Wikipedy:Oerlisside/Argyf18

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Pas de tekst op dizze side net mear oan.

Wikipedy:Oerlisside/Argyf18, argyf fan Wikipedy:Oerlisside:

• Oerlis begûn fan 1 jannewaris 2018 oant en mei 27 novimber 2019.

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Leeuwarden / Friesland Culturele Hoofdstad op Wikipedia

(Excuses voor mijn niet-Friese bijdrage)

Beste bewerker,

Zoals je ongetwijfeld weet zijn Leeuwarden / Friesland dit jaar Europese Culturele Hoofdstad. Vanuit Wikimedia Nederland denken wij momenteel na over mogelijkheden om hier ook op Wikimedia/Wikimedia Commons/Wikidata aandacht aan te besteden. Eén van de activiteiten die we in ieder geval op de (Nederlandstalige) Wikipedia willen opzetten is een schrijfweek over Friesland, zoals in voorgaande jaren ook al over bijvoorbeeld Gelderland is georganiseerd (voorlopig gepland in oktober 2018). Het lijkt ons ook erg leuk om hier op één of andere manier de Friese Wikipedia-gemeenschap bij te betrekken. Als jij, of andere Friese Wikipedianen, ideeën hebt voor activiteiten die hier goed bij zouden kunnen aansluiten, dan zijn wij daar benieuwd naar!

Met vriendelijke groet, --AWossink (oerlis) 11 jan 2018, 13.37 (CET)

Tradisjoneel of tradysjoneel

Neffens ús, de Staversma’s, kin tradisjoneel foar de SJ net mei in Y skreaun wurde. Wy hawwe de lêste tiid yngreven yn ‘e wurdboeken socht, mar kinne dy foarm net fine. No kinne wy fansels in wurdboek mist hawwe … Dan lêze wy soks graach. S.Staversma (oerlis) 12 jan 2018, 09.29 (CET)

En krekt wêrom skriuwe de Staversmas dat? Mysha (oerlis)

Protestantsk of protestansk

Foar de lêste fariant is mar ien plak te finen yn de digitale wurdboeken. By de bollestâl wurdt er fûn, mar dat liket ús in fersin te wêzen. Wolle oaren hjir ek ris efkes nei sjen. Rob. Staversma (oerlis) 1 maa 2018, 15.26 (CEST)

Dan kin dy sûnder t der wol út! Rob. Staversma (oerlis) 17 maa 2018, 15.13 (CEST)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

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

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

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

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

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

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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [1]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [2]
• The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

• The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
• The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [3]
• 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

2 mrt 2018, 21.56 (CET)

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (oerlis) 12 mrt 2018, 15.01 (CET)

Sint-tsjerk

Ik sjoch wy hawwe no tsjerkesiden dy't Sint-Immentsjerke (earne) as titel hawwe, wat de formele namme is, en siden dy't Immentsjerke (earne) hawwe, wat de namme is dy't faak ta ûnderskie brûkt wurdt. Hawwe wy foarkoar foar it ien as it oar? Ik seach krekt in side dêr't in Fitustsjerke yn de titel "Sint" hie en dêrom by de kategoryen hieltiid fan namme feroare wurde moat, sadwaande. Mysha (oerlis)

@Mysha: Ik wit net oft it wol hielendal sa is sa't jo it hjir foarstelle. Yn myn belibbing binne de foarmen mei 'Sint-' roomsk-katolyk of yn elts gefal fan oarsprong roomsk-katolyk, wylst in protte protestantske tsjerken dat diel fan 'e namme mei sin falle litten hawwe. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (oerlis) 21 mrt 2018, 19.40 (CET)

It kin. Dit is wat ik as yndrok hie, mar fansels, at it oars is, haw ik der gjin perblemen mei. Hawwe wy ek earne in stikje oar nammen fan tsjerken? At wy der dan mar om tinke dat der dan twa soarten fan Maartenstsjerken komme, ensafuorthinne. Der wie dan ek in truukje by dy kategoryen de namme yn ien kear foar alle kategoryen oars opnimme te litten, is it net? Mysha (oerlis)

