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Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?
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I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.
The Wikimedia Foundation's
multimedia team
seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the
MP4 video format
. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as
H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC
Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).
However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.
We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.
Please join this RfC -- and share your advice
All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.
You are also welcome to join tomorrow's
Office hours chat on IRC
, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.
We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic.
Keegan (WMF)
talk
) 06:46, 16 yennayer 2014 (UTC)
Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014
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On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension
Universal Language Selector
(ULS) was
disabled
on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.
We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A
new checkbox
has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.
You can read the
announcement
and the
development plan
for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you.
Runa
Amendment to the Terms of Use
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Hello all,
Please join a discussion about a
proposed amendment
to the
Wikimedia Terms of Use
regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see
the discussion on Meta Wiki
for more information. Thank you!
Slaporte (WMF)
22:00, 21 furar 2014 (UTC)
Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments
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I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.
Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community?
Individual Engagement Grants
from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make
Wikipedia
better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.
Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:
Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia
($350 for materials)
Improving gadgets for Visual Editor
($4500 for developers)
Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians
($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
Building community and strategy for Wikisource
(€10000 for organizing and travel)
Proposals
are due by 31 March 2014.
There are a number of ways to
get involved
Hope to have your participation,
--
Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual
Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation
19:44, 28 furar 2014 (UTC)
Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment
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Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please
read about these optional changes on Meta wiki
and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks!
Slaporte (WMF)
21:56, 13 meɣres 2014 (UTC)
Changes to the default site typography coming soon
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This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:
April 1st
: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
April 3rd
: Wikipedias will see this change live
This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their
personal CSS
, if they prefer a different appearance. Local
common CSS
styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.
For more information:
Summary of changes and FAQ
Discussion page
for feedback or questions
Post
on blog.wikimedia.org
--
Steven Walling
(Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's
User Experience Design
team
Using only
UploadWizard
for uploads
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello! It was noted that on this wiki you have
less than 10 local files
. Presumably, you therefore don't have interest nor energies to have
hundreds templates
with the
now required HTML
, even less a local
EDP
. However, this means that users here will experience a mostly broken and/or
illegal
uploading.
I propose to
have
local upload
restricted
to the "
Inedbalen
" group (for emergency uploads) and
the
sidebar point to
commons:Special:UploadWizard
so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface
in their own language
. All registered users can upload on Commons and
existing files
will not be affected.
I'll get this done in one week from now.
If you disagree with the proposal, just
remove your wiki from the list
To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on
commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback
Nemo
20:38, 19 Mayyu 2014 (UTC)
Media Viewer
ẓreg aɣbalu
Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.
I wanted to let you know that
Media Viewer
will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your
Beta Features
. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your
preferences
. I invite you to
share what you think
about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.
Thank you for your time. -
Keegan (WMF)
21:29, 23 Mayyu 2014 (UTC)
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Using only
UploadWizard
for uploads
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Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki upload is not fully functional for users, who will experience a very difficult and/or
illegal
uploading. In fact, the
licenses/copyright tags dropdown
is empty, making it hard or impossible to comply with copyright requirements during upload itself.
Presumably, you don't have interest nor energies to have
hundreds templates
with the
now required HTML
, even less a local
EDP
I propose to have
local "
Ssali-d afaylu
restricted
to the "
Inedbalen
" group (for emergency uploads) and
the
sidebar point to
commons:Special:UploadWizard
so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface
in their own language
. All registered users can upload on Commons and
existing files
will not be affected.
All this will get done around 2014-07-03.
If you disagree with the proposal, just
remove your wiki from the list
. Remember also to create
MediaWiki:Licenses
locally with any content (see a
simple example
), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting in
version 1.24wmf11
).
To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on
commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback
Nemo
13:09, 19 yunyu 2014 (UTC)
Media Viewer is now live on this wiki
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Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size
Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,
The Wikimedia Foundation's
Multimedia team
is happy to announce that
Media Viewer
was just released on this site today.
Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a
Beta Feature
and has been
released
to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.
If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your
your preferences
) whether you have an account or not. Learn more
in this Media Viewer Help page
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to
share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org
in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to
take this quick survey in English
en français
o español
We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. -
Fabrice Florin (WMF)
talk
) 21:54, 19 yunyu 2014 (UTC)
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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions
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The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.
If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.
Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
Letter on change.org
--
JurgenNL
talk
) 17:35, 21 ɣuct 2014 (UTC)
Process ideas for software development
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’’My apologies for writing in English.’’
Hello,
I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been
started on Meta
to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.
I and the rest of
my team
welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.
Kind regards,
--
Rdicerb (WMF)
talk
22:15, 21 ɣuct 2014 (UTC)
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Grants to improve your project
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Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.
Greetings! The
Individual Engagement Grants program
is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet.
Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.
Submit your proposal
Get help
: In
IdeaLab
or an upcoming
Hangout session
MediaWiki message delivery
amyannan
) 16:52, 2 ctamber 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11
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VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at
VisualEditor/Feedback
on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing,
Elitre (WMF)
07:29, 11 ctamber 2014 (UTC).
PS. Please subscribe to the
global monthly newsletter
to receive further news about VisualEditor.
Meta RfCs on two new global groups
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Hello all,
There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at
m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group
. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at
m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review
We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.
It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at
m:Stewards' noticeboard
Thanks and regards,
Ajraddatz
talk
) 18:04, 26 tuber 2014 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)
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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today
:)
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for:
DeGruyter
: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
English signup
Deutsch signup
Fold3
: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
Scotland's People
: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
British Newspaper Archive
: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
Highbeam
: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
Questia
: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
JSTOR
: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team
.23:19, 5 wamber 2014 (UTC)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact
Ocaasi (WMF)
This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
Global AbuseFilter
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello,
AbuseFilter
is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013,
Global AbuseFilters
were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "
small wikis
". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "
medium sized wikis
" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing
request for comment
on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to
this list
on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on
this page
at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on
m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter
Thanks,
PiRSquared17
Glaisher
— 17:36, 14 wamber 2014 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)
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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today
:)
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:
Elsevier
- science and medicine journals and books
Royal Society of Chemistry
- chemistry journals
Pelican Books
- ebook monographs
Public Catalogue Foundation
- art books
Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team
.00:22, 18 Dujamber 2014 (UTC)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact
Ocaasi (WMF)
This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
[Global proposal] m.
