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ChriKo: naelewa ya kwamba tunasubiri kidogo halafu kuangalia kura zinazopatikana. --'''[[Mtumiaji:Kipala|Kipala]] ([[Majadiliano ya mtumiaji:Kipala|majadiliano]])''' 20:30, 13 Februari 2015 (UTC) |
ChriKo: naelewa ya kwamba tunasubiri kidogo halafu kuangalia kura zinazopatikana. --'''[[Mtumiaji:Kipala|Kipala]] ([[Majadiliano ya mtumiaji:Kipala|majadiliano]])''' 20:30, 13 Februari 2015 (UTC) |
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Sorry for writing in English, please translate. The change was implemented but will be reverted on 2015-09-15 unless there is a demonstration that all alternatives fail: see [[phabricator:T44894]] and update us there (you can login with your Wikipedia account). Things to consider in a future discussion: |
Sorry for writing in English, please translate. The change was implemented but ''will be reverted on 2015-09-15 unless there is a demonstration that all alternatives fail'': see [[phabricator:T44894]] and update us there (you can login with your Wikipedia account). Things to consider in a future discussion: |
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* IP blocks, see [[m:SRCU]] for help. |
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If you notice a pattern in the bad edits (e.g. specific topics, words, IP addresses, sizes of the pages, links, etc. etc.), but you are not able to technically stop them, please ask technical help at [[m:Stewards noticeboard]]. --'''[[Mtumiaji:Nemo bis|Nemo bis]] ([[Majadiliano ya mtumiaji:Nemo bis|majadiliano]])''' 07:39, 17 Machi 2015 (UTC) |
If you notice a pattern in the bad edits (e.g. specific topics, words, IP addresses, sizes of the pages, links, etc. etc.), but you are not able to technically stop them, please ask technical help at [[m:Stewards noticeboard]]. --'''[[Mtumiaji:Nemo bis|Nemo bis]] ([[Majadiliano ya mtumiaji:Nemo bis|majadiliano]])''' 07:39, 17 Machi 2015 (UTC) |
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: NB: it is almost 2015-09-15. [[Mtumiaji:Sj|Sj]] [[Majadiliano ya mtumiaji:Sj|<font color="#f90">'''+'''</font>]] 02:43, 10 Septemba 2015 (UTC) |
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== VisualEditor News #1—2015 == |
== VisualEditor News #1—2015 == |
Pitio la 02:43, 10 Septemba 2015
- sw: Ukurasa huu ni kwa ajili ya kuwasaidia watu wanaotaka kuboresha kamusi hii na kujadiliana mambo ya jumuiya yetu!
Viungo vya jumuia:
- en: Welcome to the Swahili Wikipedia village pump!
Requests for the bot flag should be made on the page Wikipedia:Bots. This wiki uses the standard bot policy, and allows global bots and automatic approval of certain types of bots. Other bots should apply below, and then request access from a steward if there is no objection.
Majadiliano ya awali yamehamishiwa hapa:
- Wikipedia:Jumuia/Kumbukumbu_hadi_JUlai_2008
- Wikipedia:Jumuia/Kumbukumbu Julai 2008 hadi Desemba 2009
- Wikipedia:Jumuia/Kumbukumbu Desemba 2009 hadi Desemba 2011
- Wikipedia:Jumuia/Kumbukumbu 2012 hadi 2013
- Wikipedia:Jumuia/Kumbukumbu 2014
Karibuni mwaka 2015
Tunawatakia heri wachangiaji na wasomaji wote kwa mwaka mpya 2015.
Kura juu ya utaratibu wa kuanzisha makala mapya ("Community request to disable article page creation by anonymous/IP editors" )
Napendekeza kurudia kura juu ya utaratibu wa kuanzisha makala mapya.
- Tuliwahi kuifanya mwaka 2012, tazama Wikipedia:Jumuia/Kumbukumbu_2012_hadi_2013#Pendekezo:_Utaratibu_wa_kuanzisha_makala.
