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Betawiki: better support for your language in MediaWiki

Dear community. I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawiki. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) of the MediaWiki interface. You may have changed many messages here on this wiki to use your language, but if you would log in to for example the English language Wiktionary, you would not be able to use the interface as well translated as here. Infact, of the 1793 messages in the core of MediaWiki, 163 messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages of almost 80 extensions, with 984 messages.

If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki, create an account and request translator priviledges. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on meta and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki.

If you have any further questions, please let me know on my talk page on Betawiki. We will try and assist you as much as possible, for example by importing all messages from a local wiki for you to start with, if you so desire.

You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we would be happy to help you get started.

Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon! Cheers! Siebrand@Betawiki 09:11, 24 сентября 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania Scholarships

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

• Scholarships
• Scholarships FAQ

Yours very truly, Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Terms of Use update

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 00:37, 27 юпа уйăхĕн 2011 (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 12:53, 21 раштав уйăхĕн 2011 (UTC)

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 00:02, 15 кăрлач уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 14:55, 12 нарăс уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

Update on IPv6

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the full version of this announcement on Meta)

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

• At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)

• In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.

• We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 00:50, 2 çĕртме уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

македонски • norsk • polski

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:10, 5 çĕртме уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

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Mobile view as default view coming soon

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the instructions on Meta)

The mobile view of this project and others will soon become the default view on mobile devices (except tablets). Some language versions of these projects currently show no content on the mobile home page, and it is a good time to do a little formatting so users get a mobile-friendly view, or to add to existing mobile content if some already exists.

If you are an administrator, please consider helping with this change. There are instructions which are being translated. The proposed date of switching the default view is July 5.

To contact the mobile team, email mobile-feedback-llists.wikimedia.org.

--Phil Inje Chang, Product Manager, Mobile, Wikimedia Foundation 04:46, 29 çĕртме уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

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Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year

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Hi,

As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.

Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 19:58, 19 утă уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

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Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion.

If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)01:51, 6 авăн уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)

As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.

The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:

1. language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
2. infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
3. lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)

It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.

For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.

--Lydia Pintscher 13:12, 10 авăн уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the upgrade schedule & code details).

Please watch for problems with:

• revision diffs
• templates
• CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
• bots
• PDF export
• images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
• the CologneBlue skin

If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.

Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 02:47, 16 юпа уйăхĕн 2012 (UTC)

P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed

Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :) If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.

I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.

If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:09, 19 кăрлач уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

• Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
• Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
• Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?

Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:15, 30 кăрлач уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)

Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.

If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.

If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 19:05, 13 пуш уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

Запрос на комментирование о неактивных администраторах

(Пожалуйста, рассмотрите вопрос о переводе этого сообщения для ваших викимедийцев. Также рассмотрите вопрос о переводе предложения.)

Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。

Привет!

На Мета-вики был размещён новый запрос на комментирование, касающийся снятия административных прав с неактивных долгое время викимедийцев. Как правило, это предложение стюардов будет применяться в проектах Фонда без рассмотрения администраторов.

Мы также составили список проектов с существующей процедурой снятия прав с неактивных администраторов на странице обсуждения запроса. Не стесняйтесь добавлять ваш(и) проект(ы) в этот список, если в них есть соответствующее правило.

Каждый комментарий будет ценным для нас. Дискуссия может быть закрыта 21 мая 2013 (2013-05-21), но может быть продлена в случае необходимости.

С благодарностью, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 04:28, 24 ака уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.

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[en] Change to section edit links

The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.

Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.

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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
• The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
• A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe • 20:23, 20 çу уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

Important note: This is the first edition of the Tech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.

If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.

You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 20:23, 20 çу уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

Trademark discussion

Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)

X!'s Edit Counter

(Sorry for writing in English. You can translate the proposal.)

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ^Chat_Automation 04:17, 23 çĕртме уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

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Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09

On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 12:17, 4 утă уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC) (via Global message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 13:02, 23 утă уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

HTTPS for users with an account

Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.

If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org.

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 18:54, 20 çурла уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo

Request for consultation on this community logo

First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.

The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive. Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 02:13, 24 авăн уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Notifications

Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you -- and let you take quick action.

(This message is in English, please translate as needed)

Greetings!

Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.

We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.

There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:

• Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Notifications help on mediawiki.org. This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia. You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.

• Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:22, 4 юпа уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki: m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.

This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.

The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.

We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.

Thanks, Geoff & Yana 19:53, 8 юпа уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

Introducting Beta Features

(Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)

We would like to let you know about Beta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.

Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.

Beta Features is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.

Here are the first features you can test this week:

• Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen
• VisualEditor Formulæ (for wikis with VisualEditor) — edit algebra or equations on your pages
• Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming Thursday)

Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the Beta Features page.

After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on this discussion page -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.

Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:42, 5 чӳк уйăхĕн 2013 (UTC)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.

The current trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect the Wikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review here, and we encourage you to discuss it here.

We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?

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 кăрлач уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014

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

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 нарăс уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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 Wikibooks 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 нарăс уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

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 пуш уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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

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 "Администраторсем" 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.

1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list.
2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo 20:38, 19 çу уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer

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 çу уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

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 çĕртме уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

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 çурла уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

Process ideas for software development

’’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 çурла уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

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Grants to improve your project

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 (обсуждение) 16:52, 2 авăн уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

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 юпа уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:34, 14 чӳк уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature

Hello. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you translated this message!

VisualEditor, a rich-text editor for MediaWiki, will soon be available on this wiki as a Beta Feature. The estimated date of activation is Wednesday, 26 November.

To access it, you will need to visit the Бета-функцисем page after the deployment and tick the box next to "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (If you have enabled the "Бета-функцисенчен чылайӑшне тӳрех усӑ курма пуҫламалла" option, VisualEditor will be automatically available for you.) There will also be a "⧼Visualeditor-preference-language-label⧽" that you can enable if you need it.

Then, you just have to click on "Тӳрлет" to start VisualEditor, or on "Кодне тӳрлет" to edit using wikitext markup. You can even begin to edit pages with VisualEditor and then switch to the wikitext editor simply by clicking on its tab at any point, and you can keep your changes when doing so.

A guide was just published at mediawiki.org so that you can learn how to support your community with this transition: please read and translate it if you can! You will find all the information about the next steps there. Please report any suggestions or issues at the main feedback page. You will also receive the next issues of the multilingual monthly newsletter here on this page: if you want it delivered elsewhere, for example at your personal talk page, please add the relevant page here.

Thanks for your attention and happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 18:12, 21 чӳк уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature (errata)

Please notice the correct direct link to access Бета-функцисем is this one. Thanks for your understanding! Elitre (WMF) 18:35, 21 чӳк уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Абзац" into a "Цитатӑллӑ блок".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.

There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.

Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Хулӑм" and "Тайлӑк" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

18:59, 26 раштав уйăхĕн 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2015

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

• starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog: blue ,
• takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
• might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray .

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor. (T67815, T73746.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (T73077, T73078.)

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(T78234.)

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (T86688, T87027.) If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
• Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact James F. to learn more about this initiative.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.
• Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

18:30, 5 нарăс уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata is coming

(Sorry for writing in English. It'd be great if someone could translate this where necessary.)

Hi everyone :)

I am Wikidata's product manager. I wanted to reach out to you about Wikidata support for Wikibooks. Wikidata is storing structured data for Wikimedia projects (and others). These are for example things like the date of birth of a famous author or the height of a mountain. We are giving access to this data to all Wikimedia projects step by step. It is now Wikibooks' turn. As a first step you will be able to maintain your interwiki links on Wikidata. This means you no longer have to store them in the article text of each language. Instead they are stored just once on Wikidata together with all the other projects. (You will still be able to store them in the article text if you really want to but then they overwrite the links coming from Wikidata. Sometimes that is useful.) This first step should happen on February 24th. In the next step you will get access to all the other data on Wikidata. I do not have a date for that yet.

I am looking forward to having you join the Wikidata family! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out to me. There is a special page for you on Wikidata that will hopefully help you and is a good place to ask questions: d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:41, 6 нарăс уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata support for interwiki links is here

Hey everyone :)

(Sorry for writing in English. It'd be great if someone could translate where appropriate.)

As previously announced we have enabled interwiki links via Wikidata for Wikibooks last night. This means from now on you no longer have to maintain the links in the wikitext but can maintain them together with the links for Wikipedia, Commons, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikinews and Wikiquote on Wikidata. You will still be able to keep them locally though if you want to. Local interwiki links will overwrite the ones from Wikidata. If you don't want any interwiki links from Wikidata on a particular page you can use the magic word {{noexternallanglinks}}.

You do not yet have access to the other data on Wikidata like the date of birth of an author. That will come in a future deployment. I will let you know when I have a date for it.

If you have any questions d:Wikidata:Wikibooks is a good first step. That is also a good place for any issues or bugs you encounter.

I'm very happy to welcome you all to Wikidata! I hope it will become a great help for Wikibooks.

Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 07:58, 25 нарăс уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.Wikibooks.org: (пурте) Страницӑсене тӳрлет

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like cv.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:32, 1 пуш уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!

• Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (обсуждение) 20:01, 4 пуш уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 13 пуш уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:12, 10 Ака уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

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

VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead. (T90734)

Looking ahead

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (T90666)

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language. Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Хулӑм" and "Тайлӑк" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

19:49, 10 Ака уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.

This year, elections are being held for the following roles:

Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the board elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.

The FDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core

Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core

Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages. The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (T98085)

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (T70425)

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Пример", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the VisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow this task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

10:44, 13 Çĕртме уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages. The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (T98085)

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (T70425)

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Пример", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the VisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow this task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

12:00, 13 Çĕртме уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

22:00, 19 Çĕртме уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

23:11, 19 Çĕртме уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

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 (сӳтсе явни) 05:07, 24 Утă уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

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 (сӳтсе явни) 06:32, 24 Утă уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

• All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
• All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
• Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
• URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
• Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: Шаблон:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalШаблон:@wikimediaШаблон:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 23:42, 31 Утă уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

• All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
• All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
• Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
• URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
• Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: Шаблон:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalШаблон:@wikimediaШаблон:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 02:13, 1 Çурла уйăхĕн 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

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now using Flow instead of LiquidThreads.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mediawiki.org if you can help.
• If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
• Please file requests for language-appropriate "Хулӑм" and "Тайлӑк" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 22:28, 14 Çурла уйăхĕн 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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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:12, 2 Авăн уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 19:14, 2 Авăн уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

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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, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 Авăн уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

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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, Wikimedia Foundation. 21:55, 4 Авăн уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata data access is coming

Hi everyone,

Many Wikimedia projects already have access to Wikidata and make good use of it to improve their content. You already have access to the interwiki link part of Wikidata. I wanted to let you know that your project will be among the next to receive access to the actual data on Wikidata. It is currently scheduled for September 22nd. From then on you can use data from Wikidata either via the property parser function or Lua.

I hope we'll be able to support you well with structured data. If you have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:12, 9 Авăн уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata data access is here

A while ago I announced that you'll be among the next projects to get access to Wikidata's data. This has now happened. You can access the data via a parser function (#property) and Lua. For more information and to ask questions please come to d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.

I hope you'll be able to do great things with this and that it will make your life easier in the long-run.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:48, 22 Авăн уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

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 Авăн уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report

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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 Авăн уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report

(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) 18:04, 28 Авăн уйăхĕн 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 "Переключиться на визуальный редактор".

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

Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Каҫӑ 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 "Кӗртсе ларт Изображения и медиафайлы" 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 "Удалить" 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

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 "Тӳрлет" and "Кодне тӳрлет" tabs into a single "Тӳрлет" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Тӳрлет" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

• 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 contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 18:18, 30 Юпа уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

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 MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 21:57, 9 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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 10:48, 10 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Harassment consultation

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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

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

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!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 14:38, 1 Раштав уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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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Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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.

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Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

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

The single edit tab project will combine the "Тӳрлет" and "Кодне тӳрлет" tabs into a single "Тӳрлет" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Тӳрлет" 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 Тӳрлетни tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Режим редактирования:".

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

• 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:
  • Помнить мой последний редактор,
  • Всегда открывать визуальный редактор, если это возможно,
  • Всегда открывать редактор исходного текста, and
  • Показывать мне оба варианта редактора. (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 contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Тавтапуҫ!

Elitre (WMF), 00:06, 25 Раштав уйăхĕн 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 01:49, 5 Кăрлач уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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Hello, all.

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)

Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion, 2016 Strategy/Community consultation.

Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created m:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)

If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 19:06, 18 Кăрлач уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Did you know?

Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.

If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

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 Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Тӳрлет" and "Кодне тӳрлет" tabs into a single "Тӳрлет" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Тӳрлет" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Тӳрлетни tab of Special:Preferences:

• Помнить мой последний редактор,
• Всегда открывать визуальный редактор, если это возможно,
• Всегда открывать редактор исходного текста, and
• Показывать мне оба варианта редактора. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.

Let's work together

• Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
• Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer David Chan needs to know. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Тавтапуҫ!

Elitre (WMF), 21:21, 26 Нарăс уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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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 Пуш уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Server switch 2016

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 Ака уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. Using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page or on this discussion thread. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 07:04, 24 Çĕртме уйăхĕн 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 "Кӗртсе ларт" menu and click the "Ӑнлантарусен списокӗ" 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 "Вставить" in the dialog to insert the Ӑнлантарусен списокӗ. 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

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 "Тӳрлет" and "Кодне тӳрлет" tabs into a single "Тӳрлет" 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 "Тӳрлетни" 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

The "Страницăна çырса хур" button will say "Страницӑна вырнаҫтар". 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

• 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 contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Тавтапуҫ!

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 17:20, 3 Утă уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants

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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 Утă уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Страницăна çырса хур” button to “Страницӑна вырнаҫтар” and “Улшӑнусене вырнаҫтар”. “Страницӑна вырнаҫтар” will be used when you create a new page. “Улшӑнусене вырнаҫтар” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[16][17]

This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in Tech News when it happens.

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “Страницӑна вырнаҫтар” and “Улшӑнусене вырнаҫтар”.

The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that “Страницăна çырса хур” would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “Страницăна çырса хур” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.

Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The Legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.

Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes {{int:Publishpage}} and {{int:Publishchanges}} to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in your account preferences, these wikitext codes produce “Страницӑна вырнаҫтар” and “Улшӑнусене вырнаҫтар”.

Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 9 Çурла уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:56, 12 Авăн уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project

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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 Авăн уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0

Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested, take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki.

