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Highlights from the Wikimedia blog for December 2014, covering a selection of activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement.


HHVM provides this "flame graph". It visualizes which parts of the code consume most CPU time, making it easier to further improve MediaWiki's performance in the future.

Vikipediyanın redaktə etmə prosesi necə iki dəfə tez elədik

Over the last six months, the Wikimedia Foundation deployed a new technology that speeds up MediaWiki, Wikipedia’s underlying PHP-based code. HipHop Virtual Machine, or HHVM, reduces the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds, and the mean page-saving time from about 6 to 3 seconds. Here's our technical report on how it was developed.



2014-cü ildə İngiliscə Vikipediyanın ən çox redaktə edilən məqalə Pacific typhoon season (Sakit Okeanda 2014 tayfun mövsumu (ingilis)) məqaləsi idi.
Image by Keith Edkins. Data from NASA/Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Public domain.

2014-cü ildə İngiliscə Vikipediyada ən çox redaktə olunmuş 10 səhifə

In 2014, volunteer editors created more than three million pages and made more than 100 million article edits on Wikipedias across all languages. Here are some of the top 10 most edited pages on English-language Wikipedia in 2014. Topics include Deaths in 2014, the Malaysia Airline disasters and the Israel-Gaza Conflict.




Ukraynanın Karpat Milli Parkında çəkilən bu şəkil Viki Yeri Sevir 2014 müsabiqəsində mükafat qazandı.
Photo by Dmytro Balkhovitin, under CC-BY-SA-3.0

Viki Yeri Sevir 2014 müsabiqəsinin qalibləri elan olunmuşlar

Wiki Loves Earth, a photo contest of natural monuments, became international for the first time in 2014 and was held in 16 countries. After a careful evaluation, the international jury announced the winners. Prizes were awarded to photos ranging from Carpathian National Park (Ukraine) to God‘s Finger Rock (Brazil) and Mukri Nature Park (Estonia). For this contest, over 70,000 pictures were submitted by more than 3,000 participants from 15 countries. Take a look at some of the winning images here.



Wikipedia: #Edit2014 tells the story of what you read and edited in 2014. Bu videonu YouTube-da da baxa bilərsiniz.Video by Victor Grigas, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Vikipediyanın ən birinci illik videosu

The Wikimedia Foundation's first-ever year-in-review video chronicles the celebration, pain, fear, resilience, and discovery that came to characterize 2014. While watching the video, you embark on a journey through the world and Wikipedia, revisiting what you read and edited this year. From the FIFA World Cup to the Indian general elections, and the Ice Bucket Challenge to Ebola in West Africa, we follow threads of discovery through Wikipedia in various languages, finding opportunities to contribute along the way. Watch the video, which takes you from Sochi to outer space in less than three minutes.



Many community members think that 'being nice to each other' can help improve Wikipedia.
'How can we improve Wikipedia?' photo by Fabrice Florin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mehribanlığın mədəniyyəti

Bir birimizə mehriban olaraq Vikipediyanı yaxşılaşdırmağa bilərik mi? Fabris Florenın Vikipediyada "mehribanlıq mədəniyyəti" yetişməkdən fikirlərini paylaşır. Son illər ərzində o, istifadəçiləri öz fikirləri bloknota yazdırmağa və bu yazıların şəkillərini çəkib ona göndərməyə çağırırdı və beləliklə Vikipediyanı yaxşılaşdırmaq üçün cəmiyyətin yüzlərcə məsləhəti yığmış. Ən çox tez-tez gələn cavabların arasında sivil olmağa çağırışlar idilər: "Mexriban olun", "həssas olun", "dostyana olun". İştrakçılar tez-tez qeyd edirlər ki, bir çox üzvlərimizin sivilsizliyinə görə, Vikipediyada iştrak etmək yeni və təcrübəli istifadəçilər üçün eyni dərəcədə sinir bozucu ola bilər. Cəmiyyətlərimizdə daha çox inanc qurumaq üçün fikirlərin bəziləri bunlardılar: yeni başlayanlara kömək etmək, istifadəçiləri məşq etmək, mehribanlığı mükafatlandırmaq, daha çox sosial vaistələri yaratmaq, daha dostyana kanalları istifadə etmək və hər kəsə səs vermək. Əlavə olaraq oxumağa və video baxmağa burada olar


Qlobal təsir: Vikipediya Kitabxanası və Farsca Vikipediya

Last fall, the Wikipedia Library announced another round of digital resource access partnerships. These partnerships allow experienced editors from all around the globe to access research materials behind a paywall, to advance our goal of creating and sharing a summary of all human knowledge. One of the longest lasting and most useful donation partnerships has been with journal archive JSTOR. It saw significant participation from non-English editors, speaking languages like German, Spanish, French -- and Persian, which came as a pleasant surprise. To learn more, we asked one of our most active Persian editors with a JSTOR account, User:4nn1l2, why he finds the Wikipedia Library important to his work.


Tapping into the knowledge of indigenous communities

Wikipedia has made huge progress towards its mission to provide free access to the sum of human knowledge. But indigenous knowledge is largely excluded because the majority of it is not available in writing. To address this issue, community volunteer Peter Gallert designed a workshop for the 2014 Participatory Design conference in Namibia, to produce and document examples of relevant oral citations. Last October, a small group of Wikipedians traveled to the Namibian village of Otjinene to interview elders about traditions, culture and development of the local Herero community. The aim of the interview was to directly convert narratives into Wikipedia content with oral citations.


This selection includes the top 5 stories published on the Wikimedia Blog in December 2014 (based on total page views up to Jan. 30, 2015) -- as well as other noteworthy stories contributed by community members that month.



Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting on January 15, 2015, focusing on the topic of quality (slides)

Fabrice Florin (WMF), Movement Communications Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

Tilman Bayer (WMF), Senior Analyst, Wikimedia Foundation