathon. This week I updated it with some more necessary characters by Mahuton's request.The Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba keyboards were requested by User:HandsomeBoy athttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Editing/Add_key_mapping_for_Yoruba,_Igbo,_and_Hausa_to_ULS .The keyboard for Ewe was requested by Felix Nartey.Kartik Mistry was very helpful with reviewing the code for the keyboards, and of course I thank all the developers of jquery.ime (https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/ ), the underlying technology that was used to make them.

If you have any questions about these keyboards, or if you want to request keyboard support for more languages, please reach out to me or leave a note at the talk page:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods

--Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִיhttp://aharoni.wordpress.com‪“We're living in pieces,I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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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!

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 10:13, 27 Oṣù Kejìlá 2018 (UTC)

Machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation

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Hello, machine translation support forContent Translation (beta feature) has now been extended and enabled for users of this Wikipedia, with the inclusion ofGoogle Translate. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles with Content Translation. To start using this service, please chooseGoogle Translate from theAutomatic Translation dropdown menu that you see on the sidebar after you start translating an article.

Please note, machine translation is available from all the languages that are supported by Google Translate, but Content Translation can still be used in the usual manner for translating from all languages, with or without machine translation support. While machine translation exists to aid creation of content conveniently, we would like to emphasise that before publishing, the final content should always be reviewed to avoid errors and ambiguity. We hope that your wiki community will find this new service useful, and that it will help you create more articles in your language.

Wikimedia Foundation and Google have collaborated to work outan agreement that allows the use of Google Translate without compromising Wikipedia’s policy of attribution of rights, privacy of our users and brand representation. For more information, we request you to kindly take a look at the details aboutmachine translation services in Content Translation and aboutGoogle Translate translation services. You can also read themain announcement on Wikimedia news. Please note, translations made using Content Translation are also used to improve machine translation services.

We have tested the service for use, but there could be unknown problems that we are not aware of yet. Please do let us know on ourProject Talk page if you face any problems using Content Translation. This message is only in English and we will be very grateful if it could be translated into for other users of this Wikipedia.

Thank you. -- On behalf of WMF Language team:Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 16:15, 9 Oṣù Kínní 2019 (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

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Coming soon: the beta featureFileExporter

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.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 Oṣù Kínní 2019 (UTC)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

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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)

18:55, 16 Oṣù Kínní 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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"icon depicting two speech Bubbles"

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:

  1. First,sign up your group here.
  2. 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.
  3. 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:
    1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
    2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
    3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
    4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
    5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
  4. Finally, please go toTalk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell ushow your group communicates.

You can read more aboutthe overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you canleave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 15:01, 21 Oṣù Kejì 2019 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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 on theLibrary Card platform:

  • Kinige – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
  • Gale – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
  • JSTOR – New applications now being taken again

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed onour partners page, includingBaylor University Press,Taylor & Francis,Cairn,Annual Reviews andBloomsbury. You can request new partnerships on ourSuggestions page.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 17:40, 13 Oṣù Kẹta 2019 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contactOcaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April

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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)
10:57, 8 Oṣù Kẹrin 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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Please help translate to your language

The Wikimedia Foundation has published aMedium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, onthe talk page, by April 20. Thank you!Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:35, 12 Oṣù Kẹrin 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

Toolbar with menu opened

This is what the newEdit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here:📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to theEditing newsletter.

Sincethe last newsletter, the team has released two new features for themobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal tomake editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

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:

  1. Section editing
    • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
    • The team studied this with an A/B test.This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
  2. Loading overlay
    • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay arenow available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

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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.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) &Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:32, 23 Oṣù Keje 2019 (UTC)

Update on the consultation about office actions

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Hello all,

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 08:03, 16 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2019 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

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Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what 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.

Johan (WMF)
14:18, 21 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

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Hello,

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)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimediansto join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

  • Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);
  • Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or
  • Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

--Kbrown (WMF) 17:14, 30 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2019 (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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Hello. 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

Please give all feedback (in any language) atmw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

Thank you!Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

07:18, 16 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2019 (UTC)

Beta feature "Reference Previews"

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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.

--Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:47, 23 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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Inside this newsletter, theEditing team talks about their work on themobile visual editor, onthe new talk pages project, and atWikimania 2019.

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.

Talk pages project

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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.

Mobile visual editor

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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.

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.
The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together.Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.
  • In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
    • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
    • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
    • Seamless switching: 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.

The Editing Team attendedWikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session onthe mobile visual editor and a session onthe new talk pages project. They testedtwo newfeatures in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned inthe team's report on Wikimania 2019.

  • 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.

–PPelberg (WMF) (talk) &Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

11:12, 29 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2019 (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

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Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project,please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please 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!

--LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 22 Oṣù Kínní 2020 (UTC)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

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Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look atthe planned feature. Let us know what you think on ourcentral feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team:Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:15, 26 Oṣù Kejì 2020 (UTC)


Notification: Rollback & Account Creator User Right

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Hello everyone

I apologize for posting in English. I am happy to inform you that "Rollback" and "account creator" user right has been deployed to this wiki following a successful request. You can now request for these rights and any administrator on Yoruba Wikipedia may grant it, following a successful request for permission at the relevant page. In the interim, request could be made directly to any administrator pending the development of the "request for permission" page. Thanks for all your contributions to Yoruba Wikipedia. Regards.T CellsTalk 12:37, 6 Oṣù Kẹrin 2020 (UTC)

I applaud this step as recognition of the Yoruba WP as a thriving, active project. Thanks to AdminT Cells for initiating and promoting the process, so editors can contribute more productively and easily in maintaining good content.--Deborahjay (ọ̀rọ̀) 15:00, 6 Oṣù Kẹrin 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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Screenshot showing what the Reply tool looks like
This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

TheEditing team has been working onthe talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of theTalk pages consultation 2019.

Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons
In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building anew tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically.Pleasetest the new Reply tool.

  • On 31 March 2020, the new ìdáhùn tool was offered as aBeta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:Arabic,Dutch,French, andHungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contactUser:Whatamidoing (WMF).
  • 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.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the"Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages:the main project page,Updates,Replying, andUser testing.

–PPelberg (WMF) (talk) &Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

19:27, 8 Oṣù Kẹrin 2020 (UTC)


Afrocuration project

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Hi all, I am part of the Afrocuration project that creates articles relating to Covid-19. I will be creating a couple of articles. I unfortunately don't speak the language and the articles I'm posting is not created by my. I will add a "Afrocuration" comment on every page I create, and also the author's name. Please correct any mistakes. Kind regardsDumbassman (ọ̀rọ̀) 20:12, 30 Oṣù Kàrún 2020 (UTC)

oníṣe:Dumbassman, thanks for this information. However, I have deleted the article you created on face masks as it appears to have been translated by a machine. Yoruba Wikipedia does not allow machine translation. Please inform your translators to refrain from translating articles (contents) with machines. Regards.T CellsTalk 07:16, 31 Oṣù Kàrún 2020 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I will cease all editing until this is resolved. Kind RegardsDumbassman (ọ̀rọ̀) 12:02, 31 Oṣù Kàrún 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2

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Mockup of the new reply feature, showing new editing tools
The new features include a toolbar.What do you think should be in the toolbar?