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 01:35, 6 Юпа уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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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

• You can now set text as small or big.[18]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[19] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[20]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[21]
• 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.[22]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[23] In the future, the "Страницăна çырса хур" button will say "Страницӑна вырнаҫтар". 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.[24]

Future changes

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

• 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.

• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Тавтапуҫ!

—Elitre (WMF)

17:49, 15 Юпа уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Password reset

I apologise that this message is in English. ⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽

We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.

Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.

In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (сӳтсе явни) / MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 23:59, 13 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 00:11, 14 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext

Summary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. Please go try it out.

We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving the visual editor based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.

Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the citoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.

All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Бета-функцисенчен чылайӑшне тӳрех усӑ курма пуҫламалла".

The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the current wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.

This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode on the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:31, 14 Раштав уйăхĕн 2016 (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.

This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.

The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:

• Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (15 December 2016)
  • Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
• Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (23 December 2016)
  • Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
• Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (8 January 2017)
  • Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
• Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (11 January 2017)
  • Introduction of williamsworks
• Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 February 2017)
  • The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
• Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (10 February 2017)
  • Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:30, 15 Нарăс уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC) • Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык • Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:

• Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (16 February 2017)
  • Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
• Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (24 February 2017)
  • Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
• Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 March 2017)
  • Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:43, 9 Пуш уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC) • Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык • Get help

We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)

This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.

There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:

Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).

Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.

This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?

We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.

• Find out more about the movement strategy process
• Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator

Sincerely,

Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams

05:09, 18 Пуш уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.

The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.

The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.

Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.

The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.

The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

• April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) – Board nominations
• April 7 – April 20 – Board candidates questions submission period
• April 21 – April 30 – Board candidates answer questions
• May 1 – May 14 – Board voting period
• May 15–19 – Board vote checking
• May 20 – Board result announcement goal

In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:

• Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
  • There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

• Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
  • One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.

More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:36, 7 Ака уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC) • Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык • Get help

Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to 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 secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 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 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 17:34, 11 Ака уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2017 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

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 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

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19:14, 3 Çу уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

From May 9, the Two Column Edit Conflict View will be available as a beta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:28, 8 Çу уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2017

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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 "Внесённые изменения".

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

• A 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. [25]
• The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [26]
• 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. [27]
• 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. [28]
• The Категорисем item has been moved to the top of the Параметры страницы menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [29] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [30]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [31]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [32]
• The Специальный символ menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [33]
• 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. [34]
• There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [35]

Future changes

• The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> 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. [36]
• The kind of button used to Умкурӑма пӑх, Улшӑнусене кӑтарт, 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: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [37]
• 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. [38]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Тавтапуҫ!

—Elitre (WMF)

18:06, 12 Çу уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:39, 16 Çу уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)

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The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.

You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.

Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:

• Healthy, Inclusive Communities
• The Augmented Age
• A Truly Global Movement
• The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
• Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem

On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.

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21:08, 16 Çу уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Funds Dissemination Committee
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 Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee 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. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.

The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.

The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

• May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) – Nominations
• May 15 – May 28 – Candidates questions submission period
• May 29 – June 2 – Candidates answer questions
• June 3 – June 11 – Voting period
• June 12–14 – Vote checking
• June 15 – Goal date for announcing election results

More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

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-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

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21:05, 23 Çу уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Accessible editing buttons

The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.

You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.

• Comparison of old and new styles
• 
  Buttons before the change
• 
  Buttons after the change

However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.

This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 1 August 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:57, 27 Утă уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Changes to the global ban policy

Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 00:34, 12 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

Тавтапуҫ!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2017 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

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

• 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. [39]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [40]
• The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

• The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
• The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [41]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Тавтапуҫ!

—Elitre (WMF)

20:56, 2 Пуш уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:45, 7 Çу уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19:19, 10 Утă уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all,

I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at the consultation page on Meta. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 08:45, 12 Утă уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).

You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.

Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 13:08, 30 Утă уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

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Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Интерфейс администраторӗсем) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:39, 27 Çурла уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)

13:33, 6 Авăн уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

11:05, 30 Юпа уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

• The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
• The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
• The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
• The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
• The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [42]

Let's work together

• The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
• The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Тавтапуҫ!

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:17, 2 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

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Example of improvements

Hello,

In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.

What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.

For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.

Тавтапуҫ!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 13 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

18:13, 22 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

Advanced Search

Advanced Search will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the search page, even if you don’t know any search syntax. Advanced Search originates from the German Community’s Technical Wishes project. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the central feedback page.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 10:57, 26 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.

These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.

These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.

Тавтапуҫ!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:02, 6 Раштав уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.

The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.

The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs

There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 10:12, 27 Раштав уйăхĕн 2018 (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The FileExporter. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community: Please check your wiki's configuration file if you want to use this feature.

The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on mediawiki.org, meta.wikimedia, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on wikisource.org. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your user preferences. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 Кăрлач уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

No editing for 30 minutes 17 January

You will not be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on 17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are not affected on this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can't edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

14:47, 16 Кăрлач уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
   2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
   3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 15:01, 21 Нарăс уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April

You will not be able to edit most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on 11 April 05:00 UTC. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You can see which wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

10:56, 8 Ака уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. Тавтапуҫ! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:35, 12 Ака уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

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

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:

1. 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.
2. 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

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

• 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

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.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:32, 23 Утă уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team announced a future consultation about partial and/or temporary office actions. We want to let you know that the draft version of this consultation has now been posted on Meta.

This is a draft. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.

For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted. Please post it on the draft talk page. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.

Please visit the consultation draft on Meta-wiki and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team 08:03, 16 Çурла уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what tools could be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project on Meta and post comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.

You can post in your language if you can't write in English.

Johan (WMF)

14:18, 21 Çурла уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians to join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

• Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);

• Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or

• Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:13, 30 Авăн уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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Привет. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.

We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.

We would like individual feedback on the following:

• Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
• Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
• Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far

We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.

When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:

• Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
• Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
• Put things in logical and useful places
• Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
• Eliminate clutter
• Plan for future growth

As well as the following constraints:

• Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
• Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
• No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors

Please give all feedback (in any language) at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

Тавтапуҫ! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

06:53, 16 Юпа уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

11:13, 29 Юпа уйăхĕн 2019 (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:00, 22 Кăрлач уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:14, 26 Нарăс уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

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 хуравла 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.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

19:28, 8 Ака уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2

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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 "Сӳтсе явмалли хатӗр-хӗтӗр". 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.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

20:36, 17 Çĕртме уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Feedback on movement names

Привет. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык if necessary. Тавтапуҫ!

There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.

Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 19:52, 2 Утă уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.

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.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:55, 9 Утă уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation . We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list . We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 19:56, 9 Утă уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis

The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. How does it work?

Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.

Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.

Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.

If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:

Max Klemm (WMDE) 09:13, 6 Çурла уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community.

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:48, 26 Çурла уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the conversation

Привет. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык. Тавтапуҫ!

We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.

The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?

Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 17:55, 10 Авăн уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC) 

Wiki of functions naming contest

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Привет. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Тавтапуҫ! --Quiddity (WMF)

21:25, 29 Авăн уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

Привет. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык.

Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

Тавтапуҫ! Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:09, 7 Юпа уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, October 27 2020.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:10, 21 Юпа уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

Привет. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. Тавтапуҫ! --Quiddity (WMF)

22:10, 5 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Опрос о пожеланиях сообщества — 2021

Опрос о пожеланиях сообщества — 2021 открыт! Это процесс, в котором сообщества решают, над чем команда Community Tech должна работать в течение следующего года. Мы рекомендуем всем подавать предложения до истечения крайнего срока 30 Чӳк уйӑхӗн, или комментировать другие предложения, чтобы помочь сделать их лучше.

The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 Раштав уйӑхӗн and 21 Раштав уйӑхӗн.

Команда технической помощи сообществам сосредоточена на инструментах для опытных редакторов проектов Викимедиа. Вы можете писать предложения на любом языке, и мы переведем их для вас. Мы ждём ваших предложений с благодарностью и нетерпением!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 04:55, 20 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist

Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!

As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.

Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.

This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.

Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.

If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:39, 30 Чӳк уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:55, 7 Раштав уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Опрос о пожеланиях сообщества — 2021

Мы приглашаем всех зарегистрированных участников проголосовать в Опросе о пожеланиях сообщества 2021 года. Вы можете оставить голос за любое количество пожеланий, опрос проходит с этого момента и до 21 декабря.

В опросе собраны пожелания о создании новых и улучшении существующих инструментов для опытных редакторов. После окончания голосования мы постараемся исполнить все ваши пожелания. Начнем с самых популярных.

Мы, Community Tech, являемся одной из команд Фонда Викимедиа. Мы создаем и совершенствуем инструменты для редактирования и администрирования вики. Решение о том, над чем мы будем работать, принимается по результатам опроса сообщества. Раз в год можно подавать пожелания. Через две недели после периода подачи можно проголосовать за те предложения, в которых вы больше всего заинтересованы. Затем мы выбираем из опроса пожелания, над которыми планируем работать. Некоторые пожелания могут быть выполнены разработчиками-волонтёрами или другими командами.

Мы ждём ваших голосов. Спасибо!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

15:30, 11 Раштав уйăхĕн 2020 (UTC)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

Привет. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык. Тавтапуҫ!

Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, 15:15, 27 Кăрлач уйăхĕн 2021 (UTC)

Project Grant Open Call

This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.

For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:

• Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
• Video tutorials for writing a strong application
  
• General planning page for Project Grants
  
• Program guidelines and criteria
  

Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.

We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsШаблон:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 08:00, 28 Кăрлач уйăхĕн 2021 (UTC)

Wikifunctions logo contest

Привет. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-Wiki. Тавтапуҫ! --Quiddity (WMF)

01:45, 2 Пуш уйăхĕн 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations

Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2

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The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.

Drafting Committee: Call for applications

The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.

To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.

2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators

From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.

To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.

-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) 21:40, 5 Ака уйăхĕн 2021 (UTC)

Line numbering coming soon to all wikis

Example

From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror extension), which is supported in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors.

More information can be found on this project page. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 15:07, 12 Ака уйăхĕн 2021 (UTC)

Suggested Values

From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to TemplateData and will then be shown as a drop-down list in VisualEditor. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.

More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values: [1] [2]. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.

Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 14:08, 22 Ака уйăхĕн 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the first issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.

Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to subscribe here.

You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please add your name here if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.

• Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
• 2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
• Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
• Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
• Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)

--MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 23:05, 11 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2021 (UTC)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

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.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 04:18, 16 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2021 (UTC)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

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 "Сӳтсе явмалли хатӗр-хӗтӗр" 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.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:14, 24 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2021 (UTC)

Server switch

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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 01:19, 27 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2021 (UTC)

Прием заявок кандидатов в Редакционный Комитет Устава Движения

Стратегия Движения объявляет прием заявок от кандидатов в Редакционный Комитет Устава Движения. Прием заявок начнется 2 августа 2021 года и продлится до 1 сентября 2021 года.

Есть ожидание, что Комитет будет представлять разнообразие всего Движении. Разнообразие включает в себя пол, язык, географию и опыт. Это включает участие в проектах, организациях Викимедиа и в Фонде Викимедиа.

Свободное владение английским не требуется для того, чтобы стать членом комитета. При необходимости, будет предоставлена поддержка письменного и устного перевода. Участники получат компенсацию расходов на участие. Это составляет 100 долларов США раз в каждые два месяца.

Мы ищем людей, которые обладают некоторыми из следующих навыков:

• Навыки коллективной работы и писания. (продемонстрированный опыт - это плюс)
• Готовность находить компромиссы.
• Сосредоточенность на инклюзивность и разнообразие.
• Обладание знаниями консультаций с сообществом.
• Опыт межкультурного общения.
• Опыт управления или организационной работы в некоммерческих организациях или сообществах.
• Опыт ведения переговоров с различными сторонами.

Ожидается, что Комитет начнет работу 15 человеком. Если будет 20 или более кандидатов, будет проведен смешанный процесс выборов и отбора. Если кандидатов будет 19 или меньше, то будет процесс отбора без выборов.

Поможете ли вы Викимедии в этой роли? Представьте свою кандидатуру здесь. Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с нами по адресу strategy2030wikimedia.org с вопросами.

Xeno (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 00:12, 3 Ҫурла уйӑхӗн 2021 (UTC)

The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January

Hello everyone,

We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.

Summary:

We will be running the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.

Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year

In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.

However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.

We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.

Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities

We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.

A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet

We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.

We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!

Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase

If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!

Feedback

• What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
• How would you like to use our new sandbox?
• What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
• What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?

Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:23, 7 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2021 (UTC)

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Talk to the Community Tech

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Hello!

As we have recently announced, we, the team working on the Community Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on September 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.

Agenda

• How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
• Why we decided to change the date from November 2021 to January 2022
• Update on the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes
• Questions and answers

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (the Community Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.

Invitation link

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See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 03:03, 11 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2021 (UTC)

Открыто голосование по выборам членов редакционного комитета Устава Движения

В общей сложности 70 викимедийцев со всего мира претендуют на 7 мест в этих выборах.

Голосование открыто с 12 октября по 24 октября 2021 года.

Всего в состав комитета войдут 15 человек: 7 членов будут выбраны голосованием онлайн-сообществ, 6 членов будут выбраны филиалами Викимедиа в ходе параллельного процесса, а 2 члена будут назначены Фондом Викимедиа. Планируется собрать комитет к 1 ноября 2021 года.

Узнайте о каждом кандидате, чтобы информировать голосование на том языке, который вы предпочитаете: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

Узнайте о Редакционном комитете: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

На этих выборах мы в качестве эксперимента используем приложение для получения рекомендаций по голосованию. Проведите себя через инструмент и вы увидите, какой кандидат ближе всего к вам! Проверьте на <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

Читайте полный текст объявления: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Проголосуйте на SecurePoll: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

С уважением,

Команда по стратегии и управлению движением, Фонд Викимедиа

Познакомьтесь с новыми членами Редакционного Комитета по разработке Устава Движения

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Процесс выборов и отбора в Редакционный Комитет Устава Движения завершен.

• Опубликованы результаты выборов. 1018 человек проголосовали за избрание семи членов в комитет: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan), Ciell (Ciell).
• Шесть членов были отобраны в процессе отбора партнерами:
• Фонд Викимедиа назначил двух членов: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF), Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)).

Комитет соберется в ближайшее время, чтобы начать свою работу. Комитет может назначить до трех дополнительных членов, чтобы сбалансировать недостаток многообразия и опыта.