Wikipedia
.org:
(akk)
Beddel isebtar
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MediaWiki mobile
Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like
kab
.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
22:33, 1 meɣres 2015 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)
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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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 meɣres 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
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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!
Inspire Campaign main page
(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!)
MediaWiki message delivery
amyannan
) 20:02, 4 meɣres 2015 (UTC)
Feedback request: VisualEditor's special character inserter
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I apologize for writing in English. Please translate this message so that all of your editors can read it. Thank you!
Hi everybody, my name is Erica, and I am a Community Liaison at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm writing to you because the
Editing team at WMF
wants to know what you think about
VisualEditor
and its new
⧼visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title⧽
tool. This change will affect all users on
about 50 Wikipedias
, including your Wikipedia. Many editors at these Wikipedias need a special character tool to be able to write articles correctly, which is why we are asking you now.
The new special character inserter tool is available in VisualEditor now. Admins at your wiki can change the contents by following
the directions at mediawiki.org
New design for the special character inserter. The red arrow points to the button for the tool, which is marked with Ω (omega).
To test the
⧼visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title⧽
tool
, please:
Opt-in to VisualEditor
by going to
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
and choosing "
Amaẓrag aẓrayan
". Save your preferences.
Edit any article or your user page
in VisualEditor by clicking on the new "
Ẓreg
" tab at the top of the page. See the
mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide
for information on how to use VisualEditor.
Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested
at
the feedback thread on Mediawiki.org
. The developers would like to know what you think about this new design. It is important that they hear from as many editors as possible. You may leave your comments in any language.
When the special character tool has been refined a little more based on your thoughts, we will offer VisualEditor by default to all editors at
this
wiki. If you want to help prepare, please read
the advice on mediawiki.org
Thank you,
Elitre (WMF)
(talk)
18:33, 12 meɣres 2015 (UTC)
SUL finalization update
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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 meɣres 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor coming to this wiki
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello again. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you can translate this message!
VisualEditor
is coming to all editors at this Wikipedia on Monday, March 30th.
Amaẓrag aẓrayan
is software that allows people to edit articles without needing to learn wikitext code (like typing
[[
to start a link). You don't have to wait until the deployment to test it;
you can test
Amaẓrag aẓrayan
right now.
To turn it on, select
"Beta"
in your preferences. Choose "
Amaẓrag aẓrayan
" and click save.
Now, when you press the "
Ẓreg
" button to edit an article, you will get the new VisualEditor software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press "
Ẓreg aɣbalu
". (After the deployment, everyone will automatically have the option to use either VisualEditor or the current wikitext editor.) For more information about how to use VisualEditor, see
mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide
More information about
preparing for VisualEditor is posted here
It's easier to add templates if you've added
TemplateData
instructions to them.
Please help translate the pages about VisualEditor here and on MediaWiki.org, and its user interface. See
VisualEditor TranslationCentral
for general information. To translate the user guide, go to
the MediaWiki.org page
, and select "
Suqel asebter-a
". Your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've done this, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or change old translations. To translate the user interface, you need to create an account at translatewiki.net. Contact me personally if you need help with that.
We need your help to improve the software! Please let us know if you find any problems. You can report issues in
Phabricator, the new bug tracking system
or on the
central feedback page
on MediaWiki.org. If you notice major issues affecting your project, please leave a note on my talk page. If it's an emergency (like an unexpected bug causing widespread problems), reach out to James Forrester, the Product Manager, at jforrester@wikimedia.org or on
IRC
in the #mediawiki-visualeditor channel.
Wrong target page? Fix it here
Sign up for VisualEditor's multilingual newsletter
Thank you, and happy editing! --
Elitre (WMF)
(talk)
19:38, 19 meɣres 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor now active here
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Click this icon while in VisualEditor for a link to the
User Guide
Hello again (and again, apologies for using English on this page. Please do translate my message, if you can!).
As some of you have noticed,
this Wikipedia now has
Amaẓrag aẓrayan
(VisualEditor or "VE") enabled for all users
. There are now two tabs for editing: "
Ẓreg
" and "
Ẓreg aɣbalu
". Click "
Ẓreg
" to use VisualEditor. Click "
Ẓreg aɣbalu
" to edit using wikitext markup.
All edits using VisualEditor will be tagged with "Tag:
Amaẓrag aẓrayan
" in recent changes, watchlists, and page histories. To access the
User Guide for VisualEditor
, click on the "(?)" icon in VisualEditor's toolbar. If you wish to disable VisualEditor, this can be done under
"Editing" in your preferences
Please report any software "bugs" or errors you find at
MediaWiki’s VisualEditor Feedback page
. Translations for the user interface and its help guide are still needed: you can
learn how to support your community with this and other tasks at
this instructions page
. Please contact me if you need further help though. Happy editing,
User:Elitre (WMF)
(talk)
15:09, 30 meɣres 2015 (UTC)
Stewards confirmation rules
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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 Yebrir 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #2—2015
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Did you know?
With
Citoid
in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:
Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:
After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the
Citoid
reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted
on Mediawiki.org
. The worklist for April through June is available
in Phabricator
The weekly
task triage meetings
continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at
11:00 (noon) PDT
(18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the
Editing team's Q4 blocker project
with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at
mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal
Recent improvements
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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
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
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Share your ideas and ask questions at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
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this list
to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language.
