Vikipeedia arutelu:Saatkond/Arhiiv 3

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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.
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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/
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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
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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. september 2015, kell 00:01 (EEST)
thread_title:  Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals! 

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) 28. september 2015, kell 19:56 (EEST)
thread_title:  Reimagining WMF grants report 

message: Greetings, I am trying to read the above discussion through google translate. I apologize if I get facts wrong.
* So, in the case of 20,000 revisions, we only need about 2,000 of them handcoded. We automatically label the other 18,000 since we are confident they are ok as those edits were never reverted, are made by admins or bots etc. This way we avoid bias.
* Quality assessment would help triage an existing problem. Bot would learn from the constant training as the quality standards increase over time. Training of this requires no volunteer time since we would use existing assessments. We can detect articles marked as good but had its quality deteriorate over time as well.
-- とある白い猫 chi? 21. august 2015, kell 21:06 (EEST)
replies: text: We could try. What should we do? Ivo (arutelu) 21. august 2015, kell 22:23 (EEST)
replies: text: :So, first thing needed is to decide on a translation of Labels. Our current idea is "Wikipedia Labels X" in a manner of "Wikipedia Labels edit quality".

text: :Second, we need the translation of :en:Wikipedia:Labels and its sub pages to Estonian. I can help with this process where I'll copy paste the pages for you and you can simply translate them.

text: :Third, we need the generated list in m:Research:Revision scoring as a service/Word lists/et processed where items would be reviewed by a human. "Bad words" and "Informal words" would need to be populated.

text: :Our task would start at this point where we would generate a wiki labels campaign based on above work for the community to review. This would involve people labeling about 2,000 revisions (as good faith or bad faith and as productive or damaging).

text: :It sounds more complicated than it really is. We tend to achieve everything listed (aside from the 2000 handcoding) in a few days in a hackathon per language even though we are "distracted" by the rest of the event.

text: :-- とある白い猫 chi? 23. august 2015, kell 10:54 (EEST)
replies: text: :: I created Vikipeedia:Märgendid. It corresponds to :en:Wikipedia:Labels. You can copy everything there and we will do the translation.

text: :: About m:Research:Revision scoring as a service/Word lists/et -- do I understand correctly that we need to review the list that has been automatically generated (https://gist.github.com/Ladsgroup/cc22515f55ae3d868f47#file-etwiki) and select the words that go to "Bad words" and "Informal words"? What's the difference between the two?  Taavi|✉  26. august 2015, kell 19:24 (EEST)
replies: text: :::Certainly. SO let me explain your latter question first. So bad words are more swear words, words you would remove on any page. This would be swear words for example. Informal words would be worlds like hello or hahahaha which would be acceptable on talk pages but not articles. Of course even curse words get their articles but you needed worry about that. AI can figure that one out. :) I would recommend working on m:Research:Revision scoring as a service/Word lists/et where |list-badwords= and |list-informal= can be added to the template.

text: :::I will start copying wikilabels pages for you on the page you linked. Try translating these three pages, I will create a few more based on the translations in the header. :)

text: :::*Vikipeedia:Märgendid/template/header

text: :::*Vikipeedia:Märgendid/template/blurb

text: :::*Vikipeedia:Märgendid/template/footer

text: :::-- とある白い猫 chi? 28. august 2015, kell 22:19 (EEST)
replies: text: ::::Awesome! So next item on the list is a human to process the existing word list we have. So please take a look at m:Research:Revision scoring as a service/Word lists/et. Words in "generated list" were generated using a TF-IDF approach and are words common in reverted revisions but not in other revisions. We need a human to review these and differentiate them into 3 lists:

text: ::::*Bad words (|list-badwords=): These would be words unwelcome anywhere on the wiki such as swear words.

text: ::::*Informal words (|list-badwords=): These would be words unwelcome in articles but would be OK in talk pages. In English words like Hello and Hahahahaha would be examples of this.

