Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements.
Status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. Upcoming plans are posted at the
VisualEditor roadmap
.
The Wikimedia Foundation has named
its top priorities for this quarter
(January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements.
There will be weekly
triage meetings
which
will be open to volunteers
beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at
12:00 (noon) PST
(20:00 UTC).
Tell Vice President of Engineering
Damon Sicore
, Product Manager
James Forrester
and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at
mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal
shortly before the meeting begins.
Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.
The
new design for VisualEditor
aligns with MediaWiki's
Front-End Standards
as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the
OOjs UI
library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
- starts a new task, like opening the ?visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog? dialog:
blue
,
- takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation:
green
,
- might remove or lose your work, like removing a link:
red
, or
- is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:
gray
.
The
TemplateData editor
has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor. (
T67815
,
T73746
.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (
T73077
,
T73078
.)
Search and replace
in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(
T78234
.)
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (
T86688
,
T87027
.) If your community would like
VisualEditor enabled on another namespace
on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
The Editing team will soon add
auto-fill features
for citations
. The
Citoid service
takes a
URL
or
DOI
for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.
We will need editors to help test the
new design of the special character inserter
, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact
User:Whatamidoing (WMF)
if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at
Phase 5 Wikipedias
. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including
Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh
. The date for this change has not been determined.
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Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like ceb.
m
.wikipedia.org,
unregistered users cannot edit
. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users
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Did you know?
With
Citoid
in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:
Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:
After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the
Citoid
reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted
on Mediawiki.org
. The worklist for April through June is available
in Phabricator
.
The weekly
task triage meetings
continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at
11:00 (noon) PDT
(18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the
Editing team's Q4 blocker project
with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal
.
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and
network speed
by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding
auto-fill features
for citations
. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The
Citoid service
takes a
URL
or
DOI
for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for
ISBNs
,
PMIDs
, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
Citoid requires good
TemplateData
for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the
Citoid project on Phabricator
. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The
special character inserter
has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the
Phase 5
list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including
Afrikaans
,
Azerbaijani
,
Breton
,
Kyrgyz
,
Macedonian
,
Mongolian
,
Tatar
, and
Welsh
.
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use
input method editors
("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the
"packed" mode in image galleries
. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now
drag and drop categories
to re-arrange their order of appearance ?on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon
so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead. (
T90734
)
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted
at mediawiki.org
.
The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (
T90666
)
- Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
.
- Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check
this list
to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language.
Contact us
to get an account if you want to help!
- The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please
sign up for their research program
.
- File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu
in Phabricator
.
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19:48, 10 Abril 2015 (UTC)
This is a message from the
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
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Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have
published letters
describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is
accepting nominations
for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.
This year, elections are being held for the following roles:
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the board elections page
.
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC elections page
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The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC Ombudsperson elections page
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The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on
the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki
.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
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User:Varnent
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2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
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Voting has begun
for
eligible voters
in the 2015 elections for the
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(FDC) and
FDC Ombudsperson
. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the
Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) and
FDC Ombudsperson
will continue during the voting. Nominations for the
Board of Trustees
will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.
The
Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.
The
FDC Ombudsperson
receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the
Board of Trustees
, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10.
Click here to vote
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Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time.
Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question
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More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
2015 FDC election page
, the
2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page
, and the
2015 Board election page
on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
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Hello Wikimedians!
Today
The Wikipedia Library
announces signups for more 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:
- MIT Press Journals
? scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences (200 accounts)
- Loeb Classical Library
? Harvard University Press versions of Classical Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
- RIPM
? music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
- Sage Stats
? social science data for geographies within the United States (10 accounts)
- HeinOnline
? an extensive legal research database, including 2000 law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25 accounts)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Project MUSE
,
JSTOR
,
DeGruyter
,
Newspapers.com
and
British Newspaper Archive
. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Board
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The
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
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The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31.
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More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
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Content Translation
has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature on this Wikipedia. To start translating, enable the beta feature and go to
Special:ContentTranslation
or to your contributions page and create a new translation by selecting the source language, the article name and target language. If the article already exists then a warning will be displayed. After you translate the article, you can publish it directly as a new page on the Wikipedia. In case the article gets created by another user while you were translating, you will see an option to save the newly published translation under your user namespace. The number of published pages can be seen on the
Content Translation stats page
.
