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Two articles on the same subject.

Hi, there are two articles about the Atlantic ocean, Oseyan atlantik and Atlantik, we need to eliminate one of them. Probably bringing the text from the first to the second and eliminating the first (Oseyan atlantik), it was created later. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 31 me 2016 à 19:01 (UTC)

• Well, after seeing the history of both I'm not so sure which one to delete. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 31 me 2016 à 19:39 (UTC)
  • Which article looks better? I think you want to w:en:WP:MERGE them (and redirect, not truly "delete", the other). WhatamIdoing (discussion) 3 jen 2016 à 05:44 (UTC)
    • Oh yes! WhatamIdoing (d · k), the better one is Oseyan atlantik but Atlantik was created first, so the best option, I think, it is merge and redirect Atlantik to Oseyan atlantik ... we have Oseyan pasifik in this Wiki. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 3 jen 2016 à 06:47 (UTC)

For what it’s worth, I agree. I think we need the admin to do it properly? 😊 —LLarson (di & fè) 4 jen 2016 à 17:01 (UTC)

I tried to do it manually, changing the "Oseyan atlantik" for the name "Oseyan atlantike" and later change "Atlantik" for "Oseyan atlantik" ... but when I changed the first one it was created also a redirection to the name "Oseyan atlantik" so I can't move "Atlantik" for "Oseyan atlantik" unless the redirection is canceled first. The idea was subsequently change "Oseyan atlantike" for "Atlantik" and made it a redirection (save both history). I think we need a sysop ;) DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 4 jen 2016 à 20:58 (UTC)

We don't need an admin. We just need to edit the redirects. Here are links to let you see the true content of the three pages now:

• https://ht.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantik&redirect=no
• https://ht.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oseyan_atlantike&redirect=no
• https://ht.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oseyan_atlantik&redirect=no

Then, to see how it works, click the normal links:

• Atlantik
• Oseyan atlantike
• Oseyan atlantik

We can rearrange these if you want. Please tell me which one you want to be the "real" name for the page (the one that the readers will see first and biggest). WhatamIdoing (discussion) 5 jen 2016 à 19:06 (UTC)

Hi WhatamIdoing (d · k), the "real" name is Oseyan atlantik, but with the text is now on the page Atlantik, ... so we need first cancel the redirect Oseyan atlantik, after that rename the page Atlantik to Oseyan atlantik without create a redirect. After that, if we want preserve the history of the actual redirect Oseyan atlantike change it to redirect Oseyan atlantik without create a redirect.

In the end we will have the article Oseyan atlantik and one redirect with name Atlantic. I can not do this because I am not allowed to cancel a redirect in this Wikipedia. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 5 jen 2016 à 20:45 (UTC)

Argh, my "fix" to the redirect yesterday means that we now need an admin. User:WhisperToMe, could you please move Atlantik over the redirect to Oseyan atlantik? WhatamIdoing (discussion) 6 jen 2016 à 15:08 (UTC)

Done :) WhisperToMe (discussion) 6 jen 2016 à 21:16 (UTC)

Thanks. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 6 jen 2016 à 21:30 (UTC)

Hundreds of them!

...

Look at the sub-categories of Kategori:Vil nan Kiba. Someone has created (8 years ago) hundreds of duplicates.

For instance :

• Cuadrado de Alvarado Reinosa, Camaguey
• Cuadrado de Alvaro Reinoso, Camaguey
• Cuadrado de Álvaro Reinoso, Camaguey.

