ܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ:ܬܪܥܐ ܕܟܢܫܐ
ܨܝܢܐܝܬ ܐܘ ܨܝܢܝܬ
[ܫܚܠܦ]I'm a bit confused now when we should use ܨܝܢܐܝܬ and when to use ܨܝܢܝܬ. What or when should we use which form? Ofcourse I also mean with other languages. -- Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 21:26, 9 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Diffidently with an Olaf. Payne-Smith mentions Syriac as ܣܘܪܝܐܝܬ and not ܣܘܪܝܝܬ.--Rafy (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 11:33, 10 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- That's also what I thought, until I saw this edit Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 12:49, 10 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Forms ending in ܐܝܬ- are adverbs, so ܨܝܢܐܝܬ means "in Chinese" or, literally, "Chinese-ly". I don't think the form without the Alaph exists in classical Syriac, but we use it in the Neo-Aramaic languages (as in Sooreth/Soorit/Soorayt) and Hebrew seems to use it as well (`Ivreet = "Hebrew", Sooreet = "Syriac"). So the form without the Alaph means something different from the form with the Alaph.
- Names like ܐܘܪܕܘ can't really take the ܐܝܬ- ending, so they should be prefixed with -ܒ (so ܒܐܘܪܕܘ rather than "ܐܘܪܕܘܐܝܬ", which is odd). --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 16:59, 11 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for your explanation. But isn't it a little bit contradictory to use a Neo-Aramaic form like it is a classical one, since you mention that the form without the Alapf doesn't exist in the classical way? Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:39, 11 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Isn't using the Neo-Aramaic spelling ܬܘܪܟܝܐ also contradictory because that wouldn't have been spelled like that in the classical way? :) --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:39, 12 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- That's true. So would you say that when we use ܨܝܢܝܬ in the current pages, we refere to the alternative Neo-Aramaic spelling? Because if that's the case, then I would be glad to see if we use both the classical and the modern way, like we do at ܛܘܪܩܝܐ for example.
- In the Chinese language's page it would be like: "ܠܫܢܐ ܨܝܢܝܐ ܐܘ ܨܝܢܐܝܬ ܐܘ ܨܝܢܝܬ"
- Or perhaps even better: "ܠܫܢܐ ܨܝܢܝܐ ܐܘ ܨܝܢܐܝܬ (ܒܠܫܢ̈ܐ ܐܪ̈ܡܝܐ ܚܕ̈ܬܬܐ: ܨܝܢܝܬ". Ofcourse this example would be appliable for other pages with modern alternatives in it, like ܛܘܪܩܝܐ/ܬܘܪܟܝܐ.
- It is a suggestion, so please the both of you, let me know that you think of it. Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 19:43, 12 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Like I said before, the form with Alaph is an adverb (so ܨܝܢܐܝܬ = "in Chinese"). It seems very awkward to introduce an article using that ("The Chinese language or in Chinese is...").
- I actually just like the way it is now. Do we even use something like "ܨܝܢܝܬ" in the modern languages? Every Neo-Aramaic speaker I've ever heard just uses Arabic/English names for languages (except perhaps for ܣܘܪܝܬ). To say that "ܨܝܢܝܬ" is Neo-Aramaic is erroneous, I think.
- By the way, I think "ܒܠܫܢ̈ܐ ܐܪ̈ܡܝܐ ܚܕ̈ܬܬܐ" is grammatically incorrect gender. It shouldn't have the extra Taw in there. ;) --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 04:18, 13 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Isn't using the Neo-Aramaic spelling ܬܘܪܟܝܐ also contradictory because that wouldn't have been spelled like that in the classical way? :) --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:39, 12 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for your explanation. But isn't it a little bit contradictory to use a Neo-Aramaic form like it is a classical one, since you mention that the form without the Alapf doesn't exist in the classical way? Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:39, 11 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- That's also what I thought, until I saw this edit Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 12:49, 10 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
I see your point now. Thank you for the explanation. Ofcourse the extra taw was a typo :-). Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 20:56, 14 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
Beth Mardutho back online
[ܫܚܠܦ]Wonderful news: Bethmardutho.org is back online with a brand new website!. Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 10:51, 10 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
foreign names
[ܫܚܠܦ]I have recently started creating links for the list of articles seen ܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ:ܡܟܬܒܘܬܐ_ܕܡܓܠܐ_ܠܟܠ_ܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ. An obvious obstacle is the way foreign names should be spelled. I have tryed to mostly transliterate them from Hebrew since it's the closest language to our's but some names still confuse me... For example is it ܒܢܣܢܬ or ܘܢܣܢܬ? and should we write ܘܘܪܗܘܠ or ܘܪܗܘܠ? and which one is more correct for wright: ܪܝܝܬ or ܪܐܝܬ?--Rafy (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 23:31, 14 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- You are doing a great job so far Rafy!. As for the transliteration, I see that you used different letters to transliterate one letter. One time ܒ for Vincent, and one time ܦ for Van. Try to stick to one choice when you transliterate. Since we use the ܒ for the B/V and the ܘ for the W, and the ܦ for P/F, I would transliterate it as "ܒܢܣܢܬ ܒܢ ܟܘܟ". As for the other words, that's difficult, since we usually don't have standard rules to transliterate foreign words. Everyone transliterates on his own way. I would say it's not wrong to choose between ܪܝܝܬ or ܪܐܝܬ, but I would ask myself in which way I would get the pronounciation right. Perhaps we should make a transliteration table for foreign letters.. Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 10:27, 15 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, I will make at least one article daily, should improve my Syriac as well. Indeed we need to make up a some rules. A good way is to see how they transliterated Greek words to Syriac. So if I'm not wrong: t = ܛ. q, c, k = ܩ. and ch=ܟ (same as Hebrew afaik). but how about V? and ou and ei? 334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ • ܫܘܬܦܘܬ̈ܐ) have been working at wiktionary so he should have some ideas...--Rafy (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 10:45, 15 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- In the same subject, is the English ch supposed to be transliterated as ܬܫ or as ܟ̰? Because I often see here the former (ܬܫܐܒܙ, ܬܫܐܕ). Also, I see ܓ (without the tilde) is often used to represent the English j. Is the tilde often dropped when writing without vocalization marks? TFighterPilot (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:50, 15 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- I meant the German ch /x/ like in buch.--Rafy (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 08:49, 16 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- In the same subject, is the English ch supposed to be transliterated as ܬܫ or as ܟ̰? Because I often see here the former (ܬܫܐܒܙ, ܬܫܐܕ). Also, I see ܓ (without the tilde) is often used to represent the English j. Is the tilde often dropped when writing without vocalization marks? TFighterPilot (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:50, 15 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
Rafy, I would use Beth to write all "v" sounds. There are a few things to keep in mind about modern Hebrew:
- Waw (Vav) is usually used for a "v" at the beginning of a word while Beth for a "v" everywhere else, which they can do since the modern Hebrew Waw is pronounced like "v" (unlike the classical Syriac Waw).