text: ::::*Non problematic words. Feel free to mention these on m:Research talk:Revision scoring as a service/Word lists/et or ignore them.

text: ::::Based on this information we will generate a language utility for Estonian, generate a revert model (based on reverts) and start the edit quality wikilabels campaign.

text: ::::-- とある白い猫 chi? 30. august 2015, kell 20:11 (EEST)
replies: text: :::::  There are still few pages missing: campaigns and participants. I have a question about the word lists. You say that the words in the lists originate from reverted revisions (and browsing the generated list, one can recognize some of the words used by vandals in Estonian Wikipedia in the past). Some of these words are not offensive in any way, but nevertheless were used by vandals. For example "animal", "kill", "tšmir" (the last one is not even a word in any language I know), etc. Should these non-offensive words that were actually used by some vandals, be included in the badwords list? I'm trying to understand how the word lists are used by the software.  Taavi|✉  30. august 2015, kell 20:44 (EEST)
replies: text: ::::::We are not too concerned with how offensive the word is. We also do not care if they are meaningful. Consider these two questions:

text: ::::::#"Would you normally revert a revision containing it in any page?" (these would be "bad words")

text: ::::::#"Would you normally revert a revision containing it only in articles?" (these would be "informal words")

text: ::::::In English Wikipedia for example we see words like "Wheels", "Jew" and "Nazi" dominating vandalism. None of these words are offensive like swear words are. If the algorithm detects the addition of such words in an article on relevant topics (say Nazi in articles on WW2) it wouldn't flag it outright. This is the power of AI (chisel) over your edit filters (sledgehammer). Feel free to add words that you would expect to see in revisions you would revert that our TF-IDF approach did not detect. We trust the intuition of members of the community.

text: ::::::-- とある白い猫 chi? 1. september 2015, kell 20:54 (EEST)
thread_title:  Return to the topic 

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Did you know?  
  
You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.
Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page.  Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "".
The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time.  The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.
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, added new features, and made some small design changes.  They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator.  Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.   
=== Recent improvements ===
Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the  and  tools.  When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354)  More in-software educational features are planned.  
Links:  It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285)  The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558)  These  "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.  
Uploads:  Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing.  Click the new tab in the " " tool.  You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit.  At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license.  For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools.  You can also drag the image into the editor.  This will be available in the wikitext editor later. 
Mobile:  Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630)  Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894)  Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website.  Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers.  Now there is a new "" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.
Rich editing tools:  You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925)  There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354)  When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit.  It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming. 
On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account.  The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.
=== Future changes ===
You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor.  Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website.  The "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
=== Let's work together ===
* Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback.  This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
* Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).  
* Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki.  If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
* The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers.  Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings.  You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though.  Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug. 
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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. Thank you!
—Elitre (WMF), 30. oktoober 2015, kell 20:17 (EET)
thread_title:  VisualEditor News #5—2015 

message: Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the  and  tools.  When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354)  More in-software educational features are planned.  
Links:  It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285)  The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558)  These  "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.  
Uploads:  Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing.  Click the new tab in the " " tool.  You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit.  At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license.  For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools.  You can also drag the image into the editor.  This will be available in the wikitext editor later. 
Mobile:  Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630)  Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894)  Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website.  Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers.  Now there is a new "" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.
Rich editing tools:  You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925)  There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354)  When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit.  It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming. 
On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account.  The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.
thread_title:  Recent improvements 

message: You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor.  Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website.  The "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.
thread_title:  Future changes 

message: * Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback.  This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
* Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).  
* Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki.  If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
* The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers.  Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings.  You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though.  Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug. 
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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. Thank you!
</div>—Elitre (WMF), 30. oktoober 2015, kell 20:17 (EET)
thread_title:  Let's work together 

message: Dear fellow wikipedians, 
My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able. 
Wikipedia has been awarded the Erasmus Prize 2015. This prize is awarded annually to a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to culture, society or social science. The King of the Netherlands will present the award on 25 November. This will create media attention which will hopefully result in plenty of new volunteers. Prior to the award ceremony we would like to write and improve articles on former Erasmus Prize winners. All 80 former laureates should be notable enough to merit an article. 
Please join the project and help us provide our fellow laureates with articles. 
Sincerely, Taketa and FrankTMeijer (arutelu) 8. november 2015, kell 18:56 (EET)
thread_title:  Wikiproject Erasmus Prize Winners 

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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 (arutelu) 9. november 2015, kell 23:57 (EET)
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. november 2015, kell 12:49 (EET)
thread_title:  Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed 

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!
Community Tech via
 MediaWiki message delivery (arutelu) 1. detsember 2015, kell 16:39 (EET)
thread_title:  Community Wishlist Survey 

message: Hello all, we have concluded the older campaigns for English, Portuguese, Persian and Turkish which have concluded recently which was partially why we had this gap. So we are very close in launching the edit quality campaign for this wiki as well. All we need is the translation of the relevant entry on m:Wiki labels/Interface translation and m:Wiki labels/Interface translation/Edit quality. We are very excited to expand our work to include this wiki and can start the campaign as soon as we have the two pages translated. Thanks! -- とある白い猫 chi? 11. oktoober 2015, kell 20:18 (EEST)
replies: text: One last thing, one thing we do is we auto label revisions we think are likely good these include revisions that are not reverted in a while and revisions that were made by users with higher access (such as sysop). What user groups aside from sysop are "trusted" on this wiki? User groups I see are: bot, bureaucrat, flow-bot, sysop. -- とある白い猫 chi? 23. oktoober 2015, kell 01:41 (EEST)
replies: text: : Hello could I ask for the localization of these? We would like to launch the edit quality campaign as soon as possible. Thanks. -- とある白い猫 chi? 17. november 2015, kell 09:13 (EET)
thread_title:  Wikilabels localization, final few things 

message: Hello again. Please excuse the English.  .  
This is an update from the Editing team about redirecting local pages for feedback about the visual editor to the board on mediawiki.org. This is now technically feasible and will happen in early 2016. It applies to several wikis where such pages are inactive or have low traffic, including this wiki. We think this will help us in being more effective while processing feedback from a larger pool of wikis, not just the biggest ones. Please read our previous announcement for more information; we thought we would double-check that this community is informed and agrees with the change. Please notice that if at least one community member here expressly commits to taking care of the local page, the redirect will not be necessary at this time, though. If you'd like to step up and be that person, please let me know within one week: we'll need to establish a clear process as soon as possible so that this person knows when and how to escalate issues to Phabricator or to Community Liaisons, and can receive useful tips based on our experience.
Thanks for your understanding, Elitre (WMF) 14. detsember 2015, kell 20:20 (EET)
thread_title:  Your attention please: feedback about the visual editor will soon be centralized on www.mediawiki.org 

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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.
Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:
* Join/host an event. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
* Talk to local press. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a handy summary of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a press release template and resources on working with the media, are also available.
* Design a Wikipedia 15 logo. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
* Share a message on social media. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!
Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.
If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.
Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
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replies: text: something there is: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/et

text: suwa 18. detsember 2015, kell 23:04 (EET)
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikipedia 15|Get involved in Wikipedia 15!]] 

message: Dear Wiki[p,m]edians,
the call for proposals for Wikimania 2016 is open! All the members of the Wikimedia projects, researchers and observers are invited to propose a critical issue to be included in the programme of the conference, which will be held in Italy, in Esino Lario, from June 21 to 28.
Through this call we only accept what we call critical issues, i.e. proposals aiming at presenting problems, possible solutions and critical analysis about Wikimedia projects and activities in 18 minutes. These proposals do not need to target newbies, and they can assume attendees to already have a background knowledge on a topic (community, tech, outreach, policies...).
To submit a presentation, please refer to the Submissions page on the Wikimania 2016 website. Deadline for submitting proposals is 7th January 2016 and the selection of these proposals will be through a blind peer-reviewed process. Looking forward to your proposals. --Yiyi (arutelu) 19. detsember 2015, kell 11:41 (EET)
Please, can someone translate this message? Thanks.
thread_title:  Wikimania 2016: call for proposals is open! 

message: Did you know?  
  