Если вы хотите участвовать в процессе разработки Устава Движения, следите за обновлениями на Мета и присоединяйтесь к Telegram группе.

С благодарностью, команда по Стратегии Движения и Управлению

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 09:05, 2 Чӳк уйӑхӗн 2021 (UTC)

Опрос о пожеланиях сообщества — 2022

Опрос о пожеланиях сообщества — 2022 открыт!

Это процесс, в котором сообщества решают, над чем команда Community Tech должна работать в течение следующего года. Мы рекомендуем всем подавать предложения до истечения крайнего срока 23 января, или комментировать другие предложения, чтобы помочь сделать их лучше.

The communities will vote on the proposals between 28 января and 11 февраля.

Команда технической помощи сообществам сосредоточена на инструментах для опытных редакторов проектов Викимедиа. Вы можете писать предложения на любом языке, и мы переведем их для вас. Мы ждём ваших предложений с благодарностью и нетерпением! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 18:39, 10 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Приём ваших отзывов по поводу выборов в Совет попечителей открыт

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Приём обратной связи по поводу выборов в Совет попечителей объявлен открытым и завершится 7 16 февраля 2022 года.

В настоящем приглашении к приёму обратной связи команда по Стратегии и управлению движением применяет другой подход. Этот подход принимает во внимание отзывы сообщества полученные в 2021 году. Вместо того чтобы выдвигать предложения, этот приём обратной связи состоит из ключевых вопросов полученных от Совета попечителей. Ключевые вопросы были сформулированы на основе отзывов о выборах в Совет попечителей 2021 года. Цель состоит в том, чтобы вдохновить коллективное обсуждение и совместную разработку предложений по этим ключевым вопросам.

Присоединяйтесь к обсуждению.

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии и управлению движением

AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 10:31, 12 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Новости Стратегии движения и управления – Выпуск 5

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Новости Стратегии движения и управления
Выпуск 5 — Январь 2022Прочитайте полный текст вестника

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Добро пожаловать в пятый выпуск Новостей о Стратегии движения и управления (ранее именуемый как Новости Универсального кодекса поведения)! Этот обновлённый бюллетень содержит актуальные новости и события, касающиеся Устава Движения, Универсального кодекса поведения, грантов на реализацию Стратегии движения, выборов в Совет попечителей и других соответствующих тем по Стратегии движения и управлению.

Этот информационный бюллетень будет выпускаться ежеквартально. Дополнительные новости будут рассылаться подписчикам еженедельно или раз в две недели. Пожалуйста, не забудьте подписаться здесь, чтобы получать эти обновления.

• Приглашение к обратной связи по поводу выборов в Совет попечителей - Мы приглашаем вас поделиться своим мнением о предстоящих выборах в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа. Приём ваших отзывов по поводу этих выборов был объявлен 10 января 2022 года и завершится 7 февраля 2022 года. (продолжить чтение)
• Ратификация Универсального кодекса поведения - В 2021 году Фонд Викимедиа обратился к сообществам с вопросом о том, как обеспечить соблюдение текста политики Универсального кодекса поведения. Пересмотренный проект руководства по обеспечению соблюдения будет готов для голосования сообществ в марте. (продолжить чтение)
• Гранты на реализацию Стратегии движения - Продолжая рассматривать ряд интересных проектных предложений, мы поощряем и приветствуем новые предложения и идеи, направленные на конкретную инициативу из рекомендаций Стратегии движения. (продолжить чтение)
• Преобразование информационного бюллетеня - В связи с преобразованием Информационного бюллетеня УКП в Информационный бюллетень Стратегии движения и управления, мы приглашаем вас присоединиться к команде фасилитаторов для разработки и определения новых направлений этого информационного бюллетеня. (продолжить чтение)
• Блог «Diff» - Ознакомьтесь с самыми последними публикациями по Стратегии движения и управлению Фонда на Викимедиа Diff. (продолжить чтение)

AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 17:53, 23 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Поговорите с Техническим Сообществом

Привет

Как было недавно объявлено, мы, команда, работающая над Опросом о пожеланиях сообщества, хотели бы пригласить вас на онлайн-встречу с нами. It will take place on 19 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн (Юн кун), 18:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. This external system is not subject to the WMF Privacy Policy. Нажмите, чтобы присоединиться.

Повестка

• Bring drafts of your proposals and talk to to a member of the Community Tech Team about your questions on how to improve the proposal

Формат

Встреча не будет записываться или транслироваться. Будет вестись краткий протокол без указания авторства реплик; он будет опубликован на Meta-Wiki.

Мы можем ответить на вопросы на английском, французском, польском, испанском, немецком и итальянском языках. Если вы хотите задать вопросы заранее, добавьте их на странице обсуждения опроса о пожеланиях сообщества или отправьте на sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Эту встречу будет проводить Наталья Родригес (менеджер Технического Сообщества).

Ссылка-приглашение

• Присоединяйтесь онлайн
• ID встречи: 85804347114
• Наберите по своему местоположению

Будем рады увидеться с вами! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 17:27, 18 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Целевая группа по развитию лидерства: Ваши отзывы и рекомендации приветствуются

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Команда по вопросам развития сообщества Фонда Викимедиа поддерживает создание глобальной Целевой группы по развитию лидерства с активным участием сообществ. Целью данной группы является консультирование работы по развитию лидерства.

Команда просит Вас высказаться по поводу обязанностей Целевой группы по развитию лидерства. На этой Мета-странице анонсировано предложение о создании Целевой группы по развитию лидерства и о том, как Вы можете помочь. Отзывы о предложении принимаются с 7 по 25 февраля 2022 года. --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 16:58, 8 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Заявки на участие в Рабочей группе по развитию лидерства принимаются до 10 апреля 2022 года

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Команда по развитию сообщества принимает заявки от заинтересованных членов сообщества на участие в Рабочей группе по развитию лидерства. Цель рабочей группы - предоставление рекомендаций по развитию лидерства, обмен идеями и рекомендациями по инициативами развития лидерства в сообществах. Группа будет работать с сообществами над определением понятия лидерства и составлением плана развития лидерства, среди прочих.

Приём заявок открыт до 10 апреля 2022 года. Будет предоставлена языковая поддержка, поэтому знание английского языка не является обязательным условием. К сожалению, с марта 2022 года члены из русскоязычного сообщества и проектов не смогут получать компенсацию из-за действующих санкций SWIFT. Участники_цы сообщества находящиеся за пределами РФ могут получать финансовую компенсацию в размере $100 каждые два месяца, которые способствуют участию в волонтерской деятельности.

Более подробную информацию о создаваемой группе можно прочитать здесь. Отчёт о результатах обратной связи доступен на Мета-вики. -AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 10:18, 4 Ака уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Обновленная информация о Руководстве по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения

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Привет всем,

Руководство по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения (УКП) было опубликовано 24 января 2022 года в качестве предлагаемого способа применения политики в масштабах движения. Комментарии к руководству можно оставить здесь или на странице обсуждения.

25 февраля 2022 года в 12:00 UTC, и 4 марта 2022 года в 15:00 UTC пройдет обсуждение вопросов о руководстве и процессе ратификации. Вы можете присоединиться, чтобы обсудить вопросы с членами Комитета по разработке Руководства и командой проекта УКП.

Ознакомьтесь с таймлайном на Мета-вики. Период голосования с 7 по 21 марта. Подробности на странице информации о голосовании.

Благодарим Вас за участие.

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению Фонда Викимедиа

AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 18:47, 16 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

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Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,

We are pleased to inform you that Wiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the 15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.

We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 04:50, 22 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Coming soon

Several improvements around templates

Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:

• Fundamental improvements of the VisualEditor template dialog (1, 2),
• Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (3) (for the template dialogs in VisualEditor, 2010 Wikitext and New Wikitext Mode),
• and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension CodeMirror (4, 5) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).

All these changes are part of the “Templates” project by WMDE Technical Wishes. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12:38, 28 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Началось голосование по тексту Руководства по применению УКП

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7 марта в 00:00 UTC началось голосование по обновленному тексту Руководства по обеспечению применения Универсального кодекса поведения! Голосование завершится в понедельник 21 марта 2022 года в 00:00 UTC. Ознакомьтесь с подробной информацией о голосовании и праве на участие в голосовании.

Проголосуйте здесь.

Универсальный кодекс поведения (УКП) устанавливает базовый уровень приемлемого поведения для всего Движения. Обновленный текст Руководства по применению был опубликован 24 января 2022 года в качестве предлагаемого способа применения правил УКП в рамках всего Движения Викимедиа. Более подробная информацию о проекте УКП.

Отзывы и комментарии принимаются на странице обсуждения проекта Мета-вики на любом удобном для вас языке. По вопросам к команде по УКП пишите на: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии и Управлению Движением Фонда Викимедиа

--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 13:07, 7 Пуш уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Голосование завершено. Спасибо всем за участие!

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21 марта 2022 года завершилось голосование по ратификации обновлённого Руководства по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения (УКП). В голосовании приняли участие более 2300 викимедийцев из разных регионов нашего Движения. Группа по проверке итогов голосования приступила к работе. Потребуется примерно две недели, чтобы они завершили подсчет голосов.

Окончательные итоги голосования будут объявлены здесь вместе с соответствующей статистикой и резюме комментариев, как только они будут доступны.

AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 18:08, 22 Пуш уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Следующие шаги: Универсальный кодекс поведения (УКП) и Руководство по обеспечению правоприменения УКП

После изучения результатов голосования и комментариев, Комитет по делам сообщества принял решение о проведении нового раунда консультаций с сообществом. После этого доработанный текст Руководства будет вынесен на повторное голосование. Подробнее об этом здесь. --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 11:31, 23 Ака уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Поправки к Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения (УКП)

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Новость от команды по проекту УКП - Комитет по пересмотру принимает ваши комментарии и предложения по улучшению текста Руководства по обеспечению правоприменения. --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 16:42, 2 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

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Доброго дня,

После проведённого голосования по Руководству, Комитет Совета по делам сообщества (CAC) предложил пересмотреть несколько разделов Руководства с целью внесения улучшений. Проанализировав полученные комментарии, Комитет по делам сообщества принял решение начать ещё один раунд консультаций с сообществом. После этих обсуждений у сообщества будет возможность проголосовать по обновлённому тексту Руководства по обеспечению правоприменения УКП. Комитет также предложил пересмотреть спорное примечание в пункте 3.1 самого УКП.

Согласно анализу, в комментариях были выделены три основные группы вопросов:

1. О прохождении (обязательного) обучения по УКП и его применению;

2. О балансе защиты конфиденциальности и надлежащей процедуры;

3. О требовании, чтобы определенные группы пользователей подтвердили, что они признают и будут придерживаться Универсального кодекса поведения.

Комитет по пересмотру просит Вас оставить комментарии и ответы на следующих страницах: Обсуждение пересмотра Руководства по применению, Обсуждение пересмотра текста правил

От лица команды проекта Универсального кодекса поведения

Приглашение на глобальное обсуждение по инициативе хабов 12 марта 2022 года в 13:00 UTC

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Всем доброго дня, ознакомьтесь с приглашением от моего коллеги о предстоящей глобальной беседе о хабах. AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 18:23, 9 Пуш уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

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Команда по Стратегии Движения и Управлению Фонда Викимедиа приглашает вас на мероприятие по теме "Региональные и тематические хабы". Движение Викимедиа работает над определением того, какими должны быть региональные и тематические хабы. Воркшоп проведённый в ноябре 2021 года дал старт обсуждениям (прочитать отчёт), но это ещё не всё.

За последние недели мы провели порядка 16 интервью с группами, работающими над созданием хабов в своих регионах (прочитать Диалог по созданию хабов). Данные интервью легли в основу отчёта, который послужит фундаментом для обсуждения 12 марта. Отчёт будет доступен 9 марта.

Мероприятие состоится 12 марта с 13:00 до 16:00 UTC на платформе Zoom. Будет обеспечен устный перевод на французский, испанский, арабский, русский и португальский языки. Регистрация завершится 10 марта (поздняя регистрация возможна по эл. почте: strategy2030@wikimedia.org). К участию приглашаются все заинтересованные члены Движения. Дополнительная информация о мероприятии на Мета-вики.

С уважением,

Kaarel Vaidla
Стратегия Движения

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow

International photographic contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.

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The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your local Wikipedia is participating

A special competition called Wiki Loves Falles is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and Falles in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on Catalan Wikipedia project page.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international Team MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 14:40, 14 Пуш уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Новости Стратегии Движения и Управления — Выпуск 6

Новости Стратегии Движения и Управления
Выпуск 6, апрель 2022 годаЧитать полную версию информационного бюллетеня

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Добро пожаловать в шестой выпуск новостей Стратегии движения и управления! Обновлённый бюллетень содержит информацию, в частности, о новостях и событиях связанных с Уставом движения, Универсальным кодексом поведения, грантами на реализацию Стратегии движения, выборами в Совет попечителей.

Информационный бюллетень выходит ежеквартально, а обновления — еженедельно. Не забудьте подписаться, чтобы получать последующие выпуски.

• Развитие лидерства - формируется Рабочая группа! - Приём заявок на участие в Рабочей группе по развитию лидерства завершился 10 апреля 2022 года. Для участия в рабочей группе будут отобраны до 12 членов сообщества. (продолжить чтение)
• Голосование по ратификации Универсального кодекса поведения - С 7 по 21 марта было проведено глобальное голосование по Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения УКП через SecurePoll. Более 2300 пользователей с правом голоса, по меньшей мере из 128 домашних вики-проектов поделились мнениями и комментариями. (продолжить чтение)
• Дискуссии движения о хабах - 12 марта провели глобальное обсуждение по вопросам региональных и тематических хабов. В нём приняли участие 84 викимедийцев со всего движения. (продолжить чтение)
• Гранты по Стратегии движения по-прежнему открыты! - С начала года было одобрено шесть проектных предложений общей суммой порядка 80 000 долларов США. У вас есть проектная идея по Стратегии движения? Свяжитесь с нами! (продолжить чтение)
• Комитет по разработке Устава движения приступил к работе! - Комитет из пятнадцати членов, избранный в октябре 2021 года, согласовал основные ценности, методы работы, а также приступил к составлению плана работы над проектом Устава движения. (продолжить чтение)
• Еженедельные обновления по Стратегии движения - Участвуйте и подписывайтесь! - Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению запустила портал обновлений, где собраны все страницы Стратегии движения на Мета-вики. Подпишитесь и получайте последние новости о текущих проектах. (продолжить чтение)
• Блог «Diff» - Прочитайте последние публикации о Стратегии движения на Викимедиа Diff. (продолжить чтение)

--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 11:12, 14 Ака уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Присоединяйтесь к обсуждению Годового плана Фонда Викимедиа с Марьяной Искандер

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Добрый день,

Команды по Коммуникациям движения и по Стратегии движения и управлению приглашают вас обсудить Годовой план Фонда Викимедиа на 2022-23 годы.

