Wikinews:Pressrummet

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Välkommen till Pressrummet; här informerar vi och diskuterar frågor gällande Wikinews. Det kan gälla hur Wikinews fungerar, dess riktlinjer eller policy. Arkivet finns här. Tveka inte att ställa en fråga om det är något du undrar.

Om en diskussion passar in på en specifik Wikinews-sida så starta den helst på den sidan, men lämna gärna en "blänkare" här i pressrummet. Om man efter ett tag upptäcker att en diskussion egentligen skulle ha passat bättre på på en annan sida, flytta gärna diskussionen dit när den har avtagit här men lämna en hänvisning kvar här.

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Welcome to Pressrummet, the Swedish Wikinews Water cooler. Feel free to write in English here. If you want to ask for permission to run a bot on Swedish Wikinews, please go to Wikinews:Robotansökan. Requests relating to unified logins should be made at Wikinews:Byte av användarnamn.

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Kategorier
Om någon av dessa "sidlänkar" (till höger i tabellen) är röda, skapa dem då genom att klicka på "skapa-länken" till vänster och sedan välja spara:

Skapa-länk	Sidlänk
Skapa publiceringar 2024	Kategori:Publiceringar 2024
Skapa publiceringar kvartal 3	Kategori:Publiceringar kvartal 3
Skapa publiceringar november	Kategori:Publiceringar november
Skapa publiceringar vecka 45	Kategori:Publiceringar vecka 45
Skapa publiceringar 10 november	Kategori:Publiceringar 10 november
Skapa Kategori:10 november 2024	Kategori:10 november 2024
Skapa vecka 45	Vecka 45
Skapa 10 november	10 november
Skapa november 2024	november 2024

Diskussionen

Mall:Aktuell artikel mall 2

Hej, jag har nu skapat en mall med ovanstående namn. Den är tänkt som ett alternativ till den nuvarande på huvudsidan. Skillnaden består i att man istället för en läs mer-länk har två länkar med artiklarnas namn. Detta gör att man kan länka till två artiklar i samma ämna som SVT med flera gör. --Rasmus 28 7 oktober 2011 kl. 20.34 (CEST)

Har gjort en ändring så att dem tredje länken blir datumangivle om abar två länkar behövs. --Rasmus 28 15 januari 2012 kl. 22.57 (CET)

Mall:Artikellänk enkel

Har nu också skapat en mall som utåt är nästan likadan som den design som brukar användas på mindre ämnessidor såsom "Politk" och "Litteratur". --Rasmus 28 8 oktober 2011 kl. 00.11 (CEST)

Felaktigt datum vid redigering

Jag gjorde precis en lite ändring i "Tysk påkörd i spanska VM-rallyt", och vips har den placerats överst i nyhetslistorna, trots att den är skapad 2006. Går detta att åtgärda? - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 14 oktober 2011 kl. 20.15 (CEST)

Det är någon knasighet med DPL som jag inte är säker på hur man kan ordna, men som har diskuterats förut. --Ainali 14 oktober 2011 kl. 20.28 (CEST)

Ok, tack för svaret. Kan det vara för att jag bytte kategori från "Motor" till "Bilsport"? Nyhetslistorna baseras på "Bilsport", och den kanske tas som ny, eftersom jag la den i den kategorin nu. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 14 oktober 2011 kl. 20.52 (CEST)

Administratörsnominering

Skulle det kännas väldigt fånigt om jag redan nominerar mig till administratör? Jag är det på svenskspråkiga Wikipedia och känner att de verktygen skulle behövas även här. Det finns ju inte så många på Wikinews, och nästan samtliga är inaktiva. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 16 oktober 2011 kl. 19.54 (CEST)

Jag tror inte att någon skulle se något problem med en sådan nominering. Gaisjonke 16 oktober 2011 kl. 20.54 (CEST)

Jag ser inte heller något problem med det. Är du admin på svwp så kan du väl vara det här också om du är någorlunda aktiv. --Rasmus 28 16 oktober 2011 kl. 21.26 (CEST)

Okej, tack. Då kör vi på det! - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 16 oktober 2011 kl. 21.36 (CEST)

Portalrubrik

Jag har sett att ett fåtal portaler saknar en "vanlig" rubrik. Detta ser mycket snyggare ut än när det både finns en vanlig och ett snyggt Wikinewshuvud. Jag har försökt titta i redigeringsläget, men hittar inte vad det är som tar bort den. Hur gör man? - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 17 oktober 2011 kl. 09.18 (CEST)

Det finns definierat i MediaWiki:Common.css under rubriken /* Borttagning av rubriker på portaler */--Thurs 17 oktober 2011 kl. 19.58 (CEST)

Jaha. Tack så mycket! Då får jag vänta tills jag (förhoppningsvis) blir administratör. :) - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 17 oktober 2011 kl. 20.14 (CEST)

Tillbackarullare?

Varför finns det ingen möjlighet att tillsätta tillbackarullare här? --Rasmus 28 17 oktober 2011 kl. 17.19 (CEST)

För att det inte finns någon sådan användargrupp. Diupwijk 17 oktober 2011 kl. 17.26 (CEST)

Det går dock att begära att man får en sådan grupp. Frågan är dock om det behövs... -- Lavallen 17 oktober 2011 kl. 18.15 (CEST)

Prefix på portaler?

Jag har lagt märke till att samtliga (vad jag kan se) av våra portaler saknar prefixet "Portal:", borde vi inte ändra på det? --Rasmus 28 17 oktober 2011 kl. 20.20 (CEST)

Njä, jag tycker nog inte det. Det blir bara "jobbigare" om man måste skriva "portal:" framför. Portalerna är knappast i vägen för artiklarna, eftersom artiklarna inte har så korta namn som "teknik", "natur" eller "Zimbabwe". - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 17 oktober 2011 kl. 21.04 (CEST)

Jag tycker att Green Yoshi har en bra poäng. Det är antagligen extremt sällsynt vi kommer att stå inför problemet att de krockar. --Ainali 17 oktober 2011 kl. 22.06 (CEST)

Aktiviteten

Jag tycker att det är roligt att Wikinews de senaste dagarna verkar ha fått en liten "renässans". Hoppas att projektet kan fortsätta att återhämta sig till sin forna glans. --Rasmus 28 17 oktober 2011 kl. 22.40 (CEST)

Adminval

Hej! Tänkte bara tala om att det har gått över en vecka på mitt administratörsval och det verkar som inte fler tänker rösta. Jag vill inte stressa, men jag hade gladeligen tagit emot verktygen :) - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 24 oktober 2011 kl. 18.19 (CEST)

Terms of Use update

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Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 27 oktober 2011 kl. 03.18 (CEST)

Finesser importerade

Jag har nu importerat alla finesser från svenskspråkiga Wikipedia. Därför finns till exempel HotCat tillgängligt nu. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 30 oktober 2011 kl. 19.12 (CET)

Bra jobbat! --Ainali 30 oktober 2011 kl. 20.22 (CET)

Användarkontrollanter?

Jag funderade på om vi borde tillsätta någon ip-kontrollant, eller som det hetter här: avnändarkontrollant, utifall att det skulle behövas. Det skulle ju också kunna bli aktuellt med ytterligare en byråkrat då Väsk är inaktiv här samt en censor. --Rasmus 28 2 november 2011 kl. 12.10 (CET)

Enligt WMF's policy kräver IP-kollare och Censorer minst 25-30 stödjande röster vid ett val. Det tror jag inte du kan få fram på den här wikin. Tills ni har vuxit er så stora kan ni kontakta en Steward via wiki-mejl för Censur och m:Steward requests/Checkuser för IP-kontroller.

Det finns ett par stycken Stewards som förstår svenska: User:Laaknor och User:Jafeluv. -- Lavallen 2 november 2011 kl. 13.54 (CET)

Användarkontrollanter och censorer ser jag inget behov av i dagsläget. En byråkrat till skulle dock vara bra, då Ainali är den enda aktiva. Allt ska inte behöva hänga på honom. Gaisjonke 2 november 2011 kl. 15.45 (CET)

Instämmer med Gaisjonke. Om projektet skulle bli större i framtiden kan det finnas behov av det, men inte ännu. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 2 november 2011 kl. 15.55 (CET)

Nominera gärna en byråkrat till! Man får mer respekt på meta som projekt om det finns minst två fungerande Byråkrater på projektet.

Det blir kanske snart dessutom dags att avsluta den desysop-process som jag startade och avgöra hur en ev inaktivetspolicyn ska formuleras. -- Lavallen 2 november 2011 kl. 17.08 (CET)

Det kanske är lite fel att föreslå det då det trots allt var jag som tog upp frågan, men är det då någon som har något emot att jag nominerar mig själv till Byråkrat då jag trots allt är den mest aktiva administratören som varit aktiv en längre tid. --Rasmus 28 2 november 2011 kl. 17.15 (CET)

Två av tre aktiva admins är samtidigt byråkrater, börjar likna Wikisource det här. Kör på! -- Lavallen 2 november 2011 kl. 17.39 (CET)

OK, då kör vi på det. --Rasmus 28 2 november 2011 kl. 17.40 (CET)

Gällande inaktivitetspolicyn så föreslår jag att vi sätter igång och diskuterar någon sådan ganska snart. Jag föreslår att de som inte utfört en åtgärd (redigering) det senaste halvåret skall medelas om att denne kan komma att avsättas och om inget svar inkommit inom en månad så skall vederbörande avsättas. --Rasmus 28 2 november 2011 kl. 17.49 (CET)

Det låter rimligt. Gaisjonke 2 november 2011 kl. 18.21 (CET)

Kopiera gärna det där inlägget till den rubrik jag redan satt på WN:AAB, så disken blir samlad. -- Lavallen 2 november 2011 kl. 20.10 (CET)

Ska jag göra. --Rasmus 28 2 november 2011 kl. 20.11 (CET)

Kategoriplacering

Jag föreslår att vi tar bort kategorierna som ligger överst i artiklarna. Det ser rörigt ut, framför allt i portaler, och de finns ju ändå där nere. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 5 november 2011 kl. 13.31 (CET)

Vilka kategorier är det som ligger överst? Jag kan inte se några. --Rasmus 28 5 november 2011 kl. 13.46 (CET)

Ta den här som exempel. Kategorierna ligger dels där nere, som vanligt, men även mellan rubriken och texten. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 5 november 2011 kl. 13.53 (CET)

Ja, efter en stunds test håller jag med. Det är denna redigering som ska göras ogjord. --Ainali 5 november 2011 kl. 14.36 (CET)

Då var det ordnat. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 5 november 2011 kl. 16.54 (CET)

Val

Hej, ville bara påminna om att det gått en vecka i valet på WN:AAB. --Rasmus 28 9 november 2011 kl. 18.54 (CET)

Upprensning av tomma kategorier

Jag har nu tagit bort alla tomma kategorier om datum o.s.v. Om dessa senare skulle behövas är det bara att återskapa. --Rasmus 28 11 november 2011 kl. 17.59 (CET)

Jaha, haha! Jag tittade precis i senaste ändringarna och undrade vad du sysslade med, men då förstår jag. Bra! - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 11 november 2011 kl. 18.01 (CET)

Har nu också avlägsnat tomma ämneskategorier utan egna portaler. --Rasmus 28 11 november 2011 kl. 20.59 (CET)

Bra! Det bästa hade varit att radera alla tomma kategorier, men det kanske du gör. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 11 november 2011 kl. 21.02 (CET)

Nej, jag tänkte behålla Stubbar, Under Översättning och de fyra kategorierna om länder men de sistnämnda skulle jag kunna radera. --Rasmus 28 11 november 2011 kl. 22.50 (CET)

Jag förstår rensningarna av kategorier av typen 3 juli 2005, men inte de av typen 4 april. De senare kommer ju för eller senare att fyllas, och att skapa dem igen är ett dubbelarbete. Nåväl, gjort är gjort. Men att radera kategorier som troligen kommer att få (och förtjäna) innehåll i framtiden bara för att de är tomma nu tycker jag är onödigt. Varför skulle det behöva göras? --Ainali 11 november 2011 kl. 22.58 (CET)

Se Wikinews:Begäran om åtgärder#Oanvända kategorier. -- Lavallen 12 november 2011 kl. 18.22 (CET)

Senaste ändringarna

Går det att ändra de länkar som vissas överst Senaste ändringarna? --Rasmus 28 11 november 2011 kl. 19.08 (CET)

Ja. - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 11 november 2011 kl. 19.15 (CET)

Tack då vet jag. Jag lägger till länken till Special:Nya Sidor. --Rasmus 28 11 november 2011 kl. 19.17 (CET)

Systemmeddelande om Upphovsrätt

Jag har nu ändrat MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning i enlighet med svwp. Hoppas att det ser bra ut... --Rasmus 28 11 november 2011 kl. 19.30 (CET)

Ja, det är bra :) - Green Yoshi (^d_b) 11 november 2011 kl. 19.33 (CET)

Har även justerat MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown. --Rasmus 28 11 november 2011 kl. 19.38 (CET)

...och MediaWiki:Edittools. --Rasmus 28 11 november 2011 kl. 19.50 (CET)

Ang MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning så ta också gärna en titt på Wikinews:Copyright. Längst ner på varje sida så står det dessutom (CC-BY). Det finns alltså nu tre olika bud om vilken licens som gäller. Efter att ha tittat på enwn's sidor så får jag intrycket att texten i Wikinews:Copyright är den som gäller (CC-BY 2.5). Det betyder att det inte är riktigt samma som på Wikipedia. -- Lavallen 12 november 2011 kl. 18.51 (CET)

Ordnat (tror jag). --Rasmus 28 12 november 2011 kl. 19.03 (CET)

Fel graf är jag rädd. Den illustrerar CC-BY-SA, inte CC-BY. -- Lavallen 12 november 2011 kl. 19.17 (CET)

Den här kanske? -- Lavallen 12 november 2011 kl. 19.20 (CET)

Accreditation and Google News listings

First-off, please forgive my posting in English. I am, as is all-too-common for people from the UK, linguistically challenged.

I want to raise two issues, as-noted in the subject title of this thread: Reporter Accreditation and listing in Google News.

First up, accreditation has worked rather well for Wikinewsies on the English-language version of the project. Personally, I've been given press access to a number of events, other examples may well be reporters getting behind police lines or landing interviews with major political figures.

I have on the English-language version of the project with a view to looking into more than just one project being listed by Google, and other language versions capitalising on accreditation. Please take the time to register any interest in this, the drawbacks from local legal situations, and how we all might better promote Wikinews as a project. --Brian McNeil/^talk 20 december 2011 kl. 13.50 (CET)

Well, actually there isn´t so many active editors on this wiki, only five-ten, so i think there won´t be so many people too do this things. But still, it is a good idea. --Rasmus 28 20 december 2011 kl. 22.51 (CET)

It has been disussed earlier, but no one really seemed to want to do it. But I do know several people that have been accredited as photographers, sometimes with the help of Wikimedia Sverige. --Ainali 20 december 2011 kl. 23.12 (CET)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

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

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

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 22 december 2011 kl. 04.06 (CET)

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

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

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

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

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

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 15 januari 2012 kl. 17.35 (CET)

Finesser - Klocka

Har nu prövat att importera en funktion från Wikimania 2012: MediaWiki:Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js --Rasmus 28 3 februari 2012 kl. 15.59 (CET)

Snyggt! --Ainali 3 februari 2012 kl. 18.57 (CET)

MediaWiki 1.19

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

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 12 februari 2012 kl. 16.19 (CET)

Survey invitation

First, I apologize that part of this message is in English. If you can assist by translating it for your local community, I would greatly appreciate it.

The Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to take part in a brief survey.

Med denna enkät hoppas Wikimedia-stiftelsen att kunna få reda på vilka resurser wikimedianerna önskar och behöver (några kan kräva finansiella medel) och hur behoven ska prioriteras. Inte alla program från stiftelsen är med här (kärnuppgifterna har speciellt undantagits) – det handlar endast om resurser som individuella bidragsgivare eller organisationer som är associerade med Wikimedia, såsom lokalavdelningar, kunde be om.

Målet är här att identifiera vad DU (eller grupper som lokalavdelningar eller klubbar) kunde vara intresserade av och att prioritera alternativen enligt preferenserna. Vi har på denna lista inte tagit upp sådant som "hålla igång servrarna", eftersom de inte är på individuella bidragsgivares eller frivilligorganisationers ansvar. Denna enkät har till syfte att berätta för oss, vilka prioriteringar av medelfördelningen bidragsgivarna är eller inte är överens om.

To read more about the survey, and to take part, please visit the survey page. You may select the language in which to take the survey with the pull-down menu at the top.

This invitation is being sent only to those projects where the survey has been translated in full or in majority into your language. It is, however, open to any contributor from any project. Please feel free to share the link with other Wikimedians and to invite their participation.

If you have any questions for me, please address them to my talk page, since I won’t be able to keep an eye at every point where I place the notice.

Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) (diskussion) 8 mars 2012 kl. 18.24 (CET)

I apologize for any confusion! If you would like to improve this translation, please visit Meta:Survey_of_how_money_should_be_spent/Questions/sv. Cheers, Slaporte (WMF) (diskussion) 8 mars 2012 kl. 22.52 (CET)

Wikimedia Sverige tillsätter teknikpoolsutskott

Wikimedia Sverige har som en del i verksamhetsplanen för 2012 ett projekt som syftar till att skapa en rutin för att hjälpa gemenskapen att få tillgång till utrustning såsom (men inte nödvändigtvis begränsat till) inscanning, foto- och videoutrustning genom att skapa en välutrustad teknikpool eller låna särskild teknik.

Syftet är att stödja de olika Wikimediaprojekten. För att göra detta på bästa sätt, och sprida arbetet på flera engagerade användare, har styrelsen beslutat att tillsätta ett utskott, som skall ta fram förslag till och besluta om inköp inom projektets budget.

Är du intresserad av att påverka vilken teknisk utrustning som skall ingå i teknikpoolen och deltaga i detta utskott? Anmäl på anmälningssidan.