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 "Discussion tools". 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.
  • New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You cansee the initial design on the project page.
  • 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.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

20:33, 17 Oṣù Kẹfà 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the upcoming WPWP Campaign

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Hello Wikipedians,

This is to invite you to join theWPWP Campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign will run from 1st July 2020 to 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 - 21:32, 18 Oṣù Kẹfà 2020 (UTC)

Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)

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 - 08:24, 1 Oṣù Keje 2020 (UTC)

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Feedback on movement names

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Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language if necessary. Thank you!

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, 19:42, 2 Oṣù Keje 2020 (UTC)

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.

Editing news 2020 #3

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A gold star with a blue ribbon, and the text 50m
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.
  • On 17 November 2019, thefirst edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
  • 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.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:55, 9 Oṣù Keje 2020 (UTC)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

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Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020[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.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

  1. ↑Abstract Wikipedia
  2. ↑User:Denny
  3. ↑Abstract Wikipedia mailing list
Sent bym:User:Elitre (WMF) 20:10, 9 Oṣù Keje 2020 (UTC) -m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis

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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.

If you want to know more about theFileImporter extension or theTechnical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:
Max Klemm (WMDE) 09:14, 6 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

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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.

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:49, 26 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2020 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of ourresearch access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on theLibrary Card platform:

Many other partnerships are listed onour partners page, includingAdam Matthew,EBSCO,Gale andJSTOR.

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 09:49, 3 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2020 (UTC)

This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Invitation to participate in the conversation

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Hello. 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. Please help translate to your language. Thank you!

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.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see theUniversal Code of Conduct page, and theFAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions,The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 17:55, 10 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2020 (UTC) 

Wiki of functions naming contest

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Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library 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. Thank you! --Quiddity (WMF)
21:23, 29 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2020 (UTC)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

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Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language.

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.

Thank you!Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:17, 7 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

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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.
--Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:11, 21 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2020 (UTC)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

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Hello.Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki.Thank you! --Quiddity (WMF)

22:10, 5 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2020 (UTC)

The2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open!This survey is the process where communities decide what theCommunity Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better.The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors.You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:09, 20 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist

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Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available 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!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:39, 30 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2020 (UTC)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

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Hello all,

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!

You will find more informationhere about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention,Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:55, 7 Oṣù Kejìlá 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

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We invite all registered users to vote on the2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, theCommunity Tech, are one of theWikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

You can view and vote all proposals here.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

00:52, 15 Oṣù Kejìlá 2020 (UTC)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

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Wikimania's logo.

Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language. Thank you!

Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again,the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about howyou can get involved in the planningprocess and other aspects of the event.Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, 15:16, 27 Oṣù Kínní 2021 (UTC)

Project Grant Open Call

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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:

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!

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsÀdàkọ:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language.MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 08:01, 28 Oṣù Kínní 2021 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of ourresearch access program. You can sign up to access research materials on theLibrary Card platform:

  • Taxmann – Taxation and law database
  • 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!

This message was delivered via theGlobal Mass Message tool toThe Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

--12:57, 1 Oṣù Kejì 2021 (UTC)

Feminism & Folklore 1 February - 31 March

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Greetings!

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.

Feminism and Folklore team,

Joy Agyepong (talk) 02:40, 16 Oṣù Kejì 2021 (UTC)

Wikifunctions logo contest

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Hello. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at Meta-Wiki. Thank you! --Quiddity (WMF)
01:47, 2 Oṣù Kẹta 2021 (UTC)

Ìpele Ìkejì Àlàkalẹ̀ Gbogboògbọ̀ fún Ìhùwàsí

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Àlàkalẹ̀ Gbogboògbò fún Ìhùwàsí (UCoC) yìí ṣ'ètò ìpelẹ̀sẹ̀ iwà tí ó bójú mu fún àjọṣepọ̀ Wikimedia àti àwọn iṣẹ́ àkànṣe rẹ̀ẹ̀. kárí àgbáyé. Iṣẹ́ yìí wà ni ipele ìkejì lọ́wọ́, pẹ̀lú ìjíròrò lóri bí a ṣelè gbé òfin yìí ró. O lè kà si lóri iṣẹ́ yìí nípa lílọ síojú-ewé rẹẹ̀.

Ìgbìmọ̀ Abánikọ:Ìpè fún ìdarapọ̀

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Wikimedia Foundation ngba àwọn olùfarajìn lọ́wọ́ láti darapọ̀ mọ́ ìgbìmọ̀ tí yíò kọ bí a ṣelè gbé òfin UCoC ró. Àwọn olùfarajìn lórí ìgbìmọ̀ yìí yó jọ̀wọ́ láàrin wákàtí méjì sí mẹ́fà lọ́sọ̀ọ̀sẹ̀, láti oṣù kẹ́rin títí dé oṣù kéje, àti láti oṣù kẹ́wà sí oṣù kọ́kànlá. Ó ṣe pàtàkì fún ìgbìmọ̀ yìí láti ní onírúurú ènìyàn, tí ó ní oríṣiríṣi ìrírí, yálà àwọn oníṣé tí óti pẹ́ nínú àjọṣepọ̀ yìí tàbí àwọn tí ó ṣẹ̀ darapọ̀, àti àwọn tí ó ti jẹ́ olùfaragba ìyọnu lọ́nà kan tàbí òmíràn, pẹ̀lú àwọn tí ati fi èsùn èké ìyọlẹ́nu kàn.

Láti f'orúkọ sílẹ̀ tàbí mọ̀ si nípa ètò yìí, woÀlàkalẹ̀ Gbogboògbọ̀ fún Ìhùwàsí/Ìgbìmọ̀ Abánikọ

Ìjíròrò 2021: Àkíyèsí àti ìpè fún àwọn olùfarajìn/onítúmọ̀

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Láti 5 April - 5 May 2021, àwọn ìjíròrò yí ò wáyé nínu ọ̀pọ̀ àwọn iṣẹ́ àkànṣẹ Wikimedia lórí ìgbófinró UCoC. À nwá àwọn olùfarajìn láti túnmọ̀ àwọn ohun èlò pàtàkì àti láti darí àwọn ìjíròrò ní èdè tàbí iṣẹ́ Wikimedia wọn nípa líloàwọn ìbéèrè pàtàkì tí a dá lábàá. Tí ó bá wù ọ́ láti farajìn fún ọ̀kan lára àwọn ipọ̀ wọ̀nyí, jọ̀wọ́késí wa nínú irú èdè tí ó bá rọrùn fún ọ.

Láti mọ̀ si nípa iṣẹ́ yìí àti àwọ̀n ìjíròrò míràn tí o nlọ lọ́wọ́, woÀlàkalẹ̀ Gbogboògbọ̀ fún Ìhùwàsí/Àwọ̀n ìjíròrò 2021.

--SOyeyele (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 20:37, 5 Oṣù Kẹrin 2021 (UTC)

Improving the translation support for Yoruba Wikipedia

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Hello!

Apologies as this message is not in your native language, Please help translate to your language.

Content translation has been successful in supporting the translation process on many Wikipedia communities, and we want to help additional wikis with the potential to grow using translation as part ofa new initiative.


Content translation facilitates the creation of Wikipedia articles by translating content from other languages. It has been used already to create more than half a million articles. In addition, the tool providesmechanisms to encourage the creation of good quality content, preventing the publication of lightly edited machine translations. In general, our analysis shows that the translations produced areless likely to be deleted than the articles started from scratch.


