YEN OMNA MESAJI SKRIBITA EN LA 'PORTALO DI LA KOMUNITATO' DUM LA YARO 2014
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The engineering department will hold
office hours
to discuss
VisualEditor
at these times:
Product Manager James Forrester will discuss VisualEditor and answer questions. Logs will be posted
on Meta
after each office hour completes. If you want to ask a question and cannot attend or do not speak English, please leave a message on my user talk page or send e-mail to me.
Whatamidoing (WMF)
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) 00:29, 10 di januaro 2014 (UTC)
I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.
The Wikimedia Foundation's
multimedia team
seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the
MP4 video format
. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as
H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC
.
Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).
However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.
We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.
Please join this RfC -- and share your advice
.
All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.
You are also welcome to join tomorrow's
Office hours chat on IRC
, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.
We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic.
Keegan (WMF)
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talk
) 06:47, 16 di januaro 2014 (UTC)
On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension
Universal Language Selector
(ULS) was
disabled
on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.
We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A
new checkbox
has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.
You can read the
announcement
and the
development plan
for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you.
Runa
Hello all,
Please join a discussion about a
proposed amendment
to the
Wikimedia Terms of Use
regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see
the discussion on Meta Wiki
for more information. Thank you!
Slaporte (WMF)
22:00, 21 di februaro 2014 (UTC)
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 Wikipedio 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 to
get involved
!
Hope to have your participation,
--
Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual
Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation
19:44, 28 di februaro 2014 (UTC)
Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please
read about these optional changes on Meta wiki
and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks!
Slaporte (WMF)
21:55, 13 di marto 2014 (UTC)
This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:
- April 1st
: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
- April 3rd
: Wikipedias will see this change live
This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their
personal CSS
, if they prefer a different appearance. Local
common CSS
styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.
For more information:
--
Steven Walling
(Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's
User Experience Design
team
Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by
global community consensus
(your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the
stewards
are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new
admin activity review
here.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
- Albonio (administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the
stewards on Meta-Wiki
so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks,
Rs
chen
7754
20:47, 8 di aprilo 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.
I wanted to let you know that
Media Viewer
will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your
Beta Features
. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your
preferences
. I invite you to
share what you think
about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.
Thank you for your time. -
Keegan (WMF)
21:29, 23 di mayo 2014 (UTC)
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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/or
illegal
uploading. In fact, the
licenses/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 have
hundreds templates
with the
now required HTML
, even less a local
EDP
.
I propose to have
so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface
in their own language
. All registered users can upload on Commons and
existing files
will not be affected.
All this will get done around 2014-07-03.
- If you disagree with the proposal, just
remove your wiki from the list
. Remember also to create
MediaWiki:Licenses
locally with any content (see a
simple example
), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting in
version 1.24wmf11
).
- To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on
commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback
.
Nemo
13:09, 19 di junio 2014 (UTC)
Greetings? and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,
The Wikimedia Foundation's
Multimedia team
is happy to announce that
Media Viewer
was just released on this site today.
Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages ? and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a
Beta Feature
and has been
released
to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.
If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your
your preferences
) whether you have an account or not. Learn more
in this Media Viewer Help page
.
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to
share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org
in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to
take this quick survey in English
,
en francais
,
o espanol
.
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 di junio 2014 (UTC)
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one-time mailing
to projects that may need this information. Future newsletters will be available as
opt-in only
. To receive future newsletters (about one per month), please
add your page to the subscribers' list at
m:VisualEditor/Newsletter
. You're welcome to translate to your language.
Did you know?
The character formatting menu, or "Stilizar texto" 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.
The
VisualEditor
team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find
on Mediawiki.org
weekly updates detailing recent work.
- They have moved the "Klavaro-rapidigo" link out of the "Pagino-selekti" menu, into the "Helpo" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
- You can now
see the target of the link
when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
- The team also expanded
TemplateData
: 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 editing
mw:Template:Sandbox/doc
.
- Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (
bug 65349
,
bug 64239
)
- They have also improved
reference 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 edit
inline 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 "Pagino-selekti" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
- The tool to insert
special 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 changes
on MediaWiki.org
.
The team posts details about planned work on
VisualEditor's roadmap
. You will soon be able to
drag-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 team
plans to add
autofill features
for citations
.
Your
ideas about making referencing quick and easy
are still wanted.
