Wikipedia:Jumuia
- 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!
Yaliyomo
- 1 Kumbukumbu ya miaka iliyopita
- 2 Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili
- 3 Editing News #1—2018
- 4 Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge
- 5 40,000
- 6 Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
- 7 AdvancedSearch
- 8 New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)
- 9 Update on page issues on mobile web
- 10 Tidy to RemexHtml
- 11 Global preferences are available
- 12 44,000 !!
- 13 New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS
- 14 Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors
- 15 Tanzanian week in Ukrainian wiki
- 16 Warsha kuhusu makala zetu za astronomia kwenye Septemba 2018
- 17 Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now
- 18 Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October
- 19 Kigezo:Kimdomo
- 20 Mkabidhi kwa Jadnapac
- 21 Azimio
- 22 Editing News #2—2018
- 23 Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
- 24 Community Wishlist Survey vote
- 25 Advanced Search
- 26 New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
- 27 Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019
- 28 FileExporter beta feature
- 29 No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January
Kumbukumbu ya miaka iliyopita
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
- Wikipedia:Jumuia/Kumbukumbu 2015
- Wikipedia:Jumuia/Kumbukumbu 2016
Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili
Kwa wote wanaopenda kutafakari na kujadiliana nasi namna ya kuendeleza wikipedia hii ya Kiswahili wakabidhi walianzisha kundi la meta:Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili. Unaweza kujiandikisha pale kama umehariri hapa kwa muda wa mwaka moja angalau.
Editing News #1—2018
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Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you enable the Beta Feature for "Visual differences", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.
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 Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
- The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
- The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [1]
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [2]
- The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.
Let's work together
- The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
- Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
- The
<references />block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [3] - 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. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Asante!
20:56, 2 Machi 2018 (UTC)
Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge
Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (majadiliano) 14:37, 12 Machi 2018 (UTC)
40,000
Kwa neema ya Mwenyezi Mungu tumefikia kiwango hicho. Naomba mafundi wetu bora wabandike lebo ya dhahabu. Amani kwenu na tusonge mbele! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 07:57, 17 Machi 2018 (UTC)
- Hongera, Padre Riccardo! Sina ujuzi kuhuzu lebo ya dhahabu, lakini nimeandika kuhusu hatua hiyo ukurasani mwa Matukio ya hivi karibuni. Sherehe na furaha na fahari! --Baba Tabita (majadiliano) 09:58, 17 Machi 2018 (UTC)
- Nafurahi sana! Hongera Riccardo, pole na kupanda milima mingi. Kipala (majadiliano) 14:19, 17 Machi 2018 (UTC)
Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
Please help translate to your language
Mapframe is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. But fifteen Wikipedias, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.
A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’s Collaboration team has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable. Nine Wikipedias that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.
Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us know on the project talk page. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 24 Aprili 2018 (UTC)
AdvancedSearch
Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 Mei 2018 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
- Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
- Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
- Termsoup – Translation tool
Expansions
- Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
- Alexander Street Press – Women and Social Movements Library now available
- Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:03, 30 Mei 2018 (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.
Update on page issues on mobile web
Update on page issues on mobile web
Please help translate to your language Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.
So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:
- The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
- Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
- Readers care about page issues and consider them important
- Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 Juni 2018 (UTC)
Tidy to RemexHtml
The Parsing team will be replacing Tidy with RemexHtml at this wiki on 5 July 2018.
Some pages at this wiki use outdated HTML. This change may change the appearance of those pages. Special:LintErrors has a complete list of affected pages.
Read this e-mail message for more information. Read the instructions at mw:Help:Extension:Linter. You can ask questions at mw:Talk:Parsing/Replacing Tidy. Thank you for helping fix these problems.
m:User:Elitre (WMF) 14:38, 2 Julai 2018 (UTC)
Global preferences are available
Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
19:20, 10 Julai 2018 (UTC)
44,000 !!
Kumbe leo hii Riccardo ametufikisha kwa makala 44,000 !! Asante na hongera Ndugu! Kipala (majadiliano) 12:43, 30 Julai 2018 (UTC)
New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS
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Hi all!
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)
A new user group, interface-admin, has been created.
Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17:45, 30 Julai 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors
Hello.
The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.
TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.
TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.
- It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
- It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
- Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
- All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.
You can learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org. Technical documentation is also available.
This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.
Thank you.