Ik wit it fierders ek net. Dejinge dy't hjir de tsjerken almeast docht, is RomkeHoekstra, en ik haw de yndruk dat dy de nammen trou oernimt fan oars-talige Wikipedyen en/of út net-Wikipedyske boarnen. Hokfoar trúkje oft jo it oer hawwe, wit ik net. Ik wist dat oare, fan 'displaytitle' tafallich al, mar dit is my dan wer ûntkommen. Of bedoelen jo {{DEFAULTSORT:Efternamme, Foarnamme}}? Dat kinne jo by de kategoryen ûnderoan de side sette om te sortearjen op in oar diel fan 'e namme as dat foaroan stiet (by biografyen sortearje we sa op 'e efternamme), mar dat moat per artikel dien wurde. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (oerlis) 22 mrt 2018, 17.58 (CET)

Ja, krekt, dat wie it. Ik haw it der op Wikipedy:Ferwizings byskeaun. No noch sjen wêr't dat truukje mei de titel by past.Mysha (oerlis)

Welcome to Wales! The Celtic Knot Conference...

I apologise that this invitation is in English; feel free to translate into your own language!

I would like to invite you to the second Wikipedia language conference focusing on supporting Celtic and other small and Indigenous Languages. This year 'Celtic Knot' will be at held on the 5th and 6th of July at the National Library of Wales in Wales' most famous seaside resort of Aberystwyth.

For more information on how you could be part of this great event, pop over to our website where you can also contact Jason Evans, our National Wikimedian and conference organiser. We have many speakers who will talk about what works for them, how we can learn from each other... small is beautiful...

Viva la diversity! Llywelyn2000 (oerlis) 4 apr 2018, 15.10 (CEST)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. Please help translate to your language. Thank you.

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. User:Jelle

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --MarcoAurelio (oerlis) 9 apr 2018, 17.08 (CEST)

Der is earne wat besletten oer meidoggers mei mear rjochten, mei gefolch dat lju dy't net aktyf binne dy rjochten ôfnaam wurde sille. Wolle wy dat, of wolle wy it sels dwaan? Mysha (oerlis)

Minsken, ik stel fêst dat it ûnderwerp by ús net wichtich genôch fûn troch in mearderheid fan behearders om efkes in reaksje te jaan, útsein PiefPafPier dy't mei de fuotten stimd hat. Ik sil net op de twajierregel oanstean, wie ik ek nea fan doel, it hie om my ek oars mocht. Ik haw der dêrom gjin nocht oan my fierder oer de saak te bekroadzjen. It sil my oars wol benije oft dy 'stewards' fan bûten dien wurk meitsje sille. Drewes (oerlis) 28 apr 2018, 18.13 (CEST)

Dizze lêste opmerking fan Drewes wie eefkes by my lâns gien; dêrfandinne myn lette reäksje. Ik slút my by Drewes oan as oaren har net dúdlik oankantsje tsjin dit belied fan Wikimedia. En mei dúdlik bedoel ik: even sûnder mitsen en marren oanjaan dat jim der op tsjin binne, en net fan "ik haw it der eins net sa op" of "it hie om my net hoegd, mar jim moatte it mar witte". As der gjin dúdlike beswieren komme, litte we it spul op syn berin, en dan moat it mar komme sa't it komt. Wa't it dêr beslist net mei iens is, moat nó wurk mei in reäksje meitsje. Komt der gjin reäksje mear, dan sil ik de diskusje as sletten beskôgje. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (oerlis) 7 maa 2018, 21.28 (CEST)

Ik haw der nochris even oer neitocht, en ik wol op it boppesteande noch in koarte oanfolling jaan. We prate der hjir nammentlik oer as oft it ûntnaderjen fan 'e rjochten definityf en net werom te draaien wêze soe, mar dat is fansels net wier. As ien syn rjochten 'ferrinne' litte soe, en letter ynienen oanstriid (of de tiid) krije soe om him wer mei de Wikipedy dwaande te hâlden, dan kin dy persoan syn rjochten weromfreegje en ik sjoch net yn wêrom't sa'n oanfraach net honorearre wurde kinne soe. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (oerlis) 8 maa 2018, 19.03 (CEST)

