ውክፔዲያ ውይይት:ምንጭጌ

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message: [ለአዘጋጅ አስተያየት፤ "የመንደሩ ቧምቧ" ፈረንጆች "ካልክ ትራንስሌሽን" የሚሉት ዐይነት ነው። ስለኾነም የ እንግሊዝኛውን ፈሊጣዊ ፍቺ ለዐማርኛ ተናጋሪ አያስተላልፍም። ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ መንደርተኞች ዜና ከሚለዋወጡባቸው ወይም ችግሮቻቸውን ከሚወያዩባቸው ስፍራዎች አንዱ ምንጭ (በገጠር) ወይም ቦኖ ውሃ (በከተማ) ነው፤ እዚያ ወሃ ለመቅዳት ወይም ለዐጠባ ሲኼዱ ይገናኛሉና። ስለዚህ "ምንጭጌ" ወይም "የምንጭጌ ወግ" የ እንግሊዝኛውን ፍቺ በቅጡ ለማስተላለፍ የሚችል ይመስለኛል።
ምንጭጌ = ምንጭ+ጌ = የምንጭ ቦታ።]
ግርማ ጌታኹን
replies: text: ጥሩ ነው! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 23:04, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 'የመንደሩ ቧምቧ' -> ምንጭጌ 

message: እንኳን ለአዲሱ የኢትዮጵያ ዘመን አደረሳችሁ! ለሁላችንም የሰላም፣ የጤናን እና የብልጽግና ዘመን ይሁንልን። ዊኪፔዲያችንም የሚያድግበት ይሆን ዘንድ እመኛለሁ።
                                                      መልካም አዲሰ አመት
thread_title:  መልካም አዲስ አመት 

message: ሰላም!
በስተግራ በኩል ከማውጫው ስር ያለው የፍለጋ textbox በአማርኛ እንዲሰራ ማድረግ ይቻል ይሆን?
ከምስጋና ጋር Abdissa Aga 15:50, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
መልካም አመት
thread_title:  ፍለጋ በአማርኛ 

message: I was wondering if there is such a javascript already in use on Wikipedia. I was hoping to apply it to the info boxes (font and composing in Amharic) at Abdissa Aga/ዋናው ገጽ.
Thanks in advance,
አብዲሣ አጋ »ጭውውት|አስተዋጽኦ« 18:26, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  javascript -show/hide 

message: Hi, I came here for interwiki linking 'year' articles to the Ripuarian Wikipedia. I've seen in :Category:መንታ_መንገዶች that there are only few 'year' articles that could be interwiki linked. As it seems, these articles are pretty systematic, and boring to type. They could as well be automatically generated by a bot. If you agree, and if you can provide me with the exact information of how the calendars relate, or point me to list, an article, a website, etc. explaining it in a language that I understand, I could set a bot up that would do the labour of adding these articles. Let me know on my talk page if you like me to do that. Ripuarian Wikipedia User Purodha aka Purodha Blissenbach 15:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Jahresartikel
Hallo, ich bin hierhergekommen, um Jahreartikel mit der  Ripuarischen Wikipedia zu verlinken. In der  :Category:መንታ_መንገዶች sehe ich, daß es bisher nur wenige gibt, die man bereits verlinken könnte. Sie sehen alle sehr ähnlich aus, langweilig zum Eingeben. Sie könnten genausogut automatisch von einem Programm (Bot) angelegt werden. Wenn Ihr hier einverstanden seid, und mir die notwendigen Informationen geben könnt oder einen Artikel oder eine Webseite nennen könnt, wo ich in einer für mich verständlichen Sprache finde, wie die Kalender ineinander umgerechnet werden, dann könnte ich einen Bot aufetzen, der die Arbeit des Anlegens übernimmt. Eine Nachricht auf meiner Gesprächsseite wär schon, dann packe ich das an. Mitmacher Purodha in der Wikipedia für ripuarische Sprachen alias Purodha Blissenbach 15:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want to make እ.ኤ.አ. disambiguation pages for any European years from 1901 to 2099, they all start the new Ethiopian year on Sep. 11, except for the years listed in the first column at Wikipedia:የቀን መለወጫ, when they start on Sep. 12.  So the articles for 1999 እ.ኤ.አ., 1995 እ.ኤ.አ., 1991 እ.ኤ.አ., 1987 እ.ኤ.አ., etc. should follow the pattern of 2003 እ.ኤ.አ.. Years before 1901 would follow a different pattern.  Years from 9 on can be determined from the software at http://www.funaba.org/en/calendar-conversion.cgi . The disambiguation pages do increase the article count, but ideally links to them will eventually be replaced with links pointing to the correct Ethiopian year, so they are of temporary use and have only been created on an as-needed basis.  I can always find out if any are in greater demand by checking the top 1000 Special:Wantedpages which shows how many redlinks each one has in other pages. For example, right now 1976 እ.ኤ.ኣ. at #745 is the most wanted such page, with two pages containing this redlink, and they are a user page and the associated talk page, not even articles. (For consistency the last character would be spelled አ. instead of ኣ.) In other words, these year disambiguation pages are not a really great priority at the moment.

text: My procedure for creating regular year pages that show events has also been to pick the years off the wanted list that have the most listable events on other articles. When we got about five years in any one decade, I created these decade indexes: 1950ዎቹ and 1960ዎቹ.  If you look at these two articles, it seems like something a bot could be programmed to do for other decades, that would be very useful. The three links at top are previous, current and next centuries, in all cases the century number such as 19, 20, 21 can be followed by ኛ (ordinal suffix). The links in the second section are decades, note that in all these cases the decade number is followed by ዎቹ, except for the '10s which is followed by ሮቹ.  The third section has links to the years in that decade, note that all of these articles have also been made to link to each other, which could also be automated.  Can your bot do that? Cheers ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 15:59, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: :My bot is currently creating stub articles for those (european) years from 1 to 2010 which do not exist yet, that is ~850 new articles. They have already links to the እ.ኤ.አ. disambiguation pages - I do not mind to create all of those ~1980 articles with the bot, too. My labour is the same, no matter how many pages created. I understand that the disambiguation articles are unimportant for you, but I see them as valuable for interlinking between the wikies of various languages and cultures. I think, there is nothing else, that an article about an european year of an european Wikipedia could link to in the Amharic Wikipedia, isn't it? Also, even if there are not many Ethiopian year articles yet, they will come, and it's nice the have the links already in place, I think. --Purodha Blissenbach 12:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: :: Sorry for the delay, several external incidents kept me from continuing. Now, I have a bot setup ready for the year disambiguation articles, as the 1st step. These questions remain:

text: ::# The article 1889 እ.ኤ.አ. starts with :Template:ሹካ, which is different from all other such articles. The others use :Template:መንታ, which is also called internally by :Template:ሹካ, so finally there is currently not a real difference between them.

text: ::#Inside :Template:መንታ, there is the code to put the pages including  it into the :category:መንታ መንገዶች.  Quoting from my talk page:  (...) The category መንታ መንገዶች means all disambiguation pages, not just the year-related ones.  They may need to be moved to another subcat at some point, which I know is a lot of work. (...)  ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 12:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)  Thus I suggest these amendments:

text: ::## Give :Template:መንታ a parameter, which is the name of the category. If the parameter is omitted, then  the :category:መንታ መንገዶች is automatically used. Else, it would usually be a subcat thereof.  (Since that does not break anything, I simply implement that. If you feel that would be a bad idea, just revert my chance)

text: ::## In the disambiguation articles, such as  2000 እ.ኤ.አ., the bot might use      which can later be changed if needed in all bot created articles, or better, the bot uses a new template which only calls       internally, so we have only one central place at which all year disambiguation articles can be put in a subcategory with only one change. I strongly suggest the latter, but I don't know how to name the new template in amharic.

text: ::# I suggest to have a template for the two lines of disambiguation displaying the dates a well. Thus, if modifications should be required at some time in the future, they need to be made only at one place.

text: ::Since I do not know how the suggested templates should be named, I give them temporary names, and ask you to alter them to something useful in amharic language. I let the bot upload  2000 እ.ኤ.አ. with the temporary names :Template:European year A.D. disambiguation head and :Template:European year_A.D. disambiguation text , so as to have a sample demonstrating how they work. --Purodha Blissenbach 16:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ::: This looks great, I suggest the subcat with all the European year disambig pages be called :Category:ፈረንጅ አመቶች ("European years"). It doesn't matter what you call the template, you can use whatever works...! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 16:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: :::: I don't mind, but do you really want templates having english names ? Hm, I see already some listed here. Ok with me. --Purodha Blissenbach 17:42, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Yeah, templates can always be moved later, that's easy! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: :Although a bot could do that, keep in mind, that you'll possibly have ~2000 year articles that need to be altered, if you rename them later! --Purodha Blissenbach 18:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ::The pages the bot made so far end in እ.ኤ.ኣ.  like some of the one that already were there... but others end in እ.ኤ.አ. (I don't know if you saw the slight difference in the last character).  Either one is considered correct, but I would prefer to have them all end in እ.ኤ.አ. instead of እ.ኤ.ኣ. I was also wondering if we ought to link the words January September and December, they can always redirect to articles explaining those months. As for the templates, moving them later wouldn't involve changing every article because a redirected template automatically calls the template through the old name. Thanks for all your help! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 00:19, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: :::On my display, the difference between አ and ኣ is a bit hard to recognize, depending on the font. One of them was used in the page title, the other in the page text, that I took as a refeernce. Since you essentially say, they are interchangeable, I tried to make it so, as you said, and in addition add a redirect from the ...ኣ. page titles to the ...አ. page titles for all years, since users can likely be expected to be typing either. Unfortunately, the pywikipediabot software framework that I am building upon, refuses to accept አ as a valid unicode character. I yet have to find out why, and what to do. --Purodha Blissenbach 22:59, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

text: :::All technical problems solved. The work can begin.

text: :::* May I suggest to flag Purbo T as a bot, if you like so, so as to not have it clutter the RecentChanges for everyone?

text: :::* If you don't advise otherwise, existing year articles shall be replaced so as to have them all uniformly use the templates. Edit history is kept, of course.

text: :::* Usually, the bot would run at a pace of about 4 edits a minute, thus it would take roughly about a day to have all year articles and redirects created. Please tell me, if you like something else. Both quicker and slower are possible.

text: :::Greetings --Purodha Blissenbach 08:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

text: :Unfortunately, only someone at Bureaucrat level or higher can give a bot flag, and we have no Bureaucrat here, so that means only a steward from :meta can flag a bot. If it only takes a day or so, at least it won't be a permanent problem.   ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 15:30, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: :: Oh, then I was probably mistaken, thinking an admin was needed. Ok, I'll let it run more quickly, then. Indeed few hours is not a real problem, and getting a stewart doing someting is imho not worth the efford. --Purodha Blissenbach 16:11, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year Articles 

message: ስላም ጤና ይሥጥልኝ እንደምን አላችሁ እኔ ወንድማችሁ ጋሻው ደረሶ ነኝ
የስላምታ ደብዳቤ ለክቡረ ለአገሬ ለኢትዮጵያ እንዲሁም ኢትዮጵያ ለሚገኙት ዘመዶች ለሁሉም ስላምና ጤና እንዲሁም ህብትን ብልጽግና እመኛለሁኝ ከልቤ ስው ሁኖ መለየት አይቀርምና ከሁሉም ጋራ ተለያየሁኝ እና ወድ እሥራኤል ሀገረ ሔድኩኝ መሔዴ ነው እኔሥ መሔዴ ደረስ የምጠጣው ውሐ ምንጩ ደፈረስ እኔሥ እወዳት የነበረችው ልጅ መልሳ ሥጠላይ የምመልስው ሳጣ ብስቃይም ቅሉ እንኳን ከዚሕ ደረሥሁ የማያስኝ ነገር ነው የገጠመኝ እኔሥ ::? እኔ ወንድማችሁ ጋሻው ደርሶ ወይም ሙሉጌታ እባላልሁኝ
===አንክን ልግና ብል ብስላም አድርሳችው 2007 ግብሬአሌ ክስረአኤል ክልጅ===
ኤትይጵይን ይውጭ ህግሬት ይውደታል ልምንድ ንው? ኤትይጵይ ህይራኦ ትስማሜ ይህንው ምንስለላት ንው? ትንሽ ላይብረር ልን ይችላለ?
በመጀመሪያ ስላምና ጤና ክቡርና ምሥጋና ለእናንተ ይሁን እስኪ ልበለው ለህገሩ ሰላምታ ለኤትዮጵያ ልጆች በመጀመርያ ስላምታ ላቅርብ እላቸው ምንም ቢሆን ስላም እና ጤና ነው: እንደምን ከረማችሁ
thread_title: ከተለያዩ መጣጥፎች የተዛወሩ የጋሻው ደረሶ ቃላት

message: ኤትይጵይን ይውጭ ህግሬት ይውደታል ልምንድ ንው? ኤትይጵይ ህይራኦ ትስማሜ ይህንው ምንስለላት ንው? ትንሽ ላይብረር ልን ይችላለ?
በመጀመሪያ ስላምና ጤና ክቡርና ምሥጋና ለእናንተ ይሁን እስኪ ልበለው ለህገሩ ሰላምታ ለኤትዮጵያ ልጆች በመጀመርያ ስላምታ ላቅርብ እላቸው ምንም ቢሆን ስላም እና ጤና ነው: እንደምን ከረማችሁ
thread_title: አንክን ልግና ብል ብስላም አድርሳችው 2007 ግብሬአሌ ክስረአኤል ክልጅ

message: (ከሌላ ቦታ የተዛወረ መልእክት)
በመጀመሪያ ስላምና በማለት ጊዘንንን አናባክንንም በዚህም ያተነሳ የሚቀፕለውን ዘመን አንተከም በማለት በፕብቅ ማሳስበ ነው ለማለት ይሁን በማለት ሊሆንም የሚልም ቢሆን አኑም በዚህ  የተነሳ መስሎ ይታያል በማለት ደግሞም ጊዘንም ለመተቆም  ስንል በመላውም ዐለም የሚኖሩም  ሰዎች መንቃት አለባችሁ ለማለትም ይሆናል ለማለት ፈልገን ይመስል ነበር ለማለት ሳይሆን አይቀርም  ቢሆንም እንካን የዚሁ ትምህርት ን የሚያከፍ ምን   
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የአለነበት ዘመን ምንም አያኮራም መቸም ጊዘም በዚሁ ሲያልቅ ደግመው ለማሰቃየት  ሲነሱ መቸም የአለም መዛለቂያ የላትም  ማለትም ግደታም የለው ምን ያስፍው
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መቸም የዘመኑ ነገር  አላኮራም ቢኮሩም የሚከተለውም ነገር አይታወቅም እንበልም በማለት ስው ጊዝን ለማፕፋት ፈቃደፕች አይደለሁም በማለት ነበር   የማበቃው ጎበዝ
ምንድነው ይኼ ጽሑፍ??? "ፍክር እስክምክብር"?? 'ፍቅር እስከመቃብር' ይኾን??--Bulgew1 17:09, 21 ሜይ 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ፍቅር እስከ መቃብር  Mahmud jemal (talk) 18:10, 11 ሜይ 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: ፍቅር እስከመቃብር

message: የምስራች! የMediawiki አማርኛ መልክ አሁን ለሥራዎች ሁሉ ቀስ በቀስ እየተዘጋጀ ነው። ይህ ማለት በማንኛውም Wikimedia  ድረ-ገጽ ላይ (ለምሳሌ በእንግሊዝኛ ዊኪፔድያ) በብዕር ስም ለገቡት ሰዎች ወደ 'ምርጫዎች' ('preferences') በመሔድ ከመልኩ ቋንቋ ('Language:') ሳጥን 'am - አማርኛ' የሚል ምርጫ አሁን ይኖራል።  
ለልዩ 'am:' ሳይቶች (ውክሽኔሪ፣ ወዘተ.) ደግሞ የአማርኛ መልክ ለሚገቡም ለማይገቡም ሰዎች በቀጥታ አሁን ይታያል።  'system messages' በማስተካከል መልኩን በተለይ ለነዚህ ዊኪዎች ለመቀየር የሚችሉ admin-ኦቹ ብቻ ናቸው። ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 16:25, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: የምስራች!

message: ለዚህ ዊኪ ከዲፎልቱ ፎንት ለላ መጠቀም ይቻላል ወይ? ለምሳሌ አንድ ዩዘር አቢሲኒካ ሲል ሚባለውን ፎንት ለመጠቀም ከፈለገስ?
አመሰግናልሁ (ያልተፈረመ ከ24.19.242.49 በ10:32, 19 ጁላይ 2008)
thread_title: ለዚህ ዊኪ ከዲፎልቱ ፎንት ለላ መጠቀም ይቻላል ወይ?

message: : Hello! This is a message to inform all the Wikipedias that there is an ongoing project to fix the errors in the Wikipedia logo. There's also a plan to add more characters in the blank spaces and find characters for the other sides of the globe. Feel to visit the page on Meta-Wiki and discuss it on the talk page. If this message has arrived in the wrong place, please update the distribution list. Thank you, and see you on Meta! Bastique 17:16, 15 ኦክቶበር 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please translate this message!
thread_title:  Wikipedia logo project 

message: Hoi, the most often used MediaWiki messages (less than 25% of all MediaWiki messages) are the most visible messages. They help our readers and editors the most. We are aiming to get these messages localised for as many languages as possible by the end of the year. Please help us and yourself and localise &limit=100 these messages. Thanks, GerardM 10:17, 17 ኖቬምበር 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The most often used MediaWiki messages 

message: አሁን በእንግሊዝኛው ዊኪፔድያ ላይ፣ ስለዚሁ «አማርኛ ዊኪፔድያ» የሆነው መጣጥፍ ታዋቂነት በማጣቱ መጣጥፉ ዝም ብሎ እንዲጠፋ የሚል ውይይት ቀርቧል።  እኔ ይህንን ሀሣብ በጭራሽ እቃውማለሁ፤ ይህ አማርኛ ዊኪፔድያ ለእንግሊዝኛ ዊኪፔድያ አንባብያን በ'ታዋቂነት' ረገድ እንደሚበቃ ይመስለኛል።  ከውክፔድያዎች ሁሉ ይህኛው መጀመርያ የፊደል አገባብ ዘዴ አስለማ፤ ይህም ዘዴ በህንዳውያን ልሳናት ውክፔድያዎች ደግሞ ሲጠቀም ኖሯል።  እንዲሁም የኛ ሶፍትዌር ጎበዞች እንኳን ከማንኛውም ማሽን ፊደሉ በግልጽ እንዲታይ አድርገዋል።  ለታላቁ አባት ውክፔድያ ለእንግሊዝኛው ውክፔድያ በቂ ታዋቂነት እንዳለው የማይስት ነገር አይደለም?  እባካችሁ ውይይቱን በዚያ ውክፔድያ አግኝታችሁ ተቆጠሩ!   -- አባል:B'er Rabbit 12:59, 22 ጁን 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: አንዳችም ሰው ስንኳ ይህንን ጉዳይ ስላልጠበቀ፣ ውጤቱ ጠቃሚ አልነበረም። አማርኛ ውክፔድያን የማይወደው ወገን በእንግሊዝኛ ውክፔድያ ላይ የድምጽ ብዛት ስለ ነበራቸው፣ መጣጥፉ ከዚያው ቋንቋ ውክፔድያ አሁን ጠፍቷል። የሰጡትም ምክንያት በቂ ታዋቂነት በማጣት ነበረ። አባል:B'er Rabbit 11:43, 3 ጁላይ 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: የዚሁ ዊኪፔድያ ታዋቂነት???

message: The LocalisationUpdate extension is now enabled for all Wikimedia projects. From now on new localisations that become available in SVN will become available to your project within *** hours. Your localisations get into SVN from translatewiki.net typically within a day and at worst in two days. This is a huge improvement from the old practice where the localisations became available with new software. This could take weeks, even months.
The localisations done by our community at translatewiki.net are committed to SVN typically every day. When the system messages in English are the same as the local messages, they will now be inserted in a file and are available for use in all our projects in a timely manner
===What this means for you===
Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed.  What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net. 
Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.
===Why localise at translatewiki.net===
When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.
thread_title: The LocalisationUpdate extension has gone live

message: Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed.  What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net. 
Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.
thread_title: What this means for you

message: When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.
thread_title: Why localise at translatewiki.net

message: *Currently 69.61% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.62% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the  recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:35, 28 ሰፕቴምበር 2009 (UTC)
*Currently 69.49% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.50% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the  recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 09:24, 1 ኖቬምበር 2009 (UTC)
*Currently 69.57% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.68% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the  recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:53, 30 ኖቬምበር 2009 (UTC)
*Currently 70.41% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.64% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the  recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:01, 4 ጃንዩዌሪ 2010 (UTC)
*PS Please help us complete &limit=100 the most wanted messages..
thread_title: Translatewiki.net update

message: We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well.  There are two questions we would like you to answer:
Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative
Does MediaWiki support your language properly
The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. 
We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.
When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.
We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language issues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.
PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM 13:35, 28 ሰፕቴምበር 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: How can we improve the usability for your language

message: በአንድ እስታቲስቲክስ ረገድ ይህ አማርኛ ዊኪፔዲያ ከሁሉ (269 ቋንቋዎች) 11ኛው ቦታ አለው! 
ከ269ኙ ቋንቋዎች ውክፔድያዎች መካከል፣ 179 ብቻ ከ1 ሺ መጣጥፎች በላይ በSeptember 2009 እ.ኤ.አ. ነበሯቸው። ይህ አማርኛ ዊኪፔድያ (3.4 ሺ መጣጥፎች፣ 128ኛው) ይጠቅልላል። ከነዚህም 179 ትልልቅ ውክፔድያዎች ውስጥ፣ «ለውጦች በየመጣጥፉ» ለሚለው የእስታቲስቲክስ ቁጥር፣ አማርኛ ውክፔድያ 11ኛ ነው።  
በዚህ ውክፔድያ ለያንዳንዱ መጣጥፍ ባማካኝ 32.6 ለውጦች ተደረጉበት። ይህን ቁጥር 10 ትልልቅ ውክፔድያዎች ብቻ ይበልጣሉ። እነሱም፦
*1) :en: - እንግሊዝኛ - 67.3 ለውጦች በየመጣጥፉ (3.1 ሚሊዮን መጣጥፎች)
*2) :he: - ዕብራይስጥ - 47.1 ለውጦች በየመጣጥፉ (98 ሺ መጣጥፎች)
*3) :de: - ጀርመንኛ - 43.9 ለውጦች በየመጣጥፉ (975 ሺ መጣጥፎች)
*4) :es: - እስፓንኛ - 40.7 (533 ሺ)
*5) :frp: - አርፒታንኛ - 37.2 (2.1 ሺ)
*6) :ja: - ጃፓንኛ - 37.0 (626 ሺ)
*7) :kw: - ኮርንኛ - 36.5 (1.8 ሺ)
*8) :fr: - ፈረንሳይኛ - 36.4 (859 ሺ)
*9) :jbo: - ሎዥባን - 35.2 (1 ሺ)
*10) :ia: - ኢንተርሊንጓ - 34.5 (4.9 ሺ)
*11) am: - አማርኛ - 32.6 ለውጦች በየመጣጥፉ (3.4 ሺ መጣጥፎች)
እነዚህ ቁጥሮች ለSeptember 2009 ናቸው።  በተረፈ በ2009 ወሮች ደግሞ የአማርኛ ውክፔድያ ቦታ በዚህ ርገድ ከፍተኛ ነው። በJanuary፣ 17ኛው ቦታ ሲሆን በJuly፣ 10ኛው ቦታ ነበረ!
ከ269 ቋንቋዎች ውክፔድያዎች በሙሉ (ከነትንንሹ) የአማርኛ ውክፔድያ «ለውጦች በየመጣጥፉ» ቦታ እንደገና ከፍተኛ ነው - 27ኛው ቦታ (ከ269) በSeptember 2009። ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 19:05, 2 ኖቬምበር 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: am. in 11th place (out of 179 wps with over 1000 articles) in "Edits per article"