Yoruba Wikipedia editors have used Content translation to createmore than eight hundred and ninety articles. Given the size of your editing community, we think that there is potential to use translation to create more articles, expand existing ones, and attract new editors that learn how to make productive edits. Translation can help the community to reduce the language gap with other languages and grow the number of editors in a sustainable way. In order to achieve this goal, we want to collaborate with you to make Content translation more visible in the Yoruba Wikipedia and support new ways to translate.


As a first step, during the next weeks, we plan to enable Content translation by default on Yoruba Wikipedia. That will make it easy for users to discover the toolthrough several entry points. However, users not interested in translation will still be able to disable it from their preferences.


Please feel free to share any comment in this conversation thread.


Thanks!

UOzurumba (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 09:28, 8 Oṣù Kẹrin 2021 (UTC)

Line numbering coming soon to all wikis

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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.

More information can be found onthis project page. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedbackon this talk page.

--Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 15:09, 12 Oṣù Kẹrin 2021 (UTC)

Suggested Values

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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.

Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 14:09, 22 Oṣù Kẹrin 2021 (UTC)

Invitation for Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021

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Hello there,

We are inviting you to participate inWikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021, a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2021.

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.

In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.

The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language WP. We’d be glad for you to reply to this message, or sign up directly atWPWP Participating Communities.

Please feel free to contactOrganizing Team if you have any query.

Kind regards,
Tulsi Bhagat
Communication Manager
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign
Message delivered byMediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 06:24, 2 Oṣù Kàrún 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

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Ìròyìn Àlàkalẹ̀ Gbogboògbò fún Ìhùwàsí
Abala àkọ́kọ́, Oṣù kẹ́fà 2021Ka ẹ̀kúnrẹ́rẹ́ ìròyìn

A kí yin káàbọ̀ sí abala àkọ́kọ́ ÌròyìnÀlàkalẹ̀ Gbogboògbò fún Ìhùwàsí! Ìwé ìròyìn yìí yio ran àwọn ará àjọṣepọ̀ Wikimedia lọ́wọ́ láti mọ àwọn ohun tó nṣẹlẹ̀ lọ́wọ́lọ́wọ́ lórí ìlànà yìí àti bí wọ́n ṣe lè túnbọ̀ kọ́pa nínú ètò náà. A ó tún pín àwọn ìròyìn, ìwádìí, àti àwọn àpèjọ tó jọmọ́ UCoC tó nbọ̀ lọ́nà.

Ẹ jọ̀wọ́ kí è si wípé, èyí ni abala àkọ́kọ́ ìwé-ìròyìn UCoC, tí a fi ránṣẹ́ sí gbogbo àwọn olùfọrúkọ sílẹ̀ àti gbogbo abẹ́-igi iṣẹ́-àkànṣe, gẹ́gẹ́ bí ìkéde fún ètò ìròyìn yìí. Tí ẹ bá fẹ́ kí a fi àwọn abala tó nbọ̀ ránṣẹ́ sí ojú-ewé ọ̀rọ̀ yin, abẹ́ igi iṣẹ́-àkànṣe yín, tàbí ojú-ewé ké'wé tó tọ̀nà, ẹ fi orúkọ yín tàbí ti ojú-ewé náàkalẹ̀ sí bí.

E lè ràn wá lọ́wọ́ láti ma túnmọ̀ àwọn abala ìwé-ìròyìn yìí sí èdè ìbílẹ̀ yín, kí a lè pólóngó ìròyìn nípa ìlànà yìí, kí a sì pèsè àbò fún gbogbo wa nínú àjọṣepọ̀ tí gbogbo wa fẹ́ràn yìí. Ẹ jọ̀wọ́ fi orúkọ yín sílẹ̀níbí tí ẹ bá fẹ́ kí a ké sí yín fún ìtumọ̀ àwọn abala ìwé ìròyìn wa, kí a tó tẹ̀ wọ́n jádèe. Ìkópa yín ṣe pàtàkì fún wa.

  • Àwọn ìkànsí àti ìjíròrò àwọn ilé-iṣẹ́ Wikimedia – A fi ìpè ránṣẹ́ sí àwọn ilé-iṣẹ́ Wikimedia ní oríṣiríṣi ìwọ̀n àti irú àti ìrírí láti kọ́pa nínú àwọn ìjíròrò ati ìkànsí UCoC ní oṣù kẹ́ta títí dé oṣù kẹrìn 2021. (ka ẹ̀kúnrẹ́rẹ́)
  • Àwọn ìkànsí àti ìjíròrò gbòógì 2021 – Wikimedia Foundation ṣ'ètò ìjíròrò àwọn ìbéèrè ìgbófìnró ní oṣù kẹ́rìn àti oṣù káàrún 2021, láti gba èsì kalẹ̀ lórí ìgbófìnró UCoC lát'ọ̀dọ̀ àwọn ará àjọṣepọ̀ Wikimedia. (ka ẹ̀kúnrẹ́rẹ́)
  • Àwọn ìpàdé ìjíròrò – Àwọn olùṣètò UCoC ṣ'ètò ìpàdé ìjíròrò gbangba méjì tí ó wáyé fún ìṣẹ́jú àádọ̀rún ní oṣù káàrún 2021 láti jíròrò lórí àwọn ìbéèrè gbóògì ìgbófìnró fún UCoC. Àwọn ìpàdé míìràn sì tún nbọ̀ lọ́nà. (ka ẹ̀kúnrẹ́rẹ́)
  • Ìgbìmọ̀ fún kíkọ ipele ìkejì – Ìgbìmọ̀ fún kíkọ ipele ìkejì ti UCoC bẹ̀ẹ̀rẹ̀ iṣẹ́ ní ọjọ́ kejìlá oṣù káàrún 2021. Kà síbẹ̀ si lórí iṣẹ́ wọn.(ka ẹ̀kúnrẹ́rẹ́)
  • Búlọ́ọ̀gì Diff – Àwọn olùṣètò UCoC kọ oríṣiríṣi búlọ́ọ̀gì lórí àwọn àkíyèsí àti èsì tí wọ́n rí gbà lát'ọ̀dọ̀ àwọn ará àjọṣepọ̀ ìbílẹ̀ tí wọ́n kàn sí ní ìbẹ̀rẹ̀ odún 2021. (ka ẹ̀kúnrẹ́rẹ́)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

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Dear all,

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.

Below are some links to guide you through;

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.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 04:18, 16 Oṣù Kẹfà 2021 (UTC)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

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Junior contributors comment completion rate across all participating Wikipedias
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.

The next step is toresolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to theWikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion tools"in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time inSpecial:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:14, 24 Oṣù Kẹfà 2021 (UTC)

Server switch

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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.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) 01:19, 27 Oṣù Kẹfà 2021 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library collections and design update (August 2021)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says log in today!

The Wikipedia Library is pleased to announce the addition of new collections, alongside a new interface design. New collections include:

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 13:23, 11 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2021 (UTC)

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The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January

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Hello everyone,

We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.

Summary:

We will be running theCommunity Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use adedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.

Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year

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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

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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

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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

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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!

  • What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
  • How would you like to use our newsandbox?
  • What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
  • What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?

Answer on thetalk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:23, 7 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2021 (UTC)

Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021

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Movement Strategy announcesthe Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.

