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message: Alates 13. septembrist on sinu vikis beetafunktsioonina saadaval RevisionSlider'i laiendus. RevisionSlider lisab redaktsioonide leheküljele liugurvaate, mis võimaldab hõlpsamini liikuda erinevate redaktsioonide vahel. See funktsioon täidab ühe saksa kogukonna tehniliste soovide nimekirjas esitatud soovi. Kõik on oodatud seda funktsiooni proovima ja me loodame, et see on toeks teie toimetustöös!  Birgit Müller (WMDE) 12. september 2016, kell 17:56 (EEST)
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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. 
 
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—Elitre (WMF)
 15. oktoober 2016, kell 20:50 (EEST)
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. 
 
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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.
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message: Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (arutelu) 14. november 2016, kell 02:11 (EET)
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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) --14. detsember 2016, kell 21:32 (EET)
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message: Some articles, like Kuusalu vald (1939), include the population and area in hectares of the new municipality in year 1939. What is the source of those numbers? This publication Majandusteated ; 35 1940-09-03 has only population of August 15, 1940 but not the municipality areas, so that can not be the source. --Raksa123 (arutelu) 9. jaanuar 2017, kell 13:21 (EET)
replies: text: Harju Maavalitsuse Teataja, http://www.ester.ee/record=b1320260*est. Thank you for reference to Majandusteated!
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message: I left this information here, I think some of you might find it interesting (many of you live in a de facto bilingual country).
replies: text: commons:Commons:Photo_challenge/Submitting#2017_.E2.80.93_February_.E2.80.93_Multilingualism
Bilingual plate? Local festivals? Serious cultural events? Official documents? Be creative.
The nicer the picture, the bigger its diffusion. You just win a barnstar.
I hope you can translate if necessary, have a nice wiki!--Alexmar983 (arutelu) 5. veebruar 2017, kell 08:11 (EET)
thread_title:  Commons:Photo challenge February 2017 is Multilingualism 

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The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here. 
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:
* Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (15 December 2016)
** Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
* Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (23 December 2016)
** Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
* Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (8 January 2017)
** Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
* Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (11 January 2017)
** Introduction of williamsworks 
* Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 February 2017)
** The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
* Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (10 February 2017)
** Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks
More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.
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message: :Copied from Vikipeedia:Üldine arutelu#Andres Parve
I'm looking for informations about Andres Parve, who is working for the Siseministeerium (https://www.siseministeerium.ee/et/kontakt). He is mentioned in the :en:List of individuals sanctioned during the Ukrainian crisis without any further biographic details. --95.116.244.44 22. oktoober 2016, kell 21:25 (EEST)
replies: text: +1. Any help would be appreciated. --Kolja21 (arutelu) 18. veebruar 2017, kell 23:44 (EET)
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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.
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* 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.
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message: Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, 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.
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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
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Sincerely,
Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams 18. märts 2017, kell 07:09 (EET)
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message: (Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this to Estonian)
Hey folks,
We (The Revision Scoring Team) are happy to announce the deployment of the ORES review tool as a beta feature on Estonian Wikipedia.  Once enabled, ORES highlights edits that are likely to be damaging in Special:RecentChanges to help you prioritize your patrolling work. ORES detects damaging edits using a basic prediction model based on past damage. ORES is an experimental technology. We encourage you to take advantage of it but also to be skeptical of the predictions made. Please reach out to us with your questions and concerns.
Also, I need to note your wiki doesn't have RC patrolling enabled. By enabling it, you can get more done using ORES review tool.
;Documentation: :mw:ORES review tool, :mw:Extension:ORES, and :m:ORES
;Bugs & feature requests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/revision-scoring-as-a-service-backlog/
;IRC: #wikimedia-aiconnect
Best Ladsgroup (arutelu) 21. märts 2017, kell 02:39 (EET)
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message: Following the tradition of previous years, Wikimedia Polska Association has launched the ’’’Wikimania 2017’’’ scholarship programme. One international scholarship will be awarded this year, for the conference which will take place in Montreal, Canada, August 9-13. If you meet the requirements described in the ruleset, you may submit your application by April 7, 2017 to the email address provided in the ruleset. With kind regards, Wojciech Pędzich (arutelu) 21. märts 2017, kell 19:45 (EET)
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message: I have made over 100 Estonian lakes in fi-wiki and in that project we also increased the amount of data stored in wikidata. The idea is to put data available to any inter-wiki this way. That includes photos, area, altitude, country, parish, ect. If there are any updates made in wikidata, it will spreads the new data to any inter-wiki, whitch have the ability to use it. I encourage anyone to study the concept of wikidata because it will bebefit all the inter-wiki community. For example Ermistu järv in estonian is in finnish Ermistu järv and there you can open wikidata-link beneath the map (Muokkaa Wikidatassa). This technic needs a new Järv-mall to work correctly. I will also be gratfull, if you pinpoint me of any estonian lakes, whitch has some importance. I would gladly publish a article of those lakes in fi-wiki.--J Hokkanen (arutelu) 3. aprill 2017, kell 14:12 (EEST)
replies: text: Thank you for you effort. You might want to use the list of Estonian lakes as your first reference. Lakes that have articles written about them (blue wikilinks) are arguably "more important" than the red links.--Vihelik (arutelu) 4. aprill 2017, kell 12:53 (EEST)
replies: text: :I am aware of this from the list (thanks) and it's been helpful. I am using pdf-file "Tamre, Ruta: Eesti Järved nimestik", which is a good source of basic data. I have done already large lakes, but I would like a list of important lakes: diving, fishing, canoeing routes, scientific research, etc. Lakes, whitch have more importance to local people.--J Hokkanen (arutelu) 4. aprill 2017, kell 16:50 (EEST)
thread_title:  Estonian lakes in fi-wiki 