--Chaoborus (discussion) 22 jen 2016 à 07:11 (UTC)

Some categories are duplicates too (Im creating all the categories, to be sure no duplicate will be forgotten). --Chaoborus (discussion) 22 jen 2016 à 07:50 (UTC)

Fè: I fixed the most obvious duplicates. There was... more than 1500 of them! I think there could be about 200-300 (less obvious) duplicates left. --Chaoborus (discussion) 1 jiyè 2016 à 20:32 (UTC)

Thank you, Chaoborus. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 4 jiyè 2016 à 20:37 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun

Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 10 jen 2016 à 15:31 (UTC)

Paj long

Espesyal:PajLong lists the longest articles. I believe that some of them have problems. For example, the article about the constitution appears to be a copy of its text, instead of an encyclopedia article. This might be an interesting list for a Haitian Creole speaker to review. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 14 jen 2016 à 14:00 (UTC)

• Yes, many of them have problems, I found a repeated part in article Filozofi and I removed it but unfortunately only Haitian Creole speaker are able to correct most of them. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 14 jen 2016 à 17:55 (UTC)
  • Well, I've blanked nearly all of Konstitisyon 1987 (Ayiti), as that seemed uncomplicated. If I removed something that ought to stay, please feel free to clean up after me. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 4 jiyè 2016 à 20:44 (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the coming week for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this message and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-1 jiyè 2016 à 12:57 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit

Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an overview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!

Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 1 jiyè 2016 à 14:10 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

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

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Mete" menu and click the "Lis referans" 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 "Mete" in the dialog to insert the Lis referans. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

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

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

Recent changes

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

The single edit tab feature combines the "Modifye" and "Modifye kòd" tabs into a single "Modifye" 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 "Modifikasyon" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Anrejistre paj" button will say "Pibliye paj la". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

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

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

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

Let's work together

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

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

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 3 jiyè 2016 à 17:20 (UTC)

Main Page

The Main Page is a wikitext table. This is very awkward for smartphones and mobile devices.

But – baby steps. The item at the end of the page is Modèl:Wikipediasister. It is also a table. Could we replace that with a simple, small list, like this idea?

---

Commons – Free media repository.

MediaWiki – Wiki software development.

Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination.

Wikibooks – Free textbooks and manuals.

Wikidata – Free knowledge base.

Wikinews – Free-content news.

Wikiquote – Collection of quotations.

Wikisource – Free-content library.

Wikispecies – Directory of species.

Wikiversity – Free learning materials and activities.

Wikivoyage – Free travel guide.

Wiktionary – Dictionary and thesaurus.

Wikimedia Foundation – Non-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia and Wikipedia's sister projects.

---

(Perhaps we don't need to include all of these, since many are not available in Haitian Creole.) What do you think? WhatamIdoing (discussion) 4 jiyè 2016 à 20:52 (UTC)

• WhatamIdoing (d · k), I think we should just keep those that are available in the Haitian Creole. Make easy and simple. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 8 jiyè 2016 à 07:46 (UTC)
• Sa a son bon m '. MdmPaj (discussion) 9 jiyè 2016 à 22:29 (UTC)

Lists

Well, it looks like that might be a bit complicated. There aren't really any active Haitian Creole options. Here's how the list looks, when grouped by language:

Multi-lingual
Commons – Free media repository. MediaWiki – Wiki software development. Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination. Wikidata – Free knowledge base. Wikispecies – Directory of species. Wikimedia Foundation – Non-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia and Wikipedia's sister projects.
Haitian Creole
Closed Wikisource – Free-content library. Incubator Wiktionary – Dictionary and thesaurus. Wikibooks – Free textbooks and manuals. Wikivoyage – Free travel guide.
Only other languages (remove)
Wikiquote – Collection of quotations. Wikinews – Free-content news. Wikiversity – Free learning materials and activities.

I've got nothing against either keeping or removing as many of these as you'd like. But "keep only the Haitian Creole ones" really means "keep nothing". (I suppose that we probably should keep multi-lingual sites such as Commons, Meta, MediaWiki, and Wikidata.) WhatamIdoing (discussion) 12 jiyè 2016 à 04:43 (UTC)

DARIO SEVERI, User:MdmPaj, User:WhisperToMe, User:LLarson, User:Guy Macon: What do you think about really stripping it down, and including only these at the bottom of the Main Page?