- Nilipofuatilia ikatokea majadiliano hapa: Kumbukumbu ya majadiliano ya masteward wa Meta
- Majibu yalinikatisha tamaa. Mwaka 2014 nilipata nafasi kujadili jambo tena na mtu wa wikimedia wako tayari kutusaidia kama bado jumuiya inakubali.
- Nimeona ya kwamba idadi kubwa ya wikipedia hazina mabano lakini zifuatazo pamoja na Kiingereza (ambayo ni kubwa kabisa) zina: "en.wiki, id.wiki, fa.wiki, ta.wiki and es.books as of 2011." (yaani Kiingereza, Kifarsi, Kitamili na Kiindonesia)
- Pendekezo lina sehemu mbili naomba kupinga au kukubali sehemu 1 na 2 pekee:
- "makala mapya yanaweza kuanzishwa na watumiaji waliojiandikisha pekee lakini kila mtu anaweza kufungua ukurasa wa majadiliano na kuchangia hapo". (article creation disabled for unregistered users but talk space open).
- "Makala yanaweza kubadilishwa na wachangiaji waliojiandikisha pekee; kurasa za majadiliao yanaweza kuhaririwa na mtu yeyote bila kujiandikisha" ("namespace edits restricted to registered users, talkspace open")
- Sababu: Wahariri wachache wa kudumu wanaojua utaratibu wa wikipedia wanashindwa kuangalia kila badiliko kwa hiyo makala yasiyofaa yameingia katika wikipedia yetu na mabadiliko yasiyofaa yamo ndani ya makala. (Reason: the few permanent contributors who know the rules and the system cannot keep up daily with new articles and edits, thus unsuitable articles have been joined to this wikipedia and unsuitable edits have remained"). Naomba watumiaji wote kuchangia! Kipala (majadiliano) 11:54, 3 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Ninakubali bila shaka, lakini utaratibu wa kura ni gani? ChriKo (majadiliano) 23:01, 11 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Nakubali. --Baba Tabita (majadiliano) 06:58, 12 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Nakubali ingawa sielewi vizuri matokeo yake yote. Nawaamini nyinyi. --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 15:19, 12 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- nakubali pande zote mbili. --Kipala (majadiliano) 20:30, 13 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Nakubali bila kinyongo--MwanaharakatiLonga 13:50, 19 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- nakubali pande zote mbili. --Kipala (majadiliano) 20:30, 13 Februari 2015 (UTC)
ChriKo: naelewa ya kwamba tunasubiri kidogo halafu kuangalia kura zinazopatikana. --Kipala (majadiliano) 20:30, 13 Februari 2015 (UTC)
Sorry for writing in English, please translate. The change was implemented but will be reverted on 2015-09-15 unless there is a demonstration that all alternatives fail: see phabricator:T44894 and update us there (you can login with your Wikipedia account). Things to consider in a future discussion:
- m:Research:Wikipedia article creation;
- m:Founding principles;
- such a discussion should last at least a month;
- ideally all active editor should agree (there are about 15).
Alternatives the community is expected to test in this period:
- mw:Extension:AbuseFilter#Documentation and management (making a list of "bad words" may suffice);
- other preventative counter-vandalism;
- (perhaps; probably too hard) m:Flagged Revisions#Enabling;
- IP blocks, see m:SRCU for help.
If you notice a pattern in the bad edits (e.g. specific topics, words, IP addresses, sizes of the pages, links, etc. etc.), but you are not able to technically stop them, please ask technical help at m:Stewards noticeboard. --Nemo bis (majadiliano) 07:39, 17 Machi 2015 (UTC)
- NB: it is almost 2015-09-15. Sj + 02:43, 10 Septemba 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #1—2015
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.
Recent improvements
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.
Looking ahead
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.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
- Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
- Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact James F. to learn more about this initiative.
- Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.
- Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. 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. Thank you!