Mer information om verksamhetsplanen och projektet finner du på Wikimedia Sverige.--Historiker (diskussion) 15 mars 2012 kl. 21.02 (CET)

Gemenskapens projekt 2012

Har du velat göra något för Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktonary eller ett annat Wikimedia-projekt som du inte kunnat genomföra pga. att det kostade pengar eller att du saknade utrustning eller en bok? Just för dessa situationer finns årligen Gemenskapens Projekt. Förra året fick Wikimedia Sverige in 11 ansökningar och beslutade då för att under 2012 genomföra projektet i två faser. Nu är det dags för den första omgången!

Sista ansökningsdag är 19 april och projekten bör vara inrapporterade 31 juni. Mer information om hur ansökan bör formuleras finns på Wikimedia Sveriges wiki. Lycka till med era ansökningar!

Om du är intresserad av att hjälpa till, men inte har någon projektidé är du mer än välkommen att anmäla ditt intresse till utskottet som ska godkänna alla ansökningar. Skicka din ansökan till albin.jacobsson@wikimedia.se.Sertion (diskussion) 3 april 2012 kl. 17.49 (CEST)

En lite uppdatering: Anmälningar till Gemenskapens projekt ska göras till gemenskapensprojekt@wikimedia.se och inte info@wikimedia.se som det stod tidigare. Sertion (diskussion) 14 april 2012 kl. 19.16 (CEST)

Update on IPv6

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

What this means for your project:

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

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

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

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

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 2 juni 2012 kl. 03.25 (CEST)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

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Dear Wikimedians,

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

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

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

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

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

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

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 5 juni 2012 kl. 20.41 (CEST)

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Mobile view as default view coming soon

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

If you are an administrator, please consider helping with this change. There are instructions which are being translated. The proposed date of switching the default view is June 21.

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

--Phil Inje Chang, Product Manager, Mobile, Wikimedia Foundation 16 juni 2012 kl. 10.35 (CEST)

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

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Hi,

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

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

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 19 juli 2012 kl. 22.26 (CEST)

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Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

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

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)6 september 2012 kl. 04.13 (CEST)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

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

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

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

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

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

--Lydia Pintscher 10 september 2012 kl. 15.39 (CEST)

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Höjdpunkter för Wikimedia, augusti 2012

Höjdpunkter från Wikimediastiftelsens Rapport och Wikimedias ingenjörsrapport för augusti 2012, med ett urval av andra viktiga händelser inom Wikimediarörelsen

• Wikimediastiftelsens höjdpunkter
  • Wiki Loves Monuments appen tillåter de första bidragen från mobiltelefoner till ett Wikimediaprojekt
  • Språkstödsverktyg släppta i "Projekt Milkshake"
  • Begäran om kommentar om advokatarvoden och hjälpprogram
  • Pilotprojekt på Arabiska Wikipedia ökar bidrag från nya redigerare
• Data och trender
• Ekonomi
• Andra höjdpunkter i rörelsen
  • Donation av Afrikanska konstbilder
  • Katalanska biblotekarier får Wikipediaträning
  • Årlig tyskspråkig konferens

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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

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

Please watch for problems with:

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

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

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

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 16 oktober 2012 kl. 05.14 (CEST)

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

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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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Proposal to close English Wikinews

A proposal for the closure of English Wikinews has been put forward on meta. Whether closure has been proposed in good faith or not, your input would be appreciated. --Brian McNeil/^talk 19 november 2012 kl. 17.45 (CET)

Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

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

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

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

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

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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

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

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

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

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Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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

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

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

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 30 januari 2013 kl. 21.53 (CET)

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

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

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

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

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The Wikinewsie Group

Hi. After consulting with a number of community members, we have started the first step in creating a potential Wikimedia Affiliate group. The details can be found at The Wikinewsie Group. The purpose of the group is to:

1. support open license, independent journalistic efforts that provide neutral and verifiable reporting of news stories,
2. support the education of future journalists in trying to insure they maintain historical journalistic ideals regarding reporting standards,
3. support efforts to increase journalist freedom to report around the globe,
4. encourage participation of and facilitate non-professional journalists practicing their craft on Wikinews, and
5. support the mission statement and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation.

This aims to compliment and support existing efforts, and there is zero intention of imposing one language's policies on another language. The project should assist in increasing original reporting, improving original reporting according to local project standards, better supporting our small community and increasing participation.

Please sign up here by listing your name to indicate you support our group. If you have any questions, please do not hestitate to ask as we will be more than happy to answer them. Thanks. --LauraHale (diskussion) 6 april 2013 kl. 11.43 (CEST)

The Wikinewsie Group bylaws draft

First, let me apologize for writing in English. A copy of the draft bylaws for the The Wikinewsie Group have been posted at The Wikinewsie Group/Bylaws. Alongside these, a Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Journalists have also been posted, which detail our understanding of concepts found in the draft bylaws. Feedback would be appreciated on these. If you agree with them and have no suggestions for modification on one or both documents, please comment on Bylaws talk page or Declaration talk page to say so. Conversely, if you are interested in joining The Wikinewsie Group, please feel free to comment on the relevant talk page with feedback on what changes you might like to see. Thank you. --LauraHale (diskussion) 11 april 2013 kl. 06.36 (CEST)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

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

Hello!

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

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

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

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 24 april 2013 kl. 07.21 (CEST)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

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

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[en] Change to section edit links

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

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

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

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

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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

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

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

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

Future software changes

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

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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 maj 2013 kl. 23.13 (CEST)

Trademark discussion

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

X!'s Edit Counter

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Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ^Chat_Automation 23 juni 2013 kl. 07.02 (CEST)

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

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

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 4 juli 2013 kl. 14.58 (CEST) (via Global message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 23 juli 2013 kl. 15.48 (CEST)

Dags att stänga svenska Wikinews

Se även diskussion på Bybrunnen på Wikipedia.

Svenska Wikinews startade för åtta och ett halvt år sedan med höga ambitioner och mycket entusiasm, men idag är det svårt att hävda att projektet är annat än ett misslyckande. Några av de större språken håller igång sina versioner hjälpligt, men för mindre språk som svenska är det nog dags att ge upp.

Den senaste artikeln publicerades den 16 april. Hittills i år har det publicerats sju artiklar som nästan uteslutande är referat av andra nyhetsartiklar. I de fall det finns en motsvarande Wikipediartikel är den bättre.

Till saken hör att enligt Wikimedias policy är inaktivitet inte skäl nog till att stänga ett projekt. Därför förslår jag att vi istället för att begära en låsning gör en "mjukstängning", alltså att vi blankar huvudsidan, lägger in ett meddelande i sitenotice som berättar att wikin är inaktiv och tar bort interwikilänkar från de andra projektens huvudsidor. På så vis slipper vi byråkratin kring projektstängningar. Väsk (diskussion) 4 augusti 2013 kl. 15.58 (CEST)

instämmer.Yger (diskussion) 8 augusti 2013 kl. 16.32 (CEST)

Instämmer även jag. Det verkar inte heller finnas ambitioner för att driva projektet vidare i någon större utsträckning, så det bästa vore nog om svenska Wikinews stänger ner sin verksamhet. /HeyMid (bidrag) 8 augusti 2013 kl. 16.52 (CEST)

Även jag instämmer. Allt som står på huvudsidan är inaktuellt. Lixer (Diskussion | Bidrag) 8 augusti 2013 kl. 16.56 (CEST)

Instämmer. En nyhetssajt som inte innehåller nyheter är ingen god reklam för WMF. Wikipedias huvudsida är anpassad för att hantera aktuella ämnen och artiklar.--Paracel63 (diskussion) 9 augusti 2013 kl. 03.04 (CEST)

Ja, om projektet inte går att stänga helt enligt WMFs riktlinjer tycker jag att Väsks förslag är bra, blanka och sitenotice. Ainali (diskussion) 9 augusti 2013 kl. 12.49 (CEST)

Jag håller med. Dags att ge upp. -- 77.105.222.249 9 augusti 2013 kl. 14.05 (CEST) Signerar i efterhand, loggades inte in automatiskt. -- Jsdo1980 (diskussion) 10 augusti 2013 kl. 19.54 (CEST)

Även jag håller med. Eftersom det inte uppdateras kontinuerligt och nyheterna på förstasidan är gamla, är det bättre att lägga ner projektet och satsa krafterna på de övriga projekten.--Historiker (diskussion) 9 augusti 2013 kl. 22.17 (CEST)

• Det verkar finnas övertygande stöd för Väsks förslag, och därför har jag nu blankat huvudsidan med ett kort meddelande och en referens till denna tråd. Sitenotice:en låter jag någon annan fixa; jag tror man måste vara administratör för att göra en sitenotice och tyvärr är jag inte det. /HeyMid (bidrag) 10 augusti 2013 kl. 12.11 (CEST)

Jag fixade en kort översättning till engelska samt tips om Wikipedias Bybrunnen för fler frågor (här kommer ju inte frågor att besvaras så snabbt).--Paracel63 (diskussion) 10 augusti 2013 kl. 19.10 (CEST)

Får jag be en byråkrat återkalla robotflaggan för Innocent bot. -- Lavallen (diskussion) 11 augusti 2013 kl. 11.16 (CEST)

Robotflaggan återkallad. Rasmus 28 11 augusti 2013 kl. 12.26 (CEST)

Jag har fixat en sitenotice, säg till om formuleringen behöver slipas. Ainali (diskussion) 12 augusti 2013 kl. 04.42 (CEST)

Du glömde göra en engelsk översättning. Jag skulle skriva "Swedish Wikinews is no longer active. See pressrummet for more information." Den första svenska meningen skulle jag skriva som "Svenskspråkiga Wikinews är inte längre aktivt". Precis som det heter "Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia" heter det även "Svenskspråkiga Wikinews". Dessutom ska det vara "aktivt" istället för "aktiv" eftersom det är ett projekt vi talar om. /HeyMid (bidrag) 12 augusti 2013 kl. 11.01 (CEST)

Tack för tipsen, jag har åtgärdat det nu. --Ainali (diskussion) 14 augusti 2013 kl. 07.53 (CEST)

Vill i egenskap av en av de sista aktiva användarna här säga att detta nog var ett korrekt beslut. Det är nog egentligen bara en bekräftelse på ett väletablerat faktum. Om det i framtiden kommer finnas några som vill börja om på nytt så finns sidan ju ändå kvar men jag betvivlar att det kommer hända. Rasmus 28 11 augusti 2013 kl. 12.24 (CEST)

Jag tycker att detta gjorts på ett tråkigt sätt. Man kunde åtminste haft de gamla sidorna naviger-bara. Det kunde istället funnits en banderoll att "aktiviteten låg, uppdateringar sker sällan". Som det nu är kunde skiten ha raderats helt. Wikinews (sv) har varit bra för att lägga upp korta artiklar med bilder, så att fotoobjekten ser att någit händer. Skriva i wikipeda.se - jag kommer INTE att göra det. Jag får stroke av alla gamla wiki-stofiler som påpekar att "ämnet måste vänta 2 år innan röken klartnat". Alltså klart oklokt och dumt att stänga. Att aktiviteten varit alltför låg, det är dock riktigt. Men det är ingen som funderat över VAD wikinews skulle kunna göra, bidra med. Skriva referat av andra, mja, det är ju redan vad alla dagstidningar idag gör. Eng wikinews är till över 90% referat av andra källor, så inte imponerande. De få original-artiklar som skriva på engelska, granskas fascistiskt av admin, språket måste vara 100% korrekt, det måste vara skrivet efter exakt en viss formel, och ingen hjälper en nybörjare att få till dessa 2 punkter. Original-artiklar, det är en snubbe i ausdtralien som skriver om lokal sport, och en yngling i chile som skriver om lokala nyheter. Haninge-kuriren har mer eget material... Att det sedan google-listas... ja mycket annat skräp listas ju av google också. Jag har skrivit på en wikinews, gör det inte igen. Så jag tycker öppna igen, gör en bättre/snyggare stängnings-sida, lås inte - för när material finns, ja då gäller det att få ut det med en faslig fart. Inte ha en 3-månaders diskution om vad/hur/när. --Janwikifoto (diskussion) 11 augusti 2013 kl. 23.19 (CEST)

Hej! Ledsen att du tycker så. Jag står fast vid min åsikt att en nyhetstjänst som inte publicerar nyheter (mer än några gånger om året) inte är värd namnet och snarare hindrar än hjälper. Chansen för att den ska få nöjda och återkommande läsare är begränsad. Min erfarenhet av svenskspråkiga Wikipedia är lite ljusare. Vi skriver om nyheter/aktuella ämnen även där, alla är inte "gamla wiki-stofiler", och du får jättegärna vara med och påverka hur Wikipedia ska utvecklas och fungera. Bland annat pågår diskussioner i saken här och här, och du får mer än gärna bidra med dina åsikter där. Tack på förhand. Själv är jag fadder på Wikipedia och hjälper gärna till för att lösa problem och besvara frågor. Vad vill du ha hjälp med?--Paracel63 (diskussion) 12 augusti 2013 kl. 17.22 (CEST)

Ska vi skrivskydda huvudsidan också? Visserligen har det inte varit något problem med klotter än, men det kan ju vara bra i förebyggande syfte plus att det förstärker signalen om att det är stängt. --Ainali (diskussion) 22 augusti 2013 kl. 09.51 (CEST)

Det är kanske att ta det lite för långt? Jag förstår ditt resonemang, men jag ser personligen ingen anledning till att låsa huvudsidan så länge det inte är något problem med klotter etc. Dessutom är detta bara en "mjuk" nedstängning av wikin, det vill säga ingen definitiv nedstängning. Wikin är ju inte stängd för redigering, så det kanske skulle ge ett felaktigt intryck för besökarna. Det kan hända i framtiden att vi överväger att ge svenska Wikinews en ny chans (om än ganska osannolikt). För i övrigt är jag lite halvbesviken över att du bara kopierade det jag skrev och klistrade in det i editnoticen istället för att kopiera själva wikikoden i den texten jag skrev (vilket gjorde att "pressrummet" inte är länkat i editnoticen). /HeyMid (bidrag) 22 augusti 2013 kl. 15.57 (CEST)

Ja, du har en poäng där. Sitenoticen var en ren miss, jag såg inte att det fanns en länk i din text, men det har jag fixat nu. --Ainali (diskussion) 24 augusti 2013 kl. 23.26 (CEST)

I apologize for the English. I boldly re-instated the main page to the pre-announcement of closure. The project is not locked, and people still make edits and announcements here. Until the project is closed on meta, having an announcement that it is closed and not allowing people to contribute, having no one monitor changes, seems to be a problem. --LauraHale (diskussion) 10 oktober 2013 kl. 13.37 (CEST)

You are correct is it not locked, no one claimed that. However, there was quite a consensus to abandon Swedish Wikinews and thus we blanked the front page and put up a site notice. The closing process on Meta seemed like a closed path. I will revert your change as per the community consensus, please discuss here to see if you can sway the community decision. --Ainali (diskussion) 28 oktober 2013 kl. 19.39 (CET)

See longer archive restore page. --Jume Heart (diskussion) 7 januari 2016 kl. 14.15 (CET)

close section. --188.32.102.146 11 april 2016 kl. 14.52 (CEST)

Site notice

En annan sak: den som gjort en generell "site notice" för svenska Wikinews har inte riktigt fixat interpunktionen. Finns möjlighet till bättre avgränsning av de staplade huvudsatserna?--Paracel63 (diskussion) 12 augusti 2013 kl. 17.22 (CEST)

HTTPS for users with an account

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

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

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 20 augusti 2013 kl. 21.43 (CEST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo

Request for consultation on this community logo

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 24 september 2013 kl. 05.13 (CEST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Original reporting output

First, I apologize for not writing in the project's own language.

Since May 1, when The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter first began tracking original reporting taking place across all projects, 227 stories have been published by 78 reporters 14 different language Wikinews projects. The projects with the greatest number of reporters engaged in original reporting were English with 15, Russian with 14, Polish with 13 and French with 10. Beyond these, original there were one or more journalists engaging in original reporting on Catalan, Chinese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian. The peak month for reporting across all projects was May with 52 articles. It was followed by June with 49, August with 44, September with 43 and July with 39.

In the past four months, Spanish, Polish, French, Ukrainian, Russian and English have all produced over 20 total pieces of original reporting, with Russian Wikinews publishing 41 stories and English Wikinews publishing 60 stories.

LauraHale, RockerballAustralia, Antanana, Agamitsudo, Dmitry Rozhkov, Plogi, Krassotkin, Schekinov Alexey Victorovich, and MadriCR have each produced 5 or more pieces of original reporting in the past four months. Another group of users, Joan301009, Bddpaux, Computron, Laslovarga, Fed4ev and Yakudza, have produced four articles each. If you are on this list, please seriously consider applying for accredited reporter status on English Wikinews. This will make it easier to identify contributors from around the globe to do original reporting on any special reporting projects done by The Wikinewsie Group.

For September, only three pieces of 43 original reports produced were translated from one language to another. They were Wikinews interviews specialists on China, Iran, Russia support for al-Assad, Wikinews interviews Dr Thomas Scotto and Dr Steve Hewitt about potential US military intervention in Syria, Atlético de Madrid defeats Real Madrid 1-0 in 2013 derby and Tokio gana la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos 2020. Original reporting is a major strength of Wikinews. It is one we should be playing to. Please consider translating your work into another language, or finding a local reporter to assist you with translation work and publishing policy. This will benefit all languages, promote more cooperation between projects, and expand news reach for our reporting which we can leverage to provide more opportunities for reporters.

The Wikinewsie Group is hoping to facilitate more cross-language work. The Wikinewsie Group/Local Wikinews policies is a list of local policies. If some one from each project could complete the row for their language, it would be incredibly useful. Thank you.

Every month, The Wikinewsie Group puts out a newsletter. Please consider putting any local project news on the newsletter. This could include discussions on reporter accreditation, installation of new extensions, translation policies, WMF related discussions of interest to the project. We want to know what Wikinews projects are up to. We need your assistance with that. Please share what is happening. --LauraHale (diskussion) 1 oktober 2013 kl. 18.10 (CEST)

Notifications

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

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

Greetings!