Commons – Free media repository.
MediaWiki – Wiki software development.
Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination.
Wikidata – Free knowledge base.
Wikimedia Foundation – Non-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia and Wikipedia's sister projects.

instead of the current table:

Lòt tip wiki yo
Wikipedia se yon ansiklopedi lib posede pa Wikimedia fondasyon, ki posede anpil zòt pwojé lib nan divès lang : Wikipedia ansiklopedi Wiktionary diksyonè Liv lib yo Wikiquote pwovèb yo Wikisource lib dokiman yo Wikispecies lis èt vivan yo Wikinews enfo nouvo yo Commons pataje fichye yo Wikiversity Kominote pedagojik Meta-Wiki koodinasyon Wikipedia

I know it's a big change. (Also, it would need to be translated.) WhatamIdoing (discussion) 13 jiyè 2016 à 00:46 (UTC)

Much better, and especially much better for blind people who read Wikipedia through a device that speaks the content of each page. Should be better for phones as well. Smartphones with big screens should work just fine with either version, but simple flip phones with tiny screens will work far better with a simplified main page. --Guy Macon (talk) 13 jiyè 2016 à 05:08 (UTC)--Guy Macon (talk) 13 jiyè 2016 à 05:08 (UTC)

I agree with the change. It is also possible to update it? It has pictures (fichye) that do not appear. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 13 jiyè 2016 à 09:38 (UTC)

@I: We could ask I to create a redirect from the deleted file Fichye:Cesaire2.jpg to Fichye:Aime Cesaire 2003.jpg, which will solve the problem everywhere the file is used on Wikipedya. —LLarson (di & fè) 18 jiyè 2016 à 13:23 (UTC)

@LLarson : done WhisperToMe (discussion) 18 jiyè 2016 à 14:09 (UTC)

Thank you, I. Sorry for the chase, but it’s not working as I expected; could you please swap out the “Cesaire2.jpg” with “Aime Cesaire 2003.jpg” in {{Kout pwojektè}}? Thank you. —LLarson (di & fè) 18 jiyè 2016 à 14:18 (UTC)

@LLarson : done :) WhisperToMe (discussion) 23 jiyè 2016 à 06:35 (UTC)

I also agree WhisperToMe (discussion) 15 jiyè 2016 à 19:16 (UTC)

Support! —LLarson (di & fè) 18 jiyè 2016 à 13:23 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Since we all seem to agree, then here's what Google Translate gives me as possible translations:

Commons – pataje fichye yo lib
Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia koodinasyon
Wikidata – lib baz done konesans
MediaWiki – devlopman lojisyèl wiki
Wikimedia Foundation – ki pa pwofi ki gen tout pouvwa Wikipedya

Now you all know that I'm hopelessly ignorant of Haitian Creole and even French, so please help me out and fix these directly. And when you're satisfied, then please ping WhisperToMe, and he can use this little bit to replace the contents of {{Wikipediasister}} (and maybe remove the yellow table cell in the Main Page, and just let it be at the bottom in plain/non-table formatting?). WhatamIdoing (discussion) 18 jiyè 2016 à 20:20 (UTC)

The translation looks good to me. MdmPaj (discussion) 19 jiyè 2016 à 18:14 (UTC)

User:WhisperToMe, I think we're ready to turn the big yellow box into this short list. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 27 jiyè 2016 à 15:13 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing : - I modified the main page. Is this what you have in mind? WhisperToMe (discussion) 28 jiyè 2016 à 14:32 (UTC)

Yes, exactly what I wanted. Thanks.