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message: ባለፈው ከElfalem ጋር ስለአማርኛው ፊደላት ተወያይተን ነበር። I have noticed that in other Wikipedias like Arabic Wikipedia anyone can search an article with English name and get the article in Arabic. Since redirecting may not solve the problem permanently and the Amharic font may not be visible on the machine of every user, we can add the article's corresponding English name on the body of the article so users can find the Amharic body of the article by using it's English title name. Please በዚህ ላይ ሀሳባችሁን እፈልጋለሁ። አመሠግናለሁAniten21 19:29, 11 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
Please we got to talk about this. Since the Amharic language has it's own rules of spelling a word, we have to decide which rules are useful for this site and which are not. ምሳሌ፡ ፀሐይ is the correct spelling but users write ጸሀይ as these letters appear on one hit. But the article can't be found using this name and the user miss that well bodied article. So here the Amharic spelling language affect our site negatively. Please I need your idea on this issue.Aniten21 15:30, 12 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I just took care of that one easily just by clicking the red link and making a redirect! 141.152.24.211 15:33, 12 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
I know you can do that but what I am saying redirecting is the solution but not permanent since users who contribute can't redirect every combination of that word or phrase. Is that the only solution we got?Aniten21 15:47, 12 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)

text: Well at least it is the easiest one!  And with the ይዛውር tab at the top of your page, you can also move any article to a more "correct" spelling at any time, and the redirect is automatically created! 141.152.24.211 15:49, 12 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
Well I need some clarifications but for now thank you Codex. Now tell me which time do you be online here because the knowledge I get now in two minutes is that one that I can't get it in even two days if I don't get you online. So tell me and thank youAniten21 15:58, 12 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)

text: Well I usually do get to check it around this time of day! And thank you! 141.152.24.211 16:00, 12 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
thank you and have a nice...Aniten21 16:01, 12 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)

text: This links to an interesting and helpful tool that I use from time to time, to help with finding all redlinks (in categorised articles only) for possible redirects from other spellings, after an article is created:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/missingtopics.php?language=am&project=wikipedia&depth=10&category=%E1%88%98%E1%8C%A3%E1%8C%A5%E1%8D%8E%E1%89%BD&article=&wikimode=0&limitnum=0¬emplatelinks=0&nosingles=1

text: ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 15:08, 27 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  To search articles in their english title name: 

message: በአብዛሀኛው ጊዜ የምጠቀምባቸው ኮምፒውተሮች Public ናቸው። ስለዚህ በየተጠቀምኩባቸው ኮምፒውተሮች ላይ የአማርኛውን ዊኪፒዲያ Home Page ማድረግ ያስደስተኛል። ምክንያቱም ይህን ካደረግኩ ሌሎች የኮምፒውተሩ ተጠቃሚዎች ስለገጹ ግንዛቤ እንዲኖራቸው ያደርጋል። ሌሎች እንደ'ኔ Public ኮምፒውተሮች የምትጠቀሙ ተመሳሳይ ነገሮችን ብታደርጉ መልካም ነው። በዚህ ላይ ብንወያይ የብዙ ተጠቃሚዎችን ቀልብ መሳብ እንችላለን። Aniten21 07:37, 20 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: :የኔ ሀሳብ በተለያዩ የአማርኛ የውይይት መድረኮች (forums) ላይ መልዕክት መተው ነው። ምን ይመስላቹዋል። Elfalem 03:04, 21 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
ከElfalem ጋር ተመሳሳይ ሀሳብ አለኝ ነገር ግን በተለያዩ የውይይት ፕሮግራሞች ላይ ስለ ገጹ ለማስተዋወቅ የማንችልበት ዋናው ችግር ለገጹ ተወካይ መሆናችንን የሚናገር መረጃ ስለሌለን የመድረክ ቦታ አይሰጠንም። በዚህም ስለገጹ መናገር አንችልም።Aniten21 05:26, 22 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: :የይፋ መረጃ ባይኖረንም፣ በግለሰብ መጠን ስለ ውክፔዲያ ጥቅም ማውራት እንችላለን። Elfalem 00:04, 23 ሜይ 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: እድገቱን እናፋጥነው

message: Greetings! First, I would like to express my gratitude for the large amount of activity I have observed over the past few days. I have seen an explosive growth regarding the rate at which new articles are being created. I just wanted to announce that I have drafted a guideline for the layout of an article at Wikipedia:የመጣጥፍ አቀማመጥ ልምድ. It consists of very basic conventions to follow when editing. Please add (or subtract) what you think is necessary. Thanks! Elfalem 03:45, 7 ጁን 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: የዕድገት ፍጥነቱ እኔንም አስደንቆኛል። በተለይም አዲስ የመጡት አባል ጥሩ መነቃቃትን ፈጥረዋል። ሌላው የልምድ መጣጥፉን ተመልክቼዋለሁ፤ መልካም ነው። ይህ በተለይ አዳዲስ ተጠቃሚዎችን ይረዳል። እንዲያውም በዋናው ገጽ ላይ ርዕሱ ቢካተት ጥሩ ይመስለኛል። እኛም የተቻለንን እንጨምርበታለን።--Aniten21 23:32, 13 ጁን 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  አዲስ የልምድ መጣጥፍ 

message: ባለፈው አመት 'Global sysops'  የሚባል ማዕረግ ትንንሽ ውክፔድያዎችን ለማስተዳደር በwikimedia meta ላይ ተፈጥሯል። የኛ ስፋት እስካሁን  ትንሽ ሆኖ ስለሚቆጠር፣ እነዚህ ዓለም አቀፍ መጋቢዎች በዚህ አንቀጾችን ለማጥፋት ምናምን ይችላሉ።  በዚህ ሁናቴ አማርኛ ሳያውቁ ሳያንቡ ስኅተት  ሊሠሩ ይቻላል። እዚህ አማርኛ ውክፔድያ ላይ ለመሀይም ሳይሶፕ ምንም አስፈላጊነት የለንም። ለማንኛውም ተጠቃሚ መጋቢ ለመሆን የሚችልበት ዘዴ ቀላል ነው።  በአማርኛ ውክፔድያ የሳይሶፕ ሥራ ለመሥራት የሚያስፈልገው የአማርኛ ችሎታ ነው።  ስለዚህ ወደ እስክንድርያ ሳንሄድ እባካችሁ ከዚህ ሥር ሳይሶፕ አማርኛን ማቻል  ግዴታ እንዲሆን ስምምነታችሁን አቅርቡ።  አመስግናልሁ፣ --ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 15:32, 16 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: እኔ እስማማለው። አይደለም መጋቢ ወይም ሳይሶፕ ለመሆን፣ ለማንኛውም አባል በጣም ጠቃሚ አስተዋጽኦችን ያለአማርኛ ማበርከት ያስቸግራል። Elfalem 23:33, 18 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: : እኔ የአለም አቀፍ መጋቢዎች መኖርን አልቃወምም ነገር ግን እኛው ለራሳች መሆን አንሰናል ወይ?
replies: text: :: ሜታ ዊኪ ለአለም አቀፍ መጋቢዎችን ስልጣን ለመስጠት ሁለት መመሪያዎችን ብቻ ነው ያስቀመጠው
# ከ 10 ያነሰ አስተዳዳሪ ያላቸው 
# ለሁለት ተከታታይ ወራት ከ 3 ያነሱ አስተዳዳሪዎች ብቻ ተሳትፎ ካደረጉ፤ 
በጣም ታማኝ የተባሉ የዊኮፒዲያ ተጠቃሚዎች በአለም አቀፍ መጋቢነት ስም ቁጥጥ ማድረግ ይጀምራሉ የሚል ይመስለኛል። </br>
ካልተሳሳትኩ የኛ ዊኪ ከ 5,895 በላይ የተመዘገብ ተጠቃሚዎች ይዟል ነገር ግን ላለፉት 30 ቀናት ከ 32 ያልበለጡ አባላት ብቻ እንቅስቃሴ አድርገዋል እናም 1 አስተዳዳሪና 5 መጋቢዎች አሉን። 
የኛ ዊኪ መስፈርቱ እንዳላሟላ በግልፅ እናውቃን። ነገር ግን መስፈርቱን ለማለፍ ምን እናድርግ ብለን ብንወያያ የተሻለ ይመስለኛል።
ነገር ግን እኔም ማየት የምፈልገው እራሳችን ችለን መንቀሳቀስ ስንጀምር ነው።  ምስጋናዬን ለጠንካሮቹ አባላት እያቀረብኩ እኔም የበኩሌን አስተዋፃኦ ለማድረግ ቃል ገብቻለሁ መልካም ጊዜ። </br> 
አመሰግናለሁ --Hinstein talk  12:17, 19 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)

text: ሰላሙ፣ 'አስተዳዳሪ' ስትል ለሁለት ልዩ ልዩ ደረጃዎች ትርጉም እንዳደረ ይመስላል። ከ10 ያነሰ አስተዳዳሪ ማለት ከ10 ያነሰ መጋቢ (ሳይሶፕ / አድሚን) ማለት ነው። 1 አስተዳዳሪና 5 መጋቢዎች አሉን ስትል ደግሞ አስተዳዳሪ ማለት 'ቢሮክራት' ሆነ። 
'ቢሮክራት' በእንግሊዝኛ አማርኛ እንዲህ ይመስላል!
'ቢሮክራት' የሚለው ቃል በእንግሊዝኛ ግን አንዳንዴ መጥፎ ሀሳብ ያለው ትርጉም ሊኖረው ይችላል (ስዕሉን እንደሚያሳይ!) ስለዚህ 'ቢሮክራት' መባል አልፈለኩም። 'መባቅር' የምለውን ቃል ከአራማይክ በብድር ወሰድኩ።  በገዳም የብራናዎች ክፍል እረኛ እንደ ማለት ነው። ከክብር ጋራ፣ ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 03:39, 20 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
===Global sysop - ተጨማሪ አስተያየት ያስፈልጋል===
በላይ ያሉት 2 አስተያየቶች ከ'Global sysop' ለማውጣት እንደማይበቃ በMeta ተብያለሁ።  እባካችሁ, በላይ ያለውን ሁሉ በደንብ አንብባችሁ ስምምነታችሁን እዚህ ስጡ።  እግዜር ይስጥልኝ፤ ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:00, 31 ኦክቶበር 2010 (UTC)

text: ይቅር - አሁን ለግዜው ከGlobal sysop' ወጣነ።  ወደፊት በዚያ እንዳንመልስ ተስፋዬ ነው! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:56, 31 ኦክቶበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: :እኛ እራሳችንን በብቃት ማስተዳደር ስለምንችል፣ ከGlobal sysop መውጣታችን ጥሩ ነው። ወደፊት እኛን የመሳሰሉት ውክፔዲያዎች እንዳይገቡ ግን የSmall Wiki Monitoring Team መመሪያ ቢኖራቸው ጥሩ ነው። Elfalem 04:20, 1 ኖቬምበር 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ከ'Global Sysop' እንወጣ ስምምነታችሁን ስጡ እባካችሁ! 

message: በላይ ያሉት 2 አስተያየቶች ከ'Global sysop' ለማውጣት እንደማይበቃ በMeta ተብያለሁ።  እባካችሁ, በላይ ያለውን ሁሉ በደንብ አንብባችሁ ስምምነታችሁን እዚህ ስጡ።  እግዜር ይስጥልኝ፤ ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:00, 31 ኦክቶበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ይቅር - አሁን ለግዜው ከGlobal sysop' ወጣነ።  ወደፊት በዚያ እንዳንመልስ ተስፋዬ ነው! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:56, 31 ኦክቶበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: :እኛ እራሳችንን በብቃት ማስተዳደር ስለምንችል፣ ከGlobal sysop መውጣታችን ጥሩ ነው። ወደፊት እኛን የመሳሰሉት ውክፔዲያዎች እንዳይገቡ ግን የSmall Wiki Monitoring Team መመሪያ ቢኖራቸው ጥሩ ነው። Elfalem 04:20, 1 ኖቬምበር 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Global sysop - ተጨማሪ አስተያየት ያስፈልጋል

message: If you go to my አባል ገጽ you will see my attempt at a new main page to coincide with the new wikipedia look. I would really appreciate if you guys give me ideas suggestion and criticisms. I am thinking making the main page more dynamic so we have information on new articles right upfront, and then having a separate page for learners which will be accessible from the top tabs, as well so that the main page does not look congested I am thinking moving all "selected articles", "wikipedia language" and "wikipedia sisters" into their own pages which will be accessible again via tabs. 
THANK YOU! Hgetnet 00:26, 23 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work!  With regard to the "wikipedia languages" section, I've been wondering if we shouldn't just scrap it, since it hasn't been much maintained for years, and is probably badly out of date, and we might not really need it.  The other wikis are constantly growing, but we could just link to the latest complete list at metawiki, that is regularly updated. Cheers, ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 02:35, 23 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: :Wow! You keep on amazing me, Hgetnet. First I would like to point out my favorite parts. I think the transparent globe logo with the welcome message and today's date is simply PERFECT. I also really like the big Lalibela picture although we might need to polish it to make it look smoother but that is not a big issue at all. The small box that says "ምርጥ ጽሁፎች" kind of looks out of place and it keeps moving around when you change tabs. Regarding the color combination, we will eventually have to settle with either the purple theme or the older green one because they don't nice together in my opinion. Overall, very nice job and let me know if you need help with anything. Elfalem 05:26, 23 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ::  ፈቃደ: since I did not know how to link to the latest language list I have left it as it is. If you can show me how, I can then link it up. Elfalem: as u suggested I have fixed the lalibela picture. I know it makes the page a little contrived but I felt if I left it out the page will look very cold and unresponsive. So i tried to make it feel a little unique by including the pic. The ምርጥ ጽሁፍ issue is now fixed. The color combo is still up for discussion. This is by no means the final product -- if u have suggestion or want to change it completely I am ok with it. I tried to leave enough comment in there so if u want to change it is easy to see what I was doing. .... I really think there is a lot more to be done..but this is as far as i can go before the august 25 deadline.

text: ::Thanks for the good wordsHgetnet 04:36, 24 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
Hgetnet, thank you for all that you have done. I'll try to improve the layout at the top since the Lalibela picture appears lower (and superimposes on the tab pages) because it is not able to fit it inline with the welcome message and the other links. Anyways, I think the most important issue regarding the upcoming skin change is concerning Amharic input. I have added code to the vector skin so that Ge'ez input is the default when you try to edit and 'Esc' can be used to toggle with the Latin alphabet. However, I was not able to get the message at the top that says "use 'Esc' to switch between...." to appear. Another problem is that Ge'ez input is not possible in the search box on the new skin which I believe is a significant issue. I'll try to work on these. Elfalem 05:12, 25 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)

text: : hi Elfalem My esc button does not work. Well it used to work when I as using firefox but it has stopped toggling after I switched to chrome. And no matter how much I try I was unable to beat the deadline because of the lay out issue I had with respect to  መለጠፊያ፡ዋናው ገጽ.  If I leave out the |}, somehow the code bleeds through out the rest of the code and mess up the lay out of everything else. I know there is something wrong with the መለጠፊያ፡ ዋናው ገጽ ...  I am tired of looking for it. If you have experience in these things I wish u could give it a once over.  Also in the Beta, I dont see any option to toggle between Amharic and English when posting. This may be due to the fact that I am using Chrome ? Hgetnet 05:20, 25 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)

text: : I realised my mistake. The |} issue is fixed.  The page is now ready for tomorrow. Hgetnet 05:33, 25 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: :: Great, the |} issue is fixed. Yes, there is no option that says to toggle in the beta version. But if you actually press esc, it should toggle. So the functionality is there but I just don't know how to write the message at the top. And no its not because you switched to chrome, it should work in any browser. I'll be somewhat busy the coming few weeks but I'll do my best to fix the various issues. Elfalem 03:22, 27 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)
Link meta's language-list, change tab to "ዋናው ገጽ", kill redundant header
1) Replace 'XXXXXXXXXXX' with 'Complete List of Languages' in Amharic
if (wgPageName == 'ዋናው_ገጽ' || wgPageName == 'ውይይት:ዋናው_ገጽ') 
    addOnloadHook(function () {
        addPortletLink('p-lang', 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias',
                 'XXXXXXXXXXX', 'interwiki-completelist', 'Complete list of Wikipedias')
        var nstab = document.getElementById('ca-nstab-main')
        if (nstab && wgUserLanguage=='am') {
            while (nstab.firstChild) nstab = nstab.firstChild
            nstab.nodeValue = 'ዋናው ገጽ'
        }
    }
)
2) Find this in Mediawiki:Common.js and replace with the above
function mainPageAppendCompleteListLink() {
    addPortletLink('p-lang', 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias',
                   'Complete list', 'interwiki-completelist', 'Complete list of Wikipedias')
}
 
if ((wgTitle == 'Main Page' && wgNamespaceNumber == 0) || (wgTitle == 'Wikipedia' && wgNamespaceNumber == 100)) {
    addOnloadHook(mainPageAppendCompleteListLink);
}
3)Copy code into Mediawiki:Common.css
#interwiki-completelist {
    font-weight: bold;
}
body.page-ዋናው_ገጽ h1.firstHeading {
  display: none;
 }
Seb az86556 Questions? Comments? 11:38, 28 ኦገስት 2010 (UTC)

text: :thank you very much Seb.
thread_title:  Hallo Codex (ፈቃደ), Elfalem & Bulgew1 

message: Hello Wikimedians,
As many of you are aware, we are now two months away from the Fundraiser for the Wikimedia Foundation, 2010.  We have lofty goals, and we can meet them and exceed them!
The meta translators are already actively engaged in the annual drive to distribute our messages and we encourage you to do the same, but we would like to point everyone to the developments we've made in banner messages- from creation to commentary to the ones that will go live for test and for the drive itself in November.  It's one of our goals to make sure that all volunteers know that there is a place for them in the Fundraising drive.  We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together that would like to find specific focus and work in that area.
This year the Wikimedia Foundation is taking a proactive stance in reaching out to each and every Wikimedia project and volunteer to find innovation, collaboration, and collation of ideas from the community driven process.  The staff working on this is comprised of long-time Wikimedians with as much care and concern for the success of this drive as the volunteers, and we want you to actively participate and have a voice.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us.  Engagement is what we strive for, without each other we would never had made Wikimedia succeed.  Everyone is welcome to contact any of us on staff at any time with a timely response to follow.  We actively encourage focusing discussion on meta so we can all work together. 
Please translate this message into your language if you can and post it below.
See you on the wiki! --Keegan, Wikimedia Fundraiser 2010 04:51, 6 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: : (ትርጉም)  የ2010 ውክሚዲያ ምስረታ መዋጮ በ2 ወር ጊዜ ይመጣል። በዚህ ጊዜ ጥሩ እቅድ ሲኖረን ያንን እቅድ ለማሟላትና ከዚያም የበለጠ ለማድረግ አስበናል።
replies: text: :የሜታ ተርጓሚወች በየአመቱ የሚካሄደውን ይህን የመዋጮ በዓል በመልዕክት ማስተላለፍ እያገዙን ሲሆን በዓሉን በማስመልከት ያዘጋጀነውን ሰንደቅ አላማ ሁሉም እንዲያውቀው እንፈልጋለን። ለዚህ አላማ ለመሰለፍ ለሚፈልጉ ሁሉ ቦታ እንዳለ እናስታውቃለን።  ለፈቃደኞች እነዚህ ቦታወች ላይ ክፍት የስራ ቦታ ያገኛሉ meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together ።
thread_title: ፉንድራኢሲንግ 2010

message: I want to move the መግቢያ ሓተታ section to the ለጀማሪወች tab because most of the information is useful only to newcomers. Then, to make the first page dynamic, I want to move the የዕለቱ ታሪክ in place of መግቢያ ሓተታ. What do you say? Hgetnet 01:38, 7 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I say 'go for it!' In fact, I hardly even know how those tabs work, but you definitely seem to know what you're doing with them, since you set them up that way yourself!  And overall, the front page is starting to look great -- the only thing right now is, on my computer, I can only see the left parts of the 'selected pictures' - but maybe that's just my computer...!  Cheers, ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 02:36, 7 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: : Thanks so much Codex. May be the right side pictures need a bypass refresh. Can you try  ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 or Shift+Refresh or  any other combination of keys so that you can bypass the local cache?  Also the tabs are implemented using the Metacaixa መለጠፊያ. Sorry it is in Spanish but so long as you provide Tab Title, Tab Icon and Tab Body (here u can use plain letters or መለጠፊያ ), it will faithfully  translate it into a tab. If you need any further information I will be glad to submit them.  Please let me know if the bypass refresh worked ... Hgetnet 03:16, 7 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ::That's Spanish? I thought it was Portuguese!  The problem for me isn't caches, it seems to be a 'screen width' thing.  On my browser, I can see the two pics on the Front page, but only a strip along the leftmost half-inch or so of each pic.   I don't know if anyone else is having his problem.  It looks like your screen must be set to a much wider width than mine.  ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 12:04, 7 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ::: It is actually Catalan which is spoken in Spain and surrounding areas. I can be very imprecise, sorry. The picture problem is stumping me because I tested it using 3 browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and IE8). I am using a laptop which is 15".   Do you still not see the pictures when you zoom out in your browser? I can reduce the size of pictures if you can see them when you zoom out. Please let me know. It would be useless effort if nobody sees the pictures. Also,  can you see the picture of the day in Commons? Hgetnet 12:30, 7 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::I just tested it in 3 browsers too, and got very different results with each one.  Normally I use Firefox.  With Opera, I can see the whole pictures, but there are other screen-width issues. On both Firefox and Opera, the last tab on the tab box is broken in half so that the word በየቋንቋው comes out underneath ዋናው ገጽ... With Explorer, The tabs all come out on the same row, but the pics are only strips as on Firefox.  This may be because I have such an old, unsupported Windows (ME) on my old computer, that I have to use old versions of these browsers, ie Firefox  2 and IE 6.  So since most people can afford a newer computer than I have, it won't affect them.  ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 12:43, 7 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::: I have gotten rid of the last Tab - I have put the content of that tab together with the 4th tab. The IE browser has issues with respect to the pictures and I really dislike how the fonts appear in IE. Anyhow, since I fixed the tab issue, I am hoping everything works fine for you - tabs and pictures in Opera. If you still want the pictures to work in firefox, since I dont know your screen size and the issues I will give you the template pages so you can experiment with them. You can set the size appropriate to you by editing the template for today. The Tempate address is:for commons     and  for the Ethiopian
thread_title:  hi Codex (ፈቃደ) 

message: ዛሬ ስለ ኢትዮጵያ ሁከት በእንግሊዝኛ ውክፔድያ ፈላ። ስለዚህ ከዚያ ውክፔድያ `boycott' እያደረግሁ ነው።  አንድ «DBachmann» የተባለ አዛጋጅ አድሚን ሲሆን በጣም ብዙ ተጠቃሚዎች ስለ ዘረኛነቱ ቅሬታ አላቸው። ይህም ለብዙ አመታት ተቀጥሏል።  የኢትዮጵያ ስም መነሻ ከግሪክ 'የተቃጠለው መልክ' ወጣ የሚለው ሃልዮ በ1843 ዓ.ም. ብቻ ተፈጠረ። ከዚያ አመት አስቀድሞ ይህ ሃሣብ መቸም አልተገኝም። በመጽሐፈ አክሱም ግን ሌላ አስተሳሰብ አለ።  ይህን መረጃ ውሸት ነው ብሎ ሰውዬው «የማያደላ አስተያየት» ከመጣጥፉ አጠፋ። እንዳይመለስ ዛቻ አቀረበብኝ። መጣጥፉ :en:Ethiopia ላይ ይገኛል። ስለዚህ ይህ ሽማግሌ በእንግሊዝኛ ውክፔድያ እየኖረ ወደዚያ አልመልስም ብያለሁ።  ይህ ሁሉ በጣም ያሳዝነኛልና ያስቀይመኛል! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 14:54, 8 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry that such a dispute had to occur. However, I don't I fully understand the issue because it seems to me that the Book of Aksum view is still in the article. Anyways, besides minor edits I have largely ignored the English Wikipedia. I think our efforts are a thousand times more valuable here for many reasons. Elfalem 17:01, 8 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)

text: It's that previously, the article was NPOV as it mentioned everything about all the significant POVs, including the Book of Aksum's, Ato Tsegaye's, and Liddell's, including the fact that nobody has been found suggesting that Greek etymology before Liddell.  The classical view was Pliny's view that it was nmed for a person.  But I was also very rudely treated on several talkpages, threatened with sanction, and told that Liddell is correct (which the article now has been forced to say) as well as that the other views are fringe theories and folk etymologies.  If anything is a folk etymology, it's Liddell if you ask me.  Never mind their insistence that the Bible is "mythology" because everyone who disagrees is a "fringe theorist" and should be blocked.  I guess that would include scholars of all the major religious bodies in Ethiopia as "fringe theorists". ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 17:55, 8 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:   የእንግሊዝኛ ውክፔድያ ችግር 

message: Greetings, please translate this message if you can.
Fundraising 2010 is preparing to start, and we want your project to be a part of the global movement to support free knowledge.  The Wikimedia Foundation is engaging with local communities that build the projects to play an active part in this year's fundraiser.  This year we will be working to best serve all the language communities by providing messages that are best suited for each location.
To do this, we need your help.  We are testing messages and we want to be sure that our messages will work with your language.  If it does not and your community can come up with your own banner in the spirit of supporting free knowledge, we invite you to submit your proposals and be active in this process.  Wikimedia is for you, join us in supporting free knowledge in your local community!  Keegan, Wikimedia Fundraiser 2010 04:29, 15 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Fundraising and your wiki

message: ማስታወቂያ፦  
ማንኛውም የብር መዋጮ ለውክፔድያ ድርጅት ከሰጡ፣ አንዳችም ሳንቲም አማርኛ ለሚያውቅ ሰው አይሄድም!  ነገር ግን መዋጮዎ በሙሉ በሳን ፍራንሲስኮ ላሉ «ባለ ሥልጣኖች» ለተቆጠሩ፣ ምንም አማርኛ ለማይችሉ ሰዎች ደሞዝ ይሔዳል!
የአማርኛ ዕውቀት ያላቸውን ትጉህ አዛጋጆች በድህነታችን ለመርዳት ያሠቡት እንደ ሆነ፣ የተሻለው ዘዴ በግል መኖርያ ገጻችን ሔደው የግል ኤ-መልዕክት በመላክዎ ነው። ለምሳሌ የራሴ ምጣኔ ሀብት እጅግ አስከፊ ስለ ሆነ፣ ሥራዬም ሁሉ በፈቃደኛነት ብቻ ስለምሠራ፣ እኔን ብር ለመስጠት ወደኔ መኖርያ ገጽ ቢሄዱ 'ለዚህ/ች ሰው ኢሜል መላክ' የሚል መያያዣ በስተግራ ያገኛሉ። ወይም እንዲሁም ለማንኛውም ሌላ አዛጋጅ የግል መልዕክት መላክ ይቻላል። ('ለዚህ/ች ሰው ኢሜል መላክ' እንዲታይ፣ አስቀድሞ በ'ምርጫዎች' ክፍል አጭር የአድራሻ ማረጋገጫ ሂደት አስፈላጊ ነው።) 
አመስግናችኋለሁ፣ ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 12:32, 20 ሰፕቴምበር 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  መዋጮ ስለ መስጠት - ማስታወቂያ፦ 

message: ጊዜያችንን አጥፍተን የምናቀርበውን ጽሁፍ ማጥፋት ምን የሚሉት ስራ ነው?  እጅግ አስጸያፊና ከአንድ  ሰው የማይጠበቅ ስራ ነው። እንዲህ የሚሰሩትን ሰወች ከማገድ ወደ ኋላ አልልም።
thread_title:  ለምን? 

