Vikipedya:La Kavané/Arshivas/Arshiva 4

Extension:SandboxLink

Apologies for writing in English.

I would like to propose installing Extension:SandboxLink on this wiki. This will automatically add a link to users' personal sandboxes in the top navigation menu. I have found this useful, and used to run it as a gadget. But it no longer works as a gadget.

Please let me know what you think. StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:52 19 Nov 2015 (UTC)

Request in place for 26 days with no objection. I will assume that I may request this extension at phabricator. StevenJ81 (discusión) 14:38 15 Diz 2015 (UTC)

phabricator:T121524. StevenJ81 (discusión) 14:45 15 Diz 2015 (UTC)

Completed last night. However, I just put the JS name (Kutí de prova) in the system, so it will take another 24-48 hours for that to be loaded in from translatewiki.net. StevenJ81 (discusión) 12:49 22 Jen 2016 (UTC)

OK. Now fully operational. StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:40 25 Jen 2016 (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 (discusión) 01:49 5 Jen 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 (discusión) 19:07 18 Jen 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 "Trocar" and "Trocar el manadero" tabs into a single "Trocar" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Trocar" 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 Edición tab of Special:Preferences:

• Recordar mi último editor,
• Siempre que sea posible, usar el editor visual,
• Siempre usar el editor de código, and
• Mostrarme ambas pestañas de edición. (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. ¡Muchas gracias!

Elitre (WMF), 21:21 26 Feb 2016 (UTC)

Completion suggestor

Updates to wiki search auto completion are arriving 10 March

Hello!

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The completion suggester beta feature will become the default at the first group of wikis on Thursday, 10 March. This initial rollout will start with some of the smaller wikis to ensure the change happens in an organized way. The remaining wikis will receive the update on Wednesday, 16 March. This update brings three major improvements to search. Improved search result ordering, a tolerance for a small number of spelling errors, and suggests fewer typos.

Since December 2015, 19,000 editors have already opted into the completion suggester beta feature. Contributors are encouraged to try out the feature ahead of the release. Please share any comments on the Completion Suggester discussion page in any language.

To learn more about the work of the Discovery department and other improvements to search, please check out the Wikimedia blog. Read about CirrusSearch, the MediaWiki extension that makes wiki search possible.

- User:CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:09 7 Mar 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016)

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Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for access to research materials from:

• Cambridge University Press - a major publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. Access includes both Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books. 25 accounts.
• Alexander Street Academic Video Online - a large academic video collection good for a wide range of subjects, including news programs (such as PBS and BBC), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. 25 accounts.
• Baylor University Press - a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. 50 accounts.
• Future Science Group - a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. 30 accounts.
• Annual Reviews - a publisher of review articles in the biomedical sciences. 100 accounts.
• Miramar Ship Index - an index to ships and their histories since the early 19th century. 30 accounts.

Non-English

• Noormags - Farsi-language aggregator of academic and professional journals and magazines. 30 accounts.
• Kotobna - Arabic-language ebook publishing platform. 20 accounts.

Expansions

• Gale - aggregator of newspapers, magazines and journals. 50 accounts.
• Elsevier ScienceDirect - an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. 100 accounts.

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, De Gruyter, EBSCO, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 20:30 17 Mar 2016 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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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 Mar 2016 (UTC)

Updated project logo

Apologies for writing in English.

We are slightly modifying the project logo, to change the Hebrew-script spelling of "Ansiklopedya" to begin with alef (א) instead of ayin (ע). This was done to bring it in line to what we have come to understand is the appropriate spelling in Hebrew-script Judeo-Spanish—as also reflected in name of the Hebrew-script article אנסיקלופדײה. See the discussion of Hebrew-script orthography here. See the phabricator ticket here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reply here at La Kavané. Thank you. שבוע טוב. StevenJ81 (discusión) 02:35 22 Nov 2015 (UTC)