Now to think about what could be cleaned up next. Does anyone have a preference? WhatamIdoing (discussion) 29 jiyè 2016 à 08:48 (UTC)

Aktyalite

We have no news. Shall we remove "Sak ap pase nan aktyalite kounye a" (at the end) completely? WhatamIdoing (discussion) 29 jiyè 2016 à 15:24 (UTC)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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

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

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-8 jiyè 2016 à 03:03 (UTC)

TLDR: The Language team made it easier to find the links to English, French, and Spanish Wikipedias here. It'll also remember which Wikipedias you personally visit the most, and make those appear high in the list. When this is deployed to frwiki, it will probably make this Wikipedia easier to find for most editors at the French Wikipedia, which can only be good for us. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 18 jiyè 2016 à 20:33 (UTC)

It'll also be good for Wikipedia users in South Florida and the New York City areas (where many Haitians are concentrated) - I think it will especially help if/when HTwiki has Haitian articles on various topics related to those two areas WhisperToMe (discussion) 22 jiyè 2016 à 21:56 (UTC)

Archiving/Fè achiv

Can we get this page archived? Something shorter is easier to read. Èske nou ka jwenn paj sa a achiv? Yon bagay pi kout se pi fasil li.

MdmPaj (discussion) 19 jiyè 2016 à 18:19 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea to me. I think that User:WhisperToMe did that once. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 22 jiyè 2016 à 16:00 (UTC)

Done WhisperToMe (discussion) 22 jiyè 2016 à 21:55 (UTC)

About us

Please consider answering the questions here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_Haitian_Creole_Wikipedia

This is a simple questionnaire. Anyone may answer any questions at any time. Just write your answer and sign your name (~~~~) to show that it's your answer at this time.

You can also update the pages for other languages, if you're involved in any other projects. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 27 jiyè 2016 à 15:12 (UTC)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Anrejistre paj” button to “Pibliye paj la” and “Pibliye chanjman yo”. “Pibliye paj la” will be used when you create a new page. “Pibliye chanjman yo” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[1][2]

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

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “Pibliye paj la” and “Pibliye chanjman yo”.

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 9 out 2016 à 18:03 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon working phase

Dear Haitian Wikipedia language community,

You may already have heard about Wikipedia to the Moon: A team of scientists called the “PT Scientists” are going to send a space craft to the moon in 2017 and they want to take Wikipedia along with them. Because Wikipedia is so big, we cannot send all of it to the moon. That is why the international Wikipedia-community has voted to send all “Featured Articles and Featured Lists“ from all languages in Wikipedia.

“Featured Articles“ is a category in many language versions of Wikipedia that collects the very best articles in that language. Your community does not currently have a „Featured Articles“ category. Ideally, we want to take every language on Wikipedia to the moon and we also want to take the best articles in your language. That is why we would like you to tell us what the very best articles in your language are.

There are two ways you could do this:

1) You could introduce the categories “Featured Article” and “Featured List” in your language version of Wikipedia and vote for the best articles and put them in the category. We will take every article that is tagged as a “Featured Article” or a “Featured List” to the moon

2) You could vote for the best articles in your language version of Wikipedia and put them all on one a new Wikipedia page. If you let us know where we can find that list here, we will also take the articles to the moon.

The deadline for Wikipedia to the Moon is 31 October 2016. After that date, we will put all the Featured Articles and Lists onto a special disc and give it to the “PT Scientists.” They will take the Wikipedia articles into space next year.

--Denis Schroeder (WMDE) (discussion) 17 out 2016 à 14:28 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our publisher donation program. You can now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Nomos – Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
• World Scientific – Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
• Edinburgh University Press – Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
• American Psychological Association – Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
• Emerald – Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, DeGruyter, Gale and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 30 out 2016 à 18:38 (UTC)

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

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

RevisionSlider

From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 12 septanm 2016 à 15:08 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 30 septanm 2016 à 20:10 (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0

Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested, take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki.

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 6 oktòb 2016 à 01:34 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

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

• You can now set text as small or big.[3]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[4] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[5]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[6]
• 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.[7]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[8] In the future, the "Anrejistre paj" button will say "Pibliye paj la". 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.[9]

Future changes

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

• 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. Merci !