Эти беседы являются продолжением тура прослушиваний исполнительного директора Фонда Викимедиа Марьяны Искандер.

Беседы посвящены следующим вопросам:

• Стратегия движения Викимедиа до 2030 года определяет направление «знания как услуга» и «равенство знаний». Фонд Викимедиа стремиться планировать свою деятельность в соответствии с этими двумя целями. Как, по вашему мнению, Фонд Викимедиа должен применить эти цели в своей работе?
• Фонд Викимедиа продолжает искать пути улучшения работы на региональном уровне. Мы усилили региональный подход в таких направлениях, как гранты, новые функции и беседы с сообществом. Что работает успешно? Что может быть улучшено?
• Каждый может внести свой вклад в процесс разработки Стратегии движения. Расскажите о своей деятельности, идеях, пожеланиях и извлечённых уроках. Как Фонд Викимедиа может лучше поддерживать волонтёров и партнёрских организаций, работающих в рамках Стратегии движения?

Вы можете найти график встреч на Мета-вики.

Информация доступна на нескольких языках. На встречах могут принять участие все желающие. Синхронный перевод на русский язык будет доступен во встрече, которая состоится 23 апреля в 14.00 UTC.

С уважением,
--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 09:26, 15 Ака уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Обсуждение Годового плана Фонда состоится сегодня в 14.00 UTC

Напоминаем, что сегодня, 23 апреля, в 14.00 UTC (проверьте ваше местное время) состоится встреча с Марьяной Искандер, где вы можете обсудить Годовой план Фонда Викимедиа на 2022-2023 годы. Будет обеспечен синхронный перевод на русский язык. Ссылка на Zoom встречу: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/5792045919 --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 09:41, 23 Ака уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Объявление о выдвижении кандидатур в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа 2022

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Совет попечителей объявляет поиск кандидатов на участие в выборах в Совет 2022 года. Подробнее на Мета-вики.

Выборы в Совет попечителей 2022 года объявляются открытыми! Просим вас рассмотреть возможность выдвижения своей кандидатуры для службы в Совете попечителей.

Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа осуществляет контроль за деятельностью Фонда Викимедиа. В состав Совета входят попечители от сообществ и партнёрских организаций, а также назначенные попечители. Каждый попечитель служит три года. Сообщество Викимедиа имеет возможность голосовать за попечителей от сообществ и партнёрских организаций.

Участники_цы сообщества будут голосовать за два места в Совете попечителей в 2022 году. Это возможность улучшить представительство, разнообразие и компетентность Совета как команды.

Вы являетесь потенциальным кандидатом? Узнайте подробности на странице Подать заявку на выдвижение своей кандидатуры.

Благодарим вас за поддержку,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению от лица Комитета по выборам и Совета попечителей
--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 09:28, 25 Ака уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Coming soon: Improvements for templates

Fundamental changes in the template dialog.

Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:

The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the 2017 Wikitext Editor (beta) will be improved fundamentally: This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.

• project page, talk page

In syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), you can activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme with a user setting.

• project page, talk page

Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from WMDE Technical Wishes' focus area “Templates”.

We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 11:13, 29 Ака уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:55, 2 Ҫу уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Выборы в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа 2022. Приглашаем волонтёров

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Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению приглашает членов сообщества принять участие в качестве волонтёров на предстоящих выборах в Совет попечителей.

Идея программы "Волонтёры на выборах" возникла во время выборов в Совет попечителей Викимедиа в 2021 году. Программа была успешной. Благодаря помощи волонтёров на выборах мы смогли увеличить охват сообществ и участие в выборах на 1 753 избирателя по сравнению с 2017 годом. Общая явка составила 10,13%, что на 1,1 процентных пункта больше. Были представлены 214 википроектов.

Но 74 вики, не участвовавших в 2017 году, дали голоса на выборах 2021 года. Хотите помочь изменить ситуацию с участием?

Волонтёры на выборах будут помогать в следующем:

• Переводить короткие сообщения и анонсировать текущий избирательный процесс на каналах сообщества
• По желанию: Мониторить каналы сообщества на предмет комментариев и вопросов

Волонтёры должны:

• Соблюдать политику дружественного пространства во время бесед и мероприятий
• Представлять руководящие принципы и информацию о голосовании сообществу в нейтральном ключе

Вы хотите стать волонтёром на выборах и обеспечить представительство вашего сообщества в голосовании? Подпишитесь здесь, чтобы получать обновления. Вы можете использовать страницу обсуждения для вопросов о переводе.
--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 11:34, 6 Ҫу уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Обновление улучшенного интерфейса настольной версии

Привет. Я хотел поделиться с вами обновленной информацией о проекте улучшенного интерфейса настольной версии, над которым команда «Веб» Фонда Викимедиа работала последние несколько лет. Наша работа почти завершена! 🎉

Мы хотели бы, чтобы эти функции стали по умолчанию для читателей и редакторов во всех вики. В ближайшие недели мы начнем обсуждение для других вики, включая ваш. 🗓️ Мы с удовольствием ознакомимся с вашими предложениями!

Цели проекта - сделать интерфейс более гостеприимным и удобным для читателей и полезным для опытных пользователей. Проект состоит из ряда улучшенных функций, которые облегчают чтение и изучение, навигацию по странице, поиск, переключение между языками, использование вкладок статей и пользовательского меню и многое другое. Эта функция уже доступно по умолчанию для читателей и редакторов в 30 разделах, включая французскую, португальскую и персидскую Википедию.

Эти изменения доступны только пользователям стиля Vector. Те, кто использует Monobook или Timeless, не будут затронуты.

Новейшие функции

• Содержание - наша версия удобна для того, чтобы найти, получить контекст страницы и перемещаться по странице без необходимости прокрутки. В настоящее время оно тестируется на наших пробных вики-сайтах. Оно также доступно для редакторов, которые выбрали внешний вид для Вики «Вектор 2022».
• Инструменты страницы - теперь на боковой панели есть два типа ссылок. Существуют действия и инструменты для отдельных страниц (например, связанные правки) и ссылки обще-википедийного характера (например, свежие правки). Мы собираемся разделить их на два интуитивно понятных меню.

Как включить улучшения

Глобаллӑ ӗнерлевсем

• Можно включить самостоятельно на вкладке Внешний вид в настройках, выбрав "Вектор (2022)". Такую же опцию можно включить в глобальных настройках для всех разделов.
• В тех разделах, где изменения включены по умолчанию, зарегистрированные пользователи могут переключится на Vector. Для этого есть легко доступная ссылка на боковой панели.

Узнайте больше и присоединяйтесь к нам

Если вы хотите следить за прогрессом нашего проекта, вы можете подписаться на нашу рассылку. Вы можете ознакомиться страницей проекта, проверить наше ЧаВо, написать на странице обсуждения проекта и присоединиться к онлайн-встрече с нами.

Спасибо! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (обс.) 02:45, 21 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!

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Hi, Greetings

The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!

We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images here

Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.

We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.

Thank you,

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 16:12, 4 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Выдвижение предложений для Компаса избирателя 2022 года

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Всем привет,

Приглашаем членов сообщества принять участие в выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года и выдвинуть свои предложения для Компаса избирателя.

Компас избирателя - это инструмент, помогающий голосующим выбрать тех кандидатов, которые в наибольшей степени соответствуют вашим убеждениям и взглядам. Члены сообщества предложат кандидатам свои предложения, на которые кандидаты ответят по шкале Ликерта (согласен/нейтрален/не согласен). Ответы кандидатов будут загружены в инструмент "Компас избирателя". Голосующие смогут ввести свои ответы по предложениям (согласен/не согласен/нейтрален). В конце вы увидите тех кандидатов, которые в наибольшей степени соответствуют вашим убеждениям и взглядам.

Ниже приведена временная шкала по использованию Компаса избирателя:

• 8 - 20 июля: Члены сообщества выдвигают предложения для Компаса избирателя
• 21 - 22 июля: Комитет по выборам рассматривает предложения на предмет ясности и удаляет предложения, не относящиеся к теме
• 23 июля - 1 августа: Волонтеры голосуют по предложениям
• 2 - 4 августа: Комитет по выборам отбирает 15 лучших предложений
• 5 - 12 августа: кандидаты определяют свои позиции по предложениям
• 15 августа: Компас избирателя открывается для голосующих, чтобы помочь им в принятии решения во время голосования.

Комитет по выборам отберет 15 лучших предложений в начале августа. Комитет по выборам будет наблюдать за процессом при поддержке команды по Стратегии движения и управлению. Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению проверит, чтобы вопросы были четкими, не было дубликатов, опечаток и так далее.

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению

Данное сообщение было отправлено от имени Целевой группы по отбору членов Совета и Комитета по выборам.
--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 11:43, 12 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Объявление шести кандидатов на выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года

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Всем привет,

По итогам голосования представителей партнёрских организаций были отобраны следующие кандидаты в Совет попечителей 2022 года:

• Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious)
• Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak)
• Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77)
• Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)
• Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
• Mike Peel (Mike Peel)

Вы можете посмотреть дополнительную информацию о результатах и статистике этих выборов.

Партнёрские организации выбрали своих представителей для голосования. Представители партнёрских организаций задали кандидатам вопросы, на которые кандидаты ответили в середине июня. Ответы кандидатов и информация, предоставленная Комитетом по анализу, послужили основой для представителей при принятии решений.

Пожалуйста, найдите минутку, чтобы поблагодарить представителей партнёрских организаций и членов Комитета по анализу за участие в этом процессе и содействие в расширении разнообразия Совета попечителей. Эти часы добровольной работы объединяют нас в понимании и перспективе. Благодарим вас за участие.

Выражаем благодарность также членам сообщества, которые выдвинули свою кандидатуру в Совет попечителей. Рассмотрение вопроса о вступлении в Совет попечителей — нелегкое решение. Время и преданность, которые кандидаты продемонстрировали к этому моменту, говорит об их приверженности этому движению. Поздравляем кандидатов, которые прошли на следующий этап. Выражаем огромную признательность и благодарность тем кандидатам, которые не были отобраны. Пожалуйста, продолжайте делиться своим лидерским потенциалом с Викимедиа.

Что теперь?

Ознакомьтесь с результатами процесса отбора представителями партнёрских организаций.

Узнайте о следующих шагах.

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению

Данное сообщение было отправлено от имени Целевой группы по отбору членов Совета и Комитета по выборам.
--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 19:25, 20 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable) or bots that fix double redirects. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. If you use or prefer to use a dedicated project page for handling bot flag requests, that is also acceptable. Please read the text at Meta-Wiki before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Thank you for your consideration. --Rschen7754 23:05, 23 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Новости Стратегии движения и управления – Выпуск 7

Новости Стратегии движения и управления
Выпуск 7 — Июль - сентябрь 2022 годаПрочитайте полный текст

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Информационный бюллетень знакомит с новостями и событиями о реализации рекомендаций Стратегии движения Викимедиа. В бюллетене содержится информация об управлении Движением, а также о проектах и мероприятиях, поддерживаемых командой Фонда Викимедиа по Стратегии движения и управлению (MSG).

Информационный бюллетень MSG выходит ежеквартально. Для желающих внимательнее следить за нашими процессами предлагается бюллетень «Еженедельные новости Стратегии движения»‎. Чтобы оставаться в курсе новостей, не забудьте подписаться на рассылку здесь.

• Устойчивость движения: Опубликован ежегодный отчёт Фонда Викимедиа об устойчивом развитии. (продолжить чтение)
• Улучшение пользовательского опыта: последние улучшения интерфейса настольной версии проектов Викимедиа. (продолжить чтение)
• Безопасность и инклюзивность: последние новости о процессе пересмотра Руководства по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения. (продолжить чтение)
• Обеспечение справедливости при принятии решений: отчёты об обсуждениях по поводу пилотных хабов, последние достижения Комитета по разработке Устава движения и новое исследование по проектированию будущего участия в движении Викимедиа. (продолжить чтение)
• Координация между заинтересованными сторонами: запуск службы поддержки для партнёрских организаций и волонтёрских сообществ, работающих над партнёрством в области контента. (продолжить чтение)
• Развитие лидерства: обновления о проектах лидерства от организаторов движения Викимедиа в Бразилии и Кабо-Верде. (продолжить чтение)
• Управление внутренними знаниями: запуск нового портала для технической документации и ресурсов сообщества. (продолжить чтение)
• Инновации в области свободных знаний: высококачественные аудиовизуальные ресурсы для научных экспериментов и новый набор инструментов для транскрипции устных культур. (продолжить чтение)
• Оценка, итерация и адаптация: результаты пилотного проекта Equity Landscape (продолжить чтение)
• Другие новости и обновления: новый форум для обсуждения реализации Стратегии движения, предстоящие выборы в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа, новый подкаст для обсуждения Стратегии движения, а также кадровые изменения в команде Фонда по Стратегии движения и управлению. (продолжить чтение)

--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 07:48, 25 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Поговорим об улучшении настольной версии

Приглашаем на онлайн-встречу с командой, которая работает над улучшением настольной версии! Встреча состоится в 26 июля 2022 at 12:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC по Zoom. Присоединиться к встрече. ID встречи: 5304280674. Соединиться по местному телефону.

Узнать подробности. Будем рады с вами встретиться! SGrabarczuk (WMF) 17:08, 25 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Проголосуйте за утверждения для Компаса избирателя

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Всем привет,

Приглашаем членов сообщества проголосовать за утверждения для использования в Компасе избирателя на выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года. Вы можете проголосовать за те утверждения, которые вы хотите видеть в Компасе избирателя на Мета-вики.

Компас избирателя — это инструмент, который помогает голосующим выбрать кандидатов, которые в наибольшей степени соответствуют их убеждениям и взглядам. Члены сообщества предложат утверждения, в отношении которых кандидаты должны дать ответы, используя шкалу Лайкерта (соглашаюсь/нейтрально/не соглашаюсь). Ответы кандидатов будут добавлены в Компас избирателя. Затем участники голосования смогут пользоваться компасом, добавляя свои ответы относительно утверждений (соглашаюсь/нейтрально/не соглашаюсь). Как результат, компас покажет кандидатов, которые лучше всего отвечают убеждениям и взглядам участников голосования.