A discussion is still ongoing about this, both at phabricator and at Commons. StevenJ81 (discusión) 17:34 1 Abr 2016 (UTC)

Done. StevenJ81 (discusión) 02:17 8 Abr 2016 (UTC)

HD Version (April 2016)

See phabricator:T132120. We have been offered, and are encouraged to deploy, HD (high-definition) versions of the logo to improve the appearance of the logo on HD displays. Any future logo changes would apply to all versions of the logo in parallel. But we formally need a community consensus to do this. So if you object to this, please comment in the next seven days. Otherwise we will go ahead with this. Thank you. StevenJ81 (discusión) 03:01 8 Abr 2016 (UTC)

Done. For technical reasons, the staff closed this 12 hours early, but since we did not expect any objections anyway, they will go ahead and deploy this upgrade in the next days. StevenJ81 (discusión) 14:38 14 Abr 2016 (UTC)

Request community permission to create user group "flooder"

As always, apologies for writing in English rather than Judeo-Spanish.

I would like to solicit the community's approval to create the user group "flooder".

The "flooder right" (or "flood flag") is a way to temporarily grant "bot" privileges to a regular user account. One does this when using a semi-automated process for routine edits so that the edits do not clog up the recent changes list with a lot of routine edits. Once this group is created, administrators and bureaucrats have the right to grant and lift this permission at will. The normal procedure is that an administrator grants himself/herself this right, makes the routine edits, and then removes the right as soon as he or she is finished. All edits done under this flag are still visible by looking at the user's contributions page—this simply classifies the edits as being by "bots" in "Recent changes".

I am requesting this because I am starting to use the Cat-a-lot gadget to consolidate categories. If you look at Especial:TrocamientosFreskos, you will see a whole string of minor category edits there. I'd like to be able to do this kind of maintenance work without clogging the reporting system. The alternative would be for me to create a bot account, but I don't really prefer to do that.

See m:Flooder for further details.

If you have any questions, please respond here or at my user talk page. Thank you for your support. StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:38 15 Diz 2015 (UTC)

Request in place for over three months with no objection. Will request at phabricator. StevenJ81 (discusión) 17:31 1 Abr 2016 (UTC)

phabricator:T131527 StevenJ81 (discusión) 17:43 1 Abr 2016 (UTC)

This will be put in service on April 11. I have entered the following names at translatewiki; please let me know if I should change them:

• Group name: Mabúl.
• Group member: Pseudobot. (That is the name on eswiki.)
• Description page: Vikipedya:Permeso de mabúl (flooder)

StevenJ81 (discusión) 13:45 8 Abr 2016 (UTC)

Deployed. StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:34 11 Abr 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) 21:07 17 Abr 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon

Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it here.

Join the discussion on Meta-Wiki

This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:35 21 Abr 2016 (UTC)

Ladino is missing

Ladino is missing from this page:
m:There is also a Wikipedia in your language
Thank you, Varlaam (discusión) 21:51 19 Jen 2016 (UTC)

@Varlaam: We'll get someone on it. Thanks very much. (@Maor X and Universal Life: Can one of you take this?) StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:08 20 Jen 2016 (UTC)

When it is convenient, that will be fine.

Thanks, Varlaam (discusión) 04:51 6 Feb 2016 (UTC)

Done. Also done: m:There is also an English Wikipedia available. But maybe one of you will still make sure I did them correctly. StevenJ81 (discusión) 20:50 7 Abr 2016 (UTC)

I'm back after almost half-a-year wikibreak. I corrected the message (although it was quite good Steven!) --Universal Life (discusión) 17:38 26 Jun 2016 (UTC)

I corrected the other one based on your correction to the first. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 21 Siván 5776 • 14:13 27 Jun 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata status; question on notability of Spanish place stubs

Apologies for writing in English.