- Tsadi is pronounced like "ts", unlike our Sadhe, Arabic Sad, or even biblical Hebrew Sadhi.
- The consonantal "w" and "y" sounds are usually written doubled to distinguish them from their vowel counterparts "u"/"o" and "i". Hence, "Wright" is spelled רייט instead of ריט and "Yawan" (Greece) is spelled יוון instead of יון.
As a general rule, I like referring to both the Arabic and Hebrew spellings and trying to find common ground between both while keeping our own rules in mind. "Vincent van Gogh" is spelled فينسنت فان غوخ in Arabic and וינסנט ואן גוך in Hebrew, so I would go for ܒܝܢܣܢܛ ܒܐܢ ܓܘܟ. For "Andy Warhol", it's آندي وارهول in Arabic and אנדי וורהול in Hebrew; in that case, I would use my own gut feeling go with the Hebrew spelling: ܐܢܕܝ ܘܘܪܗܘܠ. In addition to being closer to our language than Arabic, Hebrew is usually more consistent and accurate. However, it's not always about trying to keep the pronunciation as close to the original language as possible, rather, try to "Syriacize" the pronunciation. If we tried to stick to a 100% accurate phonetic transcription, then "Toronto" would be ܬܫܪܐܢܘܘ since, in the Torontonian pronunciation, a) the "tor" is pronounced like "chr", b) the second "o" is like an "a", c) the second "t" isn't pronounced, and d) the English "o" isn't a pure vowel (ܘ) but a diphthong "ow" (ܘܘ).
I think the rules for consonants are fairly consistent, but we need to standardize our vowel rules some more. The outline at the rules page is pretty vague right now. We'll probably end up having to look at each individual language and set up a unique method for transliterating them, but we have to establish a good foundation first.
TFighterPilot, if I'm not mistaken, Majliyana (the "tilde") is a relatively recent eastern Syriac development. Western Syriac uses something else, and classical Syriac (which is what we're using) doesn't use anything at all. --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 20:34, 15 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- I figured it's recent (like the Hebrew Geresh) However, as I said, you do use ܓ for English j. For example ܐܙܪܒܝܓܐܢ. Also, about using ו or ב for [v]. ו is used in the beginning of words, because בגד כפת in the beginning of a word, in Hebrew, is always hard. I, as a Hebrew speaker, would read ܒܐܢ as Ban, but it might be different for Syriac speakers. TFighterPilot (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 08:28, 16 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Actually the Dutch "V" is pronounced /f/, "W" is /v/ and "ch" and "g" are /x/. so I think we should try to sort of "translate" the individual letters as they are pronounced by natives phonetically into our language instead of reproducing them in English first. So Van Gogh should in this case ܦܢܣܢܜ ܦܢ ܟܘܟ.
- I agree that we should follow Hebrew as much as possible since Arabic seem much less standardised, for example Warhol could be written ورهول, وارهول, وورهول as well. there are some things unique to Hebrew like the use of tsade for /t͡ʃ/ and here we could better produce the sound with the combination ܬܫ just like in Arabic.
- Another think... Sould we translate biblical names to Aramaic or keep them the way they're written in their native languages? In Arabic for example they translate names like "Mehmet" and "Mamadou" to محمد.--Rafy (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 08:49, 16 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- Hebrew isn't that standardized. Especially when it comes to ו and even וו, both can be either [v] or [w]. Arabic names are also a problem. For example, Saddam is usually written as סדאם but sometimes as צדאם. Western names who are of Hebrew origin are usually written in their native pronunciation. Josef will be written as ג'וזף and David as דייויד. Often they are written in their Hebrew form when the people are Jews. For example, Moses Montefiore (British politician) is written as משה rather than מוזס. Again, this isn't exactly standardized. TFighterPilot (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 09:06, 16 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- TFighterPilot: Yup, I think a "j" was just transcribed (and pronounced?) as Gamal when we borrowed words, kind of like how English transcribes/pronounces both Arabic Sin and Sad as "s". Classical Syriac has the same BGDKPT rules as in biblical Hebrew, but I think foreign words are not subject to the rules. There are lots of words borrowed from Persian that start with a "v" and are written with Beth, for example. Whether they kept the "v" pronunciation or it just became "b", I do not know. TFP, I have a question: does Hebrew pronounce "פינלנד" like Finland or like Pinland? What about other borrowed words that start with a soft letter? Also, I think what Rafy and I mean when we say that we should side with Hebrew over Arabic is that Hebrew is more standardized (and closer to Syriac) than Arabic is. I don't think there's a single language in the world that is perfectly set up to translate words from every language and be consistent every time, but some are better than others. :)
- Rafy: I know about the Dutch letters having different sound values from English but, like I said, I don't think we should go for 100% native phonetic accuracy. I used to write like that (e.g., ܙܝܓܡܘܢܕ ܦܪܘܝܕ used to be ܙܝܓܡܘܢܬ ܦܪܘܝܬ since a final "d" is pronounced like "t" in German), but not anymore. Remember the ܬܫܪܐܢܘܘ = "Toronto" example I gave? Also, think of how we use Teth, not Taw, to write English "t". I think if the Hebrew and Arabic equivalents are identical, then we should match them regardless of the native pronunciation. If the Arabic/Hebrew spellings differ and one is closer to the native pronunciation, then I think we should side with the native pronunciation. I think it's the same with biblical names: if Arabic/Hebrew translate, we translate; if they transliterate, we transliterate; if they differ, then we transliterate (i.e., go with the native pronunciation). Of course, if you pick one over the other in any of these situations (transliterating vs. translating, native pronunciation vs. English/Semitic pronunciation), then it couldn't hurt to make redirects. E.g., for "Isaac Newton", Arabic translates (إسحاق) while Hebrew transliterates (אייזק), so I think we should follow the Hebrew example in this specific case and transliterate. Currently, the article on Isaac Newton translates (ܐܝܣܚܩ ܢܝܘܛܢ), so I would be in favour of moving it. Had Hebrew used יצחק instead of אייזק, then I would be fine with the way it is now. --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 03:45, 17 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- We pronounce it as Finland, since it's a well established well known word. Plus, unlike [v], there's no other letter for [f]. In the case of פיג'י, though, I'm sure that most Hebrew speakers who first encounter that word written pronounce it as Piji. TFighterPilot (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 05:56, 17 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- I didn't mean to immitate how words are pronounced in their native languages but simply to pronouce individual consonants like they are pronounced by native speakers. For example "Nijmegen" should be ܢܝܡܟܢ rather than the English influenced ܢܓܡܓܢ.--Rafy (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 16:41, 17 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- I don't quite see the difference in what you're saying between not immitating words but immitating consonants. Words are built up from consonants, no? So would you be in favour of the spelling ܙܝܓܡܘܢܕ ܦܪܘܝܕ or ܙܝܓܡܘܢܬ ܦܪܘܝܬ? As for "Nijmegen", according to w:en:Dutch phonology, southern Dutch speakers pronounce the "g" like our soft Gamal. --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:25, 18 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- The way I would write Nijmegen in Syriac would be: ܢܲܝܡܸܝܟܢ. Definitely not with a gomal. But please keep in mind that I don't know the phonetic alphabet. Southern Dutch "soft g" (zachte g) sounds a bit like the sound that a cat makes when it is angry. Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 22:30, 18 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- I thought the sound cats make is ܚ. That's the sound I always make to scare them away. TFighterPilot (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 11:53, 19 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- The soft G in Dutch /ç/ is very similar to the German ch as in Ich which is somewhere between /x/ and /k/ and should be represented by a "ܟ". imo.
