User talk:Dezedien/archive
Add topicWelcome to Meta!
[edit]Hello, Dezedien/archive. Welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). Happy editing!
--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:17, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
Upcoming IdeaLab Events: IEG Proposal Clinics
[edit]
Hello, Dezedien! We've added Events to IdeaLab, and you're invited :)
Upcoming events focus on turning ideas into Individual Engagement Grant proposals before the March 31 deadline. Need help or have questions about IEG? Join us at a Hangout:
- Thursday, 13 March 2014, 1600 UTC
- Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 1700 UTC
- Saturday, 29 March 2014, 1700 UTC
Hope to see you there!
This message was delivered automatically to IEG and IdeaLab participants. To unsubscribe from any future IEG reminders, remove your name from this list
Translation notification: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Heartbleed
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Heartbleed is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:23, 10 April 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, March 2014
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, March 2014 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Help is also still welcoming in translating the previous issue of the Wikimedia Highlights which was published last week, at [1].
If you have questions about the translation notifications system, you can ask them at [2]. You can manage your subscription at [3].
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 05:09, 1 May 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Grants:APG/FDC portal/FDC recommendations/2013-2014 round2
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:APG/FDC portal/FDC recommendations/2013-2014 round2 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:12, 24 May 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Fundraising/Translation/Thank you email 20140606
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Fundraising/Translation/Thank you email 20140606 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2014-06-20.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 13:53, 6 June 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, May 2014
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, May 2014 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 07:39, 1 July 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Mailing lists/List info
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Mailing lists/List info is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is medium.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 00:09, 19 August 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Single User Login finalisation announcement/RenameUser announcement
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Single User Login finalisation announcement/RenameUser announcement is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is medium. The deadline for translating this page is 2014-09-08.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 03:59, 3 September 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Research:Global South User Survey 2014/Questions
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Research:Global South User Survey 2014/Questions is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is medium. The deadline for translating this page is 2014-09-22.
This page includes questions to be used to create the 2014 Global South User survey which will help us
learn more about our users from countries in the global south, and your input and feedback on Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects help us understand the specific needs of local user communities in the global south.Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 00:31, 16 September 2014 (UTC)Création WikiDZ User group
[edit]Voila, je viens de rajouter la TODO list pour suivre les étapes à réaliser pour la reconnaissance du groupe et barrer ou cocher les choses au fur et à mesure qu'elles sont faites. --Oldstoneage (talk) 20:03, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Africa
[edit]Bonsoir
J'ai laissé quelques notes ici relativement au concours. Super que tu ais envie que l'Algérie s'implique !
Bon, dans l'immédiat... on se concentre sur lancer le concours (donc toute aide pour relayer l'information, auprès de la communauté, des bloggeurs, de la presse... n'hésite pas).
Aide pour la traduction des pages aussi... si tu peux/veux... sera bienvenu. Un mot de toi et je te fais une liste :)
Ensuite... même si l'Algérie ne fait pas partie des "focus countries", ça n'empêche pas de faire des choses. Dans tous les cas, le site notice sera visible par tous les algériens. Tu as envie de faire quelque chose de particulier ? Anthere (talk) 01:21, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
bjr
- Bjr
je voie que vous avez bien avancés dans le projet et il ne reste que j-1 pour le lancement
- On lance aujourd'hui ! Mais que cela ne te trouble pas pour la suite. On a pas fini la traduction en langue arabe et le communiqué de presse n'a été envoyé qu'en anglais à certains médias anglophones. On va dérouler dans la semaine à venir.
pour mon aide je suis toujours dispo a aider a traduire vers l'arabe
- super ! Il reste à traduire des textes. Les messages du site notice ont visiblement été fait aujourd'hui ([4]). Il reste des pages wiki sur commons, à traduire ou à relire (voir ici: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/ar). Et puis les pages du site http://www.wikilovesafrica.org (mais qui sont en large partie les mêmes que sur le wiki. Donc autant terminer le wiki et transférer ensuite sur le site)
si un communiqué de presse du concours existe -- je pourrais l'adapter a l'algérie et l'envoyer au différents relais de presse ici puisque le User group wikimédiens d'Algérie aka WikiDZ est en cours d'aprobation
- Oui. C'est une très bonne idée. Il existe un communiqué de presse, en anglais et en français. Je vais t'ajouter le lien vers une page pour une version à traduire en arabe.
vous avez bien fait d'unifier le tout sous une seule interface j'aime bien
- Merci :) (ce ne fut pas simple...)
que voulez vous dire par "focus coutries" ? l'Algérie participe et pour ce mois d'octobre je vais m'occuper ici de la promotion --Bachounda (talk) 15:13, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
- C'est un peu artificiel. Nous savions que nous avions 4-5 personnes sur place dans divers pays pour organiser des évènements autour du concours. Nous avons ensuite fait un appel pour connaitre qui d'autres seraient intéressés. Nous avons eu un certain nombre de réponses. Nous avons fait une demande de financement à la WMF et nous avions choisi une liste de pays (assez ouverte). La WMF nous a demandé d'être plus "restrictifs" sur cette liste. Soit... Nous avons donc établi une liste précise, dite "focus countries". L'aide que nous proposons aux organisateurs dans ces pays est listée ici. Maintenant.... soyons clairs... la plupart des éléments listés ici... à partir du moment où ils existent (comme par exemple un dépliant promotionnel ou un communiqué de presse), s'ils existent pour les focus countries... ils existent pour les autres pays :) Pour ma part, j'habite en France, donc je ne suis pas dans un focus country, ce qui ne m'empêchera nullement de faire la promotion du concours ici. La seule chose réellement sur laquelle on ne pourra pas aider est le petit soutient financier pour l'organisation d'évènements puisque cela n'a pas été budgété. Mais tout le reste je crois... est fondamentalement public et ouvert à tous. Et pour ma part, je ne vois pas d'inconvénient du tout (bien au contraire !) à ce que l'on mentionne sur le site ce qui se fait dans les autres pays. J'espère bien que beaucoup de pays vont participer.
- Je reviens te mettre quelques liens dès que j'ai créé les pages de communiqué de presse. Anthere (talk) 15:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
- Voili ! Press release en Arabe. A traduire de façon générique. Puis à adapter à vos besoins en Algérie (avec vos contacts presse etc. ). Merci !!! Anthere (talk)
- J'oubliais... on a créé trois files sur otrs pour le cas où nous ayions des courriels; Une file en anglais, une en français et une en arabe. Pour l'instant, nous n'avons personne pour la file en arabe. Si répondre aux sollicitations/questions sur OTRS est quelque chose que tu accepterais de faire... signale le moi pour qu'on t'ouvre un compte. Tout le monde n'aime pas forcément faire cela, donc sens toi libre d'être volontaire ou pas. Anthere (talk)
- Bonsoir; je vais faire 3 choses
- Primo : finir la lecture du texte traduit et traduire le reste
- Secondo : WikiDZ va soutenir le concour par contre le Nom Algérie a visibiliser même si elle n'est pas "Focus countries"
- Tersio : otrs arabe ou français je peut le faire ; je suis partant
- s'il est en français je peut le traduire plus facilement
--Bachounda (talk) 21:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Bon. Prenons les choses dans l'ordre.
- le press release à traduire: Press release en Arabe. Je t'ai mis la version en français
- le site web. J'en ai parlé avec Isla. Pas de souci. Peux-tu m'écrire un topo pour faire une page pays ? Genre [5]. L'essentiel est qu'il y ait des infos sur l'association et où vous contacter (lien vers page Facebook, twitter, site web etc.).
- Par ailleurs, donne mes les coordonnées d'une personne à qui je puisse donner des droits d'édition sur le site (email).