message: ሰላም ለሁሉም፡
ለማስታወስ ያክል፦ የቀረቡትን ተረትና ምሳሌወች በመተርጎም ብቻ የውክፒዲያውን ይዘት ወደ 10፣000 ማስጠጋት እንችላለን። ተረትና ምሳሌ የምታውቁ በትርጉም ብትረዱ?
Hgetnet 20:55, 1 ኦክቶበር 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ውክፔዲያን ለማሳደግ

message: Please translate this message.
The Fundraising Committee is issuing all interested community members a challenge: we want you to beat Jimmy. The appeal from Jimmy Wales and the corresponding banner have been tested head-to-head with other successful banners, and the results are clear: it's our best performing message... by a lot. This year we have a lofty fundraising goal; we need all of our banners to bring in donations like the Jimmy Appeal, but no one wants to keep the Jimmy banner up for two months.  We want to run donor quotes, and other wonderful ideas, but we have to have banners that work as well as or better than the Jimmy appeal.
We've just released the highlights from a donor focus group, and the results of our donor survey. With one month to the launch of the fundraiser, the messages we test must be driven by data from our tests and surveys - we can no longer rely on instinct alone. 
We've redesigned our fundraising meta pages with the Jimmy challenge; check out the survey results and propose/discuss banners that reflect these findings.  Add the banners you think will 'beat Jimmy' here to be tested Tuesday October 12 against Jimmy. Keegan, Wikimedia Fundraiser 2010 02:10, 8 ኦክቶበር 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Beat Jimmy

message: ይህ 'Empire' የሚለው ቃል በአማርኛ አንድ የጠበቀ ትርጉም ያለው አይመስለኝም። "መንግሥት" የሚለው ቃል እየተጠቀምነው ቢሆንም፣ እንደምታቁት ይህ ቃል ማንኛውም ዓይነት 'government' መተርጎሚያ መሆን ይችላል። እኔ መጽሐፍ ውስጥ ያየሁት "ግዛተ አፄ" ነው። ለምሳሌ "የሮማ ግዛተ ዓፄ" (Roman Empire) ምን ይመስላችኋል? Elfalem 06:44, 20 ኖቬምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ወይም ደግሞ "አፄ መንግሥት" (Roman Empire -> የሮማ ዓፄ መንግሥት) Elfalem 06:53, 20 ኖቬምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: :'Empire'  የእንግሊዝኛ ጽንሰ ሀሳብ ነው፤ መነሻውም ከሮማይስጥ ማዕረግ (imperator - አፄ) ቢሆንም፣ በዘመናዊ እንግሊዝኛ ግን የ'Empire' ትርጉም ደግሞ «በድርብ ግዛቶች ላይ ያለው አንድ ሰፊ መንግሥት» ነው።  ለምሳሌ አካድ በመጀመርያው ከተማ-አገር ብቻ ነበር። የአካድ ንጉሥ በግዜ ላይ ሌሎች ሕዝቦችና ሀገሮችን ወደ ግዛቱ ከጨመረ በኋላ፣ 'Akkadian Empire' ሊባል ይችላል። ለዚያው ማለት በአማርኛ 'የአካድ መንግሥት' በቂ እንደሆነ ይመስለኛል... አንዳንዴ በእንግሊዝኛ አባባል ደግሞ 'Empire' አጼ ለሌለበት (ሬፐሊክ) ሰፊ መንግሥት ሊመልከት ይቻላል - 'Soviet Empire' ወይም 'American Empire'... በሮሜ ታሪክ ከአውግስጦስ ቄሣር አስቀድሞ መንግሥታቸው ሬፐብሊክ ነበር፤ ከአውግስጦስ ጀምሮ ግን «ግዛተ አጼ» ማለት ትክክለኛ ይመስለኛል። በአማርኛ ታሪክ መጻሕፍት የተለመደው አጠቃቀሙ እንዴት ነው? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 13:24, 20 ኖቬምበር 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ::እኔ ብዙ መጻሕፍት ውስጥ አላየሁም ግን "የኢትዮጵያ ረጅም ታሪክ" የሚለው ውስጥ (ከGood Amharic books) "የዓፄ መንግሥት" የሚለው በጥቅም ላይ ውሏል።  Elfalem 21:38, 20 ኖቬምበር 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empire 

message: I propose that the namespace "Wikipedia:" be changed to "ውክፔዲያ:". This will change the prefix Wikipedia so that, for example, instead of "Wikipedia:የማያደላ አስተያየት" it will say "ውክፔዲያ:የማያደላ አስተያየት". I also propose a portal namespace to be created. I'm suggesting that it be called "በር፡", but if you prefer something else, add your suggestions. I'm requesting a vote here because community agreement is necessary to change these things. Elfalem 22:12, 22 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
==="Wikipedia" vote===
change to ውክፔዲያ  
* Elfalem  
*Hgetnet 11:14, 23 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 01:57, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*--Bulgew1 08:50, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*አንዋር 14:54, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
* Mezez 16:17, 28 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
DON'T change to ውክፔዲያ
===Portal namespace vote===
create new Portal namespace (Portal, wtih በር as alias)
* Elfalem
*Hgetnet 11:14, 23 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 01:57, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
* --Bulgew1 08:49, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*አንዋር 14:54, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*Mezez 16:17, 28 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
DON'T create Portal namespace
thread_title:  Vote regarding namespaces - Wikipedia and portal 

message: change to ውክፔዲያ  
* Elfalem  
*Hgetnet 11:14, 23 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 01:57, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*--Bulgew1 08:50, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*አንዋር 14:54, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
* Mezez 16:17, 28 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
DON'T change to ውክፔዲያ
thread_title: "Wikipedia" vote

message: create new Portal namespace (Portal, wtih በር as alias)
* Elfalem
*Hgetnet 11:14, 23 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 01:57, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
* --Bulgew1 08:49, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*አንዋር 14:54, 27 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
*Mezez 16:17, 28 ኤይፕርል 2011 (UTC)
DON'T create Portal namespace
thread_title: Portal namespace vote

message: Folks, we now have Portal (በር:) namespace open for use.  The Wikipedia namespace has also been changed to ውክፔዲያ.  Unfortunately the last change has caused a few unexpected side effects but we hope to have those updated to the new name soon. In the meantime, enjoy the new namespace! Cheers, ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 23:23, 14 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried to convert all the Wikipedia namespace links that I found, there are probably more. On the other hand, the new portal namespace is በር፡ and not በር so a page would look like በር::pagetitle. I've asked for this to be fixed which should happen soon. Elfalem 00:17, 15 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: : Thanks. Great job. Let's see what advantage portal has over templateስ.Hgetnet 00:51, 15 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: :: Actually, at this time it appears the prefix is በር፡ (with a serez) and not በር: (with a colon).  So as far as the software can tell all of the pages starting with በር:: are still articles counted in article space!  For them to be treated as portals as it is now, they would have to be moved to (በር፡:ምናምን)... !  And the titles would still need to be changed again when the prefix correctly becomes በር...  I would advise, to minimize future untangling, we don't do more than a few for now, until everything is straightened out! Cheers, ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 06:51, 15 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: :::OK now the namespace በር is correct, but that has had the unforseen consequence of making it difficult to access all of the previous titles having two colons -- I hope they can be rescued and moved to the proper locations. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 12:51, 15 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)

text: :::Grrr!  I hate these stupid software bugs! A tiny seemingly insignificant detail of punctuation causes one problem, that leads to another and another, and gets worse with each fix, until everything is hopelessly tangled up!

text: :::At present ALL of the pages beginning with በር:: are inaccessible.  They cannot be deleted, moved, or viewed.  The only way to see what they would have looked like, is by clicking on the creation history, but you still can't get to the source code from there to copy them.  We may be able to reconstruct them in the right place, but I do hope these inaccessible pages don't become permanent edifices that occupy space, cannot be deleted, and must be worked around. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 13:13, 15 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::Also the language list is not showing up on the left side, it may have something to do with the Wikipedia namespace change? Hgetnet 13:31, 15 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)

text: :::: Now it is working. Thanks very much for the great work Codex. Really appreciated. Hgetnet 14:05, 15 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)

text: I was able to access the full source code of the inaccessible pages through my RSS feed. I have reconstructed them in the correct portal namespace. As to the inaccessible pages themselves, I don't think we can do anything about them since they are in a namespace that no longer exists. Elfalem 19:11, 15 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
Those inaccessible pages do seem to be causing another problem:  None of the 'special pages' has updated since May 16. Normally, most of them were updated every 3 days at the latest.  If you look at the 'shortest pages' list, there is now a blank space in numbers 2 and 3, that seems to represent some of these malformed portals, the ones with two semi-colons.  I would guess this bug has something to do with keeping the software from re-loading the page.  This is way beyond my understanding or ability to fix, and I think a developer should be contacted.  The special pages lists are crucial for finding pages and categories that need to be fixed. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 11:33, 21 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
This latest problem seems to have begun when the portal namespace was corrected from በር፡ to በር ... The software then automatically considered all the existing pages starting with በር:: (note double semicolon) to be malformed pages in that namespace.  ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 11:47, 21 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)

text: Do you know the best place to raise this issue? Should I re-open the bug on which we requested the namespace? Elfalem 05:57, 22 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: :Well, the Special pages lists finally updated today, after 6 days, so maybe the inaccessible pages weren't responsible for the delay after all... ? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 11:55, 22 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  We have Portal...! 

message: right|450px
Dear Friends,
We have initiated a writing competition about Ethiopian Culture and Beta Israeli Heritage. It is partially sponsored by the Israeli chapter of Wikimedia Foundation and was welcomed by the Ethiopian ambassador to Israel, as well as other notable persons and organizations.
We currently accept articles submitted in Hebrew, English or French. Of course we'd be happy to expand the competition to articles submitted in Amharic or Tigrigna, but only one of our judges masters the written language well enough to appreciate the quality of the submitted articles.
We'd be most grateful if you could help us spread the word about the competition. Open a relevant project page at the Amharic Wikipedia and, if possible, print out the flier of the competition. Your feedback and comments are also most welcome of course.
Thanks, תחרות ביתא ישראל 07:15, 22 ሜይ 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing Competition about Ethiopian Culture and Beta Israeli Heritage 

message: The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.
Further details and educational materials will be available shortly.  The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party.  Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.
Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.
For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker</br>
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris
thread_title:  Call for image filter referendum 

message: በዋናው ገፅ ላይ ያለው የቀን መለወጫ ሁሌ ትክክል አይሆንም። በሌላ በትክክለኛ ለመቀየር ኮድ እየሞከርኩኝ ነው። በአሁኑ ጊዜ ግን በእጅ ለውጬዋለው። Elfalem 04:26, 11 ሰፕቴምበር 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much Elfalem.   መልካም አዲስ አመት Hgetnet 04:35, 11 ሰፕቴምበር 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ስለ ቀን አቆጣጠር 

message: The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team. 
This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.
As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net.
Thanks, Gmeijssen 10:24, 14 ኦክቶበር 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Gerard:

text: I would like to get involved in your project, specially if it is working towards font support. I sometimes open the Amharic wikipedia in a library with a firefox browser and all I see is boxes and other gibberish.  Is your team working towards solving this problem? If so, I'd like to be a member of your team.  Hgetnet 10:48, 14 ኦክቶበር 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Language support group for Amharic

message: I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.
 
Hello,
 
The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use.  The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at :m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 22:05, 21 ኦክቶበር 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terms of Use update 

message: Hello Wikipedians, my name is Alex and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2011 Fundraiser. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that messages which may  perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences. 
I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for volunteers who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into your local language, suggesting community appeals for us to use,  and to provide us with feedback on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both translation, statistical analysis, and local discussion and testing. We actively encourage focusing discussion on meta so we can all work together. Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us.  Engagement is what we strive for, without each other we would never had made Wikimedia succeed. The staff working on this fundraiser is comprised of long-time Wikimedians with as much care and concern for the success of this drive as the volunteers, and we want you to actively participate and have a voice. Everyone is welcome to contact any of us on staff at any time with a timely response to follow.  I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser.
If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.Azariv 19:20, 31 ኦክቶበር 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 2011 Fundraising Is Almost Here

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*Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
*Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
*Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.
Thanks!
--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships,
Wikimedia Foundation 12:45, 21 ዲሴምበር 2011 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants 

message: Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis.  As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org.  For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.
The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:
* Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
* New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
* The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
* Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
* Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
* Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
* The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
* More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
* Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
* Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
* Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.
Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.
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thread_title:  Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta 

message: Please see. Thanks, Nemo bis 22:07, 1 ፌብሩዌሪ 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[መልዕክት ውይይት:Common.css]] 

message: On the next couple of days we will be kicking off our Regional Fundraising Tests, targeting the countries that we took down for 10 days during our Annual Fundraiser last year. Our main goal is to provide an improved donor experience in each of these countries while decreasing the number of fundraising days.
The campaigns will be grouped by region (e.g. Africa, Asia, Middle East) for better efficiency as we work on localizing currencies, ask strings and local appeals.
Our first test will be on a few Portuguese and English speaking countries in Africa (specifically MZ, AO, CV, GW, ST, BW, NA, ZW), and it will last from 02/07 up to 02/14 (only 7 days!!). This test has the goal to compare the Jimmy appeal vs a local appeal as well as compare high vs low ask strings.
Pats Pena
thread_title:  Announcement: Regional Fundraising Tests Starting Soon! 

message: (Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.
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thread_title:  

message: (Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the full version of this announcement on Meta) 
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.
What this means for your project:
*At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)
*In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6. 
*We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.
Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.
--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 00:40, 2 ጁን 2012 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Update on IPv6 

message: •  •  
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!
Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.
About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.
From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.  
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. 
We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.
See you on Commons!
--Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:01, 5 ጁን 2012 (UTC)
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thread_title:  2011 Picture of the Year competition 

message: (Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)
Hi,
As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.
Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.
--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 19:50, 19 ጁላይ 2012 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year 

message: The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.
* Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.  There are 125 full Credo 350 accounts available, with access even to 100 more references works than in Credo's original donation.  All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits.  Sign up here.
* HighBeam Research has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications including newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias.  Thousands of new articles are added daily, and archives date back over 25 years covering a wide range of subjects and industries.  There are 250 full access 1-year accounts available.  All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits.  Sign up here.
* Questia  is an online research library for books and journal articles focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Questia has curated titles from over 300 trusted publishers including 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as encyclopedia entries.  There will soon be 1000 full access 1-year accounts available.  All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits.  Sign up here.
You might also be interested in the idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors.  Add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal.  Apologies for the English message (translate here).  Go sign up :)  --Ocaasi (talk) 02:10, 16 ኦገስት 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  More opportunities for you to access free research databases 

message: I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.
The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion. 
If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at :m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)
 
Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)01:45, 6 ሰፕቴምበር 2012 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program 

message: (Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) 
As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.
The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:
# language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
# infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
# lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)
It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta. 
For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.
--Lydia Pintscher 13:05, 10 ሰፕቴምበር 2012 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out 

message: Hello! This wiki will be switched to the up to date Wikipedia logo in about a week. You can see it on commons:Wikipedia/2.0; please comment on talk if there's something wrong with it.
Thank you, Global message delivery (feedback) 21:35, 22 ሰፕቴምበር 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[commons:Wikipedia/2.0|Wikipedia 2.0 logo]] 

message: The Narayam extension allows for inputting Amharic text into Wikipedia like the Javascript code we are currently using. It has much better support and works in all text fields (edit, search, summary, etc...). I have been improving the mapping so that it functions just like the system we use right now, except you press "ctrl-M" instead of "Esc" to turn it on/off. The extension is installed at translatewiki. Please test it by changing your language to Amharic and editing pages. Please provide your suggestions so that it can be improved and we can use it here on Wikipedia. Elfalem (talk) 23:10, 23 ሰፕቴምበር 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I went to translatewiki, but did not notice anything different on my browser... ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 21:39, 27 ሰፕቴምበር 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: :If you login to translatewiki, when you set your language to Amharic at the top, the input method will show up. You can press ctrl+M to activate it which changes the background color of edit boxes to blue. Elfalem (talk) 04:06, 30 ሰፕቴምበር 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: :: Hi Elfalem:
I use chrome web browser and the "esc" method never works for me here. So it was nice to see Ctrl-M working there at translatewiki. Also, like you said, the search boxes and other editing options sometimes never switch to Amharic on this website. It would be nice if you can fix it the same way you did it there. Nice work. Hgetnet (talk) 11:10, 30 ሰፕቴምበር 2012 (UTC)

text: Yes, Hgetnet, it would be nice to finally fix all those problems. If there are no objections, I'm going to request that the Narayam extension be enabled on the Amharic Wikipedia. Elfalem (talk) 07:45, 7 ኦክቶበር 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: :I have filed a bug at Bugzilla Elfalem (talk) 20:46, 27 ኦክቶበር 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: ::So the Narayam extension has now been enabled not only on Wikipedia, but also the Amharic Wiktionary and Wikiquote. Elfalem (talk) 18:33, 30 ኦክቶበር 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  በውክፔዲያ ላይ ስለ አማርኛ መጻፊያው (Amharic Keyboard Input Method) 

message: (Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)
All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code.  This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the upgrade schedule & code details).
Please watch for problems with:
* revision diffs
* templates
* CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
* bots
* PDF export
* images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
* the CologneBlue skin
If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site.  You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.
Thanks!  With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.
Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 02:40, 16 ኦክቶበር 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.
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thread_title:  Upcoming software changes - please report any problems 

message: Please translate for your local community
Hello All,
The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile. 
The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)
By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :)
If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!
Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
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thread_title:  Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed 

message: Hello, I have created a proposal to close am.wikiquote on Meta: m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Amharic Wikiquote 2.  Please translate this message.  Note that the content of this wiki will not be deleted if it is closed, and will be stored in the Wikimedia Incubator.  You will still be able to edit it, but you will need to show the wiki is ready in order to get it re-opened on am.wikiquote.  Thank you, PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:37, 21 ኖቬምበር 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for closing project am.wikiquote 

message: Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. 
I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile. 
The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**
By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!
Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
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thread_title:  Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer! 

message: (Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.
If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.
Thank you for your help and your understanding.
Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:00, 19 ጃንዩዌሪ 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected. 

message: I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.
*Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
*Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
*Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?
Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.
Thanks!  --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:05, 30 ጃንዩዌሪ 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab 

message: http://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%8D%E1%8A%AD%E1%8D%94%E1%8B%B2%E1%8B%AB:Welcome,_newcomers! ያለው ማውጫ መሥመር ውስጥ ፘ  ከ​ፙ በስሕተት ቀድሟል። I think the source of your error is most likely the Ethiopic Unicode chart glyph. See the proper order at http://www.ethiopic.com/ethiopic_alphabet.htm or at ኣበራ ሞላ
thread_title:  Amharic Sorting Order 

message: Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally.
Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.
=== What is Wikidata? ===
Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.
=== What is going to happen? ===
Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.
=== Where can I find more information and ask questions? ===
Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
=== I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata ===
To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editions here.
--Lydia Pintscher 16:00, 21 ፌብሩዌሪ 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Wikidata phase 1 (language links) coming to this Wikipedia 

message: Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.
thread_title:  What is Wikidata? 

message: Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.
thread_title:  What is going to happen? 

message: Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
thread_title:  Where can I find more information and ask questions? 

message: To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editions here.
--Lydia Pintscher 16:00, 21 ፌብሩዌሪ 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata 

message: Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on :de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
As I annonced 2 weeks ago, Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.
Where can I find more information and ask questions?
Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata
To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
--Lydia Pintscher 22:50, 6 ማርች 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Wikidata phase 1 (language links) live on this Wikipedia 

message: (Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)
Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.
If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.
If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.
Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 18:32, 13 ማርች 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
thread_title:  Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful 

message: Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on :de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8. If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will update this part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.
What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here?
Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)
How will this work?
There are two ways to access the data:
* Use a parser function like {{#property:p169}} in the wiki text of the article on Yahoo!. This will return “Marissa Mayer” as she is the chief executive officer of the company.
* For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.
We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this is here.
Where can I test this?
You can already test it on test2.
Where can I find more information and ask questions?
We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata
To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
--Lydia Pintscher 16:45, 5 ኤይፕርል 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) coming to this Wikipedia 

message: (Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating the proposal.)
Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。
Hello!
There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.
We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.
All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.
Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 04:16, 24 ኤይፕርል 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  [[m:Requests for comment/Activity levels of advanced administrative rights holders|Request for comment on inactive administrators]] 

message: Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on :de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago and two days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.
What does having phase 2 enabled here mean?
You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.
How will this work?
There are two ways to access the data:
* Use a parser function like {{#property:p159}} in the wiki text of the article on Wikimedia Foundation. This will return “San Francisco” as that is the headquarter location of the non-profit.
* For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.
We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this is here.
Where can I test this?
You can test it on test2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.
Where can I find more information and ask questions?
We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata
To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together.
--Lydia Pintscher 19:00, 24 ኤይፕርል 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) is here 

message: Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.
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thread_title:  [en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming 

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

message: Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.
;Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)
* The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22.  
* A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. 
* MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. 
* VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. 
* A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. 
* New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794.  
* The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates.  
* The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). 
;Future software changes:
* The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. 
* An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. 
* The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. 
* A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. .
* The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. 
Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe • 20:11, 20 ሜይ 2013 (UTC)
Important note: This is the first edition of the Tech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.
If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can  subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.
You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 20:11, 20 ሜይ 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Trademark discussion 

message: On June 11, 2013 on, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will replace the features of Mediawiki extensions Narayam and WebFonts. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings).
Please read the annoucement on Meta-Wiki if you require more information. Siebrand (talk) 12:24, 5 ጁን 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts 

message: The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls.  I want to alert you to our latest donation.
*Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
*Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to medical editors.  Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
*If you are active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)
Cheers, Ocaasi 20:55, 16 ጁን 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free Research Accounts from Leading Medical Publisher.  Come and Sign up! 

message: My apologies for the incorrect link:  You can sign up for Cochrane Collaboration accounts at the COCHRANE sign-up page. Cheers, Ocaasi 21:30, 16 ጁን 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link) 

message: (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 04:05, 23 ጁን 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  [[:m:Requests_for_comment/X!'s_Edit_Counter|X!'s Edit Counter]] 

message: 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). 12:50, 23 ጁላይ 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pywikipedia is migrating to git 

message: (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) 18:55, 30 ጁላይ 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  VisualEditor and your Wikipedia 

message: Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.
If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org.
Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 18:40, 20 ኦገስት 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
thread_title:  HTTPS for users with an account 

message: 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). 01:56, 24 ሰፕቴምበር 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
== ትርጉም ስለመስጥት ==I don't know I need answer from you
ከእንግሊዝኛ ለሚተረጎሙ ሃሳቦች ወይም ቃላት ሁልጊዜ ያማርኛ ቃል ማግኘት ያስቸግራል።
ለምሳሌ (ኢንተሊጀንስ)(ኖውሌጅ) ሁለቱም እውቀት ተብለው ነው ሚተረጎሙት። ግን ልዩነት አላቸው። በዚህ ላይ ሃሳብ ያለው አለ?
ለኢንፍ፭፯፹Leinf5780 (talk) 11:18, 30 ሰፕቴምበር 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: ሰላምታ.. :en:Artificial intelligence በwikimedia «ለሁሉ ቋንቋ ዊኪዎች አንድ ሺህ አስፈላጊ አንቀጾች» ዝርዝር ላይ ይገኛል። ወደዚህ ግብ ለመድረስ ባለፈው ጁን ወር ይህ አንቀጽ ለአማርኛ ዊኪፔድያ እንዲጠቅም ለአጭር ዝርዝር (10 አንቀጾች) ተመረጠ። በሚቀጥለው ወር ጁላይ ግን ወደ ተለመደው አጭር ዝርዝር ተመለሰ። (ይህ በአጋጣሚ አጭሩ ዝርዝር በArtificial intelligence ስለሚመረጥ ይሆናል!) በዚያን ወር (ጁን) አንቀጹን እዚህ ለማስተርጉም «ሰው ሠራሽ አዕምሮ» ብዬ ጻፍኩት... ()  ፈጠራው እራሱ በተለይ አዕምሮን ለማስመስል ይመስላልና... የ«ኢንተሊጀንስ» ቃል አወራረስ ታሪክ ደግሞ በ:wikt:intelligence ላይ ጽፌያለሁ... ፈጠራው በእውኑ ኢንተሊጀንስ ወይም ዕውቀት አይመስለኝም... እኔ ግን ስለዚሁ ፈጠራ ሁሉን አላውቅም! ምን ይሻላል?! 71.246.149.160 14:41, 30 ሰፕቴምበር 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:m:Community Logo/Request for consultation|Request for consultation on community logo]] 

message: (This message is in English, please translate as needed)
Greetings!  
Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects. 
We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.  
There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:
*Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
*Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
*Notifications help on mediawiki.org.  This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia.  You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.
replies: text: *Checklist
Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:06, 4 ኦክቶበር 2013 (UTC)

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thread_title:  [[mw:Echo|Notifications]] 

message: 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 19:36, 8 ኦክቶበር 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo. 