- @ 334a, what I meant by translating consonants is to follow simple phonological rules of their native languages and "Syriacise" them eventually, rather than sticking with English ones when translating non-English names. Tow simple examples are how a Somali "C" and Nordic "Å" should be represented by /ʕ/ and /o/ and not /k/ and /a/.--Rafy (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 22:18, 19 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- I thought the sound cats make is ܚ. That's the sound I always make to scare them away. TFighterPilot (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 11:53, 19 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- The way I would write Nijmegen in Syriac would be: ܢܲܝܡܸܝܟܢ. Definitely not with a gomal. But please keep in mind that I don't know the phonetic alphabet. Southern Dutch "soft g" (zachte g) sounds a bit like the sound that a cat makes when it is angry. Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 22:30, 18 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- I don't quite see the difference in what you're saying between not immitating words but immitating consonants. Words are built up from consonants, no? So would you be in favour of the spelling ܙܝܓܡܘܢܕ ܦܪܘܝܕ or ܙܝܓܡܘܢܬ ܦܪܘܝܬ? As for "Nijmegen", according to w:en:Dutch phonology, southern Dutch speakers pronounce the "g" like our soft Gamal. --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:25, 18 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
- I would say that /ç/, at least articulatorily, is actually in between /x/ and /ʃ/ ("kh" and "sh") and I agree we should definitely write /ç/ using Kaph. However, the English article on Nijmegen says the "g" is pronounced [ɣ] (like our soft Gamal) and the article on Dutch phonology says that northern Dutch dialects have lost the [ɣ] sound (the exact words are "In the North /ɣ/ is usually realized as [x] or [χ]").
- Rafy, if you're going by phonology and not phonetics, then Dutch "ch" (phonologically /x/, phonetically [x]) should be represented by Kaph while Dutch "g" (phonologically /ɣ/, phonetically [x] in the north) should be represented by Gamal. It's the same with English "s" (phonologically /s/, phonetically [s], [z], [ʃ], [ʒ], etc.) which should always be written with Semkath, even though some realizations are equivalent to our Zayn or Sheen (which should be used for English /z/ and /ʃ/ respectively). It's not the case at all that using Gamal to write Dutch "g" is because of English influence. I think we actually all agree on how to transliterate at the basic level, it's just that we're getting confused between each language's distinct phonology and phonetics. --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:55, 20 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2011 (UTC)
New software, possible problems
[ܫܚܠܦ]Dear all, I've noticed that we have new software on this wiki (at least that's what I think happened). Now when I create a page, the possibility to mark an edit as "small" is gone. Also Hotcat isn't working as it should be, since some tools are gone now. Last but not least, the edit bar isn't the extented one when I use compatibility mode on IE9.
If you encounter some problems, even if they are small, please report it here so we can make a bugreport. Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 14:02, 8 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2011 (UTC)
I thought something was screwy. Mainly in the English Wikipedia running IE8:
- Usually, when you hover the cursor over an interwiki link in the sidebar, you'll see a yellow box pop up with the name of the article in that language. That seems to be broken for me.
- Briefly (though it's been fixed now), I couldn't see the "edit" buttons that appear on the sides of headers. I had to click on the "edit" tab at the very top of the article. --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 15:48, 8 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. These are (or were) the problems so far:
- No "small edit" button when creating a new page
- No compatibility for HotCat - Fixed
- No extented edit bar in compatibility view
- No yellow pop up at interwiki links
- No edit buttons on the sides of headers - Fixed
Feel free to add new problems to this list. Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 18:15, 8 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2011 (UTC)
Language support group for Aramese
[ܫܚܠܦ]The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.
This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.
As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net. Thanks, Gmeijssen (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 05:45, 15 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2011 (UTC)
Terms of Use update
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Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 22:06, 21 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2011 (UTC)
2011 Fundraising Is Almost Here
[ܫܚܠܦ]I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for volunteers who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into your local language, suggesting community appeals for us to use, and to provide us with feedback on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both translation, statistical analysis, and local discussion and testing. We actively encourage focusing discussion on meta so we can all work together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us. Engagement is what we strive for, without each other we would never had made Wikimedia succeed. The staff working on this fundraiser is comprised of long-time Wikimedians with as much care and concern for the success of this drive as the volunteers, and we want you to actively participate and have a voice. Everyone is welcome to contact any of us on staff at any time with a timely response to follow. I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser.
If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.
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Changing the front page template style
[ܫܚܠܦ]Shlama! We worked to build a brand new front page interface for Wikipedia SYRIAC page, and we want to ask for your opinion of changing to the new style or not? you can see the new style over here: click see the new style, and after that you can submit your vote in this page (((voting page)))
if you agree for the new changes choose (write) ܐܘܝܐ in the voting page and if you don't like it select ܣܩܘܒܠܐ in the edit menu.
- The link is broken TFighterPilot (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 18:35, 7 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2011 (UTC)
Thanks TFighterPilot for trying voting for the new theme; the link is not broken but you cant vote by clicking the buttons directly, you can vote for the new theme in voting page and write your opinion on what should we do to make wiki Syriac better.
(((voting page))))
Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants
[ܫܚܠܦ]I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.
- Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
- Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
- Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.
Thanks!
--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 12:46, 21 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܩܕܡ 2011 (UTC)
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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta
[ܫܚܠܦ]Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.