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 "
zur
" and "
Uknan
" icons for the character formatting menu
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19:48, 10 Yebrir 2015 (UTC)
Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
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on behalf of the
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) •
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Get help
Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)
ẓreg aɣbalu
Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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 Mayyu 2015 (UTC)
We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at
Global our new coordinator signup
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015
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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
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17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) •
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Get help
Content Translation beta feature is now available
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello,
Content Translation
has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature on this Wikipedia. To start translating, enable the beta feature and go to
Special:ContentTranslation
or to your contributions page and create a new translation by selecting the source language, the article name and target language. If the article already exists then a warning will be displayed. After you translate the article, you can publish it directly as a new page on the Wikipedia. In case the article gets created by another user while you were translating, you will see an option to save the newly published translation under your user namespace. The number of published pages can be seen on the
Content Translation stats page
Since, this is the first time we have installed the tool on this Wikipedia, there are chances that there may be some problems or service disruptions which we are not yet aware of. We will be monitoring the usage to check for any failures or issues, but please do let us know on the
Content Translation talk page
or through
Phabricator
if you spot any problems that prevent you from using the tool. For more information, please read
about how to use the tool
. You can also view a
short screencast
on how to use Content Translation. My apologies for writing this announcement only in English. Please feel free to translate this message for wider distribution. Thank you. --
KartikMistry
amyannan
) 16:46, 21 Mayyu 2015 (UTC)
Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
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)
Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
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
ẓreg aɣbalu
Did you know?
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. The worklist for April through June is available
in Phabricator
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
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
, "
Exemple
", 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
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
10:44, 13 yunyu 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #3—2015
ẓreg aɣbalu
Did you know?
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide
has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted
on mediawiki.org
. The worklist for April through June is available
in Phabricator
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
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
, "
Exemple
", 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
ẓreg aɣbalu
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
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
12:42, 13 yunyu 2015 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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)
We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at
our new coordinator signup
This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
HTTPS
ẓreg aɣbalu
Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has
been working
towards enabling
HTTPS
by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS
has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with
us
if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
Johan (WMF)
22:00, 19 yunyu 2015 (UTC)
HTTPS
ẓreg aɣbalu
Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has
been working
towards enabling
HTTPS
by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS
has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with
us
if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
Johan (WMF)
23:41, 19 yunyu 2015 (UTC)
Please join the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello!
I'm pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the
VisualEditor Translathon
It is a translation rally, focused on interface messages and help pages related to
VisualEditor
In order to participate, you need to
sign up on the Translathon page
on TranslateWiki.
The top 3 contributors will each win a Wikipedia t-shirt of their choice from
the Wikipedia store
Translations made between
July 15th and July 19th
CDT time zone
) qualify
If you are at
Wikimania Mexico
this year, you are also welcome to join a related sprint during the hackathon in
Workplace 1 - Don Américo, Thursday 16 July at 4pm (CDT)
at the conference venue, so you can meet other fellow translators and
get support if you need some
Interface messages have the priority. You will need to create an account at translatewiki.net in order to work on them, if you don't have one.
It is recommended to create the account ASAP
, so that it can be confirmed in time.
You can also help translate documentation pages about VisualEditor on mediawiki.org. You can use your Wikipedia account to work there.
You will find instructions, links and other details
on the Translathon page
Thanks for your attention, and happy translating!
Elitre (WMF)
20:56, 13 yulyu 2015 (UTC)
You can choose between any short-sleeve shirt, or other items for the same value.
This means both new translations, and updates for messages in the "Outdated" tab of the translation interface.
Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images
ẓreg aɣbalu
The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.
How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like
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
amyannan
) 05:07, 24 yulyu 2015 (UTC)
Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images
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The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.
How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like
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
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) 06:48, 24 yulyu 2015 (UTC)
What does a Healthy Community look like to you?
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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?
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The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming.
As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
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
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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
Contact:
María Cruz
/ Twitter:
WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: eval
wikimedia
org
Happy editing!
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) 23:43, 31 yulyu 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming
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(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
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) 17:46, 3 ɣuct 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here
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(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 ɣuct 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #4—2015
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Did you know?
You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.
Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).
Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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 "
zur
" and "
Uknan
" 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
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
, 22:28, 14 ɣuct 2015 (UTC)
How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?
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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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How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?
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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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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site
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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:
Please help translate the
statements on Meta Wiki
. You can
read more on the Wikimedia blog
Thanks,
Yana
and
Stephen
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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants
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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
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New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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:
EBSCOHost
- this is one of our largest access donations so far: access to a wide variety of academic, newspaper and magazine sources through their Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and MasterFILE Complete
Newspaperarchive.com
- historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, UK and 20 other countries, and includes an Open Access "clipping" feature (1000 accounts)
IMF Elibary
- a digital collection of the IMF's reports, studies and research on global economics and development (50 accounts)
Sabinet
- one of the largest African digital publishers, based in South Africa, with a wide range of content in English and other European and African languages (10 accounts)
Numérique Premium
- a French language social science and humanities ebook database, with topical collections on a wide range of topics (100)
Al Manhal
- an Arabic and English database with a wide range of sources, largely focused on or published in the Middle East (60 accounts)
Jamalon
- an Arabic book distributor, who is providing targeted book delivery to volunteers (50 editors)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including expanded accounts for
Elsevier ScienceDirect
British Medical Journal
and
Dynamed
and additional accounts for
Project MUSE
DeGruyter
Newspapers.com
Highbeam
and
HeinOnline
. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team
19:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
We need help! Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at
our new coordinator signup
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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!
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There is still one week left to submit
Individual Engagement Grant
(IEG) proposals
before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
Submit
a grant request
Get help
with your proposal in IdeaLab
Learn from examples
of completed Individual Engagement Grants
I JethroBT (WMF)
Community Resources
21:01, 22 ctamber 2015 (UTC)
Reimagining WMF grants report
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(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)
Last month, we asked for community feedback on
a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs
. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated!
A report
on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.
Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on
the outcomes discussion page
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF)
16:56, 28 ctamber 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #5—2015
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Did you know?
You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.
Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "
Passer à l’éditeur visuel
".