18:30, 5 Februari 2015 (UTC)
Administrator's inactivity
Hi. I would like to notify a community of this project that stewards and their delegates are checking activity of admistrators in accordance with the AAR policy. On this Wikipedia one user with these rights (User:Ndesanjo) is inactive for more than two years. As I see here, sysop rights are removed after a vote. Is it an official local policy? Openbk (talk) 23:25, 6 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- This correct. Kipala (majadiliano) 19:07, 8 Februari 2015 (UTC)
Tshirt kwa wikipedia ya Kiswahili
Hapo mapendekezo mawili kwa Tshirt ya Wikipedia ya Kiswahili. Nimetunga chaguo 2 kwa mbele na 2 kwa nyuma. Naomba mawazo yenu!
Kwa mifano ya rangi mwangalie hapa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_T-shirts na http://instagram.com/p/x5S1EsnvKn/.
Kwa hiyo tunaweza kutumia kitambaa cheupecheupe na logo/maandishi nyeusi au kinyume. Mawazo yenu! Kipala (majadiliano) 09:08, 7 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Napenda zaidi maandishi marefu: ya chini kwa mbele, ya juu kwa nyuma. Ila ya kwanza yamekosea: ni "naandika" si "naandike". Asante, Kipala! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 10:28, 7 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Ninakubaliana na Riccardo kuhusu maandishi. Kuhusu rangi ninapendelea kitambaa cheupe na maandishi meusi. ChriKo (majadiliano) 11:53, 8 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Nawaunga mkono: ya chini kwa mbele, ya juu kwa nyuma. Kuhusu rangi napendelea kuvaa nyeusi, yaani maandishi meupe. Je, lazima tuchague rangi moja tu, au inawezekana kupata idadi kadhaa kuwa nyeupe na idadi kadhaa nyeusi? --Baba Tabita (majadiliano) 17:22, 8 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Haya juu ya maandishi tunakubaliana. kuhusu rangi naunga mkono na Baba Tabita lakini si kitu sana. Naona Ricccardo aseme maana anajua watu wake. Saizi ziwe tofauti, nadhani, XXXL pamoja na ndogo zaidi. Swali kwa Riccardo: uliniandikia ya kwamba unajua mahali pale Dar wanapotengeneza Tshirt. Je unafikiri ya kwamba unaweza kuagiza huko? Wanahitaji nini? Kipala (majadiliano) 19:13, 8 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Nawaunga mkono: ya chini kwa mbele, ya juu kwa nyuma. Kuhusu rangi napendelea kuvaa nyeusi, yaani maandishi meupe. Je, lazima tuchague rangi moja tu, au inawezekana kupata idadi kadhaa kuwa nyeupe na idadi kadhaa nyeusi? --Baba Tabita (majadiliano) 17:22, 8 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Ninakubaliana na Riccardo kuhusu maandishi. Kuhusu rangi ninapendelea kitambaa cheupe na maandishi meusi. ChriKo (majadiliano) 11:53, 8 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Leo hii rafiki yangu anakwenda Dar kutengeneza tisheti 400 zenye maandishi ya shule kwa ajili ya wanafunzi kwa Tsh. 5,000 kila moja. Kwa kitambaa bora zaidi ni TSh. 6,500. Kwa nakala chache, sijui. Amani kwenu! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 10:16, 9 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Nakubali kuagiza hizi tisheti kwa gharama ya dola 150. Nitaagiza rangi mbalimbali: au siyo? --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 13:57, 13 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Asante sana. Agiza tu rangi unazopendelea. Kipala (majadiliano) 20:02, 15 Februari 2015 (UTC)
- Nakubali kuagiza hizi tisheti kwa gharama ya dola 150. Nitaagiza rangi mbalimbali: au siyo? --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 13:57, 13 Februari 2015 (UTC)
[Global proposal] m.Wikipedia.org: (vyote) Hariri kurasa
Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like sw.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!
Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:32, 1 Machi 2015 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)
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:
- Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
- DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society — pharmaceutical information and practice resources
- Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
- Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)
Many 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 21:14, 2 Machi 2015 (UTC)
- Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator page.
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content
This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.
All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!