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

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

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

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

• Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 4 oktober 2013 kl. 21.16 (CEST)

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

Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Geoff & Yana 8 oktober 2013 kl. 22.54 (CEST)

Introducting Beta Features

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

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

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

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

Here are the first features you can test this week:

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

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

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

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

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 5 november 2013 kl. 21.41 (CET)

Distributed via Global message delivery (wrong page? Correct it here), 5 november 2013 kl. 21.41 (CET)

Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

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

I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16 januari 2014 kl. 07.47 (CET)

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

On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 21 februari 2014 kl. 23.00 (CET)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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

Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Wikinews better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

• Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)
• Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)
• Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
• Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)

Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 28 februari 2014 kl. 20.44 (CET)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 13 mars 2014 kl. 22.55 (CET)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

• April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
• April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

• Summary of changes and FAQ
• Discussion page for feedback or questions
• Post on blog.wikimedia.org

-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. John F. Lewis (diskussion) 12 april 2014 kl. 21.20 (CEST)

Restarting discussion regarding Wikinewsie.org

Following the board's rejecting AffComm's recommendation to recognise The Wikinewsie Group, and some confusing communication regarding incorporation, I'm trying to re-open discussion on the matter. If it is more-convenient to copy and translate my post on English Wikinews to enable local discussion, please do.

Restarting the process needs broader support than previously received. That means whatever we end up with has to meet the needs of more contributors and readers. --Brian McNeil/^talk 16 april 2014 kl. 16.26 (CEST)

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 23 maj 2014 kl. 23.29 (CEST)

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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 19 juni 2014 kl. 23.54 (CEST)

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Wikidata language links are coming!

Hell everyone,

Sorry for writing in English - I hope someone from the community could translate this if necessary :)

We have just announced that Wikinews will start having it's inter-language links (sitelinks) served by Wikidata on August 19th if nothing changes before then. This will mean sitelinks will no longer be managed through wikitext locally but instead through Wikidata's interface. This brings the chance of having up-to-date language links for all Wikinews communities and the possibility to have links to other projects also served by Wikidata.

You can read more about this and contribute to proposals and Wikidata policies regarding Wikinews at Wikidata:Wikinews over on Wikidata.

On behalf of the development team, John F. Lewis (talk) 22 juli 2014 kl. 21.08 (CEST)

Wikidata is here

Hey everyone :)

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

As announced earlier we just enabled the first part of Wikidata support for you. In this first part you are able to maintain interwiki links centrally on Wikidata and no longer need to keep them in the wikitext. Interwiki links in the wikitext will continue to work though and you can overwrite what is coming from Wikidata if you want to. If you have more questions there is a page on Wikidata with the most important information and where you can also ask your questions: d:Wikidata:Wikinews.

In a later step you'll also get access to the actual data in Wikidata. This includes things like the geocoordinate of a city or the date of birth of a person. I'll keep you informed when that will be as soon as I know.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20 augusti 2014 kl. 08.15 (CEST)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

-- JurgenNL (talk) 21 augusti 2014 kl. 19.35 (CEST)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22 augusti 2014 kl. 00.15 (CEST)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 2 september 2014 kl. 18.52 (CEST)

Change in renaming process

Part or all of this message may be in English. Please help translate if possible.

Målet för enhetlig användarinloggning (Single-user Login, eller SUL) är att se till att varje Wikimediaskribent har ett enda globalt användarkonto med ett och samma användarnamn i alla projekten. Som du kanske känner till håller det efter ett längre uppehåll på att införas som ett samarbete mellan byråkrater, stewarder, och Wikimediastiftelsens tekniker. Detta kommer även att tillåta verktyg såsom väntelistor och underrättelser över alla wikis. Inget datum har i nuläget satts för slutförande av enhetligt användarinloggning.

Som del av denna process kommer alla namnbytesprocesser att ändras till en enda global namnbytesprocess. Från och med den 15 september 2014 kommer lokala byråkrater inte att kunna utföra namnändringar. Globala namnändrare håller på att etableras för att säkerställa att alla projekt och språk representeras korrekt vid detta datum. För tre veckor sedan skickade jag en notis till alla byråkrater om denna process med en inbjudan att delta, och många har börjat begära medlemskap i denna grupp. Tillsammans med stewarder kommer de globala namnändrarna att ha befogenhet att hjälpa skribenter genom den ofta besvärliga processen att få ett globalt användarnamn.

Avslutningsvis, besök gärna Special:MergeAccount för att förena dina konton om du inte gjort det ännu. Om dina lokala sidor om namnändring behöver uppdateras, gör gärna det och överväg att dirigera användare till m:SRUC för framtida namnändringsförfrågningar, framför allt om detta projekt saknar byråkrater som kan döpa om användare globalt. Om du har fler frågor kan du läsa mer på Metas hjälpsida. Du kan även följa de tekniska detaljerna på mediawiki.org. Kontakta mig gärna på Meta om du har några frågor. Tack för ditt engagemang.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 9 september 2014 kl. 18.22 (CEST)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 26 oktober 2014 kl. 19.05 (CET)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

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

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 14 november 2014 kl. 18.36 (CET)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature

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

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

To access it, you will need to visit the Betafunktioner page after the deployment and tick the box next to "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (If you have enabled the "Aktivera automatiskt de flesta nya betafunktionerna" option, VisualEditor will be automatically available for you.) There will also be a "⧼Visualeditor-preference-language-label⧽" that you can enable if you need it.

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

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

Thanks for your attention and happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 21 november 2014 kl. 19.12 (CET)

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

Please notice the correct direct link to access Betafunktioner is this one. Thanks for your understanding! Elitre (WMF) 21 november 2014 kl. 19.35 (CET)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

Did you know?

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

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

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

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

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

Let's work together

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

— Elitre (WMF)

26 december 2014 kl. 19.59 (CET)

VisualEditor News #1—2015

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

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

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

Nyliga förbättringar

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

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

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

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

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

Spaning framåt

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

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

Let's work together

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

— Elitre (WMF)

5 februari 2015 kl. 19.30 (CET)

VIKTIGT: Aktivitetsundersökning av administratörer

Hej. En ny policy gällande avlägsnande av "avancerade rättigheter" (administratörer, byråkrater etc) antogs 2013 genom global gemenskapskonsensus. I enlighet med detta konsensus genomför stewards en kontroll av administratörers aktiviteter på alla wikis inom Wikimediastiftelsen som inte har någon inaktivitetspolicy. Vi har förstått att ni på er wiki saknar en formell policy för att avlägsna avancerade rättigheter från inaktiva användare. Detta innebär att stewards kommer att utföra detta i linje med aktivitetskontroll av admins.

Vi har funnit att följande användare är inaktiva enligt de kriterier som fastställts (inga redigeringar och inga adminåtgärder under de två senaste åren):

1. Calandrella (administratör)
2. Green Yoshi (administratör)
3. Micke (administratör)
4. Popperipopp (administratör)

Dessa användare kommer snart att få förfrågan om att starta en gemenskapsdiskussion om de vill behålla några eller alla rättigheter. Om användarna inte svarar, kommer deras avancerade rättigheter att avlägsnas av Stewards.

Om ni däremot som gemenskap föredrar att skapa er egen aktivitetskontroll som ersätter den globala, har en annan åsikt om dessa inaktiva administratörer, eller redan har en policy som vi har missat, ber vi er informera stewards på Meta-Wiki så att vi kan avsluta aktivitetsukontrollen på er wiki. Tack, Openbk (talk) 6 februari 2015 kl. 23.58 (CET)

Besvarat frågan på meta. -- Innocent bystander (diskussion) 11 februari 2015 kl. 21.40 (CET)

[Global proposal] m.Wikinews.org: (alla) Redigera sidor

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like sv.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 1 mars 2015 kl. 23.33 (CET)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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

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

• Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 4 mars 2015 kl. 21.02 (CET)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13 mars 2015 kl. 20.45 (CET)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 10 april 2015 kl. 18.12 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:

Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:

After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.

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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looking ahead

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

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

Let's work together

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

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

— Elitre (WMF)

10 april 2015 kl. 21.49 (CEST)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

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

The link tool has been re-designed:

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's work together

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

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

— Elitre (WMF)

13 juni 2015 kl. 12.44 (CEST)

HTTPS

Hej!

Wikimediastiftelsen har de senaste åren arbetat mot att aktivera HTTPS som standard för alla användare, inklusive oregistrerade, för bättre integritet och säkerhet för både läsare och skribenter. Det har tagit tid eftersom vi varit tvungna ta hänsyn till flera olika aspekter. Våra servrar har inte varit redo att hantera det. Wikimediastiftelsen har stundvis tvingats balansera mål där det varit svårt att uppnå det ena utan att offra någonting annat.

Tvingad HTTPS har just implementerats på alla Wikimediaprojekt. Några av er är redan medvetna om detta då vissa av Wikipedias språkversioner konverterade till HTTPS förra veckan och berörda gemenskaper underrättades.

De flesta av Wikimedias skribenter kommer inte att märka någon skillnad. Om du gör redigeringar som inloggad användare har du förmodligen redan loggat in via HTTPS. Vi kommer att hålla ett öga på det för att vara säkra på att allt funkar som det ska. Om du har problem med det, hör av dig till oss eller mig för andra frågor.

/Johan (WMF)

20 juni 2015 kl. 00.00 (CEST)

HTTPS

Hej!

Wikimediastiftelsen har de senaste åren arbetat mot att aktivera HTTPS som standard för alla användare, inklusive oregistrerade, för bättre integritet och säkerhet för både läsare och skribenter. Det har tagit tid eftersom vi varit tvungna ta hänsyn till flera olika aspekter. Våra servrar har inte varit redo att hantera det. Wikimediastiftelsen har stundvis tvingats balansera mål där det varit svårt att uppnå det ena utan att offra någonting annat.

Tvingad HTTPS har just implementerats på alla Wikimediaprojekt. Några av er är redan medvetna om detta då vissa av Wikipedias språkversioner konverterade till HTTPS förra veckan och berörda gemenskaper underrättades.

De flesta av Wikimedias skribenter kommer inte att märka någon skillnad. Om du gör redigeringar som inloggad användare har du förmodligen redan loggat in via HTTPS. Vi kommer att hålla ett öga på det för att vara säkra på att allt funkar som det ska. Om du har problem med det, hör av dig till oss eller mig för andra frågor.

/Johan (WMF)

20 juni 2015 kl. 01.27 (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 24 juli 2015 kl. 07.07 (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 24 juli 2015 kl. 08.21 (CEST)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 1 augusti 2015 kl. 01.42 (CEST)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 1 augusti 2015 kl. 04.04 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).

Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

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

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

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

Future changes

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

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

Let's work together

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

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

—Elitre (WMF), 15 augusti 2015 kl. 00.28 (CEST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 19 augusti 2015 kl. 01.09 (CEST)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

• Submit a grant request
• Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 4 september 2015 kl. 22.52 (CEST)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

• Submit a grant request
• Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 4 september 2015 kl. 23.55 (CEST)

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) through MediaWiki message delivery.

Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)

There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

• Submit a grant request
• Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 22 september 2015 kl. 23.01 (CEST)

Reimagining WMF grants report

(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.

Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 28 september 2015 kl. 18.56 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Byt till visuell redigering".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

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

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Länk and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Infoga Bilder och media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Radera" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
• Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

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

—Elitre (WMF), 30 oktober 2015 kl. 19.18 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey

Undersökning: gemenskapens önskelista

Hej allihop!

Wikimedia Foundations Community Tech-team har som fokus att bygga bättre verktyg för erfarna Wikimediaanvändare som fokuserar på att administrera och förvalta wikiernas innehåll. Vi påbörjar nu en önskelisteundersökning för gemenskapen för att ta reda på vilka projekt vi kan arbeta på som är de mest användbara.

För fas 1 av undersökningen bjuder vi in alla aktiva användare att presentera korta förslag där de förklarar vad de skulle vilja att vi arbeta på, och varför det är viktigt. Fas 1 kommer att vara i 2 veckor. I fas 2 kommer vi be er att rösta på förslagen. Efteråt kommer vi att analysera de 10 förslagen i topp och skapa en prioriterad önskelista.

Medan större delen av den här processen kommer att ske på engelska, bjuder vi in folk från alla Wikimediawikier att lägga fram förslag. Vi kommer också att bjuda in gemenskapen att hjälpa till att översätta förslag till engelska.

Ditt förslag skall innehålla: problemet du vill lösa, vem som skulle dra nytta av det, och en föreslagen lösning, om du har en. Du kan presentera ditt förslag på sidan för gemenskapens önskelista, genom att använda fältet och den stora blå knappen. Vi kommer att ta emot förslag i 2 veckor, med 23 november som sista datum.

Vi ser fram emot att höra dina idéer.

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 9 november 2015 kl. 22.57 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10 november 2015 kl. 11.47 (CET)

Harassment consultation

Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of harassment on Meta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)

• Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Wikidata data access is coming

Hi everyone :)

A while ago you received access to the interwiki links from Wikidata. Everything seems to be going well so I'd like to move on to the second stage. You will get access to the actual data in Wikidata like the date of birth of a person. You'll be able to make use of them in your templates via Lua or a new parser function (#property). We'll be enabling this on December 2nd. This will be the day for Wikinews, Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki. I hope this will open up great new possibilities for you and make your work easier. If you have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Sister projects. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (diskussion) 18 november 2015 kl. 17.45 (CET)

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Community Wishlist Survey

Undersökning: gemenskapens önskelista

Hej allihop!

Vi påbörjar nu den andra delen av Community Tech-teamets undersökning om gemenskapens önskelista och bjuder in alla aktiva användare att rösta på de förslag som har presenterats.

Tack vare dig och andra Wikimediaanvändare har 111 förslag presenterats. Vi har delat upp dessa förslag i kategorier, och det är nu dags att rösta. Du kan rösta på alla förslag som listats genom att använda {{Support}}-mallen. Du är välkommen att lämna kommentarer för eller emot, men bara röster för kommer att räknas. Röstperioden är 2 veckor med 14 december som slutdatum.

Förslagen med flest röster kommer att hamna överst på teamets prioriteringslista för att undersöka och se om vi kan göra någonting åt. Tack för ditt deltagande, och vi ser fram emot att höra från dig!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 1 december 2015 kl. 15.38 (CET)

Access to data on Wikidata is here

Hi everyone :)

For a while now you already have access to the sitelinks from Wikidata. We just enabled access to the data on Wikidata for you as well. This means you can now access data like the number of inhabitants of a city or get a link to a picture for a famous person and much more to use it in your articles. You can access the data in two ways - via a parser function and via Lua. How to use it:

• Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital (Property:P36) from the item about Germany (Q183)
• Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua

I hope this will help you do great things here. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Good places to start are the relevant pages on d:Wikidata:Wikinews and d:Wikidata:Project chat.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 2 december 2015 kl. 15.19 (CET)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

• Join/host an event. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
• Talk to local press. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a handy summary of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a press release template and resources on working with the media, are also available.
• Design a Wikipedia 15 logo. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
• Share a message on social media. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18 december 2015 kl. 21.58 (CET) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Hjälp

Password Strength RFC

Hej!

Vi har påbörjat en RFC på Meta för att skärpa lösenordskraven för användare som har konton med redigeringsåtkomst på MediaWiki:Common.js, har tillgång till checkuser eller har tillgång till Oversight.

Denna typ av konton har åtkomst till känsliga delar på våra webbplatser och kan göra svår skada om dessa konton skulle falla i fel händer. I nuläget är det enda kravet att lösenordet ska vara mins ett tecken långt. Vi skulle vilja öka kravet till 8 tecken (bytes) och dessutom bannlysa vissa mycket vanligt förekommande lösenord.

Genom att skärpa lösenordskravet för konton med hög åtkomstnivå hoppas vi kunna göra Wikimediawikis säkrare för alla. Var god läs förslaget i sin helhet här, och gör din röst hörd på denna RFC.

Tack!

(Å WMFs säkerhetsgrupps vägnar) BWolff (WMF) (diskussion) 21 december 2015 kl. 09.46 (CET)

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VisualEditor News #6—2015

Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

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

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

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Redigering tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Redigeringsläge:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

• Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
  • Kom ihåg min senaste redigerare,
  • Ge mig alltid den visuella redigeraren om möjligt,
  • Ge mig alltid källtextredigeraren, and
  • Visa mig båda redigeringsflikarna. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

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

Elitre (WMF), 25 december 2015 kl. 01.06 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 5 januari 2016 kl. 02.49 (CET)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 18 januari 2016 kl. 20.06 (CET)

JavaScript

Hej. Jag skulle (åtminstone tillfälligt) vilja bli administratör här för att uppdatera gammal JavaScript. Jag förstår att det här projektet är mer eller mindre stängt, och att man därför kanske inte vill tillsätta nya administratörer, men det kommer bli skriptfel om ingenting görs. Nirmos (diskussion) 24 januari 2016 kl. 02.59 (CET)

Att hålla webbplatsen i ett skick som inte riskerar att utsätta besökare för risker låter som ett vällovligt syfte. Nirmos har också ett gott rykte av just sådana aktiviteter på flera projekt och tycker att ett tillfälligt administratörsskap kan ges för detta. Ainali (diskussion) 24 januari 2016 kl. 07.51 (CET)

Eftersom att det aktuella skriptet slutar funka 1 april och ingen har opponerat sig kommer jag att köra en snabbprocess med tilldelning av rättigheter. Om någon har invändningar mot ett normalt adminskap, säg till här så begär vi att behörigheten plockas bort i efterhand, annars får den kvarstå som vanligt. Ainali (diskussion) 28 mars 2016 kl. 08.31 (CEST)

Och nu är processat här. Ainali (diskussion) 28 mars 2016 kl. 08.42 (CEST)

Trakasseriworkshop

Hej alla,

Det här är ett meddelande för att fästa er uppmärksamhet på en trakasseriworkshop som just nu pågår på Meta. Workshopen är en plats för att diskutera hur vi kan förbättra vår hantering av trakasserier på Wikimediaprojekten. Hoppas att du kan vara med!