• Drewes and Ieneach fan 'e Esk, can anyone please translate what wrote above in English or put a summary in English for this section? علاء (oerlis) 10 maa 2018, 18.23 (CEST)

علاء: It's an internal discussion about the above policy, carried over from Drewes' talk page. Summarised it comes to this: Drewes and I, who are the primary active administrators of this Wikipedia, think the new policy is not a bad idea, although we would not have instigated it ourselves. Some of the other administrators, who are not as active on Wikipedia anymore, are not entirely pleased with the policy, but those few of them that took the trouble to make their feelings known (on Drewes' talk page) also indicated that they don't care enough about it to take matters into their own hands, so to speak; instead, Drewes and I were told we should make the decision regarding this policy. Above Drewes indicated that he didn't feel strongly one way or the other, but since most of the administrators who are less frequently active did not take the trouble to respond, even though Drewes pinged them and asked them to do so, he is not going to spend more time and energy on this issue than he already has. I myself have called on the other administrators one last time to react if they seriously disagree with the new policy. If they don't react this time, I will follow Drewes' lead and let the new policy take effect. In a post scriptum I added that while we are talking about this as if administrators who have not been active for two years will lose their rights forever, it is of course possible that if they ever again feel the urge or find the time to participate in the Wikipedia project more actively, they could ask to get their rights back, and I don't see why such a request should not by granted. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (oerlis) 11 maa 2018, 23.06 (CEST)

40.000

At ik it goed haw wie 2089 op 9 april 2018 de 40.000ste side. Net in side om grut oer yn de krante te skriuwen, mar dogge wy der noch wat oan? Moat der in pear dagen "De Fryske Wikipedy: De frije ensyklopedy mei mear as 40.000 siden!" op 'e Haadside, of soks? Mysha (oerlis)

Der hat immen in hiel soad fierders lege kalindersiden fuortsmiten, faaks om't it sa'n wurk wie en freegje ús. Dat, no hawwe wy wer 39.946 siden. Wolle wy der noch eat oan dwaan at wy wer de 40.000 helje? Mysha (oerlis)

No't wy Kategory:Lingtemjitte blykber net feroarje fan namme, haw ik dat rychje fan nanometer fierder, dat ik tasein hie, ek wier oanmakke. Ik haw der ek mar de Fryske jellen yn opnaam, doe't der 39.999 siden wienen. Dat, it is no wier safier. Dogge wy der noch wat oan? Mysha (oerlis)

Ik soe sizze dat de Wikipedy wol (wer) ris wat omtinken fan de media hawwe mei. Stikje yn'e krante, sjoernaal Omrop Fryslân? Drewes (oerlis) 25 apr 2018, 14.28 (CEST)

Wikipedy:Parseberjocht/28 april 2018 - Om sneon te stjoeren (útsein immen fynt dat it letter/earder moat). Moat noch bewurke wurde, fansels. Mysha (oerlis)

De skoalle is ticht, fansels, mar ik haw der yn de bibleteek noch efkes nei sjoen. Dit is wat ik der oan dwaan kin. Wa't it wol kin - der noch efkes nei sjen en - it ferstjoere. Mysha (oerlis)

@Mysha: Tankewol Mysha. Drewes (oerlis) 28 apr 2018, 17.40 (CEST)

Graach dien. Ik leau, net ien hat der mei dwaande west, mar dan wie it noch in oefening foar oer fjouwer jier. Mysha (oerlis)

Kabouterke

Wy hawwe in side Wikipedy:Siden wiskje, en wy hawwe ek in berjocht:Wiskwarskôging om oan te jaan dat dêr útsteld is in side fuort te smiten. It systeem wurket, mar op grutte wikipedys binne der kabouters dy't der foar soargje dat de list en de warskôgings syngroan bliuwe. By ús is it hânwurk, en lju fan dy oare wikipedys hawwe dêr net altiten erch yn. Is dat in perbleem en moate wy ek sa'n kabouter, of is it genôch dat immen út en troch ris sjocht hokfoar siden net op de list kaam binne? Mysha (oerlis)