(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (majadiliano) 20:01, 4 Machi 2015 (UTC)
Badiliko: Makala mapya yataanzishwa na wachangiaji waliojiandikisha pekee
Wikimedia wamekubali ombi letu (ling. Wikipedia:Jumuia#Kura_juu_ya_utaratibu_wa_kuanzisha_makala_mapya_.28.22Community_request_to_disable_article_page_creation_by_anonymous.2FIP_editors.22_.29) kwa muda wa miezi 6. Kipala (majadiliano) 21:43, 12 Machi 2015 (UTC)
SUL finalization update
Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:45, 13 Machi 2015 (UTC)
Takwimu za makala za wikipedia: njia ya panya ipo!
Wapendwa tulisikitika ya kwamba ukurasa wa http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/ ulioturuhusu kuona makala gani inatazamiwa mara ngapi kwa siku haufanyi kazi tena. Kuna ukurasa mwingine ni stats.grok.se lakini huu hauonyeshi chaguo la Kiswahili. ILA TU inawezekana kupata matokeo kwa kuifungua kwa -tuseme- Kiingereza, halafu kubadilisha kifupi cha "en" kwa "sw" tayari tunapata majibu! naweza kuandika jina la ukurasa wowote wa kwetu LAKINI unahitaji kuandika katika mstari wa anwani pekee. Kwa mfano: http://stats.grok.se/sw/201503/Mirihi Kipala (majadiliano) 22:05, 25 Machi 2015 (UTC)
Stewards confirmation rules
Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:13, 10 Aprili 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #2—2015
Did you know?
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.
Recent improvements
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)
Looking ahead
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)
Let's work together
- 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 "Koze" and "Mlazo" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. 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!
19:48, 10 Aprili 2015 (UTC)
This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they 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.
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.
The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found 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,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (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. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on 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,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)
Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. 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!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:12, 4 Mei 2015 (UTC)
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This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
ContentTranslation - kifaa kipya cha MediaWiki.org
Wapendwa, nilikaribishwa kujiunga na kifaa kipya cha "Content_translation" kilichoundwa na MediaWiki.org (tovuti kwa kuendeleza programu za wikimedia pamoja na wikipedia). Naelewa kifaa hiki iko bado katika hali ya majaribio kwa hiyo hakipatikani kwa watu wote bado. Mnavyojua mimi si rafiki wa tafsiri ya kompyuta baada ya maarifa mabaya tuliyokuwa nayo miaka 5 iliyopita kwenye mashindano ya google.
- kifaa cha Content_translation bado haiwezi kutafsiri kwa Kiswahili
- ukijaribu kitafungua dirisha yenye sehemu mbili: upande mmoja unachagua makala asili, kwa mfano ya Kiingereza (au lugha nyingine), upande mwingine utachagua lugha unayolenga (k.m. Kswahili) na sehemu uliyochagua za matini asilia (ya Kiingereza) inaonekana hapa.
- halafu unabofya "translate"
- itakuambia ya kwamba tafsiri kwa Kiswahili bado haifanyi kazi, dirisha upande wa Kiswahili inaendelea kuonyesha matini ya Kiingereza
- LAKINI sasa una nafasi ya kuihifadhi. Nimeijaribu kumba nikapata makala mpya "linganifu" katika wikipedia yetu na ndani yake matini ya Kiingereza niliyowahi kuchagua awali.
Ni tumaini yangu ya kwamba kifaa hiki hakitapatikana kwa umma kwa muda mrefu. Inaonekana kuna lugha ambako matokeo ni afadhali na wahariri wa huku wanapenda kutumia tafsiri ya kompyuta. Machoni pangu bado miaka mingi hadi tafsiri kompyuta itafanya kazi kwa Kiswahili. Mimi siipendi kabisa, nikawaomba waondoe nafasi ya Kiswahili katika programu hii. Tazama https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation. Ikipatikana itakaribisha watu kucheza-cheza nahofia matokeo mabaya. Kipala (majadiliano) 06:36, 24 Mei 2015 (UTC)
Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core
Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is 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,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #3—2015
Did you know?
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.
Recent improvements
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.
Let's work together
- 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.
Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. 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!
10:44, 13 Juni 2015 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)
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!
- Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
- Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
- L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed 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!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)
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!
- Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
- Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
- L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed 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!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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HTTPS
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.