- Ensuite, ajoute des infos de contact presse ici: [6]. Ne te précipite pas... on a un souci avec le système de traduction automatique de la page. Le tableau passe mal... j'essaye de trouver quelqu'un qui puisse m'aider à résoudre le problème :(
Merci et à plus ! Anthere (talk)
bonjour
- la presse release est en cours de traduction
- le topo un texte en français / arabe /anglais (a relire) sera fait dans les 24h a suivre
- des que je reçoit la réponse de Vikoula5 je vous met en contact il est capable de faire la mission d'edition et plus
- les infos contact ajouté avec succes
merci a toi pour le soutien et bonne journée :) --Bachounda Med. (talk) 09:37, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
Merci. Bé... pour l'ajout à la liste des contacts presse... nope; pas avec succès. Ca marche pour la version en anglais mais ça ne parvient pas à traduire en français (regarde la page en version française). Ce système de traduction me rend chèvre... C'est l'usage des tableaux qui met tout le bazar et je ne m'y connais pas assez pour corriger les boulettes. C'est agaçant. Anthere (talk)
Bon. J'ai déjà remanié le site pour qu'il clarifie l'aspect pays. Votre slot est prêt: http://wikilovesafrica.org/fr/pays/ Anthere (talk)
Bonjour Anthere voici qui est fait les 4 points ok :
- la presse release est deja traduite a 100%
- le Topo
* le topo fr
- le plus grand pays d'Afrique est le fruit de nombreux brassages éthniques (berbères ,phéniciens ,européens ,arabes, turcs africaine.). se peuple et sa cuisine offre ::une composante impressionnante de contraste, ce concour va vous faire découvrire cette diversité impressionante;
- WikiDZ soutien le concours lancé, une equipe toute neuve qui veut coute que coute faire partager a tous le monde de la terre les petit secret de la cuisines ::algérienne
- vous qui avez des photos de ce genre venez les partager avec nous et pourquoi pas vous peut ètre vous serez celui qui aura fait la plus belle photos d'afrique
- suivez nous sur
- Site web : http://wikimedia-dz.com
- Blog : http://wikidezed.blogspot.com/
- Twitter : @Wikimediadz
- Google+ :Algerian Wikimedian
-
- E-Mail : Wikidezed@
le topo en
- the largest country in Africa is the result of many ethnic intermixing (Berbers, Phoenicians, European, Arab, African Turks.). this people, its cuisine offers an ::impressive component of contrast; this contest will make you discover this impressive diversity;
- WikiDZ the contest contest Wiki loves africa, a team of brand new contributor who takes up the challenge to share to all the world the little secret of the Algerian ::cuisine.
- you! who have pictures of this kind come and share with us and why not; you may be you will be the one who made the most beautiful pictures of africa
- follow us on
- 'Website,' 'http://wikimedia-dz.com
- 'Blog:' http://wikidezed.blogspot.com/
- 'Twitter' [7]
- 'Google+:' Algerian wikimedian
-
- 'E-Mail:' [mailto: wikidezed@google.com Wikidezed @]
le top arabic
أكبر دولة في أفريقيا هو نتيجة للعديد من إختلاط الأجناس (البربر والفينيقيين والأوروبييين والعربية والأفريقية الأتراك). هذا الشعب، مطبخه يقدم لها عنصرا رائعة من النقيض. هذه المسابقة سوف تجعلك تكتشف هذا التنوع المثير للإعجاب. WikiDZ تؤيد مسابقة ويكي تهوى أفريقيا، قام فريق من المساهمين الجدد الذي رفعوا التحدي للمشاركة إلى كل العالم سر القليل من المطبخ الجزائري.
أنتم! الذين لديكم صور من هذا النوع تعالوتقاسمو معنا و لما لا ؛ قد تكون أنت أحد الذين قدموا من الصور الأكثر جمالا في أفريقيا
تابعونا على
- 'موقع،' http://wikimedia-dz.com
- 'المدونة:' http://wikidezed.blogspot.com/
- 'تويتر' [8]
- 'في + Google:' يكيميدية الجزائري
- 'البريد الإلكتروني:' [ميلتو: wikidezed@google.com Wikidezed @]
pour le contact il va t'envoyer un courier dans les plus proches delais c'est Vikoula5 .celui dont on parlé a londres si vous voulez anticipper contacte le directe .
--Bachounda Med. (talk) 13:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello
Nous avons ajouté la Fondation Orange à la liste des financeurs du projet (car ils payent une partie du salaire d'Isla en particulier). Pourras tu le mettre à jour sur le communiqué de presse s'il n'a pas encore été envoyé ? Merci [9] Anthere (talk)
- c'est le bon lien oui. Pour ma part... j'avais une grosse flemme et je ne comptais pas ajouter le traditionnel petit encart sur la Fondation Orange. Je pense qu'il est bon d'ajouter leur nom mais le financement est assez indirect. Donc... je pensais plutôt zapper le topo. Anthere (talk)
- salam
donc je retire le developpement des dit topo --Bachounda Med. (talk) 18:53, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your help!
[edit]
|
The Translation Barnstar | |
| Thank you for your valuable contribution to the translation of the Global South Editor Survey questions! With my best regards, -- Haitham S. (WMF) |
VisualEditor News #8—2014
[edit]
TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.
With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.
See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.
There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that replaced some categories with a link to the system message MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.
Increased support for devices and browsers
[edit]Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.
Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.
TemplateData editor
[edit]The tool for editing TemplateData has been deployed to 30 more Wikipedias this week. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template page or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
Other changes
[edit]Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.
VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect and mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these types of links can be created.
Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358).
Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir attribute but no lang set (bug 69955).
Looking ahead
[edit]The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.
The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.
In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.
Supporting your wiki
[edit]At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community is available. Thank you all for your work.
This was the first translatable VisualEditor newsletter, so thanks to everybody who made this possible! If it hasn't been delivered in your language, and you'd like to help with translations in the future, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre (WMF), so that you will be notified when the next issue is due.
VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.
Give feedback on VisualEditor at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you! —Elitre (WMF)
09:46, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Translation notification: File metadata cleanup drive/How to fix metadata
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page File metadata cleanup drive/How to fix metadata is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is medium.
- File metadata cleanup drive (direct translation link)
- Template:File metadata cleanup header (direct translation link)
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 13:28, 20 October 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Global AbuseFilter/2014 announcement
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Global AbuseFilter/2014 announcement is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high.
In order to reach out to the communities in their native language, we would like to ask for your help in translating the following mass message which will be sent to the affected wikis as well:
The message will be sent in about three days time from now (on 13 November) so if you are planning on translating the message, please make sure that Global AbuseFilter/2014 announcement (condensed) is translated before the deadline.Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 17:12, 10 November 2014 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #9—2014
[edit]
Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the November's issue of the VisualEditor monthly newsletter, which will be widely delivered later this week. The previous bulletin was published in 10 languages, but the translation was completed only for three of them. Will we do better this month? We'd like to reach many more communities in their own language this time, as we're announcing interesting developments like the new ability to add tables and their elements. Thanks a lot for your help! Elitre (WMF) 21:28, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. If you need further help or would like to receive a talk page message to be notified of future translations, please contact me directly.
VisualEditor News #9—2014
[edit]
Did you know?
VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Log in and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings button in the upper-right corner to pick which editor to use. Choose "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-visual-editor⧽" to use VisualEditor, or "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-source-editor⧽" to use the wikitext editor.
It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.
The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available on the mobile website.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.
Recent improvements
[edit]Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in them was just introduced to Wikipedias. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be added later.
To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus are now hidden behind a "More" item, such as "Underline" in the styling menu.
The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias this week, and the following week at the English Wikipedia.
The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar menus are now shown in the menus.
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience/Design group. The appearance of dialog boxes has already changed in the mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. You are welcome to compare the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.
Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search engine could not find the page. A link inside a template to a local page that does not exist will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to an error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [10] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.
TemplateData
[edit]The tool for quickly editing TemplateData has been deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool was already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData to learn more about it. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common value for that parameter. The autovalue can be overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.