Soe handich wêze, mar ik leau dat it by ús wol te oersjen is en gjin probleem. It kin wêze dat ús in tal siden ûntkaam binne fansels, mar kinne noait net in protte wêze. Der binne hjir ommers hast alle dagen behearders en aktive meidoggers. Drewes (oerlis) 11 apr 2018, 17.28 (CEST)

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

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Mapframe is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. But fifteen Wikipedias, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.

A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’s Collaboration team has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable. Nine Wikipedias that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.

Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us know on the project talk page. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 24 apr 2018, 23.38 (CEST)

AdvancedSearch

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 7 maa 2018, 16.53 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

• Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
• Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
• Termsoup – Translation tool

Expansions

• Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
• Alexander Street Press – Women and Social Movements Library now available
• Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 30 maa 2018, 20.03 (CEST)

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

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

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Please help translate to your language 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 jun 2018, 22.58 (CEST)

Tidy to RemexHtml

The Parsing team will be replacing Tidy with RemexHtml at this wiki on 5 July 2018.

Some pages at this wiki use outdated HTML. This change may change the appearance of those pages. Special:LintErrors has a complete list of affected pages.

Read this e-mail message for more information. Read the instructions at mw:Help:Extension:Linter. You can ask questions at mw:Talk:Parsing/Replacing Tidy. Thank you for helping fix these problems.

m:User:Elitre (WMF) 2 jul 2018, 16.38 (CEST)

Global preferences are available

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

10 jul 2018, 21.19 (CEST)

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

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Hi all,

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12 jul 2018, 10.45 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all!

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

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

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 30 jul 2018, 15.08 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors

Hello.

The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.

TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.

TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.

• It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
• It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
• Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
• All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.

You can learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org. Technical documentation is also available.

This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.

Thank you.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6 aug 2018, 23.28 (CEST)

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 (Omjouwingsbehearders) 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 aug 2018, 14.39 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

6 sep 2018, 15.33 (CEST)

Privacy

Understeand oerlis komt fan de Oerlisside fan meidogger Ieneach fan de Esk. Der hat hjir noch net earder oerlis oer west begryp ik. Hoe wurdt hjiroer tocht troch oare meidoggers? Soe 'de mienskip' fan Wikipedy hjir ek ris oer meitinke wolle en in reaksje jaan wolle op ûndersteand oerlis? Frou Watzema (oerlis) 11 sep 2018, 18.53 (CEST)

Eala, Ieneach fan 'e Esk. Juster foegen jo hjir de namme fan in lytse poppe ta. No binne oare Wikipedia's tige efterhâldend mei it jaan fan ynformaasje yn sokke gefallen. Faaks wurdt sokke ynformaasje dan ek ferburgen troch moderators. I belang fan de minderjierrige stiet dan foarop, wat de heit en mem dogge moatte dy sels witte. Yn dit gefal joegen dy sels de ynformaasje frij. Hat oer de privacy fan minderjierrigen wolris oerlis west op Wikipedy? Hoe giet de mienskip fan de Fryske Wikipedy hjirmei om? Frou Watzema (oerlis) 9 sep 2018, 11.06 (CEST)

