Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
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The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
Regular updates are being sent to the
Wikimedia-l mailing list
, and posted
on Meta-Wiki
. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well.
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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 the
Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal
.
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Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
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As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.
Regular updates are being sent to the
Wikimedia-l mailing list
, and posted
on Meta-Wiki
. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well.
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 the
Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal
.
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We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
- This message, "
We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
", was sent through multiple channels by
Gregory Varnum
on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by
Nicole Ebber
to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups)
: Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).
Track B (individual contributors):
On Meta
or your
local language or project wiki
.
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Sincerely,
Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the
engagement support teams
05:09, 18 март 2017 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the
2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections
.
The
Board of Trustees
(Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found
on Meta-Wiki
. Please read the
letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates
.
The
candidacy submission phase
will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20.
You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki
.
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the
three community-selected seats
on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are
inclusive
, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
- April 7 (00:00 UTC) ? April 20 (23:59 UTC) ?
Board nominations
- April 7 ? April 20 ?
Board candidates questions submission period
- April 21 ? April 30 ?
Board candidates answer questions
- May 1 ? May 14 ?
Board voting period
- May 15?19 ?
Board vote checking
- May 20 ?
Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
- Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
- There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available
on Meta-Wiki
.
- Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
- One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available
on Meta-Wiki
.
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found
on Meta-Wiki
. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the
election talk page on Meta-Wiki
, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
board-elections
wikimedia.org
.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan
, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland
, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
.
On
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
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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 positive
results
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 at
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New Page previews feature
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The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable
Page 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 from
their 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 about
the feature
and
the tests we used to evaluate performance
, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions
on the talk page
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- What's been going on so far
The first cycle of the
Wikimedia movement strategy process
recently concluded and the second cycle will begin soon. The strategy facilitators and many volunteers have
summarized
the discussions of the previous month. A quantitative analysis of the more than 1800 summary statements collected from the various communities will be posted on Meta for translation this week, alongside the
report from the Berlin conference
.
- What will happen
The second cycle is set to begin on May 5 and run until May 31. During that period, you will be invited to dive into the main topics that emerged in the first cycle, discuss what they mean, which ones are the most important and why, and what their practical implications are. This work will be informed and complemented by research involving new voices that haven’t traditionally been included in strategy discussions, like readers, partners, and experts.
Together, we will begin to make sense of all this information and organize it into a meaningful guiding document, which we will all collectively refine during the third and last cycle in June?July.
- What you could do
- Tell us
where to announce
the start of the Cycle 2, and
how to do that
, so we could be sure the majority of your community is informed and has a chance to feel committed, and
- Facilitate the Cycle 2 discussions here, on Bulgarian Wikipedia (with invitations to the contributors of other Bulgarian projects).
Friendly disclaimer: this message wasn't written by a bureaucrat or a person who doesn't care about your project. I'm a Wikipedian. If you have
any
questions, please, do ask!
(By the way, are those messages read by anyone? To me, a user from Polish Wikipedia, a separate page for mass messages written in English sent mainly or exclusively by bots seems to be a place for trifles. I don't want to be ignored by the majority. Maybe I should post somewhere else?)
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Това е послание от
Избирателния комитет на Фондация Уикимедия
. Достъпни са
преводи
.
Гласуването
на
допустимите гласоподаватели
започна в изборите през 2017 г. за
Съвет на настоятелите на ФУ
.
Съветът на настоятелите на Фондация Уикимедия
е най-висшият управителен орган на Фондация Уикимедия, организация с нестопанска цел 501(с)(3), регистрирана в Съединените щати. Фондацията Уикимедия управлява многобройни различни проекти като Уикипедия и Общомедия.
Гласуването продължава от 00:00 ч. UTC на 1 май до 23:59 ч. UTC на 14 май
Нотиснете тук, за да гласувате
.
Повече информация за кандидатите и изборите можете да намерите на
страницата на изборите за Съвет на настоятелите
на Мета-Уики.
От името на Избирателния комитет,
Кейти Чан
, Председател,
Избирателен комитет на ФУ
Джо Съдърланд
, адвокат на общността, Фондация Уикимедия
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From May 9, the
Two Column Edit Conflict View
will be available as a
beta feature
on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!
Birgit Muller (WMDE)
14:28, 8 май 2017 (UTC)
Editing News #1?2017
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Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Преглед на промените".
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has spent most of their time supporting
the 2017 wikitext editor mode
which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding
the new visual diff tool
. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a
beta feature
, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
- A
new wikitext editing mode
is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The
2017 wikitext editor
has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
to enable the ?Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label?.
- A new
visual diff tool
is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components.
[1]
- The team have added
multi-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 can
request multi-column support
for your wiki.
[2]
- 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.
[3]
- 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.
[4]
- The Категории item has been moved to the top of the Настройки на страницата menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access.
[5]
There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
[6]
- You can now create
<chem>
tags (sometimes used as
<ce>
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
[7]
- Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
[8]
- The Специални знаци menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (?? and ??) . The team thanks the volunteer developer,
Tpt
.
[9]
- 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.
[10]
- There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:
Control
+
Shift
+
K
on a PC, or
Command
+
Shift
+
K
on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is
Control
+
K
or
Command
+
K
respectively.
[11]
Future changes
- 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.
[12]
- The kind of button used to Предварителен преглед, Показване на промените, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use
OOjs UI
. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding
&ooui=1
to the end of the URL, like this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1
The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
[13]
- The
outdated 2006 wikitext editor
will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See
a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org
if you are uncertain which one you use.