In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog box in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.
Looking ahead
[edit]The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.
The user guide is being updated to add information about editing tables. The translations of the user guide for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.
You can influence VisualEditor's design! Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.
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)
23:28, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Translation notification: Grants:APG/Funds Dissemination Committee/Advisory Group/Recommendations/2014/ED Response
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:APG/Funds Dissemination Committee/Advisory Group/Recommendations/2014/ED Response is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is low.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 12:05, 20 November 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, October 2014
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, October 2014 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 07:55, 2 December 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Grants:PEG/About the Project and Event Grants Program
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:PEG/About the Project and Event Grants Program is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2014-12-31.
Please leave questions about the page on the discussion page or post questions directly to user:AWang (WMF)
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:58, 9 December 2014 (UTC)Translation notification: Admin activity review/2014/Notice to communities
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Admin activity review/2014/Notice to communities is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 23:10, 21 December 2014 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #10—2014
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the December's issue of the VisualEditor monthly newsletter, which will be widely delivered later this week. The amazing translators' community has already found out about it prior to this announcement... But how is your language doing this time? Find out now and contribute! Thanks a lot for your help! Elitre (WMF) 07:35, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. If you need further help or would like to receive a talk page message to be notified of future translations, please contact me directly.
VisualEditor News #10—2014
[edit]
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
[edit]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 "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".
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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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 "Bold" and "Italic" 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!
18:56, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Translation notification: Stewards/Elections 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Stewards/Elections 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high.
- Banner displayed to sysops regarding nominations (direct translation link)
- Banner displayed to users regarding voting (direct translation link)
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 04:35, 11 January 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, December 2014
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, December 2014 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 23:58, 31 January 2015 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #1—2015
[edit]Hi! Apologies if you're reading this message more than once. This is an invitation to join translators working on the February's issue of the VisualEditor multilingual newsletter. This time it features an important announcement about a series of meetings where VE tasks on Phabricator will be triaged live and publicly, starting next week. Since we want many people to be aware of this ASAP (especially volunteer developers!), we have a time constraint which means we'll deliver to the wikis on Thursday morning PST this week. Thanks a lot in advance, we know you'll do whatever it takes to keep your community up-to-date, and appreciate it a lot. m:User:Elitre (WMF), 22:08, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. If you need further help or would like to receive a talk page message to be notified of future translations, please contact me directly.
VisualEditor News #1—2015
[edit]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.
Recent improvements
[edit]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: blue ,
- takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
- might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
- is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray .
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.
Looking ahead
[edit]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
[edit]- 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!
18:08, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, January 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, January 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 21:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Oversight policy
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Oversight policy is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences here.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 16:30, 7 March 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: User:Keegan (WMF)/Quicktranslate
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page User:Keegan (WMF)/Quicktranslate is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-03-19.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences here.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 02:21, 19 March 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: User:Keegan (WMF)/Rename confusion message
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page User:Keegan (WMF)/Rename confusion message is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-03-31.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences here.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:16, 27 March 2015 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #2—2015
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the April's issue of the VisualEditor monthly newsletter, which will be widely delivered towards the end of next week. The previous bulletin was published in 26 languages—the translation was completed only for ten of them. Will we do better this month? We'd like to reach many more communities in their own language this time, as VE recently became the main editor at other 50+ Wikipedias, and we're announcing interesting developments (auto-fill features for citations, improved special character inserter, drag and drop for categories, invisible templates now marked by a puzzle piece icon, and more). Thanks a lot for your help! Elitre (WMF) 22:38, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. If you need further help or would like to change the page where you're notified of future translations, please contact me directly.
Translation notification: Single User Login finalisation announcement/Post-rename notice
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Single User Login finalisation announcement/Post-rename notice is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-04-12.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences here.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:35, 7 April 2015 (UTC)VisualEditor News #2—2015
[edit]
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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 "Bold" and "Italic" 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!
19:45, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Single User Login finalisation announcement
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Single User Login finalisation announcement is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-04-16.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences here.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:24, 15 April 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, March 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, March 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 03:03, 4 May 2015 (UTC)ta.wiktionary
[edit]Kindly, revisit the page of ta.wiktionary embassy for the bulk upload. --Info-farmer (talk) 17:22, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
- Bro! I am waiting for you where you left. Please come--Info-farmer (talk) 00:53, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. If you start the wiktionary page, please inform me. Bye for now--Info-farmer (talk) 17:19, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, April 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Spoken Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, April 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 21:58, 13 May 2015 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #3—2015
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the June's issue of the VisualEditor multilingual newsletter, which will be widely delivered at the end of this workweek. You may have noticed that the bulletin is now getting published once every two months more or less, but we're keeping the length manageable ;) Thanks a lot for your help! — Elitre (WMF) 17:41, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. If you need further help or would like to change the page where you're notified of future translations, please contact me directly.
PPS: Also, watch out for announcements of the upcoming VE-translathon! Everybody getting this message will be particularly welcome to join that activity during Wikimania.
Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, May 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, May 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:11, 11 June 2015 (UTC)VisualEditor News #3—2015
[edit]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
[edit]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, "Example", 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
[edit]- 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!
10:45, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, June 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, June 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 01:38, 10 July 2015 (UTC)Early invitation: join VisualEditor's 2015 Translathon
[edit]Hello!
You are invited to join the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon! It is a translation rally, focused on interface messages and help pages related to VisualEditor.
In order to participate, you need to sign up on the Translathon page. The top 3 contributors will each win a Wikipedia t-shirt of their choice from the Wikipedia store.[1] Translations made between July 15th and July 19th (CDT time zone) qualify.[2]
If you are attending Wikimania Mexico this year, you are also welcome to join a related sprint during the Hackathon in Workplace 1 - Don Américo, Thursday 16 July at 4:00 p.m (CDT) at the conference venue, so you can meet other fellow translators and get support if you need some.
Interface messages have the priority. You will need to create an account at translatewiki.net in order to work on them, if you don't have one. It is recommended to create the account ASAP, so that it can be manually confirmed in time.
You can also help translate documentation pages about VisualEditor on mediawiki.org. You can use your Wikipedia account there. You will find instructions, links and other details on the Translathon page.
Thanks for your attention, and happy translating! Elitre (WMF) 02:59, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is medium. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-08-15.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 00:43, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #4—2015
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the August's issue of the VisualEditor multilingual newsletter, which will be widely delivered at the end of this workweek. Among other things, this month it features the names of the top contributors for the recent VisualEditor 2nd Translathon. Thanks a lot for your support, as usual! Elitre (WMF), 16:49, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
- PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones.
- PPS: We are maintaining a list of editors who have worked on VE-related content (such as newsletters). We only use it to notify them of translation opportunities, to make sure they don't miss Translathons, etc. If you would like messages like this one to be delivered on your talk page at a different WMF project, need any help with translations related to VisualEditor or would like to remove your name from that list, please contact me directly.
Translation notification: User:MCruz (WMF)/Sandbox/Message to post on Community Villages
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to الفرنسية on Meta. The page User:MCruz (WMF)/Sandbox/Message to post on Community Villages is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is high. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-08-12.
I need help translating this message to Polish, French, German and Dutch. I would like to reach out to these communities in their own language, on the topic of Community Health learning campaign, which had both negative and positive comments on Village Pumps. Can you please help me? I need to send out the message ASAP. Thank you,
MaríaYour help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:37, 11 August 2015 (UTC)VisualEditor News #4—2015
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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 "Bold" and "Italic" 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), 22:27, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?
[edit]Hi! The Wikimedia Foundation would like your input on how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project.
After reading the Reimagining WMF grants idea, we ask you to complete this survey to help us improve the idea and learn more about your experience. When you complete the survey, you can enter to win one of five Wikimedia globe sweatshirts!