The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:
- Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
- New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
- The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
- Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
- Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
- Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
- The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
- More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
- Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
- Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
- Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.
Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.
Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 23:56, 14 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2012 (UTC)
MediaWiki 1.19
[ܫܚܠܦ](Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.
Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 13:26, 12 ܒܫܒܛ 2012 (UTC)
Edit bar
[ܫܚܠܦ]Is it just me, or is the edit bar gone when editing in IE's compatibility view? Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 21:31, 12 ܒܐܕܪ 2012 (UTC)
I think there is nothing wrong since i haven't seen any problems. Thanks hopefully that was helpfull to you. Man2fly2002 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 23:57, 12 ܒܐܕܪ 2012 (UTC)
Is the edit bar the same as the edit toolbar (the one that looks like this)? If it is, then it works fine for me in IE compatibility, IE non-compatibility, and Chrome. --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 03:36, 13 ܒܐܕܪ 2012 (UTC)
That's the one, but mine is really gone. I don't see anything instead. When I turn off the compatibility view, the new edit toolbar is shown. The only problem I have with non-compatibility is that the Syriac letters are not shown properly, so I have to turn on the compatibility mode. Perhaps it is a browser issue. Michaelovic (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 16:16, 13 ܒܐܕܪ 2012 (UTC)
Update on IPv6
[ܫܚܠܦ](Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the full version of this announcement on Meta)
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.
What this means for your project:
- At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)
- In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.
- We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.
Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.
--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 00:42, 2 ܒܚܙܝܪܢ 2012 (UTC)
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2011 Picture of the Year competition
[ܫܚܠܦ]македонски • norsk • polski
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!
Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.
About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.
From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.
We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.
See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:02, 5 ܒܚܙܝܪܢ 2012 (UTC)
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Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year
[ܫܚܠܦ](Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)
Hi,
As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.
Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.
--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 19:51, 19 ܒܬܡܘܙ 2012 (UTC)
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More opportunities for you to access free research databases
[ܫܚܠܦ]The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.
- Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. There are 125 full Credo 350 accounts available, with access even to 100 more references works than in Credo's original donation. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
- HighBeam Research has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications including newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias. Thousands of new articles are added daily, and archives date back over 25 years covering a wide range of subjects and industries. There are 250 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
- Questia is an online research library for books and journal articles focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Questia has curated titles from over 300 trusted publishers including 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as encyclopedia entries. There will soon be 1000 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
You might also be interested in the idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. Add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal. Apologies for the English message (translate here). Go sign up :) --Ocaasi (talk) 02:11, 16 ܒܐܒ 2012 (UTC)
Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program
[ܫܚܠܦ]I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.
The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion.
If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)
Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)01:46, 6 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2012 (UTC)
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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out
[ܫܚܠܦ](Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)
As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.
The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:
- language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
- infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
- lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)
It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.
For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.
--Lydia Pintscher 13:06, 10 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2012 (UTC)
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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems
[ܫܚܠܦ](Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)
All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the upgrade schedule & code details).
Please watch for problems with:
- revision diffs
- templates
- CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
- bots
- PDF export
- images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
- the CologneBlue skin
If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.
Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.
Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 02:41, 16 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.
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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed
[ܫܚܠܦ]Please translate for your local community
Hello All,
The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.
The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)
By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :) If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!
Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
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Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!
[ܫܚܠܦ]Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.
I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.
The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**
By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!
Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.
[ܫܚܠܦ](Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.
If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.
Thank you for your help and your understanding.
Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:01, 19 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2013 (UTC)
Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab
[ܫܚܠܦ]I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.
- Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
- Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
- Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?
Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.
Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:06, 30 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) coming to this Wikipedia
[ܫܚܠܦ]Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally.
Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.
What is Wikidata?
[ܫܚܠܦ]Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.