The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports
on mediawiki.org
. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
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Educational features:
The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the
Aseɣwen
and
⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽
tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (
T108620
) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (
T112354
) More in-software educational features are planned.
Links:
It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (
T74108
T91285
) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (
T109498
T110347
T63558
) These
"magic links"
use a custom link editing tool.
Uploads:
Registered editors can now
upload images
and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "
Ger
Images et médias
" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.
Mobile:
Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (
T85630
) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (
T111894
) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "
Kkes
" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (
T62110
) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.
Rich editing tools:
You can now add and edit
sheet
music
in the visual editor. (
T112925
) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (
T114227
T113354
) When editing
formulæ
and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of
graphs
; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.
On the
English Wikipedia
, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under
Special:Preferences
Future changes
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You will soon be able to
switch from the wikitext to the visual editor
after you start editing. (
T49779
) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a
single edit tab.
T102398
) This project will combine the "
Ẓreg
" and "
Ẓreg aɣbalu
" tabs into a single "
Ẓreg
" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "
Ẓreg
" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
Let's work together
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Share your ideas and ask questions at
VisualEditor/Feedback
. This feedback page uses
Flow
for discussions.
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese?
Language engineer
David Chan
needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at
What to test
if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (
Korean
Japanese
) or on Wikipedia (
Korean
Japanese
).
Local admins can
set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki
. If you need help, then 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 weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. 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, 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
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
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, 18:17, 30 tuber 2015 (UTC)
Community Wishlist Survey
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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.
The
Community Tech team
at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a
Community Wishlist Survey
to find the most useful projects that we can work on.
For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.
While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.
Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.
We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!
Community Tech Team via
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) 21:58, 9 wamber 2015 (UTC)
Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed
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Hello!
Wikimania 2016
scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see
Scholarship committee
for details.
If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can
volunteer as "ambassador"
: you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate
scholarship applications written in your language
to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.
Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam
10:47, 10 wamber 2015 (UTC)
Harassment consultation
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Tanemmirt ɣef afus ara d-muddeḍ i tsuqilt ar tutlayt-ik
The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of
harassment
on
Meta
. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)
Harassment consultation 2015
Regards,
Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign
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This is a message regarding the
proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner
Translations
are available.
Hi everyone,
This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a
straw poll seeking your involvement
has just been started on Meta-Wiki.
As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist,
Bassel Khartabil
. An exemplary
banner
and an
explanatory page
have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.
We are seeking
your involvement to decide
if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.
Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to
get involved with the poll and the discussion
to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.
(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly
translate
this message into your own language.)
Thank you for your participation!
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Community Wishlist Survey
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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.
We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's
Community Wishlist Survey
, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.
Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the
{{Support}}
tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.
The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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:
Gale
- multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
Brill
- academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
Finnish Literature Society
(in Finnish)
Magiran
(in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
Civilica
(in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
EBSCO
DeGruyter
, and
Newspaperarchive.com
. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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Get involved in Wikipedia 15!
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This is a message from the
Wikimedia Foundation
Translations
are available.
As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!
People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their
events on Meta Page
. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.
Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:
Join/host an event
. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
Talk to local press
. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a
handy summary
of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a
press release template
and
resources on working with the media
, are also available.
Design a Wikipedia 15 logo
. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
Share a message on social media
. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!
Everything is linked on the
Wikipedia 15 Meta page
. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a
list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos
that community members have already designed.
If you have any questions, please contact
Zachary McCune
or
Joe Sutherland
Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team
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VisualEditor News #6—2015
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Did you know?
A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to
Special:Preferences
and choosing the setting that you want:
The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Read this in another language
Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Since the last newsletter, the
visual editor team
has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
ẓreg aɣbalu
You can
switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor
after you start editing.
The
LaTeX mathematics formula editor
has been significantly expanded. (
T118616)
You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
Future changes
ẓreg aɣbalu
The
single edit tab
project will combine the "
Ẓreg
" and "
Ẓreg aɣbalu
" tabs into a single "
Ẓreg
" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (
T102398
T58337
) Initially, the "
Ẓreg
" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the
Abedddil
tab of
Special:Preferences
in the drop-down menu about "
Mode de modification :
".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:
Amharic
Buginese
Min Dong
Cree
Manx
Hakka
Armenian
Georgian
Pontic
Serbo-Croatian
Tigrinya
Mingrelian
Zhuang
, and
Min Nan
. (
T116523
) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the
feedback pages
for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (
T92661
Testing opportunities
ẓreg aɣbalu
Please try the new system for the
single edit tab
on
test2.wikipedia.org
. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.
Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at
the feedback topic on mediawiki.org
or
sign up for formal user research
(type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
Se souvenir de mon dernier éditeur utilisé
Toujours utiliser l’éditeur visuel quand c’est possible
Toujours m’afficher l’éditeur de source
, and
Afficher les deux onglets de modification
. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese?
Language engineer
David Chan
needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at
What to test
if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (
Korean
Japanese
) or on Wikipedia (
Korean
Japanese
).
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready.
Merci !
Elitre (WMF)
, 00:06, 25 Dujamber 2015 (UTC)
Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!
ẓreg aɣbalu
Tanemmirt ɣef afus ara d-muddeḍ i tsuqilt ar tutlayt-ik
A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:
Wikimania 2016 Scholarships
Patrick Earley (WMF)
via
MediaWiki message delivery
amyannan
) 01:49, 5 yennayer 2016 (UTC)
2016 WMF Strategy consultation
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Tanemmirt ɣef afus ara d-muddeḍ i tsuqilt ar tutlayt-ik
Hello, all.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)
Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion,
2016 Strategy/Community consultation
Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created
m:2016 Strategy/Translations
to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made.
:)
If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.
I hope you'll join us!
Maggie Dennis
via
MediaWiki message delivery
amyannan
) 19:06, 18 yennayer 2016 (UTC)
Updates to wiki search auto completion are arriving 10 March
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Hello!