In addition to taking the the survey, you are welcome to participate in these ways:
- Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
- Join a small group conversation.
- Learn more about this consultation.
This survey is in English, but feedback on the discussion page 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) (talk · contribs) through MediaWiki message delivery. 01:23, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Community Capacity Development
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية on Meta. The page Community Capacity Development is available for translation. You can translate it here:
We hope these pages can serve as a basis for very concrete conversation between WMF and specific communities about possible projects to build specific capacities in interested communities. The work is to be based on interest and mutual agreement, not on top-down dictates from WMF. That's why it's important these documents -- this page and the six sub-pages mentioned in the navigation bar at its top -- reach the different communities in their own language.
Thank you very much for your consideration, and please let me know if anything is unclear.
- Asaf Bartov (leading this project)
- Wikimedia Foundation
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 21:40, 31 August 2015 (UTC)A message re: your subscription to the VisualEditor multilingual newsletter
[edit]Hello there! I noticed your name appears twice on VisualEditor/Newsletter. If you're OK with receiving the newsletter twice, that's fine by me :) However, should you want to change this, please notice:
- en.wiki gets the newsletter earlier, because that's not translated into other languages. If you want to receive the newsletter on en.wiki, please suscribe to Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter instead;
- if you want to get the newsletter in your own language (assuming a translation has been provided for that month), then please update your subscription to your talk page on your home wiki.
That's all! HTH, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:35, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Last call for WMF grants feedback!
[edit]Hi, this is a reminder that the consultation about Reimagining WMF grants is closing on 8 September (0:00 UTC). We encourage you to complete the survey now, if you haven't yet done so, so that we can include your ideas.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.
(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) (talk · contribs) through MediaWiki message delivery. 19:08, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, August 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, August 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 00:48, 11 September 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Develop a Wikipedia Year-in-Review
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Develop a Wikipedia Year-in-Review is available for translation. You can translate it here:
We have published a blog post about the collaborative #Edit2015 video.
We are looking for translations into several languages including but not limited to: Russian, Spanish, Arabic, French, Chinese, Japanese.
However, any and ALL languages are welcome and appreciated :).
You can collaborate to make #Edit2015: a Wikipedia Year-in-Review video. Read how together we can edit our shared history of the events of 2015 by finding articles, uploading photos and developing the story of 2015 as a video that will be shared freely and widely.
Thank you for taking the time to read this message and consider translating the #Edit2015 blog post.
Best,
Wikimedia Foundation Communications StaffYour help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 20:38, 29 September 2015 (UTC)Bangla WP
[edit]Hi Bachounda, are you planning to finish this translation? Please let me know, as we'd like to publish as soon as possible. Thank you very much! Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 18:46, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, September 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، Moroccan Arabic و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, September 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:42, 14 October 2015 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #5—2015
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the October's issue of the VisualEditor multilingual newsletter, which will be widely delivered at the end of this workweek. Thanks a lot for your support, as usual! Elitre (WMF), 18:00, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones.
- PPS: We are maintaining a list of editors who have worked on VE-related content (such as newsletters). We only use it to notify them of translation opportunities, to make sure they don't miss Translathons, etc. If you would like messages like this one to be delivered on your talk page at a different WMF project, need any help with translations related to VisualEditor or would like to remove your name from that list, please contact me directly.
Translation notification: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Roundup 2015-10-29
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Roundup 2015-10-29 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
We're starting a new Wikimedia digest that will be a globally focused hub for important Wikimedia movement and Foundation initiatives. We aim to supplement existing community news outlets while also filling a void left by inactive outlets like the Portuguese Wikipedia's Correio da Wikipédia, for example.
The first article in this series is now ready for translation, and we appreciate help in getting it out to your communities (along with any suggestions you have to improve future posts). I'm looking to publish this late tomorrow in as many languages as possible.
Thank you all very much!Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 18:30, 28 October 2015 (UTC)VisualEditor News #5—2015
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?
Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".
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
[edit]Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link 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 "Insert Images and 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 "Delete" 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
[edit]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 "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
Let's work together
[edit]- 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), 18:18, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Wikipedia 15/Mark/Announcement
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikipedia 15/Mark/Announcement is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 01:33, 4 November 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, October 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, October 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:56, 12 November 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikipedia 15/Knowledge is joy
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikipedia 15/Knowledge is joy is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 00:35, 20 November 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Grants:APG/FDC portal/FDC recommendations/2015-2016 round1
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Grants:APG/FDC portal/FDC recommendations/2015-2016 round1 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 01:16, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Free Bassel
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Free Bassel is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-11-30.
thank you for your work on translations for the Wikimedia movement.
Today I'm requesting translation of the page Free Bassel, which is to be the landing page linked from a CentralNotice banner campaign informing our readers about the dire situation of Bassel Khartabil, a fellow Wikipedia volunteer and open source software developer who might be facing death penalty imposed by the Syrian government.
Please kindly take some time to translate the page; I set 30 November as the deadline for the translation, but really do hope the page might be translated earlier than that, as Bassel's situation really is of the utmost urgency.
There is also the text of the banner waiting to be translated at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel> -- and again, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German are languages of top priority for us at the moment given their usage by the United Nations and their popularity in the world.
Comments, questions and suggestions are welcome at Talk:Banner:Free Bassel.
Thank you so much in advance for your work on this,
Tomasz a.k.a. user:odder.Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 05:10, 25 November 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Grants:IdeaLab/Future IdeaLab Campaigns/Notification
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:IdeaLab/Future IdeaLab Campaigns/Notification is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-12-15.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 20:04, 7 December 2015 (UTC)This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.
The Affiliations Committee – the committee responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is looking for new members!
The main role of the Affiliations Committee is to guide groups of volunteers that are interested in forming Wikimedia affiliates. We review applications from new groups, answer questions and provide advice about the different Wikimedia affiliation models and processes, review affiliate bylaws for compliance with requirements and best practices, and advise the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on issues connected to chapters, thematic organizations and Wikimedia user groups.
The committee consists of twelve members, six of whom are selected every twelve months for staggered two-year terms.
- Key skills
Being a part of the Affiliations Committee requires communication with volunteers all over the world, negotiating skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to understand legal texts. We try to get a healthy mix of different skill sets in our members. The key skills and experience that we look for in candidates are:
- Excitement by the challenge of helping to empower groups of volunteers worldwide.
- Willingness to process applications through a set, perhaps bureaucratic process.
- Readiness to participate in political discussions on the role and future of affiliates, models of affiliations, and similar questions.
- Availability of up to 5 hours per week, and the time to participate in a monthly ~2 hour voice/video meeting.
- International orientation.
- Very good communication skills in English.
- Ability to work and communicate with other languages and cultures.
- Strong understanding of the structure and work of affiliates and the WMF.
- Knowledge of different legal systems and experience in community building and organising are a plus.
- Effective communication skills in other languages are a major plus.
- Experience with or in an active affiliate is a major plus.
- Willingness to use one's real name in committee activities (including contacts with current and potential affiliates) when appropriate.
We are looking for people who are not afraid of the workload and are motivated by helping other volunteers to get organized and form communities that further our mission around the world.
- Selection process
As a reflection of our commitment to openness, transparency, and bilateral engagement with the Wikimedia community, the 2015 member selection process will include a public review and comment period. All applications received by the committee will be posted on Meta (at Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2015), and the community will be invited to provide comments and feedback about each candidate.
At the end of the public comment period, the applications will be voted on by the members of the committee who are not seeking re-election, taking into account comments put forward by the committee's members, advisors, WMF staff and board liaisons, and the community. A final decision will be made by mid-January 2016, with new members expected to join later that month.
- How to apply
If you are interested in joining the committee, please send an application to affcom@lists.wikimedia.org by 31 December 2015. You will get a confirmation that your application was received.