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:28, 6 Agosti 2018 (UTC)
Tanzanian week in Ukrainian wiki
Hi everyone! Sorry for writing here in English. My name is Vasyl and I am an editor of ukrainian wikipedia. We're going to spend at least two weeks writing articles about Tanzania (August 13-26). If you know that some article might be interesting or important to know for ukrainian readers - leave your suggestions here. We'll be thankfull for that.
Would be greate if your suggestion have english or russian version. If you want - you can write some articles about Ukraine - we had such type of cooperation with estonian, macedonian, armenian, yakut, urdu and bellorussian wiki.
With best regards! Шиманський Василь (majadiliano) 06:22, 7 Agosti 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for being interested in our country. Of course, there are a lot of articles both in Swahili and English Wikipedia. We propose to use them, starting with our geography (so special: islands, mountains, lakes, rivers, parks etc.) and history (archaeology, struggles against colonialism, Julius Nyerere and other political personality) without forgetting our biological diversity (human tribes, animals, vegetation etc.). I think you will enjoy in knowing more about us. May the Lord give you his peace! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 06:33, 7 Agosti 2018 (UTC)
- Hi! Tanzanian week ended two weeks ago, so we have some good results) 188 articles was created and 5 - improved. With best regards! Шиманський Василь (majadiliano) 09:10, 17 Septemba 2018 (UTC)
- Very well. Peace to your country and to the whole world! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 14:09, 19 Septemba 2018 (UTC)
Warsha kuhusu makala zetu za astronomia kwenye Septemba 2018
Salaam tuna mradi wa pekee katika wikipedia yetu ya Kiswahili. Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam (Taasisi ya Taaluma ya Kiswahili) kilituoma tuandae muswada ya kamusi ya astronomia ambayo wanataka kuchapisha kama kitabu. Hadi sasa makala zetu ni mkusanyo wa pekee wa matini kuhusu astronomia kwa Kiswahili. Makala hizi ambazo ni takriban 300 zitafanya matini ya kamusi inayolengwa. Nimepeleka pendekezo kwa MetaWiki kutupatia pesa ili tuweze kufanya warsha ya uhariri. Warsha hii itaunganisha wanawikipedia na wanachama wa ASSAT (Astronomy and Space Science Association of Tanzania) wanaopitia sasa makala hizi. Warsha inalenga kujadili masahihisho na mapendekzo, kuingiza mabadiliko haya katika wikipedia na kuandaa muswada kwa ajili ya chuo.
Nitafurahi kama wanawikipedia wanaaangalia na kuunga mkono pendekezo lifuatalo: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Swwiki_workshop_astronomia#Project_Goal. Kunasehemu ambako unaweza kubofya "endorse". Kipala (majadiliano) 07:21, 8 Agosti 2018 (UTC)
Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now
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Hi all,
as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Interface administrators) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:40, 27 Agosti 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. 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 up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)
13:33, 6 Septemba 2018 (UTC)
Kigezo:Kimdomo
Nimeanzisha kigezo / template ya {{Kimdomo}} (tazama chini) kama jaribio naomba tuangalie na kushauriana. Tumevumilia habari zisizo na ushuhuda pale zinapoingizwa katika makala za kata au pia makabila ambako tunapata mara nyingi habari za kusimulizi na kuwa na vyanzo kamili inaweza kuwa vigumu. Habari hizi kwa mfano kijiji fulani kilianzishwa na mzee XYZ kutoka ukoo wa ABC zinaweza kuwa sehemu ya historia ya kimdomo isiyoandikwa bado. Kwa hiyo tuliamua kuvumilia habari hizi. Tunapaswa kuzifuta kama watu wanatukanwa au tunapoona ya kwamba kumbukumbu ya mahali inapingana na vyanzo halisi (wakati mwingine labda kubadilisha kwa kuongeza: historia yenye ushuhuda ni hivi, lakini kuna pia masimulizi ya kimdomo yanayosema...). Naomba mawazo kuhusu namna hii ya kusimamia wikipedia yetu.