Hälsningar, Wikimedia Foundations stöd- och säkerhetsteam via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 11 mars 2016 kl. 18.09 (CET)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

• Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
• Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 31 mars 2016 kl. 17.47 (CEST)

Rediringspaus två gånger den här veckan

Wikimediastiftelsen håller på att skaffa ett nytt backupdatacenter i Dallas. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimediawikier kan stanna uppe även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att försäkra att allt fungerar som det skall kommer den grupp som ansvarar för servrarna att genomföra ett planerat test när alla är förberedda och redo att omedelbart återställa allt till de vanliga servrarna om någonting går fel.

De kommer att lägga om all trafik till de nya servrarna på tisdag 19 april.
På torsdag 21 april kommer de att styra om trafiken till det primära datacentret igen.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki – den mjukvara Wikimediawikierna använder sig av – kan wikierna inte redigeras under tiden själva migrationen genomförs. Vi ber om ursäkt för detta, och arbetar för att minimera liknande problem i framtiden.

Samtliga Wikimediawikier kommer under en kortare tidsperiod vara möjliga att läsa men inte att redigera.

• Tidsperioden då det inte går att redigera wikierna kommer förmodligen att vara mellan femton och trettio minuter både på tisdagen 19 april och torsdagen 21 april, med start kl. 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
• Om du försöker spara en redigering under dessa tidpunkter kommer du att se ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar kommer att gå förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan kommer du att kunna spara din redigering. Men vi rekommenderar att du kopierar dina ändringar först, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Vissa arbeten som körs i bakgrunden kommer att vara långsammare och några kan komma att sluta fungera. Röda länkar kan ta längre tid på sig för att uppdateras. Om du skapar en artikel som redan länkades någon annanstans kommer den länken att förbli röd längre tid än vanligt. Några långtidsskript kan behöva stoppas.
• Koden kommer att frysas veckan vid 18 april. Inga ej akuta uppdateringar kommer att göras.

Testet var ursprungligen tänkt att äga rum 22 mars. Den 19 och 21 april är de nya datumen. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. De kommer att meddela eventuella ändringar från det schemat. Det kommer fler uppdateringar om det här. Sprid gärna den här informationen i din lokala wikigemenskap. /Johan (WMF) (diskussion) 18 april 2016 kl. 00.54 (CEST)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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

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

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 24 juni 2016 kl. 09.04 (CEST)

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Infoga" menu and click the "Referenslista" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "Infoga" in the dialog to insert the Referenslista. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

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

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Redigering" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Spara sidan" button will say "Publicera sida". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.

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

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 3 juli 2016 kl. 19.20 (CEST)

Open call for Project Grants

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.

Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

• Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
• Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

Also accepting candidates to join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 5 juli 2016 kl. 17.25 (CEST)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Spara sidan” button to “Publicera sida” and “Publicera ändringar”. “Publicera sida” will be used when you create a new page. “Publicera ändringar” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[16][17]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 9 augusti 2016 kl. 20.02 (CEST)

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Hello, Wikinews contributors.

A sysop at the English Wikinews and I have been talking about this change, and we'd like to try something different. It might be confusing to start with a "Publish page" button, since the first edit to an article is not the end of the full Wikinews publishing process. So we are going to try this instead: The "Save page" button will stay the same, but MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning will have a statement added to tell inexperienced people that their contributions will immediately be shared with the general public.

We are assuming that every Wikinews is using a similar structure for reviewing, and therefore we are going to try this at all Wikinewses. To do this, I need the statement translated for the copyright warning file right away! If you speak a Wikinews language, please check m:User:Whatamidoing (WMF)/Wikinews. It's just two sentences and should (I hope) be easy for anyone who is bilingual or multilingual. I need these translations this week, if at all possible.

If you have any questions or if your Wikinews would prefer the "Publish page" and "Publish changes" button, then please contact me at m:User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF). Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (diskussion) 24 augusti 2016 kl. 21.21 (CEST)

Changing soon

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In August 2016, I informed this Wikinews that either the MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning notice needed to be changed locally, or the button that currently says "Spara sidan" would be changed to say "Publicera sida" instead. There is more information about this at m:Editing/Publish. Since this wiki has not changed its copyright notice, I have scheduled the change to the button for Tuesday, 9 January 2018. This change has generally been simple and easy at other the wikis. You do not need to take any further action, although some help pages may need to be updated.

If you have questions, or if you want to change your notice now (you can see translated changes on Meta and how the English Wikinews changed theirs), then please leave a message for me on my user talk page as soon as possible.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (diskussion) 3 januari 2018 kl. 23.33 (CET)

RevisionSlider

Från och med 13 september kommer RevisionSlider att vara tillgänglig som en betafunktion på din wiki. RevisionSlider ger dig möjlighet att enklare navigera mellan olika diffar i historiken. Den har tillkommit som ett önskemål från tyskspråkiga gemenskapens önskelista. Vi hoppas att den kan hjälpa dig. Alla är hemskt välkomna att testa funktionen och komma med feedback.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 12 september 2016 kl. 17.08 (CEST)

Grants to improve your project

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

• Submit a grant request
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 30 september 2016 kl. 22.10 (CEST)

Creative Commons 4.0

Hej! Jag skriver från Wikimediastiftelsen för att be om återkoppling på den föreslagna licensflytten från CC BY-SA 3.0 till CC BY-SA 4.0 på alla Wikimediaprojekt. Diskussionen kommer att äga rum mellan den 5 oktober och den 8 november, och vi hoppas få många olika synpunkter och åsikter. Om du är intresserad, delta då gärna i diskussionen på Meta-Wiki. Joe Sutherland (talk) 6 oktober 2016 kl. 03.15 (CEST)

Editing News #3—2016

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Visste du?

Visste du att du lätt kan flytta på kolumner och rader i den VisualEditor?

Välj en cell i den kolumn eller rad du vill flytta. Klicka på pilen i början på raden eller kolumnen för att öppna dropdownmenyn (visad). Välj antingen "Flytta framför" eller "Flytta bakom" för att flytta kolumnen eller "Flytta upp" eller "Flytta ner" för att flytta raden.

Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarhandledningen, som har mer information om hur man använder den visuella redigeraren.

Sedan det sista nyhetsbrevet har VisualEditor-teamet primärt arbetat på en ny wikitextredigerare. De har också släppt några nya små funktioner och det nya kartredigeringensverktyget. Deras arbetstavla finns på Phabricator. Du kan hitta länkar till listor på arbete som slutförts varje vecka på mw:VisualEditor/Veckovisa triagemöten. Deras nuvarande prioriteter är att reparera fel, utgivningen av 2017 års wikitextredigerare som en betafunktion, och videreutveckling av språkstöd.

Senaste ändringar

• Du kan nu göra text liten eller stor.[18]
• Osynliga mallar har visats som en pusselbitsikon. Nu visas även namnet på den osynliga mallen bredvid pusselbitsikonen.[19] En liknande funktion kommer att visa första delen av gömda HTML-kommentarer.[20]
• Kategorier visas mot slutet av varje sida. Om du klickar på kategorierna öppnas en dialogruta för att redigera kategorier.[21]
• På många wikis kan du nu lägga till kartor på sidor. Gå till Infoga-menyn och välj "Kartor". Discoveryavdelningen håller på att lägga till funktioner här, såsom geoshapes. Du kan läsa mer på mediawiki.org.[22]
• "Spara"-knappen säger nu "Spara sida" när du skapar en sida, och "Spara ändringar" när du redigerar en existerande sida.[23] I framtiden kommer "Spara sidan"-knappen att säga "Publicera sida". Denna ändring påverkar både det visuella och wikitextredigeringssystemet. Mer information finns tillgängligt på Meta.
• Bildgallerier använder nu ett visuellt redigeringsläge. Du kan se miniatyrversioner av bilderna, lägga till nya filer, ta bort bilder, arrangera om bilderna genom att dra och släppa, och lägga till bildtexter för varje bild. Använd fliken "Val" för att sätta galleriets visningsläge, bildstorlekar, och ge galleriet en titel.[24]

Framtida ändringar

Den visuella redigeraren kommer att erbjudas till alla skribenter på de 10 kvarvarande Wikipedias i fas 6 under den kommande månaden. Utvecklarna vill veta om du tycker att det känns naturligt att skriva i ditt eget språk i den visuella redigeraren. Posta gärna dina kommentarer och det eller de språk du testade på återkopplingstråden på mediawiki.org. Detta påverkar ett flertal språk, inklusive thai, burmesiska och arameiska.

Teamet jobbar på en modern wikitextredigerare. Wikitextredigeraren för 2017 kommer att se ut som den visuella redigeraren och kunna hantera citoid-servicen samt andra moderna verktyg. Det nya redigeringssystemet kan komma att göras tillgängligt som en betafunktion på desktopsystem i oktober 2016. Du kan läsa om projektet på en allmän statusuppdatering på Wikimedias epostlista.

Låt oss jobba tillsammans

• Visar du nya skribenter hur man använder den visuella redigeraren? Hjälpte du till med att ställa in den automatiska referensfunktionen Citoid på din wiki? Har du skrivit eller importerat TemplateData för de viktigaste källmallarna? Skulle du vara villig att hjälpa nya ny skribenter och små gemenskaper med den visuella redigeraren? I så fall - anmäl dig till den nya VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

• Om du inte läser detta i ditt föredragna språk, hjälp gärna till med översättningar! Prenumerera på Translators epostlista eller kontakta oss direkt så vi kan tala om för dig när nästa utskick är redo. Tack!

—Elitre (WMF)

15 oktober 2016 kl. 19.49 (CEST)

Lösenordsåterställning

Vi är för tillfället utsatta för en attack från okänd tredjepart som försöker ta över konton med priviligierade användarrättigheter, som administratörer, byråkrater, IP-kontrollanter och censorer. Detta verkar vara möjligt på grund av svaga eller återanvända lösenord.

Medlemmar ur gemenskapen arbetar med Wikimedia Foundation för att åtgärda problemet.

Under tiden ber vi att alla funderar på de lösenord de har valt för sina wikikonton. Om du vet att du har använt ett svagt lösenord (till exempel ett kort, ett ord som finns i en ordlista eller en rad på tangentbordet som "123456" eller "qwerty"), vänligen byt lösenord.

Välja starka lösenord – minst åtta tecken långt, med bokstäver, siffror och skiljetecken. Joe Sutherland (diskussion) / MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 14 november 2016 kl. 00.51 (CET)

New way to edit wikitext

Sammanfattning Du kan nu välja att slå på wikitextläge för VisualEditor som betafunktion. Testa gärna.

Vi i Wikimedastiftelsens Editing-avdelning ansvarar för att göra redigering bättre för alla som redigeringar, såväl nykomlingar som erfarna användare. Vi har sakteligen förbättrat VisualEditor baserat på återkoppling, användertester och förslag. Dock: Det fungerar inte för alla våra behov. Oavsett om du behöver redigera en diskussionssida med wikitext, skapa en mall, fixa trasig referenssyntax så behöver du ibland använda wikitext, och många erfarna användare föredrar det även i vanliga fall.

Således har vi planerat ett "wikitextläge" för VisualEditor ett bra tag. Den innehåller så många som möjligt av VisualEditors funktioner som möjligt, för när du föredrar eller behöver använda wikitext. Det är samma användargränssnitt som VisualEditor, inklusive samma verktygsrad ovanför med samma knappar. Den ger tillgång till Citoid som enklare lägger till referenser, integrerad sökfunktion när man lägger till bilder och enklare möjlighet att lägga till nya mallar. Liksom i VisualEditor kommer text kopierad från en annan sida att behålla typgrafiska detaljer som fet eller kursiv stil och automatiskt att göra om den till wikitextkod.

Alla wikier har nu tillgång till detta läget som betafunktion. När funktionen har aktiverats kommer den att ersätta det nuvarande wikitextredigerinsläget överallt för dig. Om du inte tycker om det kan du när som helst återställa det gamla redigeringsläget genom att stänga av betafunktionen i dina inställningar. Vi vill inte ta någon med överraskning så det här kräver strikt att du själv aktiverar betafunktionen. Vi kommer inte automatiskt att slå på den för någon, ens om du tidigare kryssat i "Aktivera automatiskt de flesta nya betafunktionerna".

Det nya wikitextredigeringsläget är baserat på VisualEditor, så det kräver javascript för att fungera (liksom den nuvarande wikitexteditorn). Det fungerar inte med tilläggsfunktion som bara designats för den äldre wikitexteditorn (och vice versa), så vissa användare kommer att sakna funktioner som är viktiga för dem. Vi arbetar gärna med utvecklare för att hjälpa dem att uppdatera sin kod så att den fungerar med båda editorerna. Vi planerar inte att göra oss av med den nuvarande wikitexteditorn för vanligt desktopläge under översiktlig framtid. Vi kommer inte heller att ta bort möjligheten att redigera wikitext utan att använda javascript. Slutligen, fast det inte borde behöva sägas – om du föredrar att använda den nuvarande wikitexteditorn är det förstås bara att göra det.

Det här är en tidig version och vi vill väldigt gärna höra vad du tycker så att vi kan göra den bättre. Lämna gärna återkoppling, kritik och tips om det nya redigeringsläget på återkopplingssidan. Du kan ge återkoppling och kommentarer på valfritt språk. Tack!

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --14 december 2016 kl. 20.32 (CET)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 15 februari 2017 kl. 21.31 (CET) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 9 mars 2017 kl. 20.43 (CET) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Get help

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

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

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

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

18 mars 2017 kl. 06.09 (CET)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 7 april 2017 kl. 05.37 (CEST) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Get help

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

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Wikimediastiftelsen kommer att testa sitt backupdatacenter i Dallas. Det är för att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimediawikier kan förbli nåbara även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att försäkra att allt fungerar som det skall kommer den grupp som ansvarar för servrarna att genomföra ett planerat test när alla är förberedda och redo att omedelbart återställa allt till de vanliga servrarna om någonting går fel.

De kommer att lägga om all trafik till de nya servrarna på onsdag 19 april 2017. På onsdag 3 maj kommer de att styra om trafiken till det primära datacentret igen.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki – den mjukvara Wikimediawikierna använder sig av – kan wikierna inte redigeras under tiden själva migrationen genomförs. Vi ber om ursäkt för detta, och arbetar för att minimera liknande problem i framtiden.

Samtliga Wikimediawikier kommer under en kortare tidsperiod vara möjliga att läsa men inte att redigera.

• Det kommer inte att gå att redigera i ungefär 20 till 30 minuter på onsdag 19 april och onsdag 3 maj. Testet kommer att börja 14:00 UTC, vilket innebär 16:00 svensk tid och 17:00 finländsk tid.
• Om du försöker spara en redigering under dessa tidpunkter kommer du att se ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar kommer att gå förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan kommer du att kunna spara din redigering. Men vi rekommenderar att du kopierar dina ändringar först, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Vissa arbeten som körs i bakgrunden kommer att vara långsammare och några kan komma att sluta fungera. Röda länkar kan ta längre tid på sig för att uppdateras. Om du skapar en artikel som redan länkades någon annanstans kommer den länken att förbli röd längre tid än vanligt. Några långtidsskript kan behöva stoppas.
• Ingen ny kod kommer att tas i bruk under vecka 16 och vecka 18. Inga ej akuta uppdateringar kommer att göras.

Den här processen kan komma att skjutas upp om det skulle visa sig nödvändigt. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Skulle några ändringar ske kommer de att meddelas där. Det kommer fler uppdateringar om det här. Sprid gärna den här informationen i din lokala wikigemenskap. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 11 april 2017 kl. 19.34 (CEST)

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.

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

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3 maj 2017 kl. 21.14 (CEST)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

Från 9 maj kommer tvåkolumnsredigeringskonfliktsvyn vara tillgänglig som betafunktion på alla Wikimediawikier. Tvåkolumnsredigeringskonfliktvyn är ett nytt gränssnitt för att lösa redigeringskonflikter. Den sätter fokus på skillnader mellan redigeringarna som hamnat i konflikt så att det blir enklare att kopiera och klistra in bitar av texten och lösa problemet. Den här funktionen är tänkt att tillfredsställa önskemålet om användarvänligare redigeringskonfliktslösning som fanns på den tyskspråkiga gemenskapens tekniska önskelista. Alla är välkomna att testa funktionen och vi hoppas att den kommer att hjälpa dig i ditt redigerande!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 8 maj 2017 kl. 16.41 (CEST)

Editing News #1—2017

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Visste du?

Visste du att du kan granska dina ändringar med en visuell diff?

När du är klar med att redigera en sida, skriv din redigeringssammanfattning och välj sedan "Granska dina ändringar".

I visuellt läge kan du se tillägg, borttagningar, nya länkar och textformatering. Andra ändringar, så som ändrad storlek av bild, beskrivs vid sidan av.

Klicka på växlingsknappen för att byta mellan visuella diffar och wikitextdiffar.

Wikitextdiffarna är samma redigeringsverionsverktyg som används wikitexteditorn och sidhistoriken. Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarguiden som har mer information om hur man använder VisualEditor.

Sedan det senaste nyhetsbrevet har VisualEditor-teamet ägnat större delen av sin tid åt stöd för det nya wikitextredigeringsläget 2017 vilket finns inom VisualEditor som betafunktion och lägger till visuella redigeringsversionsjämförelseverktyget. Deras arbete går att följa på Phabricator. Du kan hitta länkar till listor på arbete som slutförts varje vecka på mw:VisualEditor/Veckovisa triagemöten. Deras nuvarande prioriteringar är att fixa buggar, utveckla den nya wikitexteditorn från 2017 som betafunktion, och förbättra de visuella diffarna.