The Committee is expected to representdiversity in the Movement. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.

We are looking for people who have some of the followingskills:

  • Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
  • Are ready to find compromises.
  • Focus on inclusion and diversity.
  • Have knowledge of community consultations.
  • Have intercultural communication experience.
  • Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
  • Have experience negotiating with different parties.

The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.

Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacyhere. Please contact strategy2030(_AT_)wikimedia.org with questions.

Xeno (WMF) 17:02, 10 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2021 (UTC)

Server switch

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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.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 00:45, 11 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2021 (UTC)

Talk to the Community Tech

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Hello!

As we haverecently announced, we, the team working on theCommunity Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place onSeptember 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour.Click here to join.

Agenda

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add themon the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (theCommunity Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.

Invitation link

See you!SGrabarczuk (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 03:04, 11 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2021 (UTC)

Select You the question statements for candidates of Drafting Committee Movement Charter

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Into 2021-10-04 11:59:59 UTC you can selectquestion statements for thecandidates ofDrafting CommitteeMovement Charter. ✍️Dušan Kreheľ (ọ̀rọ̀) 23:39, 29 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2021 (UTC)

Feminism and Folklore 2022

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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...

Thank you.

Feminism and Folklore Team,

Tiven2240--05:49, 11 Oṣù Kínní 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

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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.

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 04:50, 22 Oṣù Kejì 2022 (UTC)

Coming soon

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Several improvements around templates

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Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:

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.
-Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12:39, 28 Oṣù Kejì 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow

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International photographic contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.

(Facebook ,Twitter ,Instagram)

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.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international TeamMediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 14:40, 14 Oṣù Kẹta 2022 (UTC)

Feminism and Folklore 2022 ends soon

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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.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international TeamMediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 14:29, 26 Oṣù Kẹta 2022 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now - April 2022

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library has free access to new paywalled reliable sources. You can these and dozens more collections athttps://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/:

  • 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 13:17, 26 Oṣù Kẹrin 2022 (UTC)

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Coming soon: Improvements for templates

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Fundamental changes in the template dialog.

Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:

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.

Insyntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), you can activate acolorblind-friendly color scheme with a user setting.

Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements fromWMDE Technical Wishes' focus area “Templates”.

We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!

--Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 11:14, 29 Oṣù Kẹrin 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #1

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Read this in another language •Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter

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.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:55, 2 Oṣù Kàrún 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the #WPWPCampaign 2022

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Dear Wikimedians,

We are glad to inform you that the 2022 edition of Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign is coming up in July.

This is a formal invitation to invite individuals and communities to join the campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and contextual images.

The campaign will run from July 1 to August 31, 2022 and several communities and Wikimedia Affiliates have already indicated interest to organize the campaign in their localities. Please find your community or community closer to you to participate:WPWP2022 Campaign: Participating Communities.

The campaign primarily aims to promote using images from Wikimedia Commons to enrich Wikipedia articles that are lacking them. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, 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. In this third edition of the campaign, eligibility criteria have been revised based on feedback and campaign Evaluation Reports of the previous editions. Please find moredetails about these changes and our FAQ here on Meta-Wiki

For more information, please visit thecampaign page on Meta-Wiki.

Best,
Ammar A.
Global Coordinator
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2022.
17:38, 31 Oṣù Kàrún 2022 (UTC)

Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!

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Hi, Greetings

The winners forWiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!

We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see 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.

Thank you,

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 16:13, 4 Oṣù Keje 2022 (UTC)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

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The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of 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.

  • Top of an article
  • Vector legacy (current default)
    Vector legacy (current default)
  • Vector 2022
    Vector 2022
  • A section of an article
  • Vector legacy (current default)
    Vector legacy (current default)
  • Vector 2022
    Vector 2022

[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.

How can editors change and customize this skin?

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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.

If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on thetalk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also,see our FAQ. Thank you!SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 04:15, 22 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2022 (UTC)

Update on Vector 2022

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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 invite you toget involved in the project. Contact us if you have any questions or need any help, particularly with the compatibility of gadgets and user scripts. Thank you!SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 23:24, 19 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2022 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January!

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Hello

TheCommunity Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday,23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

  • Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
  • Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
  • Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
  • Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them inthe CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

Thank you!Community Tech,STei (WMF) 12:59, 13 Oṣù Kejìlá 2022 (UTC)

Àyọkà yí kò ní ìtumọ̀

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Copied fromỌ̀rọ̀:12979 Evgalvasilʹev

Mo fi àsìkò yí pe olóòtú àgbàOníṣe:T Cells láti gbé ìgbésẹ̀ tí ṣe pàtàkì lórí àwọn àyọkà tí kò ní ìtumọ̀ tí kò sì ní ọ̀nà kan kan tí ó lè gbé ye ni tíKwamikagami ṣe ń ṣe ìdásilẹ̀ wọn pẹ̀lú bí a ti ń wá bí a ti ń wá ojú ìtú sí ẹgbẹgbérún irú rẹ̀ tí wọ́n wà lórí Wikipedia èdè Yorùbá.Agbalagba (ọ̀rọ̀) 13:53, 12 Oṣù Kejìlá 2022 (UTC)

@Agbalagba: Sorry, I can't write in Yoruba.
Do you mean that you think these minimal asteroid articles are useless? I agree; on English Wikipedia, if all we wrote in an article was "12979 Evgalvasilʹev is a minor planet in the asteroid belt", then it would be replaced with a redirect to a list of asteroids. In fact, if you follow the interwiki link of this article to WP-en, you'll see exactly that.
As for me, all I did was correct the name. (Explanation: the <ʹ> is not an apostrophe [a punctuation mark], but rather the Cyrillic letter <ь>. The international scholarly convention is to render that with <ʹ>.) I could not move the article (this title is forbidden), so I created a new one.
Meanwhile there are maybe another 20 articles with the same error. I'll continue working on them, but I have no objection to these and similar articles being converted into redirects. Anyway, my contribution so far is 12 articles, not "thousands".Kwamikagami (ọ̀rọ̀) 18:53, 12 Oṣù Kejìlá 2022 (UTC)

I copied the above thread here fromỌ̀rọ̀:12979 Evgalvasilʹev. My question for the community: should these hundreds, maybe thousands, of stub asteroid articles be consolidated into a list? I agree with Oníṣe:Agbalagba that they are nearly useless, if all they say is "X is an asteroid".

Another possibility would be to add an info-box template, that would automatically transclude orbital etc. information from Wikidata. That would be more useful than a consolidated list. None of the transcluded information would be in Yoruba, but it would mostly be numbers and metric units, so maybe that wouldn't matter.Kwamikagami (ọ̀rọ̀) 21:39, 14 Oṣù Kejìlá 2022 (UTC)

Movement Charter: End of the community consultation round 1

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Hi everyone,

On behalf of theMovement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC), we would like to thank everyone who has participated in our firstcommunity wide consultation period on the Movement Charter.

People from across the movement shared their feedback and thoughts on the content of theMovement Charter. If you have not had the chance to share your opinion yet, you are welcome to do so bygiving the drafts a read and filling out theanonymous survey, which is accessible in 12+ languages. The survey will close onJanuary 2, 2023. You are invited to continue to share your thoughts with the MCDC via email too: movementcharter@wikimedia.org.

What’s next?