message: Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new admin activity review here.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
#Aniten21 (administrator)
#Tatari (administrator)
#ታታሪ (administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --MF-Warburg (talk) 01:51, 14 ኦክቶበር 2013 (UTC)
*As local 'bureaucrat', I can change editors' status locally if the need ever arises, which so far is only whenever they have passed the community consensus procedure we have to become an admin.  Unless these former admins suddenly show up, I have no problem with the global process actions going on now and see no need to supercede it at this time.  If they did turn up again after 2 years, they can of course easily become admins again. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:18, 3 ኖቬምበር 2013 (UTC)
**Thanks for your reply; I removed these former admins' rights per the global process. --MF-Warburg (talk) 23:28, 4 ዲሴምበር 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  IMPORTANT: Admin activity review 

message: (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) 19:26, 5 ኖቬምበር 2013 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Introducting Beta Features 

message: 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
thread_title:  Call for comments on draft trademark policy 

message: ከዊኪሚድያ፦ 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector
Universal Language Selector has been disabled on 21-01-2014 to work out some performance issues that had affected the Wikimedia sites. Users who need it can enable it by following:
User Preferences -> Internationalisation -> Enable the Universal Language Selector.
More information about this change will be made available shortly. 
ይህ ማለት ለጊዜው በአማርኛ ለማቀናበር፦
፩) በብዕር ስምዎ መግባት፣
፪) ከላይኛው ኅዳግ «ምርጫዎች» መጫን፣
፫) ከዚያው «Enable the Universal Language Selector» መምረጥ ያስፈልጋል።
በሰላሙ፣ ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 16:49, 22 ጃንዩዌሪ 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal Language Selector - ጠቅላላ ቋንቋ አምራጭ 

message: 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 19:44, 28 ፌብሩዌሪ 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments 

message: 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) 21:56, 13 ማርች 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment 

message: 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
thread_title:  Changes to the default site typography coming soon 

message: Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.
I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.
Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 ሜይ 2014 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Media Viewer 

message: Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki upload is not fully functional for users, who will experience a very difficult and/or illegal uploading. In fact, the licenses/copyright tags dropdown is empty, making it hard or impossible to comply with copyright requirements during upload itself.
Presumably, you don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP.
I propose to have
* local "" restricted to the "" group (for emergency uploads) and
* the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,
so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons and existing files will not be affected.
All this will get done around 2014-07-03.
# If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list. Remember also to create MediaWiki:Licenses locally with any content (see a simple example), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting in version 1.24wmf11).
# To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.
Nemo 13:09, 19 ጁን 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using only [[commons:Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Upload Wizard|UploadWizard]] for uploads 

message: Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,
The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today. 
Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.
If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.
We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF)  (talk) 21:54, 19 ጁን 2014 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Media Viewer is now live on this wiki 

message: በግራ በኩል የሚገኘው የፋይል መላኪያ መሳሪያ በ«ጋራ ሚዲያ ማስቀመጫ» /Commons/ ወደ ሚገኘው መሳሪያ /Upload wizard/ እንዲያመራ የሚል ጥያቄ ቀርቦአል። የዚህ ጥያቄ በኩር ቅጂ /original version/ ከላይ በእንግሊዝኛ ይገኛል። ለዚህ ጉዳይ አንድ ውሳኔ መስጠት ይኖርብናል። Elfalem (talk) 05:24, 3 ጁላይ 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  ስለ የፋይል መላኪያ መሳሪያ 

message: Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language and create the article in your wiki? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki anytime. Thanks! Xaris333 (talk) 00:10, 14 ኦገስት 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Help for translate

message: 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) 17:35, 21 ኦገስት 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions 

message: ’’My apologies for writing in English.’’
Hello,
I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects?  We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.
I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.
Kind regards,
-- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 ኦገስት 2014 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Process ideas for software development 

message: :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 (talk) 16:52, 2 ሰፕቴምበር 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grants to improve your project 

message: 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) 16:22, 9 ሰፕቴምበር 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change in renaming process 

message: 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) 07:29, 11 ሰፕቴምበር 2014 (UTC). 
PS. Please subscribe to the global monthly newsletter to receive further news about VisualEditor.
thread_title:  VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11 

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ውኪሜዲያ ኤስፓኛ (Wikimedia España) በ«እስፓንያ ሐውልቶች ውድድር» እንዲሳተፉ ይጋብዞታል።  ያውም ምንድነው? እሽቅድድም ነው።  መጣጥፎች ስለ እስፓንያ ሐውልቶች ማዘጋጀት፣ መተርጎም ወይንም ማስፋፋት አለብዎትና ነጥብ ያገኛሉ! እንዲህ ስለ ግሩም ሕንጻዎች መጻፍዎ ብቻ ሳይሆን ሽልማቶችን ማግኘት ይችላሉ! 
የውድድሩ ወቅት መላውን ኦክቶበር ያጠቅልላልና ማናቸውም አስፈላጊ መረጃ እዚህ ጋ አለ።
ተሳተፉ! መልካም ዕድል! 
ከውኪሜዲያ ኤስፓኛ፣ B25es
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thread_title:  የእስፓንያ ሐውልቶች ውድድር 

message: 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) 18:04, 26 ኦክቶበር 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meta RfCs on two new global groups 

message: Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians! 
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.23:19, 5 ኖቬምበር 2014 (UTC)
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text: This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014) 

message: 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 — 17:34, 14 ኖቬምበር 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global AbuseFilter 

message: Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians! 
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.00:22, 18 ዲሴምበር 2014 (UTC)
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text: This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014) 

message: Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like .m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!
Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:33, 1 ማርች 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [Global proposal] m.{{SITENAME}}.org: {{int:group-all}} {{int:right-edit}} 

message: Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians! 
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:
*Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
*DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
*Royal Pharmaceutical Society — pharmaceutical information and practice resources
*Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
*Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)
Many 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 with our marketing partner today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 21:14, 2 ማርች 2015 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015) 

message: This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.
All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!
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(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:01, 4 ማርች 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content 

message: Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 13 ማርች 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  SUL finalization update 

message: Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:13, 10 ኤይፕርል 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stewards confirmation rules 

message: This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.
This year, elections are being held for the following roles:
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection.  There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the board elections page.    
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities.  There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees,  and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis.  One position is being filled.  More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page. 
The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org 
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015/Call for candidates|Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections]] 

message: It is very important to us at the Editing Department that VisualEditor works in every language, for every user.
VisualEditor's editing environment is a browser ContentEditable element. This means that your input method editor (IME) should already know how to work with it. However, to make VisualEditor correctly edit wiki pages, we have to stop browsers in lots of ways from breaking the page.
Sometimes this can interfere with IMEs. To make sure we work in your IME, we need your help: please see wikimedia.github.io/VisualEditor/demos/ve/desktop-dist.html#!pages/simple.html. This is the core system inside VisualEditor which lets you write and edit. It is different from the full editor, and some of the tools you are used to will be missing.
We're interested in particular in whether you can write text at all, what happens when you select different candidate texts, and how VisualEditor behaves in general.
More details, and some early test results, are provided here: mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/IME_Testing#What_to_test.
We would love to hear from every language, and especially languages which use IMEs, like Japanese, Korean, Indic languages, Arabic and others. Thank you for your help.
Yours,
James Forrester (talk) 07:41, 22 ኤይፕርል 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please test VisualEditor in your language! 

message: This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.
The FDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki. 
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
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thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015/MassMessages/FDC voting has begun|Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015]] 

message: Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians! 
Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more 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:
* MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences  (200 accounts)
* Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
* RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
* Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States (10 accounts)
* HeinOnline  — an extensive legal research database, including 2000 law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25 accounts)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:12, 4 ሜይ 2015 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015) 

message: This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki. 
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
thread_title:  [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/339?setlang=am Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015] 

message: Hello, Content Translation has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature on this Wikipedia. To start translating, enable the beta feature and go to Special:ContentTranslation or to your contributions page and create a new translation by selecting the source language, the article name and target language. If the article already exists then a warning will be displayed. After you translate the article, you can publish it directly as a new page on the Wikipedia. In case the article gets created by another user while you  were translating, you will see an option to save the newly published translation under your user namespace. The number of published pages can be seen on the Content Translation stats page.
Since, this is the first time we have installed the tool on this Wikipedia, there are chances that there may be some problems or service disruptions which we are not yet aware of. We will be monitoring the usage to check for any failures or issues, but please do let us know on the Content Translation talk page or through Phabricator if you spot any problems that prevent you from using the tool. For more information, please read about how to use the tool. You can also view a short screencast on how to use Content Translation. My apologies for writing this announcement only in English. Please feel free to translate this message for wider distribution. Thank you. --KartikMistry (talk) 16:36, 21 ሜይ 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content Translation beta feature is now available 

message: Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core.  If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a  migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.
There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.
Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core 

message: Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core.  If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a  migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.
There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.
Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more 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:
* Taylor & Francis  — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
*World Bank eLibrary  — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present.  (100 accounts)
* AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)
New French-Language Branch!
* Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
* Cairn.info (en Francais) —  Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
* L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials  (1000 accounts).
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including an expansion of accounts for Royal Society journals and remaining accounts on Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Highbeam Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to make a request! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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message: Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
/Johan (WMF)
 21:57, 19 ጁን 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  HTTPS 

message: Hello! 
I'm pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon.
It is a translation rally, focused on interface messages and help pages related to VisualEditor.
In order to participate, you need to sign up on the Translathon page on TranslateWiki.
The top 3 contributors will each win a Wikipedia t-shirt of their choice from the Wikipedia storeYou can choose between any short-sleeve shirt, or other items for the same value.. 
Translations made between July 15th and July 19th (CDT time zone) qualifyThis means both new translations, and updates for messages in the "Outdated" tab of the translation interface.. 
If you are at Wikimania Mexico this year,  you are also welcome to join a related sprint during the hackathon in Workplace 1 - Don Américo, Thursday 16 July at 4pm (CDT) at the conference venue, so you can meet other fellow translators and get support if you need some.
Interface messages have the priority. You will need to create an account at translatewiki.net in order to work on them, if you don't have one. It is recommended to create the account ASAP, so that it can be confirmed in time.
You can also help translate documentation pages about VisualEditor on mediawiki.org. You can use your Wikipedia account to work there.
You will find instructions, links and other details on the Translathon page.
Thanks for your attention, and happy translating! 
Elitre (WMF) 21:00, 13 ጁላይ 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please join the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon 

message: There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)
This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:07, 24 ጁላይ 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images 

message: There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)
This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:32, 24 ጁላይ 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images 

message: Hi, 
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community.
Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship!
Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.
=== Why get involved? ===
The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible. 
=== More information ===
* All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign. 
*  All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC 
*  Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign 
* URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign 
* Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalwikimediaorg
Happy editing! 
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:42, 31 ጁላይ 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does a Healthy Community look like to you? 

message: The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.
thread_title:  Why get involved? 

message: * All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign. 
*  All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC 
*  Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign 
* URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign 
* Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalwikimediaorg
Happy editing! 
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:42, 31 ጁላይ 2015 (UTC)
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thread_title:  More information 

message: (Sorry for writing in English)
When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.
We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to d:Wikidata:Contact the development team.
A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.
How to use it, once it is enabled:
* Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital from the item about Germany
* Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua
Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 3 ኦገስት 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming 

message: (Sorry for writing in English)
Hi everyone,
As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier.
Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:32, 12 ኦገስት 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here 

message: My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project.  Ways to participate:
*Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
*Join a small group conversation.   
*Learn more about this consultation.
Feedback is welcome in any language.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), m:Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.
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thread_title: How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

message: Hi all,
We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.
Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/
Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.
Thanks,
Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:13, 2 ሰፕቴምበር 2015 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site 

message: My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.
Greetings!  The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.  Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
*Submit a grant request
*Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
*Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants
Thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 ሰፕቴምበር 2015 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Open call for Individual Engagement Grants 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
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:
* EBSCOHost - this is one of our largest access donations so far: access to a wide variety of academic, newspaper and magazine sources through their Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and MasterFILE Complete 
* Newspaperarchive.com - historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, UK and 20 other countries, and includes an Open Access "clipping" feature (1000 accounts) 
* IMF Elibary- a digital collection of the IMF's reports, studies and research on global economics and development   (50 accounts) 
* Sabinet -  one of the largest African digital publishers, based in South Africa, with a wide range of content in English and other European and African languages (10 accounts) 
* Numérique Premium - a French language social science and humanities ebook database, with topical collections on a wide range of topics (100)
*Al Manhal - an Arabic and English database with a wide range of sources, largely focused on or published in the Middle East (60 accounts)
*Jamalon  - an Arabic book distributor, who is providing targeted book delivery to volunteers (50 editors)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including  expanded accounts for Elsevier ScienceDirect, British Medical Journal and Dynamed and additional accounts for Project MUSE, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com, Highbeam and HeinOnline. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 19:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015) 

message: (Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)
There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline.  If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today!  Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well.  Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
*Submit a grant request
*Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab
*Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 23:29, 22 ሰፕቴምበር 2015 (UTC)
===Amharic Wikipedia Development===
I know I waited til the last minute but I have made a proposal here.
ከዚህ በታች የአማርኛ ውክፔድያ ልማት አቀድ ተጀመረ። በዚህ ዕቅድ በተወሰኑ ዘርፎች ነክ አዳዲስ ደንበኛ መጣጥፎች ለሚፈጥሩ የብር ሽልማት በየገጹ ይከፈላል።  ይህ ያቀረብኩት ረቂቅ አሣብ እንዲከናወን ተስፋ እናደርጋለን።
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Amharic_Wikipedia_Development
ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 20:34, 28 ሰፕቴምበር 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals! 

message: I know I waited til the last minute but I have made a proposal here.
ከዚህ በታች የአማርኛ ውክፔድያ ልማት አቀድ ተጀመረ። በዚህ ዕቅድ በተወሰኑ ዘርፎች ነክ አዳዲስ ደንበኛ መጣጥፎች ለሚፈጥሩ የብር ሽልማት በየገጹ ይከፈላል።  ይህ ያቀረብኩት ረቂቅ አሣብ እንዲከናወን ተስፋ እናደርጋለን።
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Amharic_Wikipedia_Development
ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 20:34, 28 ሰፕቴምበር 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Amharic Wikipedia Development

message: (My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)
Last month, we asked for community feedback on  a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated!  
A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.
Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.
With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 16:56, 28 ሰፕቴምበር 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reimagining WMF grants report 

message: Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.
The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.
For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.
While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English. 
Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.
 
We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!
 Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:58, 9 ኖቬምበር 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Wishlist Survey 

message: Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.
If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.
Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:49, 10 ኖቬምበር 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed 

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message: This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.
Hi everyone,
This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.
As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.
We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.
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message: Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.
We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.
Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.
The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!
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thread_title:  Community Wishlist Survey 

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Hi everybody,   
My name is Erica, and I am a Community Liaison at the Wikimedia Foundation. The Editing team at WMF wants to know what you think about the visual editor on this Wikipedia.  is a way to edit articles that is similar to a word processing application.  The team has been working on support for languages that use input method editors (IMEs), such as this one.    
To test the visual editor, please:
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# Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on Mediawiki.org.  The developers would like to know how well it works.  Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.  It is important that they hear from as many editors as possible.  You may leave your comments in any language. 
When language support has been refined a little more based on your feedback, all editors at this wiki can have access to the visual editor.  If you want to help prepare, please read the advice on mediawiki.org.
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message: Hello Wikimedians! 
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:
* Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
* Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
* Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
* Magiran (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
* Civilica (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, and Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!
People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.
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A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th.  To apply, visit the page below:
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thread_title:  Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon! 

message: Hello again. Please excuse the English.  .  
The visual editor is coming to all editors at this Wikipedia on Monday, 25 January. It allows people to edit Wikipedia articles as if they were using word processing software.  
You don't have to wait until the deployment to test it; you can test the visual editor right now. To turn it on, select "Beta" in your preferences. Choose "" and click save.  When it is enabled, you will press the "" button to edit an article in the new software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press "". 
After the deployment, everyone will automatically have the option to use either the visual editor or the current wikitext editor. For more information about how to use the visual editor, see :mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide. 
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Thank you, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 18:20, 15 ጃንዩዌሪ 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The visual editor is coming to this wiki 

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Hello, all.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)
Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion, 2016 Strategy/Community consultation.
Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created :m:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)
If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.
I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:06, 18 ጃንዩዌሪ 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  2016 WMF Strategy consultation 

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Thank you, Varlaam (talk) 05:58, 23 ጃንዩዌሪ 2016 (UTC)
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Hello again (and again, apologies for using English on this page. .  )
As some of you have noticed, this Wikipedia now has the visual editor () enabled for all users.  (We planned to do this on 25 January 2016.  However, last week, there was an unusual problem with an upgrade to MediaWiki. Thanks for your understanding.) There are now two tabs for editing: "" and "". Click "" to use the visual editor. Click "" to edit using wikitext markup.  
All edits using the visual editor will be tagged with "" in recent changes, watchlists, and page histories.  To access the User Guide for the  visual editor, click on the "(?)" icon in its toolbar.  If you wish to disable this new system, this can be done under "Editing" in your preferences.  
Please let us know if you find any problems.  You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org. 
If you can translate from English into this wiki's language, or know anyone who can, please follow the links on the "translation table" and help your community get the best possible experience when it comes to interface messages and documentation related to the visual editor. Please contact me directly whenever you need help!
Happy editing, User:Elitre (WMF) (talk) 17:04, 1 ፌብሩዌሪ 2016 (UTC)
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The completion suggester beta feature will become the default at the first group of wikis on Thursday, 10 March. This initial rollout will start with some of the smaller wikis to ensure the change happens in an organized way. The remaining wikis will receive the update on Wednesday, 16 March. This update brings three major improvements to search. Improved search result ordering, a tolerance for a small number of spelling errors, and suggests fewer typos.
Since December 2015, 19,000 editors have already opted into the completion suggester beta feature. Contributors are encouraged to try out the feature ahead of the release. Please share any comments on the Completion Suggester discussion page in any language.
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Hello Wikimedians! 
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 access to research materials from:
* Cambridge University Press - a major publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. Access includes both Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books. 25 accounts.
* Alexander Street Academic Video Online - a large academic video collection good for a wide range of subjects, including news programs (such as PBS and BBC), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. 25 accounts.
* Baylor University Press - a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. 50 accounts.
* Future Science Group - a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. 30 accounts.
* Annual Reviews - a publisher of review articles in the biomedical sciences. 100 accounts.
* Miramar Ship Index - an index to ships and their histories since the early 19th century. 30 accounts. 
Non-English
*Noormags - Farsi-language aggregator of academic and professional journals and magazines. 30 accounts.
*Kotobna - Arabic-language ebook publishing platform. 20 accounts.
Expansions
*Gale - aggregator of newspapers, magazines and journals. 50 accounts.
*Elsevier ScienceDirect - an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. 100 accounts.
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, De Gruyter, EBSCO, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Greetings!  The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
*Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
*Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
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message: የዊኪሚድያ ፋውንዴሽን በዳላስ ውስጥ አዲሱን የመረጃ ማዕከሉን ሙከራ ላይ ያውላል።  ይህም አደጋ ቢከሰት እንኳን ዊኪፒድያ እና ሌሎች የዊኪሚድያ ዊኪዎች መስመር ላይ መቆየታቸውን ያረጋግጣል።  ሁሉም ነገር መሥራቱን ለማረጋገጥ ፥ የዊኪሚድያ ቴክኖሎጂ ክፍል የታቀዱ ሙከራዎችን ማካሄድ አለበት። ይህም እነርሱ ከአንድ የመረጃ ማዕከል ወደ ሌላ የመረጃ ማዕከል ለውጥ ማድረግ መቻላቸውን የሚያሳይ ይሆናል። ይህንን ሙከራ ለማዘጋጀት እና ያልታሰቡ ችግሮች ሲደርሱ ችግሮችን ለመቅረፍ ብዙ ሠራተኞች ያስፈልጋሉ። 
ሁሉንም ፍሰት ወደ አዲሱ የመረጃ ማዕከል የሚያዞሩት በእ.ኤ.አ ማክሰኞ ኤፕሪል 19 ይሆናል።  በእ.ኤ.አ ማክሰኞ ኤፕሪል 21 ላይ ቀድሞ ወደነበረው የመረጃ ማዕከል ያዞሩታል።  
ክፋቱ ግን በሚድያዊኪ የአሠራር ገደብ ምክንያት ሁሉም እርማቶች በነዚህ ሁለት ዝውውሮች መሃል መቆም አለባቸው።  ለዚህ መቆራረጥ ይቅርታ እየጠየቅን ለወደፊቱ ይህንን ችግር ለመቀነስ እየሠራን መሆናችንን እንገልጻለን። 
ሁሉንም ዊኪዎች ለአጭር ጊዜ ያህል ከማረም ውጪ ማንበብ ይችላሉ።
*በእ.ኤ.አ ማክሰኞ ኤፕሪል 19 እና ሐሙስ ኤፕሪል 21 ላይ በኢትዮጵያ ሠዓት አቆጣጠር ከቀኑ 11:00 ሠዓት (14:00 UTC,16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT) ጀምሮ  በግምት ከ15 እስከ 30 ደቂቃ ለሚሆን ጊዜ ጽሑፎችን ማረም አይችሉም። 
*በዚህ ጊዜያት ለማረም እና ለመቆጠብ ከሞከሩ የስህተት ማመልከቻ መልዕክት ያያሉ።  በዚህ ደቂቃዎች ውስጥ ምንም እርማቶች እንደማይጠፉ ተስፋ እናደርጋለን ፥ ነገር ግን ይህንን ማረጋገጥ አንችልም።  የስህተት ማመልከቻውን መልዕክት ካዩ ፥ እባክዎ ሁሉም ነገር እንደ በፊቱ እስከሚሠራ ድረስ ይጠብቁ።  ከዚያ በኋላ እርማትዎን መቆጠብ ይችላሉ።  ለማንኛውም ግን የለውጦችዎን ቅጂ እንዲይዙ እንመክራለን።
ሌሎች ተጽዕኖዎች:
*የበስተጀርባ ሥራዎች ሊዘገዩና አንዳንዶቹ ደግሞ ሊሠረዙም ይችላሉ። ቀይ ማያያዣዎች እንደበፊቱ ወዲያውኑ አይሻሻሉም። ከሌላ ቦታ ጋር ቀደም ሲል የተያያዘ ጽሑፍ ከፈጠሩ ፥ ማያያዣው ከወትሮው ዘግየት በማለት ቀይ ሆኖ ይቆያል። ለረጅም ጊዜ የሚሠሩ ስክሪፕቶችም መቆም ይኖርባቸዋል።
*በእ.ኤ.አ ኤፕሪል 18 ሣምንት ውስጥ የኮድ መቆም ይኖራል።  ምንም አስፈላጊ ያልሆኑ ኮዶች ተግባር ላይ አይውሉም።
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thread_title:  No editing two times this week 

message: Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it here.
This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:35, 21 ኤይፕርል 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia to the Moon 

message: Hi. I can see that this project has old JavaScript that needs to be updated. I would happily make the required updates myself, but I would have to – at least temporarily – become an admin here to do that (because the relevant pages are in the MediaWiki namespace). I have already made these updates on a number of other projects, so it would be very easy for me to do this. If no one does anything, some JavaScript-related tools will break later this year. If the community wants me to do this, you can grant me admin rights and I will make the updates as soon as I see the rights changes. Nirmos (talk) 01:44, 2 ጁን 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  JavaScript 

message: 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 15:31, 10 ጁን 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun 

message: Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in the 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 soon 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 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. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-13:06, 29 ጁን 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compact Links coming soon to this wiki 

message: 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)-03:05, 1 ጁላይ 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today 

message: 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 14:10, 1 ጁላይ 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit 

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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 "" menu and click the "" 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 "" in the dialog to insert the .  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 "" and "" tabs into a single "" 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 "" 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 "" button will say "".   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. 
 :m:User:Elitre (WMF), 17:20, 3 ጁላይ 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing News #2—2016 

message: 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 "" and "" tabs into a single "" 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 "" 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.
thread_title:  Recent changes 

message: The "" button will say "".   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.
thread_title:  Future changes 

message: * 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. 
</div> :m:User:Elitre (WMF), 17:20, 3 ጁላይ 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's work together 

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message: The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “” button to “” and “”. “” will be used when you create a new page. “” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.
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 “”namespace=8 and “”.
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 “” 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 “” 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 “” and “”.
Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.
 Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:04, 9 ኦገስት 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Save/Publish 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
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 18:38, 30 ኦገስት 2016 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016) 

message: 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) 14:56, 12 ሰፕቴምበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  RevisionSlider 

message: :
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) 20:11, 30 ሰፕቴምበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grants to improve your project 

message: 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) 01:34, 6 ኦክቶበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creative Commons 4.0 

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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. 
*Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon.  Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.  A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
*Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page.  If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
*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.
*The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.  In the future, the "" button will say "".  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.
=== 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. 
—Elitre (WMF)
 17:49, 15 ኦክቶበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing News #3—2016 

message: *You can now set text as small or big. 
*Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon.  Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.  A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
*Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page.  If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
*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.
*The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.  In the future, the "" button will say "".  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.
thread_title:  Recent changes 

message: 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.
thread_title:  Future changes 

message: * 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. 
—Elitre (WMF)
</div> 17:49, 15 ኦክቶበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's work together 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
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 18:30, 1 ኖቬምበር 2016 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016) 

message: Hello, machine translation support for Content Translation (beta feature) has now been extended and enabled for users of Amharic Wikipedia using Yandex. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles into Amharic with Content Translation. To start using this service, please choose ‘’Yandex.Translate’’ from the ‘’Automatic Translation’’ dropdown menu that you see on the sidebar after you start translating an article. Please note, machine translation is available from all the languages that are supported by Yandex.Translate, but Content Translation can still be used in the usual manner for translating from all languages, with or without machine translation support. 
Wikimedia Foundation’s Legal team and Yandex had collaborated earlier to work out an agreement that allows the use of Yandex.Translate without compromising Wikipedia’s policy of attribution of rights, privacy of our users and brand representation. Since November 2015, Yandex machine translation has been used for articles translated for Wikipedias in many languages. For more information, we request you to kindly take a look at the details about machine translation services in Content Translation and about Yandex translation services, including a summary of the legal contract. Please note, translations made using Content Translation are also used to improve machine translation services.
We have tested the service for use on the Amharic Wikipedia, but there could be unknown problems that we are not aware of yet. Please do let us know on our Project Talk page or phabricator if you face any problems using Content Translation. This message is only in English and we will be very grateful if it could be translated into Amharic for other users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of WMF Language team: --Runab WMF (talk) 13:42, 9 ኖቬምበር 2016 (UTC)
Please do not use machine translation with Amharic.  Some of the machine translations are mind bogglingly awful and misleading.  See my user page where I have done an analysis of the machine translation and found it near worthless. Articles that cannot be fixed from machine translation may be deleted as with most or all other languages. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 14:52, 9 ኖቬምበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation 

message: I apologise that this message is in English. 
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 () / MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 13 ኖቬምበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Password reset 

message: Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:11, 14 ኖቬምበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding to the above section (Password reset) 

message: 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 "".
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) --19:31, 14 ዲሴምበር 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New way to edit wikitext 

message: 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.
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:31, 15 ፌብሩዌሪ 2017 (UTC) •  • Get help
thread_title:  Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process 

message: Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
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, 19:43, 9 ማርች 2017 (UTC) •  • Get help
thread_title:  Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process 

message: : 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 05:10, 18 ማርች 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15) 

message: 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, 03:36, 7 ኤይፕርል 2017 (UTC) •  • Get help
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation elections/2017/Updates/Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections|Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections]] 

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas.  This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.  To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test.  This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems. 
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017.
On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.  
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches.  We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. 
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
*You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May). 
*If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.  We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.  If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.  Then you should be able to save your edit.  But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
*Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
*There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017.  Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary.  You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.  There will be more notifications about this.  Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:33, 11 ኤይፕርል 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May 

message: 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) 08:41, 14 ኤይፕርል 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app 

message: 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 (talk) 16:52, 19 ኤይፕርል 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Page previews feature 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
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 18:52, 2 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.