Support for
upright image sizes
is being developed. The designers are also working on support for
viewing and editing hidden HTML comments
and
adding rows and columns to tables
.
Please read
VisualEditor/Citation tool
for information on configuring the new
citation 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 translating
the 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. Please
contact 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 manager
James Forrester
or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
or by joining the
office hours
on
Saturday, 19 July 2014 at
21:00 UTC
(daytime for the Americas and Pacific Islands) or on
Thursday, 14 August 2014 at
9:00 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 at
Meta
(or at
w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter
for English Wikipedia only). Thank you! --
Elitre (WMF)
, 22:33, 25 di junio 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, everybody. This is a reminder that we invite you to discuss VisualEditor's recent development and plans ahead during the
next office hours
with James Forrester (Product Manager):
If you are not able to attend but have a question for James, you can leave your question
at mediawiki.org
or on my talk page
by 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 the
VisualEditor 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 at
Wikimania 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 di julio 2014 (UTC)
The
VisualEditor
team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find
on Mediawiki.org
weekly updates detailing recent work.
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 now
drag 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 "Insertar" menu. The "?visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip?" is still added via the "Insertar" menu.
- When you add an image or other media file, you are now prompted to add an
image caption
immediately. You can also replace an image whilst keeping the original caption and other settings.
- All tablet users visiting the
mobile 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.
- The
link 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 the
VisualEditor roadmap
. The VisualEditor team
plans to add
auto-fill features
for citations
soon.
Your
ideas about making referencing quick and easy
are still wanted.
Support for
upright image sizes
is being developed. The designers are also working on support for
adding rows and columns to tables
. Work to support
Internet Explorer
is ongoing.
The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at
Wikimania
in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on
Saturday at 16:30
. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on
Sunday at 12:30
. There is a
VisualEditor 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 the
VisualEditor feedback page
or by joining the
office hours discussion
on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at
09:00 UTC
(daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at
16:00 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 at
w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter
for English Wikipedia only or at
Meta
for any project. Thank you! --
Elitre (WMF)
, 14:40, 9 di agosto 2014 (UTC)
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
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) 17:35, 21 di agosto 2014 (UTC)
’’My apologies for writing in English.’’
Hello,
I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been
started on Meta
to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.
I and the rest of
my team
welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.
Kind regards,
--
Rdicerb (WMF)
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Greetings! The
Individual Engagement Grants program
is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet.
Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.
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 at
VisualEditor/Feedback
on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing,
Elitre (WMF)
07:29, 11 di septembro 2014 (UTC).
PS. Please subscribe to the
global monthly newsletter
to receive further news about VisualEditor.
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.
See
the help page for TemplateData
for more information about adding TemplateData.
The user guide
has information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing
team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed
over 125 bugs and requests
. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted
on Mediawiki.org
.
There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs
69856
and
69864
), 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 message
MediaWiki: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. The
mobile 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.
The tool for editing
TemplateData
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 "Administrar Shablono pri Dati" button at the top. Read
the help page for TemplateData
. You can test the TemplateData editor
in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org
. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage
or
on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
Several interface
messages 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 is
available on Labs
for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the
Monobook
skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.
VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the
mw-redirect
and
mw-disambig
class on
links 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 a
dir
attribute but no
lang
set (
bug 69955
).
The team posts details about planned work on the
VisualEditor roadmap
. The VisualEditor team
plans to add
auto-fill features
for citations
soon, perhaps in late October.
The team is also working on support for
adding rows and columns to tables
, and early work for this may appear within the month.
Please comment on the design
at Mediawiki.org
.
In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.
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 to
????? ????? (Sanjeev Kumar)
,
Robby
,
Takot
,
Bachounda
,
Bjankuloski06
and
Ата
. A
summary
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 the
Translators mailing list
or contact
Elitre (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 manager
James Forrester
or file an
enhancement request in Bugzilla
.
Please join the
office hours
on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at
18:00 UTC
(daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at
16:00 UTC
on
IRC
.
Give feedback on VisualEditor at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Subscribe or unsubscribe at
Meta
. Thank you!
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Elitre (WMF)
09:49, 13 di oktobro 2014 (UTC)
Hello all,
There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at
m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group
. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at
m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review
.
We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.
It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at
m:Stewards' noticeboard
.
Thanks and regards,
Ajraddatz
(
talk
) 18:04, 26 di oktobro 2014 (UTC)
Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our
Publisher 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!
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.