What is going to happen?
[ܫܚܠܦ]Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.
Where can I find more information and ask questions?
[ܫܚܠܦ]Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata
[ܫܚܠܦ]To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editions here.
--Lydia Pintscher 16:00, 21 ܒܫܒܛ 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) live on this Wikipedia
[ܫܚܠܦ]Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
As I annonced 2 weeks ago, Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
--Lydia Pintscher 22:51, 6 ܒܐܕܪ 2013 (UTC)
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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful
[ܫܚܠܦ](Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)
Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.
If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.
If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.
Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 18:36, 13 ܒܐܕܪ 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) coming to this Wikipedia
[ܫܚܠܦ]Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the first 11 Wikipedias (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8. If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will update this part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.
What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here? Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)
How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:
- Use a parser function like {{#property:p169}} in the wiki text of the article on Yahoo!. This will return “Marissa Mayer” as she is the chief executive officer of the company.
- For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.
We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this is here.
Where can I test this? You can already test it on test2.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
--Lydia Pintscher 16:46, 5 ܒܢܝܣܢ 2013 (UTC)
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WebFonts extension
[ܫܚܠܦ]ܫܠܡܐ ܐܚ̈ܐ: ܐܢܐ ܟܕ ܡܦܐܬܝܢܐ ܘܝܩܝܦܝܕܝܐ ܥܪܒܝܬܐ ܚܙܝܬ ܕܐܝܬ ܚܕ ܨܒܝܢܐ ܕܡܬܩܪܝ (ܓܒܝ ܣܪܛܐ). ܠܐ ܝܕܥܢ ܕܢܫܟܚ ܚܢܢ ܕܢܚܫܚ ܗܢܐ ܡܐܢܐ ܠܣܪ̈ܛܐ ܕܝܠܢ (ܡܕܢܚܝܐ ، ܣܪܛܘ ، ܐܣܛܪܢܓܝܠܝܐ). ܢܛܪܢ ܦܘܢܝܐ ܡܢܟܘܢ ܐܚ̈ܐ ܬܘܕܝ ܠܟܘܢ. Man2fly2002 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 01:22, 6 ܒܢܝܣܢ 2013 (UTC)
ܫܠܡܐ ܥܠܝܟܘܢ. ܫܘܐܠܐ ܣܓܝ ܛܒ. ܠܐ ܐܫܟܚܬ ܗܢܐ ܡܐܢܐ ܒܠܥܕ ܒܠܫܢܐ ܥܪܒܝܐ. ܪܒܬ ܢܫܟܚܝܢܢ ܠܡܐܢܐ ܗܢܐ ܠܡܛܘܪܢܘܬ ܘܝܩܝ ܕܠܫܢܢ --Basharh (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 03:27, 6 ܒܢܝܣܢ 2013 (UTC)
ܫܠܡܐ ܐܚܝ ܒܫܐܪ: ܬܘܕܝ ܠܦܘܢܝܐ ܕܝܠܟ. ܐܢ ܬܐܙܠ ܠܦܐܬܐ ܪܝܫܝܬܐ ܕܘܝܩܝ ܥܪܒܝܬܐ ܬܚܙܝ ܠܥܠ ܐܝܟܐ ܕܬܘܪ̈ܩܬܐ ܕܓܒ̈ܝܬܐ ܐܢܘܢ، ܬܡܢ ܐܝܬ ܚܕ ܡܐܢܐ ܚܕܬܐ ܬܫܟܚ ܐܢܬ ܕܫܚܠܦ ܠܣܪܛܐ ܕܓܒܝܬ ܠܟ ܘܐܢܬ ܘܐܢܐ ܟܕ ܝܕܥܝܢ ܕܣܓܝܐ̈ܐ ܡܢ ܐܪܚܐ ܕܘܝܩܝܦܝܕܝܐ ܕܝܠܢ ܠܐ ܢܩܪܘܢ ܠܐܬܘܬܐ ܐܣܛܪܢܓܝܠܝܐ ܒܦܫܝܛܘܬܐ ܪܢܝܬ ܕܛܒ ܐܝܬܐ ܕܢܗܒ ܠܗܢܘܢ ܪܚܡ̈ܐ ܗܢܐ ܓܘܒܝܐ ܚܕܬܐ. ܬܘܕܝ ܠܟ. Man2fly2002 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 01:52, 12 ܒܢܝܣܢ 2013 (UTC)
ܫܠܡܐ: ܟܬܒܬ ܒܥܘܬܐ ܗܕܐ ܠܬܘܣܦܬܐ ܕܣܪ̈ܛܐ ܡܕܢܚܝܐ ܘܡܥܪܒܝܐ ܠܘܝܩܝܦܝܕܐ ܗܕܐ ܒܒܥܘ ܦܘܢܝܐ ܩܠܘܠܐ ܡܢ ܡܕܒܪܢܐ ܥܠܝ̈ܐ. ܬܘܕܝ ܠܟܠ --Basharh (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 02:42, 17 ܒܐܝܪ 2013 (UTC)
ܫܠܡܐ ܐܚܐ ܒܫܐܪ ܐܢܐ ܚܙܝܬ ܕܡܕܡ ܠܐ ܗܘܐ ܫܘܚܠܦܐ ܠܗܢܘܢ ܡܠܘ̈ܐܐ ܕܫܐܠܢܢ ܡܕܒܪ̈ܢܐ ܕܢܘܣܦܘܢ ܠܬܪܝܢ ܣܪܛܐ ܒܓܘ ܘܝܩܝ ܕܝܠܢ؟ ܡܢܐ ܬܬ̣ܪܥܐ ܐܢܬ ܕܠܐ ܢܫܟܚܘܢ ܠܡܥܒܕ ܗܕܐ. ܬܘܕܝ ܠܟ. Man2fly2002 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 01:23, 23 ܒܐܝܪ 2013 (UTC)
ܐܪܐ ܝܕܥܬ ܕܒܥܘܬܢ ܥܠ ܒܓܙܝܠܐ ܐܫܬܘܕܥܬ ܐܝܟ ܓܡܝܪܬܐ؟ ܚܫܒ ܐܢܐ ܕܢܟܠܐ ܬܪܝܢ ܫܒܘܥܝܢ ܘܢܗܒ ܠܒܝܪܘܩܪ̈ܛܐ ܕܘܝܩܝܦܝܕܝܐ ܥܕܢܐ ܕܢܓܡܪܘܢ ܬܘܣܦܬܐ ܕܣܪ̈ܛܐ ܥܠ ܗܢܐ ܘܝܩܝ. ܬܘܕܝ --Basharh (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 21:06, 27 ܒܐܝܪ 2013 (UTC)
ܛܒ ܐܚܐ ܒܫܐܪ ܬܘܕܝ ܥܠ ܥܩܒܬܟ. Man2fly2002 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 00:32, 28 ܒܐܝܪ 2013 (UTC)
(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating the proposal.)
Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。
Hello!
There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.
We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.
All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.
Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 04:17, 24 ܒܢܝܣܢ 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) is here
[ܫܚܠܦ]Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the first 11 Wikipedias (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago and two days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.
What does having phase 2 enabled here mean? You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.
How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:
- Use a parser function like {{#property:p159}} in the wiki text of the article on Wikimedia Foundation. This will return “San Francisco” as that is the headquarter location of the non-profit.
- For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.
We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this is here.
Where can I test this? You can test it on test2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together.
--Lydia Pintscher 19:01, 24 ܒܢܝܣܢ 2013 (UTC)
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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming
[ܫܚܠܦ]Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.
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[en] Change to section edit links
[ܫܚܠܦ]The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.
Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.
Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.
Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.
(Distributed via global message delivery 18:07, 30 ܒܢܝܣܢ 2013 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)
Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions
[ܫܚܠܦ]- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
- A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
- MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
- VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
- A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
- New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
- The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
- The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]
- Future software changes
- The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
- An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
- The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
- A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
- The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]
If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.
You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 20:12, 20 ܒܐܝܪ 2013 (UTC)Trademark discussion
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)
Free Research Accounts from Leading Medical Publisher. Come and Sign up!
[ܫܚܠܦ]The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. I want to alert you to our latest donation.
- Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
- Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
- If you are active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)
Cheers, Ocaasi 20:56, 16 ܒܚܙܝܪܢ 2013 (UTC)
Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)
[ܫܚܠܦ]My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for Cochrane Collaboration accounts at the COCHRANE sign-up page. Cheers, Ocaasi 21:31, 16 ܒܚܙܝܪܢ 2013 (UTC)
(Sorry for writing in English. You can translate the proposal.)
Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.—cyberpower ChatAutomation 04:07, 23 ܒܚܙܝܪܢ 2013 (UTC)
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Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09
[ܫܚܠܦ]On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.
Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 12:11, 4 ܒܬܡܘܙ 2013 (UTC) (via Global message delivery).
Pywikipedia is migrating to git
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 12:52, 23 ܒܬܡܘܙ 2013 (UTC)
VisualEditor and your Wikipedia
[ܫܚܠܦ](Please translate this message)
Greetings,
The Wikimedia Foundation will soon turn on VisualEditor for all users, all the time on your Wikipedia. Right now your Wikipedia does not have any local documents on VisualEditor, and we hope that your community can change that. To find out about how you can help with translations visit the TranslationCentral for VisualEditor and read the easy instructions on bringing information to your Wikipedia. The User Guide and the FAQ are very important to have in your language.