—Elitre (WMF)

15 oktòb 2016 à 17:49 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

• Foreign Affairs - Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
• OpenEdition - Journals in the social sciences and humanities
• Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences - French and English language scientific journals
• ASHA - Speech–language–hearing journals
• Tilastopaja - Athletics statistics

Expansions

• EBSCO - Many new databases added
• Taylor & Francis - Strategic, Defence & Security Studies collection

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 1 novanm 2016 à 18:30 (UTC)

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

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Password reset

I apologise that this message is in English. ⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽

We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.

Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.

In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (diskisyon) / MediaWiki message delivery (discussion) 13 novanm 2016 à 23:59 (UTC)

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (discussion) 14 novanm 2016 à 00:11 (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext

Summary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. Please go try it out.

We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving the visual editor based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.

Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the citoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.

All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Activer automatiquement la plupart des fonctionnalités en phase bêta".

The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the current wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.

This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode on the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --14 desanm 2016 à 19:32 (UTC)

A few bot fixes

I asked User:Bgwhite to have a look over the Haitian Creole Wikipedia for important errors that make reading pages harder for people using screen-reader software or mobile devices, and he found a few problems. It's not much (but more list-formatting errors than we'd want to fix by hand), and he's willing to send his bot over to fix most of them for us. Since we don't usually have much bot activity, I wanted to make sure that nobody would mind first. I trust Bgwhite completely in these matters. Please speak up if you have an opinion.

(Pinging DARIO, MdmPaj, WTM, LLarson, and Chaoborus; responses from everyone are welcome, of course.)

Thanks, WhatamIdoing (discussion) 25 janvye 2017 à 06:18 (UTC)

Hi @WhatamIdoing :, I agree, if you trust him ... I trust him too. DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 25 janvye 2017 à 06:25 (UTC)

Yes, I think we should let him try his fixes :) WhisperToMe (discussion) 26 janvye 2017 à 21:31 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses. I'll ask him to start as soon as he can. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 26 janvye 2017 à 21:54 (UTC)

I'll need a Steward/Bureaucrat to grant User:BG19bot the bot flag. Bgwhite (discussion) 27 janvye 2017 à 21:52 (UTC)

Bgwhite, we don't have any bureaucrats here. Do you want to ask a steward, or should I? WhatamIdoing (discussion) 28 janvye 2017 à 16:05 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing. Could you ask. I've never dealt with a steward before. Bgwhite (discussion) 31 janvye 2017 à 09:14 (UTC)

I've made this request on Meta. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 31 janvye 2017 à 21:02 (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Les langues sur fr.Wikiversité, Prise de décision sur les facultés de langues

Projet:Wikiversité/Langues

Une prise de décision est lancée sur la page Projet:Wikiversité/Langues Je pense que ce thème "Langues" peut intéresser les contributeurs sur ce wiki. Vous êtes invités à venir en discuter. Si l'objet de la discussion vous intéresse, veuillez garder un oeil sur la page pour voter le cas échéant. Cordialement. Le Message a été diffusé initialement par User:Lydie Noria@frwikiversity. --Ambre Troizat (discussion) 19 fevriye 2017 à 13:28 (UTC)

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 9 mas 2017 à 19:43 (UTC) • Aidez-nous à traduire dans votre langue • Get help

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

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

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

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

18 mas 2017 à 05:10 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 7 avril 2017 à 03:36 (UTC) • Aidez-nous à traduire dans votre langue • Get help

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

Li mesaj sa a nan yon lòt lang • Aidez-nous à traduire dans votre langue

Fondasyon an Wikimedia pral fè yon tès nan sant done li yo nan Dallas, USA. Sa a pral asire w ke Wikipedya ak Wikimedia rete sou entènèt menm apre yon dezas. Depatman an Teknoloji Wikimedia pral fè yon tès. Tès sa a pral asire w tout bagay ap travay. Tès sa a pral montre si yo ka chanje soti nan yon sant done nan lòt la. Li mande ekip anpil pou prepare yo pou tès la ak yo dwe disponib nan repare nenpòt pwoblèm inatandi.