Tanemmirt ɣef afus ara d-muddeḍ i tsuqilt ar tutlayt-ik
Merci !
The
completion suggester beta feature
will become the default at the first group of wikis on
Thursday, 10 March
. This initial rollout will start with some of the smaller wikis to ensure the change happens in an organized way. The remaining wikis will receive the update on Wednesday, 16 March. This update brings three major improvements to search. Improved search result ordering, a tolerance for a small number of spelling errors, and suggests fewer typos.
Since December 2015, 19,000 editors have already opted into the completion suggester beta feature. Contributors are encouraged to
try out the feature
ahead of the release. Please share any comments on the Completion Suggester
discussion page
in any language.
To learn more about the work of the Discovery department and other improvements to search, please check out
the Wikimedia blog
. Read about
CirrusSearch
, the MediaWiki extension that makes wiki search possible. -
User:CKoerner (WMF)
talk
) 22:09, 7 meɣres 2016 (UTC)
Flow, un nouvel outil pour les pages de discussion
ẓreg aɣbalu
Bonjour à tous, on aura besoin de l'accord de la communauté de
Wikipedia s teqbaylit
pour activer Flow sur ce wiki. Il s'agit d'un nouvel outil qui facilitera les discussions en améliorant la forme des pages de discussion. Voir un exemple sur Wikipédia en français
Prière de dire si vous êtes d'accord. Réagir en français/anglais sera beaucoup mieux. Tanemmirt,
Issimo 15
amyannan
) 18:40, 15 meɣres 2016 (UTC)
Pour
ẓreg aɣbalu
Utilisez
{{Ih}}
Ih
Proposant
Issimo 15
amyannan
) 18:45, 15 meɣres 2016 (UTC)
Ih
Buberaga
amyannan
) 08:33, 17 meɣres 2016 (UTC)Buberaga
Buberaga
amyannan
) 08:33, 17 meɣres 2016 (UTC)
Ih
SalemB
amyannan
) 18:10, 5 Yebrir 2016 (UTC)
Déploiement
ẓreg aɣbalu
Bonjour
Issimo 15
Buberaga
et
SalemB
Merci pour votre souhait d'essayer Flow sur votre wiki. Nous discuterons en français vu que vous semblez échanger dans cette langue, si cela ne vous dérange pas (l'anglais me va bien également, le kabyle, hélas, m'échappe totalement).
Sur quelles pages souhaitez-vous utiliser Flow
? Si c'est sur juste une page, je peux vous faire cela de suite. Si vous souhaitez que chacun puisse activer Flow sur sa page utilisateur ou que toutes les pages de discussion soient converties à Flow, il nous faudra un peu plus de temps. Dites-moi ce que vous préférez.
Je peux d'ores et déjà activer Flow sur
Wikipedia:Agraw
Bonne journée,
Trizek (WMF)
amyannan
) 11:51, 6 Yebrir 2016 (UTC)
Trizek (WMF)
Perso, j'ai pas de problème même si sa prend du temps, l'activer sur toutes les pdd est beaucoup mieux. --
issimo
15
!?
12:31, 6 Yebrir 2016 (UTC)
Merci
Issimo 15
. J'ai activé Flow sur
Wikipedia:Agraw
. Pour les détails concernant les pages, faites moi signe quand vous aurez décidé
:)
Trizek (WMF)
amyannan
) 16:53, 12 Yebrir 2016 (UTC)
Bonjour
Issimo 15
Buberaga
et
SalemB
Je vous contacte pour avoir plus d'informations sur ce que vous avez décidé concernant L'utilisation de Flow. Trois cas sont possibles
souhaitez-vous que Flow soit déployé sur les pages de discussion des utilisateurs qui en font la demande (cas actuel)
souhaitez vous que Flow soit déployé sur les pages de discussion des utilisateurs qui le souhaitent (
fonctionnalité
Beta'
', vous êtes libres d'activer/désactiver)
souhaitez-vous que Flow soit déployé sur toutes les pages de discussion de ce wiki comme option par défaut (vous avez Flow quand vous créez la page)
En l'absence de plusieurs réponses, je resterai à l'option 1.
Merci d'avance pour vos avis
:)
Trizek (WMF)
amyannan
) 14:39, 12 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
Trizek (WMF)
L'option 2 rend-elle les nouvelles pages créés directement sous Flow
?? --
issimo
15
!?
15:08, 12 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
Non, c'est la 3 qui le permet. La 2 ne concerne que les pages de discussion des utilisateurs, chacun choisissant d'actier Flow (ou non) sur sa page. La 3 ne donne pas de choix
: c'est Flow pour tout le monde.
Trizek (WMF)
amyannan
) 15:16, 12 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
En attendant que la communauté grandisse, le 1 est largement suffisant à mon avis. --
issimo
15
!?
15:34, 12 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
Pour comparaison et information, la
Wikipédia en Konknni
qui est comparable à la vôte (3 utilisateurs super actifs et ~2000 articles) a pris la formule 3 pour faciliter toutes les discussions.
Trizek (WMF)
amyannan
) 15:38, 12 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
Perso je préfère aussi le 3 mais vu qu'il n'y a personne à voter (
Buberaga
et
SalemB
sont absents depuis avril) je ne peux pas décider tout seul. --
issimo
15
!?
16:02, 12 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
On fera avec les avis exprimés
:)
Trizek (WMF)
amyannan
) 16:09, 12 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
OK
;).Juste pour vous informer, j'ai fait
ça
pour peut-être résoudre le problème de la communauté inactive --
issimo
15
!?
08:48, 13 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
C'est à mon avis le plus efficace
Trizek (WMF)
amyannan
) 08:58, 13 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
oui c'est le meilleur --
issimo
15
!?
09:01, 13 Mayyu 2016 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016)
ẓreg aɣbalu
Apologies for writing in English.
Tanemmirt ɣef afus ara d-muddeḍ i tsuqilt ar tutlayt-ik
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for access to research materials from:
Cambridge University Press
- a major publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. Access includes both Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books. 25 accounts.