Your application should include the following:
- Your full name
- Your contact information (including e-mail address and username)
- A statement describing your relevant experience, skills, and motivation for joining the committee.
Your statement will be published for community review and feedback, so please do not include any information that you are not comfortable sharing.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me and/or the committee as a whole. We are happy to chat or have a phone call with anyone about our work if this helps them decide to apply. Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are interested!
Best regards,
Carlos Colina
Chair, Affiliations Committee
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, 16:52, 9 December 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
Translation notification: Grants:IdeaLab/Future IdeaLab Campaigns
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:IdeaLab/Future IdeaLab Campaigns is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-01-04.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:06, 10 December 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, November 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, November 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 20:22, 11 December 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Requests for comment/Password policy for users with certain advanced permissions/massmessage
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Requests for comment/Password policy for users with certain advanced permissions/massmessage is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 11:42, 13 December 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: Grants:IdeaLab/Towards a New Wikimania
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:IdeaLab/Towards a New Wikimania is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-01-05.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 05:04, 15 December 2015 (UTC)Translation notification: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page 2015 Community Wishlist Survey is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 13:04, 21 December 2015 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #6—2015
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the last issue of the VisualEditor multilingual newsletter for 2015, which will be widely delivered on Thursday (end of the day in Europe). Despite being a bit shorter than usual, it does feature important announcements, like the one about the single edit tab system, which people can already test and give feedback about. Thanks a lot for your support, as usual! Elitre (WMF), 14:15, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. Please let us know about difficulties you experience with the translation memory system.
Translation notification: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Android app is a Google Play Best App of 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Android app is a Google Play Best App of 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 21:40, 21 December 2015 (UTC)VisualEditor News #6—2015
[edit]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.
Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.
Recent improvements
[edit]You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
Future changes
[edit]The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)
Testing opportunities
[edit]- Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
- Remember my last editor,
- Always give me the visual editor if possible,
- Always give me the source editor, and
- Show me both editor tabs. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
- Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF), 00:03, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Translation notification: Template:StrategyButton2016/editintro/Communities
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Template:StrategyButton2016/editintro/Communities is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-01-18.
- Text should be stable at this point. I've just made what I hope will be the last modification to those pages!
- Thank you for all you do, and I hope you will not only assist in translation (if you are able) but also take part in the consultation. Your input will be very welcome.
- Questions or concerns? Please let me know at mdennis@wikimedia.org. Thanks! Maggie
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 02:06, 12 January 2016 (UTC)Translation notification: Grants:IEG/Motivational and educational video to introduce Wikimedia/January message to village pumps
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية on Meta. The page Grants:IEG/Motivational and educational video to introduce Wikimedia/January message to village pumps is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-02-05.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 10:02, 22 January 2016 (UTC)Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, December 2015
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, December 2015 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:51, 25 January 2016 (UTC)Thank you for your translation help!
[edit]|
|
The Translation Barnstar | |
| Thank you very much for your help translating the 2016 Strategy Consultation pages! I am so grateful for the energy you and others have put into helping the consultation reach speakers of as many languages as possible. Kbrown (WMF) (talk) 17:08, 2 February 2016 (UTC) |
Translation notification: MediaWiki extension for the education projects/Namespace translation
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to الفرنسية on Meta. The page MediaWiki extension for the education projects/Namespace translation is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is منخفضة.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:33, 2 February 2016 (UTC)Translation notification: Grants:IdeaLab/Towards a New Wikimania/Outcomes
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:IdeaLab/Towards a New Wikimania/Outcomes is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-02-09.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 21:24, 5 February 2016 (UTC)Translation notification: Admin activity review/Notice to communities
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Admin activity review/Notice to communities is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 15:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)Translation notification: Admin activity review/Notice to inactive right holders
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Admin activity review/Notice to inactive right holders is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 16:00, 8 February 2016 (UTC)I see you blog in various languages [11] [12] since multiple years. To reach a bigger audience you may want to add labels for all wiki posts in each language and add yourself to Planet Wikimedia. :-) Nemo 02:14, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
hey @Nemo bis: , thanks a lots for your remarks, i just add my blog for request at planet wikimedia . --Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 09:57, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, January 2016
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, January 2016 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:47, 22 February 2016 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #1—2016
[edit]
Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the upcoming issue of the multilingual newsletter for the visual editor, which will be widely delivered as usual on Friday (end of the day in Europe). This time it features, among other things, updates about tables and about the single edit tab system (if you're looking for more translation opportunities, please consider the related overview). Thanks a lot for your support, as usual! Elitre (WMF), 21:37, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
- PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. Please let us know about difficulties you experience with the translation memory system.
VisualEditor News #1—2016
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?
Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.
If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.
Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
Recent changes
[edit]You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
Future changes
[edit]The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:
- Remember my last editor,
- Always give me the visual editor if possible,
- Always give me the source editor, and
- Show me both editor tabs. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.
Let's work together
[edit]- Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
- Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer David Chan needs to know. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org.
- Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF), 19:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Translation notification: Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Translation
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Translation is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-03-14.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 09:10, 28 February 2016 (UTC)Inspire Campaign on content curation & review
[edit]
I've recently launched an Inspire Campaign to encourage new ideas focusing on content review and curation in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia volunteers collaboratively manage vast repositories of knowledge, and we’re looking for your ideas about how to manage that knowledge to make it more meaningful and accessible. We invite you to participate and submit ideas, so please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 28th.
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 feedback on ideas is welcome - your skills and experience can help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign to improve review and curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and accessible! I JethroBT (WMF) 05:39, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) (talk · contribs) through MediaWiki message delivery.
Should FuzzyBot remove all potentially outdated translations?
[edit]Hello, thanks for adding multiple new translations in your language here at Meta-Wiki in recent years. Please join the discussion with your opinion: Should FuzzyBot automatically remove all potentially outdated translations?. Nemo (talk) 12:00, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Translation notification: User:CKoerner (WMF)/Work/Completion Suggester inital rollout
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page User:CKoerner (WMF)/Work/Completion Suggester inital rollout is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is منخفضة. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-03-07.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:55, 4 March 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/CentralNoticeGrants:IdeaLab/Inspire/CentralNotice
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/CentralNotice is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-03-13.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:45, 9 March 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: User:CKoerner (WMF)/Work/Completion Suggester inital rolloutUser:CKoerner (WMF)/Work/Completion Suggester inital rollout
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page User:CKoerner (WMF)/Work/Completion Suggester inital rollout is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-03-14.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 21:24, 11 March 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: WikipediaWikipedia
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikipedia is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 02:14, 12 March 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Wikimedia Highlights, February 2016Wikimedia Highlights, February 2016
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, February 2016 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:21, 18 March 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Tech/Server switch 2016Tech/Server switch 2016
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Tech/Server switch 2016 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-04-07.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 18:34, 23 March 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Interface editorsInterface editors
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Interface editors is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 12:47, 29 March 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Wikimedia Highlights, March 2016Wikimedia Highlights, March 2016
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, March 2016 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 19:21, 13 April 2016 (UTC)Lien page web
[edit]elo amine, j'ai enlevé le lien page web sur la page du groupe voyant qu'il ne fonctionnait plus. J'ai vu que tu l'avais remis--Oldstoneage (talk) 18:37, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- slt nacim on a réparé le lien, et remis a la page car c'est le site officiel du groupe
On s'en sert pour les concours et la communication .Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 19:11, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Wikimedia Highlights, April 2016Wikimedia Highlights, April 2016
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Wikimedia Highlights, April 2016 is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 20:45, 17 May 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/CentralNoticeGrants:IdeaLab/Inspire/CentralNotice
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/CentralNotice is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-06-12.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 04:06, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Through June, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas focusing on addressing harassment toward Wikimedia contributors. The 2015 Harassment Survey has shown evidence that harassment in various forms - name calling, threats, discrimination, stalking, and impersonation, among others - is pervasive. Available methods and systems to deal with harassment are also considered to be ineffective. These behaviors are clearly harmful, and in addition, many individuals who experience or witness harassment participate less in Wikimedia projects or stop contributing entirely.
Proposals in any language are welcome during the campaign - 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 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 so that we can work together to develop ideas around this important and difficult issue. With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 17:46, 31 May 2016 (UTC) (Opt-out instructions)
Wikimania 2016 is almost here! Mjohnson (WMF) and I are running two workshops for IdeaLab during the conference, and you are invited to join us for either (or both!)
If you have a proposal or idea you are thinking about, and would like a space to work on it on your own or with others, please consider joining us for either the Thursday or Saturday sessions. We'll discuss a little about IdeaLab and how it works, and the rest of the time is space for idea building. You can also use this session to ask questions about Wikimedia Foundation grants that are available if your proposal or idea may need funding. Thanks, and see you at the conference! I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #2—2016
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the upcoming issue of the multilingual newsletter for the visual editor, which will be widely delivered this Sunday (end of the day in Europe). The "future changes" section is particularly interesting this time, and you're welcome to join and spread the word about the Community Taskforce. Thanks a lot for your support, as usual! Elitre (WMF), 10:52, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
- PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. Please let us know about difficulties you experience with the translation memory system.
Editing News #2—2016
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
It's quick and easy to insert a references list.
Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).
If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
Recent changes
[edit]The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
Future changes
[edit]The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
Let's work together
[edit]- Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
- Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
17:18, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Grants:Project/2016 R1 MassMessageGrants:Project/2016 R1 MassMessage
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Grants:Project/2016 R1 MassMessage is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is عالية. The deadline for translating this page is 2016-07-12.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 16:02, 5 July 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Right to vanishRight to vanish
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Right to vanish is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 13:57, 3 August 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Template:Usurpation requestedTemplate:Usurpation requested
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Template:Usurpation requested is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:27, 5 September 2016 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Template:Usurpation requestedTemplate:Usurpation requested
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Template:Usurpation requested is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:29, 5 September 2016 (UTC)Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #3—2016
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the upcoming issue of the multilingual newsletter for the visual editor, which will be widely delivered this weekend. The goal this time is getting translations in over 20 languages, maybe even 25! Thanks a lot for your support, as usual! Elitre (WMF), --08:55, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. Please let us know about difficulties you experience with the translation memory system.
Editing News #3—2016
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.
Recent changes
[edit]- You can now set text as small or big.[14]
- Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[15] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[16]
- Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[17]
- At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.[18]
- The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[19] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
- Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[20]
Future changes
[edit]The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
Let's work together
[edit]- Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
17:48, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Africa site notice
[edit]Hello User:Meriem Mach, User:Afek91, User:Touzrimounir, User:Mohamed Ouda, User:Ahmed Mohi El din, User:Bachounda, User:Reda Kerbouche.
Do you want a site notice for Wiki Loves Africa in arabic ? If so, please tell me and add a proposition below. It may be a translation of the current site notice... or any sentence you would find more interesting and relevant. Your call ! In any cases, I don't read arabic at all so will not be able to comment :)
User:Seddon (WMF) proposed to set up the banner in arabic for us. What do you think ?
YGM
[edit] | Hello, Dezedien. Check your email—you've got mail! You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template. |
—UY Scuti Talk 15:04, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, there's another email on your way. Regards—UY Scuti Talk 04:57, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Aide pour améliorer la version "master" de ...
[edit]Hello !
Dans le cadre du projet de Translate-a-thon, pourrais tu chercher de l'aide pour améliorer les versions anglophones des deux articles ci-dessus ? Ils sont de bien meilleure qualité en arabe... il faudrait intégrer les contenus manquants de la version arabe à la version anglaise, ce qui faciliterait les traductions par la suite. Merci d'avance ! Anthere (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:07, 12 February 2017 (UTC).
إشعار ترجمة: Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Toolkit/Discussion Coordinator RoleStrategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Toolkit/Discussion Coordinator Role
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Toolkit/Discussion Coordinator Role is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 23:33, 9 March 2017 (UTC)إشعار ترجمة: Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Process/BriefingStrategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Process/Briefing
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic on Meta. The page Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Process/Briefing is available for translation. You can translate it here:
The priority of this page is متوسطة.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 22:19, 10 March 2017 (UTC)Ready for translation: Editing News #1—2017
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the upcoming issue of the multilingual newsletter for the visual editor, which will be widely delivered when it's end of Friday in Central Europe, and that features, among other things, rumours about a much-desired syntax highlighting tool... Thanks for your help with this, it feels great to be back. --Elitre (WMF), 17:27, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
- PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. Please let us know about difficulties you experience with the translation memory system.
Editing News #1—2017
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
[edit]- A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
- A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [21]
- The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The
<references />block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [22] - You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [23]
- The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [24]
- The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [25] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [26]
- You can now create
<chem>tags (sometimes used as<ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [27] - Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [28]
- The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [29]
- A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [30]
- There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:
Control+Shift+Kon a PC, orCommand+Shift+Kon a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which isControl+KorCommand+Krespectively. [31]
Future changes
[edit]- The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of
<ref>tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [32] - The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding
&ooui=1to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [33] - The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [34]
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
17:59, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Bassel KhartabilBassel Khartabil
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to العربية و الفرنسية on Meta. The page Bassel Khartabil is available for translation. You can translate it here:
Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
You can change your notification preferences.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 13:35, 11 August 2017 (UTC)Presenting Community Engagement Insights survey report: Tuesday, October 10, 1600 UTC
[edit]Hi Dezedien/archive,
I am reaching out to you because you signed up to receive updates about the Global Wikimedia survey.[1]
We will be hosting a public event online to present the data, a few examples on how teams will be using it for annual planning, and what are next steps for this project. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 10, at 9:00 am PST (1600 UTC), and the presentation will be in English. You can watch the livestream here, and ask question via IRC on #wikimedia-office.
If you are unable attend, you can also find the report on meta, and watch the recording of the event at a later time.
We hope to have you join us online! -- María Cruz 23:28, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia Library User Group is being renamed!
[edit]Hello! In the past few months, the Wikipedia Library User Group has been undergoing some major planning and developments. We just finished our very first open call with the user group members, which was a great success (see the meeting minutes). If you joined us during the meeting, we’d like to thank you for your interest. If not, not to worry, we have lots of things planned for the user group in which you can participate.
This message is to inform you that based on the input received from the user group members and the founding members, it was agreed that the Wikipedia Library User Group’s name be reconsidered by a voting process. As a valued member of the user group, we’d like to invite you to vote on the list of potential names. You can vote by following this link. The poll will run for a timeframe of two weeks. Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of user group founding members --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:59, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
wikiarabia 2018 en Algérie
[edit]Ahla Bachounda, j espere qie tu vas bien. Je voulais savoir s il y avait une possibilite pour votre chapter d organiser le wikiarabia 2018. Je pense qu il y aura suffisament d organisateurs dans Alger ou Oran. --24.114.82.5 21:37, 1 December 2017 (UTC) - on y pense --Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 18:17, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election
[edit]
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election Nomination Phase
[edit]Hello again Dezedien/archive! As stated in our previous message, nominations for the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group steering committee elections are now open and will remain open until the 9th. If you are interested and have read the instructions, please nominate yourself on the election page. Please forward your queries to libraries
lists.wikimedia.org, and for private correspondence, please get in touch with one of the founding members. And finally, wishing you a prosperous and happy new year on behalf of the user group founding members! On behalf of the user group founding members --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
Updates on the user group election and #1Lib1Ref
[edit]Hi everyone, two quick but important updates:
Timeline for nominations and voting
[edit]- Nominations are extended until 12 January 2018.
- Candidates will be lightly vetted by the Founding Members (excluding those who are candidates) to help form a well-functioning committee.
- Vetting will happen from the 13th up to 21 January 2018.
