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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(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see
other timezones
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in the full announcement
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Please join us in the
IdeaLab
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The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit
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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.
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?
[
peusaneut asai
]
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?
[
peusaneut asai
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Editors on en:wp have created a
great page with all the necessary information for editors
and there is also an
FAQ for this deployment
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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 on
de: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 a
great page with all the necessary information for editors
and there is also an
FAQ for this deployment
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Greetings. As you might have seen on the
Wikimedia tech blog
or the
tech ambassadors list
, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today.
Lua
is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.
If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week:
one on Wednesday
(for Oceania, Asia & America) and
one on Friday
(for Europe, Africa & America); see
m:IRC office hours
for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at
mw:Talk:Lua scripting
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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 on
de:Wikipedia:Kurier
.
A while ago the first phase of
Wikidata
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 update
this 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 the
chief executive officer
of the
company
.
- For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is
here
.
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 is
here
.
Where can I test this?
You can already test it on
test2
.
Where can I find more information and ask questions?
We have collected the main questions in an
FAQ for this deployment
. Please ask questions you might have on
the FAQ’s discussion page
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- Permohonan komentar mengenai administrator yang tidak aktif.
(Silakan pertimbangkan untuk menerjemahkan pesan ini untuk kepentingan rekan-rekan Wikimedian. Silakan pertimbangkan juga untuk menerjemahkan
proposal
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norsk (bokmal)
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Halo!
Terdapat
permohonan komentar baru
di Meta-Wiki menyangkut pencabutan hak-hak administratif dari Wikimedian yang non-aktif dalam masa waktu lama. Pada umumnya, proposal dari para pengurus ini akan berlaku pada wikis tanpa proses peninjauan dari administrator.
Kami juga mengumpulkan
daftar proyek
disertai prosedur penghapusan administrator non-aktif di halaman pembicaraan dari permohonan komentar. Jangan sungkan-sungkan menambahkan proyek(-proyek) anda ke dalam daftar apabila anda punya kebijakan terhadap ketidakaktifan administrator.
Semua masukan dihargai. Pembahasan ditutup paling segera tanggal 21 Mei 2013 (2013-05-21), tetapi akan diperpanjang apabila diperlukan.
Terima kasih,
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translators
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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 on
de:Wikipedia:Kurier
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A while ago the first phase of
Wikidata
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 and
two 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 the
headquarter location
of the
non-profit
.
- For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is
here
.
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 is
here
.
Where can I test this?
You can test it on
test2
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 an
FAQ for this deployment
. Please ask questions you might have on
the FAQ’s discussion page
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I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata
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We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together.
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Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making.
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The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.
Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.
Detailed information and a timeline
is available on meta.
Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.
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Latest
Tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community.
Please inform other users about these changes.
- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (version
1.22/wmf4
) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22.
[1]
[2]
- A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please
report any problems
you notice.
[3]
- MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new
schemes
. Users can now link to
SSH
,
XMPP
and
Bitcoin
directly from wikicode.
[4]
- VisualEditor was added to
all content namespaces
on mediawiki.org on May 20.
[5]
- A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to
edit templates
.
[6]
- New sites:
Greek Wikivoyage
and
Venetian Wiktionary
joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794.
[7]
[8]
- The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to
version 2.0
in a
third group of updates
.
[9]
- The
UploadWizard
on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (
bug 33513
).
[10]
- Future software changes
- The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27.
[11]
- An updated version of
Notifications
, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23.
[12]
- The
final version
of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will
automatically rename
some usernames.
[13]
- A
new discussion system
for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users,
test the prototype
and discuss the interface.
[14]
.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor.
[15]
Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the
Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki)
for more information. Thank you! --
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