Ниже приведена временная шкала по использованию Компаса избирателя:

• 8 — 20 июля: Члены сообщества выдвигают утверждения для Компаса избирателя
• 21 — 22 июля: Комитет по выборам рассматривает утверждения на предмет ясности и удаляет те утверждения, которые не относятся к теме
• 23 июля — 1 августа: Члены сообщества голосуют за утверждения
• 2 — 4 августа: Комитет по выборам отбирает 15 лучших утверждений
• 5 — 12 августа: Кандидаты позиционируют себя в отношении утверждений
• 16 августа: Компас избирателя открывается для голосующих, чтобы помочь им в принятии решения во время голосования.

Комитет по выборам отберёт 15 лучших утверждений в начале августа.

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению.

Данное сообщение было отправлено от имени Целевой группы по отбору членов Совета и Комитета по выборам. --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 11:14, 27 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Перенос сроков голосования на выборах в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа в 2022 году

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Всем привет,

Я пишу вам сегодня по поводу графика голосования на выборах в Совет попечителей.

Как многие из вас уже знают, в этом году мы предлагаем Компас избирателя, чтобы помочь голосующим определить позиции кандидатов по некоторым ключевым вопросам. Несколько кандидатов попросили увеличить количество символов в их ответах, чтобы они могли дать более развернутые ответы. Избирательная комиссия считает, что их аргументация соответствует целям справедливого и равноправного избирательного процесса.

Чтобы к началу голосования обеспечить перевод более длинных заявлений, Избирательная комиссия и Целевая группа по отбору членов Совета решили отложить начало голосования на одну неделю. Это самое оптимальное время, предложенное сотрудниками, работающими над проведением выборов.

Несмотря на то, что не все захотят использовать Компас избирателя для принятия решения в голосовании, Избирательная комиссия посчитала более уместным предоставить перевод заявлений для членов сообщества на разных языках.

Голосование начнется 23 августа в 00:00 UTC и завершится 6 сентября в 23:59 UTC.

С уважением,

Матанья, от имени Избирательной комиссии

--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 09:32, 17 Ҫурла уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Присоединяйтесь к форуму Стратегии движения

Всем привет,

Форум Стратегии движения (MS Forum) — это многоязычное пространство для совместного обсуждения всех вопросов, связанных с реализацией Стратегии движения.

Приглашаем всех участников Движения к сотрудничеству на форуме Стратегии движения. Цель форума - построение сотрудничества между сообществами с помощью инклюзивной и многоязычной платформы.

Стратегия движения — это совместная работа по созданию будущего движения Викимедиа. Каждый может внести свой вклад в Стратегию движения — от одного комментария до разработки проекта. Присоединяйтесь к форуму со своей учетной записью Викимедиа, участвуйте в беседах и задавайте вопросы на своем языке.

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению (MSG) выдвинула предложение о создании форума в мае 2022 года. Был проведен 2-х месячный период рассмотрения предложения сообществом, который завершился 24 июля 2022 года. Вы можете ознакомиться с отчетом об обзоре сообщества здесь.

Мы будем рады видеть вас на форуме!

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению

--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 07:27, 22 Ҫурла уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Голосование сообщества на выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года объявляется открытым

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Всем привет,

Период голосования сообщества на выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года объявляется открытым. Ниже приведены ссылки, необходимые для голосования:

• Воспользуйтесь Компасом избирателя, где представлены позиции кандидатов по 15 различным вопросам.
• Прочитайте заявления кандидатов и их ответы на вопросы партнёрских организаций.
• Получите информацию о том, какие навыки нужны Совету попечителей и как Комитет по анализу определил, что кандидаты соответствуют этим навыкам.

Если вы готовы проголосовать, перейдите на SecurePoll и проголосуйте сейчас. Голосование проходит с 23 августа 00:00 (UTC) по 6 сентября 23:59 (UTC). Чтобы узнать о своем праве на участие в голосовании, посетите эту страницу.

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению

Данное сообщение было отправлено от имени Целевой группы по отбору членов Совета и Избирательной комиссии.
--AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 10:49, 23 Ҫурла уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Голосование сообщества на выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года близится к концу

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Всем привет,

Голосование сообщества на выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года началось 23 августа 2022 года и завершится 6 сентября 2022 года 23:59 (UTC). Если вы ещё не проголосовали, пожалуйста, посетите страницу голосования на SecurePoll и проголосуйте сейчас. Чтобы узнать о праве на участие в голосовании, посетите эту страницу. Если вам нужна помощь в принятии решения, ниже приведены полезные ссылки:

• Воспользуйтесь Компасом избирателя, где представлены позиции кандидатов по 15 вопросам.
• Прочитайте заявления кандидатов и их ответы на вопросы партнёрских организаций.
• Посмотрите видеоролики, где кандидаты отвечают на вопросы сообщества.

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 13:52, 1 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Пересмотренное Руководство по обеспечению правоприменения УКП

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Добрый день,

Комитет по пересмотру Руководства по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения (УКП) просит представить отзывы относительно пересмотренной версии проекта Руководства по обеспечению правоприменения УКП. Рассмотрение будет проходить в период с 8 сентября 2022 года по 8 октября 2022 года.

Комитет провел пересмотр проекта руководства, основываясь на предложениях, собранных во время дискуссии сообщества в период с мая по июль, а также на основе голосования, проведенного в марте 2022 года. Изменения преимущественно касаются четырех областей:

1. Определение вида, назначения и применимости обучения по УКП;
2. Упрощение формулировок для облегчения перевода и понимания людьми, не являющимися экспертами;
3. Прояснение концепции утверждения, включая ее достоинства и недостатки;
4. Пересмотр баланса между конфиденциальностью заявителя и нарушителя

Комитет просит предоставить отзывы и предложения касательно данных изменений до 8 октября 2022 года. Далее, комитет по пересмотру планирует внести дополнительные изменения на основе отзывов сообщества.

Вы можете найти обновленное руководство на Мета-вики, а также странице сравнения на разных языках.

Каждый имеет возможность поделиться своими отзывами в различных местах. Вы можете поделиться комментариями на любом удобном вам языке на странице обсуждения по обновленному руководству. Вы также можете предоставить отзывы на страницах обсуждений переведенных версий, во время локальных дискуссий или же во время «часов обсуждения» и круглых столов. Планируется проведение дискуссий по вопросам изменений в Руководстве по обеспечению правоприменения УКП. Пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с подробностями и датами на Мета-вики.

Команда фасилитаторов, осуществляющая поддержку данного процесса, надеется привлечь большое количество сообществ. Если обсуждение еще не происходит в вашем сообществе, пожалуйста, организуйте такое обсуждение сами. Фасилитаторы могут помочь вам в организации обсуждений. Результаты обсуждений будут обобщаться и представляться на рассмотрение редакционного комитета каждые две недели. Краткие итоги будут публиковаться здесь.

Данное сообщение отправлено от имени команды проекта УКП.

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 08:48, 13 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average 87% of active logged-in users of those wikis use Vector 2022.

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skins. No changes are expected for users of these skins.

• Top of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

• A section of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

About the skin

[Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects. The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes and test results] The skin introduces a series of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

• The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
• The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
• The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
• The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in your preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.

How can editors change and customize this skin?

It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out our repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.

Our plan

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.

Request for more time to discuss the change

If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 04:14, 22 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Предварительные результаты голосования сообщества на выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года

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Всем привет,

Спасибо всем, кто принял участие в голосовании на выборах в Совет попечителей 2022 года. Благодаря вашему участию в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа избираются попечители, поддерживаемые сообществом.

Ниже приведены предварительные результаты выборов в Совет попечителей 2022 года:

• Shani Evenstein Sigalov
• Mike Peel

Вы можете посмотреть дополнительную информацию о результатах и статистике этих выборов.

Совет попечителей завершит рассмотрение кандидатов, получивших наибольшее количество голосов, включая проверку необходимых данных. Совет планирует назначить новых попечителей на заседании в декабре.

С уважением,

Команда по Стратегии движения и управлению

Данное сообщение было отправлено от имени Целевой группы по отбору членов Совета и Комитета по выборам.

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 09:59, 22 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Приглашение принять участие в сессии «‎Вопросы и ответы об Уставе движения»

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Доброго дня,

Комитет по разработке Устава движения представил предварительный проект Устава в Саммите Викимедиа 2022, обозначив направление Комитета и самого устава. Исходя из полученных отзывов, Комитет внёс в устав первоначальные изменения. Перед тем как приступить к написанию Устава для всего Движения, Комитет планирует провести консультации с сообществом Викимедиа и получить обратную связь по черновым вариантам первых трёх разделов: Преамбула, Ценности и принципы, и Роли и обязанности (заявление о намерениях). Проекты этих разделов будут доступны на Мета странице 14 ноября 2022 года. Консультации с сообществом пройдут с 20 ноября по 18 декабря 2022 года. Подробнее об этом здесь.

С целью обеспечения информированности всех заинтересованных лиц, для того, чтобы они могли полноценно участвовать в обсуждениях и имели возможность поделиться мнением об Уставе движения, приглашаем всех присоединиться к сессии «‎Вопросы и ответы об Уставе движения‎». Данные сессии запланированы с учётом разных часовых поясов. На этих сессиях участники узнают о цели устава, о значении и влиянии, которые он имеет для викимедийцев, а также для сообществ. Члены Комитета по разработке Устава движения будут присутствовать, чтобы ответить на вопросы и услышать мнение участников.

Напоминаем, что презентационная часть сессии будет записана и доступна для просмотра после встречи. Ниже приведен список запланированных встреч:

• Азиатско-Тихоокеанский регион: 4 ноября 2022 года в 09:00-10.30 UTC (ваше местное время). Доступен перевод на китайский и японский языки.
• Европа/страны MENA/страны Африки к югу от Сахары: 12 ноября 2022 года в 15:00-16.30 UTC (ваше местное время). Доступен устный перевод на арабский, французский и русский языки.
• Северная и Южная Америка/Западная Европа: 12 ноября 2022 года в 15:00-16.30 UTC (Ваше местное время). (В то же время, что и сессия №2, указанная выше) Доступен устный перевод на испанский и португальский языки.

На странице Мета вы найдете более подробную информацию; ссылки на Zoom будут предоставлены за 48 часов до звонка.

Послы Устава Движения

Отдельные лица или группы людей из всех сообществ, которые хотят способствовать включению своих сообществ к обсуждениям об Уставе движения, могут стать Послами Устава движения. Послы Устава движения будут проводить свои мероприятия и могут получить финансовую поддержку для проведения встреч на своих языках. Региональные фасилитаторы команды по Стратегии и движения и управлению будут оказывать поддержку желающим получить грант для послов УД. Если вы заинтересованы стать послом УД, пожалуйста, зарегистрируйтесь здесь. Если у вас есть конкретные вопросы, пожалуйста, свяжитесь с командой по Стратегии движения и управлению по электронной почте: strategy2030@wikimedia.org или на форуме Стратегии движения.

Мы благодарим Вас за уделённое время и участие.

От имени Комитета по разработке Устава Движения,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 12:33, 7 Чӳк уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Присоединяйтесь к региональной встрече по обсуждению контента Устава Движения

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Всем привет,

Как многим из вас известно, Комитет по разработке Устава Движения (MCDC) в настоящее время собирает обратную связь от сообщества по трём разделам Устава Движения: Преамбула, Ценности и Принципы и Роли и Обязанности (заявление о намерениях).

Как Вы можете поделиться отзывом?

Комитет приветствует все виды обратной связи на разных языках от членов сообщества и организаций движения. Вы можете принять участие следующими способами:

• Поделитесь отзывом в региональной встрече с членами Комитета, которая пройдет 26 ноября в 15.00-16.30 UTC (ваше местное время). Будет обеспечен синхронный перевод на русский язык. Подробнее о региональных встречах здесь.
• Заполните анонимный опрос
• Поделитесь мыслями и отзывами на странице обсуждения.
• Поделитесь мыслями и отзывами на форуме Стратегии движения:
  • Преамбула
  • Ценности и принципы
  • Роли и обязанности (заявление о намерениях)
• Отправьте письмо на: movementcharter@wikimedia.org, если у Вас будут дополнительные отзывы для Комитета.

Если Вы хотите узнать больше об Уставе Движения, его целях, почему он важен и как он влияет на ваше сообщество, пожалуйста, посмотрите запись сессии «Вопросы и ответы об Уставе движения» с переводом на русский язык (синхронный перевод начинается в 9:40сек).

Благодарим вас за участие и отзывы.

От имени Комитета по разработке Устава движения, --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 15:22, 22 Чӳк уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Поделитесь отзывами о содержании Устава Движения

Напоминаю, что период консультации с сообществом по проекту Устава движения продлится до субботы 18 декабря 2022 года. Вы можете посмотреть запись презентации после обсуждений в малых группах во время региональной встречи 26 ноября 2022 года. Доступен также список ЧаВо об Уставе движения.

Если вы ещё не поделились своим отзывом, вы можете это сделать заполнив анонимный опрос. Вы можете также поделиться мнением на страницах обсуждений разделов Устава:

• Преамбула
• Ценности и принципы
• Роли и обязанности (заявление о намерениях)

и на форуме Стратегии движения.

Благодарим вас за участие и предоставление обратной связи!

От имени Комитета по разработке Устава движения --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 12:45, 13 Раштав уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Устав Движения: завершение 1-го цикла консультаций с сообществом

От имени Комитета по разработке Устава Движения мы хотели бы поблагодарить всех, кто принял участие в первом цикле консультаций с сообществом по проекту Устава Движения.

Если вы ещё не поделились мнением по поводу трёх предложенных разделов Устава Движения, вы можете это сделать заполнив анонимный опрос до 2 января 2023 года. Опрос доступен на русском языке. Если у вас есть дополнительные комментарии или вопросы Комитету, вы можете отправить письмо на: movementcharter@wikimedia.org.

Cледующие шаги

Отчëт по полученным отзывам во время первого цикла консультаций с сообществом будет опубликован в январе 2022 года командой по Стратегии Движения и Управлению.

После получения отчёта Комитет рассмотрит предложения и уведомит об изменениях в тексте разделов, объяснив, почему некоторые предложения были или не были приняты в последующих версиях проекта Устава. В 2023 году будут дополнительные способы взаимодействия с содержанием Устава Движения, включая обратную связь по процессу ратификации Устава.