Since, this is the first time we have installed the tool on this Wikipedia, there are chances that there may be some problems or service disruptions which we are not yet aware of. We will be monitoring the usage to check for any failures or issues, but please do let us know on the
Content Translation talk page
or through
Phabricator
if you spot any problems that prevent you from using the tool. For more information, please read
about how to use the tool
. You can also view a
short screencast
on how to use Content Translation. My apologies for writing this announcement only in English. Please feel free to translate this message for wider distribution. Thank you.
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Pywikibot
(then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g.
T101524
). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a
migration guide
, and please
contact us
if you have any problem.
There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in
this list
, your bot will most likely break.
Thank you,
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Wikipedia:Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge
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Did you know?
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. The worklist for April through June is available
in Phabricator
.
A
test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors
at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial
results will be posted at Meta
later this month.
Auto-fill features
for citations
are available at a few Wikipedias through the
citoid service
. Citoid takes a
URL
or
DOI
for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (?citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto?, ?citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual?, or ?citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse?). The cite button is now labeled with the word "?visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label?" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "?Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button?", for the submit button.
The
link tool
has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (
T98085
)
The
special character inserter
in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list
at mediawiki.org
. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (
T70425
)
Several improvements have been made to
templates
. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "?visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param?" each time they want to add another parameter. (
T95696
) The team added a
new property for TemplateData
, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (
T53049
)
The
design
of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of
non-existent images
. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
- Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
.
- The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the
VisualEditor Q4 blocker project
with the bug.
- If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact
James Forrester
.
- If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the
Citoid project on Phabricator
. Include links to the
TemplateData
for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
- The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow
this task on Phabricator
for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.
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Elitre (WMF)
10:44, 13 Hunyo 2015 (UTC)
Hello Wikimedians!
Today
The Wikipedia Library
announces signups for more 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:
- Taylor & Francis
? academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
- World Bank eLibrary
? digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
- AAAS
? general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal
Science
among other sources (50 accounts)
New French-Language Branch!
- Erudit
(
en Francais
) ? Erudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
- Cairn.info
(
en Francais
) ? Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
- L'Harmattan
? French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including an expansion of accounts for
Royal Society journals
and remaining accounts on
Project MUSE
,
JSTOR
,
DeGruyter
,
Highbeam
Newspapers.com
and
British Newspaper Archive
. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to
make a request
! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has
been working
towards enabling
HTTPS
by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS
has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with
us
if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
/
Johan (WMF)
22:00, 19 Hunyo 2015 (UTC)
Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has
been working
towards enabling
HTTPS
by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS
has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with
us
if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
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Johan (WMF)
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There is a
proposal
at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)
This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the
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Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!
Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions
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The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming.
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Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions
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The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming.
As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
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When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.
We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to
d:Wikidata:Contact the development team
.
A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.
How to use it, once it is enabled:
Cheers
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Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki.
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Hi everyone,
As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to
d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access
. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier.
Cheers
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13:32, 12 Agosto 2015 (UTC)
- For easy access to arbitrary items, I have imported
Module:Wikidata
to cebwp.
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Hello. Can ayone check if the article
Nea Salamis Famagusta FC
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- Wikimedia Indonesia
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Sundanese Wikipedia
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Links:
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The
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I have installed the HotCat category handling gadget on this wiki. See
here
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Cebuano wikipedia now has 1.5 million articles. Article #1,500,000:
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Since the last newsletter, the
visual editor team
has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
You can
switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor
after you start editing.
The
LaTeX mathematics formula editor
has been significantly expanded. (
T118616)
You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
The
single edit tab
project will combine the "Usba" and "Usba ang wikitext" tabs into a single "Usba" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (
T102398
,
T58337
) Initially, the "Usba" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Nagausab tab of
Special:Preferences
in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:
Amharic
,
Buginese
,
Min Dong
,
Cree
,
Manx
,
Hakka
,
Armenian
,
Georgian
,
Pontic
,
Serbo-Croatian
,
Tigrinya
,
Mingrelian
,
Zhuang
, and
Min Nan
. (
T116523
) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the
feedback pages
for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (
T92661
)
- Please try the new system for the
single edit tab
on
test2.wikipedia.org
. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.
Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at
the feedback topic on mediawiki.org
or
sign up for formal user research
(type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
- Remember my last editor,
- Always give me the visual editor if possible,
- Always give me the source editor, and
- Show me both editor tabs. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
- Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese?
Language engineer
David Chan
needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at
What to test
if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (
Korean
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Japanese
) or on Wikipedia (
Korean
-
Japanese
).
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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. Thank you!
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Feel free to translate this message in your language!
On January 1 we celebrate
Public Domain Day
as many works of authors who died 70+ years ago now enter the public domain and can be used freely.
Let us be aware: copyright is temporary. It only lasts during the authors lifetime and 70 years afterwards (in most countries). During those years it is limiting Wikipedia and her sister projects in showing works of art, literature, public art and buildings in countries without
freedom of panorama
, and more in the articles. But now a new batch is freed from copyrights!
An overview of images and texts that are restored or added to the Wikimedia Commons, are collected on:
this page
.
Many of these files still need a place in articles. You can help!
You can also help by uploading new files of subjects that are freed of copyrights.
You can also help by tagging all requests for deletion pages with the
category
when the file can be restored, which will be/was deleted.
As I follow the log of restored files this week, more images and texts will follow. If still files or texts are missing in the list, let me know or add them yourselves.
A very happy Public Domain Day!
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A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:
Patrick Earley (WMF)
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Hello, all.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)
Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion,
2016 Strategy/Community consultation
.
Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created
m:2016 Strategy/Translations
to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made.?:)
If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.
I hope you'll join us!
Maggie Dennis
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19:06, 18 Enero 2016 (UTC)
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This wikipedia is now the third largest language version, having overtaken German tonight.
Lsj
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19:38, 19 Enero 2016 (UTC)
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- But with virtually no actual editors.
- Waray is also artificially high.
- Varlaam
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05:01, 9 Pebrero 2016 (UTC)
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- Thanks to your bot,
Mount Rosey
in Australia has articles in Swedish and Cebuano, but not English.
- Should we be happy about that?
- Varlaam
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05:06, 9 Pebrero 2016 (UTC)
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Article generators should be banned from Wikipedia.
The opinion of one (Grandmaster) man.
Varlaam
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05:25, 9 Pebrero 2016 (UTC)
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Cebuano is missing from this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/There_is_also_a_Wikipedia_in_your_language
More than 100 languages are now listed.
Thank you,
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21:37, 21 Enero 2016 (UTC)
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Mabolahanong bag-ong tuig 2016 sa tanan!
Kon Bisdak ka, palihug ko'g lista diri sa imong
username
kon gusto ka mopauswag sa Binisayang wikipedya. Para maplanohan nato asa padulong ang kining proyektoha.
Daghang salamat.
(gisulat ni Jordz, nga walay pirma)
- Dili Bisdak ko. Pero gusto ko mopauswag sa Binisayang wikipedya. Maplanohan ko magpadayon sulat heyograpiya. Human sa heyograpiya, adunay uban nga mga posibilidad sa bot. Pero kita kinahanglan nga mga Bisdak sa pagsulat nga mas kinatibuk-ang mga artikulo nga dili mahimo ni bot.
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14:41, 27 Enero 2016 (UTC)
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ESEA Newsletter is out!
Check out
some amazing work done by
Wikimedia Communities in East and Southeast Asia
! Here is the summary of the Newsletter.
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Hello!
Please help translate to your language. Thank you!
The
completion suggester beta feature
will become the default at the first group of wikis on
Thursday, 10 March
. This initial rollout will start with some of the smaller wikis to ensure the change happens in an organized way. The remaining wikis will receive the update on Wednesday, 16 March. This update brings three major improvements to search. Improved search result ordering, a tolerance for a small number of spelling errors, and suggests fewer typos.
Since December 2015, 19,000 editors have already opted into the completion suggester beta feature. Contributors are encouraged to
try out the feature
ahead of the release. Please share any comments on the Completion Suggester
discussion page
in any language.
To learn more about the work of the Discovery department and other improvements to search, please check out
the Wikimedia blog
. Read about
CirrusSearch
, the MediaWiki extension that makes wiki search possible.