- Voting will begin on the 22nd of January and end on the 4th of February.
- To be able to vote, editors must have joined the usergroup before the 21st of January.
- Results will be announced on or before the 10th of February.
How you can support #1lib1ref
[edit]- Participate! Get started at m:1Lib1Ref and add a citation with CitationHunt.org
- Share the campaign on social media using the #1lib1ref hashtag
- Tell your local librarians and library-loving friends about the campaign
- Watch and share this fun explainer video
- Join the Facebook event page for updates
- Join the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group for news and camaraderie
- Watch and share the OCLC #1lib1ref webinar
- Read the OCLC #1lib1ref Learner Guide
On behalf of the Founding Members --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:50, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election Voting Phase
[edit]Hello once again! We are happy to announce that the steering committee election 2018 is now open for voting. Because you have joined the user group by 21 January 2018, you are eligible to vote. As mentioned under the instructions for voters, you can vote support for multiple candidates, at most one support for each candidate. Also, oppose votes are not allowed, but discussions are welcome on the talk page.
On behalf of the Founding Members --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:24, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election Results
[edit]Hello everyone! The steering committee election for the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group is finally over and the results you were patiently awaiting for is here! We had many great candidates with awesome skillsets and experience, unfortunately not everyone could make it to the final eight. We are grateful to all the candidates for stepping up and boldly throwing their hat in the ring. It was a difficult choice and they made it. Now, the results. The candidates who made it to the final eight are,
On behalf of the founding members, the TWL team and the user group members, we congratulate the candidates on their successful run and welcome them to the committee. The steering committee and the founding members will soon meet to discuss the handover and next steps of the user group. Thank you--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:56, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Ready for translation: Editing News #1—2018
[edit]Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the upcoming issue of the multilingual newsletter for the visual editor, which will be widely delivered when it's end of Friday in Central Europe. Thanks in advance for your help with this: getting to interact with fellows so skilled like the translators are is among my favorite things about my job :) Best, Elitre (WMF) 10:29, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
- PS: Here are some instructions. Please go to the translation page: your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. Please let us know about difficulties you experience with the translation memory system.
Editing News #1—2018
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
[edit]- The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
- The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [35]
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [36]
- The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.
Let's work together
[edit]- The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
- Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
- The
<references />block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [37] - If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!
20:53, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Request for Translation adminship on Meta
[edit]Hi, I have requested for translation adminship on Meta. Please visit the request page at Meta:Requests for translation adminship/Haytham abulela and add your opinion. Haytham Abulela talk 21:18, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
What's new from the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
[edit]- The steering committee invites you to participate in this poll to help the committee plan activities this year.
- The committee decided to use the libraries
lists.wikimedia.org and has started making announcements on the list. Please join the list for future announcements and for internal discussions and communications.
- The committee decided to use the libraries
- The latest meeting minutes of the steering committee meeting (May 14-15, 2018) is now available on Meta.
On behalf of the steering committee,
via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:47, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group updates and Wikimania
[edit]
If you are attending Wikimania,
- Bring your books! You can participate in the book swapping we have planned, and swap/leave your books on the table. More details here
- WLUG meetup. We'll be mingling with other librarians/Wikibrarians/activists at the Birds of a Feather Lunch: GLAM and Heritage Birds of a Feather Lunch on July 21st, 13:00 to 14:00 in the London room. Come, join us!
- For your convenience and scheduling purposes, we've put together a list of Wikimedia and library-related events in Wikimania that might be of interest to you, with time and venue.
Bon voyage and have a wonderful Wikimania!
If you are not attending Wikimania, we have you covered too!
- Please help us plan activities for this year by sharing your suggestions on how to implement the top two ideas from the poll results. The discussion is open on the user group talk page.
- The latest meeting minutes of the steering committee meeting (June 28-29, 2018) is now available on Meta.
On behalf of the steering committee,
via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:02, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
BMJ account redistribution (The Wikipedia Library)
[edit]Hi - according to our records you received a free account for BMJ through The Wikipedia Library. Because we’ve used up all of our allocated accounts, and it’s been some time since they were distributed, we want to redistribute any accounts that aren’t being used to users on our waitlist.
If you’re still using, or plan to use, your BMJ access, no problem! Simply head over to the Library Card platform, log in, and request a renewal of your account. You should be able to do this from your user page, or the BMJ signup page. If you can’t find the renewal button, or have any other issues or questions about this, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. We’ll begin redistributing inactive accounts in a few weeks; if you request renewal after then we should still be able to reactivate your account if we have spots remaining. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
Join us on The AfroCine Project
[edit].svg)
Greetings!
This is to introduce you to a new Wikimedia project called The AfroCine Project. This new project is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this (or you're already active in this area), by coordinating local programmes around African cinema (independently or otherwise) in your community or local Wikipedia, kindly list your username or organization as a participant on the meta project page here.
Furthermore, In the months of October and November, we are organizing a global contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join this exciting event, also list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia page. If you would love to lead this contest (or any other relevant program) for a non-English Wikipedia community, please feel free to translate the English Wikiproject page to your local language Wikipedia, or you can create one from scratch!
If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage or the project talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Results from global Wikimedia survey 2018 are published
[edit]Hello! A few months ago the Wikimedia Foundation invited you to take a survey about your experiences on Wikipedia. You signed up to receive the results. The report is now published on Meta-Wiki! We asked contributors 170 questions across many different topics like diversity, harassment, paid editing, Wikimedia events and many others.
Read the report or watch the presentation, which is available only in English.
Add your thoughts and comments to the report talk page.
Feel free to share the report on Wikipedia/Wikimedia or on your favorite social media. Thanks!
--EGalvez (WMF)
19:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!
[edit]Greetings!
The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia (en, he, es, it, bn) and Wikidata. Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope.
On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:
- Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
- Country Winners
- Diversity winner
- High quality contributors
- Gender-gap fillers
- Page improvers
- Wikidata Translators
For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here.
If you'd love to organize this contest for your local wiki or organize in-person events centred around this project, or you need further information about the AfroCine Project, please leave a message on the project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)
Translation: VisualEditor newsletter October 2018
[edit]18:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
The Community Wishlist Survey
[edit]Hi,
You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.
You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF) 11:25, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2018
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
[edit]- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [38]
Let's work together
[edit]- The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!
14:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
[Wikipedia & Education User Group] Updates: November 2018
[edit]Greetings,
Integrating Wikimedia with education is a powerful strategy for the outreach of Wikimedia projects. Realising this concept, a group of leaders promoted this and formed the Wikipedia Education Collaborative. After some time, this evolved to become a user group, officially recognised by the Affiliations Committee in June 2018. The user group had its first board elections earlier in September. In the process to formalise activities and give a shape the user group for long-term sustainability, we are now revamping our processes. Thanks for supporting us during incubation stages, we are now inviting you to formally join the user group by following the instructions on the members' page. Being a member will allow you to be a part of this wonderful collaboration and also do interesting stuff.
Kind regards
On behalf of Wikipedia and Education UG, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:44, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Indaba report
[edit]Hello Bachounda. WikiIndaba Conference 2018/Mohammed Bachounda/Report is still a draft. Can it be published by now? Best regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 11:21, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot Gereon K.; now it's ok ;) We finished the report without removing the Draft ;Warmest regards --Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 12:35, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election Voting Phase
[edit]Hello Dezedien/archive! We are happy to announce that the steering committee election 2019 is now open for voting. Because you have joined the user group before 28 February 2019, you are eligible to vote. Not unlike last year, you can vote support for multiple candidates, at most one support for each candidate. Also, oppose votes are not allowed, but discussions are welcome on the talk page.
On behalf of the steering committee,
via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:43, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
The candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is asking you to support his candidacy!