Чтобы быть в курсе работы Комитета, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с ежемесячными обновлениями.

От имени Комитета по разработке Устава Движения --AAkhmedova (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 10:33, 19 Раштав уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January

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Привет

The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

• Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
• Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
• Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
• Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

Тавтапуҫ! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 16:44, 15 Раштав уйӑхӗн 2022 (UTC)

Предстоящее голосование по пересмотренному Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения УКП

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Добрый день,

В середине января 2023 года состоится второе ратификационное голосование в рамках всего сообщества по Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения для Универсального кодекса поведения. Оно последует за голосованием в марте 2022 года, в результате которого большинство голосовавших поддержало Руководство. В процессе голосования участники обозначили важные для сообщества вопросы. Комитет по делам сообщества внёс требование, чтобы данные проблемные области были пересмотрены.

Управляемый волонтёрами Комитет по пересмотру провёл большую работу по рассмотрению пожеланий сообщества и внесению изменений. Они доработали проблемные области, такие как требования по обучению и утверждению, конфиденциальность и прозрачность в процессе работы, а также читаемость и переводимость самого документа.

Ознакомиться с обновленным Руководством по обеспечению правоприменения можно здесь, а сравнительные изменения показаны здесь.

Как проголосовать?

Голосование будет открыто с 17 января 2023 года. Данная страница на Мета-вики содержит информацию о том, как проголосовать используя SecurePoll.

Кто может голосовать?

Право голоса для участия в голосовании определяется так же, как и в процессе выборов Совета попечителей Фонда Викимедиа. Подробнее о праве на участие в голосовании читайте здесь. Если вы имеете право голоса, вы можете использовать вашу учётную запись Викимедиа для доступа к серверу голосования.

Что будет после голосования?

Голоса будут тщательно проверены независимой группой волонтёров, а результаты будут опубликованы в рассылке Wikimedia-l, на форуме Стратегии движения, на платформе Diff и Мета-вики. Голосующие будут иметь возможность проголосовать и оставить имеющиеся пожелания по поводу Руководства. Совет попечителей примет во внимание уровень поддержки и поднятые вопросы, когда он будет рассматривать ратификацию Руководства по обеспечению правоприменения или же дальнейшую его доработку.

От имени проектной команды УКП,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 11:38, 11 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Началось голосование по пересмотренному Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения УКП

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Добрый день,

Период голосования по пересмотренному Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения открыт. Голосование будет проходить в течение двух недель и завершится 31 января 2023 года в 23.59 UTC. Пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с подробной информацией о голосовании, праве на участие в голосовании и о том, как голосовать на странице Мета-вики.

Для получения подробностей о Руководстве по обеспечению правоприменения и процессе голосования, обратитесь к предыдущему письму.

От имени Проектной команды УКП,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 20:52, 18 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Голосование по пересмотренному Руководству по правоприменению УКП скоро завершится

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Здравствуйте,

31 января 2023 года в 23.59 UTC завершится голосование по пересмотренному Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения. Подробности о Руководстве по обеспечению правоприменения и процессе голосования в предыдущем письме.

От имени Проектной команды УКП,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 18:51, 30 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Результаты голосования по пересмотренному Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения УКП

Результаты голосования по пересмотренному Руководству по обеспечению правоприменения Универсального кодекса поведения в рамках всего сообщества были подсчитаны и тщательно проверены. Мы благодарим всех, кто принял участие в голосовании.

В результате голосования 3097 участников из 146 сообществ Викимедиа, 76% голосов были поданы за Руководство по обеспечению правоприменения, а 24% - против. Статистика голосования опубликована. Более подробная информация о комментариях, полученных в ходе голосования, будет опубликована в ближайшее время.

Результаты и комментарии, собранные в течение голосования, будут направлены в Совет попечителей для рассмотрения. Ожидается, что процесс рассмотрения Советом будет завершен в марте 2023 года. Мы проинформируем вас, когда процесс рассмотрения будет завершён.

От имени проектной команды УКП,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 19:42, 15 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Период обратной связи с сообществами для обновления Условий использования Викимедиа

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Добрый день,

Юридический отдел Фонда Викимедиа проводит период обратной связи с членами сообществ по обсуждению обновления Условий использования Викимедиа.

Условия использования (УИ) – это юридические условия, которые регулируют использование веб-сайтов размещенных Фондом Викимедиа. Вы можете поделиться отзывами о проекте предложения с февраля по апрель. Проект предложения будет переведен на несколько языков. Письменные отзывы будут приниматься на всех языках.

Данное обновление связано с несколькими моментами:

• Внедрение Универсального кодекса поведения
• Обновление текста проекта в соответствии с лицензией Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0
• Предложение по более эффективному решению проблемы нераскрытого платного редактирования
• Приведение наших условий в соответствие с действующими и недавно принятыми законами, влияющими на Фонд, включая Европейский закон о цифровых услугах.

В рамках периода обратной связи будут проведены две встречи (часы обсуждений): первая - 2 марта, вторая - 4 апреля.

Для получения более подробной информации, пожалуйста, пройдите по ссылкам ниже:

• Сравнение предлагаемого обновления УИ
• Страница для ваших отзывов
• Информация об организуемых встречах (часы обсуждений)

От имени Юридического отдела Фонда Викимедиа,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 20:17, 21 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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Этот бюллетень включает два ключевых обновления о работе команды Редактирование:

1. Команда редактирования завершит добавление новых возможностей в проект Страницы беседы и развернет его.
2. Они начинают новый проект, Проверка редактирования.

Проект разговорных страниц

Некоторые из предстоящих изменений

Команда редакторов почти закончила первый этап проекта Страницы беседы. Почти все новые функции уже доступны в Бета-версия функции для Сӳтсе явмалли хатӗр-хӗтӗр.

Он показывает информацию об активности обсуждения, например, дату последнего комментария. Вскоре появится новая кнопка "Тема хуш". Вы сможете отключить их в Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Пожалуйста, скажите им, что вы думаете.

Ежедневная скорость завершения редактирования по тестовым группам: DiscussionTools (тестовая группа) и наложение MobileFrontend (контрольная группа)

Завершился A/B-тест для Сӳтсе явмалли хатӗр-хӗтӗр на мобильном сайте. Редакторы были более успешны с Сӳтсе явмалли хатӗр-хӗтӗр. Команда редакторов включает эти функции для всех редакторов на мобильном сайте.

Новый проект: Проверка редактирования

Команда редакторов начинает проект помощи новым редакторам Википедии. Он поможет людям выявить некоторые проблемы до того, как они нажмут "Улшӑнусене вырнаҫтар". Первый инструмент будет поощрять людей добавлять ссылки, когда они добавляют новый контент. Пожалуйста, смотрите на этой странице для получения дополнительной информации. Вы можете присоединяйтесь к конференц-звонку по 3 March 2023, чтобы узнать больше.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 23:24, 22 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read only soon

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Фонд Викимедиа проверяет переключение между основным и вторичным дата-центром. Это гарантирует, что Википедия и другие вики-проекты Викимедиа смогут оставаться доступными даже после катастрофы. Чтобы убедиться, что всё работает, технологическому отделу Викимедиа нужны плановые испытания. Это тестирование покажет, возможно ли надёжно переключиться между центрами обработки данных (ЦОД). Это требует от многих рабочих групп подготовки к тесту и готовности исправить любые непредвиденные проблемы.

Весь трафик будет переключен 1 марта. Тестирование начнётся в 14:00 UTC.

К сожалению, ввиду некоторых ограничений движка MediaWiki, редактирование будет остановлено в течение этих двух переключений. Приносим свои извинения за задержку в работе. Мы работаем над тем, чтобы сократить такие работы в будущем.

В течение короткого промежутка времени вы сможете читать, но не сможете редактировать все вики-сайты.

• День переключения — среда 1 марта 2023. Оно продлится не более часа.
• При попытке отредактировать или сохранить страницы в течение этого времени вы увидите сообщение об ошибке. Мы надеемся, что правки в этот период не будут потеряны, но не можем этого гарантировать. Если вы увидите сообщение об ошибке, пожалуйста, подождите, пока всё не восстановится. После этого вы сможете сохранить свою правку. Но на всякий случай мы рекомендуем вам сделать копию ваших изменений.

Побочные эффекты:

• Фоновые задания будут выполняться замедленно, а некоторые могут быть отклонены. Красные ссылки могут также обновляться с замедлением. Если вы создаёте статью, на которую уже есть ссылки откуда-то, то такие ссылки будут оставаться красными дольше, чем обычно. Некоторые долго выполняющиеся скрипты необходимо будет остановить.
• Мы ожидаем, что развёртывание кода произойдет так же, как и на любой другой неделе. Однако могут происходить некоторые зависания кода, если впоследствии этого потребует данная операция.
• GitLab будет недоступен примерно 90 минут.

При необходимости эти планы могут быть отложены. Вы можете посмотреть расписание на wikitech.wikimedia.org. О любых изменениях будет сообщено в расписании. Там же будет дополнительная информация об этом. За 30 минут до начала переноса во всех проектах будет показан баннер-предупреждение. Пожалуйста, поделитесь этой информацией с вашим сообществом.

Trizek (WMF) (Сӳтсе явни) 21:20, 27 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.

Совет попечителей ратифицировал Руководство по правоприменению УКП

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Здравствуйте, важные новости относительно Руководства по правоприменению УКП:

Голосование по Руководству по правоприменению в январе 2023 года показало, что Руководство по правоприменению одобрено большинством. Поступило 369 замечаний, по которым скоро будет предоставлена детальная сводка. Всего проголосовало чуть более трех тысяч (3097) участников, из которых 76% одобрили Руководство по правоприменению. Вы можете ознакомиться со статистикой по голосованию в Meta-wiki.

Возросший уровень поддержки показывает Совету попечителей, что текущая версия обозначила решение вопросов, поднятых во время последнего пересмотра в 2022 году. Совет попечителей ратифицировал Руководство по правоприменению. Резолюция размещена в вики Фонда, и вы также можете более детально ознакомиться с процессом пересмотра Руководства по правоприменению в 2023 году в Diff.

Будут объявлены дальнейшие действия по работе с важными рекомендациями, обозначенными в Руководстве по правоприменению. Подробности по планам работ скоро поступят. Благодарим вас за вашу заинтересованность и участие.

От имени проектной команды УКП,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 11:41, 24 Пуш уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Отчет по отзывам участников голосования по ратификации Руководства по правоприменению УКП

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Добрый день,

Проектная команда по Универсальному кодексу поведения завершила анализ отзывов, полученных во время ратификационного голосования по пересмотренному Руководству по правоприменению Универсального кодекса поведения.

У всех участников голосования была возможность предоставить комментарии относительно содержания пересмотренного Руководства по обеспечению правоприменения. Всего 369 участников оставили комментарии на 18 языках по сравнению с 657 комментариями на 27 языках в 2022 году. Команда «Доверие и безопасность» завершила анализ комментариев, разделив отзывы по категориям и обозначив основные темы и области, требующие внимания. Переведенные версии отчета доступны здесь на Мета-вики. Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык.

Мы выражаем благодарность всем, кто принял участие в голосовании и обсуждениях. Более подробную информацию по Универсальному кодексу поведения и Руководству по правоприменению можно найти на Мета-вики.

От имени проектной команды Универсального кодекса поведения,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 08:37, 3 Ака уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Напоминание: Встреча по обсуждению обновлений Условий использования Викимедиа

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Всем привет,

Напоминаем, что Юридический отдел Фонда Викимедиа проводит встречи с членами сообществ для обсуждения обновлений Условий использования Викимедиа.

Вторая встреча пройдет сегодня, 4 апреля, с 17:00 UTC до 18:30 UTC. Подробнее на странице Мета.

Приглашаем вас принять участие в обсуждении. Пожалуйста, обратите внимание, что рабочий язык встреч – английский. Во встречах на ваши вопросы будут отвечать члены Юридического отдела Фонда Викимедиа.

От имени Юридического отдела Фонда Викимедиа,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 08:29, 4 Ака уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Начало обсуждений по вопросу ратификации Устава движения

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Здравствуйте,

Комитет по разработке Устава движения с 10 по 28 апреля 2023 года проводит ранний сбор предложений и вопросов со всего движения Викимедиа по предложенной методологии ратификации Устава движения. Согласно графику, ратификация Устава движения должна состояться в начале 2024 года.

Комитет приглашает членов сообщества ответить на шесть вопросов. Желающие могут поделиться отзывами на странице обсуждения в Мета или на форуме Стратегии движения.

Часы обсуждений

Комитет приглашает всех, кто хочет поделиться отзывами о предлагаемой методологии, присоединиться к встречам членов Комитета с сообществами:

• Первая встреча с сообществами: 18 апреля, 10:00 UTC (по Вашему местному времени)
• Вторая встреча с сообществами: 24 апреля в 17:00 UTC (по Вашему местному времени)

Язык часов обсуждений английский. Пожалуйста, прокомментируйте, если Вам нужна языковая поддержка. Языковой перевод будет предоставлен, если не менее 3 человек выразят желание участвовать с русскоязычного сообщества.

От имени Комитета по разработке Устава движения,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 18:06, 11 Ака уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Комитет по выборам набирает новых членов

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Всем привет,

Комитет по выборам Фонда Викимедиа ищет 2-4 дополнительных членов до 24 апреля, которые могут помочь в процессе выбора членов в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа.

В настоящее время планируются выборы в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа на 2024 год. Новые члены приглашаются присоединиться к Комитету по выборам. Комитет по выборам контролирует процесс отбора мест в Совет попечителей сообщества. Присоединяйтесь к комитету и поделитесь своими ценными навыками и идеями в процессе отбора членов в Попечительский совет.

В Совете Фонда Викимедиа есть восемь мест, выбранных сообществом и аффилированными организациями (Affiliates). В 2024 году Комитет по выборам будет проводить процесс отбора на места, выбранные сообществами и аффилированными организациями, срок полномочий которых истекает. Этот процесс будет поддерживаться Фондом Викимедиа.

Члены Комитета по выборам назначаются на трехлетний срок и должны подписать соглашение о конфиденциальности. Члены комитета могут рассчитывать на 2-5 часов в неделю до начала процесса отбора и 5-8 часов в неделю во время процесса отбора.

Как член Комитета по выборам, в ваши обязанности будет входить:

• Участие в онлайн-встречах в период до следующих выборов (середина 2024 года)
• Участие в вводном онлайн обучении в мае-июне 2023 года
• Работа с Комитетом по выполнению его других обязанностей.