Senaste ändringar

• Ett nytt wikitextredigeringsläge' finns som betafunktion för enheter som använder datorvyn. 2017 års wikitexteditor har samma verktygsfält som VisualEditor och kan använda Citoid och andra moderna verktyg. Gå till Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures för att slå på ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
• Ett nytt visuellt redigeringsverionsjämförelseverktyg finns i VisualEditors visuella läge. Du kan växla mellan wikitextdiffar och visuella diffar. Fler funktioner kommer att läggas till detta senare. I framtiden kan det här verktyget komma att integreras i flera MediaWiki-komponenter. [25]
• Teamet har lagt till flerkolumnstöd för fotnoter. <references /> kan nu automatiskt visa långa källistor i kolumner på breda skärmar. Detta göra fotnoter enklare att läsa. Du kan begära att få flerkolumnsstöd för din wiki. [26]
• Du kan nu använda din webbläsares funtkion för att växla åt vilket håll du skriver i det nya wikitextläget. Det är särskilt hjälpsamt för språk som skrivs från höger till vänster, som urdu eller hebreiska, när de måste skiva javascript eller CSS. Du kan använda Kommando+Shift+X eller Kontroll+Shift+X för detta. [27]
• Hur du växlar mellan wikitext och VisualEditor är nu konsekvent. Det finns en nedfällningsbar meny som visar de båda alternativen. Detta är samma i mobilvy och datorvy och i funktioner som bäddar in redigering, som Flow. [28]
• Kategorier-knappen har flyttats till toppen av Sidalternativ-menyn (från att klicka på "hamburgar"-ikonen) för snabbare och smidigare tillgänglighet. [29] Det finns nu också en "mallar som används på den här sidan"-funktion där. [30]
• Du kan nu skapa <chem>-taggar (ibland används <ce>) för kemiska formler i VisualEditor. [31]
• Tabeller kan ställas in som minimerade eller ej. [32]
• Specialtecken-menyn innehåller nu tecken för att skriva kanadensiska ursprungsspråk samt vinkelcitationstecken. Teamet vill tacka till Tpt för detta. [33]
• En bugg gjorde att en del avsnittsredigeringskonflikter ledde till att resten av sidan togs bort. Detta har fixats. Teamet ber om ursäkt. [34]
• Det finns ett nytt kortkommando för att citera källor: Kontroll+Shift+K på PC eller Kommando+Shift+K på mac. Detta är baserat på kortkommandot för att göra länkar, vilket är Kontroll+K respektive Kommando+K. [35]

Framtida ändringar

• Teamet arbetar på ett verktyg för att göra det enklare att skilja på brödtext och wikikod. Det kommer att göra det enklare att se matchande <ref>-taggspar och andra delar av wikikoden. Du kommer att kunna slå på och av det. Det kommer först att komma i VisualEditors inbyggda wikitextläge, kanske sent 2017. [36]
• Den typ av knapp som används för Visa förhandsgranskning, Visa ändringar och för att spara en redigering kommer att ändras i alla Wikimedia Foundation-stödda wikitextredigerare. De nya knapparna kommer att använda OOjs-utseendet. Knapparna kommer att vara större, ljusare och enklare att läsa. Deras namn kommer att förbli vad de är. Du kan testa de nya knapparna genom att redigera en sida och lägga till &ooui=1 i slutet av webbadressen, som här https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 Det gamla utseendet kommer inte att kunna bevaras, ens med lokala CSS-ändringar. [37]
• Det gamla wikitextredigeringsläget från 2006 kommer att tas bort senare i år. Det används av uppskattningsvis 0,03 % av våra aktiva användare. Se listan över redigeringsverktyg på mediawiki.org om du är osäker på vilken du använder. [38]
• Om du inte läser detta på ditt föredragna språk, hjälp gärna till med översättningar! Prenumerera på Translators epostlista eller kontakta oss direkt så vi kan tala om för dig när nästa utskick är redo. Tack!

—Elitre (WMF)

12 maj 2017 kl. 20.05 (CEST)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider kommmer att vara tillgänglig på alla wikier från 17 maj. RevisionSlider ger dig möjlighet att enklare navigera mellan olika diffar i historiken. Du kan göra detta genom att dra mellan versionerna. Standardläget är att RevisionSlider är minimerad, och kan ses genom att man klickar på den. Det går också att stänga av den helt i användarinställningarna. RevisionSlider har funnits på tyska, arabiska och hebreiska Wikipedia i sex månader och varit en betafunktion på alla andra wikier de senaste åtta månaderna. Den har tillkommit som ett önskemål från tyskspråkiga gemenskapens önskelista. Tack till alla som testade RevisionSlider och gav värdefull återkoppling som gjorde funktionen bättre. Vi hoppas att RevisionSlider fortsätter att tjäna er väl i ert arbete.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 16 maj 2017 kl. 16.44 (CEST)

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

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

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

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

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

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

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

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16 maj 2017 kl. 23.09 (CEST)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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23 maj 2017 kl. 23.06 (CEST)

Actually close or not?

I think, rather than so-called "self closure", we could actually close this project now, this project is unlikely to have new contributions that rather than CentralNotice (like many things above) or global renaming. --Liuxinyu970226 (diskussion) 22 juli 2017 kl. 09.33 (CEST)

If you have the authority to do so, please do. Thanks! Ainali (diskussion) 22 juli 2017 kl. 19.29 (CEST)

Mall:Ping But this require consensus on Meta, which needs to create m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Swedish Wikinews but it's deleted for 3 times as "Housekeeping". --Liuxinyu970226 (diskussion) 27 juli 2017 kl. 03.31 (CEST)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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

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

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

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

Tack! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 25 juli 2017 kl. 20.40 (CEST)

Accessible editing buttons

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

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

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

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

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

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 27 juli 2017 kl. 18.56 (CEST)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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

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

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

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

Tack!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20 november 2017 kl. 23.07 (CET)

Editing News #1—2018

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Visste du?

Känner du till att du nu kan använda det visuella verktyget för "diffar" på alla sidor?

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Andra ändringar, såsom ändring av bildstorlek, beskrivs i notiser på sidan.

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.

Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarhandledningen, där det finns mer information om hur man använder den visuella redigeraren.

Sedan det senaste nyhetsbrevet har redigerings-teamet lagt ned det mesta av sin tid på att supporta 2017 års nya wikikod-editor, som finns tillgänglig som beta-version i VisualEditor. De har också arbetat med att förbättra det visuella diff-verktyget. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Du hittar länkar till föregående veckas slutförda arbetsuppgifter på mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Senaste ändringar

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Utvecklarna har jämfört prestandan i olika redigeringsverktyg. De har studerat hur länge det tar att öppna en sida och börja skriva. Studien omfattar data från mer än en million redigeringar under december och januari. En del ändringar har genomförts för att förbättra hastigheten i 2017 års wikikod-editor och VisualEditor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. Du kan se mer information på mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [39]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [40]
• Citoid-verktyget konvertrar automatiskt URL-adresser, DOI- och ISBN-nummer samt PubMed id-nummer till källhänvisningar i wikikod. Det är ett mycket populärt och användbart verktyg, men kan vara svårt att konfigurera. Din wiki kan få access till verktyget, vänligen läs vägledningen om hur du går tillväga. Du kan be utvecklar-teamet om hjälp med att aktivera verktyget på din wiki.

Låt oss samarbeta

• The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity och andra wikier i gemenskapen kan få tillgång till VisualEditor som förvald standard. Vänligen kontakta Dan Garry ifall din wiki önskar använda VisualEditor som förvalt redgeringssätt.
• The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [41]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Tack!

—Elitre (WMF)

2 mars 2018 kl. 21.56 (CET)

AdvancedSearch

Från och med 8 maj kommer Avancerat Sök att finnas som en betafunktion på din wiki. Funktionen förbättrar söksidan genom ett formulär med avancerade parametrar, och den siktar på att göra befintliga sökval mer synliga och lättare att nå för alla. Avancerat Sök är ett projekt med ursprung från WMDE:s tekniska önskelista. Alla är välkomna att pröva funktionen, och vi hoppas att den kommer väl till användning i ditt arbete!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 7 maj 2018 kl. 16.53 (CEST)

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

• The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
• Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
• Readers care about page issues and consider them important
• Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 12 juni 2018 kl. 22.58 (CEST)

Global preferences are available

Du kan nu ställa in globala inställningar på din nya globala inställningar-sida. Kolla på mediawiki.org för mer information om hur att använda dem och för att lämna återkoppling. /Keegan (WMF) (talk)

10 juli 2018 kl. 21.20 (CEST)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

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Hi all!

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

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

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 30 juli 2018 kl. 19.45 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

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

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Hi all,

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 27 augusti 2018 kl. 14.40 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

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

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Wikimediastiftelsen kommer att testa sitt reservdatacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimediawikier kan stanna uppe även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att försäkra att allt fungerar som det skall kommer den grupp som ansvarar för servrarna att genomföra ett planerat test när alla är förberedda och redo att omedelbart återställa allt till de vanliga servrarna om någonting går fel.

De kommer att lägga om all trafik till de nya servrarna på onsdag 12 september 2018. På onsdag 10 oktober 2018 kommer de att styra om trafiken till det primära datacentret igen.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki – den mjukvara Wikimediawikierna använder sig av – kan wikierna inte redigeras under tiden själva migrationen genomförs. Vi ber om ursäkt för detta, och arbetar för att minimera liknande problem i framtiden.

Samtliga Wikimediawikier kommer under en kortare tidsperiod vara möjliga att läsa men inte att redigera.

• Det kommer inte att gå att redigera i ungefär 20 till 30 minuter på onsdag 12 september och onsdag 10 oktober. Testet kommer att börja 14:00 UTC, vilket innebär 16:00 svensk tid och 17:00 finländsk tid.
• Om du försöker spara en redigering under dessa tidpunkter kommer du att se ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar kommer att gå förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan kommer du att kunna spara din redigering. Men vi rekommenderar att du kopierar dina ändringar först, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Vissa arbeten som körs i bakgrunden kommer att vara långsammare och några kan komma att sluta fungera. Röda länkar kan ta längre tid på sig för att uppdateras. Om du skapar en artikel som redan länkades någon annanstans kommer den länken att förbli röd längre tid än vanligt. Några långtidsskript kan behöva stoppas.
• De aktuella veckorna kommer ingen ny kod att tas i bruk. Inga ej akuta uppdateringar kommer att göras.

Den här processen kan komma att skjutas upp om det skulle visa sig nödvändigt. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Skulle några ändringar ske kommer de att meddelas där. Det kommer fler uppdateringar om det här. Sprid gärna den här informationen i din lokala wikigemenskap. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)

6 september 2018 kl. 15.33 (CEST)

Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

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

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

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

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

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

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

Recent changes

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

Let's work together

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

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

2 november 2018 kl. 15.17 (CET)

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

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

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Example of improvements

Hello,

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

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

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

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

Tack!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 13 november 2018 kl. 20.35 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

Gemenskapens önskelista.

Hej alla!

Gemenskapens önskelista är den process där Wikimediagemenskaperna bestämmer vad Wikimediastiftelsens Community Tech-arbetslag skall arbeta med under det kommande året.

Community Tech-arbetslaget fokuserar på verktyg för erfarna wikimedianer. Du kan nu rösta på de förslag som har lagts till och med 30 november. Du kan läsa mer på önskelistesidan.

/User:Johan (WMF)

22 november 2018 kl. 19.13 (CET)

Advanced Search

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 26 november 2018 kl. 12.03 (CET)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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

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

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

Tack!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6 december 2018 kl. 21.03 (CET)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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

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

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

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

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

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

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

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 27 december 2018 kl. 11.13 (CET)

FileExporter beta feature

Snart: betafunktionen FileExporter

En nya betafunktionen kommer snart att släppas på alla wikier: FileExporter. Det är ett verktyg som tillåter export av lokala filer på din wiki till Commons, inklusiv fil- och sidhistorik. Vilka filer som kan flyttas definieras av varje wikigemenskap: vill ni använda funktionen, kolla konfigurationsfilen.

FileExporter har redan varit en betafunktion på MediaWiki.org, Wikisource samt tyska-, farsi-, arabisk- och koreanskspråkiga Wikipedia. Efter att viss funktionalitet lagts till kommer den nu som betafunktion till alla wikier. Den beräknas släppas 16 januari. Läs mer på projektsidan.

Som alltid är återkoppling mycket uppskattad. Om du vill testa FileExporter, aktivera den i dina inställningar. Bästa stället för återkoppling är den centrala diskussionssidan. Tack från Wikimedia Tysklands tekniska önskningar-projekt.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 14 januari 2019 kl. 10.41 (CET)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

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

16 januari 2019 kl. 19.55 (CET)

Talk to us about talking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trizek (WMF) 21 februari 2019 kl. 16.01 (CET)

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

Man kommer inte kunna redigera de flesta Wikimediawikier för upp till 30 minuter 11 april 05:00 UTC (07:00 svensk tid, 06:00 finländsk tid). Detta beror på ett hårdvarufel. Man kan fortfarande läsa wikierna. Man kan se vilka wikier som påverkas. Tiden du inte kan redigera kan vara kortare än 30 minuter. /Johan (WMF)

8 april 2019 kl. 12.56 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. Tack! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 12 april 2019 kl. 19.35 (CEST)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

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

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

1. Section editing
   • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
   • The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
2. Loading overlay
   • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

• Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
• Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
• Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
• Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

• Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
• Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

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

23 juli 2019 kl. 20.32 (CEST)

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team 16 augusti 2019 kl. 10.03 (CEST)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

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

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

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

Johan (WMF)

21 augusti 2019 kl. 16.18 (CEST)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

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

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

How can you help?

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

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

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

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

-- Kbrown (WMF) 30 september 2019 kl. 19.14 (CEST)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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

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

We would like individual feedback on the following:

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

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

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

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

As well as the following constraints:

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

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

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

Tack! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

16 oktober 2019 kl. 09.14 (CEST)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Hjälp

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Berätta hur du har använt en diskussionssida. Dela en länk till en minnesvärd diskussion eller sammanfatta den på det här projektets diskussionssida. Teamet vill gärna ha dina exempel. Dessa kommer att hjälpa oss att skapa en gemensam förståelse för vad det här projektet borde stödja och uppmuntra.

Diskussionssideprojektet

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Den visuella redigeraren för mobila enheter

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

Redigerarteamet besökte Wikimania 2019 i Sverige. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

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

29 oktober 2019 kl. 12.13 (CET)

Community Wishlist 2020

The 2020 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on November 11, 2019, or comment on other proposals to help make them better.

This year, we’re exclusively focusing on smaller projects (i.e., Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews). We want to help these projects and provide meaningful improvements to diverse communities. If you’re a member of any of these projects, please participate in the survey! To submit proposals, see the guidelines on the survey page. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

IFried (WMF) 4 november 2019 kl. 20.30 (CET)

Wiki Loves Folklore

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 18 januari 2020 kl. 07.15 (CET)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

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

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

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 22 januari 2020 kl. 20.01 (CET)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

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

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 26 februari 2020 kl. 15.15 (CET)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new svara tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

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

8 april 2020 kl. 21.28 (CEST)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Diskussionsverktyg". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

17 juni 2020 kl. 22.36 (CEST)

Feedback on movement names

Hej. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk if necessary. Tack!

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

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

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

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 2 juli 2020 kl. 21.52 (CEST)

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

Editing news 2020 #3

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More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

• More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

9 juli 2020 kl. 14.56 (CEST)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 9 juli 2020 kl. 21.56 (CEST) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

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

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

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

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

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

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

Max Klemm (WMDE) 6 augusti 2020 kl. 11.14 (CEST)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 26 augusti 2020 kl. 15.48 (CEST)

Invitation to participate in the conversation

Hej. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk. Tack!

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 10 september 2020 kl. 19.55 (CEST) 

Wiki of functions naming contest

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

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

29 september 2020 kl. 23.26 (CEST)

Wiki of functions naming contest

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

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

30 september 2020 kl. 00.49 (CEST)

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

Hej. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk.

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

Tack! Qgil-WMF (talk) 7 oktober 2020 kl. 19.09 (CEST)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

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Wikimedia Foundation testar övergången från sitt första till sitt andra reservdatacenter. Detta innebär att Wikipedia och Wikimedias andra wikier kommer kunna förbli online efter en katastrof. För att se till att allt fungerar, behöver Wikimedia Technology-avdelningen utföra ett planerat test. Testet kommer visa på om man säkert kan övergå från ett datacenter till ett annat. Det krävs många arbetslag för att förbereda testet och för att ha möjligheten att åtgärda oförutsedda problem.

All trafik kommer att återgå till det primära datacentret tisdag, 27 oktober 2020.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki, måste tyvärr all redigering avslutas medan övergången pågår. Vi ber om ursäkt för avbrottet och arbetar för att minimera det i framtiden.

Man kommer kunna läsa, men inte redigera, alla wikier en kort tid.

• Man kommer inte kunna redigera i upp till en timme på tisdag, 27 oktober 2020. Testet börjar 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, och i Nya Zeeland onsdag 28 oktober 03:00 NZD).
• Försöker du redigera eller spara något under denna tid kommer du få ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar går förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Ser du felmeddelandet, får du vänta tills det är över. Sen borde du kunna spara din redigering. Men vi rekommenderar ändå att du skapar kopior av dina ändringar för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Bakgrundsjobb kommer vara långsammare och vissa kanske försvinner. Rödlänkar kanske inte uppdateras lika snabbt som förut. Om du skapar en artikel som det länkas till någon annanstans ifrån, kommer länken förbli röd längre än vanligt. Vissa långtgående skript kommer att ha stannat.
• Viss kod kommer frysa till under vecka 44. Oviktiga koddistributioner kommer inte ske.

Projektet kan skjutas fram om det skulle behövas. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Alla ändringar kommer annonseras i schemat. Det kommer komma fler notiser om det här. En notis om det här kommer visas på alla wikier 30 minuter innan händelsen inträffar. Dela gärna informationen med din gemenskap.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 21 oktober 2020 kl. 19.10 (CEST)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

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

5 november 2020 kl. 23.10 (CET)

Update to ICU Unicode library

Den 16 november 2020 kommer servrarna som driver MediaWikis applikationsservrar migreras till en ny utgåva av ICU Unicode-biblioteket (w:International Components for Unicode) (från version 57 till 63). Det här förenklar framtida arbete med att uppgradera servrarna till ett nya versioner av operativsystemet och kommer också tillåta användningen av förbättrad internationalisering i framtiden (då wikier kommer kunna använda funktioner som introducerades i den nya ICU-utgåvan som nya sorteringsdefinitioner och låter oss använda en modernare version av Unicode på MediaWiki).