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Apologies for writing in English. Please help translate to your 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 access to research materials from:
- Cambridge University Press
- a major publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. Access includes both Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books. 25 accounts.
- Alexander Street
Academic Video Online
- a large academic video collection good for a wide range of subjects, including news programs (such as PBS and BBC), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. 25 accounts.
- Baylor University Press
- a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. 50 accounts.
- Future Science Group
- a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. 30 accounts.
- Annual Reviews
- a publisher of review articles in the biomedical sciences. 100 accounts.
- Miramar Ship Index
- an index to ships and their histories since the early 19th century. 30 accounts.
Non-English
- Noormags
- Farsi-language aggregator of academic and professional journals and magazines. 30 accounts.
- Kotobna
- Arabic-language ebook publishing platform. 20 accounts.
Expansions
- Gale
- aggregator of newspapers, magazines and journals. 50 accounts.
- Elsevier ScienceDirect
- an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. 100 accounts.
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Project MUSE
,
De Gruyter
,
EBSCO
,
Newspapers.com
and
British Newspaper Archive
. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team
20:30, 17 Marso 2016 (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
.
Please help translate to your language:
Greetings! The
Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program
is accepting proposals
until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF)
15:47, 31 Marso 2016 (UTC)
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its newest data center in Dallas.
This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the new data center on
Tuesday, 19 April
.
On
Thursday, 21 April
, 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 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.
We?hope?that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.
If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.
Then you should be able to save your edit.
But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.
If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.
Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April.
No non-essential code deployments will take place.
This test was originally planned to take place on March 22.
April 19th and 21st are the new dates.
You can?
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
.
They will post any changes on that schedule.
There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
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Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it
here
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This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please,
join the discussion on Meta-Wiki
(and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
15:35, 21 Abril 2016 (UTC)
I don't speak your language but the following bot-created articles are duplicates of each other, just one with the English name and the other with the French name:
I already removed the intewikis in Wikidata for the articles with the name in French and asked for the deletion of duplicate items in Wikidata (some were only duplicate of each other, while other were both duplicate of another existing item with interwiki to other Wikipedias). The same duplicate articles were created on sv.wp.
If there is a better place to report those, please let me know, because I'm sure I will find more.
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Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about
Wikipedia to the Moon
, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today,
you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki
, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
15:31, 10 Hunyo 2016 (UTC)
Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an
overview and more information there
. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!
Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
14:10, 1 Hulyo 2016 (UTC)
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Did you know?
It's quick and easy to insert a references list.
Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).
If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.
Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.
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 fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
The visual editor is now available to all users at most
Wikivoyages
. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The
single edit tab
feature combines the "Usba" and "Usba ang wikitext" tabs into a single "Usba" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Nagausab" tab of
Special:Preferences
. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
The "Tipigi ang panid" button will say "Imantala ang panid". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More
information is available on Meta
.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. This will affect several languages, including:
Arabic
,
Hindi
,
Thai
,
Tamil
,
Marathi
,
Malayalam
,
Urdu
,
Persian
,
Bengali
,
Assamese
,
Aramaic
and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (
T138966
)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a
general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list
.
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. Thank you!
m:User:Elitre (WMF)
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17:20, 3 Hulyo 2016 (UTC)
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ESEA Newsletter is out!
Check out
some amazing work done by
Wikimedia Communities in East and Southeast Asia
! Here is the summary of the Newsletter.
- What is Affiliations Committee and how ESEA is related with it? ESEA editors interviewed one of the members
Ting Chen
on
Wikimedia Conference 2016
.
- Wikimedia Indonesia
brings the news on Sundanese Wikipedia community held a Wikipedia writing competition, and one participant who was only 12 years old managed to edit 118 articles using a 4-inch smartphone, using source editor!
- Wikimedia Taiwan
invites parliament members to take open licensed photo, 38 out of 113 congresspeople have participated in this event.
- Wikimedians in Thailand
organised two meetups in March 2016 at Mahidol University International College. They gathered around 30 new editors, including a visually impaired student.
- One of
Wikimedia Hong Kong
members was invited to give a presentation about building up an Arts database in Asia on Wikipedia, and the Ministry of Culture in Taiwan expressed their interest to cooperate with us in order to establish the database.