Новые члены должны иметь следующие качества:

• Свободное владение английским языком
• Взаимодействие по электронной почте
• Знания о движении и управлении движением

Если Вы хотите выступить добровольцем на эту роль, пожалуйста, предложите свою кандидатуру до 24 апреля 2023 года 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) на Мета-вики.

Полное объявление можно прочитать здесь. Заранее благодарим за вашу заинтересованность! Если Вы не заинтересованы, но знаете кого-то, кто может быть заинтересован, поделитесь с ними этим объявлением. Пожалуйста, дайте мне знать, если у Вас есть вопросы.

От имени Комитета по выборам,

AAkhmedova (WMF) - 22:54, 14 Ака уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Ваша вики будет доступна только в режиме чтения

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Фонд Викимедиа проверяет переключение между основным и вторичным дата-центром. Это гарантирует, что Википедия и другие вики-проекты Викимедиа смогут оставаться доступными даже после катастрофы. Чтобы убедиться, что всё работает, технологическому отделу Викимедиа нужны плановые испытания. Это тестирование покажет, возможно ли надёжно переключиться между центрами обработки данных (ЦОД). Это требует от многих рабочих групп подготовки к тесту и готовности исправить любые непредвиденные проблемы.

Весь трафик будет переключен 26 апреля. Тестирование начнётся в 14:00 UTC.

К сожалению, ввиду некоторых ограничений движка MediaWiki, редактирование будет остановлено в течение этих двух переключений. Приносим свои извинения за задержку в работе. Мы работаем над тем, чтобы сократить такие работы в будущем.

В течение короткого промежутка времени вы сможете читать, но не сможете редактировать все вики-сайты.

• День переключения — среда 26 апреля 2023. Оно продлится не более часа.
• При попытке отредактировать или сохранить страницы в течение этого времени вы увидите сообщение об ошибке. Мы надеемся, что правки в этот период не будут потеряны, но не можем этого гарантировать. Если вы увидите сообщение об ошибке, пожалуйста, подождите, пока всё не восстановится. После этого вы сможете сохранить свою правку. Но на всякий случай мы рекомендуем вам сделать копию ваших изменений.

Побочные эффекты:

• Фоновые задания будут выполняться замедленно, а некоторые могут быть отклонены. Красные ссылки могут также обновляться с замедлением. Если вы создаёте статью, на которую уже есть ссылки откуда-то, то такие ссылки будут оставаться красными дольше, чем обычно. Некоторые долго выполняющиеся скрипты необходимо будет остановить.
• Мы ожидаем, что развёртывание кода произойдет так же, как и на любой другой неделе. Однако могут происходить некоторые зависания кода, если впоследствии этого потребует данная операция.
• GitLab будет недоступен примерно 90 минут.

При необходимости эти планы могут быть отложены. Вы можете посмотреть расписание на wikitech.wikimedia.org. О любых изменениях будет сообщено в расписании. Там же будет дополнительная информация об этом. За 30 минут до начала переноса во всех проектах будет показан баннер-предупреждение. Пожалуйста, поделитесь этой информацией с вашим сообществом.

MediaWiki message delivery 00:41, 21 Ака уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

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Hello,

As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

• Community members in good standing
• Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
• Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
• Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
• Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
• Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 19:00, 26 Ака уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Процедура отбора членов Учредительного комитета U4C

Следующей стадией процесса внедрения Универсального кодекса поведения является создание Учредительного комитета для разработки устава для Координационного комитета УКП (U4C). Члены Учредительного комитета были отобраны. Ознакомьтесь с составом и узнайте о предстоящей работе в Мета-вики.

-- UCoC Project Team, 04:20, 27 Ҫу уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Объявляем новых членов Избирательной комиссии

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Приветствую вас,

Мы рады объявить о новых членах и советниках Избирательной комиссии. Избирательный комитет помогает в разработке и внедрении процесса отбора попечителей, отобранных Сообществом и аффилированными лицами, в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа. После открытого процесса выдвижения наиболее сильные кандидаты пообщались с Правлением, и четырем кандидатам было предложено войти в состав Избирательной комиссии. Еще четырем кандидатам было предложено принять участие в качестве консультантов.

Спасибо всем членам сообщества, которые представили свои имена на рассмотрение. Мы с нетерпением ожидаем совместной работы с Избирательной комиссией в ближайшем будущем.

От имени Совета попечителей Фонда Викимедиа,

RamzyM (WMF) 17:59, 28 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Рассмотрение Устава Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения

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Здравствуйте,

Мы рады обнародовать следующий этап в работе по Универсальному кодексу поведения. Черновой вариант Устава Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения в настоящий момент готов для вашего рассмотрения.

Руководство по правоприменению требует, чтобы структурная единица в форме Учредительного комитета составила черновой вариант устава, описывающего процедуры и подробности работы глобального комитета, названного Координационный комитет по Универсальному кодексу поведения (U4C). В течение последних двух месяцев Учредительный комитет U4C работал вместе единой группой, чтобы обсудить и подготовить черновик устава U4C. Учредительный комитет U4C в настоящий момент ожидает отзывы по черновику устава вплоть до 22 сентября 2023 года. После этой даты Учредительный комитет U4C по мере необходимости внесет изменения в устав, а открытое голосование в рамках сообщества будет проведено через некоторое время после.

Примите участие в обсуждении во время часов обсуждений или в Мета-вики.

С уважением,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 Ҫурла уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Ваша вики будет доступна только в режиме чтения

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Фонд Викимедиа будет переключать трафик между своими центрами обработки данных. Это гарантирует, что Википедия и другие вики-проекты Викимедиа смогут оставаться доступными даже после катастрофы. Чтобы убедиться, что всё работает, технологическому отделу Викимедиа нужны плановые испытания. Это тестирование покажет, возможно ли надёжно переключиться между центрами обработки данных (ЦОД). Это требует от многих рабочих групп подготовки к тесту и готовности исправить любые непредвиденные проблемы.

Весь трафик будет переключен 20 сентября. Тестирование начнётся в 14:00 UTC.

К сожалению, ввиду некоторых ограничений движка MediaWiki, редактирование будет остановлено в течение этих двух переключений. Приносим свои извинения за задержку в работе. Мы работаем над тем, чтобы сократить такие работы в будущем.

В течение короткого промежутка времени вы сможете читать, но не сможете редактировать все вики-сайты.

• День переключения — среда 20 сентября 2023. Оно продлится не более часа.
• При попытке отредактировать или сохранить страницы в течение этого времени вы увидите сообщение об ошибке. Мы надеемся, что правки в этот период не будут потеряны, но не можем этого гарантировать. Если вы увидите сообщение об ошибке, пожалуйста, подождите, пока всё не восстановится. После этого вы сможете сохранить свою правку. Но на всякий случай мы рекомендуем вам сделать копию ваших изменений.

Побочные эффекты:

• Фоновые задания будут выполняться замедленно, а некоторые могут быть отклонены. Красные ссылки могут также обновляться с замедлением. Если вы создаёте статью, на которую уже есть ссылки откуда-то, то такие ссылки будут оставаться красными дольше, чем обычно. Некоторые долго выполняющиеся скрипты необходимо будет остановить.
• Мы ожидаем, что развёртывание кода произойдет так же, как и на любой другой неделе. Однако могут происходить некоторые зависания кода, если впоследствии этого потребует данная операция.
• GitLab будет недоступен примерно 90 минут.

При необходимости эти планы могут быть отложены. Вы можете посмотреть расписание на wikitech.wikimedia.org. О любых изменениях будет сообщено в расписании. Там же будет дополнительная информация об этом. За 30 минут до начала переноса во всех проектах будет показан баннер-предупреждение. Пожалуйста, поделитесь этой информацией с вашим сообществом.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 09:23, 15 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

== Возможности для назначения открываются в АффКом, в комитет Омбудсмена и Комитета по Рассмотрению Дел ==

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Всем привет! Комитет по присоединению (АффКом), Комиссия омбудсменов и Комитет по рассмотрению дел ищут новых членов. Эти добровольческие группы оказывают важную структурную и надзорную поддержку сообществу и движению. Людям предлагается выдвигать свои кандидатуры самостоятельно или поощрять других, которые, по их мнению, могли бы внести свой вклад в эти группы, подавать заявки на членство. Более подробную информацию о ролях групп, необходимых навыках и возможности подать заявку можно найти на странице Мета-Вики.

От имени команды Поддержки Комитетов,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 9 Юпа уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Просмотрите и прокомментируйте пакет правил отбора Попечительского совета Фонда Викимедиа на 2024 год.

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Уважаемые участники,

Пожалуйста, просмотрите и прокомментируйте пакет правил отбора Попечительского совета Фонда Викимедиа до 29 октября 2023 года. Пакет правил отбора основан на более старых версиях, разработанных Избирательной комиссией, и будет использоваться при выборе Попечительского совета в 2024 году. Предоставление ваших комментариев сейчас поможет им обеспечить более плавный и лучший процесс выбора Правления. Подробнее на странице в Мета-вики.

С уважением,

Кэти Чан
председатель Избирательной комиссии

01:12, 17 Юпа уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

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Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

Глобаллӑ ӗнерлевсем

If you prefer keeping the current skin select "Vector legacy (2010)" on the appearance tab of the global preferences and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.

Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.

If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a local (but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.

• Top of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

• A section of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

About the skin

Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation. You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English).

[Why is a change necessary] When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways. The old Vector does not meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes in a nutshell] The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

• The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
• The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
• The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jump to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
• The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the tested wikis.
• The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Customize this skin] It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out the repository for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.

Our plan

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 31 October. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (сӳтсе явни) 23:52, 18 Юпа уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID

Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the project page. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland

Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 12:31, 13 Раштав уйӑхӗн 2023 (UTC)

Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.

Hello, the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this Registration form.
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.

The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would compensate you for your time.

For more information, visit our project issue page where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you, Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?

Apologies for writing in English.

The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to make reusing references easier. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.

• The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen. More information here.
• Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
• Compensation is available.
• Sessions will be held in January and February.
• Sign up here if you are interested.
• Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.

We’re looking forward to seeing you, Thereza Mengs (WMDE)

Голосование по Уставу для Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения

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Здравствуйте,

Я пишу вам сегодня, чтобы объявить о начале периода голосования по Уставу для Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения (U4C). Члены сообщества могут в настоящий момент проголосовать и предоставить отзывы относительно устава посредством SecurePoll до 2 февраля 2024 г. Те из вас, кто уже высказывал свое мнение во время разработки Руководства по правоприменению УКП, уже знакомы с данным процессом.

Текущая версия Устава для Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения доступна в Мета-вики вместе с переводами на другие языки.

Ознакомьтесь с уставом, проголосуйте и поделитесь данной информацией с другими в вашем сообществе. Я могу с уверенностью сказать, что Учредительный комитет U4C с нетерпением ждет вашего участия.

От имени Проектной команды УКП,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:07, 19 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Остались последние дни, чтобы проголосовать по Уставу для Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения

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Здравствуйте,

Я пишу вам сегодня для напоминания о том, что период голосования по Уставу для Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения (U4C) завершается 2 февраля. Члены сообщества могут в настоящий момент проголосовать и предоставить отзывы относительно устава посредством SecurePoll до 2 февраля. Те из вас, кто уже высказывал свое мнение во время разработки Руководства по правоприменению УКП, уже знакомы с данным процессом.

Текущая версия Устава для Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения доступна в Мета-вики вместе с переводами на другие языки.

Ознакомьтесь с уставом, проголосуйте и поделитесь данной информацией с другими в вашем сообществе. Я могу с уверенностью сказать, что Учредительный комитет U4C с нетерпением ждет вашего участия.

С уважением,

RamzyM (WMF) 16:59, 31 Кӑрлач уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Объявление результатов голосования по ратификации Устава Координационного комитета по УКП

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Уважаемые участники,

Благодарю всех за интерес к развитию Универсального кодекса поведения. Сегодня я хочу сообщить вам результаты ратификационного голосования по Уставу Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения. В ратификационном голосовании участвовало 1746 человек, в числе которых 1249 участников одобрили Устав, а 420 участников - нет. В процессе ратификационного голосования участники могли оставлять отзывы относительно Устава.

Отчет по статистике голосования и обзор обратной связи от участников будут опубликованы в Мета-вики в течение следующих недель.

В ближайшее время, пожалуйста, следите за новостями о дальнейших шагах.

От имени Проектной команды УКП,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:23, 12 Нарӑс уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Отчет о ратификации Устава U4C и объявление о начале выдвижения кандидатов для U4C

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Дорогие участники,

Сегодня я хочу сообщить вам две важные новости. Во-первых, отчет по отзывам после ратификации Устава Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения (U4C) уже доступен. Во-вторых, начинается выдвижение кандидатов для комитета U4C со сроком до 1 апреля 2024 года.

Координационный комитет по Универсальному кодексу поведения (U4C) является глобальной группой, деятельность которой посвящена справедливому и последовательному применению УКП. Члены сообщества приглашаются для подачи заявок на вступление в комитет U4C. Для более подробной информации о комитете U4C и его области ответственности, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с Уставом U4C.

Согласно уставу в комитете U4C имеется 16 мест: восемь мест от сообщества в целом и восемь мест от регионов, чтобы U4C отображал разнообразие движения.

Ознакомьтесь более подробно и подайте вашу заявку в Мета-вики.

От имени Проектной команды УКП,

RamzyM (WMF) 16:24, 5 Пуш уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Процесс отбора кандидатов в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа в 2024 году

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Дорогие участники,

В этом году у четырех членов, избранных от сообщества и партнеров, заканчивается срок пребывания в Совете попечителей [1]. Совет приглашает все движение принять участие в процессе отбора и голосования с целью заполнения этих мест в этом году.

Комитет по выборам будет осуществлять надзор за этим процессом при участии сотрудников Фонда [2]. Комитет по вопросам управления создал Рабочую группу по формированию совета, состоящую из попечителей, которые не могут быть кандидатами в проводимом сообществом и партнерами процессе отбора в 2024 году, в следующем составе: Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins и Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. Данной группе поручено осуществлять надзор со стороны Совета за процессом отбора попечителей 2024 года и информировать его ходе выполнения. Более подробная информация о функциях Комитета по выборам, Совета и штатных сотрудников находится здесь [4].