As of now, there are 225 mainspace articles without Wikidata item links. Of those 225, I have put out queries to different people about how to handle five of them:

• Enshemplos de frasas i biervos en Haketia (separate article or merge into Haketia?) Done. Kept as separate article, and Wikidata item created. Links created to section of eswiki article. StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:21 6 Abr 2016 (UTC).
• AORA (notable, or advertising and delete?) Done. Wikidata item created; no iw links available. StevenJ81 (discusión) 18:29 15 Diz 2015 (UTC).
• Sefardí (probably merge into Sefaradim/ספרדים) Done. StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:48 14 Diz 2015 (UTC).
• Kırkbudak (journal closed after two years. Notable, or delete?) Done. Userfied. See Diskusyón de Vikipedya:La Kavané. StevenJ81 (discusión) 17:25 25 May 2016 (UTC)
• Semitiko (probably merge into Linguas semetikas) Done, more or less. I found a usable Wikidata link; it links to disambiguation pages elsewhere. But I'd still like this merge to happen. StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:28 12 Abr 2016 (UTC) Merge done! StevenJ81 (discusión) 20:55 26 May 2016 (UTC)
• Eliezer Papo (probably notable) Added 15:50 14 Diz 2015 (UTC). StevenJ81 (discusión) Done. Wikidata item created; no iw links available. StevenJ81 (discusión) 18:05 18 Diz 2015 (UTC).

Please feel free to share an opinion about these.

The other 220 articles are all Spanish geography articles. They are all stubs, or as they would be described in Latin Wikipedia, they're often "non-stubs" (la:Vicipaedia:Non-stipula); that is, they're not even substantial enough to qualify as stubs.

These are among a wide variety of similar pages created early in the history of Vikipedya. Most were created by Usador:Pablo~ladwiki during the seven months he was active in 2006. When I first started editing seriously on this wiki, I went down the list of articles without iw links. I found a lot of these "non-stubs" for which there was a corresponding article in Spanish Wikipedia (or others). I connected each of these to any corresponding articles through Wikidata. At that, I didn't wikify them, they're not in great shape, and could use work. But because there was some Wikipedia article on them somewhere, I take them to be notable enough to keep. Maybe eventually we'll clean them up.

The remaining 220 articles do not have a corresponding article in any Wikipedia, as far as I can tell. Usually, they're listed on a page like

• es:Anexo:Localidades de Burgos agrupadas por comarcas
• es:Anexo:Despoblados de la provincia de Burgos
• es:Anexo:Despoblados de Castilla y León

Occasionally, they are not. Sometimes, pages used to exist but were deleted for various reasons. Sometimes, you can see them as redlinks on disambiguation pages.

So my question is this: If these places are so tiny and obscure that they are not considered notable even by Spanish Wikipedia, is there any point in our keeping them here? Yes, it will knock down the article count a little. But honestly, these articles are kind of embarrassing anyway, and I'd be happy not to have them available if someone clicks "Random Article". So I'd like to delete them. Please share your thoughts on this. StevenJ81 (discusión) 21:22 18 Nov 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I cannot find those stubs, are they grouped in any category on this Wikipedia? There are also very short articles like Brăila that could be improved by adding a template. (Answer me at the Incubator or in my discussion page in the Latin Wikipedia) --Katxis (discusión) 23:20 24 May 2016 (UTC)

You can find them at Especial:PáginasSinConexión and then choosing (Main) namespace. The articles I'm referring to are every one in that list except #2. StevenJ81 (discusión) 04:26 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Just delete them. They are not relevant and I am not sure if they are written in Ladino. --Katxis (discusión) 11:14 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of those articles in progress. StevenJ81 (discusión) 13:27 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Done. Deletion of those articles is complete. StevenJ81 (discusión) 20:34 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Update at 31 May 2016

All of the articles named above have been addressed in one way or another. As of the current posting there are no articles in main (article) space lacking a Wikidata item.

