วิกิพีเดีย:สถานทูตวิกิมีเดีย/กรุ 4

==Article request: BoBoiBoy and Upin & Ipin**
en:BoBoiBoy and :en:Upin & Ipin are the two most prominent Malaysian-made cartoons right now. They can be watched on Disney Channel Asia throughout SEA. Besides the Malay-Indonesian speaking world, apparently they are quite notable in Vietnam and the Philippines as we speak. But I'm not too sure about their popularity in Thailand because I don't speak Thai (I do learn the language somehow), let alone know how their names are spelt in the Thai alphabet.
Anyway I'd like to see a Thai write-up about these two on the Thai Wikipedia. Lebih senang kalau ada penterjemah yang fasih bahasa Melayu. Fanatix (พูดคุย) 15:39, 17 มกราคม 2557 (ICT)

**Article request: Nok Mini (SGA Airlines)**
Does the Thai Wikipedia have an article on :en:Nok Mini (formerly SGA Airlines)? If not, would someone mind making a Thai article? Thanks
WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 11:01, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
: There is นกมินิ with interwiki links (including English Wikipedia). And I don't know if นกมินิ does correspond to :en:Nok Mini. --Aristitleism (พูดคุย) 11:05, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
:: Thank you! The logo is the Nok Mini logo, so it does :) WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 12:10, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
: Hello WhisperToMe, please note that when you move a page on any Wikipedia, a corresponding sitelink at Wikidata isn't change automatically. In this case, actually :en:SGA Airlines had already been linked to นกมินิ. Since you move the page, you have to change the sitelink at Wikidata by your hand. --Nullzero (พูดคุย) 15:28, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
:: Ah! That makes sense. I'm new to this Wikidata thing - Thanks for your help WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 15:40, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
: You're welcome :) --Nullzero (พูดคุย) 15:43, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
Also please add :en:Niva International School (Thailand) and โรงเรียนสมาคมไทย-ญี่ปุ่น (:en:Thai-Japanese Association School) to the request list. Thanks WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 12:11, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
:: Thank you! Please also add โรงเรียนนานาชาติ ไทย-จีน (:en:Thai-Chinese International School) WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 15:38, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
:  --Nullzero (พูดคุย) 15:43, 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 (ICT)
Here are more ideas: :en:Ekamai International School โรงเรียนนานาชาติเอกมัย, :en:NIST International School (โรงเรียนนานาชาติใหม่แห่งประเทศไทย,  Thai website), :en:Thai Sikh International School, :en:Pan-Asia International School, :en:The American School of Bangkok (โรงเรียนอเมริกันกรุงเทพ) WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 12:34, 1 มีนาคม 2556 (ICT)
:  --Nullzero (พูดคุย) 10:40, 6 กุมภาพันธ์ 2557 (ICT)

**Chao Phongkaeo Na Lamphun**
What are sources about :en:Chao Phongkaeo Na Lamphun (เจ้าพงศ์แก้ว ณ ลำพูน)? I know she died on Lauda Air Flight 004 in 1991. What do Thai sources say about her? I can't find sources in English about her.
Thank you
WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 15:55, 5 มีนาคม 2556 (ICT)

**Commons closed captioning template**
Is anyone interested in adding Thai to the Commons template :Commons:Template:Closed cap? Thai is needed for the template
Thanks
WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 21:31, 19 มีนาคม 2556 (ICT)
:  --Nullzero (พูดคุย) 10:30, 6 กุมภาพันธ์ 2557 (ICT)

**Change to section edit links**
The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.
Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.
Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.
Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.
(Distributed via global message delivery 02:02, 1 พฤษภาคม 2556 (ICT). Wrong page? Correct it here.)