| Makala yenye habari za kimdomo bila vyanzo halisi
Makala hii (au sehemu zake) inaonekana kutoa habari za kimdomo kuhusu desturi au utamaduni wa maeneo ya Tanzania. Hailingani na masharti ya kuonyesha vyanzo na ushuhuda wa kimaandishi jinsi ilivyo kawaida katika Wikipedia. Lakini ilhali habari nyingi katika mazingira yetu hazikuandikwa bado wala kujadiliwa kimaandishi na wataalamu tunaacha habari hizi kwa muda. Tunaomba wasomaji wetu kuwa macho na kutochanganya habari hizi za kisimulizi na habari zenye ushuhuda halisi. Tunaendelea kuangalia michango ya aina hii ambayo haiwezi kukubaliwa jinsi ilivyoletwa kama inapingana na ushuhuda halisi.. |
Kipala (majadiliano) 15:05, 18 Septemba 2018 (UTC)
- Si mbaya. Ndiyo hali halisi, tena si ya Tanzania tu, bali hata Kenya na kwingineko. Hivyo ningeondoa jina la nchi yetu. Amani kwa wote! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 07:06, 19 Septemba 2018 (UTC)
Mkabidhi kwa Jadnapac
Naomba kibali cha wenzangu kwa kumpa Mtumiaji:Jadnapac haki za mkabidhi. Amekuwa mwanawikipedia tangu 2017, aliunda kundi la meta:Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania na kuiongoza. Naona anafaa. Pia namhitaji kwa ajili ya warsha mwisho wa Novemba akiwa na uwezo huu wa admin. Kipala (majadiliano) 09:38, 30 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)
Unga—mkono
- Naunga mkono uteuzi huu. Ameonesha njia na nia ya kuwa kiongozi bora kabisa wa Wikimedia Tanzania.--Muddyb Mwanaharakati Longa 09:58, 30 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)
- Naunga mkono. ChriKo (majadiliano) 06:33, 31 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)
- Mimi pia. --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 11:39, 31 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)
- Ndugu wakabidhi wote, nawashukuruni sana kwa uteuzi wenu wa kunipa haki ya kuwa mkabidhi katika Wikipedia hii ya Kiswahili.Mmenipa moyo wa kuendelea kujifunza (zaidi kutoka kwenu) juu ya namna ya kuiboresha Wikipedia ya Kiswahili. Nategemea zaidi ushirikiano kutoka kwenu nyote. Asanteni sana. Ndimi wenu, Jadnapac (majadiliano) 15:05, 3 Novemba 2018 (UTC)
- Nilichelewa. Lakini naunga mkono kwa dhati uteuzi huu. Hongera sana.--Ndesanjo (majadiliano) 09:20, 6 Novemba 2018 (UTC)
- Ndugu wakabidhi wote, nawashukuruni sana kwa uteuzi wenu wa kunipa haki ya kuwa mkabidhi katika Wikipedia hii ya Kiswahili.Mmenipa moyo wa kuendelea kujifunza (zaidi kutoka kwenu) juu ya namna ya kuiboresha Wikipedia ya Kiswahili. Nategemea zaidi ushirikiano kutoka kwenu nyote. Asanteni sana. Ndimi wenu, Jadnapac (majadiliano) 15:05, 3 Novemba 2018 (UTC)
Siungi-mkono
Sipingi—Walasikatai
Azimio
Basi nafunga kura, kuna azimio. Karibu Jadnapac katika idadi ya wakabidhi wa wikipedia hii. Kipala (majadiliano) 18:48, 3 Novemba 2018 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
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 Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [4]
Let's work together
- The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
- 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. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Asante!
14:17, 2 Novemba 2018 (UTC)
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
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Hello,
In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.
What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.
For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.
If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.
Asante!
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:35, 13 Novemba 2018 (UTC)
Community Wishlist Survey vote
The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.
/User:Johan (WMF)18:13, 22 Novemba 2018 (UTC)
Advanced Search
Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:03, 26 Novemba 2018 (UTC)
New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.
Asante!
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 6 Desemba 2018 (UTC)
Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019
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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.
Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.
The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.
Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.
To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs
There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!
Kind regards,
Imagine... the sum of all love!
--MediaWiki message delivery (majadiliano) 10:13, 27 Desemba 2018 (UTC)
FileExporter beta feature
A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The FileExporter. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community: Please check your wiki's configuration file if you want to use this feature.
The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on mediawiki.org, meta.wikimedia, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on wikisource.org. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found on the project page.
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your user preferences. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.
Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 Januari 2019 (UTC)
No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January
18:55, 16 Januari 2019 (UTC)