We want to find out as much as we can from you about VisualEditor and how it helps your Wikipedia, and having local pages is a great way to start. We also encourage you to leave feedback on Mediawiki where the community can offer ideas, opinions, and point out bugs that may still exist in the software that need to be reported to Bugzilla. If you are able to speak for the concerns of others in English on MediaWiki or locally I encourage you to help your community to be represented in this process.
If you can help translate the user interface for VisualEditor to your language, you can help with that as well. Translatewiki has open tasks for translating VisualEditor. A direct link to translate the user interface is here. You can see how we are doing with those translations here. You need an account on Translatewiki to translate. This account is free and easy to create.
If we can help your community in any way with this process, please let me know and I will do my best to assist your Wikipedia with this |exciting development. You can contact me on my meta talk page or by email. You can also contact Patrick Earley for help with translations and documents on Mediawiki. We look forward to working with you to bring the VisualEditor experience to your Wikipedia! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:56, 30 ܒܬܡܘܙ 2013 (UTC)
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HTTPS for users with an account
[ܫܚܠܦ]Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.
If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations
channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org
.
Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 18:43, 20 ܒܐܒ 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
Wrong default font for Syriac Wikipedia
[ܫܚܠܦ]I was just trying to fix a rendering problem I'm having with Syriac characters on this website (in most places letters don't join), so I copied some text from an article page to an external word processor. To my surprise, the default font settings that were copied with the text showed "Estarngelo Edessa;sans-serif" with a typo in the font name. Instead of "Estarngelo" the name should of course start with "Estrangelo", since that's the font available on many systems, including mine. I tried to locate the appropriate place to fix the issue (CSS? Javascript? MediaWiki?) but was unable to. Could someone with more knowledge about it please locate and fix it for the benefit of all users? Thank you! Malhonen (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 15:20, 10 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Malhonen, what browser are you using? I have the same problem when I use Internet Explorer (which just recently stopped joining the letters together, for some reason) but the letters are joined correctly when I use Chrome. I'm not as much of a techie as I would like to be in order to fix this problem, but a Google search for "Estarngelo Edessa" yields 174 results. Maybe one of those pages is responsible? --334a (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 16:31, 10 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2013 (UTC)
I reported this bug and it will hopefully be fixed soon! Basharh (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 00:49, 12 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2013 (UTC)
I have noticed that as well Thanks for reporting the bug Basharh Man2fly2002 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 02:39, 14 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, now the problem seems to be solved (BTW, I'm using Chromium on a Ubuntu system). Another related issue: Is it possible for an individual user to change the default font for the whole site from Estrangelo to e.g. a West/East Syriac typeface. Although Estrangelo Edessa might be good as a default font, I would personally, at least, prefer a West Syriac typeface such as Serto Mardin. For me, West Syriac is just so much easier to read than Estrangelo, and I bet there are other users who have their own preferences. I tried to create my own Custom CSS, but there are just too many elements which need to be changed (or then I just don't know what to change), that still large portions of the site show up as Estrangelo to me. If this kind of possibility doesn't exist for the moment, I would really appreciate somebody setting up a system (different skins? something else?) for users to choose their preferred variant of the Syriac script. Thanks very much! Malhonen (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 19:48, 29 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2013 (UTC)
First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.
The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive. Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.
Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 01:58, 24 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
(This message is in English, please translate as needed)
Greetings!
Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.
We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.
There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:
- Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
- Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
- Notifications help on mediawiki.org. This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia. You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.
Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:08, 4 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2013 (UTC)
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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi all,
Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki: m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.
This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.
The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.
We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.
Thanks, Geoff & Yana 19:38, 8 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2013 (UTC)
Introducting Beta Features
[ܫܚܠܦ](Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)
We would like to let you know about Beta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.
Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.
Beta Features is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.
Here are the first features you can test this week:
- Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen
- VisualEditor Formulæ (for wikis with VisualEditor) — edit algebra or equations on your pages
- Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming Thursday)
Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the Beta Features page.
After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on this discussion page -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.
Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.
Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:27, 5 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2013 (UTC)
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Call for comments on draft trademark policy
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi all,
The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.
The current trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect the Wikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review here, and we encourage you to discuss it here.
We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.
Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?
[ܫܚܠܦ]I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.
The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.
Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).
However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.
We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.
Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.
All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.
You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.
We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 16 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2014 (UTC)
Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014
[ܫܚܠܦ]On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.
We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.
You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa
Amendment to the Terms of Use
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello all,
Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 22:00, 21 ܒܫܒܛ 2014 (UTC)
Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments
[ܫܚܠܦ]I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.
Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make ܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.
Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:
- Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)
- Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)
- Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
- Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)
Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!
Hope to have your participation,
--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 19:44, 28 ܒܫܒܛ 2014 (UTC)
IMPORTANT: Admin activity review
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new admin activity review here.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
- A2raya07 (administrator)
These users have received a notification, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 19:35, 3 ܒܐܕܪ 2014 (UTC)
Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment
[ܫܚܠܦ]Catalan Culture Challenge
[ܫܚܠܦ]I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.
The Catalan-speaking world... Want to find out more? From March 16 to April 15 we will organise the Catalan Culture Challenge, a Wikipedia editing contest in which victory will go to those who start and improve the greatest number of articles about 50 key figures of Catalan culture. You can take part by creating or expanding articles on these people in your native language (or any other one you speak). It would be lovely to have you on board. :-)
We look forward to seeing you!
Amical Wikimedia--Kippelboy (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 08:08, 15 ܒܐܕܪ 2014 (UTC)
Changes to the default site typography coming soon
[ܫܚܠܦ]This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:
- April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
- April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live
This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.
For more information:
- Summary of changes and FAQ
- Discussion page for feedback or questions
- Post on blog.wikimedia.org
-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team
Media Viewer
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Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.
I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.
Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 ܒܐܝܪ 2014 (UTC)
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Using only UploadWizard for uploads
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki upload is not fully functional for users, who will experience a very difficult and/or illegal uploading. In fact, the licenses/copyright tags dropdown is empty, making it hard or impossible to comply with copyright requirements during upload itself.
Presumably, you don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP. I propose to have
- local "ܐܣܩ ܠܦܦܐ" restricted to the "ܡܕܒܪ̈ܢܐ" group (for emergency uploads) and
- the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,
so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons and existing files will not be affected.
All this will get done around 2014-07-03.
- If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list. Remember also to create ܡܝܕܝܐܘܝܩܝ:Licenses locally with any content (see a simple example), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting in version 1.24wmf11).
- To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.
Media Viewer is now live on this wiki
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Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,
The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.
Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.
If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.
We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 19 ܒܚܙܝܪܢ 2014 (UTC)
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Help for translate
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki anytime. Thanks! Xaris333 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 18:52, 12 ܒܐܒ 2014 (UTC)
Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions
[ܫܚܠܦ]The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.