TheMovement Strategy and Governance team will publish the final report with a summary of the feedback received in January 2023. It will be shared with the MCDC and the communities via different distribution channels.

After receiving the final report, the MCDC will review the suggestions and communicate the changes by providing an explanation on how and why suggestions were or were not adopted in the next versions of the drafts. There will be additional ways to engage with the Movement Charter content in 2023, including early feedback on a proposed ratification process and new drafts of different chapters in the second quarter of 2023.

We invite you to sign up for theMCDC monthly newsletter, which will be delivered to the Talk page of your choice.Monthly updates are available on Meta to stay updated on the progress of the MCDC.

Interested people can still sign-up to become aMovement Charter Ambassador (MC Ambassador) to support their community. MC Ambassadors Program will restart accepting applications from both individuals and groups ahead of the next round of consultations in the second quarter of 2023.

We thank you for your participation, time, and effort in helping to build the charter for our movement!

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee

Zuz (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 10:16, 16 Oṣù Kejìlá 2022 (UTC)

Feminism and Folklore 2023

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Dear Wiki Community,

Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,

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:

  1. Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
  2. Set up a fountain tool or dashboard.
  3. Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
  4. Request local admins for site notice.
  5. 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.

We look forward to your immense coordination.

Thank you and Best wishes,

Feminism and Folklore 2023 International Team

Stay connected 

--MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 10:24, 24 Oṣù Kejìlá 2022 (UTC)


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Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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Hello all,

In mid-January 2023, theEnforcement Guidelines for theUniversal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This followsthe March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’sCommunity Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.

The volunteer-ledRevisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.

The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewedhere, and a comparison of changes can be foundhere.

How to vote?

BeginningJanuary 17, 2023, voting will be open.This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.

Who can vote?

Theeligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.

What happens after the vote?

Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

Zuz (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 08:52, 10 Oṣù Kínní 2023 (UTC)

Community feedback cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of use starts

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Hello everyone,

Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.

This update comes in response to several things:

  • Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
  • Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
  • Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
  • Bringing our terms in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.

For further information, please consult:

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

Zuz (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 13:07, 21 Oṣù Kejì 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Zuz (WMF), thank you for sharing this timely information, this is a good step in the right direction. We would be engaging the term of use feedback survey and also look forward to having a robust discussion around the focal topics.
Thank you.Agbalagba (ọ̀rọ̀) 13:34, 22 Oṣù Kejì 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Agbalagba, I am happy to share. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me in case you have questions or need assistance sharing your feedback in the ongoing feedback cycle, best,Zuz (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 15:12, 1 Oṣù Kẹta 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about theEditing team's work:

  1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to theTalk pages project and deploy it.
  2. They are beginning a new project,Edit check.

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of theTalk pages project. Nearly allnew features are available now in theBeta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Àfikún orí-ọ̀rọ̀" button. You will be able to turn them off atSpecial:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Pleasetell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test forDiscussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors weremore successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginninga project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Ṣàtẹ̀jáde àtúnṣe". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Pleasewatch that page for more information. You canjoin a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 23:24, 22 Oṣù Kejì 2023 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read only soon

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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.

All traffic will switch on1 March. The test will start at14:00 UTC.

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 Wednesday 1 March 2023.
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Trizek (WMF) (Ọ̀rọ̀) 21:21, 27 Oṣù Kejì 2023 (UTC)

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!

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Hello, dear Wikipedians!

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!

ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk) 07:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Reminder: Office hours about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use

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Hello everyone,

This a reminder that theWikimedia Foundation Legal Department is hostingoffice hours with community members aboutupdating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The office hours will be held today,March 2, from 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC. See for moredetails here on Meta.

Another office hours will be held on April 4.

We hereby kindly invite you to participate in the discussion. Please note that this meeting will be held in English language and led by the members of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team, who will take and answer your questions. Facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance Team will provide the necessary assistance and other meeting-related services.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

Zuz (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 12:00, 2 Oṣù Kẹta 2023 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 Awọn ifisilẹ Eto Gbigbawọle

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Ṣé o fẹ́ jẹ́ agbàlejò gẹ́gẹ́ bí ẹnìkan tàbí lákòókò ètò ìfojúhàn ní Wikimania 2023? Bóyá ìdágbálé ètò ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́, ìfọ̀rọ̀wérọ̀ tó ń móríyá, ìṣèré aláfẹ́ kan, pósítà tí ó fani mọ́ra, tàbí ọ̀rọ̀ ìlanilọ́yẹ mánigbàgbé?Ààyè ṣí sílẹ̀ fún ìdájọ àwọn èròǹgbà títí di Oṣù Kẹ́ta Ọjọ́ 28. Ayẹyẹ náà yóò ní ìfijì òní-ẹ̀yà méjì, nítorí náà ààyè wà bákan náà fún ìdájọ àwọn ètò ìfojúhàn àti àwọn fọ́nrán ìkásílẹ̀. Tí o bá ní àwọn ìbéèrè kankan, jọ̀wọ́ darapọ̀ mọ́ ìfọ̀rọ̀wérọ̀ wa tí ó bọ̀ lọ́nà ní oṣù ọjọ́ 12 tàbí 19, tàbí ké sí wa nípa lílo ìtàkùn-ìfiránṣẹ́ lórí wikimania@wikimedia.org tàbí lórí ìkànnì Telegram. Ẹ̀kúnrẹ́rẹ́ ìròyìn lórí-wiki.

Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines

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Hello all, an important update on the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines:

The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement Guidelines. You can view thevote statistics on Meta-wiki.

As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines. Theresolution can be found on Foundation wiki and you can read more about theprocess behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines review on Diff.

There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

Zuz (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 22:06, 23 Oṣù Kẹta 2023 (UTC)

Call for early input on the proposed Movement Charter ratification methodology

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Hello all,

TheMovement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) is collecting early input from the Wikimedia movement on theproposed methodology for the ratification of the Movement Charter fromApril 10 to 28, 2023. Ratification of theMovement Charter is planned to take place in early 2024 according to the timeline.

There aresix questions that the MCDC requests your input on. Please share your feedback by:

Conversation hours

The MCDC also invites everyone interested in sharing their feedback on the proposed methodology to join the community conversation hours:

The language of conversation hours is English.Please comment if you need language support. Please note that language interpretation will be provided if at least 3 people expressed interest to participate in the following languages: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

Zuz (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 13:59, 13 Oṣù Kẹrin 2023 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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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.

All traffic will switch on26 April. The test will start at14:00 UTC.

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 Wednesday 26 April 2023.
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:42, 21 Oṣù Kẹrin 2023 (UTC)

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

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Hello,

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 ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023.Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 19:01, 26 Oṣù Kẹrin 2023 (UTC)

Selection of the U4C Building Committee

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The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected.Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

--UCoC Project Team, 04:21, 27 Oṣù Kàrún 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the #WPWPCampaign 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

We are glad to inform you that the 2023 edition of Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign is coming up in July.

This is a formal invitation to invite individuals and communities to join the campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and other relevant media files.

If you're interested in participating, please find your community or community closer to you to participate from theParticipating Communities page. If you're organizer, please add your community or Affiliate to the page.

The campaign primarily aims to promote using images from Wikimedia Commons to enrich Wikipedia articles. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, 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. In this edition of the campaign, eligibility criteria have been revised based on feedback and campaign Evaluation Reports of the previous editions. Please find moredetails about these changes and our FAQ on Meta-Wiki

For more information, please visit thecampaign page on Meta-Wiki.