• Approximately 50 articles remain that do not have any interwiki links. In general, this is because they refer to subjects that are notable mainly within the community of Sephardic Jews. I have looked on wikis where I know the language (en/simple, fr, he, to some extent yi) to try to find articles on these subjects without luck.
• Approximately 150 pages remain in the Vikipedya: and Xablón: namespaces without Wikidata items. To some extent these are pages that substantially duplicate other pages here, or don't neatly describe a topic.
• Much work remains to wikify the many remaining articles—most of which are stubs—on Spanish geography.

Your help in any or all of these areas would be greatly appreciated. StevenJ81 (discusión) 20:34 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Update at 30 June 2016

• Now down to 30 pages in main (article) space without interwiki links.
• Now down to 110 pages in the Vikipedya: and Xablón: namespaces without Wikidata items.
• Completed wikifying stubs on places in the Merindades, which constituted by far the largest part of the Spanish geography stubs needing cleanup. Note that these are still stubs, for anyone interested in expanding them. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 25 Siván 5776 • 18:22 30 Jun 2016 (UTC)

Update at 5 July 2016

• Still 30 pages in main (article) space without interwiki links.
• In Xablón: (template) space: There are 40 pages listed without Wikidata items. However, 36 are documentation pages not eligible for Wikidata listings. This leaves only four remaining items not in Wikidata. They come in two pairs:

• {{foo}} and {{bar}}: These are two substitutable templates that I created solely for the purpose of speeding up the process of wikifying geography stubs. They do not have any long-term place in Vikipedya, so when I am finished with that process I will delete them.
• {{Versión diferente}} and {{Versión antigua}}: These were created to use on pages with some alternative Latin spelling variants for a possible WikiProject. I don't know that we're going to end up doing this. I'm going to leave the templates in place, but I'm not going to enter them into Wikidata.

• In Vikipedya: space, there are 22 pages listed without Wikidata items. The Vikipedya: and Ayudo: spaces need some rectifying, as there are a couple of substantially duplicate sets of pages around. I'm not going to start looking for Wikidata analogues of any of these until we're finished rectifying locally. This is a job that a knowledgeable JS speaker needs to take on; I can't do this.
• Spanish geography will be ongoing for a while. The most egregious things have been wikified, but there is still plenty to do. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 29 Siván 5776 • 14:58 5 Jul 2016 (UTC)

Bots

As always, my apologies for writing in English.

There are a number of bots that have permission to run on this wiki. About half of them have not made an edit in over five years. About half of the rest have not made an edit in over three years. Many of them were involved with managing interwiki links, a job now handled by Wikidata. As a matter of security, I propose removing the bot permission of any bot that has not made an edit in at least three years. I propose the following procedure:

• I will not remove the bot permission from any bot until the community has had at least two weeks to comment here.
• In parallel to this, I will try to contact all bot owners. I will notify them that their bots will have the permission removed unless they reply within one week.
• When both of the waiting periods described above have expired, I will remove the permission.
• Any bot that has had a permission removed will need to seek a new permission at Vikipedya:Bot/Permesos.

Thank you in advance for your comments and participation. StevenJ81 (discusión) 13:53 7 Abr 2016 (UTC)

There were no objections heard, so I will begin to remove the bot permissions according to the rules outlined above. StevenJ81 (discusión) 16:05 25 Abr 2016 (UTC)

Consistent with the above discussion, all locally flagged bots on this wiki have now been deflagged for inactivity within the last three years, with the following exceptions only:

• Four bots that are part of the Wikimedia software (Flow talk page manager, Maintenance script, MediaWiki default, and MediaWiki message delivery)
• One privately run bot (JAnDbot), which will not reach three years of inactivity until this coming July.