Migreringen kommer orsaka vissa oundvikliga men tillfälliga besvär: sorteringen av vissa kategorisidor kommer förvrängas - alla sidor som uppdaterats med den nya programvaruversionen kommer använda den nya sorteringen medan orörda sidor fortfarande kommer använda den gamla sorteringen. Därav behöver vi köra ett underhållsskript för att uppdatera sorteringen för gamla inlägg.

Förvrängningarna kan pågå mellan några timmar (på mellanstora wikier) upp till en dag (på de större wikierna), och några dagar på engelskspråkiga Wikipedia. Starttiden beror på när migreringsskriptet når varje wiki.

Det här påverkar 149 wikier (bland annat åtta av de tio största Wikipediaversionerna). Den detaljerade listan och uppgiften för den tekniska tillämpningen finns på T264991.

Tack.

Trizek (WMF) 16 november 2020 kl. 15.53 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

Undersökningen gemenskapens önskelista för 2021 har nu öppnat! Undersökningen är en process där gemenskaperna bestämmer vad Community Tech-arbetslaget ska arbeta med det kommande året. Vi uppmuntrar alla att skicka in förslag innan tidsfristen den 30 november, eller kommentera på andra förslag för att förbättra dem. Gemenskaperna röstar på förslagen mellan 8 december och 21 december.

Community Tech-arbetslaget fokuserar på verktyg för erfarna wikimedianer. Du kan skriva dina förslag på vilket språk som helst, och vi kommer översätta dem åt dig. Tack, vi ser fram emot att läsa dina förslag!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

20 november 2020 kl. 19.15 (CET)

Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion

Hej!

I apologize for sending a message in English. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk. According to the list, your wiki project currently is opted in to the global bot policy. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that is assigned directly by the stewards.

As the Wikimedia projects developed, the need for the current global bot policy decreased, and in the past years, no bots were appointed via that policy. That is mainly given Wikidata were estabilished in 2013, and it is no longer necessary to have dozens of bots that maintain interwiki links.

A proposal was made at Meta-Wiki, which proposes that the stewards will be authorized to determine whether an uncontroversial task may be assigned a global bot flag. The stewards already assign permissions that are more impactful on many wikis, namely, global sysops and global renamers, and I do not think that trust should be an issue. The stewards will assign the permission only to time-proven bots that are already approved at a number of projects, like ListeriaBot.

By this message, I would like to invite you to comment in the global RFC, to voice your opinion about this matter.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Martin Urbanec (diskussion) 24 november 2020 kl. 12.49 (CET)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 30 november 2020 kl. 15.39 (CET)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

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

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 7 december 2020 kl. 11.55 (CET)

Undersökning: Gemenskapens önskelista för 2021

Vi bjuder in alla registrerade användare att rösta i undersökningen Gemenskapens önskelista 2021. Du kan rösta från och med nu fram till den 21 december på så många förslag som du vill.

I undersökningen samlas önskningar om nya och förbättrade verktyg för avancerade användare. Efter omröstningen kommer vi göra vårt bästa för att uppfylla era önskningar. Vi börjar med de populäraste.

Vi, Community Tech, är en av Wikimedia Foundations arbetslag. Vi skapar och förbättrar verktyg för redigering och wikimoderering. Vad vi kommer arbeta med beror på resultatet i gemenskapens önskelista. En gång om året kan du skriva in dina förslag. Efter två veckor kan du rösta på dem du är mest intresserad av. Sen väljer vi önskningar från undersökningen att arbeta på. Vissa av önskningarna kan uppfyllas av frivilliga utvecklare eller av andra arbetslag.

Vi inväntar dina röster. Tack så mycket!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

11 december 2020 kl. 16.55 (CET)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

Hej. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk. Tack!

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

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, 27 januari 2021 kl. 16.15 (CET)

Project Grant Open Call

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

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

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

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

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

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsMall:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 28 januari 2021 kl. 09.00 (CET)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 6 februari 2021 kl. 14.25 (CET)

Wikifunctions logo contest

Hej. Hjälp gärna till att välja ett designkoncept för loggan för den nya wikin Wikifunctions. Omröstningen börjar i dag och kommer att pågå i två veckor. Om du vill delta, läs mer om ämnet och rösta på Meta. Tack! --Quiddity (WMF)

2 mars 2021 kl. 02.46 (CET)

Universell uppförandekod: fas 2

Den universella uppförandekoden (UCoC) erbjuder en universell baslinje av acceptabelt beteende för hela Wikimediarörelsen och alla dess projekt. Projektet är för närvarande i fas 2, för att utforma hur man kommer genomföra koden. Du kan läsa mer om hela projektet på dess projektsida.

Beredningskommitté: Upprop för ansökningar

Wikimedia Foundation rekryterar volontärer för att ta delta i en kommitté för att försöka göra koden genomförbar. Kommitténs medlemmar kommer samlas mellan 2 till 6 timmar i veckan från sent i april till juli och sedan i oktober och november. Det är viktigt att kommittén är mångfaldig och inkluderande samt har en rad olika erfarenheter från erfarna användare och nykomlingar, till de som har utsatts för eller reagerat på trakasserier, samt dem som felaktigt anklagats för detsamma.

För att ansöka och ta reda på mer om processen, se Universell uppförandekod/Beredningskommitté.

Rådfrågning hos gemenskapen 2021: Notis och anrop för volontärer / översättare

Från 5 april – 5 maj 2021 kommer konversationer att hållas på flera Wikimediaprojekt om hur man ska efterfölja UCoC. Vi letar efter volontärer för att översätta nyckelmaterial och hjälpa till med att rådfråga på sina egna språk eller projekt med hjälp av föreslagna nyckelfrågor. Om du är intresserad av att delta i någon av dessa roller, var god meddela oss på vilket språk du än känner dig bekväm i.

För att ta reda på mer om arbetet och andra konversationer som äger rum, se Universell uppförandekod/Rådfrågning 2021.

-- Xeno (WMF) (diskussion) 5 april 2021 kl. 23.22 (CEST)

Global bot policy changes

Hej!

I apologize for sending a message in English. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk. According to the list, your wiki project is currently opted in to the global bot policy. As such, I want to let you know about some changes that were made after the global RfC was closed.

• Global bots are now subject to a 2 week discussion, and it'll be publicized via a MassMessage list, available at Bot policy/New global bot discussion on Meta. Please subscribe yourself or your wiki if you are interested in new global bots proposals.
• For a bot to be considered for approval, it must demonstrate it is welcomed in multiple projects, and a good way to do that is to have the bot flag on at least 5 wikis for a single task.
• The bot operator should make sure to adhere to the wiki's preference as related to the use of the bot flag (i.e., if a wiki doesn't want a bot to use the flag as it edits, that should be followed).

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
—Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 6 april 2021 kl. 20.48 (CEST)

Line numbering coming soon to all wikis

Exempel

Från och med den 15 april kan man aktivera radnumrering i vissa textredigerare - för närvarande i namnrymd för mallar, tillkommer snart fler namnrymder. Detta kommer göra det enkalre att upptäcka radbrytningar och att referera till en specifik rad i diskussioner. Dessa nummer kommer visas om man aktiverat funktionen syntaxmarkering (tillägget CodeMirror), som stöds av 2010 och 2017 års wikitextredigerare.

Mer information finns på den här projektsidan. Alla bjuds in för att testa funktionen, och att ge återkoppling den här diskussionssidan.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12 april 2021 kl. 17.09 (CEST)

Suggested Values

Från den 29:e April kommer det vara möjligt att föreslå värden för parametrar i mallar. Föreslagna värden kan läggas till i TemplateData och kommer då visas som en drop-down i VisualEditor. Detta gör det möjligt för mall-användare att snabbt välja ett passande värde. På så sätt förhindrar detta eventuella fel och gör det enklare att fylla i mallar med värden. Det kommer fortfarande vara möjligt att fylla i andra värden än de föreslagna.

Mer information, inklusive vilka typer av parametrar som finns tillgängliga och hur man kan föreslå värden finns på: [1] [2]. Alla är välkommna att testa funktionen och ge återkoppling på den här diskussionssidan.

Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 22 april 2021 kl. 16.08 (CEST)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

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

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

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

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

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

--MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 12 juni 2021 kl. 01.05 (CEST)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 16 juni 2021 kl. 06.18 (CEST)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

Läs detta på ett annat språk • Prenumerationslista för detta flerspråkiga nyhetsbrev

When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Diskussionsverktyg" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (diskussion)

24 juni 2021 kl. 16.14 (CEST)

Server switch

Läs det här på ett annat språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Wikimedia Foundation testar övergången från sitt första till sitt andra reservdatacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimedia-wikier kan förbli online, även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att se till att allt fungerar, behöver Wikimedia Technology-avdelningen utföra ett planerat test. Testet kommer visa på om man säkert kan övergå från ett datacenter till ett annat. Det krävs många arbetslag för att förbereda testet och för att ha möjligheten att åtgärda oförutsedda problem.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki, måste tyvärr all redigering upphöra medan övergången pågår. Vi ber om ursäkt för avbrottet och arbetar för att minimera det i framtiden.

Under en kort tidsperiod kommer det bara vara möjligt att läsa, men inte redigera alla wikier.

• Man kommer inte kunna redigera i upp till en timme på tisdag, 29 juni 2021. Testet börjar 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, och i Nya Zeeland onsdag 30 juni 02:00 NZST).
• Försöker du redigera eller spara något under denna tid kommer du få ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar går förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan borde du kunna spara din redigering. Vi rekommenderar ändå att du skapar kopior av dina ändringar, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Bakgrundsjobb kommer vara långsammare och vissa kanske försvinner. Rödlänkar kanske inte uppdateras lika snabbt som förut. Om du skapar en artikel som det länkas till någon annanstans ifrån, kommer länken förbli röd längre än vanligt. En del långtidsskript kommer att behöva stoppas.
• Viss kod kommer frysa till 28 juni. Utrullning av icke-essentiella koddistributioner kommer inte att utföras.

Projektet kan skjutas fram om det skulle behövas. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Alla ändringar kommer att tillkännages i tidsplanen. Det kommer att komma fler notiser om det här. En notis om det här kommer visas på alla wikier 30 minuter innan händelsen inträffar. Dela gärna informationen med din gemenskap.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 27 juni 2021 kl. 03.19 (CEST)

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review

The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.

Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.

There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:

Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)

Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC

Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Xeno (WMF) 18 augusti 2021 kl. 00.30 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end

Thank you for participating in the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the Elections Committee completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.

6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the data produced during the election.

Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.

1 september 2021 kl. 23.00 (CEST)

The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January

Hej allesammans!

Vi hoppas ni alla har mår bra och är så trygga som möjligt i dessa tider! Vi vill dela några nyheter om en ändring i underökningen för gemenskapens önskelista 2022. Vi vill också höra vad du tycker.

Sammanfattning:

Vi kommer köra gemenskapens önskelista 2022 i januari 2022. Vi behöver mer tid att arbeta på 2021 års önskningar. Vi behöver också mer tid att förbereda vissa ändringar av önskelistan för 2022. Under tiden kan du använda en tillägnad sandlåda för att skicka in tidiga idéer för 2022 års önskningar.

Förslag och uppfyllelser av önskningar kommer ske samma år

Tidigare har gemenskapens teknikteam kört undersökningen för gemenskapens önskelista för kommande år i november året innan. Vi körde exempelvis önskelistan från 2021 i november 2020. Det fungerade väl för några år sedan. Vid den tidpunkten brukade vi arbeta på önskelistan strax efter att resultaten från omröstningen publicerats.

2021 uppstod det däremot ett glapp mellan omröstningen och när vi kunde börja arbeta på nya önskningar. Fram till 2021 arbetade vi på önskningar från önskelistan från 2020.

Vi hoppas att önskelistan 2022 i januari 2022 kommer vara mer intuitiv. Detta kommer ge oss mer tid på att uppfylla fler önskningar från 2021 års önskelista.

Uppmuntra bredare deltagande från historiskt uteslutna gemenskaper

Vi funderar på hur vi kan göra det enklare att delta i önskelistan. Vi vill stödja fler översättningar, och uppmuntra underutrustade gemenskaper att vara mer aktiva. Vi skulle vilja ha lite tid att göra dessa ändringar.

En ny plats för att diskutera med oss om prioriteringar och önskningar som ännu inte uppfyllts

Vi kommer att ha gått 365 dagar utan en önskelista. Vi uppmuntrar dig att ta kontakt. Vi hoppas du hör av dig på diskussionssidan, men vi hoppas också att du deltar i vårt Prata med oss-möte som hålls varannan månad! Dessa kommer hållas på två olika tider för att passa olika tidszoner.

Vi påbörjar vårt första möte 15 september 23:00 UTC. Fler detaljer om agendan och inramningen kommer snart!

Idéstorm och förslag till utkast före förslagsfasen

Har du några tidiga idéer på önskningar kan du använda önskelistans nya sandlåda. På så sätt glömmer du inte detta innan januari 2022. Du kommer kunna komma tillbaka och fila på dina idéer. Kom ihåg att redigeringar i sandlådan inte räknas som önskningar!

Återkoppling

• Hur skulle önskelistan kunna förbättras?
• Hur skulle du vilja använda vår nya sandlåda?
• Vilka risker ser du, om några, med vårt beslut att ändra datumet för önskelistan 2022?
• Vad skulle hjälpa mer folk att delta i önskelistan 2022?

Svara på diskussionssidan (på vilket språk du vill) eller på våra Prata med oss-möten.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 7 september 2021 kl. 02.23 (CEST)

Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021

Movement Strategy announces the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.

The Committee is expected to represent diversity in the Movement. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.

We are looking for people who have some of the following skills:

• Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
• Are ready to find compromises.
• Focus on inclusion and diversity.
• Have knowledge of community consultations.
• Have intercultural communication experience.
• Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
• Have experience negotiating with different parties.

The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.

Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy here. Please contact strategy2030wikimedia.org with questions.

Xeno (WMF) 10 september 2021 kl. 19.03 (CEST)

Server switch

Läs det här på ett annat språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Wikimedia Foundation testar övergången från sitt första till sitt andra reservdatacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimedia-wikier kan förbli online, även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att se till att allt fungerar, behöver Wikimedia Technology-avdelningen utföra ett planerat test. Testet kommer visa på om man säkert kan övergå från ett datacenter till ett annat. Det krävs många arbetslag för att förbereda testet och för att ha möjligheten att åtgärda oförutsedda problem.

All trafik kommer att återgå till det primära datacentret tisdag 14 september 2021.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki, måste tyvärr all redigering upphöra medan övergången pågår. Vi ber om ursäkt för avbrottet och arbetar för att minimera det i framtiden.

Under en kort tidsperiod kommer det bara vara möjligt att läsa, men inte redigera alla wikier.

• Man kommer inte kunna redigera i upp till en timme på tisdag 14 september 2021. Testet börjar 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, och i Nya Zeeland onsdag 15 september 02:00 NZST).
• Försöker du redigera eller spara något under denna tid kommer du få ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar går förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan borde du kunna spara din redigering. Vi rekommenderar ändå att du skapar kopior av dina ändringar, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Bakgrundsjobb kommer vara långsammare och vissa kanske försvinner. Rödlänkar kanske inte uppdateras lika snabbt som förut. Om du skapar en artikel som det länkas till någon annanstans ifrån, kommer länken förbli röd längre än vanligt. En del långtidsskript kommer att behöva stoppas.
• Vi förväntar oss att kodutrullningen sker precis som vilken vecka som helst. Viss kodfrysning kan däremot stundtals ske punktligt om operationen kräver det efteråt.

Projektet kan skjutas fram om det skulle behövas. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Alla ändringar kommer att tillkännages i tidsplanen. Det kommer att komma fler notiser om det här. En notis om det här kommer visas på alla wikier 30 minuter innan händelsen inträffar. Dela gärna informationen med din gemenskap.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskussion) 11 september 2021 kl. 02.45 (CEST)

Talk to the Community Tech

Read this message in another language • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hello!

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

Agenda

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

Format

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

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

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

Invitation link

• Join online
• Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
• One tap mobile
  • +16465588656,,89828615390# US (New York)
  • +16699006833,,89828615390# US (San Jose)
• Dial by your location

See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskussion) 11 september 2021 kl. 05.03 (CEST)

Let's talk about the Desktop Improvements

Hello!

Have you noticed that some wikis have a different desktop interface? Are you curious about the next steps? Maybe you have questions or ideas regarding the design or technical matters?

Join an online meeting with the team working on the Desktop Improvements! It will take place on October 12th, 16:00 UTC on Zoom. It will last an hour. Click here to join.

Agenda

• Update on the recent developments
• Sticky header - presentation of the demo version
• Questions and answers, discussion

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes will be taken in a Google Docs file. The presentation part (first two points in the agenda) will be given in English.

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

Olga Vasileva (the team manager) will be hosting this meeting.

Invitation link

• Join online
• Meeting ID: 829 3670 1376
• Dial by your location

We hope to see you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 5 oktober 2021 kl. 03.05 (CEST)

Röstningen inför valet för medlemmarna i Movement Charter skrivningskommitté är nu öppen

På andra språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Röstningen inför valet för medlemmarna i Movement Charter skrivningskommitté är nu öppen. Totalt kandiderar 70 Wikimedianer från hela världen om 7 platser i dessa val.

Röstningen är öppen från 12 oktober till 24 oktober 2021 (var som helst på jorden).

Kommittén kommer att bestå av totalt 15 medlemmar: Online grupperna röstar på 7 medlemmar, 6 medlemmar kommer att väljas ut av Wikimedia filialer genom en parallell process och 2 medlemmar kommer att utses av Wikimedia Foundation. Planen är att sammankalla kommittén senast den 1 november 2021.