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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017) 

message: 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
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery • Translate • Get help 19:14, 3 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/341?setlang={{CONTENTLANG}} Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections] 

message: 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) 14:29, 8 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View 

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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 "".  
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 . 
* 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. 
* 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. 
* 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. 
* 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. 
* The  item has been moved to the top of the  menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access.  There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. 
* You can now create <chem>  tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. 
* Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. 
* The  menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) .  The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. 
* 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. 
* 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. 
=== 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. 
* The kind of button used to , , 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.  
* 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.  
*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. 
—Elitre (WMF)
 18:06, 12 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing News #1—2017 

message: *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 . 
* 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. 
* 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. 
* 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. 
* 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. 
* The  item has been moved to the top of the  menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access.  There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. 
* You can now create <chem>  tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. 
* Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. 
* The  menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) .  The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. 
* 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. 
* 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.
thread_title:  Recent changes 

message: * 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. 
* The kind of button used to , , 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.  
* 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.  
*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. 
—Elitre (WMF)
</div> 18:06, 12 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future changes 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia 

message: 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) 14:39, 16 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  RevisionSlider 

message: :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.
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation •  • Get help 21:09, 16 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Cycle 2|Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)]] 

message: 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! 
 Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)
thread_title:  New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata 

message: 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!) 20:46, 17 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[m:Requests for comment/Global centralnotice for the blockade of the Turkish government]] 

message: :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
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery • Translate • Get help 21:06, 23 ሜይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation elections/2017/Updates/Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections|Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections]] 

message: 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
 Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:33, 29 ጁን 2017 (UTC)
(wrong target page? you can fix it here)
thread_title:  Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes 

message: I have been struggling for about six weeks to get our article ሃብሃብ linked to other wikipedias on wikidata.  As you can see, after six weeks, I have failed, largely because of the individuals in charge of Wikidata, who have instead blocked me from there to further obstruct the growth of the Amharic wikipedia.  I believe their unwillingness to allow ሃብሃብ to be linked to other languages, and their willingness to block me for complaining abut the one user Brya, is indiciative of the attitudes I have found at wikidata that are prejudiced, so all users here should be warned about the WikiData project. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 08:42, 2 ጁላይ 2017 (UTC)
I have been pleading with User:Jasper Deng but still our article cannot be linked per the authority of User:Brya.  Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 08:43, 2 ጁላይ 2017 (UTC)
Note that the basic attitude at WikiData seems very similar to English wikipedia:  " you are not allowed to complain about the coddled, privileged accounts or YOU get blocked! "     Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 08:51, 2 ጁላይ 2017 (UTC)
Since May 2017, User:Brya has delinked numerous Amharic articles, edit warred with me or otherwise obstructed me. [Past problem articles in the last month: Ginger, tomato, almond, watermelon, pomegranate, apple]  His interest, whatever it is, is not in having these articles properly linked to the items they were intended for, and making up silly excuses, multiplying words, to convince others his mission to delink me is correct. He has also made numerous disparaging remarks about Amharic in the process, saying it is too "embarrassing" (although he cannot read it) and other users there suggested Ethiopians lack knowledge of taxonomy making him automatically right and me wrong.  When I ask how is he allowed to do this, it turns out he isn't just an ordinary editor, he has some kind of prestige at WikiData  that others will defend to the point of calling for me to be banned for challenging him. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 10:18, 2 ጁላይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiData Issue 

message: The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface.  The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.
You can see and use the old and new versions now.  Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
File:MediaWiki edit page buttons accessibility change 2017, before.png|Buttons before the change
File:MediaWiki edit page buttons accessibility change 2017, after.png|Buttons after the change
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets.  Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system.  If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see :mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts.  Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.
This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 18 July 2017.  Please leave a note at :mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 10 ጁላይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accessible editing buttons 

message: 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) 22:32, 20 ጁላይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Previews (Hovercards) update 

message: 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. 
  CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:39, 25 ጁላይ 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improved search in deleted pages archive 

message: 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 (talk) 21:07, 17 ሰፕቴምበር 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation" 

message: 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) 20:35, 20 ሰፕቴምበር 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion on synced reading lists 

message: 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.
thread_title:  Background 

message: 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
</div> CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35, 20 ሰፕቴምበር 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not watchlists 

message: To Jimbo Wales: "THIS is what's going on WikiData right now. I thought WIkiData would mostly help or assist the various language Wikipedia projects, but it's positioning itself as a bureaucratic nightmare with privileged 'behind the scenes' users who fight various language Wikipedia projects in any way they can (mainly, repeatedly delinking and segregating the articles of small wikipedias, from the 'main' items larger wikipedias use), as an excuse to "lord it over" the various language Wikipedia projects."
In the meantime, it may be dificult to get any new articles properly linked for the next week as the WikiData sysop has again blocked me - for using the word 'facetious', which, it turns out, was a word I wasnt allowed to use... Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 12:40, 22 ኦክቶበር 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update from WikiData 

message: 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) 00:34, 12 ኖቬምበር 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to the global ban policy 

message: 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. 
 
 CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 ኖቬምበር 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers 

message: 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 19:24, 20 ዲሴምበር 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships 

message: 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 (talk) 10:46, 21 ዲሴምበር 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  User group for Military Historians 

message: Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
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 "", 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.  
*Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. 
*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. oldid=16980876 -->
thread_title:  Editing News #1—2018 

message: *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.  
*Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. 
*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.
thread_title: Recent changes

message: *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. oldid=16980876 -->
thread_title: Let's work together

message: This makes footnotes easier to read.  You can request multi-column support for your wiki. 
*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.  
—Elitre (WMF)
</div> 20:56, 2 ማርች 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Previews (Hovercards) update 

message: 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 (talk) 13:36, 12 ማርች 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge 

message: Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
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) 21:38, 24 ኤይፕርል 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias 

message: 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) 14:45, 7 ሜይ 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  AdvancedSearch 

message: ኢትዮዎርክ እንደ እ.ኤ.አ በ2018 ግንቦት ወር ላይ በደቡብ ኮሪያና ኢትዮጵያዊ የግል ኢንቨስተር ትብብር የተዘጋጀ ድረገጽ ነው። ተቀዳሚ አላማው ትርፍ ለማስገኘት ሳይሆን በኢትዮጵያውስ የስራ አጥነት ችግር መቅረፊያ ብሎም የህገውጥ የሰው ኃይል ፍልሰትን ለመቀነስ አጋዥ ይሆናል ተብሎ ሰለታመነበተ ነው። ድረ ገጹ ከኢትዮጵያ ሰራተኛና ማህበራዊ ጉዳይ ሚኒስቴር ዕውቅናን እንዲሁም በኢትዮጵያውያን ዘንድም ተወዳጅነትን ያተረፈ ድረገጽ ነው። በውስጡም የመጀመሪያውን የኢትዮጵያ ዚፕኮድ ሲስተም አካቶ የሚገኝ ሲሆን ዚፕኮዱ የዕውቅናን የኢትዮጵያ መንግስት የሰጠው ማብራሪያ የለም። የዚፕ ኮድ አድራሻው ለአድሱ የኢትዮጵያ የዘመናዊነትና የኢንተርኔት ቴክኖሎጅ ዘመን ክፍተኛውን አስተዋጻዖ እንደሚያበረክት ኢኮኖሚስቶች ይናገራሉ። በዚፕ ኮድ አለመኖር ምክንያት ወደ ሥራም ያልገቡ የተለያዩ ፕላትፎርሞች ቁጥር ስፍር የሌላቸው መኖራቸው አጠራጣሪ አይደለም።
thread_title:  ኢትዮዎርክ 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform: 
* Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
* Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
* Termsoup – Translation tool
Expansions
* Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
* Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
* Alexander Street Press – Women and Social Movements Library now available
* Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:03, 30 ሜይ 2018 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018) 

message: Update on page issues on mobile web
Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.
So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project.  We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs.  The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:
* The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
* Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
* Readers care about page issues and consider them important
* Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page. 
 CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:57, 12 ጁን 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update on page issues on mobile web 

message: Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
 19:19, 10 ጁላይ 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global preferences are available 

message: ()
Hi all,
I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at the consultation page on Meta. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 08:45, 12 ጁላይ 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
thread_title:  Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS 

message: I recently translated the Wikipedia article on Love, Simon into Amharic, with the help of an Ethiopian friend. Within around an hour of posting it, however, it was deleted by the user Codex Sinaiticus (whose profile is here: https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/አባል:Codex_Sinaiticus). He gave two main reasons for deletion; the first, he claims it was translated by a computer, which is wrong. The second, he says he removed it because it contained homosexuality. I believe this is unjust though. He, like many Ethiopians, is religious and against being LGBT, which is why he would want to delete it. However, any content should be available in any language on Wikipedia, which includes articles about LGBT topics in the Amharic language. I don’t know if I’ve written to the right address or what can be done about this, but I would appreciate the article being restored and maybe the user being prohibited from deleting it again, as I believe religious views are not a valid reason for article deletion on Wikipedia.
Linguafiqari (talk) 14:43, 18 ጁላይ 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion of the Amharic page for Love, Simon  

message: ()
Hi all!
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)
A new user group, interface-admin, has been created.
Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats).
This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 13:08, 30 ጁላይ 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
thread_title:  New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS 

message: Hello.
The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.
TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions. 
TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons. 
* It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
* It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
* Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
* All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.
You can learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org. Technical documentation is also available.
This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.
Thank you.
 CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:28, 6 ኦገስት 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors 

message: ()
Hi all,
as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin () group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:39, 27 ኦገስት 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
thread_title:  Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now 

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre.  This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.  To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems. 
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018.
On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.  
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch.  We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. 
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
*You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October). 
*If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.  We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.  If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.  Then you should be able to save your edit.  But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
*Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
*There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018.  Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary.  You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.  There will be more notifications about this.  Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)
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thread_title:  Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October 

message: This has been posted here because your wiki allows local file uploads. .
Commons will no longer allow uploads of photos, paintings, drawings, audio and video that use the GFDL license and no other license. This starts after 14 October. Textbooks, manuals and logos, diagrams and screenshots from GFDL software manuals that only use the GFDL license are still allowed. Files licensed with both GFDL and an accepted license like Creative Commons BY-SA are still allowed.
There is no time limit to move files from other projects to Commons. The licensing date is all that counts. It doesn't matter when the file was uploaded or created. Every wiki that allows local uploads should check if bots, scripts and templates that are used to move files to Commons need to be updated. Also update your local policy documentation if needed.
The decision to allow files that only have a GFDL license, or not allow them, is a decision all wikis can make for themselves. Your wiki can decide to continue allowing the files that Commons will no longer allow after 14 October. If your wiki decides to continue to allow files after 14 October that Commons will no longer allow those files should not be moved to Commons. — Alexis Jazz, distributed by Johan using MassMessage
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thread_title:  The GFDL license on Commons 

message: Read this message in another language  •  
The Wikimedia Foundation are testing its secondary data center.  This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.  
They switched all traffic to the secondary data center 12 September 2018.
On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.  
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while we switch. 
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start a bit after 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST). If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.  
This project may be postponed if necessary.  You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.  Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)
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thread_title:  Reminder: No editing for up to an hour on 10 October 

message: The Community Wishlist Survey. .
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page. 
/User:Johan (WMF) 11:05, 30 ኦክቶበር 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Community Wishlist Survey 

message: Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?  
  
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.  The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar.  Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool.  The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices.  Their work board is available in Phabricator.  Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.   
=== Recent changes ===
*The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.  
*The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website.  New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles.  You can .
*The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
*The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported.  If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar.  You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
*The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
*The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images.  It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. 
=== Let's work together ===
* The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website.  Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.  
*The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
*If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. 
—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
 14:16, 2 ኖቬምበር 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing News #2—2018 

message: *The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.  
*The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website.  New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles.  You can .
*The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
*The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported.  If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar.  You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
*The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
*The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images.  It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published.
thread_title:  Recent changes 

message: * The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website.  Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.  
*The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
*If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. 
—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
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thread_title:  Let's work together 

message: Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
Hello,
In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.
What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.
For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.
If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.
 CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 13 ኖቬምበር 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web 

message: The Community Wishlist Survey. .
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page. 
/User:Johan (WMF) 18:13, 22 ኖቬምበር 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Wishlist Survey vote 

message: Advanced Search will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the search page, even if you don’t know any search syntax. Advanced Search originates from the German Community’s Technical Wishes project. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the central feedback page. Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 10:57, 26 ኖቬምበር 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advanced Search 

message: The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.
 CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:02, 6 ዲሴምበር 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Wikimedia password policy and requirements 

message: Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love. 
Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects. 
The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.
Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.
To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs
There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!
Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Love Team
Imagine... the sum of all love!
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:12, 27 ዲሴምበር 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019 

message: ===QueerEcofeminist block ===
Hello. The block of user QueerEcofeminist came to my attention today. Though I have read block reasons, I can’t find anything on the name that could be a reason for a block on any Wikimedia project, which is supposed to be free, gay-friendly, and respect orientation of users. Is there any local policy for username block here? They also requested unblock via own talk page, which is the usual recommendation on any project, but you deleted it and disallowed talk page access.
So, could you kindly review this block? Perhaps asking opinion of other admins to have a second opinion. I am just failing to see what is the harm on leaving this account unblocked. I hope you can help me to understand. Thanks in advance.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 22:36, 6 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
Homosexuality and the promotion of homosexuality have always been illegal in the criminal code of Ethiopia, where most Amharic speakers are located. It is not only offensive to me, but for around 99% of Ethiopians, as it is considered inimical to the family spirit for which Ethiopia stands, and this is clearly stated in the criminal code. For this reason, promotion of homosexuality will not be tolerated here nor will it be forced down our throats to suit anyone's international political agenda if you expect Ethiopians to take part. It is also against our policy to allow username activity advertizing one's sexual lifestyle as we are family friendly and wish to remain that way. In nearly 15 years of operation this is the only offender to come to my attention, you will notice virtually no one else uses their name to advertise their sexual persusion and how abnormal this is. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:04, 6 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your answer. Could you please explain how it is promoting homosexuality? One can’t just mention the word “Queer” on the name, which has many possible interpretations according to dictionary? What if I change my name to “Teles Straight”? Would you block me too? Do you really expect that the whole community will follow Ethiopia laws?” TeleS (T M @ C S) 23:28, 6 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :Yes, concepts like the rule of law are paramount in Ethiopia and so far there has been almost no problem in 15 years with expecting the Amharic community to follow the laws. It is easy to block anyone here if there is going to be any problem. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:35, 6 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::Sorry, but it doesn’t make sense. Wikimedia sites are not built on Ethiopia soil, so there is no obligation to any user that doesn’t live there to follow its law. If you live there and don’t want to “promote homosexuality” it is your call. If using the name “Queer” is a crime in your country, that’s a real bummer, and as an Ethiopian citizen, YOU may want to avoid it. However, servers of this site are located on United States, and that is why every user, including you, are forced to follow its law. Wikimedia projects are free to create its own rules and develop by themselves the way it’s believed to be better on its on view, BUT they cannot do anything that works in opposition with Wikimedia Terms of Use and mission. I profoundly recommend you to review this action and position. This is a clear case of prejudice on which someone is blocked for their sexual orientation. You may decide not to abide to WMF Terms of Use; you are not forced to live with homosexuals. However, you may want to exercise this prejudice in places that fits better with this odd behaviour, which any Wikipedia is not. Regards.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 00:05, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::What part are you failing to comprehend? The "sexual orientation" as you call it is nothing but a crime in Ethiopia. It is  grossly offensive to Ethiopian culture. This could be  evidence that foreign advocates of homosexuality would intend to make platforms to preach this crime to countries where it is not wanted. You are barking up the wrong tree since there will be zero tolerance on Amharic. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:16, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::Zero tolerance to what exactly? Homosexuality?” TeleS (T M @ C S) 00:27, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: That and also any disruption to the fine Ethiopian character of the wiki which has an Ethiopian character is banned like would be done in Ethiopia! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:35, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :This project is not based on Ethiopia laws. That’s what you are not understanding. It’s really sad to know about this behavior here. You will hear more about this case soon. Regards.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 00:44, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: What is sad is that your only function on this project appears to be as a foreign  advocate of homosexuality and you continue to argue , leaving me with no choice but to block you as well for creating a disturbance. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:48, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :My function here was to talk to you about a clear abusive block. My intention was to tell you how mistaken that was and why, trying to fix it with arguments. I am honestly sad that your country has “zero tolerance” to homosexuality. I also live in a third world country and know that laws can be anachronistic. However, as volunteers of Wikipedia, we have to abide to Wikimedia movement mission. Instead of discriminating, you should be working to provide a good environment on which different people can contribute with their knowledge. I repeat my recommendation. If you don’t want to work on a place that respects any sexual orientation, it’s up to you, but this place is not any Wikimedia project. I hope things get better there in a near future. Regards.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 01:27, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
Don't force your sick values on Ethiopia - you will regret it! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:31, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: Why would I regret it? Understand once for all: this is not Ethiopia and there is nothing being forced there. This is just Amharic Language Wikipedia, which happens to be a project that should welcome lesbians, gays, bissexuals, transgenders, etc.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 01:38, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :Those Ethiopian laws and your discriminating attitude are homophobic and disgusting, and should not be tolerated at all by the Wikimedia Foundation. I am glad User:MarcoAurelio swiftly responded by taking away your permissions. Robin van der Vliet (talk) 01:42, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: No, actually homosexuals are considered subhuman by the vast majority of Ethiopians. Removing my management with no warning or appeal is typical hamfistedness, like Ethiopia dealt with in 1936.! . Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:45, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :I'm sorry, are you advocating war to promote homophobia on Wikipedia? Vermont (talk) 01:49, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: :This is far from acceptable. I am finishing my participation here. I will keep working other ways to rule out this kind of behavior from Wiki.—Teles «Talk to me˱M @ C S˲» 01:54, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :: I don't understand what homophobia is. Only homosexuals seem to know what it means when receive they militantly persecute anyone who dissents from them, with their firebrands and pitchforks. This is not an Amharic-translatable concept, it's not even proper English as it originated in recent decades as a homosexual slang term and no one else really knows what it means. If it means everything in human society that they want to destroy, I suppose it would be what we call not homophobia but  "civilization" - thousands of years of it. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:59, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::Let's have anoter shot at it, shall we?  Language is not owned by a country.  And Ethiopian laws are applicable to only those websites which have their server located in Ethiopia.  Otherwise there is no compulsion.  An example would be: homosexuality is illegal in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  But that does not stop any Arabic language website from using words related to "homosexuality".  And while we are at it, "queer" may also mean "something that is very different from the general trend", and not necessarily pertaining to the sexual orientation.Acagastya (talk) 12:45, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
The block of QueerEcofeminist appears to be wrong, and should be lifted. This is clearly against Wikimedia values as a whole, whatever are the laws of a particular country. This is basically enounced in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was made under the auspices of the United Nations. Specifically, no one should be discriminated for their sexual orientation. Regards, Yann (talk) 10:40, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
=== Notice of removal of sysop and bureaucrat permissions ===
Hello. Using the sysop tools in a dispute while involved in it, to block editors you disagree with them, is a blatant abuse of the sysop tools. In order to protect the project and its editors from such abusive use of the sysop toolset, I have removed your sysop and bureaucrat permissions. Best regards, --MarcoAurelio (talk) 01:10, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC:

text: I rightfully blocked him, because he is only here to miltitate against our longstanding policy since 2005 against advocacy of homosexuality, which is deeply offensive to Ethiopian culture and a violation of the Ethiopian criminal code. He was making a disturbance and would force people to be unwillingly offended in the service of promoting homosexuality internationally. For you to unilaterally and whimsically remove my management of this wiki without any consensus discussion or process of appeal is the abuse of power and a disgusting disgrace. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:20, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: : Til Eulenspiegel or Codex Sinaiticus, please provide a link to this project's policy with regard to "advocacy of homosexuality" being an instant block offence? Individuals making claims about what they think consensus on this project are, is not the same as providing evidence of consensus. From responses so far, and the apparent near absence of any articles on this project about homosexuality or LGBT+ history, is it reasonable to conclude that attempts to create articles on this topic to improve the Wikipedia would be treated as "advocacy of homosexuality"?

text: : Please take on board that your complaint that your sysop rights were removed without consensus, or process of appeal, is factually incorrect. The action was taken with the justification of high level policies against abusive use of tools, which MarcoAurelio can provide further links to if you are unaware of them. You are free to appeal, or indeed run a consensus vote to have these rights restored.

text: : Ironically, User:QueerEcofeminist has not been allowed the same respect extended to yourself, instead Codex Sinaiticus has denied access to their talk page to appeal the block for having the word "Queer" in their account name. The above block of the projects steward Teles, when they were attempting to assist by asking in a civil fashion about the block, appears to be a coordinated use of sysop privileges actively to suppress discussion about this project's hostile approach to LGBT+ topics. Worryingly, this sets the Amharic Wikipedia community in conflict with WMF policies and stated values. For these reasons the way sysop rights are being used on this Wikipedia has drawn attention from the wider community, and our views as highly experienced Wikimedians, count here as much as they do on any other Wikimedia project we volunteer on, and should be responded to in good faith, factually and without hostility or harassment.

text: : Thanks --Fæ (talk) 02:25, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
I was admin here from 2005. At that time homosexuality was also still considered a crime in the US, by the way. I don't know when wmf adopted this policy of abandoning neutrality and forcing their peculiar values on every language on the globe. But they have never paid me a penny for contributing anything here for free all those years, so I don't feel as if you own me and don't feel obliged to comply with your dictates. It should be known they have a policy of pushing large sums of money around back and forth for anything but contributing which must be voluntary work by the ones you want to do the work. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 02:41, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: In 2003 the United States Supreme Court ruled that homosexuality, in short, is a constitutionally protected right. (Lawrence v. Texas) Regardless, blocking someone for their sexual orientation is quite far from neutral. Vermont (talk) 02:50, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
Sorry to crush your hopes Vermont, but you are not going to convince me of anything, ever! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 03:01, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :: I do not speak for the WMF, never worked for them, nor have I ever been paid a penny for my contributions in any way. The community of volunteers takes part literally to do no more than improve the sum of human knowledge.
replies: text: :: Regardless of the fact that homosexuality is a crime in Ethiopia, this is an irrelevant point as to whether volunteers are free to write about and discuss LGBT+ related topics on the Amharic Wikipedia or whether volunteers who identify as LGBT+ risk arbitrary blocks on this project because they are LGBT+. Writing an article is a neutral act of itself, as articles are intended to be neutral and fact based, not editorials that advocate a single point of view. For these reasons simply writing factual articles about homosexuality is not a crime under Ethiopian law.

text: :: Regardless of personal views about LGBT+ rights or the current Ethiopian law, this project must comply with Wikimedia Foundation hosting policies as described in the website terms of use. Anyone who fundamentally disagrees with those policies, and is seen to actively work against them, by definition is not here to create or improve the encyclopaedia.