**Trademark discussion**
Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)

**Medical article requests**
Hi,
Is anyone interested in medical-related article requests? There are two diseases which occur during tsunamis and they do not yet have articles in Thai.- :en:Hepatitis A - http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/tsunamis/translations/hepathai.pdf- :en:Hepatitis E - http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/tsunamis/translations/hepethai.pdf
Thank you
WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 11:35, 4 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)
#  I have translated the type A into Thai ไวรัสตับอักเสบ ชนิดเอ and nominated it for WP:DYK. --Taweethaも (พูดคุย) 14:48, 9 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)
#  I have put the type E into the requested article list.  --Taweethaも (พูดคุย) 14:48, 9 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)
#  I have translated :en:Hepatitis E. --Taweethaも (พูดคุย) 10:11, 22 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)

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Cheers, Ocaasi 04:21, 17 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)

**Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)**
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**PRISM and Edward Snowden**
Regarding :en:PRISM (surveillance program) and :en:Edward Snowden are any users interested in writing articles in Thai about them?
Thanks
WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 11:44, 17 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)
: Please contact Aristitleism or Horus --Taweethaも (พูดคุย) 12:45, 17 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)
:: Thank you. I contacted them. WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 21:47, 21 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)

**X!'s Edit Counter**
(Sorry for writing in English. You can translate the proposal.)
Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.—cyberpower ChatAutomation 12:04, 23 มิถุนายน 2556 (ICT)
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**Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09**
On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.
Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 20:00, 4 กรกฎาคม 2556 (ICT) (via Global message delivery).

**Pywikipedia is migrating to git**
Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this.
Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a  blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit,  mailing list, or in the  IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 20:50, 23 กรกฎาคม 2556 (ICT)

**VisualEditor and your Wikipedia**
(Please translate this message)
Greetings,
The Wikimedia Foundation will soon turn on VisualEditor for all users, all the time on your Wikipedia. Right now your Wikipedia does not have any local documents on VisualEditor, and we hope that your community can change that. To find out about how you can help with translations visit the TranslationCentral for VisualEditor and read the easy instructions on bringing information to your Wikipedia. The User Guide and the FAQ are very important to have in your language.

We want to find out as much as we can from you about VisualEditor and how it helps your Wikipedia, and having local pages is a great way to start. We also encourage you to leave feedback on Mediawiki where the community can offer ideas, opinions, and point out bugs that may still exist in the software that need to be reported to  Bugzilla. 
If you are able to speak for the concerns of others in English on MediaWiki or locally I encourage you to help your community to be represented in this process.
If you can help translate the user interface for VisualEditor to your language, you can help with that as well.  Translatewiki has open tasks for translating VisualEditor. A direct link to translate the user interface is  here.  You can see how we are doing with those translations  here. You need an account on Translatewiki to translate.  This account is free and easy to create.
If we can help your community in any way with this process, please let me know and I will do my best to assist your Wikipedia with this |exciting development. You can contact me on my meta talk page or by email.  You can also contact Patrick Earley for help with translations and documents on Mediawiki.  We look forward to working with you to bring the VisualEditor experience to your Wikipedia! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 02:14, 31 กรกฎาคม 2556 (ICT)
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:  วิกิพีเดีย:ศาลาชุมชน/อภิปราย/Visual_Editor --Taweethaも (พูดคุย) 11:05, 31 กรกฎาคม 2556 (ICT)