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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. 
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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,
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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.
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MediaWiki message delivery (arutelu) 11. aprill 2017, kell 20:34 (EEST)
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!
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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 (arutelu) 19. aprill 2017, kell 19:52 (EEST)
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 2. mai 2017, kell 21:52 (EEST)
replies: text: You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.

text: This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
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 3. mai 2017, kell 22:15 (EEST)
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: Hello!
(Sorry to write in English. , thanks!)
The Collaboration team is going to launch a new Beta feature on your wiki, . This deployment would happen on May 9 (hour to be precised). This Beta feature is related to the work you have done on ORES predictions, by tagging diffs to know if they were "damagine" and/or "done in good faith".
What it this new feature? 
This feature improves Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked by adding new useful features that will ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers: 
* Filtering - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations. 
* Highlighting - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring, to quickly identify the ones that matter to you. 
* Quality and Intent Filters - user ORES predictions to identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need assistance. 
What will happen? 
At the moment, the ORES beta feature is available in your Beta preferences. We the deployment will be done: 
* ORES predictions highlighting is activated by default for all users (not in Beta anymore).  
** It is symbolized by a "" in all RecentChanges pages, Special:Contributions, Special:Watchlist, for all users. 
** Users who want to change the accuracy level of ORES predictions or opt-out can do so in their preferences, in the "Watchlist" tab. 
* Previous ORES Beta users will have a highlight of likely problem edits with colors. It will be possible to disable it in your preferences, in the "Watchlist" tab as well.
* Anyone who wants to have the new filters have to enable them in their preferences, in "Beta" tab. Other users have nothing to change.
How to prepare this change? 
You can discover the purpose of this project by visiting the quick tour help page. Also, please check the documentation (and help to translate it). Please also have a look at the translations of the interface on translatewiki.net. The messages are prefixed as rcfilters- and ores-rcfilters-. 
This feature is already available on most wikis. To see how the prediction filters based on ORES, you can enable them on English, Portuguese or Polish Wikipedia.
Please ping me if you have questions. :)
Trizek (WMF) (arutelu) 3. mai 2017, kell 12:49 (EEST)
replies: text: The deployment will be done on May 9 at 23:00 UTC. Trizek (WMF) (arutelu) 4. mai 2017, kell 15:04 (EEST)
thread_title:  New filters for Recent Changes - Beta deployment schedule for your wiki 

message: Reminder: the wikis will be in read-only mode today for 30 minutes, starting at 14:00 UTC. Trizek (WMF) (arutelu) 3. mai 2017, kell 13:08 (EEST)
thread_title:  Server switch - wikis in read-only mode today 

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) 8. mai 2017, kell 17:29 (EEST)
thread_title:  Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View 

message: Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
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)
 12. mai 2017, kell 21:06 (EEST)
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> 12. mai 2017, kell 21:06 (EEST)
thread_title:  Future changes 