text: :: If any administrator uses sysop tools to promote a personal political view, like believing homosexuals are "subhuman", rather than to support the creation and improvement of the encyclopaedia, then by definition they cannot be trusted with sysop tools. --Fæ (talk) 03:06, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
As I said that is what the majority in Ethiopia would think. But to make it clear, let me spell it out, you have ZERO CREDIBILITY with me now so you are rather wasting your time talking to me. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 03:18, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
It is not wrong to have certain political/religious views, but it is inappropriate to force them on others in this manner. I will also note the inflammatory racial terms used here, and this user's indefinite block on enwiki. Quite frankly, I think the desysop was long overdue. --Rschen7754 07:56, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: Indeed. You don't have to approve of homosexuality. That doesn't justify discriminating against homosexual editors. We're not trying to control your speech (your articles are currently essentially under your control). But when you start discriminating against editors based on sexual orientation, that's quite likely illegal in the relevant jurisdiction. Bellezzasolo (talk) 22:39, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :To tell the truth no one has ever been blocked here fo that until QueerEcoFeminist, formerly before last October known as User:SureshKhole. I haven't ever seen anyone else here claiming to have sexual relations with their own gender in nearly 15 years. When I started in 2005, I believe such a username would have been blocked on the English wikpedia even, they wanted everyone to appear neutral meaning not signaling strong allegiance to any cause , even userboxes of any kind were discouraged and opposed vehemently at first. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 22:52, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
=== Continued discussion ===
Input from the WMF and local editing community should be sought. In terms of the blocks, all users blocked for their sexual orientation should have that block removed immediately. Local project-space should be amended to remove any and all anti-LGBT+ policies. This wiki should probably be removed from the global sysop opt out wikiset, as there are currently only two administrators, one of which is inactive and the other semi-active. This should be overseen by the WMF’s T&S Policy team and/or Stewards. Vermont (talk) 19:46, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: Where do you get off demanding all that ? You aren't part of the Amharic-speaking community. You should drop the pesecuting firebrand and pitchfork and find something else to do now. You can't change Ethiopian criminal code, you can't change how Amharic speakers think, you are coming across like the creature from the lagoon and Amharic speakers likely won't cooperate with you. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 20:31, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: : Fun fact, The Wikimedia Foundation is head quartered in San Francisco, California. This means the WMF and its projects (including this wiki) are subject to the laws of the State of California and the laws of the United States. The state of California has legal protections for the LGBTQ+ community in the state's laws and in the state's constitution. In plain speak Ethiopian criminal code doesn't matter, US Law, California Law and to a lesser extent Florida State Law (I vaguely recall something about servers in FL) are what matters. Each of these three entities provide protections from discrimination on the bases of sexuality, or gender identity. This project's policies are in direct conflict with California state law. Also your personal attacks only weaken your argument. How about attacking the argument instead of the person eh? However I would hope the WMF steps in and provides some oversight on the discriminatory practices that have been allowed to take place here.Cameron11598 (talk) 21:29, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: :How are they going to do that exactly? Do they speak Amharic ? I don't know that you will get very far with the Amharic community here. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 21:33, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::To be blunt, it doesn’t matter what the Amharic community here (which insofar has only been you commenting about this) supports as it is both highly offensive and against the purpose of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. In regard to how this will be done, Ethiopian Laws will stop being seen as holding any bearing on the operation of this project. We have found various policies and guidelines referencing them as though they do, and that will need to be changed or outright removed. Vermont (talk) 21:54, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::Lol, good luck ! Rofl Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 21:58, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
Slavery and Colonialism ended a long time ago!
replies: text: ::::User:Vermont, I laughed because you say you found anti-lgbt policies, but to my knowledge we have no policy saying anything about it, and you do not read Amharic, so I don't know how you think you would change anything. The sum total is one user blocked, now unblocked, plus me blocking Teles. Let me state explicitly here as I have on MediaWiki my deep apology for breaking the current wmf rules on sexual orientation names now that I am aware of them and please reconsider your vote as this is the only time I ever blocked a name for that.. Thanks , Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 02:18, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::::You've apologized many times for many different situations. Over your time editing, there has been little improvement in your ability (or lack of) to converse civilly with other editors. You are blocked on multiple wikis, currently indefinitely blocked on the English Wikipedia and English Wikisource. You have been blocked on multiple other wikis whose blocks have since expired. Your accounts have been used for disruption, defamation, and attacks. I do not read Amharic, but your user page is quite clear, as is this policy which you created that is very anti-LGBT, and against the mission of Wikimedia. I have reconsidered my vote, and will not rescind it. Thank you, Vermont (talk) 02:31, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::::In my defense, :I am only blocked on those two wikis. Wikisource? I don't even remember that now. I have moved on. That policy does not mention lgbt at all, you are mistaken or reading a wrong translation. How do you want it changed?. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 02:42, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::::::If I am reading an incorrect translation, would you mind translating it (or summarizing it) for me? From my position viewing Google Translate, it seems as though you enforce Ethiopian morality laws (which include homosexuality) onwiki, which should not be done. Vermont (talk) 03:00, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: Sure. The google translation is unbelievable junk and as usual gives totally the wrong idea what it says. I will prepare for you a correct translation on the talkpage. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 03:06, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
*I just want to point out the bleeding obvious which seems to have been missed here: this is a language Wikipedia.  Just because a country where that language is spoken has some backwards laws doesn't mean all the people who speak that language agree with said laws.  Wikipedia, in whatever language, is meant to be a neutral encyclopedia, meaning that declaring something wrong just because the aforementioned backwards laws want you to is irrelevant because it means you're not being neutral.  And finally, the Wikimedia Foundation servers, including those which house this incarnation of Wikipedia, are hosted in the United States, where homosexuality and the promotion thereof, is entirely legal, so your local laws don't mean squat.  StraussInTheHouse (talk) 23:08, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :OK. But no other users sexual orientation has ever come up or been an issue here before in 14 years until User:QueerEcofeminist who is already unblocked, so what else would you change? Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:29, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::So no other editors have been blocked for their sexual orientation or position on LGBT+ rights? Vermont (talk) 23:39, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::That's right, Vermont... it never even came up before October '18 with User:QE, I haven't seen any other such name on here, ever. ... Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:49, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion about QueerEcofeminist block (moved) 

message: Hello. The block of user QueerEcofeminist came to my attention today. Though I have read block reasons, I can’t find anything on the name that could be a reason for a block on any Wikimedia project, which is supposed to be free, gay-friendly, and respect orientation of users. Is there any local policy for username block here? They also requested unblock via own talk page, which is the usual recommendation on any project, but you deleted it and disallowed talk page access.
So, could you kindly review this block? Perhaps asking opinion of other admins to have a second opinion. I am just failing to see what is the harm on leaving this account unblocked. I hope you can help me to understand. Thanks in advance.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 22:36, 6 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
Homosexuality and the promotion of homosexuality have always been illegal in the criminal code of Ethiopia, where most Amharic speakers are located. It is not only offensive to me, but for around 99% of Ethiopians, as it is considered inimical to the family spirit for which Ethiopia stands, and this is clearly stated in the criminal code. For this reason, promotion of homosexuality will not be tolerated here nor will it be forced down our throats to suit anyone's international political agenda if you expect Ethiopians to take part. It is also against our policy to allow username activity advertizing one's sexual lifestyle as we are family friendly and wish to remain that way. In nearly 15 years of operation this is the only offender to come to my attention, you will notice virtually no one else uses their name to advertise their sexual persusion and how abnormal this is. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:04, 6 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your answer. Could you please explain how it is promoting homosexuality? One can’t just mention the word “Queer” on the name, which has many possible interpretations according to dictionary? What if I change my name to “Teles Straight”? Would you block me too? Do you really expect that the whole community will follow Ethiopia laws?” TeleS (T M @ C S) 23:28, 6 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :Yes, concepts like the rule of law are paramount in Ethiopia and so far there has been almost no problem in 15 years with expecting the Amharic community to follow the laws. It is easy to block anyone here if there is going to be any problem. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:35, 6 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::Sorry, but it doesn’t make sense. Wikimedia sites are not built on Ethiopia soil, so there is no obligation to any user that doesn’t live there to follow its law. If you live there and don’t want to “promote homosexuality” it is your call. If using the name “Queer” is a crime in your country, that’s a real bummer, and as an Ethiopian citizen, YOU may want to avoid it. However, servers of this site are located on United States, and that is why every user, including you, are forced to follow its law. Wikimedia projects are free to create its own rules and develop by themselves the way it’s believed to be better on its on view, BUT they cannot do anything that works in opposition with Wikimedia Terms of Use and mission. I profoundly recommend you to review this action and position. This is a clear case of prejudice on which someone is blocked for their sexual orientation. You may decide not to abide to WMF Terms of Use; you are not forced to live with homosexuals. However, you may want to exercise this prejudice in places that fits better with this odd behaviour, which any Wikipedia is not. Regards.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 00:05, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::What part are you failing to comprehend? The "sexual orientation" as you call it is nothing but a crime in Ethiopia. It is  grossly offensive to Ethiopian culture. This could be  evidence that foreign advocates of homosexuality would intend to make platforms to preach this crime to countries where it is not wanted. You are barking up the wrong tree since there will be zero tolerance on Amharic. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:16, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::Zero tolerance to what exactly? Homosexuality?” TeleS (T M @ C S) 00:27, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: That and also any disruption to the fine Ethiopian character of the wiki which has an Ethiopian character is banned like would be done in Ethiopia! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:35, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :This project is not based on Ethiopia laws. That’s what you are not understanding. It’s really sad to know about this behavior here. You will hear more about this case soon. Regards.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 00:44, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: What is sad is that your only function on this project appears to be as a foreign  advocate of homosexuality and you continue to argue , leaving me with no choice but to block you as well for creating a disturbance. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:48, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :My function here was to talk to you about a clear abusive block. My intention was to tell you how mistaken that was and why, trying to fix it with arguments. I am honestly sad that your country has “zero tolerance” to homosexuality. I also live in a third world country and know that laws can be anachronistic. However, as volunteers of Wikipedia, we have to abide to Wikimedia movement mission. Instead of discriminating, you should be working to provide a good environment on which different people can contribute with their knowledge. I repeat my recommendation. If you don’t want to work on a place that respects any sexual orientation, it’s up to you, but this place is not any Wikimedia project. I hope things get better there in a near future. Regards.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 01:27, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
Don't force your sick values on Ethiopia - you will regret it! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:31, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: Why would I regret it? Understand once for all: this is not Ethiopia and there is nothing being forced there. This is just Amharic Language Wikipedia, which happens to be a project that should welcome lesbians, gays, bissexuals, transgenders, etc.” TeleS (T M @ C S) 01:38, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :Those Ethiopian laws and your discriminating attitude are homophobic and disgusting, and should not be tolerated at all by the Wikimedia Foundation. I am glad User:MarcoAurelio swiftly responded by taking away your permissions. Robin van der Vliet (talk) 01:42, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: No, actually homosexuals are considered subhuman by the vast majority of Ethiopians. Removing my management with no warning or appeal is typical hamfistedness, like Ethiopia dealt with in 1936.! . Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:45, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :I'm sorry, are you advocating war to promote homophobia on Wikipedia? Vermont (talk) 01:49, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: :This is far from acceptable. I am finishing my participation here. I will keep working other ways to rule out this kind of behavior from Wiki.—Teles «Talk to me˱M @ C S˲» 01:54, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :: I don't understand what homophobia is. Only homosexuals seem to know what it means when receive they militantly persecute anyone who dissents from them, with their firebrands and pitchforks. This is not an Amharic-translatable concept, it's not even proper English as it originated in recent decades as a homosexual slang term and no one else really knows what it means. If it means everything in human society that they want to destroy, I suppose it would be what we call not homophobia but  "civilization" - thousands of years of it. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:59, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::Let's have anoter shot at it, shall we?  Language is not owned by a country.  And Ethiopian laws are applicable to only those websites which have their server located in Ethiopia.  Otherwise there is no compulsion.  An example would be: homosexuality is illegal in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  But that does not stop any Arabic language website from using words related to "homosexuality".  And while we are at it, "queer" may also mean "something that is very different from the general trend", and not necessarily pertaining to the sexual orientation.Acagastya (talk) 12:45, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
The block of QueerEcofeminist appears to be wrong, and should be lifted. This is clearly against Wikimedia values as a whole, whatever are the laws of a particular country. This is basically enounced in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was made under the auspices of the United Nations. Specifically, no one should be discriminated for their sexual orientation. Regards, Yann (talk) 10:40, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: QueerEcofeminist block 

message: Hello. Using the sysop tools in a dispute while involved in it, to block editors you disagree with them, is a blatant abuse of the sysop tools. In order to protect the project and its editors from such abusive use of the sysop toolset, I have removed your sysop and bureaucrat permissions. Best regards, --MarcoAurelio (talk) 01:10, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC:
replies: text: I rightfully blocked him, because he is only here to miltitate against our longstanding policy since 2005 against advocacy of homosexuality, which is deeply offensive to Ethiopian culture and a violation of the Ethiopian criminal code. He was making a disturbance and would force people to be unwillingly offended in the service of promoting homosexuality internationally. For you to unilaterally and whimsically remove my management of this wiki without any consensus discussion or process of appeal is the abuse of power and a disgusting disgrace. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:20, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: : Til Eulenspiegel or Codex Sinaiticus, please provide a link to this project's policy with regard to "advocacy of homosexuality" being an instant block offence? Individuals making claims about what they think consensus on this project are, is not the same as providing evidence of consensus. From responses so far, and the apparent near absence of any articles on this project about homosexuality or LGBT+ history, is it reasonable to conclude that attempts to create articles on this topic to improve the Wikipedia would be treated as "advocacy of homosexuality"?

text: : Please take on board that your complaint that your sysop rights were removed without consensus, or process of appeal, is factually incorrect. The action was taken with the justification of high level policies against abusive use of tools, which MarcoAurelio can provide further links to if you are unaware of them. You are free to appeal, or indeed run a consensus vote to have these rights restored.

text: : Ironically, User:QueerEcofeminist has not been allowed the same respect extended to yourself, instead Codex Sinaiticus has denied access to their talk page to appeal the block for having the word "Queer" in their account name. The above block of the projects steward Teles, when they were attempting to assist by asking in a civil fashion about the block, appears to be a coordinated use of sysop privileges actively to suppress discussion about this project's hostile approach to LGBT+ topics. Worryingly, this sets the Amharic Wikipedia community in conflict with WMF policies and stated values. For these reasons the way sysop rights are being used on this Wikipedia has drawn attention from the wider community, and our views as highly experienced Wikimedians, count here as much as they do on any other Wikimedia project we volunteer on, and should be responded to in good faith, factually and without hostility or harassment.

text: : Thanks --Fæ (talk) 02:25, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
I was admin here from 2005. At that time homosexuality was also still considered a crime in the US, by the way. I don't know when wmf adopted this policy of abandoning neutrality and forcing their peculiar values on every language on the globe. But they have never paid me a penny for contributing anything here for free all those years, so I don't feel as if you own me and don't feel obliged to comply with your dictates. It should be known they have a policy of pushing large sums of money around back and forth for anything but contributing which must be voluntary work by the ones you want to do the work. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 02:41, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: In 2003 the United States Supreme Court ruled that homosexuality, in short, is a constitutionally protected right. (Lawrence v. Texas) Regardless, blocking someone for their sexual orientation is quite far from neutral. Vermont (talk) 02:50, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
Sorry to crush your hopes Vermont, but you are not going to convince me of anything, ever! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 03:01, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :: I do not speak for the WMF, never worked for them, nor have I ever been paid a penny for my contributions in any way. The community of volunteers takes part literally to do no more than improve the sum of human knowledge.
replies: text: :: Regardless of the fact that homosexuality is a crime in Ethiopia, this is an irrelevant point as to whether volunteers are free to write about and discuss LGBT+ related topics on the Amharic Wikipedia or whether volunteers who identify as LGBT+ risk arbitrary blocks on this project because they are LGBT+. Writing an article is a neutral act of itself, as articles are intended to be neutral and fact based, not editorials that advocate a single point of view. For these reasons simply writing factual articles about homosexuality is not a crime under Ethiopian law.

text: :: Regardless of personal views about LGBT+ rights or the current Ethiopian law, this project must comply with Wikimedia Foundation hosting policies as described in the website terms of use. Anyone who fundamentally disagrees with those policies, and is seen to actively work against them, by definition is not here to create or improve the encyclopaedia.

text: :: If any administrator uses sysop tools to promote a personal political view, like believing homosexuals are "subhuman", rather than to support the creation and improvement of the encyclopaedia, then by definition they cannot be trusted with sysop tools. --Fæ (talk) 03:06, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
As I said that is what the majority in Ethiopia would think. But to make it clear, let me spell it out, you have ZERO CREDIBILITY with me now so you are rather wasting your time talking to me. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 03:18, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
It is not wrong to have certain political/religious views, but it is inappropriate to force them on others in this manner. I will also note the inflammatory racial terms used here, and this user's indefinite block on enwiki. Quite frankly, I think the desysop was long overdue. --Rschen7754 07:56, 7 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: Indeed. You don't have to approve of homosexuality. That doesn't justify discriminating against homosexual editors. We're not trying to control your speech (your articles are currently essentially under your control). But when you start discriminating against editors based on sexual orientation, that's quite likely illegal in the relevant jurisdiction. Bellezzasolo (talk) 22:39, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :To tell the truth no one has ever been blocked here fo that until QueerEcoFeminist, formerly before last October known as User:SureshKhole. I haven't ever seen anyone else here claiming to have sexual relations with their own gender in nearly 15 years. When I started in 2005, I believe such a username would have been blocked on the English wikpedia even, they wanted everyone to appear neutral meaning not signaling strong allegiance to any cause , even userboxes of any kind were discouraged and opposed vehemently at first. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 22:52, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice of removal of sysop and bureaucrat permissions 

message: Input from the WMF and local editing community should be sought. In terms of the blocks, all users blocked for their sexual orientation should have that block removed immediately. Local project-space should be amended to remove any and all anti-LGBT+ policies. This wiki should probably be removed from the global sysop opt out wikiset, as there are currently only two administrators, one of which is inactive and the other semi-active. This should be overseen by the WMF’s T&S Policy team and/or Stewards. Vermont (talk) 19:46, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Where do you get off demanding all that ? You aren't part of the Amharic-speaking community. You should drop the pesecuting firebrand and pitchfork and find something else to do now. You can't change Ethiopian criminal code, you can't change how Amharic speakers think, you are coming across like the creature from the lagoon and Amharic speakers likely won't cooperate with you. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 20:31, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: : Fun fact, The Wikimedia Foundation is head quartered in San Francisco, California. This means the WMF and its projects (including this wiki) are subject to the laws of the State of California and the laws of the United States. The state of California has legal protections for the LGBTQ+ community in the state's laws and in the state's constitution. In plain speak Ethiopian criminal code doesn't matter, US Law, California Law and to a lesser extent Florida State Law (I vaguely recall something about servers in FL) are what matters. Each of these three entities provide protections from discrimination on the bases of sexuality, or gender identity. This project's policies are in direct conflict with California state law. Also your personal attacks only weaken your argument. How about attacking the argument instead of the person eh? However I would hope the WMF steps in and provides some oversight on the discriminatory practices that have been allowed to take place here.Cameron11598 (talk) 21:29, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: :How are they going to do that exactly? Do they speak Amharic ? I don't know that you will get very far with the Amharic community here. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 21:33, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::To be blunt, it doesn’t matter what the Amharic community here (which insofar has only been you commenting about this) supports as it is both highly offensive and against the purpose of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. In regard to how this will be done, Ethiopian Laws will stop being seen as holding any bearing on the operation of this project. We have found various policies and guidelines referencing them as though they do, and that will need to be changed or outright removed. Vermont (talk) 21:54, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::Lol, good luck ! Rofl Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 21:58, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
Slavery and Colonialism ended a long time ago!
replies: text: ::::User:Vermont, I laughed because you say you found anti-lgbt policies, but to my knowledge we have no policy saying anything about it, and you do not read Amharic, so I don't know how you think you would change anything. The sum total is one user blocked, now unblocked, plus me blocking Teles. Let me state explicitly here as I have on MediaWiki my deep apology for breaking the current wmf rules on sexual orientation names now that I am aware of them and please reconsider your vote as this is the only time I ever blocked a name for that.. Thanks , Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 02:18, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::::You've apologized many times for many different situations. Over your time editing, there has been little improvement in your ability (or lack of) to converse civilly with other editors. You are blocked on multiple wikis, currently indefinitely blocked on the English Wikipedia and English Wikisource. You have been blocked on multiple other wikis whose blocks have since expired. Your accounts have been used for disruption, defamation, and attacks. I do not read Amharic, but your user page is quite clear, as is this policy which you created that is very anti-LGBT, and against the mission of Wikimedia. I have reconsidered my vote, and will not rescind it. Thank you, Vermont (talk) 02:31, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::::::In my defense, :I am only blocked on those two wikis. Wikisource? I don't even remember that now. I have moved on. That policy does not mention lgbt at all, you are mistaken or reading a wrong translation. How do you want it changed?. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 02:42, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::::::If I am reading an incorrect translation, would you mind translating it (or summarizing it) for me? From my position viewing Google Translate, it seems as though you enforce Ethiopian morality laws (which include homosexuality) onwiki, which should not be done. Vermont (talk) 03:00, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)

text: Sure. The google translation is unbelievable junk and as usual gives totally the wrong idea what it says. I will prepare for you a correct translation on the talkpage. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 03:06, 10 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
*I just want to point out the bleeding obvious which seems to have been missed here: this is a language Wikipedia.  Just because a country where that language is spoken has some backwards laws doesn't mean all the people who speak that language agree with said laws.  Wikipedia, in whatever language, is meant to be a neutral encyclopedia, meaning that declaring something wrong just because the aforementioned backwards laws want you to is irrelevant because it means you're not being neutral.  And finally, the Wikimedia Foundation servers, including those which house this incarnation of Wikipedia, are hosted in the United States, where homosexuality and the promotion thereof, is entirely legal, so your local laws don't mean squat.  StraussInTheHouse (talk) 23:08, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :OK. But no other users sexual orientation has ever come up or been an issue here before in 14 years until User:QueerEcofeminist who is already unblocked, so what else would you change? Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:29, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ::So no other editors have been blocked for their sexual orientation or position on LGBT+ rights? Vermont (talk) 23:39, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: :::That's right, Vermont... it never even came up before October '18 with User:QE, I haven't seen any other such name on here, ever. ... Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:49, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Continued discussion 

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replies: text: It seems only a matter of time before I am globally banned from this and all wmf projects. I have been told that Ethiopia is a  "primitive nation" with "backwards laws" and being located in San Francisco, that their laws rule over every language, project as if Ethiopian culture is irrelevant to the direction of the project. This should be of interest to any ministries concerned for Amharic content available online. May the Amharic wikipedia prosper without me... Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 15:56, 11 ጃንዩዌሪ 2019 (UTC)
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message: Hey everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.
We have an idea of what tools could be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project on Meta and post comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.
You can post in your language if you can't write in English.
Johan (WMF) 14:18, 21 ኦገስት 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  New tools and IP masking 

message: Here is the link on Wiki Commons for a PDF of a new, updated English-Amharic Science and Technology Glossary:
Happy translating, to all those editing, translating and creating articles on
Amharic Wikipedia.
                           - Amharic Terminologist -
thread_title:  New English- Amharic Science and Technology Glossary (with table of Mathematical Symbols included). 

message: Hello, there's an active proposal on :m:Steward_requests/Miscellaneous to allow global sysops on amwiki. Amwiki has only two sysops, none of whose is active. I think amwiki will benefit from this. Note: If there will be no oppose, it is likely the proposal will be accepted. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:57, 24 ኦገስት 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: Allowing global sysops on amwiki 

message: Hello, 
In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".
Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians to join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October. 
How can you help?
* Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);
* Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or
* Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.
We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!
-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:14, 30 ሰፕቴምበር 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started 

message: . The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects. 
We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups.  So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.  
We would like individual feedback on the following:
* Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
* Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
* Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far
We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building. 
When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:
* Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
* Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
* Put things in logical and useful places
* Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
* Eliminate clutter
* Plan for future growth
As well as the following constraints:
* Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
* Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
* No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors
Please give all feedback (in any language) at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements 
After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.
 Quiddity (WMF) (talk)
 07:18, 16 ኦክቶበር 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project 

message: A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki: Reference Previews. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.
Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be found on the project page.
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your user preferences and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.
 -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:47, 23 ኦክቶበር 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beta feature "Reference Previews" 

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
=== Help ===
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else?  Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!  
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page.  Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project.  The team wants your examples.  These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
=== Talk pages project ===
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools.  The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page. 
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage.  They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
=== Mobile visual editor ===
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices.  The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
==== Edit Cards ====
* On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
* There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links.  There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
* Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
==== Toolbar ====
* In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar.  Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
** One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar.  Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
**New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
**Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
* Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
=== Wikimania ===
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden.  They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project.  They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors.  You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
=== Looking ahead ===
* Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes.  The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
* Testing the mobile visual editor as the default:  The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
* Measuring the impact of Edit Cards:  This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations.  The Editing team hopes to share results in November.  The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
 11:12, 29 ኦክቶበር 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages 

message: What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else?  Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!  
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page.  Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project.  The team wants your examples.  These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
thread_title:  Help 

message: The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools.  The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page. 
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage.  They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
thread_title:  Talk pages project 

message: The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices.  The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
==== Edit Cards ====
* On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
* There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links.  There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
* Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
==== Toolbar ====
* In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar.  Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
** One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar.  Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
**New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
**Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
* Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
thread_title:  Mobile visual editor 

message: * On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
* There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links.  There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
* Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
thread_title:  [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Edit cards|Edit Cards]] 

message: * In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar.  Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
** One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar.  Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
**New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
**Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
* Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
thread_title:  [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Toolbar refresh|Toolbar]] 

message: The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden.  They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project.  They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors.  You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
thread_title:  Wikimania 

message: * Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes.  The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
* Testing the mobile visual editor as the default:  The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
* Measuring the impact of Edit Cards:  This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations.  The Editing team hopes to share results in November.  The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
</div> 11:12, 29 ኦክቶበር 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking ahead 

message: Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer to our Meta page for organizers.
Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!
For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team on wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you! 
Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:57, 31 ኦክቶበር 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 

message: In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.
Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language. 
Wikipedia Asian Month International Team
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 27 ኖቬምበር 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest 

message: Hello Folks,
Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.
Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:14, 18 ጃንዩዌሪ 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Loves Folklore 

message: Hello
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!
-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 22 ጃንዩዌሪ 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project 

message: Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated. 
You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment.  We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:14, 26 ፌብሩዌሪ 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages 

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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project.  The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.  This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019. 
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now.  This early version can sign and indent comments automatically.  Please test the new Reply tool.  
*On 31 March 2020, the new  tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
*The team is planning some upcoming changes.  Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
**an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"), 
**a rich-text visual editing option, and 
**other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.  
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch  these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
 19:24, 8 ኤፕሪል 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools 

message: Please help us translate the text (in bold) to your language Join WPWP Campaign to improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win a prize. Thanks for your help. T Cells (talk) 08:32, 6 ጁን 2020 (UTC)
ምርጥ አስተማሪ ታሪክ እነሆ!!
በአንድ ወቅት አንድ ቀልጣፋ እንጨት ቆራጭ በአንድ የስራ መስክ በጥሩ ደሞዝ ተቀጠረ።ስለዚህም እንጨት ቆራጩ የሚችለውን ሁሉ ለማድረግ እና ጥሩ ስራ ለመስራት ይወስናል። 
በመጀመሪያው ቀን ሃላፊው መፍለጫ ሰጠውና የሚሰራበትን ቦታ አሳየው። መቁረጥ የሚችላቸው ዛፎች እነዚህ እንደሆኑ አስረድቶት ሄደ።በርግጥም እንጨት ቆራጩ በመጀመሪያው ቀን 15 ዛፎችን ቆርጦ ማስተካከል ቻለ።
በሁለተኛው ቀን የበለጠ ለመስራት ወስኖ ቢሞክርም ከ10ዛፍ በላይ መቁረጥ አልቻለም ነበር።
በሶስተኛው ቀን ከሁለቱ ቀናት የበለጠ ቢተጋም ከ7 ዛፍ በላይ መቁረጥ አልቻለም። 
ቀናቶች ባለፋ ቁርጥ የሚቆርጣቸው ዛፎች መጠን እያነስ እያነስ መሄድ ጀመረ። በስተመጨረሻም አንዲትን ዛፍ መቁረጥ ከበደው። ሞከረ ሞከረ ሊሳካለት አልቻለም።
ይሄኔ ሃይሉን እንዳጣ ተሰማው። ጉልበቴም ከዳኝ ብሎ በማሰብ ላይ ሳለ የሆነ ሌላ ሰው ሲያልፍ ይህንን ሰው አንዲትን ዛፍ ያለጥቅም ሲደበድብ ይመለከተዋል።
"ሰውየው ወደ እንጨት ቆራጩ ጠጋ አለና አንድ ምክር ልምከርህ ትፈቅድልኛለህ?" አለው።
እንጨት ቆራጩም  "አሁን ስራ ላይ ስለሆንኩ ምንም መስማት አልፈልግም" ይለዋል።
ሰውየውም እንዲህ አለው" እየፈለጥክበት ያለከው ፋስ(መፍለጫ) ስለት የለውም ዶምድሟል። ከጥቅም ውጭም ሆኗል። ይህን አውቀህ እረፍት በማድረግ የምትሰራበትን #ፋስ ልታስለው ይገባል" አለው። 
ይሄኔ ይህ እንጨት ቆራጭ ቆም ብሎ አሰበ። እንዲህም አለ"እውነትም ፋሴን አሞረድኩትም። ዛፎችን በመቁረጥ ቢዚ ስለነበርኩ" ብሎ ፋሱን በእርጋታ ሞረደና ከድሮ በተሻለ መልኩ ስራውን በአግባቡ ማከናወን ቀጠለ።
በህይወትህ ውስጥ መለወጥ ያለብህን ነገቅ ለመለወጥ ግዜ አትስጥ። ሁሉንም ነገር በጊዜ ለማከናወን ሞክር።
ሼር ሼር ሼር ሼር ሼር ሼር
thread_title: Urgent Help

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This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
* Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias).  The Beta Feature is called "".  The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
* New requirements for user signatures:  Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
* New discussion tool:  The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
* Research on the use of talk pages:  The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages. 
– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
 20:32, 17 ጁን 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing news 2020 #2 

message: This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.
The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.
Please visit the campaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.
With kind regards,
Thank you,
Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 08:24, 1 ጁላይ 2020 (UTC)
feel free to translate this message to your local language when this helps your community
thread_title:  Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 

message: . Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language.  if necessary. 
There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.
Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter. 
Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.
Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 19:44, 2 ጁላይ 2020 (UTC)
Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.
thread_title:  Feedback on movement names 

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Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors.  Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
* More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
* More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
* The visual editor is increasingly popular.  The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
* In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
* Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor.  Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
* On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
* Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it.  The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
 12:55, 9 ጁላይ 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing news 2020 #3 

message: Hi all,
It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.
This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 Abstract Wikipedia after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.
The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.
As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation User:Denny. We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.
It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.
We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.
There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list Abstract Wikipedia mailing list. We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.
Yours,
Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation) 
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thread_title:  Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia 

message: The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. 
How does it work? 
Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page. 
Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community. 
Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons. 
If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 09:13, 6 ኦገስት 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis 

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre.  This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems. 
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made.  We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. 
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
*You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
*If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.  We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.  If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.  Then you should be able to save your edit.  But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
*Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
*There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020.  Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary.  You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.  There will be more notifications about this.  Please share this information with your community. 
 Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:48, 26 ኦገስት 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important: maintenance operation on September 1st 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform: 
* Al Manhal – Arabic journals and ebooks
* Ancestry.com – Genealogical and historical records
* RILM – Music encyclopedias
Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.
A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 09:49, 3 ሴፕቴምበር 2020 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020) 

message: . Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. . 
We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.
The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too. 
To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.
To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.
Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 17:55, 10 ሴፕቴምበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invitation to participate in the conversation 

message: .
. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.  --Quiddity (WMF) 21:19, 29 ሴፕቴምበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki of functions naming contest 

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Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.
 Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:17, 7 ኦክቶበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric 

message: .
The Editing team is working on mw:Talk pages project/replying.  The Reply tool is one result of the big mw:Talk pages consultation 2019.  Editing is planning to offer the Reply tool to your community as a Beta Feature soon, probably on Wednesday, 14 October.  The Reply tool has been used to make more than 25,000 comments at about 20 wikis so far.
The Editing team is particularly interested in learning how well this works for you, and whether the font size is correct for Amharic.
Here's what you need to know:
* Using the Reply tool is optional.  The Beta Featurer will be turned off.  If you want to try it, you will need to go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and turn it on next Wednesday (or maybe Thursday).
* There are a few things that you might want to check.
** Check mw:Help:DiscussionTools/Why can't I reply to this comment? for information about "unsigned" templates and other information.
** Some languages use a particular style for signatures.  For example, Japanese does not add a space between the comment and the signature.  I don't think that's the case here, but if I've guessed wrong, then you can define the signature format for all users at MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix.
** Missing or wrong translations can be fixed at Translatewiki.net.
* If you have questions or encounter problems, please leave a note at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/replying.  That's the fastest way to reach the devs.
If you have questions or concerns about this Beta Feature, please contact me.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 03:30, 10 ኦክቶበር 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The Beta Feature is available now in Special:Preferences. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:21, 14 ኦክቶበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Beta Feature next week 

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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers.  This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems. 
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, October 27 2020.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made.  We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. 
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
*You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
*If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.  We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.  If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.  Then you should be able to save your edit.  But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
*Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
*There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020.  Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary.  You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.  There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community. -- Trizek (WMF) (talk)  17:10, 21 ኦክቶበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important: maintenance operation on October 27 

message: .
Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki.
 --Quiddity (WMF)
 22:10, 5 ኖቬምበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2 

message: The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open!
This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on , or comment on other proposals to help make them better.
The communities will vote on the proposals between  and .
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors.
You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
18:09, 20 ኖቬምበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Invitation|Community Wishlist Survey 2021]] 

message: !
I apologize for sending a message in English. . According to the list, your wiki project currently is opted in to the global bot policy. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that is assigned directly by the stewards.
As the Wikimedia projects developed, the need for the current global bot policy decreased, and in the past years, no bots were appointed via that policy. That is mainly given Wikidata were estabilished in 2013, and it is no longer necessary to have dozens of bots that maintain interwiki links.
A proposal was made at Meta-Wiki, which proposes that the stewards will be authorized to determine whether an uncontroversial task may be assigned a global bot flag. The stewards already assign permissions that are more impactful on many wikis, namely, global sysops and global renamers, and I do not think that trust should be an issue. The stewards will assign the permission only to time-proven bots that are already approved at a number of projects, like ListeriaBot.
By this message, I would like to invite you to comment in the global RFC, to voice your opinion about this matter.
Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
Martin Urbanec () 11:49, 24 ኖቬምበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion 

message: Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!
As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.
Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.
This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.
Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.
If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!
Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:39, 30 ኖቬምበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist 

message: Hello.  .
The mw:Editing team is building the Reply tool.  This new tool was requested during the mw:Talk pages consultation 2019.  If you want, you can turn it on now at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures.
The Editing team would like to test the tool.  They want to study whether it works better, especially for new editors.  In the test, they will turn on the Reply tool for half of editors sometime during the week of 14 December 2020.  They will not change preferences for the other editors.  You will still be able to turn it on or off yourself in Special:Preferences.
The test will run for several weeks.  The results will be posted at mw:Talk pages project/replying#Metrics in late January or February.  The test results will help Wikipedia editors and the Editing team decide whether the tool should be turned on for everyone.
If your Wikipedia does not want to participate in this test, please contact me as soon as possible.  Thank you.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:03, 2 ዲሴምበር 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Update:  The test will start in January 2021 instead.  Thank you for your understanding,  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:39, 18 ዲሴምበር 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: :This (finally) started today.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:05, 12 ፌብሩዌሪ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  A/B test for the Reply tool 

message: Hello all,
The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!
You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:55, 7 ዲሴምበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th 

message: We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until  for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
You can view and vote all proposals here.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
00:52, 15 ዲሴምበር 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Wishlist Survey 2021 

message: Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, interface administrator, etc.) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no logged actions for more than 2 years):
#Elfalem (administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --علاء (talk) 15:27, 12 ጃንዩዌሪ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  IMPORTANT: Admin activity review 

message: . Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. . 
Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning
process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l. 
ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, 15:15, 27 ጃንዩዌሪ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event 

message: This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021. This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.
For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building.  We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:
* Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
* Video tutorials for writing a strong application
* General planning page for Project Grants 
* Program guidelines and criteria
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!
Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantswikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:01, 28 ጃንዩዌሪ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Grant Open Call 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up to access research materials on the Library Card platform: 
* Taxmann – Taxation and law database
* PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
* EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021) 

message: You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.
Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:25, 6 ፌብሩዌሪ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back! 

message: Greetings! 
You are invited to participate in Feminism and Folklore writing contest. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia. folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, etc.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles centered on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch-hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articles here. 
You can also support us in translating the project page and help us spread the word in your native language. 
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Thank you. 
Feminism and Folklore team,
Joy Agyepong (talk) 02:40, 16 ፌብሩዌሪ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feminism & Folklore 1 February - 31 March 

message: Hello everyone,
I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: :m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.
In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.
This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.
As far as I can see,  currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.
I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see :m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.
Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.
Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) 14:11, 18 ፌብሩዌሪ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally 

message: . Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-Wiki.  --Quiddity (WMF) 01:46, 2 ማርች 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikifunctions logo contest 

message: !
Apologies as this message is not in your native language, .
Content translation has been successful in supporting the translation process on many Wikipedia communities, and we want to help additional wikis with the potential to grow using translation as part of a new initiative.
Content translation facilitates the creation of Wikipedia articles by translating content from other languages. It has been used already to create more than half a million articles. In addition, the tool provides mechanisms to encourage the creation of good quality content, preventing the publication of lightly edited machine translations. In general, our analysis shows that the translations produced are less likely to be deleted than the articles started from scratch.
Amharic Wikipedia editors have used Content translation to create more than fifty articles. Given the size of the editing community, we think that there is potential to use translation to create more articles, expand existing ones, and attract new editors that learn how to make productive edits. Translation can help the community to reduce the language gap with other languages and grow the number of editors in a sustainable way. In order to achieve this goal, we want to collaborate with you to make Content translation more visible in the Amharic Wikipedia and support new ways to translate.
As a first step, during the next weeks, we plan to enable Content translation by default on Amharic Wikipedia. That will make it easy for users to discover the tool through several entry points. However, users not interested in translation will still be able to disable it from their preferences.
Please feel free to share any comment in this conversation thread.
Thanks! 
UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 19:56, 8 ማርች 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm interested in the use of Content translation for Amharic. In addition to the current machine translation systems. I would like to explore the use of Lesan AI for Amharic. Asmelash Teka (talk) 15:11, 20 ሜይ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the translation support for Amharic Wikipedia  

message: === Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 ===
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.
==== Drafting Committee: Call for applications ====
The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.
==== 2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators ====
From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.
-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) 21:53, 5 ኤፕሪል 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations 

message: The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.
==== Drafting Committee: Call for applications ====
The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.
==== 2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators ====
From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.
-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) 21:53, 5 ኤፕሪል 2021 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 

message: The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.
thread_title:  Drafting Committee: Call for applications 

message: From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.
-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) 21:53, 5 ኤፕሪል 2021 (UTC)
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thread_title:  2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators 

message: !
I apologize for sending a message in English. . According to the list, your wiki project is currently opted in to the global bot policy. As such, I want to let you know about some changes that were made after the global RfC was closed.
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thread_title:  Global bot policy changes 

message: From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror extension), which is supported in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors. 
More information can be found on this project page. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.
 -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 15:06, 12 ኤፕሪል 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line numbering coming soon to all wikis 

message: From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to TemplateData and will then be shown as a drop-down list in VisualEditor. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.
More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values: [1] [2]. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.
 Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 14:08, 22 ኤፕሪል 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested Values 

message: This is a call for volunteers and contributors to try out translating English Wikipedia articles to Amharic using Lesan AI. The idea is to simultaneously explore the use of machine translation in general and to test if Lesan's translation output is good enough to help contributors in order to increase the coverage of Amharic articles.
Asmelash Teka (talk) 14:19, 20 ሜይ 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Machine Assisted Translation of English Wikipedia Articles to Amharic 

message: Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021Read the full newsletter
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Welcome to the first issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to subscribe here.
You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please add your name here if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.
* Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
* 2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
* Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
* Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
* Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:05, 11 ጁን 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1 

message: Dear all,
Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.
Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.
Below are some links to guide you through;
* Program Submissions
* Session Submission Guidelines
* FAQ
Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021. 
Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here. 
Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have.  Details can be found here.
Best regards,
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:18, 16 ጁን 2021 (UTC)
On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team
thread_title:  Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions 

message: ይህንን በሌላ ቋንቋ ያንብቡ • የዚህ ባለ ብዙ-ቋንቋ መጽሔት የምዝገባ ዝርዝር
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool.  The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki.  The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
* Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
* The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months.  This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study.  After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "" in Beta Features now.  After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
 14:13, 24 ጁን 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing news 2021 #2 

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Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made.  We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. 
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
*You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST,  23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
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thread_title:  Server switch 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library is pleased to announce the addition of new collections, alongside a new interface design. New collections include:
* Cabells – Scholarly and predatory journal database
* Taaghche -  Persian language e-books
* Merkur, Musik & Ästhetik, and Psychologie, Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse - German language magazines and journals published by Klett-Cotta
* Art Archiv, Capital, Geo, Geo Epoche, and Stern - German language newspapers and magazines published by Gruner + Jahr
Additionally, De Gruyter and Nomos have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Wikipedia. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in to The Wikipedia Library with your Wikimedia login!
We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on the project page on Meta.
Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (T132084). If you can translate the notification please do so at TranslateWiki!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 13:23, 11 ኦገስት 2021 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library collections and design update (August 2021) 

message: Here is a link to a RFC on Meta concerning all Wikimedia projects. Best, Lionel Scheepmans (talk) 00:13, 17 ኦገስት 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment notification 

message: The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.
These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.
Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.
There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines: 
replies: text: Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)

text: Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC

text: Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC
Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Xeno (WMF) 23:19, 17 ኦገስት 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review 

message: Hello, all. I have good news about the mw:Talk pages project.  .
* We have finally scheduled the deployment of mw:Talk pages project/Replying, which puts the [] button on talk pages.  Thank you again for being part of the test that showed the tool was successful.  When this change happens, everyone will have the Reply tool turned on.  You will be able to turn it off in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.  You can read more about it at mw:Help:DiscussionTools.
* If you have enabled "" in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures, you will get a new feature.  The new feature adds a [] button to each ==Level 2 section== on a talk page.  If you subscribe to the section, then you will get Special:Notifications if someone adds a new comment to that section (but not if they fix typos or edit other parts of the page).  This can be very helpful on busy pages, especially if you only want to follow one conversations.  Please try it out and share your thoughts at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.
These changes are currently scheduled for Wednesday, 25 August, probably around 23:00 UTC.  Please let me know if you have any questions. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 20 ኦገስት 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The mw:Talk pages project/Replying deployment has been delayed. It should happen next week instead. I apologize for the delay.  The subscriptions part is already available in Beta Features. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:58, 27 ኦገስት 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion tools update 

message: Thank you for participating in the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the Elections Committee completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.
6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the data produced during the election.
Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.
10:03, 2 ሴፕቴምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end 

message: Hello everyone,
We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.
Summary:
We will be running the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.
=== Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year ===
In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
=== Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities ===
We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
=== A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet ===
We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
=== Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase ===
If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
=== Feedback ===
* What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
* How would you like to use our new sandbox?
* What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
* What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:23, 7 ሴፕቴምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January 

message: In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
thread_title:  Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year 

message: We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
thread_title:  Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities 

message: We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
thread_title:  A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet 

message: If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
thread_title:  Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase 

message: * What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
* How would you like to use our new sandbox?
* What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
* What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
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SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:23, 7 ሴፕቴምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feedback 

message: Movement Strategy announces the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.
The Committee is expected to represent diversity in the Movement. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.
We are looking for people who have some of the following skills:
* Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus) 
* Are ready to find compromises. 
* Focus on inclusion and diversity. 
* Have knowledge of community consultations. 
* Have intercultural communication experience. 
* Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities. 
* Have experience negotiating with different parties. 
The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.
Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy here. Please contact strategy2030wikimedia.org with questions.
Xeno (WMF) 17:01, 10 ሴፕቴምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021 

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They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, 14 September 2021.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. 
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*You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
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This project may be postponed if necessary.  You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community. SGrabarczuk (WMF) () 00:45, 11 ሴፕቴምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Server switch 

message: Read this message in another language • 
Hello!
As we have recently announced, we, the team working on the Community Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on September 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.
Agenda
* How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
* Why we decided to change the date from November 2021 to January 2022
* Update on the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes
* Questions and answers
Format
The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Natalia Rodriguez (the Community Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.
Invitation link
* Join online
* Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
* One tap mobile
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See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) () 03:03, 11 ሴፕቴምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk to the Community Tech 

message: Into 2021-10-04 11:59:59 UTC you can select question statements for the candidates of Drafting Committee Movement Charter. ✍️ Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 21:33, 29 ሴፕቴምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Select You the question statements for candidates of Drafting Committee Movement Charter 

message: Hello.  .
The mw:Editing team is building the New Discussion tool.  This new tool was requested during the mw:Talk pages consultation 2019.  You can turn on "" now at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures.  It changes the "" button.  It makes "" work more like the [] button.  It has both visual and wikitext source modes.  It will add your signature automatically.
The Editing team wants to test the New Discussion tool.  Your Wikipedia helped with the study about the  tool.  That study was useful and had clear, positive results.  They ask you to help again with a new test.  They want to learn whether the New Discussion tool works better, especially for new editors.  In the test, they will turn on the New Discussion tool for half of editors.  They will not change preferences for the other editors.  You will still be able to turn it on or off yourself in Special:Preferences.
The test will run for several weeks.  It will probably start in November 2021.  The results will be posted at mw:Talk pages project/New discussion.  The test results will help Wikipedia editors and the Editing team decide whether the tool should be turned on for everyone.
If your Wikipedia does not want to participate in this test, please contact me as soon as possible.  Thank you. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:30, 7 ኦክቶበር 2021 (UTC)
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thread_title:  A/B test for New Discussion Tool 

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Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.
Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.
The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.
Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>
Learn about the Drafting Committee: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>
We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>
Read the full announcement: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>
Go vote at SecurePoll on: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>
Best,
Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation
Xeno (WMF) 02:25, 14 ኦክቶበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open 

message: Movement Strategy Implementation grants now provide more than $2,000 USD to put Movement Strategy plans into action. Find out more about Movement Strategy Implementation grants, the criteria, and how to apply.
MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 13:30, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Learn how Movement Strategy Implementation Grants can support your Movement Strategy plans 

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The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.
* The election results have been published. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan), Ciell (Ciell).
* The affiliate process has selected six members: Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati), Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini), Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin), Georges Fodouop (Geugeor), Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur), Pepe Flores (Padaguan).
* The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed two members: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF), Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)).
The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.
If you are interested in engaging with Movement Charter drafting process, follow the updates on Meta and join the Telegram group.
With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team
15:53, 5 ኖቬምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members 

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The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.
While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:
* What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?
* What involvement should candidates have during the election?
While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.
Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?
Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msgwikimedia.org.
Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
 Xeno (WMF) 17:56, 27 ዲሴምበር 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections 

message: You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.
You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance. 
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:14, 9 ጃንዩዌሪ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Loves Folklore is back! 

message: Greetings! You are invited to participate in Feminism and Folklore 2022 writing competion. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles focused on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articles here.
You can also support us in organizing the contest on your local Wikipedia by signing up your community to participate in this project and also translating the project page and help us spread the word in your native language. 
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Feel free to contact us on our talk page or via Email if you need any assistance... 
Thank you.
Feminism and Folklore Team,
Tiven2240
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thread_title:  Feminism and Folklore 2022 

message: Dear community members, 
Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us by subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or by sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context. 
If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.
Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the complete archive.
More information about the newsletter can be found at Education/Newsletter/About.
For more information, please contact spatnaikwikimedia.org.
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thread_title:  Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories 

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Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter
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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.
This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.
*Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
*Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
*Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
*The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
*Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)
Xeno (WMF) 03:27, 29 ጃንዩዌሪ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5 

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Hello everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a statement on the ratification process for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines.
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by volunteer-staff drafting committees following community consultations.
The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. There is a list of changes made to the guidelines after the enforcement draft guidelines review. Comments about the guidelines can be shared on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page on Meta-wiki.
To help to understand the guidelines and process, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team will be hosting Conversation Hours on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Join the conversation hours to speak with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members about the updated guidelines and voting process.
The timeline is available on Meta-wiki. The voting period is March 7 to 21. All eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the Enforcement guidelines, and share why. See the voting information page for more details.
Many participants from across the movement have provided valuable input in these ongoing conversations. The UCoC and MSG teams want to thank the Drafting Committee and the community members for their contributions to this process. 
Sincerely,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation
Xeno (WMF) 03:55, 4 ፌብሩዌሪ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review 

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The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.
The team is looking for feedback about the responsibilities of the Leadership Development Task Force. This Meta page shares the proposal for a Leadership Development Task Force and how you can help. Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.
Xeno (WMF) 02:35, 9 ፌብሩዌሪ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated</span> 

message: Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,
We are pleased to inform you that Wiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the 15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.
We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.
Best wishes,
International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:50, 22 ፌብሩዌሪ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March 

message: === Several improvements around templates ===
Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:
* Fundamental improvements of the VisualEditor template dialog (1, 2),
* Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (3) (for the template dialogs in VisualEditor, 2010 Wikitext and New Wikitext Mode),
* and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension CodeMirror (4, 5) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).
All these changes are part of the “Templates” project by WMDE Technical Wishes. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.  - Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12:38, 28 ፌብሩዌሪ 2022 (UTC)
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message: Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:
* Fundamental improvements of the VisualEditor template dialog (1, 2),
* Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (3) (for the template dialogs in VisualEditor, 2010 Wikitext and New Wikitext Mode),
* and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension CodeMirror (4, 5) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).
All these changes are part of the “Templates” project by WMDE Technical Wishes. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects. </div> - Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12:38, 28 ፌብሩዌሪ 2022 (UTC)
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Hello everyone,
A vote in SecurePoll from 7 to 21 March 2022 is scheduled as part of the ratification process for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement guidelines. Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments. Read voter information and eligibility details. During the poll, voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct based on the proposed guidelines.
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. A Wikimedia Foundation Board statement calls for a ratification process where eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the UCoC Enforcement guidelines in a vote. Wikimedians are invited to translate and share important information. For more information about the UCoC, please see the project page and frequently asked questions on Meta-wiki.
There are events scheduled to learn more and discuss:
* A community panel recorded on 18 February 2022 shares perspectives from small- and medium-sized community participants.
* The Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team is hosting Conversation Hours on 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Please sign-up to interact with the project team and the drafting committee about the updated enforcement guidelines and the ratification process. See the Conversation Hour summaries for notes from 4 February 2022 and 25 February 2022.
You can comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact either team by email: msgwikimedia.org or ucocprojectwikimedia.org
Sincerely,
Movement Strategy and Governance 
Wikimedia Foundation 
Xeno (WMF) 02:17, 2 ማርች 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Remember to Participate in the UCoC Conversations and Ratification Vote!</span> 

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Hello everyone,
The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is now open! Voting commenced on SecurePoll on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can read more about the UCoC project.
You can also comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact the team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org
Sincerely,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation
Xeno (WMF) 00:52, 8 ማርች 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022</span> 

message: Hello! 
The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to the next event about "Regional and Thematic Hubs". The Wikimedia Movement is in the process of understanding what Regional and Thematic Hubs should be. Our workshop in November was a good start (read the report), but we're not finished yet. 
Over the last weeks we conducted about 16 interviews with groups working on establishing a Hub in their context (see Hubs Dialogue). These interviews informed a report that will serve as a foundation for discussion on March 12. The report is planned to be published on March 9.
The event will take place on March 12, 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Zoom. Interpretation will be provided in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. Registration is open, and will close on March 10. Anyone interested in the topic is invited to join us. More information on the event on Meta-wiki.
Best regards,
Kaarel VaidlaMovement Strategy
01:31, 10 ማርች 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Invitation to Hubs event: Global Conversation on 2022-03-12 at 13:00 UTC</span> 

message: International photographic contest  Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners. 
(Facebook , Twitter  , Instagram)
The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your local Wikipedia is participating
A special competition called Wiki Loves Falles is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and Falles in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on  Catalan Wikipedia project page.
We look forward for your immense co-operation.
Thanks 
Wiki Loves Folklore international Team
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:40, 14 ማርች 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow 

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Hello everyone,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the feedback period for the Leadership Development Working Group initiative. A summary of the feedback can be found on Meta-wiki. This feedback will be shared with the working group to inform their work. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and will close on April 10, 2022. Please review the information about the working group, share with community members who might be interested, and apply if you are interested.
Thank you,
From the Community Development team
Xeno (WMF) 02:20, 18 ማርች 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Leadership Development Working Group: Apply to join! (14 March to 10 April 2022)</span> 