Ниже перечислены ключевые планируемые даты:

• Май 2024 года. Выдвижение кандидатов и формулировка вопросов.
• Июнь 2024 года. Партнерские организации проводят голосование для составления шорт-листа из 12 кандидатов (составление шорт-листа не проводится при количестве заявок менее чем 15) [5].
• Июнь-август 2024 года. Период проведения кампании.
• Конец августа - начало сентября 2024 года. Двухнедельный период голосования сообщества.
• Октябрь-ноябрь 2024 года. Проверка биографических данных кандидатов.
• Заседание Совета в декабре 2024 года. Новые попечители приступают к работе.

Узнайте более подробно о процессе отбора 2024 года, включая детальное расписание, процесс выдвижения кандидатов, правила кампании и критерии правомочности избирателей, на этой странице в Мета-вики и составьте свой план.

Волонтеры на выборах

Дополнительный способ участия в процессе отбора 2024 года ‒ деятельность волонтера на выборах. Волонтеры на выборах являются связующим звеном между Комитетом по выборам и своими сообществами. Они обеспечивают представительство своего сообщества и мотивируют его для участия в голосовании. Узнайте более подробно о данной программе и способах участия в ней на данной странице в Мета-вики.

С наилучшими пожеланиями,

Dariusz Jemielniak (Председатель Комитета по вопросам управления, Рабочая группа по формированию совета)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] Несмотря на то что идеальное соотношение кандидатов - 12 кандидатов на четыре вакантных места, процесс формирования шорт-листа будет запущен при наличии более 15 кандидатов, в виду того что 1-3 исключенных кандидатов могут почувствовать себя "отверженными", а также в виду значительных затрачиваемых партнерами усилий для исключения лишь 1-3 кандидатов из списка.

MPossoupe_(WMF)19:56, 12 Пуш уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Ваша вики будет доступна только в режиме чтения

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Фонд Викимедиа будет переключать трафик между своими центрами обработки данных. Это гарантирует, что Википедия и другие вики-проекты Викимедиа смогут оставаться доступными даже после катастрофы.

Весь трафик будет переключен 20 марта. Тестирование начнётся в 14:00 UTC.

К сожалению, ввиду некоторых ограничений движка MediaWiki, редактирование будет остановлено в течение этих двух переключений. Приносим свои извинения за задержку в работе. Мы работаем над тем, чтобы сократить такие работы в будущем.

В течение короткого промежутка времени вы сможете читать, но не сможете редактировать все вики-сайты.

• День переключения — среда 20 марта 2024. Оно продлится не более часа.
• При попытке отредактировать или сохранить страницы в течение этого времени вы увидите сообщение об ошибке. Мы надеемся, что правки в этот период не будут потеряны, но не можем этого гарантировать. Если вы увидите сообщение об ошибке, пожалуйста, подождите, пока всё не восстановится. После этого вы сможете сохранить свою правку. Но на всякий случай мы рекомендуем вам сделать копию ваших изменений.

Побочные эффекты:

• Фоновые задания будут выполняться замедленно, а некоторые могут быть отклонены. Красные ссылки могут также обновляться с замедлением. Если вы создаёте статью, на которую уже есть ссылки откуда-то, то такие ссылки будут оставаться красными дольше, чем обычно. Некоторые долго выполняющиеся скрипты необходимо будет остановить.
• Мы ожидаем, что развёртывание кода произойдет так же, как и на любой другой неделе. Однако могут происходить некоторые зависания кода, если впоследствии этого потребует данная операция.
• GitLab будет недоступен примерно 90 минут.

При необходимости эти планы могут быть отложены. Вы можете посмотреть расписание на wikitech.wikimedia.org. О любых изменениях будет сообщено в расписании. Там же будет дополнительная информация об этом. За 30 минут до начала переноса во всех проектах будет показан баннер-предупреждение. Пожалуйста, поделитесь этой информацией с вашим сообществом.

Trizek (WMF), 00:00, 15 Пуш уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Проголосуйте прямо сейчас для избрания членов первого U4C

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Уважаемые участники!

Я пишу вам, чтобы сообщить о начале голосования по выборам в Координационный комитет по Универсальному кодексу поведения (U4C), которое будет проходить до 9 мая 2024 года. Ознакомьтесь с информацией на странице голосования в Мета-вики, чтобы узнать больше по теме голосования и правомочности избирателей.

Координационный комитет по Универсальному кодексу поведения (U4C) является глобальной группой, деятельность которой направлена на обеспечение справедливого и последовательного применения УКП. Участники сообщества были приглашены для подачи заявок на членство в U4C. Для более подробной информации об области ответственности U4C, пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с Уставом U4C.

Пожалуйста, поделитесь данным сообщением с членами вашего сообщества, чтобы они также могли принять участие.

От имени проектной команды УКП,

RamzyM (WMF) 20:19, 25 Ака уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 14 Ҫу уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.

You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:24, 22 Ҫу уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Объявление о создании первого Координационного комитета по Универсальному кодексу поведения

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Привет!

Члены счётной комиссии завершили рассмотрение результатов голосования. Мы продолжаем работу с результатами первых выборов Координационного комитета Универсального кодекса поведения (ККУКП).

Мы рады объявить следующих лиц региональными членами ККУКП, срок полномочий которых составит два года:

• Северная Америка (США и Канада)
  • –
• Северная и Западная Европа
  • Ghilt
• Латинская Америка и Карибский бассейн
  • –
• Центральная и Восточная Европа
  • —
• Африка к югу от Сахары
  • –
• Ближний Восток и Северная Африка
  • Ibrahim.ID
• Восточная, Юго-Восточная Азия и Тихоокеанский регион
  • 0xDeadbeef
• Южная Азия
  • –

Следующие лица избираются членами ККУКП от сообщества в целом, сроком на один год:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
• –

Ещё раз спасибо всем, кто участвовал в этом процессе, и хотим выразить огромную признательность кандидатам за их лидерство и преданность движению и сообществу Викимедиа.

В течение следующих нескольких недель ККУКП начнёт встречаться и планировать работу на 2024—2025 годы, поддерживая внедрение и пересмотр УКП и Руководящих принципов обеспечения соблюдения требований. Следите за их работой на Meta-wiki.

От имени Проектной команды УКП,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:14, 3 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Окончательный текст Устава Движения Викимедиа теперь доступен на Мета-Вики

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Всем привет,

Окончательный текст Устава Движения Викимедиа теперь доступен для ознакомления на Мета, более чем на 20 языках.

Что такое Устав Движения Викимедиа?

Устав Движения Викимедиа – это предлагаемый документ, определяющий роли и ответственность всех членов и организаций в Движения Викимедиа, и включает в себя создание нового органа – Глобального Совета - для управления движением.

Присоединяйтесь к «Презентационной Вечеринка» Устава Движения Викимедиа

Присоединяйтесь к «вечеринка по презентацию» устава 20 июня 2024 года в 14.00-15.00 по UTC (проверьте по вашему времени). Во время этого созвона, мы отпразднуем публикацию окончательного варианта Устава и представим его содержание. Присоединяйтесь и ознакомьтесь с Уставом, прежде чем проголосовать.

Голосование по ратификации Устава Движения

Голосование начнется на «SecurePoll» 25 июня 2024 года в 00:01 по UTC и завершится 9 июля 2024 года в 23:59 по UTC. Вы можете ознакомиться с процессом голосования, критериями и другими подробностями на Мета.

Если у вас есть какие-либо вопросы, пожалуйста, оставьте сообщение на странице обсуждения на Мета или напишите MCDC по адресу mcdc@wikimedia.org.

От имени Комитета по разработке Устава Движения,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:44, 11 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Голосование по ратификации Устава Движения Викимедиа открыто – проголосуйте

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Всем привет,

Голосование по ратификации Устава Движения Викимедиа открыто. Устав Движения Викимедиа – это документ, определяющий роли и ответственности всех членов и организаций в Движении Викимедиа, и включает в себя создание нового органа – Глобального Совета – для управления движением.

Окончательная версия Устава Движения Викимедиа доступна на Мета-Вики на русском языке для вашего ознакомления.

Голосование начнется на «SecurePoll» 25 июня 2024 года в 00:01 по UTC и завершится 9 июля 2024 года в 23:59 по UTC. Пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с более подробной информацией о голосовании и критериях для голосования.

После ознакомления с Уставом, пожалуйста, проголосуйте и поделитесь этой информацией с другими.

Если у вас есть какие-либо вопросы по поводу голосования по ратификации, пожалуйста, свяжитесь с Избирательной Комиссией по Уставу по адресу cec@wikimedia.org.

От имени Избирательной комиссии,

RamzyM (WMF) 10:51, 25 Ҫӗртме уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Голосование по ратификации Устава Движения Викимедиа скоро завершится

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Всем привет,

Это уведомление о том, что голосование по ратификации Устава Движения Викимедиа завершится 9 июля 2024 года, в 23:59 по UTC.

Если вы еще не проголосовали, пожалуйста, проголосуйте на «SecurePoll».

От имени Избирательной Комиссии по Уставу,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:45, 8 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:02, 10 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 17:51, 18 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through August 10, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:46, 27 Утӑ уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.

Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:29, 6 Ҫурла уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Скоро: новая функция подссылки - попробуйте!

Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Пожалуйста, помогите нам распространить сообщение. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

Hi all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 23:18, 22 Ҫурла уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the Elections Committee have certified the results for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

• Latin America and Caribbean
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia
• The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) 14:05, 2 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Поделитесь своим мнением: голосуйте на выборах в Совет попечителей 2024 года!

Здравствуйте,

Началось голосование на выборах в Совет попечителей 2024 года. На четыре (4) места в Совете претендуют двенадцать (12) кандидатов.

Ознакомьтесь с заявлениями кандидатов и их ответами на вопросы сообщества, чтобы узнать о них больше.

Когда вы будете готовы, перейдите на страницу голосования SecurePoll. Голосование проводится в период с 00:00 (UTC) 3 сентября по 23:59 (UTC) 17 сентября.

Чтобы проверить ваше право голоса, пожалуйста, посетите информационную страницу о правомочности избирателей.

С наилучшими пожеланиями,

Комитет по выборам и Рабочая группа по выборам в совет

MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 12:13, 3 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Ваша вики будет доступна только в режиме чтения

Прочитать это сообщение на другом языке • Пожалуйста, помогите перевести на ваш язык

Фонд Викимедиа будет переключать трафик между своими центрами обработки данных. Это гарантирует, что Википедия и другие вики-проекты Викимедиа смогут оставаться доступными даже после катастрофы.

Весь трафик будет переключен 25 сентября. Переключение начнётся в 15:00 UTC.

К сожалению, ввиду некоторых ограничений движка MediaWiki, редактирование будет остановлено в течение этих двух переключений. Приносим свои извинения за задержку в работе. Мы работаем над тем, чтобы сократить такие работы в будущем.

За 30 минут до начала переноса во всех проектах будет показан баннер-предупреждение. Этот баннер будет оставаться видимым до окончания операции.

В течение короткого промежутка времени вы сможете читать, но не сможете редактировать все вики-сайты.

• День переключения — среда 25 сентября 2024. Оно продлится не более часа.
• При попытке отредактировать или сохранить страницы в течение этого времени вы увидите сообщение об ошибке. Мы надеемся, что правки в этот период не будут потеряны, но не можем этого гарантировать. Если вы увидите сообщение об ошибке, пожалуйста, подождите, пока всё не восстановится. После этого вы сможете сохранить свою правку. Но на всякий случай мы рекомендуем вам сделать копию ваших изменений.

Побочные эффекты:

• Фоновые задания будут выполняться замедленно, а некоторые могут быть отклонены. Красные ссылки могут также обновляться с замедлением. Если вы создаёте статью, на которую уже есть ссылки откуда-то, то такие ссылки будут оставаться красными дольше, чем обычно. Некоторые долго выполняющиеся скрипты необходимо будет остановить.
• Мы ожидаем, что развёртывание кода произойдет так же, как и на любой другой неделе. Однако могут происходить некоторые зависания кода, если впоследствии этого потребует данная операция.
• GitLab будет недоступен примерно 90 минут.

При необходимости эти планы могут быть отложены. Вы можете посмотреть расписание на wikitech.wikimedia.org. О любых изменениях будет сообщено в расписании.

Пожалуйста, поделитесь этой информацией с вашим сообществом.

Trizek_(WMF), 09:36, 20 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.Шаблон:Tracked

Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2. More information can be found on the project page.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (сӳтсе явни) 18:58, 27 Авӑн уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey

Dear all,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language. We are excited to announce the upcoming Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.

To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!

Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.

Warm regards,

User:ZI Jony 03:19, 6 Юпа уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

Предварительные результаты выборов в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа 2024 года

Здравствуйте,

Благодарим всех, кто участвовал в выборах в Совет попечителей Фонда Викимедиа 2024 года. Всего проголосовало около 6000 членов сообщества из более чем 180 вики-проектов.

Данные кандидаты получили наибольшее количество голосов:

1. Christel Steigenberger
2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
3. Victoria Doronina
4. Lorenzo Losa

Хотя данные кандидаты были отобраны путем голосования, они все еще должны быть утверждены Советом попечителей. Им необходимо успешно пройти биографическую проверку и соответствовать квалификационным требованиям, изложенным в регламенте. Новые попечители будут утверждены на следующем заседании Совета в декабре 2024 года.

Узнайте более подробно о результатах в Мета-вики.

С наилучшими пожеланиями,

Комитет по выборам и Рабочая группа по выборам в совет

MPossoupe_(WMF) 08:24, 14 Юпа уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Ищем волонтеров для участия в нескольких комитетах движения

Каждый год с октября по декабрь несколько комитетов движения обычно ищут новых волонтеров.

Прочитайте более подробно о работе комитетов на их страницах в Мета-вики:

• Комитет по присоедниению (AffCom)
• Комиссия омбудсменов (OC)
• Комитет по рассмотрению дел (CRC)

Подача заявок в комитеты открывается 16 октября 2024. Период подачи заявок в Комитет по присоединению завершается 18 ноября 2024, а в Комиссию омбудсменов и Комитет по рассмотрению дел – 2 декабря 2024. Узнайте о том, как подать заявку, на странице назначений в Мета-вики.

От имени команды поддержки комитетов,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 23:07, 16 Юпа уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:30, 22 Юпа уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)

Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success

Dear all,

We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.

Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.

• Survey Link: Complete the Survey
• Deadline: November 10, 2024

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!

Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.

• Application Link: Apply Here
• Application Deadline: October 31, 2024

Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here: Position Descriptions

Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!

Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 05:11, 29 Юпа уйӑхӗн 2024 (UTC)