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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 ongoing
request for comment
on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to
this list
on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on
this page
at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on
m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter
.
Thanks,
PiRSquared17
,
Glaisher
? 17:34, 14 di novembro 2014 (UTC)
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, the
Editing Team
has fixed many
bugs and requests
, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted
on Mediawiki.org
. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted
on Meta
.
Basic support for
inserting 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 behind
a "Plu multa" item
, such as "Substrekizar" in the styling menu.
The French Wikipedia should see
better search results
for links, templates, and media because the
new 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 for
non-Latin languages
, with full support hopefully coming soon.
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use
Internet Explorer
10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The
keyboard shortcuts
for items in the toolbar menus are now shown in the menus.
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a
new theme
from the
User 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 compare
the old "Apex" design
and
the 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
[1]
with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.
The tool for quickly editing
TemplateData
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 "Administrar Shablono pri Dati" button at the top. Read
the help page for TemplateData
to learn more about it. You can test the TemplateData editor
in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org
. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage
or
on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the
new autovalue setting
to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in
this 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 may
define 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 "sugestata" or "malnepra" in TemplateData instead.
The VisualEditor team
plans to add
auto-fill features
for 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 the
VisualEditor roadmap
.
The
user 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 help
complete 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 the
office hours
via
IRC
. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at
16:00 UTC
and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at
22:00 UTC
. You can also share your ideas at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Also,
user experience researcher
Abbey Ripstra
is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please
sign 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 the
Translators mailing list
or contact
us
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at
Meta
. Thank you!
?
Elitre (WMF)
23:29, 14 di novembro 2014 (UTC)
Kara Amiki! Kad ulu havas problemi enirar Wikivortaro? Me sempre (hiere e hodie) recevas anunco pri eroro, e pos duesma probo me esas anuncita, ke me ja probis kin-foye. --
Artomo
(
talk
) 18:37, 18 di novembro 2014 (UTC)
Saluto amiki! Ulo tre stranja eventas en Wikivortaro. Me perdis posibleso enirar ibe kun mea originala uzantonomo. Me sempre recevas anunco pri erora pasovorto. Quale ni savas, me esas la sola administranto ibe, e konseque nun Wikivortaro ne havas ula protekto. Ankore hike omno funcionas. --
Artomo
(
talk
) 10:45, 21 di novembro 2014 (UTC)
Me ne esas certa, ma forsan ca projeti en Meta efektis, ke me esas en Wikivortaro nun blokusita e sen sysop-yuri. Voluntez e lektez ici:
[2]
ed
[3]
? Amikale --
Artomo
(
talk
) 20:29, 23 di novembro 2014 (UTC)
Nun mea stando relatanta omna Wikii esas tala, ke me povas enirar per mea laboreyala komputero nur aden Idala Wikipedio ma en mea hemo me povas enirar per mea propra komputero ambe aden Wikipedio e Wikivortaro. Pos la sucesoza eniro me povar chanjar aden irgatipa Wikio, anke aden le altralinguala, aden la Meta-Wiki edc., uzante mea konti ibe o kreante ibe nova konto. Kad altru havas talatipa problemo? --
Artomo
(
talk
) 07:01, 4 di decembro 2014 (UTC)
Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our 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 di decembro 2014 (UTC)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact
Ocaasi (WMF)
.
- This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
.
Did you know?
Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. Upcoming plans are posted at the
VisualEditor roadmap
.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis
as an opt-in
beta feature
at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with
ProofreadPage
).
Basic support for
editing tables
is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid
rowspan
and
colspan
elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use
find and replace
in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing
^ Ctrl
+
F
or
??Cmd
+
F
.
You can now create and edit simple
<blockquote>
paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragrafo" into a "Blok-citajo".
Some
new keyboard sequences
can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "
*
" will make the line a bullet list; "
1.
" or "
#
" will make it a numbered list; "
==
" will make it a section heading; "
:
" will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.
There are also two other keyboard sequences: "
[[
" for opening the link tool, and "
{{
" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like
^ Ctrl
+
K
to open the link editor, still work.
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit
galleries
as wikitext code.
The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a
new theme
designed by the
User Experience group
. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of
the old "Apex" theme
and
the new "MediaWiki" one
which will replace it.)
The Editing team
plans to add
auto-fill features
for citations
in January.
Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
?
Elitre (WMF)
18:59, 26 di decembro 2014 (UTC)