Deflagged 00:03 2 Jul 2016 (UTC) with permission of owner, two days short of three year inactivity period. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 26 Siván 5776 • 00:03 2 Jul 2016 (UTC)

Globally flagged bots are not affected by this policy. Such bots are restricted to repairing interwiki links and double redirects. To the best of my knowledge, two are currently active here. StevenJ81 (discusión) 20:15 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Comments from Bot Owners

• You may remove the botbit from User:StigBot as you see fit. It was only used here for interwiki-purposes. Stigmj (discusión) 17:02 25 Abr 2016 (UTC)
• You may safely remove the flag from VolkovBot. It was used as iw-bot but now as iw have been migrated to wikidata, it's not needed any longer. --Volkov (discusión) 17:26 25 Abr 2016 (UTC)
• After a good past-years, Superzerocool will rest on his pendrive :). Thanks judeo-spanish community for the support! Superzerocool (discusión) 17:59 25 Abr 2016 (UTC)
• No objections regarding Usador:Robbot, it was active on this wiki only for interwiki purposes. - Andre Engels (discusión) 06:03 26 Abr 2016 (UTC)
• The bot Purbo T has been active on interwiki links only, which is kind of outdated since we have WikiData. So I do not object removing the bot flag until, maybe a new task dawns for it ;-) --Purodha Blissenbach (discusión) 06:49 28 Abr 2016 (UTC)
• User:JAnDbot can be deflagged, I have no plans for running it for mass editing here in future. JAn Dudík (discusión) 19:55 1 Jul 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun

Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:31 10 Jun 2016 (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki, which you may already seen in the latest issue of Tech News. 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). This will be enabled as a feature in the coming week for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.

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) 14:01 24 Jun 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. However, 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. 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)-04:21 28 Jun 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 "Insertar" menu and click the "Lista de referencias" 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 "Insertar" in the dialog to insert the Lista de referencias. 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 "Trocar" and "Trocar el manadero" tabs into a single "Trocar" 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 "Edición" 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 "Enrejistra la hoja" button will say "Publicar la página". 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. ¡Muchas gracias!

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

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Enrejistra la hoja” button to “Publicar la página” and “Publicar cambios”. “Publicar la página” will be used when you create a new page. “Publicar cambios” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[1][2]

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 “Publicar la página” and “Publicar cambios”.

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 “Enrejistra la hoja” 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 “Enrejistra la hoja” 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 “Publicar la página” and “Publicar cambios”.

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:03 9 Ago 2016 (UTC)

Artikolos demandados

As usually, my apologies for writing in English. Please see Vikipedya:Artikolos demandados. A request has been placed for articles on certain Ukrainian subjects. StevenJ81 (discusión) 17:03 2 Jun 2016 (UTC)

The community has voted to send featured articles and lists from all Wikipedias to the moon

Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an overview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!

Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 14:10 1 Jul 2016 (UTC)

File Uploads

As usual, apologies for writing in English.

Increasingly, individual Wikipedias are limiting the uploading of media files to the Wikipedias themselves. As a general rule, all open-source media should be uploaded to Commons, not to here. We are still allowing certain non-free media under the fair use doctrine (see en:Fair use and en:Wikipedia:Non-free content for explanations and limitations).

Right now, we are functionally operating under the rules of English Wikipedia for such media files. We are trying to set up our own formal rules, which I expect would largely still resemble the rules for English Wikipedia. Part of the way to help enforce this is to limit the uploading of media files here to administrators, so that we can make a determination of whether a media file qualifies as a fair-use media file.

The purpose of this posting is to get the formal permission of the community to limit media uploads to administrators (and bureaucrats). Currently, there are 27 media files on this wiki. The newest one not uploaded by an administrator is over eight years old. So this formal permission isn't likely to change anything for practical purposes. But we need the community's permission to formally set this limitation in place.

Thank you for your understanding and support. Please add any questions and comments here. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 18 Av 5776 • 14:28 22 Ago 2016 (UTC)

Having seen no objections in over two weeks, I have filed a change request at phabricator. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 5 Elul 5776 • 16:03 8 Set 2016 (UTC)

Complete. Local file uploads are now restricted to administrators.