22:00, 19 Juni 2015 (UTC)
Vifupisho vya lugha
Wapendwa, nikitunga makala mpya na lemma ni neno lenye asili ya nje napenda kudokeza asili ya neno kwa kuongeza lugha na neno asilia kwa mabano; vilevile kwa lemma nyingi za sayansi na teknolojia ambayo majina yanajulikana zaidi kwa Kiingereza naongeza Kiingereza kwa mabano. Hapo napendelea kutumia vifupisho, hasa ing. kwa Kiingereza, far. kwa Kifaransa, lat. kwa Kilatini na kadhalika.
Naona wengine wetu hawapendezwi mno nayo, na kuna masahihisho kubadilisha vifupisho kuwa virefusho :-). Sina neno ila napenda kusema kwa nini naifanya vile. Kama jina la lemma linaelezwa palepale mwanzoni sipendi kuvunja sentensi ya kwanza kwa mabano marefu. Nadhani hii inaongeza ugumu wa kusoma.
Ni tofauti kama lemma yenyewe inahitaji maelezo zaidi ni afadhali kuacha mabano na kuwa na kifungu cha "etimolojia". Naona katika kamusi nyingi ni jambo la kawaida ila tu naona tangu nimeanza ya kwamba Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu ya TUKI inatumia pia vifupisho lakini tofauti.
Hapo Swali langu ni: Je tukitumia vifupisho ya lugha je umbo ni muhimu namna gani? Natoa mifano ya vifupisho vya Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu (na zile ambazo mimi natumia siku hizi): Kng (ing.), Kar (ar.), Kaj (aj.), Kbr, Kch, Kfa (far.), Khi, Kgk (gir.), Kje (jer.), Kjp, Kla (lat.), Kre, Ktu (tur.),
Niongeze ya kwamba hapo zamani nilitumia vifupisho tofauti za kufanana na hizi za Kamusi kama "Kijer" , Kiing" lakini baadaye nikaona nifupishe zaidi. Manonaje - muhimu au la ilhali kuna viungo?Kipala (majadiliano) 14:38, 21 Juni 2015 (UTC)
Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images
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 proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (majadiliano) 05:07, 24 Julai 2015 (UTC)
What does a Healthy Community look like to you?
Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community.
Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!
Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.
Why get involved?
The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.
More information
- All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
- All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
- Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
- URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
- Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: Kigezo:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalKigezo:@wikimedia ·org
Happy editing!
MediaWiki message delivery (majadiliano) 23:43, 31 Julai 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming
(Sorry for writing in English)
When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.
We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come 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:
- Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital from the item about Germany
- Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua
Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (majadiliano) 17:46, 3 Agosti 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here
(Sorry for writing in English)
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 Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:32, 12 Agosti 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #4—2015
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Did you know?
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
Wikimania
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.
For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Recent improvements
Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.
Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
Future changes
The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now using Flow instead of LiquidThreads.
- 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 mediawiki.org if you can help.
- If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
- Please file requests for language-appropriate "Koze" and "Mlazo" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
- The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
- The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.
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!
—Elitre (WMF), 22:28, 14 Agosti 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #4—2015
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Did you know?
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
Wikimania
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.
For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Recent improvements
Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.
Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
Future changes
The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now using Flow instead of LiquidThreads.
- 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 mediawiki.org if you can help.
- If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
- Please file requests for language-appropriate "Koze" and "Mlazo" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
- The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
- The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.
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!
—Elitre (WMF), 02:40, 15 Agosti 2015 (UTC)
How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?
My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:
- Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
- Join a small group conversation.
- Learn more about this consultation.
Feedback is welcome in any language.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.
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- fixed a few links. --Titodutta (majadiliano) 16:21, 29 Agosti 2015 (UTC)
Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site
Hi all,
We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.
Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/
Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.
Thanks,
Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:13, 2 Septemba 2015 (UTC)
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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants
My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.
Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
- Submit a grant request
- Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
- Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants
Thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 Septemba 2015 (UTC)
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Article requests
Is there a central place where I may post article requests? WhisperToMe (majadiliano) 18:08, 6 Septemba 2015 (UTC)