Lär dig om varje kandidat innanför röstningen på språket du föredrar: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

Lär dig mer om skrivningskommitté: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

Vi testar en röstråd app för detta val. Klicka själv genom verktyget så ser du vilken kandidat är närmast dig! Titta på <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

Läs hela tillkännagivandet: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Gå och rösta på SecurePoll: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Med vänliga hälsningar

Strategi och governance team, Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 14 oktober 2021 kl. 04.55 (CEST)

Prata med gemenskapens tech-team

Hej

Vi här i teamet som arbetar med gemenskapens önskelista bjuder in dig till ett online-möte med oss. Det kommer äga rum den 27 oktober (onsdag), 15:30 Europe/Berlin på Zoom, och kommer hålla på i ungefär en timme. Klicka här för att delta.

Agenda

• Bli en ambassadör för gemenskapens önskelista. Hjälp oss att sprida vetskapen om undersökningen i din gemenskap.
• Uppdatering om önskningarna angående förgrening och förhandsgranskningar i realtid
• Frågor och svar

Format

Mötet kommer inte spelas in eller streamas. Anteckningar utan attribuering kommer tas och offentliggöras på Meta-Wiki. Presentationen (alla punkter i agendan förutom frågorna och svaren) kommer föras på engelska.

Vi kan svara på frågor som ställs på engelska, franska, polska, spanska, tyska och italienska. Skulle du vilja ställa frågor i förväg kan du göra det på undersökningens diskussionssida eller skicka dem till sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (Community Tech teamledaren) kommer hålla i mötet.

Inbjudningslänk

• Delta online
• Mötes-ID: 83847343544
• Ring efter din plats

Hoppas vi ses! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 23 oktober 2021 kl. 01.24 (CEST)

Lär känna medlemmarna i den nya kommittén för utarbetandet av rörelsestadgarna

Valet till kommittén och urvalsprocessen är färdiga.

• Valresultatet har publicerats. 1018 deltagare röstade för att utse sju medlemmar till kommittén: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan), Ciell (Ciell).
• Filialprocessen har valt sex medlemmar: Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati), Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini), Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin), Georges Fodouop (Geugeor), Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur), Pepe Flores (Padaguan).
• Wikimedia Foundation har utsett två medlemmar: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF), Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)).

Kommittén kommer snart sammanträda för att påbörja sitt arbete. Kommittén kan utse upp till tre medlemmar till för att jämna ut mångfald och expertisklyftor.

Är du intresserad av att engagera dig i beredningsprocessen av rörelsestadgarna, följ uppdateringarna på Meta och anslut till Telegram-gruppen.

Tack till Movement Strategy och Governance-teamet

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (diskussion) 3 november 2021 kl. 11.01 (CET)

Prata med gemenskapens tech-team

Hej!

Vi här i teamet som arbetar med gemenskapens önskelista bjuder in dig till ett online-möte med oss. Det kommer äga rum den 30 november (tisdag), 18:00 Europe/Berlin på Zoom, och kommer hålla på i ungefär en timme. Klicka här för att delta.

Agenda

• Ändringar av gemenskapens önskelista 2022. Hjälp oss ta ett beslut.
• Bli en ambassadör för gemenskapens önskelista. Hjälp oss att sprida vetskapen om undersökningen i din gemenskap.
• Frågor och svar

Format

Mötet kommer inte spelas in eller streamas. Anteckningar utan attribuering kommer tas och offentliggöras på Meta-Wiki. Presentationen (alla punkter i agendan förutom frågorna och svaren) kommer föras på engelska.

Vi kan svara på frågor som ställs på engelska, franska, polska, spanska, tyska och italienska. Skulle du vilja ställa frågor i förväg kan du göra det på undersökningens diskussionssida eller skicka dem till sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (Community Tech teamledaren) kommer hålla i mötet.

Inbjudningslänk

• Delta online
• Mötes-ID: 82035401393
• Ring efter din plats

Hoppas vi ses! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskussion) 27 november 2021 kl. 01.29 (CET)

Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.

While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:

• What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?

• What involvement should candidates have during the election?

While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.

Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?

Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msgwikimedia.org.

Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Tack. Xeno (WMF) 27 december 2021 kl. 18.28 (CET)

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.

Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 9 januari 2022 kl. 14.15 (CET)

Undersökning: Gemenskapens önskelista för 2022

Undersökningen gemenskapens önskelista för 2022 har nu öppnat!

Undersökningen är en process där gemenskaperna bestämmer vad Community Tech-arbetslaget ska arbeta med det kommande året. Vi uppmuntrar alla att skicka in förslag innan tidsfristen den 23 januari, eller kommentera på andra förslag för att förbättra dem.

Gemenskaperna röstar på förslagen mellan 28 januari och 11 februari.

Community Tech-arbetslaget fokuserar på verktyg för erfarna wikimedianer. Du kan skriva dina förslag på vilket språk som helst, och vi kommer översätta dem åt dig. Tack, vi ser fram emot att läsa dina förslag! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 10 januari 2022 kl. 21.11 (CET)

Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 7 February 2022.

With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.

Join the conversation.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Xeno (WMF) 15 januari 2022 kl. 01.19 (CET)

Prata med gemenskapens tech-team

Hej

Vi här i teamet som arbetar med gemenskapens önskelista bjuder in dig till ett online-möte med oss. Det kommer äga rum den 19 januari (onsdag), 19:00 Europe/Berlin på Zoom, och kommer hålla på i ungefär en timme. Klicka här för att delta.

Agenda

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

Format

Mötet kommer inte spelas in eller streamas. Anteckningar utan attribuering kommer tas och offentliggöras på Meta-Wiki.

Vi kan svara på frågor som ställs på engelska, franska, polska, spanska och tyska. Skulle du vilja ställa frågor i förväg kan du göra det på undersökningens diskussionssida eller skicka dem till sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (Community Tech teamledaren) kommer hålla i mötet.

Inbjudningslänk

• Delta online
• Mötes-ID: 85804347114
• Ring efter din plats

Hoppas vi ses! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 18 januari 2022 kl. 02.42 (CET)

Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories

Dear community members,

Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us by subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or by sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.

If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.

Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the complete archive.

More information about the newsletter can be found at Education/Newsletter/About.

For more information, please contact spatnaikMall:@wikimedia.org.

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About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony ^(Talk), söndag 6:25, 10 november 2024 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.

• Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
• Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
• Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
• The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

Xeno (WMF) 29 januari 2022 kl. 04.10 (CET)

Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review

Hello, I have an update on the vote on the enforcement guidelines that was mentioned above. Xeno (WMF) (diskussion) 4 februari 2022 kl. 02.59 (CET)

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You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the Universal Code of Conduct across the movement. Comments about the guidelines can be shared here or the Meta-wiki talk page.

There will be conversations on Zoom on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Join the UCoC project team and drafting committee members to discuss the guidelines and voting process.

The timeline is available on Meta-wiki. The voting period is March 7 to 21. See the voting information page for more details.

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far.

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation

Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

The team is looking for feedback about the responsibilities of the Leadership Development Task Force. This Meta page shares the proposal for a Leadership Development Task Force and how you can help. Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.

Xeno (WMF) 9 februari 2022 kl. 02.15 (CET)

Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,

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

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

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 22 februari 2022 kl. 05.50 (CET)

Coming soon

Several improvements around templates

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

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

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

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 28 februari 2022 kl. 13.38 (CET)

Remember to Participate in the UCoC Conversations and Ratification Vote!

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hello everyone,

A vote in SecurePoll from 7 to 21 March 2022 is scheduled as part of the ratification process for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement guidelines. Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments. Read voter information and eligibility details. During the poll, voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct based on the proposed guidelines.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. A Wikimedia Foundation Board statement calls for a ratification process where eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the UCoC Enforcement guidelines in a vote. Wikimedians are invited to translate and share important information. For more information about the UCoC, please see the project page and frequently asked questions on Meta-wiki.

There are events scheduled to learn more and discuss:

• A community panel recorded on 18 February 2022 shares perspectives from small- and medium-sized community participants.
• The Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team is hosting Conversation Hours on 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Please sign-up to interact with the project team and the drafting committee about the updated enforcement guidelines and the ratification process. See the Conversation Hour summaries for notes from 4 February 2022 and 25 February 2022.

You can comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact either team by email: msgwikimedia.org or ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 2 mars 2022 kl. 03.17 (CET)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022

Du kan hitta detta meddelande översatt till fler språk på Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hello everyone,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is now open! Voting commenced on SecurePoll on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can read more about the UCoC project.

Du kan också kommentera på Metawikis diskussionssidor på valfritt språk. Om du vill kan du kontakta gruppen via epost: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Med vänlig hälsning,

Rörelsestrategi och Styrning

Wikimediastiftelsen

Xeno (WMF) 8 mars 2022 kl. 01.52 (CET)

Invitation to Hubs event: Global Conversation on 2022-03-12 at 13:00 UTC

Hello!

The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to the next event about "Regional and Thematic Hubs". The Wikimedia Movement is in the process of understanding what Regional and Thematic Hubs should be. Our workshop in November was a good start (read the report), but we're not finished yet.

Over the last weeks we conducted about 16 interviews with groups working on establishing a Hub in their context (see Hubs Dialogue). These interviews informed a report that will serve as a foundation for discussion on March 12. The report is planned to be published on March 9.

The event will take place on March 12, 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Zoom. Interpretation will be provided in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. Registration is open, and will close on March 10. Anyone interested in the topic is invited to join us. More information on the event on Meta-wiki.

Best regards,

Kaarel Vaidla
Movement Strategy

10 mars 2022 kl. 02.31 (CET)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow

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

(Facebook , Twitter , Instagram)

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

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

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international Team MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 14 mars 2022 kl. 15.40 (CET)

Leadership Development Working Group: Apply to join! (14 March to 10 April 2022)

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the feedback period for the Leadership Development Working Group initiative. A summary of the feedback can be found on Meta-wiki. This feedback will be shared with the working group to inform their work. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and will close on April 10, 2022. Please review the information about the working group, share with community members who might be interested, and apply if you are interested.

Thank you,

From the Community Development team

Xeno (WMF) 18 mars 2022 kl. 03.20 (CET)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Greetings,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language. You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Xeno (WMF) 30 mars 2022 kl. 03.53 (CEST)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 6, April 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.

• Leadership Development - A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (continue reading)
• Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! - The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (continue reading)
• Movement Discussions on Hubs - The Global Conversation event on Regional and Thematic Hubs was held on Saturday, March 12, and was attended by 84 diverse Wikimedians from across the movement. (continue reading)
• Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! - Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (continue reading)
• The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! - The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (continue reading)
• Introducing Movement Strategy Weekly - Contribute and Subscribe! - The MSG team have just launched the updates portal, which is connected to the various Movement Strategy pages on Meta-wiki. Subscriber to get up-to-date news about the various ongoing projects. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about Movement Strategy on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

Also, a draft of the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan has been published. Input is being sought on-wiki and during several conversations with Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander.

See full announcement on Meta-wiki. Xeno (WMF) 22 april 2022 kl. 03.45 (CEST)

Låt oss prata om stationära förbättringar

Hej!

Har du märkt att vissa wikier har ett annat stationärt gränssnitt? Är du nyfiken på nästa steg? Kanske du har några frågor eller idéer om designen eller tekniska frågor?

Delta i ett onlinemöte med teamet bakom de stationära förbättringarna! Det äger rum 29 april 2022 às 15:00 och 20:00 CEST på Zoom. Klicka här för att delta. Mötes-ID: 88045453898. Ring efter din plats.

Agenda

• Uppdatering om senaste utvecklingarna
• Frågor och svar, diskussion

Format

Mötet kommer inte spelas in eller streamas. Anteckningar förs i en Google Docs-fil. Olga Vasileva (teamledaren) kommer hålla i mötet. Presentationsdelen (första två punkterna på agendan) kommer hållas på engelska.

Vi kan besvara frågor på inglês, francês, italiano e polonês. Vill du ställa frågor i förväg kan du skriva de på diskussionssidan eller skicka de till sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

På detta möte gäller både policy för vänligt utrymme och uppförandekoden för Wikimedias tekniska utrymmen. Zoom omfattas inte av WMFs sekretesspolicy.

Hoppas vi ses! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskussion) 27 april 2022 kl. 04.22 (CEST)

Coming soon: Improvements for templates

Större ändringar av malldialogen.

Hej, snart kommer det fler ändringar angående mallar till din wiki:

Malldialogerna i VisualEditor och i 2017 års wikitextredigerare (beta) kommer fundamentalt förbättras: Detta borde hjälpa användare att bättre förstå vad mallen förväntar sig, hur man navigerar i mallen och hur man lägger till parametrar.

• projektsida, diskussion

I syntaxmarkering (tillägget CodeMirror) kan man aktivera ett färgschema för färgblinda med en användarinställning.

• projektsida, diskussion

Utrullningen planeras till 10 maj. Detta är den sista uppsättning förbättringar från WMDE tekniska önskningars fokusområde “Mallar”.

Vi vill gärna höra vad ni tycker på våra diskussionssidor!

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 29 april 2022 kl. 13.14 (CEST)

Redigeringsnyheter 2022 #1

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Nya redigerare lyckades bättre med det nya verktyget.

Det nya ämnesverktyget hjälper redigare skapa nya ==Avsnitt== på diskussionssidor. Nya redigerare lyckas bättre med det nya verktyget. Du kan läsa rapporten. Snart kommer redigeringsgruppen att erbjuda detta till alla redaktörer på de 20 Wikipedior som deltog i testet. Det kommer gå att stänga av den på Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 2 maj 2022 kl. 20.55 (CEST)

Uppdatering från Stationära förbättringar

Hej. Jag skulle vilja uppdatera dig om projektet Stationära förbättringar, som Wikimedia Foundations webbteam har arbetat på de senaste åren. Vårt arbete är snart färdigt! 🎉

Vi skulle vilja att dessa förbättringar blir standard för läsare och redigerare på alla wikier. De kommande veckorna kommer vi börja diskutera detta på fler wikier, däribland eran. 🗓️ Vi läser gärna igenom era förslag!

Projektets målsättning är att göra gränssnittet mer inbjudande och behagligt för läsare och mer användbart för avancerade användare. Projektet består av en serie funktionsförbättringar som gör det lättare att läsa och ta in, navigera på sidor, söka, byta språk, använda artikelflikar och användarmenyn och andra saker. Förbättringarna är redan synliga som standard för läsare och redigerare på fler än 30 wikier, däribland Wikipedia på franska, portugisiska och persiska.

Ändringarna påverkar bara utseendet Vector. Redigerare som använder Monobook eller Timeless påverkas inte.

Den nyaste funktionen

• Innehållsförteckning - med vår version är det lättare att nå innehållsförteckningen, förstå sidans sammanhang och navigera genom sidan utan att behöva skrolla igenom den. Den är också tillgänglig för redigerare som har valt att använda Vectors 2022-utseende.
• Sidverktyg - det finns nu två sorters länkar i sidospalten. Det finns åtgärder och verktyg för individuella sidor (som Relaterade ändringar) och länkar för hela wikistrukturen (som Senaste ändringarna). Vi kommer dela upp dessa i två intuitiva menyer.

Hur aktiverar man förbättringarna?

Globala inställningar

• Detta går att välja på varje enskild wiki i fliken utseende i inställningarna genom att välja "Vector (2022)". Den går också att välja på alla wikier via sina globala inställningar.
• På wikier där ändringarna är synliga för alla som standard, kan inloggade användare alltid gå tillbaka till äldre Vector. Det finns en lättåtkomlig länk i nya Vectors sidospalt.

Ta reda på mer och delta på våra evenemang

Om du vill följa projektets framsteg kan du prenumerera på vårt nyhetsbrev. Du kan läsa projektsidorna och vår FAQ, skriva på projektets diskussionssida och delta på våra onlinemöten.

Tack! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskussion) 21 juni 2022 kl. 04.17 (CEST)

Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!

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Hi, Greetings

The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!

We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images here

Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.

We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.

Thank you,

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 4 juli 2022 kl. 18.13 (CEST)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average 87% of active logged-in users of those wikis use Vector 2022.

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skins. No changes are expected for users of these skins.

• Top of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

• A section of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

About the skin

[Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects. The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes and test results] The skin introduces a series of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

• The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
• The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
• The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
• The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in your preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.

How can editors change and customize this skin?

It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out our repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.

Our plan

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.

Request for more time to discuss the change

If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 22 september 2022 kl. 06.15 (CEST)

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January

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(There is a translatable version of this message on MetaWiki)

Hej

The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

• Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
• Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
• Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
• Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

Tack! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 15 december 2022 kl. 17.44 (CET)

Wikinews Interlingual Association idea Contact

Hello. I am a senior user from Chinese Wikinews. I want to strengthen the links between the Wikinews language communities and develop an excellent citizen news platform. Does it include the possibility of setting up a Telegram group to communicate with each other? Original reports or news about different languages, and news reports of news value are published in the group, so that everyone can know and translate each other. I also hope to strengthen contacts with projects in various Wikinews languages for a long time, and even establish a Wikinews Association to help our journalists facilitate the development of our projects, which may include applying for funding from the foundation, writing reports better, including original reporting projects, for public welfare, and better. Let our news agency reporters go to other places to interview, including bonuses, travel expenses, transportation expenses, and meals? In fact, I hope that if these reporting expenses can receive a foundation subsidy, in fact, journalists may focus more on original reporting, and they should do so! I thought it might be better to open a Wikinews Association across languages. I use Chinese as my mother tongue, so there may be some mistakes in English. If you don't understand, you are welcome to communicate, especially in simple English. Thank you very much!

Original reporting is in fact what media organizations should do more, because now many journalists' associations and experts criticize everyone for doing real-time news, and I do real-time news, which results in the lack of room for public attention or news stories that should be reported in depth, so this mentality is unfavorable to the media environment and the public.

Establishing an association to help Wikinews can provide more room for the platform to be upgraded and make it more convenient for our journalists to move. The establishment of associations can further unite the community, hold activities, vigorously develop Wikinews projects, and even launch a series of reports, so that we can no longer have a single report, enhance the credibility of our media from the public, and be more popular.