• If you have a media file to upload, if that media file meets the criteria for upload to Commons, please upload the file there. You can go there quickly from here by clicking the link "Suvir una dosya" ("Upload file"), which is on the left hand side of the default ("Vector") skin.
• If you wish to upload a media file that is not free to use (and therefore is ineligible to be uploaded to Commons), please contact me at my talk page or by email. If it qualifies to be uploaded locally under "Fair use", I will arrange to do that for you.

If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 9 Elul 5776 • 15:12 12 Set 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our publisher donation program. You can now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Nomos – Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
• World Scientific – Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
• Edinburgh University Press – Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
• American Psychological Association – Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
• Emerald – Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, DeGruyter, Gale and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:38 30 Ago 2016 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language! Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

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) 15:08 12 Set 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 Set 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 Ocho 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.[3]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[4] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[5]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[6]
• 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.[7]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[8] In the future, the "Enrejistra la hoja" button will say "Publicar la página". 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.[9]

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. ¡Muchas gracias!

—Elitre (WMF)

17:49 15 Ocho 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Foreign Affairs - Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
• OpenEdition - Journals in the social sciences and humanities
• Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences - French and English language scientific journals
• ASHA - Speech–language–hearing journals
• Tilastopaja - Athletics statistics

Expansions

• EBSCO - Many new databases added
• Taylor & Francis - Strategic, Defence & Security Studies collection

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:30 1 Nov 2016 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Password reset

I apologise that this message is in English. Help with translations!

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 (diskutir) / MediaWiki message delivery (discusión) 23:59 13 Nov 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 "Activar automáticamente la mayoría de las funciones beta".

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) --19:32 14 Diz 2016 (UTC)

Opening RFC

Dear users. A request has opened to decide if apply a Global ban against Marrovi. Other users who have relevant information can participate. Here is the link; You can also review the guidelines here. For the same policies I have to notify in the projects that he participate. Regards. --Akapochtli (discusión) 01:19 17 Nov 2016 (UTC)

This RfC was closed. No ban was implemented. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 5 Adhar 5777 • 22:48 2 Mar 2017 (UTC)

Discussion on English Wikipedia about what to name the section on the Judeo-Spanish language

As always, apologies for writing in English.

There is a Request for Comment on English Wikipedia concerning renaming the current article en:Judaeo-Spanish to en:Ladino language. The RfC is located on the talk page: en:Talk:Judaeo-Spanish#Requested move 1 January 2017. Please comment there. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 4 Teveth 5777 • 16:30 2 Jen 2017 (UTC)

This was recently closed with a decision of no move. Thanks to those who participated. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 12 Teveth 5777 • 23:09 9 Jen 2017 (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, 20:31 15 Feb 2017 (UTC) • Por favor, ayuda a traducir a tu idioma • Get help

Ayudo de Biervos para los Artíkolos

StevenJ81, Maor X y otros amigos, Tenemos munchos yerros en muestros artíkolos. Algunos escriven en castiliano y algunos se esforçan de escrivir en un castiliano antiguo imajinado...y mos sale hojas llena de yerros. Por esto vengo de criar esta hoja...daínda está chiquitica ma lo vamos a llenar a orosa mente va a ser una hoja de referencia para el avenir. --Universal Life (discusión) 15:01 21 Nov 2016 (UTC)

Gusto del xablon, anke la ortografia ke mas me gusta es la Maor X, el uzo de tildes komo kulá en vez de kula, ma las munchas ortografias azen mejoras en la lingua djudio-espanyola.--Marrovi (discusión) 15:18 21 Nov 2016 (UTC)

Exemption Doctrine Policy

As always, my apologies for writing in English.

In order for Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Wikipedia to continue to host non-free media files locally, we are required by the Wikimedia Foundation to put in place an Exemption Doctrine Policy to serve as a formal and legal policy governing those files. I have drafted a policy (in English), based mainly on the policy at English Wikipedia, with a handful of small variations. That draft policy can be found at Vikipedya:Exemption Doctrine Policy. Please read that policy, then comment on its talk page if you have any questions, criticism, or suggestions. If there are no outstanding objections to this policy by January 31, 2017, it will be formally implemented here.