**Translation requests into Thai**
Logo Wiki Loves Monuments
Hello, I am a member of the international team of Wiki Loves Monuments who takes care of the upload campaigns used with the picture contest Wiki Loves Monuments next month. For these upload campaigns we need to translate some templates into various languages so that as much as possible people can participate in their own language.
In Thai we need translations for the following templates:
# Done Done: Commons:Template:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 (used on files to mark they are uploaded during the contest)
#* To translate: This image was uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013.
# Done Done: Commons:Template:Upload campaign header Wiki Loves Monuments August (used above the upload wizard saying that the picture contest has not started yet)
#* To translate: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 has not started yet.
#* To translate: Wiki Loves Monuments will start in September. You may still share your images, but they will not be eligible for the competition.
# Done Done: Commons:Template:Upload campaign header Wiki Loves Monuments finished (used above the upload wizard saying that the picture contest is over)
#* To translate: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 is closed.
#* To translate: You may still share your images, but they will not be part of the competition.
#Done Done:  Commons:Template:Upload campaign header Wiki Loves Monuments no contest (used above the upload wizard of a country which does not participate)
#* To translate: This country does not participate this year in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013.
#* To translate: You are welcome to upload pictures with this upload wizard, but they will not be part of the photo competition.
# Done Done: Commons:Template:Upload campaign use Wiki Loves Monuments (used after someone has uploaded a file)
#* To translate: Thank you for submitting your photos to Wiki Loves Monuments.
#* To translate: Our volunteers will add photos to the relevant articles and lists.
# For a label above a field where uploaders can enter the (unique) identifier (code) of a monument:
#* To translate: Monument ID
# For above the upload wizard during September:
#* To translate: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 Thailand Upload Wizard.
#* To translate: Website of the contest
#* To translate: Other countries
You can translate the lines on Commons by creating a subpage with the translation, or put the translation below here or above under the English lines and I will create the subpage on Commons. The ones without a link should be translated here. I will visit this page the coming days. Thanks for the help! Romaine/Romaine (พูดคุย) 09:28, 4 สิงหาคม 2556 (ICT)
I have forwared the request to Wikimedia-TH and put copy the list to local discussion page.
# http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-th/Week-of-Mon-20130729/000030.html
# วิกิพีเดีย:ศาลาชุมชน/อภิปราย/Wiki_loves_monuments_2013_in_Thailand
--Taweethaも (พูดคุย) 10:54, 4 สิงหาคม 2556 (ICT)

**HTTPS for users with an account**
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**Request for consultation on community logo**
Request for consultation on this community logo
First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.
The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive. Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.
Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 10:16, 24 กันยายน 2556 (ICT) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

**Notifications release on your Wikipedia**
My apologies, this message is in English.  Please translate if needed.
Greetings!
I am happy to announce that we have scheduled this Wikipedia to receive Notifications (formerly called Echo) on 8 October.
Notifications is an improvement on how you can view and receive messages on Wikipedia and track how your contributions have been effected, as well as when you are mentioned on a talk page.  Notifications is now being used on over two dozen Wikipedias and we're happy to add this latest group.  You can find more information in the help page.
*There are still three priorities to double check for translations to make sure you get the best experience possible:- Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate- Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
*Notifications help on mediawiki.org.  This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia.  You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.
*Checklist
If you have any questions you can email me, kpeterzell AT wikimedia DOT org or you can contact me on my meta talk page.  We're really looking forward to the release! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13:23, 26 กันยายน 2556 (ICT)
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**Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.**
Hi all, 
Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki: :m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.
This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.
The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark. 
We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community.  We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.
Thanks, 
Geoff & Yana 03:56, 9 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)

**OTRS ticket in Thai**
Hello! We have a ticket in OTRS which appears to be regarding pages on the Thai Wikipedia. If someone could read  this letter and tell me what it says (as close to actual wording as possible), that would be great. The user in question is User:Watdusidaram. Thank you! Darkwind (พูดคุย) 14:57, 9 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)
Oh, and the article is วัดดุสิดาราม วรวิหาร.  Thanks again! Darkwind (พูดคุย) 14:59, 9 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)
:Below is a translation. Note that "Wat Dusidaram Worawihan" is the English name of the temple "วัดดุสิดาราม วรวิหาร". --Lerdsuwa (พูดคุย) 19:46, 9 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)
:::Document Number: Special
:::3 September 2013
::Announcement
::Subject: Publishing information belonging to Wat Dusidaram Worawihan
:With this document, Wat Dusidaram Worawihan recognizes and grants Wikipedia user name "Watdusidaram" who is the web master of temple's webpage www.watdusidaram.net to use information from website to record in Wikipedia the free encyclopedia for the benefit of publicizing dhamma, religion activities, and historical site of national importance.
:::Regards
:::(Phrathepsitthimuni, Level 9 of Buddhist study, M.A., Ph.D.)
:::Abbot of Wat Dusidaram Worawihan
Thank you very much! Unfortunately, this is not acceptable permission, because it does not grant a free-use license for the material, and only gives permission to one editor. I will respond to the editor and request the correct permissions. Darkwind (พูดคุย) 23:34, 9 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)
I have also directed him to วิกิพีเดีย:เลขาชาววิกิพีเดีย#วัดดุสิดาราม วรวิหาร to ask any further questions directly in Thai language, since it is not very efficient for me to go back and forth with him! If he says he is able to obtain a letter with a proper license release, please have him email it to OTRS again - he can reply to my email dated today and attach the new permission.  Thank you again. Darkwind (พูดคุย) 23:48, 9 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)