Kind regards,

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos International Team.

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 23:25, 7 Oṣù Kẹfà 2023 (UTC)

Announcing the new Elections Committee members

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Hello there,

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,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:00, 28 Oṣù Kẹfà 2023 (UTC)

MinT Machine Translation added to your Wikipedia

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Hello!

Apologies as this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.

The WMF Language team has added another machine translation (MT) system forContent Translation in your Wikipedia called MinT; you can useMinT machine translation when translating Wikipedia articles using the Content and Section Translation tool.

The WMF Language team provides the MinT service. It is hosted in the Wikimedia Foundation Infrastructure withneural machine translation models that other organizations have released with an open-source license. MinT integrates translation based onNLLB-200,OpusMT,IndicTrans2 andSoftcatalà. This MT is set as optional in your Wikipedia. Still, you can choose not to use it by selecting "Start with empty paragraph" from the "Initial Translation" dropdown menu.

Since MinT is hosted in the WMF Infrastructure and the models are open source, it adheres to Wikipedia's policies about attribution of rights, your privacy as a user and brand representation. You can find more information about the MinT machine translation and the models onthis page.

Please note that the use of the MinT MT is not compulsory. However, we would want your community to:

  • use it to improve the quality of the Machine Translation service
  • provide feedback about its quality, andif you prefer the MinT machine translation as default in your Wikipedia.

We trust that introducing this MT is a good support to the Content Translation tool.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 22:02, 4 Oṣù Keje 2023 (UTC) On behalf of the WMF Language team.

Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki

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Hello!

Apologies if this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language to your language.

This wiki will soon be able to use theinline audio player implemented by thePhonos extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providingaudio links that play on click.

With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:

<phonos file="audio file" label="Listen"/>

The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on theEnglish Wiktionary below.

{{audio|en|En-uk-English.oga|Audio (UK)}}

Could become:

<phonos file="En-uk-English.oga" label="Audio (UK)"/>

The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you toread about the features and give us feedback or ask questions about it in thistalk page.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Language team

02:26, 27 Oṣù Keje 2023 (UTC)

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in theUniversal Code of Conduct work. TheUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

TheEnforcement Guidelines require aBuilding Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during theconversation hours or onMeta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 Oṣù Kẹjọ 2023 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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TheWikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its 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.

All traffic will switch on20 September. The test will start at14:00 UTC.

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 Wednesday 20 September 2023.
  • 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:

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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.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 09:24, 15 Oṣù Kẹ̀sán 2023 (UTC)

== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==

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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.

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

~Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 9 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2023 (UTC)

Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package

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Dear all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.More on the Meta-wiki page.

Best,

Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee

01:13, 17 Oṣù Kẹ̀wá 2023 (UTC)

Coming soon: Reference Previews

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A new feature is coming to your wiki soon: Reference Previews are popups for references. Such popups have existed on wikis as local gadgets for many years. Now there is a central solution, available on all wikis, and consistent with thePagePreviews feature.

Reference Previews will be visible to everyone, including readers. If you don’t want to see them,you can opt out. If you areusing the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews unless you disable the gadget.

Reference Previews have been a beta feature on many wikis since 2019, and a default feature on some since 2021. Deployment is planned for November 22.

-- ForWikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team,

Johanna Strodt (WMDE), 13:11, 15 Oṣù Kọkànlá 2023 (UTC)

(New) Feature onKartographer: Adding geopoints via QID

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Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on theproject page. If you have any comments, please let us know on thetalk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland

Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 12:32, 13 Oṣù Kejìlá 2023 (UTC)

Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences

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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?

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Apologies for writing in English.

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.
  • Compensation is available.
  • Sessions will be held in January and February.
  • Sign up here if you are interested.
  • Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.

We’re looking forward to seeing you, Thereza Mengs (WMDE)

Feminism and Folklore 2024

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Dear Wiki Community,

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:

  1. Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
  2. Set up a campaign onCampWiz tool.
  3. Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
  4. Request local admins for site notice.
  5. Link the local page and the CampWiz link on themeta project page.

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.

We look forward to your immense coordination.

Thank you and Best wishes,

Feminism and Folklore 2024 International Team

Stay connected 

--MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 07:26, 18 Oṣù Kínní 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

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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.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀) 07:26, 18 Oṣù Kínní 2024 (UTC)

Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is now open. Community members maycast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll now through2 February 2024. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of theUCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

Thecurrent version of the U4C Charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:08, 19 Oṣù Kínní 2024 (UTC)

Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) charter will close on2 February 2024. Community members maycast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of theUCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

Thecurrent version of the U4C charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 17:00, 31 Oṣù Kínní 2024 (UTC)

A new feature for newcomers: Edit check

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Hello!

The Editing Team is building a new feature for the visual editor. It is calledEdit Check.

Edit Check is designed to encourage newcomers add citationsbefore publishing new information to an article.

We already observed that newcomers add more sources with this feature, as they learn this concept through Edit check.

We are looking for communities to test the feature. We plan to deploy this feature to your wiki soon.

Only newcomers will be asked to add citations and sources when they add a new paragraph to an article. Other users will not see it.

If you are interested into testing it, let me know! If you have any question, let me know.

Trizek (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 10:48, 9 Oṣù Kejì 2024 (UTC)

We will deploy this feature on Monday. Let me know if you have any question! :)Trizek (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀) 09:03, 16 Oṣù Kejì 2024 (UTC)

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

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Dear all,

Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of theratification vote on theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.

A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.

Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:24, 12 Oṣù Kejì 2024 (UTC)

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024: We are back!

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Hello, dear Wikipedians!

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)

Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available

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Hello all,

I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, thereport of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.

TheUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, pleasereview the U4C Charter.

Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.

Read more and submit your application onMeta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 16:25, 5 Oṣù Kẹta 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

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Dear all,

This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.

TheElections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].

Here are the key planned dates:

  • May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
  • June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
  • June-August 2024: Campaign period
  • End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
  • October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
  • Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - onthis Meta-wiki page, and make your plan.

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on thisMeta-wiki page.

Best regards,

Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2]https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3]https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.

MPossoupe_(WMF)19:57, 12 Oṣù Kẹta 2024 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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TheWikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.

All traffic will switch on20 March. The test will start at14:00 UTC.

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 Wednesday 20 March 2024.
  • 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.
  • GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
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.

Trizek (WMF), 00:01, 15 Oṣù Kẹta 2024 (UTC)

Global ban proposal for Slowking4

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Hello. This is to notify the community that there is an ongoing global ban proposal forUser:Slowking4 who has been active on this wiki. You are invited to participate atm:Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4 (2). Thank you.Seawolf35 (ọ̀rọ̀) 04:57, 15 Oṣù Kẹta 2024 (UTC)

Page merge

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Diospyros blancoi andDiospyros Blancoi are duplicate pages about the same species and should be merged. The correct name format is Diospyros blancoi. Thanks! -MPF (ọ̀rọ̀) 00:02, 18 Oṣù Kẹta 2024 (UTC)

Vote now to select members of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on 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.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 20:20, 25 Oṣù Kẹrin 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

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Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you cansign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org andadd agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery 21:22, 14 Oṣù Kàrún 2024 (UTC)

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

TheCommunity Affairs Committee (CAC) of theWikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on adraft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by theLanguage Committee orclosing projects policy.