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Komosta sa tanan. Kini si Bentong Isles. Kaniadto, pinaagi sa tabang sa pipila ka higala online, nasugdan ta kining Wikipedya sa atong kaugalingong pinulongan. Apan tungod ra usab sa ka-busy na sa mga tawo (lakip na ko), daw nataligam-an na kini, og karon pipila na lamang ang nagtukaw.
Akong panghinaot nga mabuhi kini pagbalik. Dili pagpasabot nga namatay ni, apan nga unta atong tagaag mas dugang paninguha pa aron maugmad kini.
Of course, ang labing importante niini mao nga ma-edit nato ang mga artikulo aron mahimo kini silang nindot basahon, ug takos nga mahimong kabahin sa usa ka ensayklopedyang Binisaya.
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Please help translate to your language:
- Greetings! The
Project Grants program
is accepting proposals
from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
- Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
- Also accepting candidates to
join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.
- With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF)
15:25, 5 Hulyo 2016 (UTC)
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Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by
global community consensus
in 2013. 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
admin activity review
.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
- Pare Mo (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
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- There's a
vetting process
for applying as admins. But I would support any move you make. I have recently returned to activity on this wiki, and will take personal responsibility in trying to revive the community. --
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Please help translate to your language
Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in
Tech News
.
Compact Language Links
has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the coming week for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the
project documentation
.
Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use
MassMessage
for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on
this page
. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team:
Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF)
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Please help translate to your language
Compact Language Links
has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in
the documentation
.
From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under
User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages
The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the
project talk page
. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on
this phabricator ticket
(in English).
This message could only be written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: --
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The
Editing
team is planning to change the name of the
“
Tipigi ang panid
”
button to
“
Imantala ang panid
”
and
“
I-publish ang mga kausaban
”
. “
Imantala ang panid
” will be used when you create a new page. “
I-publish ang mga kausaban
” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.
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This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in
Tech News
when it happens.
If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for
“
Imantala ang panid
”
and
“
I-publish ang mga kausaban
”
.
The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that
“
Tipigi ang panid
”
would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “
Tipigi ang panid
” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.
Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The
Legal team
at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.
Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes
{{int:Publishpage}}
and
{{int:Publishchanges}}
to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in
your account preferences
, these wikitext codes produce “
Imantala ang panid
” and “
I-publish ang mga kausaban
”.
Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.
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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 now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- Nomos
? Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
- World Scientific
? Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
- Edinburgh University Press
? Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
- American Psychological Association
? Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
- Emerald
? Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts
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Hello, I wanted to give you a heads up that machine translation support for
Cebuano
is now ready to be extended to
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From September 13th on,
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German Community’s Technical Wishlist
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Hello, machine translation support for
Content Translation
(beta feature) has now been extended and enabled for users of
Cebuano Wikipedia
using Yandex. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles into Cebuano with Content Translation. To start using this service, please choose ‘’Yandex.Translate’’ from the ‘’Automatic Translation’’ dropdown menu that you see on the sidebar after you start translating an article. Please note, machine translation is available from all the languages that are supported by Yandex.Translate, but Content Translation can still be used in the usual manner for translating from all languages, with or without machine translation support.
Wikimedia Foundation’s Legal team and Yandex had collaborated earlier to work out
an agreement
that allows the use of
Yandex.Translate
without compromising Wikipedia’s policy of attribution of rights, privacy of our users and brand representation. Since November 2015, Yandex machine translation has been used for articles translated for Wikipedias in many languages. For more information, we request you to kindly take a look at the details about
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Yandex translation services
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We have tested the service for use on the Cebuano Wikipedia, but there could be unknown problems that we are not aware of yet. Please do let us know on our
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Summary
: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a
wikitext mode for the visual editor
. Please
go try it out
.
We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving
the visual editor
based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.
Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the
citoid service
for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.
All wikis now have access to this mode as a
Beta Feature
. When enabled, it replaces your existing
wikitext editor
everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an
opt-in-only
Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Automatically enable most beta features".
The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the
current wikitext editor
). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and
vice versa
), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to
work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work
with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.
This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode
on the feedback page
. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.
James Forrester
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19:31, 14 Disyembre 2016 (UTC)
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Please join this discussion on how to make more users able to participate in this wiki. Thanks,
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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.
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