Alexander Street
Academic Video Online
- a large academic video collection good for a wide range of subjects, including news programs (such as PBS and BBC), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. 25 accounts.
Baylor University Press
- a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. 50 accounts.
Future Science Group
- a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. 30 accounts.
Annual Reviews
- a publisher of review articles in the biomedical sciences. 100 accounts.
Miramar Ship Index
- an index to ships and their histories since the early 19th century. 30 accounts.
Non-English
Noormags
- Farsi-language aggregator of academic and professional journals and magazines. 30 accounts.
Kotobna
- Arabic-language ebook publishing platform. 20 accounts.
Expansions
Gale
- aggregator of newspapers, magazines and journals. 50 accounts.
Elsevier ScienceDirect
- an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. 100 accounts.
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Project MUSE
De Gruyter
EBSCO
Newspapers.com
and
British Newspaper Archive
. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team
20:30, 17 meɣres 2016 (UTC)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact
Ocaasi (WMF)
This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants
ẓreg aɣbalu
Tanemmirt ɣef afus ara d-muddeḍ i tsuqilt ar tutlayt-ik
Greetings! The
Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program
is accepting proposals
until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Submit
a grant request
or
draft
your proposal
in IdeaLab
Get help
with your proposal
in an upcoming Hangout session
Learn from examples
of completed Individual Engagement Grants
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF)
15:47, 31 meɣres 2016 (UTC)
Server switch 2016
ẓreg aɣbalu
The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its newest data center in Dallas.
This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the new data center on
Tuesday, 19 April
On
Thursday, 21 April
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop during those two switches.
We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.
We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.
If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.
Then you should be able to save your edit.
But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.
If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.
Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April.
No non-essential code deployments will take place.
This test was originally planned to take place on March 22.
April 19th and 21st are the new dates.
You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
They will post any changes on that schedule.
There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
User:Whatamidoing (WMF)
talk
) 21:08, 17 Yebrir 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia to the Moon
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it
here
This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please,
join the discussion on Meta-Wiki
(and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
15:35, 21 Yebrir 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about
Wikipedia to the Moon
, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today,
you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki
, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
15:31, 10 yunyu 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit
ẓreg aɣbalu
Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an
overview and more information there
. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!
Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
14:10, 1 yulyu 2016 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2016
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Did you know?
It's quick and easy to insert a references list.
Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "
Ger
" menu and click the "
Liste des références
" icon (three books).
If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.
Finally, click "
Ger
" in the dialog to insert the
Liste des références
. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
Recent changes
ẓreg aɣbalu
The visual editor is now available to all users at most
Wikivoyages
. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The
single edit tab
feature combines the "
Ẓreg
" and "
Ẓreg aɣbalu
" tabs into a single "
Ẓreg
" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "
Abedddil
" tab of
Special:Preferences
. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
Future changes
ẓreg aɣbalu
The "
Sekles asebter
" button will say "
Suffeɣ-d asebter
". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More
information is available on Meta
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. This will affect several languages, including:
Arabic
Hindi
Thai
Tamil
Marathi
Malayalam
Urdu
Persian
Bengali
Assamese
Aramaic
and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (
T138966
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a
general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list
Let's work together
ẓreg aɣbalu
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help
set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki
? Have you written or imported
TemplateData
for your most important citation templates?
Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new
VisualEditor Community Taskforce
Learn how to improve the "automagical"
citoid
referencing system in the visual editor, by creating
Zotero
translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the
Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher
for more information.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready.
Merci !
m:User:Elitre (WMF)
, 17:20, 3 yulyu 2016 (UTC)
Open call for Project Grants
ẓreg aɣbalu
Tanemmirt ɣef afus ara d-muddeḍ i tsuqilt ar tutlayt-ik
Greetings! The
Project Grants program
is accepting proposals
from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Submit
a grant request
or
draft
your proposal
in IdeaLab
Get help with your proposal
in an upcoming Hangout session
Learn from examples
of completed
Individual Engagement Grants
or
Project and Event Grants
Also accepting candidates to
join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF)
15:25, 5 yulyu 2016 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)
ẓreg aɣbalu
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our
publisher donation program
. You can now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Nomos
Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
World Scientific
Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
Edinburgh University Press
Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
American Psychological Association
Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
Emerald
Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Project MUSE
EBSCO
DeGruyter
Gale
and
Newspaperarchive.com
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team
18:38, 30 ɣuct 2016 (UTC)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language! Please contact
Ocaasi (WMF)
This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
Grants to improve your project
ẓreg aɣbalu
Tanemmirt ɣef afus ara d-muddeḍ i tsuqilt ar tutlayt-ik
Greetings! The
Project Grants program
is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
Submit a grant request
Get help
: In
IdeaLab
or an upcoming
Hangout session
Learn from examples
of completed
Individual Engagement Grants
or
Project and Event Grants
I JethroBT (WMF)
talk
) 20:11, 30 ctamber 2016 (UTC)
Editing News #3—2016
ẓreg aɣbalu
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?
Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a
beta feature
, and improving language support.
Recent changes
ẓreg aɣbalu
You can now set text as small or big.
Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.
A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
At many wikis, you can now add
maps
to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.
The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.
In the future, the "
Sekles asebter
" button will say "
Suffeɣ-d asebter
". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More
information is available on Meta
Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.
Future changes
ẓreg aɣbalu
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. This will affect several languages, including
Thai
Burmese
and
Aramaic
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The
2017 wikitext editor
will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a
general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list
Let's work together
ẓreg aɣbalu
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help
set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki
? Have you written or imported
TemplateData
for your most important citation templates?
Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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:
Foreign Affairs
- Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
OpenEdition
- Journals in the social sciences and humanities
Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences
- French and English language scientific journals
ASHA
- Speech–language–hearing journals
Tilastopaja
- Athletics statistics
Expansions
EBSCO
- Many new databases added
Taylor & Francis
- Strategic, Defence & Security Studies collection
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
. Sign up today!