Thank you for your attention and support. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 29 Kislev 5777 • 19:27 28 Diz 2016 (UTC)

There were no comments on this, either here or at Diskusyón de Vikipedya:Exemption Doctrine Policy. Accordingly, this policy is adopted. I intend to get all affected media files properly documented by the end of February. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 4 Shevat 5777 • 15:00 31 Jen 2017 (UTC)

Done. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 4 Adhar 5777 • 19:38 1 Mar 2017 (UTC)

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 Mar 2017 (UTC) • Por favor, ayuda a traducir a tu idioma • 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 Mar 2017 (UTC)

Create namespace "Portal"; place Wikiprojects into namespace "Vikipedya"

Phabricator T161843

As always, apologies for writing in English.

• Contributors have started creating some portal pages here. So I would like permission from the community to ask the developers to add namespace "Portal" here.
• Contributors have also started creating WikiProjects. There are two different ways this is handled in other projects: through a dedicated namespace and through placing these pages in the "Vikipedya" namespace. I am proposing we do the second of these.

StevenJ81 (discusión) • 25 Adhar 5777 • 14:53 23 Mar 2017 (UTC)

Submitted as phab:T161843. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 4 Nissán 5777 • 20:03 30 Mar 2017 (UTC)

To be deployed on Monday, 3 April between 13:00 and 14:00 UTC.

Done. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 7 Nissán 5777 • 13:52 3 Abr 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

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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 (discusión) 17:34 11 Abr 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.

We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.

We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!

-DBrant (WMF) 08:41 14 Abr 2017 (UTC)

New Page previews feature

New Page previews feature

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Hello,

The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable Page previews, a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.

A quick note on the implementation:

• For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on from their user preferences page.
• For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
• For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.

You can read more about the feature and the tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions on the talk page.

Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (discusión) 16:52 19 Abr 2017 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
• Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
• Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
• Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine

Expansions

• Gale – Biography In Context database added
• Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52 2 May 2017 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

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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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) 14:41 8 May 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 "Revisar tus cambios".

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. [10]
• 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. [11]
• 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. [12]
• 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. [13]
• The Categorías item has been moved to the top of the Opciones de página menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [14] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [15]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [16]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [17]
• The Carácter especial menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [18]
• 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. [19]
• 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. [20]

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. [21]
• The kind of button used to Echar una ojada, Amostrar los trocamientos, 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. [22]
• 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. [23]
• 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. ¡Muchas gracias!

—Elitre (WMF)

18:06 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

Hello,

I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.

One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.

The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal: fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia, via the Visual Editor.

We already asked for feedback in 2015, and collected some interesting ideas which we shared with you in this thesis. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.

We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.

You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video, on this page. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 07:37 15 May 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) 14:44 16 May 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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21:09 16 May 2017 (UTC)

New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata

Hello all,

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The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.

You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.

This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.

This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.

If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

¡Muchas gracias! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 01:54 17 May 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 May 2017 (UTC)

יצחק נבון ע"ה

Attention, Universal Life, Maor X, and anyone else watching this page: We should probably quickly add an article on the late Israeli President Its.hak Navon. Not only was he an Israeli President, but was the first one of Sefardi ancestry. He also made substantial contributions to the publicizing of Sefardi culture, both as president of the Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino and as principal creator of Bustan Sefaradi (he). The enwiki and hewiki articles both have a fair amount of information in them to work from. StevenJ81 (discusión) 15:47 12 Nov 2015 (UTC)

• Done. Thanks to Ezrasarano. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 10 Av 5777 • 16:55 2 Ago 2017 (UTC)

m:Requests for comment/Global centralnotice for the blockade of the Turkish government

Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 17:10 1 Jun 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes

Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.

Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.

Read and translate the full message

¡Muchas gracias! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:33 29 Jun 2017 (UTC)

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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, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:23 10 Jul 2017 (UTC)

Page Previews (Hovercards) update

Hello,

A quick update on the progress of enabling Page Previews (previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs.

Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as a beta feature. For more information see Page Previews. Questions can be left on the talk page in your preferred language.

Thank you again.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:32 20 Jul 2017 (UTC)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.

Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the Special:Undelete page, and add &fuzzy=1 to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).

We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via email or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki. Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using &fuzzy=0 in the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=0

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.

¡Muchas gracias! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:40 25 Jul 2017 (UTC)

Eskriviendo artikolos en Kastilyano

Meldi munchos artikolos eskritos en Kastilyano en una ora..o kon teksto tresladado kon munchos biervos en Kastilyano. --Maor X (discusión) 20:31 17 Ago 2017 (UTC)

Esbozos

De 4577 artículos, 2599 son esbozos, muchos de ellos en castellano. Esta Wikipedia necesita un lavado de arriba abajo. --Katxis (discusión) 06:49 20 Ago 2017 (UTC)

RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"

There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."

Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.

Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.

MediaWiki message delivery (discusión) 21:06 17 Set 2017 (UTC)

Enlases internos

En una pajina, por ejemplo: Istorya de los djudios en Tunesia, el nombre "Tunesia" aparece cinco docenas de veces, cada vez como enlase interno. En el WP inglesa, hay un enlase interno solamente por la primera vez que el nombre aparece, y en las instancias subsiguientes - en "letras negras," sin enlase. ¿Cuál es la práctica correcta aquí en la LAD WP? -- Deborahjay (discusión) 15:10 19 Set 2017 (UTC)

Spanish courtesy of Google® translate
La práctica estándar aquí es la misma que la práctica estándar en la mayoría de Wikipedias:

• En el texto principal, los términos deben ser vinculados sólo una vez, por lo general la primera vez que aparece.
• Puede haber un enlace idéntico adicional de cualquier plantilla (xablón) que aparezca en la página.
• Todos los demás enlaces deben ser eliminados. StevenJ81 (discusión) • 29 Elul 5777 • 18:01 19 Set 2017 (UTC)

Discussion on synced reading lists

Discussion on synced reading lists

Hello,

The Reading Infrastructure team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a cross-platform reading list service for the mobile Wikipedia app. Reading lists are like bookmark folders in your web browser. They allow readers using the Wikipedia app to bookmark pages into folders to read later. This includes reading offline. Reading lists do not create or alter content in any way.

To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.

Background

In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.

The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.

Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.

Why not watchlists

Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:

• Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
• Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
  • The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
• By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
• Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.

More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.

Thank you

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35 20 Set 2017 (UTC)

Ortografía inconsistente

Empesé en amijorar xablones de linguas ekstranjeras i a veses el nombre aparese en varias formas por su propria pájina. Por ejemplo: Lingua aragoneza es el nombre de pájina, pero la primera orasyón comienza con: "Lingua aragonesa...". Claro que no kyero replicar errores. -- Deborahjay (discusión) 21:37 4 Ocho 2017 (UTC).

Ayudo para Consistencia

Amigos, para tener mijor consistencia, para que todos sepan mijor la terminolojía en muestra lingua, empeçì una mueva hoja. Mirad esta hoja: en:wikt:User:Universal Life/JSVfWP. Por agora es solo un empecijo, un "esbozo". Ma tengo la entición de pujar esta hoja y cuando es menesteroso, diskutir con vosotros para determinar el buen biervo para los projetos de Vikimedya. Estáx bienvenidos a participar con plazer! --Universal Life (discusión) 12:31 29 Ocho 2017 (UTC)

• Estó kontüneando a desvelopr la hoja. (La renombrì a en:wikt:User:Universal Life/JS Dictionary.) --Universal Life (discusión) 13:18 1 Nov 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 nov 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.

¡Muchas gracias!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07 20 nov 2017 (UTC)

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: wm2018:Scholarships.

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 19:24 20 dec 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (discusión) 10:46 21 dec 2017 (UTC)