@Frou Watzema: Goeie, Frou Watzema. Jo binne mis: ik haw de namme fan it bern net tafoege; dat wie Drewes. Ik haw der letter de bertedatum en in referinsje byset. Los dêrfan en yn Drewes syn ferdigening wol ik dêr noch wol even oan tafoegje dat ik de namme der ek byset hie as dy der op dat stuit noch net al by stien hie. Jo sizze it net mei safolle wurden, mar as ik by jo tusken de regels troch lês, begryp ik dat jo it leafst gjin persoansgegevens fan minderjierrigen yn 'e Wikipedy opnommen wurde sjogge. Yn prinsipe bin ik it dêr wol mei iens, mar yn dit gefal wie it sa (sa't josels ek al neame), dat de âlden sels de namme iepenbier makke hawwe. Ik haw it yn trije tillefyzjeprogramma's foarbykommen sjoen (sûnder dat ik der om socht), en it stie yn 'e Ljouwerter Krante, dêr't ik de referinsje wei hie, en sûnder mis sil it ek yn alle oare kranten en op gâns plakken op it ynternet fermelden wêze. Tsja, dan hat it fansels net mear in soad sin om roomser as de paus te wêze te wollen troch de namme hjir geheim te hâlden... Wat jo foarlêste fraach oangiet: nee, by myn witten hat oer dit ûnderwerp nea oerlis west. Sadwaande kin ik ek net foar oare meidoggers sprekke, mar iksels besykje der wol wat om te tinken. It is lykwols selden in probleem, want as it hjir oer lytse bern giet, is it yn 'e regel sa'n selde sitewaasje as hjirboppe, wêrby't in ferneamd persoan in bern krigen hat en dat sels oer Twitter of oare sosjale media omtoetert wêrnei't it troch de tradisjonele media oppikt wurdt. Sa't ik sei, dan hat it foar ús nei myn miening net in soad sin om noch op 'e rem te traapjen. Ik hoopje dat jo mei dit antwurd wat kinne. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (oerlis) 10 sep 2018, 21.39 (CEST)

Eala, Ieneach fan 'e Esk. It muoit my dat ik de ferkearde oan it jaske lutsen ha.@Drewes: Yn boppesteande gedachtegong kin ik in hiel ein meigean. Wat noch net neamd is de relevânsje fan it neamen. Foeget it neamen fan de namme wat ta oan it begryp fan it lemma, yn dit gefal de mem as BN'er? Nijs is flechtich, in ensyklopedy is dat folle minder. It moat net sa wêze dat as it bern grut is, de ynformaasje foar eltsenien te lêzen is yn in ensyklopedy. Ja, wa't it echt witte wol sil e gegevens dan ek wol earne op ynternet fine kinne. Mar de ensyklopedy soe net it medium wêze moatte dy't soks fêstleit. Dêryn hoecht in ensyklopedy net foarop te rinnen en past efterhâldenheid, tinkt my. It neamen dat frou Jinek troud is en in bern hat kin dan folstean. Wy soene dit oerlis hjir op jo oerlisside ek ris foarlizze kinne oan 'de mienskip' op de Oerlisside. Dan kin elkenien der sines/harres fan sizze kinne. Dan soe dit oerlis dêrhinne ferpleatst wurde moatte. Hoe steane jo hjiryn? Frou Watzema (oerlis) 11 sep 2018, 07.56 (CEST)

@Frou Watzema: Goeie. It stiet alle meidoggers altyd frij om oer lykfol hokker ûnderwerp (salang't dat ferbân hâldt mei de Wikipedy, fansels) in diskusje oan te swengeljen op 'e Oerlisside. Dat, as jo it hjir graach yn in breder ferbân oer hawwe wolle, dan is dat beslist de manier om sa'n diskusje op gong te krijen. Om my hoecht it net, mar dat moat foar jo gjin reden wêze om derfan ôf ts sjen. Ik haw hjirboppe myn miening al jûn, en dy wol ik bêst nochris op 'e Oerlisside werhelje as der sa'n diskusje komt. Oerlis plege is yn myn optyk noait ferkeard, en as de mearderheid derfoar wêze soe om ôfspraken oer dit ûnderwerp te meitsjen (bgl. dat we tenei gjin nammen fan poppen mear tafoegje, mar allinnich it geslacht en de bertedatum), dan kin ik my dêr ek bêst yn fine. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (oerlis) 11 sep 2018, 17.56 (CEST)