You can find the details onthis page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day onJune 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF)02:25, 22 Oṣù Ẹ̀bìbì 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the firstUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

  • North America (USA and Canada)
    • –
  • Northern and Western Europe
  • Latin America and Caribbean
    • –
  • Central and East Europe (CEE)
    • —
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    • –
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • South Asia
    • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work onMeta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF)08:15, 3 Oṣù Òkúdu 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Invitation to participate in the #WPWPCampaign 2024

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Dear community members,

We are inviting you to participate in the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024 campaign, a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2024:

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.

In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.

The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation your language Wikipedia. We’d be glad for you to sign up directly atWPWP Participating Communities page on Meta-Wiki.

Thank you,

Reading Beans / readthebeans@gmail.com)
Project manager and coordinator
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta

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Hi everyone,

The final text of theWikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.

What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?

The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”

Join the“Launch Party” onJune 20, 2024 at14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.

Movement Charter ratification vote

Voting will commence on SecurePoll onJune 25, 2024 at00:01 UTC and will conclude onJuly 9, 2024 at23:59 UTC. You can read more about thevoting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on theMeta talk page or email the MCDC atmcdc@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the MCDC,

RamzyM (WMF)08:45, 11 Oṣù Òkúdu 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote

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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify theWikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter isavailable on Meta in different languages and attachedhere in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll onJune 25, 2024 at00:01 UTC and will conclude onJuly 9, 2024 at23:59 UTC. Please read more on thevoter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, pleasevote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission atcec@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF)10:52, 25 Oṣù Òkúdu 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify theWikimedia Movement Charter will be closed onJuly 9, 2024, at23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please voteon SecurePoll.

On behalf of theCharter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF)03:47, 8 Oṣù Agẹmọ 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

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.

In cooperation with the U4C,

--Keegan (WMF) (talk)00:03, 10 Oṣù Agẹmọ 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, theCharter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

Ascommunicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed onJuly 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of theWikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these,1,710 voted “yes”;623 voted “no”; and113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these,93 voted “yes”;18 voted “no”; and18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees votednot to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv,shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision isnot ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619,Borschts,Iwuala Lucy,Tochiprecious,Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)17:52, 18 Oṣù Agẹmọ 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now 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.

In cooperation with the U4C,

RamzyM (WMF)02:48, 27 Oṣù Agẹmọ 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information 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.

In cooperation with the U4C,

--Keegan (WMF) (talk)15:31, 6 Oṣù Ògún 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

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Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information onthe project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

Wikimedia Deutschland’sTechnical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

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Hi all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you 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!

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)23:20, 22 Oṣù Ògún 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and theElections Committee have certified theresults for theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

  • North America (USA and Canada)
    • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

  • Latin America and Caribbean
  • Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Asia
  • The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work onMeta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF)14:06, 2 Oṣù Òwéwe 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!

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Hello all,

The voting period for the2024 Board of Trustees election is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.

Learn more about the candidates byreading their statements and theiranswers to community questions.

When you are ready, go to theSecurePoll voting page to vote.The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit thevoter eligibility page.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)12:14, 3 Oṣù Òwéwe 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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Read this message in another language •Please help translate to your language

TheWikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.

All traffic will switch on25 September. The switch will start at15:00 UTC.

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.

A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.

You 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 25 September 2024.
  • 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.
  • GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.

Please share this information with your community.

Trizek_(WMF),09:38, 20 Oṣù Òwéwe 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

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Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.Àdàkọ: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.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)18:56, 27 Oṣù Òwéwe 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey

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Dear all,

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.

Survey link:https://forms.gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!

Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.


Warm regards,

User:ZI Jony 03:20, 6 Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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Hello all,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.

The following four candidates were the most voted:

  1. Christel Steigenberger
  2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
  3. Victoria Doronina
  4. Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.

Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group


MPossoupe_(WMF)08:26, 14 Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply byvisiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or emailcst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

--Keegan (WMF) (talk)23:08, 16 Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

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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)11:28, 22 Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success

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Dear all,

We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.

Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!

Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.

  • Application Link:Apply Here
  • Application Deadline: October 31, 2024

Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here:Position Descriptions

Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!


Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 05:13, 29 Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà 2024 (UTC)

Proposal to enable the "Contribute" entry point in Yoruba Wikipedia

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Hello Yoruba Wikipedians,

Apologies as this message is not in your language. Please help translate to your language.

TheWMF Language and Product Localization team proposes enabling an entry point called "Contribute" to your Wikipedia.

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 Yoruba 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.

Mobile Contribute PageMobile contribute menu (detailed)

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 20th November 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.

We look forward to your response soon.

Thank you!

On behalf of the WMF Language and Product Localization team.UOzurumba (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀)02:34, 7 Oṣù Bélú 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC

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Hello everyone,

The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024>.

This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.

Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers,Srishti19:54, 21 Oṣù Bélú 2024 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Launching! Join Us for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025!

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Dear All,

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.

Let’s make Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 a success!

For theInternational Team 12:08, 16 Oṣù Ṣẹ̀rẹ́ 2025 (UTC)

Enabling Dark mode for logged-out users in this Wikipedia

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Hello Wikipedians,

Apologies, as this message is not written in your native language. Please help translate to your language.

TheWikimedia Foundation Web team will be enablingdark mode here on your Wikipedia by February 2025 now that pages on your wiki have passed our checks for accessibility and other quality checks. Congratulations!

The plan to enable is made possible by the diligent work of editors and other technical contributors in your community who ensured that templates, gadgets, and other parts of pages can be accessible in dark mode. Thank you all for making dark mode available for everybody!

For context, the Web team has concluded work on dark mode. If, on some wikis, the option is not yet available for logged-out users, this is likely because many pages do not yet display well in dark mode. As communities make progress on this work, we enable this feature on additional wikis once per month.

If you notice any issues after enabling dark mode, please create a page:Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Reporting/xx.wikipedia.org in MediaWiki (like these pages), and report the issue in the created page.

Thank you!

On behalf of theWikimedia Foundation Web team.

UOzurumba (WMF)22:14, 21 Oṣù Ṣẹ̀rẹ́ 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Universal Code of Conduct annual review: provide your comments on the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines

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My apologies for writing in English.Please help translate to your language.

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.

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 was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.

-- In cooperation with the U4C,Keegan (WMF) (talk)01:11, 24 Oṣù Ṣẹ̀rẹ́ 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Feminism and Folklore 2025 starts soon

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Please help translate to your language

Dear Wiki Community,

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:

  1. Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
  2. Set up a campaign onCampWiz tool.
  3. Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
  4. Request local admins for site notice.
  5. Link the local page and the CampWiz link on themeta project page.

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.

We look forward to your immense coordination.

Thank you and Best wishes,

Feminism and Folklore 2025 International Team

Stay connected 

--MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)02:36, 29 Oṣù Ṣẹ̀rẹ́ 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

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Please help translate to your language

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.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team--MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)02:36, 29 Oṣù Ṣẹ̀rẹ́ 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Reminder: first part of the annual UCoC review closes soon

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My apologies for writing in English.Please help translate to your language.

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.

-- In cooperation with the U4C,Keegan (WMF) (talk)00:49, 3 Oṣù Èrèlé 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter

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Hello everyone!