**Another OTRS ticket**
Concerning the article ลวดมัดปากถุง which seems to have been deleted for copyright issues.  The copyright owner has licensed the content on these pages:  and  under CC-BY-SA (unversioned) and GFDL (unversioned, no disclaimers).  OTRS ticket number is 2013091310000952.  I don't know if your policy is to undelete at this point, or what. Thanks! Darkwind (พูดคุย) 03:06, 20 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)
: I have asked Syr85 to answer your request here .  Please wait for his reply. We can definitely undelete things but most of the time the content is not in a encyclopedia tone and we prefer that they rewrite the text and resubmit. --Taweethaも (พูดคุย) 06:11, 20 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)
: deleted for copyright issue and content is not in a encyclopedia tone. found "© 2009 www.thaicoatedwire.com" on the bottom of all pages. --Sry85 (พูดคุย) 12:57, 20 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)

**Article request: Prostitution in Thailand**
Would anyone mind writing a short stub on :en:Prostitution in Thailand? I'm surprised it doesn't yet have an article in Thai.
Thank you
WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 09:21, 29 ตุลาคม 2556 (ICT)
:  by User:Taweetham --Nullzero (พูดคุย) 10:14, 6 กุมภาพันธ์ 2557 (ICT)

**Call for Lao-speaking editors**
On the Thai Wikipedia how many can speak Lao? :en:Lao Airlines Flight 301 still does not have an article written in Lao. Would someone mind writing one?
Thanks,
WhisperToMe (พูดคุย) 14:24, 1 พฤศจิกายน 2556 (ICT)
:  see your talk page --Nullzero (พูดคุย) 10:07, 6 กุมภาพันธ์ 2557 (ICT)

**Introducting Beta Features**
(Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)
We would like to let you know about Beta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.
Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.
Beta Features is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.
Here are the first features you can test this week:- Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen- VisualEditor Formulæ (for wikis with VisualEditor) — edit algebra or equations on your pages- Typography Refresh —  make text more readable (coming Thursday)
Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the Beta Features page.
After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on this discussion page -- or report any bugs  here on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC. 
Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.
Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think!  Keegan (WMF) (talk) 03:43, 6 พฤศจิกายน 2556 (ICT)
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**Call for comments on draft trademark policy**
Hi all, 
The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.
The current trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect the Wikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review here, and we encourage you to discuss it here.
We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.
Thanks, 
Yana & Geoff

**Picture of Dr. Pracha Prasobdee**
Hello,
Did you see that there is a deletion request for the picture of this article on Commons: commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:ดร.ประชา ประสพดี.jpg. Specifically, since this is the only edit of this user, there is some suspicion that he is the photographer. This is a professional portrait made in a studio. Could you help please? And please answer on Commons. Sorry, I don't speak Thai. ;o) Thanks, Yann (พูดคุย) 21:14, 16 ธันวาคม 2556 (ICT)
:  by User:Taweetham --Nullzero (พูดคุย) 09:53, 6 กุมภาพันธ์ 2557 (ICT)

**Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?**
I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.
The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.
Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora). 
However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required. 
We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members. 
Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.
All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.
You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC,  this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.
We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13:46, 16 มกราคม 2557 (ICT)

**Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014**
On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis. 
We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.
You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

**Amendment to the Terms of Use**
Hello all, 
Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 05:00, 22 กุมภาพันธ์ 2557 (ICT)

**Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments**
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I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.
Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make  better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals. 
Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:
*Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials) 
*Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)
*Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
*Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)
Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved! 
Hope to have your participation,
--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual
Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 02:44, 1 มีนาคม 2557 (ICT)

**Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment**
Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing,  we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 04:56, 14 มีนาคม 2557 (ICT) 

**Changes to the default site typography coming soon**

This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is: - April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live- April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live
This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users. 
For more information:- Summary of changes and FAQ- Discussion page for feedback or questions-  Post on blog.wikimedia.org
-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team

**Request for Bot Account**
Hello Thai Wikipedians! 
My name is Alphama. I am from Vietnamese Wikipedia. I would like to request a user bot account (ผู้ใช้:AlphamaBot). This bot will improve the category classification in Thai Wikipedia based on English Wikipedia. I did it successfully in Vietnamese Wikipedia. The reason I come here is I would like to contribute to South East Asian languages. Thank you! Alphama (พูดคุย) 15:20, 14 พฤษภาคม 2557 (ICT)
 redirect Redirected to Bot Request for Approval page. I have filed the request on behalf. Bureaucrat will get in touch to you when more information is needed. Thank you. --∫G′(∞)dx 21:32, 14 พฤษภาคม 2557 (ICT)
: Thank you very much!. Alphama (พูดคุย) 23:43, 14 พฤษภาคม 2557 (ICT)

**Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions**
The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.
If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.- Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer-  Letter on change.org
-- JurgenNL (talk) 00:35, 22 สิงหาคม 2557 (ICT)

**Process ideas for software development**
’’My apologies for writing in English.’’
Hello,
I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects?  We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.
I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.
Kind regards,
-- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 05:15, 22 สิงหาคม 2557 (ICT)
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**Grants to improve your project**
Apologies for English.  Please help translate this message.
Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. 
Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.
*Submit your proposal
*Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (พูดคุย) 23:52, 2 กันยายน 2557 (ICT)

**Change in renaming process**
Part or all of this message may be in English. Please help translate if possible.
Single-user login (SUL) finalisation's goal is so that every Wikimedia editor has a single, recognized global account with one username across all projects. As you may know, after a long delay, it's now underway as an effort between bureaucrats, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation engineers. This will also allow for development of cross-wiki tools like global notifications and watchlists. There is no set date for the completion of single-user login finalization at this time.
The process involves changing all rename processes into one global renaming process. The ability for local bureaucrats to rename users on this wiki will be turned off on Monday, 15 September 2014, as one of the first steps. Global renamers are in the process of being created to make sure projects and languages are represented by the time this occurs. I sent a note to every bureaucrat about this process three weeks ago with an invitation to participate and many have begun requesting to be a part of the group. Together with the stewards, the global renamers will be empowered to help editors work through the often difficult process of getting a global name.
In parting, visit Special:MergeAccount to unify your account if you have never done so. If your local pages about renaming still need to be updated, please do so and consider pointing people to :m:SRUC for future rename requests, especially if this project does not have bureaucrats that hold global renamer permissions. If you have any questions, you can read more on the help page on Meta. You can also follow the technical progress on mediawiki.org. Contact me on Meta any time with questions as well. Thank you for your time. -- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 23:23, 9 กันยายน 2557 (ICT)

**VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11**
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VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update.  Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on.  If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org.  Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 14:29, 11 กันยายน 2557 (ICT). 
PS. Please subscribe to the global monthly newsletter to receive further news about VisualEditor.

**Monuments of Spain Challenge**
Excuse me for not speaking Thai yet.
Wikimedia España invites you to join the Monuments of Spain Challenge. And what’s that? It’s a contest. You have to edit, translate or expand articles about the Spanish monuments and you will be granted points. So you’re not just writing about wonderful buildings: you can get prizes!
The time of the contest will include all October and any information you may need is  right here.
Join in and good luck!
PS: We would be grateful if you could translate this note into Thai.
B25es on behalf of Wikimedia España.

**VisualEditor News #8—2014**
center230x230pxDid you know? 
TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template.  VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.
With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded. 
See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData.  The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed  over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists.  Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. 
There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that replaced some categories with a link to the system message MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.

**Increased support for devices and browsers**
Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab.  Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.
Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897).  A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.

**TemplateData editor**
The tool for editing TemplateData has been deployed to 30 more Wikipedias this week.  Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month.  This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation.  When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages).  To use it, edit the template page or a subpage, and then click the "" button at the top.  Read the help page for TemplateData.  You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org.  Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself.  Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

**Other changes**
Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design.  (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.)  The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.
VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect and mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these types of links can be created.
Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData.  If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358). 
Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir attribute but no lang set (bug 69955). 

**Looking ahead**
The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.  The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.        
The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month.  Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.
In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor.  Some early preparatory work for this was recently done. 

**Supporting your wiki**
At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor.  A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people.  Deryck Chan was the top translator.  Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата.  A summary of the work achieved by the translation community is available.  Thank you all for your work.      
This was the first translatable VisualEditor newsletter, so thanks to everybody who made this possible! If it hasn't been delivered in your language, and you'd like to help with translations in the future, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre (WMF), so that you will be notified when the next issue is due.      
VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects.  If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an  enhancement request in Bugzilla.    
Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at  18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at  16:00 UTC on IRC.
Give feedback on VisualEditor at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.  Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!  —Elitre (WMF)
16:49, 13 ตุลาคม 2557 (ICT)

**Meta RfCs on two new global groups**
Hello all, 
There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.
We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.
It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.
Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 01:04, 27 ตุลาคม 2557 (ICT)

**Languages in censuses**
Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (พูดคุย) 20:40, 31 ตุลาคม 2557 (ICT)

**New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)**
Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
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:
*DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
**English signup 
**Deutsch signup 
*Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
*Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
*British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers 
*Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives- Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
*JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.06:19, 6 พฤศจิกายน 2557 (ICT)
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 to  The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

**Global AbuseFilter**
Hello,
AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the " small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on " medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.
Thanks,
PiRSquared17, Glaisher — 00:34, 15 พฤศจิกายน 2557 (ICT)

**VisualEditor News #9—2014**
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Did you know?  
VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Log in and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings button in the upper-right corner to pick which editor to use. Choose "" to use VisualEditor, or "" to use the wikitext editor.
It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.  
The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available on the mobile website.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many  bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta. 

**Recent improvements**
Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in them was just introduced to Wikipedias. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be added later. 
To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus are now hidden behind a "" item, such as "" in the styling menu.
The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias this week, and the following week at the English Wikipedia. 
The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon. 
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar menus are now shown in the menus.  
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience/Design group. The appearance of dialog boxes has already changed in the mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. You are welcome to compare the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.
Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search engine could not find the page. A link inside a template to a local page that does not exist will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to an error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like  with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.

**TemplateData**
The tool for quickly editing TemplateData has been deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool was already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData to learn more about it. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in  this example, or to add the most common value for that parameter. The autovalue can be overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.
In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required".  The template dialog box in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "" or "" in TemplateData instead.

**Looking ahead**
The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.        
The user guide is being updated to add information about editing tables.
The translations of the user guide for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help  complete the current translations for users who speak your language.   Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.        

You can influence VisualEditor's design! Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at  16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at  22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please  sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.
If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact  us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!
—Elitre (WMF)
06:29, 15 พฤศจิกายน 2557 (ICT)

**New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)**
Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
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:
*Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
*Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
*Pelican Books - ebook monographs
*Public Catalogue Foundation- art books
Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.07:22, 18 ธันวาคม 2557 (ICT)
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.

**VisualEditor News #10—2014**
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Did you know?
Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

**Recent improvements**
Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple  paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "" into a "".
Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.
There are also two other keyboard sequences: "" for opening the link tool, and "