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) 16. mai 2017, kell 17:39 (EEST)
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 17. mai 2017, kell 00:09 (EEST)
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: Hi, everyone. As you may or may not know, there is a JavaScript error on this project. The error is TypeError: Cannot read property 'getParamValue' of undefined. To fix this, any code that uses mw.util needs to be wrapped like this:
mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util', function() {
	//Code that uses mw.util
} );
in MediaWiki:Common.js.
Feel free to ping me if you need help or have any questions. Nirmos (arutelu) 18. mai 2017, kell 16:02 (EEST)
thread_title:  JavaScript error 

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 24. mai 2017, kell 00:05 (EEST)
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: Privet. Andrej Babiš is remove from minister of finance today. Page about him needed been actualisated, but i don´t speak estonian leguage. You coorect it, please. Do svidanija. --89.103.96.92 24. mai 2017, kell 19:57 (EEST)
thread_title:  Andrej Babiš - Need actualisation 

message: Hello! On behalf of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2017 Team I would like to inform you that we have already opened our call for participants! CEE Meeting 2017 will be held in Warsaw, Poland from 22 September to 25 September. It will be the largest gathering of Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE region) this year. Delegates from your community are also invited to take part! You can find all the details on how to register here. We have also opened the call for programme applications - why don't you become a speaker at CEE Meeting? If you have any questions, please contact us at ceemeeting@wikimedia.pl. Best regards from Wikimedia Polska! Powerek38 (arutelu) 19. mai 2017, kell 20:55 (EEST)
thread_title:  Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2017: call for delegates and speakers 

message: Tere! I'm sorry that I'm not writing in Estonian. !
The more involved we are, the more ideas or wishes concerning the future of Wikipedia we have. We want to change some things, but other things we prefer not to be changed at all, and we can explain why for each of those things. At some point, we don’t think only about the recent changes or personal lists of to-dos, but also about, for example, groups of users, the software, institutional partners, money!, etc. When we discuss with other Wikimedians, we want them to have at least similar priorities that we have. Otherwise, we feel we wasted our time and efforts.
We need to find something that could be predictable, clear and certain to everybody. A uniting idea that would be more nearby and close to the every day’s reality than the Vision (every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge).
But people contribute to Wikimedia in so many ways. The thing that should unite us should also fit various needs of editors and affiliates from many countries. What’s more, we can’t ignore other groups of people who care about or depend on us, like regular donors or “power readers” (people who read our content a lot and often).
That’s why we’re running the movement strategy discussions. Between 2019 and 2034, the main idea that results from these discussions, considered by Wikimedians as the most important one, will influence big and small decisions, e.g. in grant programs, or software development. For example: are we more educational, or more IT-like?
We want to take into account everybody’s voice. Really: each community is important. We don’t want you to be or even feel excluded.
Please, if you are interested in the Wikimedia strategy, follow these steps:
* Have a look at this page. There are drafts of 5 potential candidates for the strategic priority. You can comment on the talk pages. Languages other than English are OK.
* Tell those Wikipedians who don't know English that we're waiting for their comments as well!
* The last day for the discussion is June, 12. Later, we’ll read all your comments, and shortly after that, there’ll be another round of discussions (see the timeline). I will give you more details before that happens. 
* If you have any questions, ask me. If you ask me here, mention me please.
Friendly disclaimer: this message wasn't written by a bot, a bureaucrat or a person who doesn't care about your project. I’m a Polish Wikipedian, and I hope my words are straightforward enough. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (arutelu) 8. juuni 2017, kell 12:22 (EEST)
thread_title:  What do you care for most? What are you concerned with? Take part in the strategy discussion 

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) 29. juuni 2017, kell 11:33 (EEST)
(wrong target page? you can fix it here)
replies: text: fix? its is on your list already at place 153. suwa 1. juuli 2017, kell 20:51 (EEST)
thread_title:  Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes 

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) 11. juuli 2017, kell 01:23 (EEST)
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) 21. juuli 2017, kell 01:32 (EEST)
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) 25. juuli 2017, kell 21:40 (EEST)
thread_title:  Improved search in deleted pages archive 