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Hello, all.  
The mw:Talk pages project would like to offer a new [] button to half of the editors here.  The new [] button will appear on each ==Section== of a talk page with comments.  If you click the new [] button, you will "subscribe" or "follow" the discussion.  You will get a message in Special:Notifications when someone posts a comment in that section.  
This is only for 50% of logged-in editors (not IPs).  Existing editors will need to click the new button to subscribe to a discussion.  New editors will be automatically subscribed to all topics that they start.  The Editing team hopes this will help new editors communicate with you.  You can test the [] button now, on this page, by clicking on https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%8D%E1%8A%AD%E1%8D%94%E1%8B%B2%E1%8B%AB_%E1%8B%8D%E1%8B%AD%E1%8B%AD%E1%89%B5:%E1%88%9D%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%AD%E1%8C%8C?dtenable=1
You can learn more and talk to the Editing team at mw:Talk pages project/Notifications.  If you don't like it, you can turn it off in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
This could be offered here in a couple of weeks.  Please tell me if your Wikipedia does not want to try this. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 04:34, 24 ማርች 2022 (UTC)
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text: Thank you for participating in this test.  Because this tool helps people, the Editing team will enable this tool for everyone soon.  If you do not like it, you can turn it off "" or "" in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:46, 16 ኦገስት 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A/B test for topic subscriptions 

message: Feminism and Folklore 2022 which is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia ends soon that is on 31 March 2022 11:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to write about feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics such as folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more
Keep an eye on the project page for declaration of Winners. 
We look forward for your immense co-operation.
Thanks 
Wiki Loves Folklore international Team
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:28, 26 ማርች 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feminism and Folklore 2022 ends soon 

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Greetings,
The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over  Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.
The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language. You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Xeno (WMF) 01:53, 30 ማርች 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed</span> 

message: Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 6, April 2022Read the full newsletter
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Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.
This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.
*Leadership Development - A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (continue reading)
*Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! - The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (continue reading)
*Movement Discussions on Hubs - The Global Conversation event on Regional and Thematic Hubs was held on Saturday, March 12, and was attended by 84 diverse Wikimedians from across the movement. (continue reading)
*Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! - Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (continue reading)
*The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! - The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (continue reading)
*Introducing Movement Strategy Weekly - Contribute and Subscribe! - The MSG team have just launched the updates portal, which is connected to the various Movement Strategy pages on Meta-wiki. Subscriber to get  up-to-date news about the various ongoing projects. (continue reading)
*Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about Movement Strategy on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)
Also, a draft of the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan has been published. Input is being sought on-wiki and during several conversations with Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander.
See full announcement on Meta-wiki. Xeno (WMF) 01:45, 22 ኤፕሪል 2022 (UTC)
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message: Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library has free access to new paywalled reliable sources. You can these and dozens more collections at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/:
* Wiley – journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences
* OECD – OECD iLibrary, Data, and Multimedia​​ published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
* SPIE Digital Library – journals and eBooks on optics and photonics applied research
Many other sources are freely available for experienced editors, including collections which recently became accessible to all eligible editors: Cambridge University Press, BMJ, AAAS, Érudit and more.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: log in today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 13:16, 26 ኤፕሪል 2022 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now - April 2022 

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The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the 2017 Wikitext Editor (beta) will be improved fundamentally: 
This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters. 
* project page, talk page
In syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), you can activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme with a user setting. 
* project page, talk page
Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from WMDE Technical Wishes' focus area “Templates”. 
We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!
 -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 11:13, 29 ኤፕሪል 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coming soon: Improvements for templates 

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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages.  New editors are more successful with this new tool.  You can read the report.  Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test.  You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:54, 2 ሜይ 2022 (UTC)
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The Board of Trustees seeks candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election. Read more on Meta-wiki.
The 2022 Board of Trustees election is here! Please consider submitting your candidacy to serve on the Board of Trustees.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.
The Wikimedia community will vote to fill two seats on the Board in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board as a team.
;Who are potential candidates? Are you a potential candidate? Find out more on the Apply to be a Candidate page.
Thank you for your support, 
Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees
10:39, 10 ሜይ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates 

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Hello all,
We'd like to provide an update on the work on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct.  After the conclusion of the community vote on the guidelines in March, the Community Affairs committee (CAC) of the Board asked that several areas of the guidelines be reviewed for improvements before the Board does its final review. These areas were identified based on community discussions and comments provided during the vote. The CAC also requested review of the controversial Note in 3.1 of the UCoC itself.
Once more, a big thank you to all who voted, especially to all who left constructive feedback and comments!  The project team is working with the Board to establish a timeline for this work, and will communicate this next month. 
Members of the two prior UCoC Drafting Committees have generously offered their time to help shape improvements to the Guidelines. You can read more about them and their work here, as well as read summaries of their weekly meetings in 2022. 
Wikimedians have provided many valuable comments together with the vote and in other conversations. Given the size and diversity of the Wikimedia community, there are even more voices out there who can give ideas on how to improve the enforcement guidelines and add even more valuable ideas to the process. To help the Revisions committee identify improvements, input on several questions for the committee’s review is requested. Visit the Meta-wiki pages (Enforcement Guidelines revision discussions, Policy text revision discussions) to get your ideas to the Committee - it is very important that viewpoints are heard from different communities before the Committee begins drafting revision proposals.
On behalf of the UCoC project team 
Xeno (WMF) 22:56, 3 ጁን 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines</span> 

message: Hi, Greetings
The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images here
Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.
We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.
Thank you,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:12, 4 ጁላይ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out! 

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Hi all,
Community members in the 2022 Board of Trustees election are invited to propose statements to use in the Election Compass.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/disagree/neutral). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
;Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:
* July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
* July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
* July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
* August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
* August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
* August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 11:34, 14 ጁላይ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass 

message: Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 7, July-September 2022Read the full newsletter 
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Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's Movement Strategy recommendations, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.  
The MSG Newsletter is delivered quarterly, while the more frequent Movement Strategy Weekly will be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.
 
* Movement sustainability: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (continue reading)
* Improving user experience: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
* Safety and inclusion: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (continue reading)
* Equity in decisionmaking: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (continue reading)
* Stakeholders coordination: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (continue reading)
* Leadership development: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (continue reading)
* Internal knowledge management: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (continue reading)
* Innovate in free knowledge: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (continue reading)
* Evaluate, iterate, and adapt: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (continue reading)
* Other news and updates: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (continue reading)
Thank you for reading! RamzyM (WMF) 01:37, 18 ጁላይ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7</span> 

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Hi everyone,
The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The selected 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:
* Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious)
* Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak)
* Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77)
* Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)
* Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
* Mike Peel (Mike Peel)
You may see more information about the Results and Statistics of this Board election.
Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate Representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. These hours of volunteer work connect us across understanding and perspective. Thank you for your participation.
Thank you to the community members who put themselves forward as candidates for the Board of Trustees. Considering joining the Board of Trustees is no small decision. The time and dedication candidates have shown to this point speaks to their commitment to this movement. Congratulations to those candidates who have been selected. A great amount of appreciation and gratitude for those candidates not selected. Please continue to share your leadership with Wikimedia.
Thank you to those who followed the Affiliate process for this Board election. You may review the results of the Affiliate selection process.
The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period. You may view the Board election timeline here. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with in the following ways:
* Read candidates’ statements and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.
* Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A.
* See the Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement.
* Propose statements for the Election Compass voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
* Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
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MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 14:03, 27 ጁላይ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election 

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Hi all,
Volunteers in the 2022 Board of Trustees election are invited to vote for statements to use in the Election Compass. You can vote for the statements you would like to see included in the Election Compass on Meta-wiki.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/disagree/neutral). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:
*July 8 - 20: Volunteers propose statements for the Election Compass
*July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
*July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
*August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
*August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
*August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August
Best, 
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
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MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 21:01, 27 ጁላይ 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vote for Election Compass Statements 

message: Amharic Wikipedians!
Apologies as this message is not in Amharic language, .
The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know that we will like to enable the Section translation tool in Amharic Wikipedia. For this, our team will love you to read about the tool and test it so you can:
* Give us your feedback
* Ask us questions
* Tell us how to improve it.
Below is background information about Section translation, why we have chosen your community, and how to test it.
Background information
Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. More than one million articles have been created across all languages since the tool was released in 2015. The Wikimedia Foundation Language team has improved the translation experience further with the Section Translation. The WMF Language team enabled the early version of the tool in February 2021 in Bengali Wikipedia. Through their feedback, the tool was improved and ready for your community to test and help us with feedback to make it better.
Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:
* Guide you to translate one section at a time in order to expand existing articles or create new ones.
* Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device.
Amharic Wikipedia seems an ideal candidate to enjoy this new tool since it has Content Translation tool enabled by default.
We plan to enable the tool on Amharic Wikipedia in the coming weeks if there are no objections from your community. After it is enabled, we’ll monitor the content created with the tool and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to raise any concerns or questions you may already have in any of the following formats:
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Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in our testing instance. Once it is enabled on Amharic Wikipedia, you’ll have access to https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation with your mobile device. You can select an article to translate, and machine translation will be provided as a starting point for editors to improve.
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Thanks, and we look forward to your feedback and questions.
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===Section Translation tool enabled in Amharic Wikipedia===
Hello Friends!
 
The Language team is pleased to let you know that the Section Translation tool is now enabled in Amharic Wikipedia. It means you can translate real content one section at a time using your mobile devices with ease.
Now you can also start translating an article on your mobile device right when you notice it is missing in Amharic . From a Wikipedia article in any language, switch languages and search for አማርኛ. If the article does not exist, an option to translate it will appear, as shown in the image below.
 
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The Language team is pleased to let you know that the Section Translation tool is now enabled in Amharic Wikipedia. It means you can translate real content one section at a time using your mobile devices with ease.
Now you can also start translating an article on your mobile device right when you notice it is missing in Amharic . From a Wikipedia article in any language, switch languages and search for አማርኛ. If the article does not exist, an option to translate it will appear, as shown in the image below.
 
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Hi everyone,
The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:
* Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
* Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions
* Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
MNadzikiewicz (WMF)
thread_title:  The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period is now open 

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Hello everyone,
The Movement Strategy Forum (MS Forum) is a multilingual collaborative space for all conversations about Movement Strategy implementation. 
We are inviting all Movement participants to collaborate on the MS Forum. The goal of the forum is to build community collaboration, using an inclusive multilingual platform.
The Movement Strategy is a collaborative effort to imagine and build the future of the Wikimedia Movement. Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy, from a comment to a full-time project.
;Join this forum with your Wikimedia account, engage in conversations, and ask questions in your language.
The Movement Strategy and Governance team (MSG) launched the proposal for the MS Forum in May 2022. There was a 2-month community review period, which ended on 24 July 2022. The community review process included several questions that resulted in interesting conversations. You can read the Community Review Report. 
We look forward to seeing you at the MS Forum! 
Best regards,
the Movement Strategy and Governance Team
User:MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 11:32, 29 ኦገስት 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum 

message: Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average 87% of active logged-in users of those wikis use Vector 2022.
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skins. No changes are expected for users of these skins.
Screenshot Historia da moeda do Tíbet - 2022-09-22 - Vector 2010 top.png|Vector legacy (current default)
Screenshot Historia da moeda do Tíbet - 2022-09-22 - Vector 2022 top.png|Vector 2022
Screenshot Historia da moeda do Tíbet - 2022-09-22 - Vector 2010 scrolled.png|Vector legacy (current default)
Screenshot Historia da moeda do Tíbet - 2022-09-22 - Vector 2022 scrolled.png|Vector 2022
=== About the skin ===
[Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects. The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.
[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes and test results] The skin introduces a series of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
* The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
* The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
* The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
* The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in your preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.
=== How can editors change and customize this skin? ===
It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out our repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own. 
=== Our plan ===
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.
Request for more time to discuss the change
If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 04:14, 22 ሴፕቴምበር 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks? 

message: [Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects. The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.
[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes and test results] The skin introduces a series of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
* The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
* The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
* The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
* The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in your preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.
thread_title:  About the skin 

message: It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out our repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.
thread_title:  How can editors change and customize this skin? 

message: If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.
Request for more time to discuss the change
If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 04:14, 22 ሴፕቴምበር 2022 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Our plan 

message: Hello. I'm sorry for not communicating in your language. I'll be grateful if you translated my message. I'm writing on behalf of the Web team working on the new skin, Vector 2022.
We wanted to apologize for the delays in the deployment of Vector 2022. We know many of you are waiting for this eagerly. We have been delaying the deployment because we have been working on the logos. It has taken us more time than originally expected. Once the logos are ready, we will let you know the exact date of deployment. We are planning for either the next (more likely) or the following week. If your wiki doesn't currently have a localized logo, we encourage you to reach out to us and we can help make one.
We invite you to get involved in the project. Contact us if you have any questions or need any help, particularly with the compatibility of gadgets and user scripts. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 23:24, 19 ኦክቶበር 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update on Vector 2022 

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Hello all, 
During the 2022 Wikimedia Summit, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) presented the first outline of the Movement Charter, giving a glimpse on the direction of its future work, and the Charter itself. The MCDC then integrated the initial feedback collected during the Summit. Before proceeding with writing the Charter for the whole Movement, the MCDC wants to interact with community members and gather feedback on the drafts of the three sections: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement). The Movement Charter drafts will be available on the Meta page here on November 14, 2022. Community wide consultation period on MC will take place from November 20 to December 18, 2022. Learn more about it here. 
With the goal of ensuring that people are well informed to fully participate in the conversations and are empowered to contribute their perspective on the Movement Charter, three “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter" sessions have been scheduled in different time zones. Everyone in the Wikimedia Movement is invited to attend these conversations. The aim is to learn about Movement Charter - its goal, purpose, why it matters, and how it impacts your community. MCDC members will attend these sessions to answer your questions and hear community feedback.     
The “Ask Me Anything” sessions accommodate communities from different time zones. Only the presentation of the session is recorded and shared afterwards, no recording of conversations. Below is the list of planned events: 
*Asia/Pacific: November 4, 2022 at 09:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Chinese and Japanese.
* Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in  Arabic, French and Russian.  
* North and South America/ Western Europe: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Spanish and Portuguese. 
On the Meta page you will find more details; Zoom links will be shared 48 hours ahead of the call.
Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors
Individuals or groups from all communities who wish to help include and start conversations in their communities on the Movement Charter are encouraged to become Movement Charter Ambassadors (MC Ambassadors). MC Ambassadors will carry out their own activities and get financial support for enabling conversations in their own languages. Regional facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance team are available to support applicants with MC Ambassadors grantmaking. If you are interested please sign up here. Should you have specific questions, please reach out to the MSG team via email: strategy2030@wikimedia.org or on the MS forum. 
We thank you for your time and participation. 
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 15:33, 7 ኖቬምበር 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invitation to attend “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” Sessions 

message: :
 
The Wikimedia Movement Strategy implementation is a collaborative effort for all Wikimedians. 
Movement Strategy Implementation Grants support projects that take the current state of a Movement Strategy Initiative and push it one step forward. If you are looking for an example or some guide on how to engage your community further on Movement Strategy and the Movement Strategy Implementation Grants specifically, you may find this community engagement package helpful.
The goal of this community engagement package is to support more people to access the funding they might need for the implementation work. By becoming a recipient of this grant, you will be able to support other community members to develop further grant applications that fit with your local contexts to benefit your own communities. With this package, the hope is to break down language barriers and to ensure community members have needed information on Movement Strategy to connect with each other. Movement Strategy is a two-way exchange, we can always learn more from the experiences and knowledge of Wikimedians everywhere. We can train and support our peers by using this package, so more people can make use of this great funding opportunity.
If this information interests you or if you have any further thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us as your regional facilitators to discuss further. We will be more than happy to support you. When you are ready, follow the steps on this page to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.
Best regards,  Movement Strategy and Governance Team  Wikimedia Foundation
MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 16:25, 14 ኖቬምበር 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apply for Funding through the Movement Strategy Community Engagement Package to Support Your Community 

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Hi everyone! The Ombuds commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for members. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to do so. There is more information below about the opportunity and the skills that are needed.
About the Ombuds commission
The Ombuds commission (OC) works on all Wikimedia projects to investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy, especially in use of CheckUser and Oversight (also known as Suppression) tools. The Commission mediates between the parties of the investigation and, when violations of the policies are identified, advises the Wikimedia Foundation on best handling. They may also assist the General Counsel, the Chief Executive Officer, or the Board of Trustees of the Foundation in these investigations when legally necessary. For more on the OC's duties and roles, see Ombuds commission on Meta-Wiki.
Volunteers serving in this role should be experienced Wikimedians, active on any project, who have previously used the CheckUser/Oversight tools OR who have the technical ability to understand these tools and the willingness to learn them. They must be able to communicate in English, the common language of the commission. They are expected to be able to engage neutrally in investigating these concerns and to know when to recuse when other roles and relationships may cause conflict. Commissioners will serve two-year terms (note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).
About the Case Review Committee
The Case Review Committee (CRC) reviews appeals of eligible Trust & Safety office actions. The CRC is a critical layer of oversight to ensure that Wikimedia Foundation office actions are fair and unbiased. They also make sure the Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t overstep established practices or boundaries. For more about the role, see Case Review Committee on Meta-Wiki.
We are looking for current or former functionaries and experienced volunteers with an interest in joining this group. Applicants must be fluent in English (additional languages are a strong plus) and willing to abide by the terms of the Committee charter. If the work resonates and you qualify, please apply. Committee members will serve two-year terms (note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).
Applying to join either of these groups
Members are required to sign the Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information and must be willing to comply with the appropriate Wikimedia Foundation board policies (such as the access to non-public information policy and the Foundation privacy policy). These positions requires a high degree of discretion and trust. Members must also be over 18 years of age.
If you are interested in serving in either capacity listed above, please write in English to the Trust and Safety team at cawikimedia.org (to apply to the OC) or to the Legal Team at legalwikimedia.org (to apply to the CRC) with information about:
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The deadline for applications is 31 December 2022 in any timezone.
Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think may be qualified and interested. Thank you!
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
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message: The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
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* Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
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We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
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Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contest has started. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help chose the sound that will identify Wikimedia content on audio devices. Learn more on Diff.
The sound logo team is grateful to everyone who participated in this global contest. We received 3,235 submissions from 2,094 participants in 135 countries. We are incredibly grateful to the team of volunteer screeners and the selection committee who, among others, helped bring us to where we are today. It is now up to Wikimedia to choose the Sound Of All Human Knowledge Arupako-WMF (talk) 08:06, 15 ዲሴምበር 2022 (UTC)
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message: Dear Wiki Community,
Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,
 
You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
 
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a list of suggested articles.
 
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
# Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
# Set up a fountain tool or dashboard.
# Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
# Request local admins for site notice.
# Link the local page and the fountain/dashboard link on the meta project page.
 
This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill in this Google form and mark a mail to support@wikilovesfolklore.org with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.
 
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
 
We look forward to your immense coordination.
 
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2023 International Team
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thread_title:  Feminism and Folklore 2023 

message: Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, interface administrator, etc.) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no logged actions for more than 2 years):
# Hgetnet (administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Stanglavine (talk) 12:07, 3 ጃንዩዌሪ 2023 (UTC)
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message: Per the Global bans policy, I’m informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) .--Lemonaka (talk) 19:40, 6 ፌብሩዌሪ 2023 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE 

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:
# The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
# They are beginning a new project, Edit check.
Talk pages project
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for .
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.
An A/B test for  on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with . The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) () 23:23, 22 ፌብሩዌሪ 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing news 2023 #1 

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message: Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk) 07:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back! 

message: Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.
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Hello,
As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
* Community members in good standing
* Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
* Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
* Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
* Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
* Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
Xeno (WMF) 19:00, 26 ኤፕሪል 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process</span> 

message: The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.
-- UCoC Project Team, 04:20, 27 ሜይ 2023 (UTC)
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Hello there, 
We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors. 
Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
RamzyM (WMF) 17:59, 28 ጁን 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"> Announcing the new Elections Committee members</span> 

message: !
 
Apologies as this message is not in your language,  to your language.
The WMF Language team has added another machine translation (MT) system for Content Translation in your Wikipedia called MinT; you can use MinT machine translation when translating Wikipedia articles using the Content and Section Translation tool.
 
The WMF Language team provides the MinT service. It is hosted in the Wikimedia Foundation Infrastructure with neural machine translation models that other organizations have released with an open-source license. MinT integrates translation based on NLLB-200, OpusMT, IndicTrans2 and Softcatalà.  This MT is set as optional in your Wikipedia. Still, you can choose not to use it by selecting "Start with empty paragraph" from the "Initial Translation" dropdown menu.
 
Since MinT is hosted in the WMF Infrastructure and the models are open source, it adheres to Wikipedia's policies about attribution of rights, your privacy as a user and brand representation. You can find more information about the MinT machine translation and the models on this page.
 
Please note that the use of the MinT MT is not compulsory. However, we would want your community to:
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*provide feedback about its quality, and if you prefer the MinT machine translation as default in your Wikipedia.
 
We trust that introducing this MT is a good support to the Content Translation tool.
 
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Apologies if this message is not in your language,  to your language.
This wiki will soon be able to use the inline audio player implemented by the Phonos extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing audio links that play on click.
With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:
<phonos file="audio file" label="Listen"/>
The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on the English Wiktionary below.
{{audio|en|En-uk-English.oga|Audio (UK)}}
Could become:
<phonos file="En-uk-English.oga" label="Audio (UK)"/>
The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to read about the features and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this talk page.
Thank you!
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02:26, 27 ጁላይ 2023 (UTC)
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Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review. 
The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.
Best,
RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 ኦገስት 2023 (UTC)
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Hi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page. 
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
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Dear all, 
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.
Best,
Katie Chan 
Chair of the Elections Committee
01:12, 17 ኦክቶበር 2023 (UTC)
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message: A new feature is coming to your wiki soon: Reference Previews are popups for references. Such popups have existed on wikis as local gadgets for many years.  Now there is a central solution, available on all wikis, and consistent with the PagePreviews feature.
Reference Previews will be visible to everyone, including readers. If you don’t want to see them, you can opt out. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews unless you disable the gadget.
Reference Previews have been a beta feature on many wikis since 2019, and a default feature on some since 2021. Deployment is planned for November 22. 
* Help page 
* Project page with more information (in English). 
* Feedback is welcome on this talk page. 
-- For Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team,
Johanna Strodt (WMDE), 13:11, 15 ኖቬምበር 2023 (UTC)
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message: Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the project page. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland
Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 12:31, 13 ዲሴምበር 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">(New) Feature on [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer|Kartographer]]: Adding geopoints via QID</span> 

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Hello, the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this Registration form. 
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would compensate you for your time.
For more information, visit our project issue page where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.We look forward to speaking with you, Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
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message: Apologies for writing in English.
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to make reusing references easier. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.
* The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen. More information here.
* Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
* Compensation is available.
* Sessions will be held in January and February.
* Sign up here if you are interested.
* Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
We’re looking forward to seeing you,  Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
thread_title:  Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder? 

message: Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2024 writing competition from February 1, 2024, to March 31, 2024 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
 
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
 
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
# Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
# Set up a campaign on CampWiz tool.
# Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
# Request local admins for site notice.
# Link the local page and the CampWiz link on the meta project page.
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the Article List Generator by Topic and CampWiz. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign. Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
 
We look forward to your immense coordination.
 
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2024 International Team
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message: Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 31st of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.
You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance. 
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll now through 2 February 2024. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.
The current version of the U4C Charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available. 
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 18:08, 19 ጃንዩዌሪ 2024 (UTC)
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Hi. As announced some weeks ago [1] [2], Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team introduced Reference Previews to many wikis, including this one. This feature shows popups for references in the article text.  
While this new feature is already usable on your wiki, most people here are not seeing it yet because your wiki has set a gadget as the default for previewing references. We plan to remove the default flag from the gadget on your wiki soon. This means: 
* The new default for reference popups on your wiki will be Reference Previews. 
* However, if you want to keep using the gadget, you can still enable it in your personal settings.
The benefit of having Reference Previews as the default is that the user experience will be consistent across wikis and with the Page Previews feature, and that the software will be easier to maintain overall. 
This change is planned for February 14. If you have concerns about this change, please let us know on this talk page by February 12. – Kind regards, Johanna Strodt (WMDE), 09:30, 23 ጃንዩዌሪ 2024 (UTC)
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) charter will close on 2 February 2024. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.
The current version of the U4C charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available. 
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 17:00, 31 ጃንዩዌሪ 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee</span> 

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Dear all,
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter. 
A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.
Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 18:23, 12 ፌብሩዌሪ 2024 (UTC)
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message: Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge! ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk)
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Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 16:25, 5 ማርች 2024 (UTC)
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4]. 
Here are the key planned dates:
*  May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
*  June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
*  June-August 2024: Campaign period
*  End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
*  October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
*  Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page, and make your plan.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page.
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected
[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter
[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.
MPossoupe_(WMF)19:56, 12 ማርች 2024 (UTC)
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Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 20:20, 25 ኤፕሪል 2024 (UTC)
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The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.
We look forward to your participation!
MediaWiki message delivery 21:22, 14 ሜይ 2024 (UTC)
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Dear community members,
The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy. 
You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth. 
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
On behalf of the CAC,
RamzyM (WMF) 02:25, 22 ሜይ 2024 (UTC)
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Hello,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election. 
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
* North America (USA and Canada)
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* Northern and Western Europe
** Ghilt
* Latin America and Caribbean
** –
* Central and East Europe (CEE)
** —
* Sub-Saharan Africa
** –
* Middle East and North Africa
** Ibrahim.ID
* East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
** 0xDeadbeef
* South Asia
** –
The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:
* Barkeep49
* Superpes15
* Civvì
* Luke081515
* –
* –
* –
* –
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 08:14, 3 ጁን 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee</span>