Tout trafik Wikipedya pral chanje nan sant done nan Dallas nan Mèkredi, 19 avril 2017. Nan Mèkredi, 3 me 2017 yo, yo pral chanje tounen nan sant la prensipal done.

Malerezman, paske nan kèk limit nan MedyaWiki yo, tout koreksyon dwe sispann pandan de switch sa yo. Nou ekskize nou pou dezòd sa a, epi n ap travay pou misyon pou minimize l 'nan tan kap vini an.

Ou pral kapab li, men se pa modifye yo, tout wiki pou yon kout peryòd de tan.

• Ou pa yo pral kapab modifye pou apeprè 20 a 30 minit nan Mèkredi, 19 avril ak Mèkredi, 3 me. Egzamen sa a ap kòmanse nan 14:00 UTC (10:00 a.m. EDT).
• Si ou modifye oswa sove pandan moman sa yo, ou pral wè yon mesaj erè. Nou pa vle pa gen okenn edits yo dwe pèdi pandan minit sa yo, men nou pa ka garanti li. Ou kapab wè yon mesaj erè. Si sa rive, li pral travay nòmalman nan yon ti tan. Nan yon ti tan, ou yo pral kapab modifye. Nou rekòmande pou ou fè yon kopi nan chanjman ou premye pou ke chanjman ou pa pral pèdi.

Gen dwa gen lòt efè.

• Lòt fonksyon de Wikipedya pouvwa gen ralanti. Lòt fonksyon pa kapab travay. Lyen yo nan lòt atik ki yo wouj pa ka chanje kòm byen vit. Si ou kreye yon atik ki se lye nan yon lòt atik, lyen ki ap rete wouj pi long lan. Pi konplike pwogram Wikipedya pral oblije sispann.
• Pwogram yo konplike pa pral travay nan tout tan tout tan an nan nan 17 April 2017 ak 1 me 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

Pouvwa Tès sa a dwe ranvwaye si sa nesesè. Ou ka li orè a nan wikitech.wikimedia.org. Nenpòt chanjman ki fèt pral anonse nan orè a. Plis mesaj pral poste sou sa a. Tanpri pataje enfòmasyon sa a ak lòt moun ki modifye Wikipedya. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (discussion) 11 avril 2017 à 17:33 (UTC)

This translation was made possible thanks to MdmPaj. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 12 avril 2017 à 19:03 (UTC)

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.

We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.

We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!

-DBrant (WMF) 14 avril 2017 à 08:41 (UTC)

New Page previews feature

New Page previews feature

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Hello,

The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable Page previews, a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.

A quick note on the implementation:

• For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on from their user preferences page.
• For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
• For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.

You can read more about the feature and the tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions on the talk page.

Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (discussion) 19 avril 2017 à 16:52 (UTC)

I'm looking forward to this. This is a great tool for anyone who just wants to read the wiki. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 20 avril 2017 à 16:21 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

• American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
• Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
• Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
• Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine

Expansions

• Gale – Biography In Context database added
• Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 2 me 2017 à 18:52 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.

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

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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3 me 2017 à 19:14 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

From May 9, the Two Column Edit Conflict View will be available as a beta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 8 me 2017 à 14:41 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2017

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Relire vos modifications".

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

• 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. [10]
• 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. [11]
• 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. [12]
• 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. [13]
• The Kategori yo item has been moved to the top of the Plis opsyon menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [14] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [15]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [16]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [17]
• The Karaktè espesyal yo menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [18]
• 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. [19]
• There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [20]

Future changes

• 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. [21]
• The kind of button used to Montre previzyalizasyon, Montre chanjman yo, 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=1 to 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. [22]
• 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. [23]
• 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. Merci !

—Elitre (WMF)

12 me 2017 à 18:07 (UTC)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

Hello,

I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.

One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.

The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal: fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia, via the Visual Editor.

We already asked for feedback in 2015, and collected some interesting ideas which we shared with you in this thesis. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.

We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.