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: Tere! I'm sorry that I'm not writing in Estonian. !
File:2030.wikimedia.org.webm|thumbtime=00:37
File:Strategy Graphic.pdf|
File:The World in 2030 - Presentation for movement strategy discussions.pdf|
At the beginning of this year, we initiated a broad discussion to form a strategic direction that will unite and inspire people across the entire movement. This direction will be the foundation on which we will build clear plans and set priorities. More than 80 communities and groups have discussed and gave feedback on-wiki, in person, virtually, and through private surveysCycle 1 synthesis reportCycle 2 synthesis report. We researched readers and consulted more than 150 expertsNew Voices synthesis report. We looked at future trends that will affect our mission, and gathered feedback from partners and donors.
In July, a group of community volunteers and representatives from the strategy team took on a task of synthesizing this feedback into an early version of the strategic direction that the broader movement can review and discuss.
The first draft is ready. Please read, share, and discuss on the talk page. Based on your feedback, the drafting group will refine and finalize this direction through August.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (arutelu) 10. august 2017, kell 13:32 (EEST)
thread_title:  Share your thoughts on the draft strategy direction 

message: File:2030.wikimedia.org.webm|thumbtime=00:37
File:Strategy Graphic.pdf|
File:The World in 2030 - Presentation for movement strategy discussions.pdf|
In 2017, we initiated a broad discussion to form a strategic direction that will unite and inspire Wikimedians. This direction will be the foundation on which we will build clear plans and set priorities. More than 80 communities and groups discussed and gave feedbackCycle 1 synthesis reportCycle 2 synthesis reportCycle 3 synthesis report. We researched readers and consulted more than 150 expertsNew Voices synthesis report. We looked at future trends that will affect our mission, and gathered feedback from partners and donors.
A group of community volunteers and representatives from the strategy team synthesized this feedback into an early version of the strategic direction that the broader movement can review and discuss.
The second version of the direction is ready. Again, please read, share, and discuss on the talk page on Meta. Based on your feedback, the drafting group will refine and finalize the direction.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (arutelu) 11. september 2017, kell 14:13 (EEST)
thread_title:  Draft strategy direction. Version #2 

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 (arutelu) 18. september 2017, kell 00:06 (EEST)
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. september 2017, kell 23:35 (EEST)
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. september 2017, kell 23:35 (EEST)
thread_title:  Why not watchlists 

message: Tere,
As phase one of the Wikimedia movement strategy process nears its close with the strategic direction being finalized, my contractor role as a coordinator is ending too. I am returning to my normal role as a volunteer (Tar Lócesilion) and wanted to thank you all for your participation in the process.
The strategic direction should be finalized on Meta late this weekend. The planning and designing of phase 2 of the strategy process will start in November. The next phase will again offer many opportunities to participate and discuss the future of our movement, and will focus on roles, resources, and responsibilities.
Aitäh, SGrabarczuk (WMF) (arutelu) 1. oktoober 2017, kell 00:37 (EEST)
thread_title:  Wikimedia Movement Strategy phase 2, and a goodbye 

message: (Sorry to post in English - please translate or add a summary in Estonian)
On December 6th 2017 Finland will celebrate her 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, Wikimedia Suomi organises a public editing competition during November. The goal of this is to improve and translate articles from a list of 100 topics related to Finland into as many languages as possible. Subjects range from Jari Litmanen to :en:Finnish sauna, from Tove Jansson to :en:Maternity package. The list is here in English, here in Finnish. 
To participate, create an account in Wikipedia (if you do not have one yet), and register on this page. Winners will receive prizes, other participants may be granted other levels of recognition.
Tere tulemast!--Tappinen (arutelu) 28. oktoober 2017, kell 15:26 (EEST)
replies: text: here it is, tässä se on
 6. detsembril 2017 tähistab Soome Vabariik 100. sünnipäeva.
 Sündmuse äramärkimiseks korraldab Wikimedia Suomi avaliku toimetamis-kirjutamisvõistluse novembrikuus (1-30 november 2017).
 Eesmärgiks on täiendada ja tõlkida artikleid Soomega seotud kirjutiste sajasest loendist, niipaljudes keeltes kui võimalik.
 Teemad on nt vahemikes Jari Litmanenist kuni soome saunani (en:Finnish sauna), Tove Janssonist kuni noore ema pakini (en:Maternity package).
 Loetelu inglise ja soome keeles.
 .
 Osalemiseks loo Vikipeedia kasutajakonto, kui sul veel pole ja lisa end osalejate nimekirja.
 Võitjaid autasustatakse, teisi osalejaid peetakse meeles mitmete tunnustustega.

text: se ottaa nyt vähän aika, Vikipeedia:Vikiprojekt Soome 100/Loetelu

text: suwa 28. oktoober 2017, kell 23:48 (EEST)
thread_title:  Challenge:100 years of Finland 

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) 12. november 2017, kell 02:34 (EET)
thread_title:  Changes to the global ban policy 

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: 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) 21. november 2017, kell 00:07 (EET)
thread_title:  New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers