Wikivitnun:Potturinn/Eldri umræður

Þetta er skjalasafn fyrir gamla umræðu. Ekki breyta efni þessarar síðu. Ef þú vilt halda áfram umræðu, eða hefja nýja, vinsamlegast gerðu það [1 á núverandi spjalli].

Eldri umræður

Request for Logo-Change

[is-0] Hi there! Is there any admin, that can replace the commons' logo used in Melding:Sharedupload/iz and Melding:Sharedupload into Image:commons-logo.svg? The other logo has to be deleted, and it'd be wonderful, if anyone could do that. 217.225.73.18 18. febrúar 2006 kl. 07:36 (UTC)

Fixed. --Stalfur 20. febrúar 2006 kl. 13:15 (UTC)

Thank you! 217.225.127.245 21. febrúar 2006 kl. 19:14 (UTC)

Potturinn

Spurning hvort líðandi stund ætti ekki að heita potturinn eins og á Wikipediu. Hvað finnst fólki? --Cessator 04:34, 25 júní 2007 (UTC)

Sammála því. Flókið að hafa þetta mismunandi eftir systurverkefnum. Kanski hægt að skoða hin verkefnin og breyta þar líka. --Steinninn 17:09, 26 júní 2007 (UTC)

Ágæt hugmynd. --Cessator 03:22, 27 júní 2007 (UTC)

Nafnrými

Spurning líka um að koma líðandi stund/pottinum fyrir í wikiquote nafnrými. --Cessator 04:35, 25 júní 2007 (UTC)

Wikiquote:Potturinn, Ætti ekki að vera flókið að færa þetta. --Steinninn 17:09, 26 júní 2007 (UTC)

Vandinn er sá að tengillinn í flakkinu vill alltaf heita líðandi stund (stundum líka á Wikipediu). --Cessator 17:22, 26 júní 2007 (UTC)

Lagað. Í bili allavega, þetta er oft með einhverja stæla. --Biekko 17:25, 26 júní 2007 (UTC)

Enska vs. íslenska

Ég tók eftir að á Fylkið er allt á ensku en sumar aðrar tilvitnanir sem eru greinilega ekki upprunalega á íslensku hafa verið þýddar. Eru eitthverjar reglur um hvort það eigi að hafa þetta á upprunalegu málinu eða þýða það? --Steinninn 17:09, 26 júní 2007 (UTC)

Ég átta mig í fljótu bragði ekki á því hversvegna það ættu að vera tilvitnanir á ensku á íslenska Wikiquote, það er nú einu sinni ensk útgáfa til líka. Það er hinsvegar spurning með þýðingar, ætli það sé eðlilegt að notendur taki það sjálfir að sér að þýða tilvitnanir eða þarf þýðingin sjálf að hafa verið gefin út? Semsagt, gildir reglan um engar frumrannsóknir á wikiquote? --Biekko 17:14, 26 júní 2007 (UTC)

Og hvort ný þýðing teljist þá vera frumrannsókn (sennilega væri það þannig). Þá er e.t.v. aðeins um frumrannsóknir hérna. Ég er annars sammála því að það sé eðlilegt að tilvitnanir hér séu á íslensku. Samt rakst ég á einhverja umfjöllun á ensku wikiquote um að það ætti að stilla í hóf tilvitnunum á erlendum málum. Kannski mætti temja sér þá venju að hafa ekki neitt á útlensku nema þýðing fylgi alla vega með. --Cessator 17:27, 26 júní 2007 (UTC)

Á en: sýnist mér í fljótu bragði að þýðingar notenda séu ekki velkomnar vegna reglunnar um frumrannskókn. Þess vegna legg ég til að við höfum reglu um að allar stórar þýðingar verði að hafa bæði upprunalegu (skáletruð) og þýddu tilvitnunina, og upplýsingar um hvaðan þýðingin er fengin. Þá mundi þetta líta eitthvernvegin svona út:

* ''Upprunaleg tilvitnun''
** Þýðing: Íslensk þýðing<ref name="anyname" />Author and source</ref>

Stórar þýðingar er ansi þokukennt. Ég tek bara til dæmi að í mörgum íslenskum kvikmyndum koma ör fá orð á ensku, og sjaldan þýdd. Eigum við ekki að leyfa það? --Steinninn 02:20, 30 júní 2007 (UTC)

Jú, erlend orð í tilvitnun úr íslenskri kvikmynd, svo dæmi sé tekið, hljóta að vera leyfð; slettan er beinlínis hluti af tilvitnunni. Ég er ekki alveg viss um að þýðing þurfi að teljast frumrannsókn, þótt hún geti gert það. Á Wikipediu telst það til dæmis ekki vera frumrannsókn að þýða grein af einu tungumáli og setja á Wikipediu á öðru máli. Í slíkri grein gætu verið beinar tilvitnanir og þegar þær hafa verið þýddar teljast þær enn ekki vera frumrannsóknir. Til dæmis: Grein um stjónmál sem er þýdd úr þýsku og sett á ensku Wikipediu telst ekki vera frumrannsókn og ekki heldur þótt í greininni sé e.t.v. bein tilvitnun í Karl Marx eða Immanuel Kant. Það er svo annað mál að enska Wikiquote hefur ákveðið fyrir sitt leyti að þiggja ekki þýðingar á tilvitnunum nema þær hafi áður birst einhvers staðar áður, t.d. á prenti. Enskan á auðvelt með það að takmarka sig þannig. Við myndum hins vegar græða á að fá nokkrar þýðingar. Og fyrst Wikipedia telur þýðingu ekki vera frumrannsókn, þá held ég að við ættum að leyfa þýðingar hér a.m.k. enn um sinn, enda eru þetta yfirleitt stuttir textar sem hafa ekkert sjálfstætt listrænt gildi; og einkum ef ekki er til aðgengileg og auðfáanleg íslensk þýðing á prenti en ef íslensk þýðing er auðfáanleg (t.d. Ríkið eftir Platon eða Um sálgreiningu eftir Freud, tala nú ekki um Biblíuna og þess háttar nokkuð) ættum við að halda okkur bara við hana. Þannig yrði þetta kannski matsatriði stundum en samt er býsna praktískt að loka ekki alveg á þýðingar og ef þýðingin hefur ekkert sjálfstætt listrænt gildi, þá er ekki auðvelt að sjá hvernig frumrannsóknarhættan steðjar að. --Cessator 00:41, 1 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Það er rétt, við getum ekki alltaf gert það sem en: gerir, það er bara stundum ekki raunhæft. Mér fannst gott dæmi um Biblíuna. Þá væri best að taka fram hvaða þýðing á Biblíunni er verið að taka úr (þær eru margar), og með útlenskar kvikmyndir þá ætti að koma fram ef stuðst hefur verið við undirtexta og svo framvegis. Og ég legg aftur áherslu á að mér finnst frumtextinn verður að filgja með. --Steinninn 14:52, 1 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Síðufjöldi

Ef farið er á forsíðuna má sjá að fjöldi síðna er nú 23 en ef smellt er á nýjar síður telur kerfið 27. Að vísu er líðandi stund (sem núna er tilvísun á Pottinn) og Forsíðan með. En samt passar þetta ekki alveg. Kann einhver skýringu á þessu? --Cessator 03:29, 27 júní 2007 (UTC)

Skv. þessu eru 30 síður í aðalnafnrýminu en tilvísanir eru innifaldar í því. Mig rámar í að hafa einhversstaðar lesið það að greinateljarinn telji aðeins þær síður sem eru í aðalnafnrýminu og innihalda textastrenginn "[[", þær verða semsagt að hafa allavega einn tengil til þess að teljast grein. Það gæti passað að þegar tilvísanir og greinar án tengla eru dregnar frá þessum 30 síðum séu 23 eftir. --Biekko 03:57, 27 júní 2007 (UTC)

Hér er þetta: The automatic definition used by the software at Special:Statistics is: any page that is in the article namespace, is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link. --Biekko 04:02, 27 júní 2007 (UTC)

Það er það sem ég hélt, en ég fékk samt ekki 27 greinar (skv. nýjum síðum) til að passa við 23 sem forsíðan gefur upp, þótt ég drægi frá eina eða tvær sem hefðu getað verið undanskildar. Á Wikipediu hefur „nýjar síður“-síðan og teljarinn á forsíðunni verið meira í takt. --Cessator 04:08, 27 júní 2007 (UTC)

Það vantar bara tengla í helling af síðum, það er nú málið. --Cessator 04:14, 27 júní 2007 (UTC)

Flakkið dettur

Í hvert sinn sem ég er að breyta eða forskoða eitthvað (eins og núna) þá dettur meirihlutinn af vinstri valröndinni (flakk, leita, verkfæri, á öðrum tungumálum) niður. Eina sem er eftir í hæfilegri hæð er logoið Mynd:Wiki.png. Ég tók líka eftir þessu á wiktionary svo að kanski þarf að tala við bugzilla. Hefur eitthver annar tekið eftir þessu. Prufaði þetta bæði í Safari og Firefox. --Steinninn 07:49, 27 júní 2007 (UTC)

Þetta virðist af öllum líkindum vera komið í lag. Ef eitthver tekur eftir að þetta gerist aftur, látið vita. --81.15.51.66 00:09, 15 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Hlaða inn skrám inn á Commons

Spurning hvort það sé almennur áhugi fyrir því á Wikivitnun að loka fyrir special:upload. Ég legg til að stjórnendur fái sérstakt leyfi til að hlaða þeim myndum inn og að öðrum notendum sé vísað á Commons. Svipað hefur verið gert á wikiorðabókum, en þó er það bara ný skeð svo lítil reynsa er á því (en sem komið er), þá lítur það ágætlega út. --Steinninn 9. september 2007 kl. 01:17 (UTC)

Ég er sáttur við það fyrir mitt leyti og skrifaði það inn í einhverja reglu einhvers staðar hérna í júní sl. --Cessator 9. september 2007 kl. 19:51 (UTC)

Sjá hér. --Cessator 9. september 2007 kl. 21:15 (UTC)

Bugzilla:11317 --Steinninn 13. september 2007 kl. 00:58 (UTC)

Merkja tilvísanir til að geta talið?

(Sjá undanfara þessarar umræðu hér).

Viljum við merkja allar tilvitnanir til að geta talið þær (en ekki bara síður) eins og franska Wikiquote gerir? Ef við ætlum í slíkt, þá væri rétti tíminn núna! Kostirnir eru þeir að við getum þá talið tilvitnanir, en ókostirnir m.a. þeir að nýherjar eiga erfiðara með að átta sig á hvernig þeir eiga að fara að og finnst sniðanotkun e.t.v. fráhrindandi. Við megum eiginlega ekki við því að missa af nýjum notendum. --Cessator 23:13, 14 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Það eru ýmsir aðrir kostir sem við fáum við að nota svipað snið og fr:Modèle:Citation. Við getum haldið staðlinum betur og svona. Það er að vísu mikill ókostur að nýjir notendur geta ekki bætt við einfaldasta hlut eins og nýrri tilvitnun án þess að skilja sniðin, en þó finnst mér kostirnir vera fleiri en ókostirnir. Annað vandamál er að það virðist vera ansi flókið að búa þetta rétt til. En fyrir utan það „Til er ég“ --81.15.51.66 00:09, 15 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Má ekki bjóða þér að skrá þig? ;) Já, ég hallast að því að það væri betra að hafa svona snið. Það er svo annað mál, eins og þú segir, að það er flókið að gera þetta rétt; ég kann það ekki en tæknikunnátta mín er reyndar takmörkuð. Lýsi eftir aðstoð. Svo þarf að setja upp vélmenni sem telur tilvitnanirnar. --Cessator 00:14, 15 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Þess má geta að sniðið tilvitnun var til. --Cessator 00:18, 15 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Æ, æ. Var að koma gömlu tölvunni aftur í gangið og var ekki skráður inn á henni. Ef til vill gæti ég prufað mig áfram í að búa þetta til. Er farinn að verða ansi góður í þessu sniðastússi þótt ég segi sjálfur frá. --Steinninn 03:24, 15 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Sniðið tilvitnun var búið til sem "placeholder" þannig að hægt væri að fríkka það og eða útvíkka eftir því sem á þyrfti síðar. Skemmtið ykkur! --Stalfur 13:37, 16 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Ég er — held ég — búnn að setja allar tilvitnanir í þetta nýja snið að undanskildum kvikmyndatilvitnunum einum. Ég veit ekki alveg hvernig Steinninn vill hafa þetta með kvikmyndirnar og ætla bara að leyfa honum að finna út úr því áður en ég fer eitthvað að fikta. Það er ekkert því til fyrirstöðu að byrja að telja tilvitnanir, þótt ég sé ekki alveg sáttur við útlit sniðsins enn þá; það á eftir að þróast. Að vísu er smá vandi við að telja tilvitnanir, því sumar birtast bæði á síðunni um höfundinn og á síðu um eitthvert þema... veit ekki hvernig maður fer í kringum það. --Cessator 06:32, 20 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Flott. Ég bíð aðeins með að setja þetta inn á kvikmyndatilvitnanirnar, því þetta virðist ekki virka nógu vel þar. Er samt full viss um að þetta sé hægt. Svo það er um að gera að búa til vélmenni til að telja þetta. --Steinninn 22:58, 22 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Þetta hlýtur að vera hægt. Ég var aðeins að lesa mér til um uppsetningu vélmenna en ég er að fara að fá mér nýja tölvu bráðum og nenni ekki að vera að hlaða niður drasli til að geta sett upp vélmenni tvisvar. Þannig að ég ákvað að bíða. Ef þú vilt setja upp vélmenni er það auðvitað í góðu lagi. Við ættum eiginlega að hafa interwiki-vélmenni líka. --Cessator 23:15, 22 júlí 2007 (UTC)

Ég fatta ekkert með þetta kvikmynda dót, svo vélmennin telja þau ekkert með þar til eitthver snallari kemur og fattar það. Hins vegar líst mér illa á óþarfa línubil. Sjá þessa breytingu. Er nokkuð vitlaust að fjarlægja þetta allstaðar. Kannski lítur þetta öðruvísi út í Safari en öðrum vöfrum?!? --Steinninn 00:39, 29 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

Ég vildi helst fá allavega eitthver samþykki áður en ég fer að breyta öllum greinunum. --Steinninn 14. september 2007 kl. 00:09 (UTC)

Mér finnst það alla vega frábært ef einhver skellir sér í þetta. Það er ekkert óafturkræft hvort eð er. Ef þú gerir nokkrar breytingar og athugar hvort þetta komi ekki örugglega rétt út, þá er bara um að gera að halda áfram. --Cessator 14. september 2007 kl. 01:28 (UTC)

Það er engin spurning að halda áfram. Spurningin er hvort þetta líti betur út með eða án línubils. Mér finnst línubilið bara whitespace sem við eigum að forðast eins og heitann eldinn. En ég veit að ekki hafa alltaf allir verið sammála því. --Steinninn 14. september 2007 kl. 01:39 (UTC)

Ég misskildi, hélt þú værir að tala um eitthvað annað. Mér finnst óþarfi að hafa svona mikið línubil í textanum; það er hins vegar ágætt að hafa línubil í kóðanum þegar maður er að leita að tilvitnun, sem þarf að laga. En það skiptir ekki öllu máli. --Cessator 14. september 2007 kl. 16:45 (UTC)

Mmenal hefur verið að ræða málin á spjallinu mínu, endilega lesið það. Hann er meira eða minna tilbúinn að setja RimBot upp. --Steinninn 19. september 2007 kl. 01:39 (UTC)

Mér líst mjög vel á þetta. Stórgott framtak. --Cessator 20. september 2007 kl. 05:12 (UTC)

Þýða nafnið okkar

Ég hef verið með draum um að við gætum haft okkar eigið logo, en þá þurfum við líklega að þýða nafnið fyrst. Þýðinging sem liggur beint við væri Wikitilvitnun, er eitthvað annað sem kemur til hugar. Ef ekki þá er það næsta skref; hvaða leturgerð eigum við að nota. Helst eitthvað íslenskt, típíst íslenska leturgerð. Wikiquote sýnir okkur að það eru mörg mismunandi leturgerðir i gangi. Hvernig er stemningin? --Steinninn 12:38, 21 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

Spurning hvort það sé réttara að hafa bandstrik? Wiki-tilvitnun... --Cessator 20:30, 21 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

BiT segir Wiki-vitnun. Þá gæti Wikivitnun kanski virkað. Það er jú sagt Wikibækur og Wikiorðabók án bandstriks. En ef það lítur betur út þá ættum við að nota bandstrik. --Steinninn 04:30, 24 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

Þá er kannski betra að hafa samræði milli verkefna. Wikivitnun er einu atkvæði styttra en Wikitilvitnun og því aðeins meðfærilegra. --Cessator 16:58, 24 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

Það eina sem böggar mig er að „vitnun“ þýðir ekki alveg það sama og „tilvitnun“. Orðið „vitnun“ virðist þýða eitthvað eins og vitnisburður. En hvorki Wikibækur, Wikiheimild né Wikiorðabók á í þessum vandræðum. --Cessator 17:01, 24 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

Mér finnst að við eigum að veita okkur það listamannsleyfi að nota Wikivitnun frekar en Wikitilvitnun, merkingin kemst til skila. --Stalfur 10:40, 27 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

Ég styð Wikivitnun. Eru þá allir sáttir? --Steinninn 14:32, 27 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

Já já, ég er sáttur. --Cessator 17:56, 27 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

Það er búið að hlaða myndinni inn, en hún sérst samt ekki í horninu :( --Steinninn 00:39, 29 ágúst 2007 (UTC)

ctrl+R eða prufaðu að bæta við ?action=purge aftan við slóðina í vafranum. -- Friðrik Dýrfjörð

Þetta er komið núna. Ég þurfti bara að senda inn bug til bugzilla. --Steinninn 1. september 2007 kl. 15:47 (UTC)

Haha svalt, hugmyndin mín var notuð. :D --BiT

Wikiquote -> Wikivitnun

Það eru enþá nokkrar síður sem segja Wikiquote í staðin fyrir nýja nafnið Wikivitnun. Hér er mín tilraun til að finna þessar síður leita. --Steinninn 24. september 2007 kl. 22:19 (UTC)

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 to use your language in the interface, 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 1798 messages in the core of MediaWiki, 1195 messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages of almost 80 extensions, with about 1050 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 7. október 2007 kl. 15:24 (UTC)

Tilvitnun dagsins

Hvernig líst fólki á að bæta við tilvitnun dagsins á forsíðuna. Ég bjó til hugmynd að því hvernig þetta getur litið út: Wikivitnun:Sandkassinn/Forsíða og þið megið endilega koma með aðrar hugmyndir. RimBot mun sjá um að velja nýja tilvitnun að handahófi á hverjum degi. En fyrst verðum við að ákveða útlit. --Steinninn 24. október 2007 kl. 02:12 (UTC)

Mér finnst það fín hugmynd. --Cessator 24. október 2007 kl. 11:27 (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), which form the vast majority of such requests. 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. Please read the text at m:Bot policy 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. Nemo bis 28. september 2009 kl. 23:54 (UTC)

Sounds Oki'doki to me. --Steinninn 21. október 2009 kl. 12:13 (UTC)

Implemented. —Pathoschild 00:32:30, 19 apríl 2010 (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,
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Terms of Use update

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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 27. október 2011 kl. 00:55 (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

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• 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 21. desember 2011 kl. 13:05 (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 15. janúar 2012 kl. 00:15 (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.). 12. febrúar 2012 kl. 15:05 (UTC)

Bot flag on EleferenBot

Hello, I am operator of a bot EleferenBot, and would like to have the bot flag.

• Operator: User:Eleferen.
• Function summary: Using pywikipedia.
• Function details: add\change interwiki (global edits. For example: pl.wikiquote contributions).
• Programming language: python
• Flag on: wikiquote: bg, bs, de, es, fa, he, it, pl, pt, ru, sk and 39 wikipedias.

--Eleferen (spjall) 15. mars 2012 kl. 17:37 (UTC)

Update on IPv6

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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 2. júní 2012 kl. 01:04 (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 5. júní 2012 kl. 18:23 (UTC)

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Mobile view as default view coming soon

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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 29. júní 2012 kl. 04:49 (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. júlí 2012 kl. 20:09 (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)6. september 2012 kl. 02:00 (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 10. september 2012 kl. 13:23 (UTC)

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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

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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) 16. október 2012 kl. 02:59 (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.). 19. janúar 2013 kl. 15:23 (UTC)

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 30. janúar 2013 kl. 20:32 (UTC)

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

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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. 13. mars 2013 kl. 19:59 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Undirbúningur að stofnun Wikimedia félags á Íslandi

Fundur sunnudaginn 7. apríl 2013 á Glætunni kl. 12:30.

Mættir

Bjarki Sigursveinsson (Bjarki S á wiki)

Svavar Kjarrval (Svavarl á wiki)

Bragi Halldórsson (Bragi H á wiki)

Efni

Stofnun deildar innan FSFÍ í stað formlegs Wikimedia félags

Tryggvi hjá FSFÍ bað Svavar um að gera tillögu að breytingum á lögum FSFÍ svo hægt væri að vera með deildir innan þess og hefur hann skilað því af sér um helgina. Sennilega þyrfti samt aðalfund FSFÍ til að gera þær breytingar.

Getum samkvæmt Wikimedia samt sem áður stofnað sjálfstætt félag og haft stöðu user group en þurfum ekki að vera undir FSFÍ. Samstarf við FSFÍ er ekki nauðsynlegt gagnvart Wikimedia.

Niðurstaða

Einróma ákvörðun fundarins er að stofna sér félag strax og fá kennitölu fyrir félagið. Sótt um stöðu user group, en reyna að fá að nota nafnið Wikimedia Ísland (Wikimedia Iceland). Fordæmi er til vegna Wikimedia Ghana sem er nafn á fyrirhuguðu user group í Ghana. Reyna að koma því við að lög félagsins væru samkvæmt reglum Wikimedia um chapter upp á að einfalda breytingu yfir í chapter síðar.

Bjarki tekur að sér að fara yfir núverandi drög að lögum og sjá hvort þau standist kröfur Wikimedia og íslenskra yfirvalda. Gera ráð fyrir þriggja manna stjórn ef það flýtir fyrir en núverandi drög að lögunum gera ráð fyrir sex stjórnarmeðlimum.

Umsókn Wikinews um aðstoð við að skrá Wikinews á Íslandi

Bjarki er búinn að vera í sambandi við Laura Hale sem hafði samband við okkur í gegnum póstlistann "Icelandic Wikipedia discussion" <wikiis-l@lists.wikimedia.org>. Wikinews er að skoða hvað það myndi tákna fyrir þau að vera skráð hérlendis ef þingsályktunartillagan sem Alþingi samþykkti um rétt blaðamanna og uppljóstrara gengur eftir.

Ákveðið að halda næsta fund eftir mánuð nema ef eitthvert tilefni kemur upp sem væri ástæða til að flýta honum.

Fundi slitið.

Fundarritari

Bragi Halldórsson

-Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 9. apríl 2013 kl. 20:56 (UTC)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

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

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。

Hello!

There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.

We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.

All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 24. apríl 2013 kl. 04:50 (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. maí 2013 kl. 20:44 (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. maí 2013 kl. 20:44 (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 23. júní 2013 kl. 04:36 (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 4. júlí 2013 kl. 12:35 (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). 23. júlí 2013 kl. 13:21 (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). 20. ágúst 2013 kl. 19:14 (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). 24. september 2013 kl. 02:38 (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) 4. október 2013 kl. 18:44 (UTC)

(via the Global message delivery system) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

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 8. október 2013 kl. 20:19 (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) 5. nóvember 2013 kl. 20:06 (UTC)

Distributed via Global message delivery (wrong page? Correct it here), 5. nóvember 2013 kl. 20:06 (UTC)

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) 16. janúar 2014 kl. 06:46 (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) 21. febrúar 2014 kl. 22:00 (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 Wikivitnun 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 28. febrúar 2014 kl. 19:44 (UTC)

Language links (interwiki) via Wikidata are coming

Hey everyone :)

I just wanted to let you know that Wikiquote will be the next sister project to be supported by Wikidata. Initially you will be able to maintain the links between the language editions of Wikiquote on Wikidata. This means you will no longer have to maintain them in the wiki text of each article. (However you will still be able to if you want to and local links will overwrite the ones from Wikidata in that case.) We plan to enable this on April 8th for you. At a later point (depending on how this initial roll-out goes) you will also get access to the other data on Wikidata like the date of birth of a scientist for example.

If you have any questions please come to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote where we'll try to answer all of them. If you're already familiar with Wikidata and want to act as an ambassador please add your name to the list there to help people find you.

I'm looking forward to welcoming you all to Wikidata.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher 7. mars 2014 kl. 21:58 (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) 13. mars 2014 kl. 21:56 (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

Interwiki links via Wikidata are here!

(Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me where needed.)

Hi everyone,

As previously announced we have just enabled the first part of Wikidata support. This means from now on you can maintain your interwiki links on Wikidata and no longer need to keep them in the wikitext locally. The local links will continue to work and overwrite what is coming from Wikidata. A community member is currently running a bot to take care of the migration where possible so you don't have to do it by hand in most cases.

You can not yet access the other data on Wikidata like the date of birth of a person. This will come in the near future. I will let you know when I have a date for it.

If you have any questions please come to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote. There we have a bunch of helpful people to answer them.

Welcome to the Wikidata family! I'm excited about this first step. More to come. I am looking forward to seeing how this will help you make Wikiquote even better in the future.

Cheers Lydia via MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 8. apríl 2014 kl. 17:53 (UTC)

Wikidata Phase 2 for Wikiquote

Hey,

(Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me where necessary.)

Not long ago we enabled language links via Wikidata for Wikiquote. This seems to have gone rather smoothly. Thanks to everyone who helped! But as you know this was only the start. What is actually more interesting is access to the data in Wikidata. We have planned this for June 10th (unless any issues arise). You will then be able to use the data in your articles. I hope this will open up a lot of new opportunities for you.

If you have any questions d:Wikidata:Wikiquote is a good place to find help.

On behalf of Lydia Pintscher, John F. Lewis (talk) 17. maí 2014 kl. 16:03 (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) 23. maí 2014 kl. 21:29 (UTC)

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