[edit]Hi Bachounda,
I ask you and your local organization to consider my candidacy for the candidates for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. I myself put forward my candidacy for this election. I ask you to support my candidacy, as I have a strategic vision of the next. Each of the foreign language sections of the Wikimedia Foundation project must receive the widest support. This will ensure an increase in the content of your linguistic local of the Wikimedia Foundation projects. Other linguistic local communities of the World can count on the same support. Also, I believe that all foreign language sections of the Wikimedia Foundation projects that are less powerful than English speakers should have the same chance for the rapid growth of their local projects.
In case you and your local organization support my candidacy. Then, I ask you to write this in my profile of the candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. You can write this in the "Endorsements" section of my candidate profile.
Thank you for your attention!
Kind regards, — Yithello (talk) 10:09, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for your message and your interest in our user group. We are pleased with your application, but we can not give you support at this time because we have already endorsed another candidate. we encourage you to contact other UG . we wish you good luck. --Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 10:59, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you @Bachounda: for your organization's vote during the 2019 trustee election. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:19, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- You're Welcom @Geraldshields11:, We Apreciate :) --Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 10:18, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you @Bachounda: for your organization's vote during the 2019 trustee election. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:19, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #1—July 2019
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon 
to start editing.
Edit Cards
This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases
[edit]The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
[edit]This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
[edit]- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
[edit]The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
18:33, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!
[edit]Greetings!
After a successful first iteration of the Months of African Cinema last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000. About 9 in-person events were also organised for the edit-a-thon in different parts of the world.
The contest is organized by a Wikimedia project called The AfroCine Project, which is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, and events, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
If you would love to join this exciting event, please list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page. If you would love to lead this contest for your country or community, please list your name in the coordinators' page here. The rapid grants team would be accepting proposals throughout October and November, in case you'd need funds to run local edit-a-thons or some other activities related to this event. Upon listing your name on the coordinators' page, you'd be contacted to talk about the resources you'd need to run the event in your community. You can also contact me directly for any clarifications.
Finally, We also need volunteers to handle some aspects of the AfroCine project. These aspects include:
- Community Liaison: This role essentially involves closely engaging with local communities to support their activities within the scope of Afrocine.
- Communications: This involves the communications aspects of the project. Sharing relevant information on mailing lists and social media would be the responsibility of this person.
- MAC Jury: This role involves joining the jury of Months of African Cinema contest. We need as many people as we can get 🙂.
- Tools: Going forward, we would need relevant tools to better track the metrics and also analyse the general impact of these events. We are calling for Wikimedia volunteers who can navigate wikimedia tools that can be useful for the project.
If you would love to help with any of these roles, or some other roles that have not been mentioned, please contact me directly or on: samoye_hotmail.com
If you have further questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally or right here or the project talkpages.
Thank you!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 17:10, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help
[edit]What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk pages project
[edit]The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
[edit]The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
[edit]The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
[edit]- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
11:11, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
Please see your email
[edit]Hello Bachounda, please see your email. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 20:17, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Deletion of Resource module
[edit]Hi Bachounda. I was wondering why you deleted this entry and this associated entry from the Wikimedia_Resource_Center? Possibly it was a mis-click, or possibly you saw another reason to remove it? I believe the entry is still useful to a variety of users, and should be replaced. Thanks for any insights. And I hope you're doing ok in these difficult times. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:25, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Quiddity. Actually I probably clicked the red button without paying attention. I am extremely sorry for this error because if you hadn't noticed it might have misled some users. Do you want that I correct these modifications ? Take care of yourself and your family. Thank you. --Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 10:45, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hi. No worries, "to err is human"! I will revert it back. Best wishes Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
- an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
- a rich-text visual editing option, and
- other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch 
these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
19:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Communications/Wikimedia brands/2030 movement brand project/Naming convention proposalsCommunications/Wikimedia brands/2030 movement brand project/Naming convention proposals
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية و الفرنسية في Meta.
الصفحة Communications/Wikimedia brands/2030 movement brand project/Naming convention proposals متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
أولوية هذه الصفحة هي عالية.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 16:56, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #2
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Discussion tools". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
20:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Template:2030 movement brand project nav/textTemplate:2030 movement brand project nav/text
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية و الفرنسية في Meta.
الصفحة Template:2030 movement brand project nav/text متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
أولوية هذه الصفحة هي عالية.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 07:51, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board Update on BrandingWikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board Update on Branding
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية و الفرنسية في Meta.
الصفحة Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board Update on Branding متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
أولوية هذه الصفحة هي عالية.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 08:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
AR Translation update request: صفحات ويكيبيديا تريد صور
[edit]Dear Mohammed,
The WPWP Campaign صفحات ويكيبيديا تريد صور is due to launch on July first - this coming week! We would appreciate your help again with updating (due to source text changes) and completing the translation of the main ("Home") page (now 19% final). You'll find it at this link - With thanks, Deborahjay, WPWP Communities Liaison
إشعار ترجمة: VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/JulyVisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/July
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic في Meta.
الصفحة VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/July متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
الموعد النهائي لترجمة هذه الصفحة هو the end of this week.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 20:26, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Trust and Safety/Case Review Committee/CharterTrust and Safety/Case Review Committee/Charter
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic في Meta.
الصفحة Trust and Safety/Case Review Committee/Charter متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
أولوية هذه الصفحة هي متوسطة.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 08:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #3
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
- More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩🚀
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
12:48, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Tech/News/2020/32Tech/News/2020/32
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic في Meta.
الصفحة Tech/News/2020/32 متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 05:27, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Tech/Server switch 2020Tech/Server switch 2020
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic في Meta.
الصفحة Tech/Server switch 2020 متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
أولوية هذه الصفحة هي متوسطة.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 13:03, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Please translate
[edit]Please translate VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/August for me. I hope it will be delivered early next week. Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:10, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
Sunday August 23: Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting
[edit].jpg)
The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a proposed forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.
The idea is to follow up on the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting and other strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates, and you are all invited to RSVP here.--Pharos (talk) 15:47, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #4
[edit]Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Reply tool
[edit]
The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.
- More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
- Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
- Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[39]
The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).
The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.
New requirements for user signatures
[edit]- The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
- Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.
Next: New discussion tool
[edit]Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.
15:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
We sent you an e-mail
[edit]Hello Dezedien/archive,
Really sorry for the inconvenience. This is a gentle note to request that you check your email. We sent you a message titled "The Community Insights survey is coming!". If you have questions, email surveys@wikimedia.org.
You can see my explanation here.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:45, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Global Conversations registration reminder
[edit]Hi Dezedien/archive,
This is a reminder that if you have not yet registered for the Global Conversations on Nov. 21 and 22, please do so! Register here. Registration closes by Nov. 20. We will email you the login information for Zoom prior to the call. Thank you. Looking forward to welcoming you this weekend.
MPourzaki (WMF) (talk) 16:25, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
18:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
16:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Wikimedia CHWikimedia CH
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية، الفرنسية و Algerian Arabic في Meta.
الصفحة Wikimedia CH متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
أولوية هذه الصفحة هي متوسطة.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 07:43, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Wikimedia Community User Group MalaysiaWikimedia Community User Group Malaysia
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية في Meta.
الصفحة Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
أولوية هذه الصفحة هي عالية.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 06:26, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
إشعار ترجمة: Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/NavWikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Nav
[edit]مرحبا Bachounda،
أنت تتلقى هذا البريد الإلكتروني لأنك اشتركت كمترجم إلى العربية في Meta.
الصفحة Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Nav متاحة للترجمة; يمكنك ترجمتها هنا:
أولوية هذه الصفحة هي عالية.
مساعدتك موضع تقدير كبير; يساعدك المترجمون مثلك Meta على العمل كمجتمع متعدد اللغات حقا.
يمكنك تغيير تفضيلات الإشعارات.
شكرا لك! إداريو ترجمة Meta, 06:26, 19 December 2020 (UTC)