Wikinews is a very suitable project for cross-language associations, because we are all doing the same thing and reporting around the world. It is one of the purposes of public broadcasting organizations to focus on diversified reports and public interest reports. Kitabc12345 (diskussion) 18 januari 2023 kl. 14.19 (CET)

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Diskussionsverktyg.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Nytt ämne" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Diskussionsverktyg on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Diskussionsverktyg. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publicera ändringar". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (diskussion) 23 februari 2023 kl. 00.24 (CET)

Your wiki will be in read only soon

Läs det här på ett annat språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Wikimedia Foundation testar övergången från sitt första till sitt andra reservdatacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimedia-wikier kan förbli online, även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att se till att allt fungerar, behöver Wikimedia Technology-avdelningen utföra ett planerat test. Testet kommer visa på om man säkert kan övergå från ett datacenter till ett annat. Det krävs många arbetslag för att förbereda testet och för att ha möjligheten att åtgärda oförutsedda problem.

All trafik kommer att bytas 1 mars. Testet börjar 14:00 UTC.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki, måste tyvärr all redigering upphöra medan övergången pågår. Vi ber om ursäkt för avbrottet och arbetar för att minimera det i framtiden.

Under en kort tidsperiod kommer det bara vara möjligt att läsa, men inte redigera alla wikier.

• Man kommer inte kunna redigera i upp till en timme på onsdag 1 mars 2023.
• Försöker du redigera eller spara något under denna tid kommer du få ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar går förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan borde du kunna spara din redigering. Vi rekommenderar ändå att du skapar kopior av dina ändringar, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Bakgrundsjobb kommer vara långsammare och vissa kanske försvinner. Rödlänkar kanske inte uppdateras lika snabbt som förut. Om du skapar en artikel som det länkas till någon annanstans ifrån, kommer länken förbli röd längre än vanligt. En del långtidsskript kommer att behöva stoppas.
• Vi förväntar oss att kodutrullningen sker precis som vilken vecka som helst. Viss kodfrysning kan däremot stundtals ske punktligt om operationen kräver det efteråt.
• GitLab kommer vara otillgänglig i ungefär 90 minuter.

Projektet kan skjutas fram om det skulle behövas. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Alla ändringar kommer att tillkännages i tidsplanen. Det kommer att komma fler notiser om det här. En notis om det här kommer visas på alla wikier 30 minuter innan händelsen inträffar. Dela gärna informationen med din gemenskap.

Trizek (WMF) (Diskussion) 27 februari 2023 kl. 22.20 (CET)

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.

Snart kommer din wiki endast kunna läsas

Läs det här på ett annat språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Wikimedia Foundation testar övergången från sitt första till sitt andra reservdatacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimedia-wikier kan förbli online, även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att se till att allt fungerar, behöver Wikimedia Technology-avdelningen utföra ett planerat test. Testet kommer visa på om man säkert kan övergå från ett datacenter till ett annat. Det krävs många arbetslag för att förbereda testet och för att ha möjligheten att åtgärda oförutsedda problem.

All trafik kommer att bytas 26 april. Testet börjar 14:00 UTC.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki, måste tyvärr all redigering upphöra medan övergången pågår. Vi ber om ursäkt för avbrottet och arbetar för att minimera det i framtiden.

Under en kort tidsperiod kommer det bara vara möjligt att läsa, men inte redigera alla wikier.

• Man kommer inte kunna redigera i upp till en timme på onsdag 26 april 2023.
• Försöker du redigera eller spara något under denna tid kommer du få ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar går förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan borde du kunna spara din redigering. Vi rekommenderar ändå att du skapar kopior av dina ändringar, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Bakgrundsjobb kommer vara långsammare och vissa kanske försvinner. Rödlänkar kanske inte uppdateras lika snabbt som vanligt. Om du skapar en artikel som det länkas till någon annanstans ifrån, kommer länken förbli röd längre än vanligt. En del långtidsskript kommer att behöva stoppas.
• Vi förväntar oss att kodutrullningen sker precis som vilken annan vecka som helst. Viss kodfrysning kan däremot stundtals ske punktligt om operationen kräver det efteråt.
• GitLab kommer vara otillgänglig i ungefär 90 minuter.

Projektet kan skjutas fram om det skulle behövas. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Alla ändringar kommer att tillkännages i tidsplanen. Det kommer att komma fler notiser om det här. En notis om det här kommer visas på alla wikier 30 minuter innan händelsen inträffar. Dela gärna informationen med din gemenskap.

MediaWiki message delivery 21 april 2023 kl. 02.42 (CEST)

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hello,

As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

• Community members in good standing
• Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
• Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
• Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
• Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
• Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 26 april 2023 kl. 21.00 (CEST)

Selection of the U4C Building Committee

The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

-- UCoC Project Team, 27 maj 2023 kl. 06.20 (CEST)

Annonserar de nya medlemmarna i valkommittén

Du hittar detta meddelande översatt till flera språk på Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hej allesammans!

Vi är glada att presentera de nya medlemmarna och rådgivarna i valkommittén. Valkommittén assisterar med utformningen och genomförandet av processen att välja Community- och affiliate-utvalda förvaltare åt Wikimedia Foundations förtroendevalda. Efter en öppen nomineringsprocess talade de starkaste kandidaterna med styrelsen och fyra kandidater ombads ansluta sig till valkommittén. Fyra andra kandidater ombads delta som rådgivare.

Tack till alla gemenskapsmedlemmar som skickade in sina namn till övervägande. Vi ser fram mot att arbeta med valkommittén i en snar framtid.

Å Wikimedia Foundations förtroendevaldas vägnar,

RamzyM (WMF) 28 juni 2023 kl. 19.59 (CEST)

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 28 augusti 2023 kl. 17.35 (CEST)

Snart kommer din wiki endast kunna läsas

Läs det här på ett annat språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Wikimedia Foundation kommer att växla trafiken mellan sina datacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimedia-wikier kan förbli online, även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att se till att allt fungerar, behöver Wikimedia Technology-avdelningen utföra ett planerat test. Testet kommer visa på om man säkert kan övergå från ett datacenter till ett annat. Det krävs många arbetslag för att förbereda testet och för att ha möjligheten att åtgärda oförutsedda problem.

All trafik kommer att bytas 20 september. Testet börjar 14:00 UTC.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki, måste tyvärr all redigering upphöra medan övergången pågår. Vi ber om ursäkt för avbrottet och arbetar för att minimera det i framtiden.

Under en kort tidsperiod kommer det bara vara möjligt att läsa, men inte redigera alla wikier.

• Man kommer inte kunna redigera i upp till en timme på onsdag 20 september 2023.
• Försöker du redigera eller spara något under denna tid kommer du få ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar går förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan borde du kunna spara din redigering. Vi rekommenderar ändå att du skapar kopior av dina ändringar, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Bakgrundsjobb kommer vara långsammare och vissa kanske försvinner. Rödlänkar kanske inte uppdateras lika snabbt som vanligt. Om du skapar en artikel som det länkas till någon annanstans ifrån, kommer länken förbli röd längre än vanligt. En del långtidsskript kommer att behöva stoppas.
• Vi förväntar oss att kodutrullningen sker precis som vilken annan vecka som helst. Viss kodfrysning kan däremot stundtals ske punktligt om operationen kräver det efteråt.
• GitLab kommer vara otillgänglig i ungefär 90 minuter.

Projektet kan skjutas fram om det skulle behövas. Du kan läsa tidsschema på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Alla ändringar kommer att tillkännages i tidsplanen. Det kommer att komma fler notiser om det här. En notis om det här kommer visas på alla wikier 30 minuter innan händelsen inträffar. Dela gärna informationen med din gemenskap.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 15 september 2023 kl. 11.24 (CEST)

== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) 9 oktober 2023 kl. 18.41 (CEST)

Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Dear all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.

Best,

Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee

17 oktober 2023 kl. 03.12 (CEST)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

Read this in your language • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Please tell other users about these changes

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

Globala inställningar

If you prefer keeping the current skin select "Vector legacy (2010)" on the appearance tab of the global preferences and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.

Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.

If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a local (but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.

• Top of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

• A section of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

About the skin

Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation. You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English).

[Why is a change necessary] When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways. The old Vector does not meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes in a nutshell] The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

• The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
• The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
• The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jump to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
• The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the tested wikis.
• The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Customize this skin] It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out the repository for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.

Our plan

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 31 October. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskussion) 19 oktober 2023 kl. 01.52 (CEST)

(Ny) Funktion på Kartographer: Lägga till geopunkter via QID

Sedan september 2022 kan man skapa geopunkter med hjälp av ett QID. Flera wikibidragsgivare har efterfrågat denna funktion, men den används inte mycket. Därför skulle vi vilja påminna er om detta. Det finns mer information på projektsidan. Har du några kommentarer får du gärna berätta för oss på diskussionssidan. Vänliga hälsningar, arbetslagen Tekniska önskningar hos Wikimedia Deutschland.

Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 13 december 2023 kl. 13.31 (CET)

Update of license

Some time ago there was a discussion on meta about how to implement the license update to CC BY-SA 4.0 on all wikis. See m:Meta:Babel/Archives/2023-06#Aftermath_of_ToU_updates.

Wikinews use the license CC BY 2.5. So it does not have the SA part and it is an older version.

I would like to ask why Wikinews does not follow WMF and most other wiki projects. Is there a good reason or is it simply because noone thought about updating the license?

Unless there is a good reason I suggest to update the license to follow WMF.

There is a formal vote on English WN to change to the new license at en:Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy#Update_of_license.

I hope you would use that opportunity to update license here too. --MGA73 (diskussion) 15 december 2023 kl. 14.19 (CET)

Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.

Hello, the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this Registration form.
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.

The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would compensate you for your time.

For more information, visit our project issue page where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you, Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?

Apologies for writing in English.

The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to make reusing references easier. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.

• The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen. More information here.
• Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
• Compensation is available.
• Sessions will be held in January and February.
• Sign up here if you are interested.
• Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.

We’re looking forward to seeing you, Thereza Mengs (WMDE)

Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll now through 2 February 2024. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C Charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 19 januari 2024 kl. 19.08 (CET)

Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) charter will close on 2 February 2024. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 31 januari 2024 kl. 18.00 (CET)

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

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Dear all,

Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.

A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.

Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 12 februari 2024 kl. 19.23 (CET)

Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available

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Hello all,

I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 5 mars 2024 kl. 17.25 (CET)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

Fler språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Dear all,

This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.

The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].

Here are the key planned dates:

• May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
• June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
• June-August 2024: Campaign period
• End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
• October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
• Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page, and make your plan.

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page.

Best regards,

Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.

MPossoupe_(WMF)12 mars 2024 kl. 20.56 (CET)

Snart kommer din wiki endast kunna läsas

Läs det här på ett annat språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Wikimedia Foundation kommer att växla trafiken mellan sina datacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimedia-wikier kan förbli online, även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa.

All trafik kommer att bytas 20 mars. Testet börjar 14:00 UTC.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki, måste tyvärr all redigering upphöra medan övergången pågår. Vi ber om ursäkt för avbrottet och arbetar för att minimera det i framtiden.

Under en kort tidsperiod kommer det bara vara möjligt att läsa, men inte redigera alla wikier.

• Man kommer inte kunna redigera i upp till en timme på onsdag 20 mars 2024.
• Försöker du redigera eller spara något under denna tid kommer du få ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar går förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan borde du kunna spara din redigering. Vi rekommenderar ändå att du skapar kopior av dina ändringar, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Bakgrundsjobb kommer vara långsammare och vissa kanske försvinner. Rödlänkar kanske inte uppdateras lika snabbt som vanligt. Om du skapar en artikel som det länkas till någon annanstans ifrån, kommer länken förbli röd längre än vanligt. En del långtidsskript kommer att behöva stoppas.
• Vi förväntar oss att kodutrullningen sker precis som vilken annan vecka som helst. Viss kodfrysning kan däremot stundtals ske punktligt om operationen kräver det efteråt.
• GitLab kommer vara otillgänglig i ungefär 90 minuter.

Projektet kan skjutas fram om det skulle behövas. Du kan läsa tidsschema på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Alla ändringar kommer att tillkännages i tidsplanen. Det kommer att komma fler notiser om det här. En notis om det här kommer visas på alla wikier 30 minuter innan händelsen inträffar. Dela gärna informationen med din gemenskap.

Trizek (WMF), 15 mars 2024 kl. 01.01 (CET)

Vote now to select members of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 25 april 2024 kl. 22.20 (CEST)

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery 14 maj 2024 kl. 23.22 (CEST)

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.

You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) 22 maj 2024 kl. 04.25 (CEST)

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • –
• Northern and Western Europe
  • Ghilt
• Latin America and Caribbean
  • –
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • —
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • –
• Middle East and North Africa
  • Ibrahim.ID
• East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • 0xDeadbeef
• South Asia
  • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
• –

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 3 juni 2024 kl. 10.14 (CEST)

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta

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Hi everyone,

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.

What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?

The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”

Join the “Launch Party” on June 20, 2024 at 14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.

Movement Charter ratification vote

Voting will commence on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. You can read more about the voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the Meta talk page or email the MCDC at mcdc@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the MCDC,

RamzyM (WMF) 11 juni 2024 kl. 10.44 (CEST)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote

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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, please vote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at cec@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 25 juni 2024 kl. 12.51 (CEST)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 8 juli 2024 kl. 05.45 (CEST)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 10 juli 2024 kl. 02.02 (CEST)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 18 juli 2024 kl. 19.52 (CEST)

Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through August 10, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

RamzyM (WMF) 27 juli 2024 kl. 04.46 (CEST)

Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.

Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 6 augusti 2024 kl. 17.29 (CEST)

Kommer snart: en ny funtion för underreferenser - testa den!

Hej. I flera år har gemenskapsmedlemmar efterfrågat en enkelt sätt att återanvända referenser med olika detaljer. Nu kommer en MediaWiki-lösning: Den nya funktionen för underreferenser kommer fungera i wikitext och VisualEditor och kommer förbättra den existerande referenssystem. Du kan fortsätta använda olika sätt att använda referenser men du kommer förmodligen stöta på underreferenser i artiklar skrivna av andra användare. Mer information på projeksidan.

Vi vill veta vad du tycker för att se till att funktionen fungerar som den ska för dig:

• Testa gärna den aktuella utvecklingsfasen på beta-wiki och berätta vad du tycker.
• Registrera dig här för att få uppdateringar och/eller inbjudningar om användarforskningsaktiviteter.

Wikimedia Deutschlands team Tekniska önskemål planerar att aktivera den här funktionen på Wikimedias wikier senare i år. Vi kommer på förhand att kontakta skapare/underhållare av verktyg och mallar som rör referenser.

Hjälp oss att sprida budskapet. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

Hi all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 23 augusti 2024 kl. 01.19 (CEST)

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

Original message at wikimedia-l. You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the Elections Committee have certified the results for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

• Latin America and Caribbean
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia
• The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) 2 september 2024 kl. 16.05 (CEST)

Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!

Hello all,

The voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.

Learn more about the candidates by reading their statements and their answers to community questions.

When you are ready, go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote. The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 3 september 2024 kl. 14.13 (CEST)

Snart kommer din wiki endast kunna läsas

Läs det här på ett annat språk • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

Wikimedia Foundation kommer att växla trafiken mellan sina datacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimedia-wikier kan förbli online, även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa.

All trafik kommer att bytas 25 september. Övergången börjar 15:00 UTC.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki, måste tyvärr all redigering upphöra medan övergången pågår. Vi ber om ursäkt för avbrottet och arbetar för att minimera det i framtiden.

En notis om det här kommer visas på alla wikier 30 minuter innan händelsen inträffar. Bannern kommer synas fram tills slutet av operationen.

Under en kort tidsperiod kommer det bara vara möjligt att läsa, men inte redigera alla wikier.

• Man kommer inte kunna redigera i upp till en timme på onsdag 25 september 2024.
• Försöker du redigera eller spara något under denna tid kommer du få ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar går förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan borde du kunna spara din redigering. Vi rekommenderar ändå att du skapar kopior av dina ändringar, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Bakgrundsjobb kommer vara långsammare och vissa kanske försvinner. Rödlänkar kanske inte uppdateras lika snabbt som vanligt. Om du skapar en artikel som det länkas till någon annanstans ifrån, kommer länken förbli röd längre än vanligt. En del långtidsskript kommer att behöva stoppas.
• Vi förväntar oss att kodutrullningen sker precis som vilken annan vecka som helst. Viss kodfrysning kan däremot stundtals ske punktligt om operationen kräver det efteråt.
• GitLab kommer vara otillgänglig i ungefär 90 minuter.

Projektet kan skjutas fram om det skulle behövas. Du kan läsa tidsschema på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Alla ändringar kommer att tillkännages i tidsplanen.

Dela gärna informationen med din gemenskap.

Trizek_(WMF), 20 september 2024 kl. 11.38 (CEST)

'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.Mall:Tracked

Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2. More information can be found on the project page.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 27 september 2024 kl. 20.56 (CEST)

Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey

Dear all,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language. We are excited to announce the upcoming Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.

To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!

Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.

Warm regards,

User:ZI Jony 6 oktober 2024 kl. 05.20 (CEST)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Hello all,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.

The following four candidates were the most voted:

1. Christel Steigenberger
2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
3. Victoria Doronina
4. Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.

Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MPossoupe_(WMF) 14 oktober 2024 kl. 10.25 (CEST)

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

• Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
• Ombuds commission (OC)
• Case Review Committee (CRC)

Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17 oktober 2024 kl. 01.07 (CEST)

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 22 oktober 2024 kl. 13.29 (CEST)

Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success

Dear all,

We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.

Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.

• Survey Link: Complete the Survey
• Deadline: November 10, 2024

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!

Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.

• Application Link: Apply Here
• Application Deadline: October 31, 2024

Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here: Position Descriptions

Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!

Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 29 oktober 2024 kl. 06.12 (CET)