An image symbolising multiple languages

We’re excited to announce that the nextLanguage Community Meeting is happening soon,February 28th at 14:00 UTC! If you’d like to join, simply sign up on thewiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates from the language support track at Wiki Indaba.

Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free toreply to this message or add agenda items to the documenthere.

Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January. This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter.

We look forward to your ideas and participation at the language community meeting, see you there!

MediaWiki message delivery08:29, 22 Oṣù Èrèlé 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment

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My apologies for writing in English.Please help translate to your language.

I am writing to you to let you know thatproposed changes to theUniversal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines andUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter are open for review.You can provide feedback on suggested changes through theend of day on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. This is the second step in the annual review process, the final step will be community voting on the proposed changes.Read more information and find relevant links about the process on the UCoC annual review page on Meta.

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 was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.

-- In cooperation with the U4C,Keegan (WMF)18:51, 7 Oṣù Ẹ̀rẹ̀nà 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

An improved dashboard for the Content Translation tool

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Hello Wikipedians,

Apologies as this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language.

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.

UOzurumba (WMF)02:56, 13 Oṣù Ẹ̀rẹ̀nà 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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Read this message in another language •Please help translate to your language

TheWikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.

All traffic will switch on19 March. The switch will start at14:00 UTC.

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.

A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.

You 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 19 March 2025.
  • 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.
  • GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.

Please share this information with your community.

MediaWiki message delivery23:14, 14 Oṣù Ẹ̀rẹ̀nà 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted

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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.

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 was planned and implemented by the U4C. 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.

-- In cooperation with the U4C,Keegan (WMF) (talk)02:04, 4 Oṣù Igbe 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025: Invitation

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Please help translate to your language

Hello, dear Wikipedians!

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)

16:11, 16 Oṣù Igbe 2025 (UTC)

Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (find in your time zone).Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

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.

In cooperation with the U4C --Keegan (WMF) (talk)00:35, 17 Oṣù Igbe 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Sub-referencing: User testing

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Apologies for writing in English, please help us by providing a translation below

Hi I’m Johannes fromWikimedia Deutschland'sTechnical Wishes team. We are making great strides with the newsub-referencing feature and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:

  1. Try it out and share your feedback
    Please try the updatedwikitext featureon the beta wiki and let us know what you think, eitheron our talk page or bybooking a call with our UX researcher.
  2. 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!

Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk)15:04, 28 Oṣù Igbe 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (find in your time zone).Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

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 was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you mayreview the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.

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Keegan (WMF) (talk)03:41, 29 Oṣù Igbe 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!

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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.

Thank you in advance! --User:Sannita (WMF) (talk)15:07, 6 Oṣù Ẹ̀bìbì 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)

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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.

You may nowsubmit your candidacy to serve on the U4C through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information abouteligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.

If you have any questions, you can ask onthe discussion page for the election. -- in cooperation with the U4C,

Keegan (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀)22:07, 15 Oṣù Ẹ̀bìbì 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)

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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.

You can read the various hypothesis and have your say atAbstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content. Thank you in advance! --Sannita (WMF) (ọ̀rọ̀)15:27, 22 Oṣù Ẹ̀bìbì 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions

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Dear all,

This year, the term of 2 (two) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.

The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 trustee selection process and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].

Here are the key planned dates:

  • May 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
  • June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
  • July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
  • August 2025: Campaign period
  • August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
  • October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
  • Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page[link].

Call for Questions

In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related.[link]

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2025 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page[link].

Thank you!

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Results

[2]https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3]https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Committee_Membership,_December_2024

[4]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/FAQ

[6]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Questions_for_candidates

Best regards,

Victoria Doronina

Board Liaison to the Elections Committee

Governance Committee

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)03:08, 28 Oṣù Ẹ̀bìbì 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Upcoming Deployment of the CampaignEvents Extension

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Hello everyone,

(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.

The three main features of this extension are:

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.

Thank you!

Udehb-WMF (ọ̀rọ̀)16:48, 29 Oṣù Ẹ̀bìbì 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election

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Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the2025 Election information page. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at12:00 UTC.

Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C,Keegan (WMF) (talk)23:01, 13 Oṣù Òkúdu 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

Thecall for candidates for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open from June 17, 2025 – July 2, 2025 at 11:59 UTC [1]. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [2]. This is a volunteer position.

This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]

Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy onthis Meta-wiki page or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.

Best regards,

Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair of the Elections Committee

On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Call_for_candidates

[2]https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Bylaws#(B)_Term.

[3]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Resources_for_candidates

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)17:44, 17 Oṣù Òkúdu 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews

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Dear Wikimedia Community,

TheCommunity Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assignedthe Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF) to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wikiprojects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF).

A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.

Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose.Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.

Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.

Lastly,failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.

Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.

Wikispore

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Theapplication to consider Wikispore was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.

After careful consideration, the SPTF has decidednot to recommend Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allowsbetter flexibility and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.

We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.

As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.

Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.

Wikinews

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We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.

Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.[1][2][3] Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.

While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action[4][5], see section 5 as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews[6].

Initial metrics compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.

Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.

SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.

Options mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:

  • Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
  • Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
  • Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
  • Archive Wikinews projects.

Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.

Feedback and next steps

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We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages:Public consultation about Wikispore andPublic consultation about Wikinews. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.

I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.

--Victoria on behalf of the Sister Project Task Force,20:57, 27 Oṣù Òkúdu 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes

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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:An edit sum entry on Wikidata, labels display alongside their P- and Q-no.'s

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.

Thank you, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team.MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)12:46, 14 Oṣù Agẹmọ 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon

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Hello, we are the Wikimedia FoundationProduct Safety and Integrity team. We would like to announce thatwe plan to enabletemporary accounts for this wiki in the week of September 1.

Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.

Why we are building temporary accounts

Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.

Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.

How temporary accounts work

Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.

What does this mean for different groups of users?

For logged-out editors

  • This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
  • If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users 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.

Our requests for you, and next steps

  • If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work ontestwiki ortest2wiki. If you are a volunteer developer,read our documentation for developers, and in particular, the section onhow your code might need to be updated.
  • If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
  • Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
  • Look at 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!

NKohli (WMF),SGrabarczuk (WMF)21:36, 26 Oṣù Ògún 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

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Server switch - Your wiki will be read-only for a short time soon

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TheWikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.

All traffic will switch on24 September. The switch will start at15:00 UTC.

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.

A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation. You can contribute to thetranslation or proofreading of this banner text.

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 24 September 2025.
  • 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.
  • GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.

Please share this information with your community.

Trizek (WMF) (Ọ̀rọ̀)15:41, 18 Oṣù Òwéwe 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

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Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees

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Hello all,

The voting period for the2025 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit thevoter eligibility page.

Learn more about them byreading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos.

When you are ready, go to theSecurePoll voting page to vote.

The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.

Best regards,

Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee

MediaWiki message delivery (ọ̀rọ̀)04:48, 9 Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

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Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project

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Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions fromWikifunctions and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.Thank you!

--User:Sannita (WMF) (talk)11:43, 20 Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply byvisiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst(_AT_)wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

- MKaur (WMF)14:13, 30 Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

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Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project

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Hello. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.Thank you!

--User:Sannita (WMF) (talk)14:22, 20 Oṣù Bélú 2025 (UTC)[ìdáhùn]

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