Ik bin it mei 1each iens: Roomsker as de paus wêze wolle op dit mêd is ûnsin at ien persoanlike feiten sels buorkundich makket. En, it neamen fan de namme en bertedei fan in minderjierrich persoan, hoe soe dat skealik wêze kinne? Alle Wikipedyen jouwe sokke ynformaasje ûnder it kopke 'Priveelibben'. It soe oars wêze at wy, yn it gefal fan Jinek, fernije soene dat Pax (sydlings: wa neamt syn bern yn'e frede Pax?) dêr-en-dêr om dy oere en tiid op it húske sit, of hokker paad er nei skoalle giet. Dat soe gefaarlik foar sa'n bern wêze kinne. Mei in (selsmakke) foto soe ik ek hoeden wêze om deselde reden. Drewes (oerlis) 11 sep 2018, 21.14 (CEST)

No, krekt. Ik haw fan 't simmer in pear foto's makke fan strjitten yn Ljouwert dy't ik neitiid op Commons opladen haw. Ik wie dêr op snein hinne gien, want ik tink, dan sille der wol net sa'n soad minsken op 'e dyk wêze. Dat bliek in misrekken. Hoe dan ek, ik haw wat foto's makke, mar dêr stiene frijwat foarbygongers en terraskesitters op, wêrûnder in jong famke op 'e foto fan 'e Prins Hindrikbrêge (hjir rjochts). Fan dat famke, mar ek fan 'e folwoeksenen op 'e foto's fan it Ruterskertier en de Wurdumerdyk, haw ik foar it opladen út privacy-omtinkens de gesichten dizenich makke (blurred, sizze se yn it Ingelsk). Dat fûn ik net mear as normaal. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (oerlis) 11 sep 2018, 21.42 (CEST)

Ik bin it ek iens mei @Ieneach fan 'e Esk:. Wy hoege yndie net Roomsker as de paus te wêzen. Groetnis Kneppelfreed (oerlis) 11 sep 2018, 22.31 (CEST)

The GFDL license on Commons

This has been posted here because your wiki allows local file uploads. Please help translate to your language.

Commons will no longer allow uploads of photos, paintings, drawings, audio and video that use the GFDL license and no other license. This starts after 14 October. Textbooks, manuals and logos, diagrams and screenshots from GFDL software manuals that only use the GFDL license are still allowed. Files licensed with both GFDL and an accepted license like Creative Commons BY-SA are still allowed.

There is no time limit to move files from other projects to Commons. The licensing date is all that counts. It doesn't matter when the file was uploaded or created. Every wiki that allows local uploads should check if bots, scripts and templates that are used to move files to Commons need to be updated. Also update your local policy documentation if needed.

The decision to allow files that only have a GFDL license, or not allow them, is a decision all wikis can make for themselves. Your wiki can decide to continue allowing the files that Commons will no longer allow after 14 October. If your wiki decides to continue to allow files after 14 October that Commons will no longer allow those files should not be moved to Commons. — Alexis Jazz, distributed by Johan using MassMessage

20 sep 2018, 20.11 (CEST)

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

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

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

/User:Johan (WMF)

30 okt 2018, 12.05 (CET)

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. [4]

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. Thank you!

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

2 nov 2018, 15.17 (CET)

Frou Watzema

Gauris kriget hjir ien in waarm wolkom troch Frou Watzema. Miskien in takomstich behearder? Devries54 (oerlis) 7 nov 2018, 15.08 (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.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 13 nov 2018, 20.34 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

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

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

/User:Johan (WMF)

22 nov 2018, 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 nov 2018, 12.02 (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.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6 des 2018, 21.03 (CET)

Nijsaksyske Skriuwwize

Is der hjirre iene dy de nds-nl:Nysassiske Skryvwyse (of: nl:Nieuwsaksische Schrijfwijze) wil oersette yn it Frysk (myn Frysk is net sa goed dat ik der in hiel stik oersette kin)? Alfêst betanke. Servien (oerlis) 18 des 2018, 22.22 (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 (oerlis) 27 des 2018, 11.12 (CET)

Machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation

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Hello, machine translation support for Content Translation (beta feature) has now been extended and enabled for users of this Wikipedia, with the inclusion of Google Translate. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles with Content Translation. To start using this service, please choose Google Translate from the Automatic Translation dropdown menu that you see on the sidebar after you start translating an article.

Please note, machine translation is available from all the languages that are supported by Google Translate, but Content Translation can still be used in the usual manner for translating from all languages, with or without machine translation support. While machine translation exists to aid creation of content conveniently, we would like to emphasise that before publishing, the final content should always be reviewed to avoid errors and ambiguity. We hope that your wiki community will find this new service useful, and that it will help you create more articles in your language.

Wikimedia Foundation and Google have collaborated to work out an agreement that allows the use of Google Translate without compromising Wikipedia’s policy of attribution of rights, privacy of our users and brand representation. For more information, we request you to kindly take a look at the details about machine translation services in Content Translation and about Google Translate translation services. You can also read the main announcement on Wikimedia news. Please note, translations made using Content Translation are also used to improve machine translation services.

We have tested the service for use, but there could be unknown problems that we are not aware of yet. Please do let us know on our Project Talk page if you face any problems using Content Translation. This message is only in English and we will be very grateful if it could be translated into for other users of this Wikipedia.

Thank you. -- On behalf of WMF Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 9 jan 2019, 17.15 (CET)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

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

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

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 14 jan 2019, 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 jan 2019, 19.40 (CET)

Belangrijk: Beoordeling beheerdersactiviteit

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Goedendag. In 2013 is een beleid met betrekking tot het verwijderen van "geavanceerde rechten" (moderator, bureaucraat, etc.) bij consensus vastgesteld door de gemeenschap. Op basis van dit beleid beoordelen de stewards de activiteit van de moderators op alle wiki's van de Wikimedia Foundation waar geen eigen inactiviteitsbeleid geldt. Voor zover ons bekend, heeft deze wiki geen formeel proces voor het intrekken van "geavanceerde rechten" van inactieve accounts. Dit betekent dat de stewards zich hierover gaan ontfermen op basis van admin activiteitsbeoordeling.

We hebben vastgesteld dat de volgende gebruikers voldoen aan de inactiviteitscriteria (geen bewerkingen en geen gelogde acties in de afgelopen twee jaar):

1. User:Theun.

Deze gebruikers ontvangen binnenkort een bericht, waarin hen gevraagd wordt het binnen de gemeenschap aan te geven als zij enkele of alle van hun rechten willen behouden. Als de gebruikers niet reageren, zullen hun geavanceerde rechten door de stewards worden ingetrokken.

Wil jullie gemeenschap haar eigen activiteitsbeoordelingsproces vaststellen, dat voor gaat op het globale proces, willen jullie een andere beslissing nemen met betrekking tot deze inactieve gebruikers met rechten of hebben jullie hier al een beleid voor dat niet bekend is bij de stewards, wil je dit dan aangeven op het berichtenbord van de stewards op Meta-Wiki, zodat we weten dat we niet verder hoeven te gaan met het beoordelen van de rechten op jouw wiki. Hartelijke dank. --MarcoAurelio (oerlis) 26 jan 2019, 17.58 (CET)

Ik haw op himsels gjin beswier om myn rjochten op te jaan. Ik haw de eardere diskusje op Drewes syn oerlis side spitichernôch mist. Betink wol dat de list fan Wikipedy:Rjochtenútfurders wol hiel krap is. Ik haw dizze meidieling foar de folgjende kear mar efkes yn it Frysk oerset. Theun (oerlis)

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 feb 2019, 16.01 (CET)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

• Kinige – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
• Gale – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
• JSTOR – New applications now being taken again

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Taylor & Francis, Cairn, Annual Reviews and Bloomsbury. You can request new partnerships on our Suggestions page.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 13 mrt 2019, 18.40 (CET)

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

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

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

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

8 apr 2019, 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. Thank you! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 12 apr 2019, 19.35 (CEST)

Klaas Kuiken

Ik zie net dat de volgende twee artikelen over dezelfde persoon gaan. De geboorteplaatsen zijn anders, waardoor dat eerst gecheckt moet worden, voordat er een redirect gemaakt kan worden. Wil iemand daar naar kijken? Het gaat om: Klaas Kuiken en Klaas Dirks Kuiken. Alvast bedankt! Ymnes (oerlis) 27 apr 2019, 20.43 (CEST)