You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video, on this page. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16 me 2017 à 17:18 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 16 me 2017 à 14:44 (UTC)

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

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

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

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

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

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

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

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16 me 2017 à 21:09 (UTC)

New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata

Hello all,

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The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.

You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.

This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.

This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.

If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

Merci ! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

m:Requests for comment/Global centralnotice for the blockade of the Turkish government

Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 23 me 2017 à 20:44 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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23 me 2017 à 21:05 (UTC)

Should we have portals?

Please look at the pages in Kategori:Pòtay. These are portals (see w:en:Wikipedia:Portal, or think back to AOL and Yahoo! around 1995). The idea is that you won't search for the information you want. Instead, you will look at the links that someone else picked, and choose one of those.

Do we want to have this kind of page at all?

For myself, I do not think they are very useful, and I think they would not be very useful even if they were well-maintained. (For example, it looks like someone accidentally tried to write an article in the middle of Pòtay:Ekonomi, but that's fixable.) I think that people would rather search for the information they want. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 31 me 2017 à 22:53 (UTC)

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes

Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.

Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.

Read and translate the full message

Merci ! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 29 jen 2017 à 08:33 (UTC)

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Francophone convention

Please see m:WikiConvention francophone/2017/fr

(franse) fr Après la première édition de la WikiConvention francophone et suite à l'envie partagée de la communauté d'en réaliser une autre, une seconde édition est organisée du jeudi 19 octobre au samedi 21 octobre 2017. Cette fois-ci la WikiConvention francophone aura lieu à Strasbourg.

(angle) en There will be a meeting of francophone Wikipedians in Strasbourg from 19 October to 21 October 2017.

Is anyone interested in attending? WhatamIdoing (discussion) 3 jiyè 2017 à 18:37 (UTC)

Ortographie

Est-ce que cette page est-elle ecrite en kreyol? Leingue Ahytian ha --Katxis (discussion) 10 jiyè 2017 à 08:02 (UTC)

Katxis, Leingue Ahytian ha is not recognized as Haitian Creole by Google Translate. However, that article was written by a person using an IP address that geolocates to Haiti. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 10 jiyè 2017 à 15:44 (UTC)

Is there dialects in Kreyol? DARIO SEVERI (discussion) 11 jiyè 2017 à 00:42 (UTC)

User:Aliceba or User:Barbara (WVS) might know. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 12 jiyè 2017 à 15:15 (UTC)

I found other pages like this oneː Fhilozofhiy Politika‎, Fhilozofhia‎. (The "correct" page Filozofi exists. What to do to avoid other creations ? What to do with these pages ? Is the page Aprann pale kreyòl ayisyen the reference?--Gilles2014 (discussion) 24 jiyè 2017 à 16:45 (UTC)

Barbara was saying that there's an older version/spelling of Kreyol. Perhaps this is an example of that? WhatamIdoing (discussion) 25 jiyè 2017 à 20:04 (UTC)

For me, the page Aprann pale kreyòl ayisyen is the reference (the reference must be indicated in the wiki homepage ? in pages for beginners ?)). Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen specifies how to write the haitian language. Somebody identified by an IP address creates other pages these days ː Livry-io (the article Liv (pou li) exists), Messagjy (Mesaj exists in the), Latein (Laten exists), Modèl:Infobox Leingue.--Gilles2014 (discussion) 2 out 2017 à 15:36 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Articles exist in more than one written language in Wikpedya. It has been this way before I even became active. I don't see a reason to change that now. If you would like to propose a change in this policy, you can bring that up at the main discussion page. In addition, feel free to edit the article into the main written form of kreyòl if you like. If the same article exists on the French or English wikipedias you have the option of creating a new translation of that article. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) (discussion) 6 out 2017 à 22:21 (UTC)

Here are examples of the older written form of kreyòl: here and here. The only reason I know about this other written form is that I bought a bible once in this written form. Barbara (WVS) (discussion) 6 out 2017 à 22:34 (UTC)

Hello, I asked wikipedia expertsː we must have an homogenuous writing system like on other wikipedias. Each wikipedia in 1 language.