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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:
American Psychiatric Association
– Psychiatry books and journals
Bloomsbury
Who's Who
, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and
Whitaker's
Gaudeamus
– Finnish humanities and social sciences
Ympäristö-lehti
– The Finnish Environment Institute's
Ympäristö-lehti
magazine
Expansions
Gale
– Biography In Context database added
Adam Matthew
– all 53 databases now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Project MUSE
EBSCO
Taylor & Francis
and
Newspaperarchive.com
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "
Relire vos modifications
".
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has spent most of their time supporting
the 2017 wikitext editor mode
which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding
the new visual diff tool
. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a
beta feature
, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
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new wikitext editing mode
is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The
2017 wikitext editor
has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
to enable the
⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽
A new
visual diff tool
is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components.
The team have added
multi-column support for lists of footnotes
. The
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.
You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this.
The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow.
The
Taggayin
item has been moved to the top of the
Options de page
menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access.
There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
You can now create
tags (sometimes used as
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
The
Isekkilen imeẓliyen
menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer,
Tpt
A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption.
There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:
Control
Shift
on a PC, or
Command
Shift
on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is
Control
or
Command
respectively.
Future changes
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The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of
tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
The kind of button used to
Ssken pre-timeẓriwt
Ssken ibeddlen
, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use
OOjs UI
. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding
&ooui=1
to the end of the URL, like this:
The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
The
outdated 2006 wikitext editor
will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See
a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org
if you are uncertain which one you use.
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18:05, 12 Mayyu 2017 (UTC)
Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia
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Hello,
I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.
One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.
The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal:
fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia
, via the Visual Editor.
We already
asked for feedback in 2015
, and collected some interesting ideas which we
shared with you in this thesis
. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.
We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.
You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video,
on this page
. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.
Thanks,
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships
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Hi all,
We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for
Wikimania 2018
which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted.
Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.
Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit:
wm2018:Scholarships
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:
It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and
the associated FAQ
before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at:
wm2018:Talk:Scholarships
. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!
Best regards,
David Richfield
and
Martin Rulsch
for the
Scholarship Committee
19:24, 20 Dujamber 2017 (UTC)
User group for Military Historians
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Greetings,
"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at
Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians
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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 "
⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽
", 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
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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
Wikitext syntax highlighting
is available as a Beta Feature for both
the 2017 wikitext editor
and the 2010 wikitext editor.
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
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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
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.
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directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation.
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20:56, 2 Meɣres 2018 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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
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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
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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.
Let's work together
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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.
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14:17, 2 wamber 2018 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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 on the
Library Card platform
Kinige
– Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
Gale
– Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
JSTOR
– New applications now being taken again
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Baylor University Press
Taylor & Francis
Cairn
Annual Reviews
and
Bloomsbury
. You can request new partnerships on our
Suggestions page
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon
to start editing.
Edit Cards
This is what the new
Edit Cards for editing links
in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here:
📲 Try Edit Cards
Welcome back to the
Editing
newsletter.
Since
the last newsletter
, the team has released two new features for the
mobile visual editor
and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to
make editing on mobile web simpler
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
📲 Try Edit Cards
Recent releases
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The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the
mobile site
. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
Section editing
The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
The team studied this with an A/B test.
This test showed
that contributors who could use section editing were
1% more likely to publish
the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
Loading overlay
The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are
now available to everyone
using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
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This is a list of our most active projects.
Watch
these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
Edit cards
: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.
Go here to see how:
Try Edit Cards
Mobile toolbar refresh
: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
Mobile visual editor availability
: This A/B test asks:
Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?
We are collaborating with
20 Wikipedias
to answer this question.
Usability improvements
: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
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Wikimania:
Several members of the Editing Team will be attending
Wikimania
in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the
Community Growth space
. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
Talk Pages:
In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin
improving talk pages
and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
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The
VisualEditor on mobile
is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at
Talk:VisualEditor on mobile
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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the
Editing team
talks about their work on the
mobile visual editor
, on
the new talk pages project
, and at
Wikimania 2019
Help
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What talk page interactions do you remember?
Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page.
Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the
talk page for this project
The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk pages project
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The
Talk Pages Consultation
was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The
Phase 2 Report
of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here:
Talk Page Project project page
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the
"Getting involved"
section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
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The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the
visual editor on mobile
. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at
Talk:VisualEditor on mobile
Edit Cards
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What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.
On 3 September, the Editing team released
version 3 of Edit Cards
. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
There is an
updated design
on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new,
combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target
Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the
Edit cards talk page
Toolbar
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The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together.
Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar
In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
One toolbar:
All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
New navigation:
The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
Seamless switching:
an
improved workflow
for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the
Toolbar feedback talk page
Wikimania
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The Editing Team attended
Wikimania 2019
in Sweden. They led a session on
the mobile visual editor
and a session on
the new talk pages project
. They tested
two
new
features
in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in
the team's report on Wikimania 2019
Looking ahead
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Talk Pages Project:
The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page:
Getting involved
Testing the mobile visual editor as the default:
The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:
VisualEditor as mobile default project page
Measuring the impact of Edit Cards:
This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:
Edit Cards project page
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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.
The
Editing team
has been working on
the talk pages project
. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the
Talk pages consultation 2019
In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.
The team is building a
new tool for replying
to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically.
Please
test the new Reply tool
On 31 March 2020, the new
tiririt
tool was offered as a
Beta Feature
editors at four Wikipedias:
Arabic
Dutch
French
, and
Hungarian
. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact
User:Whatamidoing (WMF)
The team is planning some upcoming changes.
Please
review the proposed design
and share your thoughts on the talk page.
The team will test features such as:
an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
a rich-text visual editing option, and
other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the
"Get involved"
section of the project page. You can also watch
these pages:
the main project page
Updates
Replying
, and
User testing
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The new features include a toolbar.
What do you think should be in the toolbar?