If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.
-- JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 ܒܐܒ 2014 (UTC)
Process ideas for software development
[ܫܚܠܦ]’’My apologies for writing in English.’’
Hello,
I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.
I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.
Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 ܒܐܒ 2014 (UTC)
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Grants to improve your project
[ܫܚܠܦ]- Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.
Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.
- Submit your proposal
- Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 16:51, 2 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11
[ܫܚܠܦ]VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 07:29, 11 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2014 (UTC).
PS. Please subscribe to the global monthly newsletter to receive further news about VisualEditor.
Meta RfCs on two new global groups
[ܫܚܠܦ]There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.
We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.
It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.
Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:05, 26 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2014 (UTC)Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--92.46.139.172 11:12, 31 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܩܕܡ 2014 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)
[ܫܚܠܦ]Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:
- DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
- Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
- Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
- British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
- Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
- Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
- JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.23:19, 5 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2014 (UTC)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
Global AbuseFilter
[ܫܚܠܦ]AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.
Thanks,
PiRSquared17, GlaisherNew Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)
[ܫܚܠܦ]Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
- Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
- Pelican Books - ebook monographs
- Public Catalogue Foundation- art books
Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:22, 18 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܩܕܡ 2014 (UTC)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
IMPORTANT: Admin activity review
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
- The Thadman (administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 04:55, 9 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2015 (UTC)
[Global proposal] m.ܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ.org: (ܟܠ) ܫܚܠܦ ܦܐܬܬ̈ܐ
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like arc.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!
Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:33, 1 ܒܐܕܪ 2015 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)
[ܫܚܠܦ]Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
- DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society — pharmaceutical information and practice resources
- Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
- Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 21:14, 2 ܒܐܕܪ 2015 (UTC)
- Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator page.
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content
[ܫܚܠܦ]This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.
All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!
(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 20:01, 4 ܒܐܕܪ 2015 (UTC)
SUL finalization update
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:45, 13 ܒܐܕܪ 2015 (UTC)
Stewards confirmation rules
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:12, 10 ܒܢܝܣܢ 2015 (UTC)
This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.
This year, elections are being held for the following roles:
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the board elections page.
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.
The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
Please test VisualEditor in your language!
[ܫܚܠܦ]It is very important to us at the Editing Department that VisualEditor works in every language, for every user.
VisualEditor's editing environment is a browser ContentEditable element. This means that your input method editor (IME) should already know how to work with it. However, to make VisualEditor correctly edit wiki pages, we have to stop browsers in lots of ways from breaking the page.
Sometimes this can interfere with IMEs. To make sure we work in your IME, we need your help: please see wikimedia.github.io/VisualEditor/demos/ve/desktop-dist.html#!pages/simple.html. This is the core system inside VisualEditor which lets you write and edit. It is different from the full editor, and some of the tools you are used to will be missing.
We're interested in particular in whether you can write text at all, what happens when you select different candidate texts, and how VisualEditor behaves in general.
More details, and some early test results, are provided here: mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/IME_Testing#What_to_test.
We would love to hear from every language, and especially languages which use IMEs, like Japanese, Korean, Indic languages, Arabic and others. Thank you for your help.
Yours,
This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.
The FDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)
[ܫܚܠܦ]Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!
Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences (200 accounts)
- Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
- RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
- Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States (10 accounts)
- HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000 law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25 accounts)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:12, 4 ܒܐܝܪ 2015 (UTC)
- We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at Global our new coordinator signup.
- This message was delivered via the Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core
[ܫܚܠܦ]Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.
There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.
Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core
[ܫܚܠܦ]Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.
There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.
Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge
[ܫܚܠܦ]Wikipedia:Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve and translate this list of 20 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 10:02, 9 ܒܚܙܝܪܢ 2015 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello Wikimedians!
Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- Taylor & Francis — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
- World Bank eLibrary — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
- AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)
New French-Language Branch!
- Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
- Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
- L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including an expansion of accounts for Royal Society journals and remaining accounts on Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Highbeam Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to make a request! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.
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HTTPS
[ܫܚܠܦ]Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
Content Translation beta-feature is now available
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello, Content Translation has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature on the Aramaic Wikipedia. To start translating:
- Please enable the Beta feature in your preferences by checking the box for Content Translation.
- Visit the page ܕܝܠܢܝܐ:ContentTranslation or to your contributions page to open the tool.
- Click on the button to create a new translation.
- In the displayed dialog select the language of the original article and the article name, and the language you would like to translate to. Also add the title of the new article (or the original title will be inserted) and click on to begin. Your language preferences will be remembered for the next time.
- You will see a screen consisting of three columns. The first column contains the text of the source language and the middle column is for the translated text. Using the third column you can perform several actions such as insert source text, remove the inserted text source text, add or remove links etc.
- After you translate the article, you can publish it directly as a new page on the Aramaic Wikipedia by using the publish button that appears. In case the article gets created by another user while you were translating, you will see an option to save the newly published translation under your user namespace.
- The number of published pages can be seen on the Content Translation stats page.
Since this is the first time we have installed the tool on this Wikipedia, there are chances that there may be some problems or service disruptions which we are not yet aware of. We will be monitoring the usage to check for any failures or issues, but please do let us know on the Content Translation talk page or through Phabricator if you spot any problems. For more information, please read the information available in the User Guide. Our announcement is written only in English, and we would really appreciate if this message can be translated to reach more users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering Team:--Runab WMF (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 16:18, 24 ܒܚܙܝܪܢ 2015 (UTC)
Please join the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello!
I'm pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon.
It is a translation rally, focused on interface messages and help pages related to VisualEditor. In order to participate, you need to sign up on the Translathon page on TranslateWiki.
The top 3 contributors will each win a Wikipedia t-shirt of their choice from the Wikipedia store[1]. Translations made between July 15th and July 19th (CDT time zone) qualify[2].
If you are at Wikimania Mexico this year, you are also welcome to join a related sprint during the hackathon in Workplace 1 - Don Américo, Thursday 16 July at 4pm (CDT) at the conference venue, so you can meet other fellow translators and get support if you need some.
Interface messages have the priority. You will need to create an account at translatewiki.net in order to work on them, if you don't have one. It is recommended to create the account ASAP, so that it can be confirmed in time.
You can also help translate documentation pages about VisualEditor on mediawiki.org. You can use your Wikipedia account to work there.
You will find instructions, links and other details on the Translathon page.
Thanks for your attention, and happy translating!