Tige tank Ymnes, it berteplak is der mei boarneferwizing by setten. Allefriezen.nl joech útslútsel. Moai dat jo it melden kamen. 28 apr 2019, 08.55 (CEST)

Reisbeurzen voor deelname aan Wikimania

Van 14-18 augustus vindt in Stockholm Wikimania plaats, de jaarlijkse internationale bijeenkomst van de Wikimediagemeenschap. Actieve Wikimedianen kunnen bij Wikimedia Nederland een beurs aanvragen voor deelname aan Wikimania. Dit kunnen volledige beurzen zijn voor reis, entree én verblijf, of een beurs voor een deel van de kosten.

Net als vorig jaar zou Wikimedia Nederland graag naast ervaren Wikimania-bezoekers ook tenminste twee Wikimedianen willen steunen die nog nooit naar Wikimania zijn geweest. Wil je Wikimania (misschien voor het eerst) meemaken, dan kun je met dit formulier een beurs aanvragen. Aanvragen moeten voor 1 juni worden ingediend.

Zoals altijd: je hoeft geen lid te zijn van Wikimedia Nederland om voor een beurs in aanmerking te komen. SRientjes (oerlis) 16 mai 2019, 12.52 (CEST)

Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes

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Hello all,

Many language versions of Wikipedia use the content of Wikidata, the centralized knowledge base, to fill out the content of infoboxes. The data is stored in Wikidata and displayed, partially or completely, in the Wikipedia’s language, on the articles. This feature is used by many template editors, but brought several issues that were raised by communities in various places: not being able to edit the data directly from Wikipedia was one of them.

This is the reason why the Wikidata Bridge project started, with the goal of offering a way to Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data more easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the infobox, that users can access directly from their local wiki.

The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of user research has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project. The next steps of development will be achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting now until the end of 2019.

In order to make sure that we’re building a tool that is answering editors’ needs, we’re using agile methods in our development process. We don’t start with a fixed idea of the tool we want to deliver: we will build it together with the editors, based on feedback loops that we will regularly organize. The first version will not necessarily have all of the features you want, but it will keep evolving.

Here’s the planned timeline:

• From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
• From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version of the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give feedback.
• Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration with the communities.
  • We will first focus on early adopters communities who already implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for example Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
  • but we also welcome also communities who volunteer to be part of the first test round.
  • Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German, English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their potentially different needs.
  • Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other projects.

In any case, no deployment or big change will be enforced on the projects without talking to the communities first, and helping the template builders to prepare for the changes they will have to do on the infoboxes’ code.

If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:

• Read and help translating the documentation pages
• Follow the updates and participate in the first feedback loop
• Talk about it with your local community

More ideas will be added on this page along the way

If you have any questions for the development team, feel free to ask them on the main talk page. You can also ask under this message, but if you expect an answer from me, please make sure to ping me.

Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 24 jun 2019, 15.03 (CEST)

Fakânsje

De skoalle giet ticht dat ik moat fuort. Allegear in protte wille, in bytsje sinne en meitsje jimme net te drok. At de himel net omleech komt, dan is der nei de fakânsje ek wer tiid om te wikipedyën. Mysha (oerlis)

@Mysha: Ik winskje dy in goede fakânsje ta en oant sjen. Drewes (oerlis) 19 jul 2019, 17.06 (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 jul 2019, 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 aug 2019, 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 aug 2019, 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 sep 2019, 19.14 (CEST)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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Hello. 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.

Thank you! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

16 okt 2019, 09.18 (CEST)

Beta feature "Reference Previews"

A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki: Reference Previews. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.

Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your user preferences and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 23 okt 2019, 11.47 (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.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk pages project

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

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

29 okt 2019, 12.12 (CET)

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

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Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer to our Meta page for organizers.

Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!

For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team on wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.

MediaWiki message delivery (oerlis) 31 okt 2019, 17.57 (CET)

Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest

In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.

Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (oerlis) 27 nov 2019, 15.16 (CET)