This issue of the
Editing
newsletter includes information the
Talk pages project
, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
Reply tool
: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "
Outils de discussion
". The Beta Feature will get
new features
soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
. You can
test the new features
on the
Beta Cluster
now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
New requirements for user signatures
: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in
Special:Preferences
. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
New discussion tool
: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can
see the initial design on the project page
Research on the use of talk pages
: The Editing team worked with the
Wikimedia research team
to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
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17 Yunyu 2020 à 20:33 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #3
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More than
50 million edits
have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
Seven years ago this month, the
Editing team
offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
More than
50 million edits
have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
More than
2 million new articles
have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
The visual editor is
increasingly popular
. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
In 2019,
35% of the edits by newcomers
(logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has
increased every year
Almost
5 million edits on the mobile site
have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the
mobile visual editor
in 2018.
On 17 November 2019, the
first edit from outer space
was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩🚀
Editors have made more than
7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor
, including starting
600,000 new articles
in it. The
2017 wikitext editor
is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can
enable it in your preferences
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9 Yulyu 2020 à 12:55 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)
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The Wikipedia Library
is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our
research access program
. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the
Library Card platform
Al Manhal
– Arabic journals and ebooks
Ancestry.com
– Genealogical and historical records
RILM
– Music encyclopedias
Many other partnerships are listed on
our partners page
, including
Adam Matthew
EBSCO
Gale
and
JSTOR
A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our
recent blog post
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--
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The Wikipedia Library
is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our
research access program
. You can sign up to access research materials on the
Library Card platform
Taxmann
– Taxation and law database
PNAS
– Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
EBSCO
– New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of
other collections available
, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our
blog post
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
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Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions
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Dear all,
Wikimania 2021 will be
hosted virtually
for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the
Core Organizing Team
(COT) for Wikimania 2021.
Event Program
- Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information
here
Below are some links to guide you through;
Program Submissions
Session Submission Guidelines
FAQ
Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.
Announcements
- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section
here
Office Hour
- If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found
here.
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Editing news 2021 #2
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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (
Source
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of
the Reply Tool
. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped
newer editors
communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were
more likely
to post a comment on a talk page.
The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also
less likely
to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to
resolve a technical challenge
. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the
Wikipedias that participated in the study
. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "
Outils de discussion
in Beta Features
now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
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24 Yunyu 2021 à 14:14 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library collections and design update (August 2021)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says log in today!
The Wikipedia Library
is pleased to announce the addition of new collections, alongside a new interface design. New collections include:
Cabells
– Scholarly and predatory journal database
Taaghche
- Persian language e-books
Merkur
Musik & Ästhetik
, and
Psychologie, Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse
- German language magazines and journals published by Klett-Cotta
Art Archiv
Capital
Geo
Geo Epoche
, and
Stern
- German language newspapers and magazines published by Gruner + Jahr
Additionally,
De Gruyter
and
Nomos
have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Wikipedia. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in to
The Wikipedia Library
with your Wikimedia login!
We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on the
project page on Meta
Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (
T132084
). If you can translate the notification please do so
at TranslateWiki
--The Wikipedia Library Team 11 Ɣuct 2021 à 13:23 (UTC)
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New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now - April 2022
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL owl says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
has free access to new paywalled reliable sources. You can these and dozens more collections at
Wiley
– journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences
OECD
– OECD iLibrary, Data, and Multimedia published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
SPIE Digital Library
– journals and eBooks on optics and photonics applied research
Many other sources are freely available for experienced editors, including collections which recently became accessible to all eligible editors: Cambridge University Press, BMJ, AAAS, Érudit and more.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: log in today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 26 Yebrir 2022 à 13:17 (UTC)
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Les nouveaux éditeurs ont eu plus de succès avec ce nouvel outil.
L'
outil de Nouveau thème
aide des éditeurs à créer de nouvelles ==sections== dans des pages de discussion. Les nouveaux éditeurs ont eu plus de succès avec ce nouvel outil. Vous pouvez
lire le rapport
. Bientôt, l'équipe d'édition l'offrira à tous les éditeurs des 20 Wikipedias qui ont participé au test. Vous pourrez le désactiver sur
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
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Ce bulletin comprend deux mises à jour clés sur le travail de l'équipe de
rédaction
L'équipe de rédaction finira d'ajouter de nouvelles fonctionnalités au
Projet de pages de discussions
et de le déployer.
Ils commencent un nouveau projet,
Vérifications d'éditions
Projet des pages de discussion
Quelques-uns des changements à venir
L'équipe de rédaction a presque terminé cette première phase du
Projet des pages de discussion
. Presque toutes les
nouvelles fonctionnalités
sont maintenant disponibles dans la
fonctionnalité bêta pour
Outils de discussion
Il affichera des informations sur le degré d'activité d'une discussion, comme la date du commentaire le plus récent. Il y aura bientôt un nouveau bouton «
Rnu-d asentel
». Vous pourrez les désactiver dans
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
. S'il vous plaît,
dites-leur ce que vous en pensez
Taux d'achèvement des modifications quotidiennes par le groupe de test
: DiscussionTools (groupe de test) et revêtement MobileFrontend (interface mobile - groupe de contrôle)
Un test A/B pour les
Outils de discussion
sur le site mobile
est terminé. Les éditeurs ont eu
plus de succès avec les
Outils de discussion
. L'équipe de rédaction active ces fonctionnalités pour tous les éditeurs sur le site mobile.
Nouveau projet :
Vérifications d'édition
L'équipe de rédaction démarre un
projet pour aider les nouveaux éditeurs de Wikipedia
. Cela aidera les personnes à identifier certains problèmes avant de cliquer sur «
Suffeɣ-d asnifel
». Le premier outil encouragera les gens à ajouter des références lorsqu'ils ajouteront du nouveau contenu. Veuillez
consulter
cette page pour plus d'informations. Vous pouvez
participer à une conférence à distance le 3 mars 2023
pour en savoir plus.
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