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 4	Kategori:Publiceringar kvartal 4
Skapa publiceringar december	Kategori:Publiceringar december
Skapa publiceringar vecka 49	Kategori:Publiceringar vecka 49
Skapa publiceringar 3 december	Kategori:Publiceringar 3 december
Skapa Kategori:3 december 2024	Kategori:3 december 2024
Skapa vecka 49	Vecka 49
Skapa 3 december	3 december
Skapa december 2024	december 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

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the full version of this announcement on Meta)

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

What this means for your project:

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

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

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

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

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 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.

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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.