"Kreyòl ayisyen genyen yon òtograf ofisyèl depi 1980" (the haitian creole has an official ortography since 1980). It is preconised through the automatic translation (wikipedia, Google...), by the wikipedia sites, wikiversity that explain how to learn haitian. We can improve "èd" pages to help new contributors.

I put the articles written in "old" haitian creole into the Kategori:Atik an lòt kreyòl to make their verification easer.--Gilles2014 (discussion) 10 out 2017 à 15:04 (UTC)

This is a better idea than just to let them disappear. Though I understand the policy, it would be tragic to let this piece of Haitian culture disappear just because it wasn't part of the official ortographie - just different spellings, really. Barbara (WVS) (discussion) 6 oktòb 2017 à 00:09 (UTC)

User:Katxis I have personally never seen that spelling of Haitian Creole. Aliceba (discussion) 26 fevriye 2018 à 17:57 (UTC)

Page Previews (Hovercards) update

Hello,

A quick update on the progress of enabling Page Previews (previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs.

Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as a beta feature. For more information see Page Previews. Questions can be left on the talk page in your preferred language.

Thank you again.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20 jiyè 2017 à 22:33 (UTC)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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

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

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

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

Merci ! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 25 jiyè 2017 à 18:39 (UTC)

RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"

There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."

Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.

Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.

MediaWiki message delivery (discussion) 17 septanm 2017 à 21:06 (UTC)

Discussion on synced reading lists

Discussion on synced reading lists

Hello,

The Reading Infrastructure team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a cross-platform reading list service for the mobile Wikipedia app. Reading lists are like bookmark folders in your web browser. They allow readers using the Wikipedia app to bookmark pages into folders to read later. This includes reading offline. Reading lists do not create or alter content in any way.

To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.

Background

In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.

The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.

Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.

Why not watchlists

Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:

• Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
• Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
  • The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
• By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
• Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.

More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.

Thank you

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20 septanm 2017 à 20:35 (UTC)

Tanpri konsidere ekri pou diksyonè kreyòl la

Yon diksyonè gratis ak ouvri ka ede tout lektè ak moun ki pale Kreyòl. Ou ka ede isit la. Barbara (WVS) (discussion) 6 oktòb 2017 à 00:17 (UTC)

presenting the project Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory and asking for a vounteer in Haitian Wikipedia

Hello everyone, My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions. Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage.

I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias). For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to Haitian Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make Haitian Wikipedia much more multicultural. Here is the link of the project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO)

I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the Haitian Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it. Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :). If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it in the page I provided. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time! Best regards, --Marcmiquel (discussion) 11 oktòb 2017 à 07:54 (UTC) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

User:Aliceba, I wanted to make sure that you and User:Barbara (WVS) saw this. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 11 oktòb 2017 à 21:47 (UTC)

User:Marcmiquel, Happy to contribute, depending on the time commitment. Can you elaborate on that? Sorry for the delay in response. Can we take this to email? Aliceba (discussion) 26 fevriye 2018 à 17:51 (UTC)

Changes to the global ban policy

Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 12 novanm 2017 à 00:34 (UTC)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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

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

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

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

Merci !

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20 novanm 2017 à 22:07 (UTC)

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: wm2018:Scholarships.

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 20 desanm 2017 à 19:24 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (discussion) 21 desanm 2017 à 10:46 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recent changes

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [24]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [25]
• The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

• The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
• The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [26]
• 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. Merci !

—Elitre (WMF)

2 mas 2018 à 20:56 (UTC)

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (discussion) 12 mas 2018 à 14:08 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

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

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 24 avril 2018 à 21:38 (UTC)

This change gives us a new option, but nothing changes unless we choose to use the feature in an article. WhatamIdoing (discussion) 30 avril 2018 à 06:10 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 7 me 2018 à 14:54 (UTC)