[14]
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
contact us
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Благодарим ви!
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Elitre (WMF)
18:05, 12 май 2017 (UTC)
RevisionSlider
will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.
Birgit Muller (WMDE)
14:39, 16 май 2017 (UTC)
- Съобщението е достъпно за превод на Мета-Уики
Основният екип и работните групи за стратегията на уикимедианското движение приключиха прегледа на повече от 1 800 тематични изявления, които получихме от първата дискусия. Те определиха
5 теми, които се срещаха последователно във всички разговори
- всяки със свой набор от подтеми. Това не са крайните теми, а само начален работен проект на основните концепции.
Поканени сте да се
присъедините към онлайн и офлайн дискусиите
по тези 5 теми. Този кръг от дискусии ще се състои отсега до 12 юни. Можете да обсъждате колкото искате; молим Ви да участвате в тези, които са най-важни за вас (или най-маловажни).
Ето петте теми; всяка от тях има страница на Мета-Уики с повече информация за темата и как да участвате в дискусията й:
На
портала за стратегията на движението на Мета-Уики
можете да намерите повече информация за всяка от тези теми, дискусиите им и как да участвате.
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- Преводите на това съобщение са налични в Мета-Уики
.
От името на Изборния комитет на Фондация Уикимедия имаме удоволствието да ви съобщим, че се приемат самономинации за изборите за
Комитет за разпределение на средства 2017 на Фондация Уикимедия
и
омбудсман на Комитет за разпределение на средства
. Моля, прочетете писмото от Фондация Уикимедия, с което се приканват кандидати
на портала за избори 2017
.
Комитет за разпределение на средства
Комитетът за разпределение на средства (КРС) прави препоръки как да се разпределят средствата за уикимедианското движение към отговарящите на условията организации. Има пет места за попълване. Повече информация за тази роля може да откриете на
страницата за изборите на КРС
.
Омбудсман на Комитета за разпределение на средства
Омбудсманът към Комитета за разпределение на средства получава оплаквания и обратна връзка относно процеса на КРС, разследва жалбите по искане на Съвета на настоятелите и обобщава разследванията и обратната информация за Съвета на настоятелите на годишна база. Попълва се една позиция. Повече информация за тази роля може да откритете на
страницата на изборите за омбудсман на КРС
.
Фазата за подаване на кандидатурите
ще продължи до 28 май (23:59 UTC).
До 28 май ще приемаме и въпроси, които да зададем на кандидатите.
Можете да изпратите вашите въпроси на Мета-Уики
.
След като срокът за предоставяне на въпроси приключи на 28 май, Изборният комитет ще сумира въпросите, на които да отговорят кандидатите.
Целта на този процес е да запълнят
петте места, избирани от общността
в Комитета за разпределение на средства на Фондация Уикимедия и избирания от общността омбудсман. Резултатите от изборите ще бъдат използвани от самия Съвет, за да извърши назначенията.
Пълният график за изборите за КРС е както следва. Всички дати са
включително
, т.е. от началото на първия ден (UTC) до края на последния.
- 15 май (00:00 UTC) - 28 май (23:59 UTC) -
Номинации
- 15 май - 28 май -
Период за подаване на въпроси към кандидатите
- 29 май - 2 юни -
Кандидатите отговарят на въпросите
- 3 юни - 11 юни -
Период на гласуване
- 12?14 юни ?
Проверка на гласуването
- 15 юни -
Планирана дата за обявяване на резултатите от изборите
Повече информация за тазгодишните избори може да откриете на
портала за избори 2017 на Фондация Уикимедия
.
Моля, не се колебайте да публикувате съобщение за изборите на мястото си за разговори във вашия проект. Всякакви въпроси, свързани с изборите, могат да бъдат публикувани на беседата на Мета или да бъдат изпратени на пощенския списък на Изборния комитет,
board-elections
wikimedia.org
.
От името на Изборния комитет,
Кейти Чан
, Председател,
Изборен комитет на Фондация Уикимедия
Джо Съдърланд
, адвокат на общността, Фондация Уикимедия
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The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.
You can see and use the
old
and
new
versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system.
If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see
mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons
for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.
This change will probably reach this wiki on
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
. Please leave a note at
mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons
if you need help.
Whatamidoing (WMF)
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22:23, 10 юли 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
A quick update on the progress of enabling
Page 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 a
beta feature
. For more information see
Page Previews
. Questions can be left
on the talk page
in your preferred language.
Thank you again.
CKoerner (WMF)
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22:32, 20 юли 2017 (UTC)
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 of
User:Doc James
.
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21:06, 17 септември 2017 (UTC)
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.
Background
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 recent
technical 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
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)
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20:35, 20 септември 2017 (UTC)
Hello. Some changes to the
community global ban policy
have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at
m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy
. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially.
Matiia
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Matiia
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00:34, 12 ноември 2017 (UTC)
New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it
easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website
.
Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from
the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India
. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The
prototype evaluation
received positive feedback and results, so development continued.
For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF.
Mobile print styles
will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.
The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see
the project page on MediaWiki.org
.
Благодарим ви!
CKoerner (WMF)
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22:07, 20 ноември 2017 (UTC)
Hi all,
We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for
Wikimania 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 and
the 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
and
Martin Rulsch
for the
Scholarship Committee
19:24, 20 декември 2017 (UTC)
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 at
Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians
.
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10:46, 21 декември 2017 (UTC)