Elitre (WMF) 20:59, 13 ܒܬܡܘܙ 2015 (UTC)
Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images
[ܫܚܠܦ]There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)
This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 05:07, 24 ܒܬܡܘܙ 2015 (UTC)
Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images
[ܫܚܠܦ]There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)
This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 06:21, 24 ܒܬܡܘܙ 2015 (UTC)
What does a Healthy Community look like to you?
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community.
Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!
Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.
Why get involved?
[ܫܚܠܦ]The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.
More information
[ܫܚܠܦ]- All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
- All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
- Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
- URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
- Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: ܩܠܒܐ:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalܩܠܒܐ:@wikimediaܩܠܒܐ:Dotorg
Happy editing!
MediaWiki message delivery (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 23:42, 31 ܒܬܡܘܙ 2015 (UTC)
What does a Healthy Community look like to you?
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community.
Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!
Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.
Why get involved?
[ܫܚܠܦ]The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.
More information
[ܫܚܠܦ]- All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
- All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
- Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
- URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
- Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: ܩܠܒܐ:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalܩܠܒܐ:@wikimediaܩܠܒܐ:Dotorg
Happy editing!
MediaWiki message delivery (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 01:08, 1 ܒܐܒ 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming
[ܫܚܠܦ](Sorry for writing in English)
When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.
We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to d:Wikidata:Contact the development team.
A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.
How to use it, once it is enabled:
- Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital from the item about Germany
- Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua
Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 17:46, 3 ܒܐܒ 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here
[ܫܚܠܦ](Sorry for writing in English)
Hi everyone,
As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier. Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:32, 12 ܒܐܒ 2015 (UTC)
How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?
[ܫܚܠܦ]My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:
- Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
- Join a small group conversation.
- Learn more about this consultation.
Feedback is welcome in any language.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), m:Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.
(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 23:46, 18 ܒܐܒ 2015 (UTC)
Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi all,
We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.
Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/
Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.
Thanks,
Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:12, 2 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2015 (UTC)
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New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- EBSCOHost - this is one of our largest access donations so far: access to a wide variety of academic, newspaper and magazine sources through their Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and MasterFILE Complete
- Newspaperarchive.com - historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, UK and 20 other countries, and includes an Open Access "clipping" feature (1000 accounts)
- IMF Elibary- a digital collection of the IMF's reports, studies and research on global economics and development (50 accounts)
- Sabinet - one of the largest African digital publishers, based in South Africa, with a wide range of content in English and other European and African languages (10 accounts)
- Numérique Premium - a French language social science and humanities ebook database, with topical collections on a wide range of topics (100)
- Al Manhal - an Arabic and English database with a wide range of sources, largely focused on or published in the Middle East (60 accounts)
- Jamalon - an Arabic book distributor, who is providing targeted book delivery to volunteers (50 editors)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including expanded accounts for Elsevier ScienceDirect, British Medical Journal and Dynamed and additional accounts for Project MUSE, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com, Highbeam and HeinOnline. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 19:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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Reimagining WMF grants report
[ܫܚܠܦ](My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)
Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.
Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.
With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 16:56, 28 ܒܐܝܠܘܠ 2015 (UTC)
Community Wishlist Survey
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.
The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.
For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.
While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.
Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.
We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!
Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.
If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.
Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:49, 10 ܒܬܫܪܝܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2015 (UTC)
Harassment consultation
[ܫܚܠܦ]Please help translate to your language
The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of harassment on Meta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)
This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.
Hi everyone,
This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.
As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.
We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.
Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.
(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)
Thank you for your participation!
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
Community Wishlist Survey
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.
We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.
Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.
The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!
Community Tech via
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)
[ܫܚܠܦ]
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
- Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
- Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
- Magiran (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
- Civilica (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, and Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.
As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!
People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.
Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:
- Join/host an event. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
- Talk to local press. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a handy summary of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a press release template and resources on working with the media, are also available.
- Design a Wikipedia 15 logo. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
- Share a message on social media. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!
Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.
If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.
Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 20:58, 18 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܩܕܡ 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • ܥܘܕܪܢܐ
Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!
[ܫܚܠܦ]- Please help translate to your language
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:
Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 01:49, 5 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2016 (UTC)
2016 WMF Strategy consultation
[ܫܚܠܦ]- Please help translate to your language
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 (ܡܡܠܠܐ) 19:07, 18 ܒܟܢܘܢ ܐܚܪܝ 2016 (UTC)
The visual editor is coming to this wiki
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello. Please excuse the English. Please help translate to your language. Thank you!
Hi everybody,
My name is Erica, and I am a Community Liaison at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm here to let you know that the visual editor is coming to editors at this Wikipedia soon. It allows people to edit Wikipedia articles as if they were using word processing software.
You don't have to wait until the deployment to test it; you can test the visual editor right now. To turn it on, select "Beta" in your preferences. Choose "VisualEditor" and click save. When it is enabled, you will press the "ܫܚܠܦ" button to edit an article in the new software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press "Edit source".
After the deployment, everyone will automatically have the option to use either the visual editor or the current wikitext editor. For more information about how to use the visual editor, see mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide.
More information about preparing for the visual editor is posted here.
- It's easier to add templates if you've added TemplateData information.
- Please help translate the user interface and pages about the visual editor. See the visual editor's TranslationCentral for general information. To translate the user guide, go to the MediaWiki.org page, and select "Translate this page". Your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've done this, you'll see the document in English, side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or change old translations. To translate the user interface, you need to create an account at translatewiki.net. Contact me personally if you need help with that.
- Please let us know if you find any problems. You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org. If you notice major issues affecting your project, please leave a note on my talk page.
Thank you, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 18:29, 5 ܒܫܒܛ 2016 (UTC)
Reminder: the visual editor is coming to this wiki soon
[ܫܚܠܦ]Hello again. Please excuse the English. Please help translate to your language. Thank you!
This is a reminder that the visual editor is coming to all editors at this Wikipedia soon. As of this writing, the team is not aware of any issues specific to this language that should prevent the new software to be deployed here; therefore, please do let us know if you find any problems instead. You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org. There is a short guide at mediawiki.org that you can follow (as if it was a "checklist") to learn about the community work necessary to adapt the visual editor, and its referencing system in particular, to your community's needs.
If you can translate from English into this wiki's language, or know anyone who can, please follow the links below, as this language still has 0% progress in translations (0% or slightly above, for interface messages). You'll help your community get the best possible experience when it comes to interface messages and documentation related to the visual editor. After you click on any links, your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. The interface is hosted at https://translatewiki.net; you'll need an account if you never translated there before. The user guide lives at Mediawiki.org, for which you can use your regular Wikipedia account. You're welcome to contact me personally whenever you need help.
Thank you for your cooperation, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 16:34, 26 ܒܫܒܛ 2016 (UTC)