A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button.  Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.      
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want: 
The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
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Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool.  Their workboard is available in Phabricator.  Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.   
=== Recent improvements ===
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.    
The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code.  You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.  
=== Future changes ===
The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website.  (T102398, T58337)  Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.  Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors.  Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the  tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "".   
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:  Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) 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.  
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)
=== Testing opportunities ===
* Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org.  You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.  Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in).  The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome.  The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
** ,
** , 
** , and 
** .  (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor.  None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)  
* Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).  
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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), 25. detsember 2015, kell 02:06 (EET)
thread_title:  VisualEditor News #6—2015 

message: You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.    
The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code.  You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
thread_title:  Recent improvements 

message: The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website.  (T102398, T58337)  Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.  Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors.  Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the  tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "".   
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:  Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) 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.  
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)
thread_title:  Future changes 

message: * Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org.  You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.  Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in).  The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome.  The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
** ,
** , 
** , and 
** .  (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor.  None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)  
* Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).  
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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> Elitre (WMF), 25. detsember 2015, kell 02:06 (EET)
thread_title:  Testing opportunities 

message: Did you know?  
  
A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button.  Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.      
If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want: 
The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Read this in another language  •  Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool.  Their workboard is available in Phabricator.  Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.   
=== Recent improvements ===
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.    
The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code.  You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.  
=== Future changes ===
The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website.  (T102398, T58337)  Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.  Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors.  Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the  tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "".   
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:  Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) 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.  
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)
=== Testing opportunities ===
* Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org.  You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.  Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in).  The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome.  The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
** ,
** , 
** , and 
** .  (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor.  None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)  
* Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).  
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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), 25. detsember 2015, kell 03:06 (EET)
thread_title:  VisualEditor News #6—2015 

message: You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.    
The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code.  You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.
thread_title:  Recent improvements 

message: The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website.  (T102398, T58337)  Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.  Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors.  Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the  tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "".   
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016:  Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) 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.  
In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)
thread_title:  Future changes 

message: * Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org.  You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.  Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in).  The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome.  The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
** ,
** , 
** , and 
** .  (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor.  None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)  
* Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).  
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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> Elitre (WMF), 25. detsember 2015, kell 03:06 (EET)
thread_title:  Testing opportunities 

message: Feel free to translate this message in your language!
On January 1 we celebrate Public Domain Day as many works of authors who died 70+ years ago now enter the public domain and can be used freely.
Let us be aware: copyright is temporary. It only lasts during the authors lifetime and 70 years afterwards (in most countries). During those years it is limiting Wikipedia and her sister projects in showing works of art, literature, public art and buildings in countries without freedom of panorama, and more in the articles. But now a new batch is freed from copyrights!
An overview of images and texts that are restored or added to the Wikimedia Commons, are collected on: this page.
Many of these files still need a place in articles. You can help!
You can also help by uploading new files of subjects that are freed of copyrights.
You can also help by tagging all requests for deletion pages with the category when the file can be restored, which will be/was deleted.
As I follow the log of restored files this week, more images and texts will follow. If still files or texts are missing in the list, let me know or add them yourselves.
A very happy Public Domain Day! Romaine (arutelu) 2. jaanuar 2016, kell 14:38 (EET)
* Some of the freed files:
File:Leifur heppni (603381304).jpg|Leifr Eiríksson
File:Leif Ericsson.jpg
File:Pennsylvania Memorial 4.jpg
File:Part of the Show Machinery (Lissitzky).jpg|El Lissitzky
File:Book cover by El Lissitzky c1918.jpg
File:Mallet-stevens1.JPG
File:Ost Xaveriuscollege15.JPG|Alfred Ost
File:Pasternak palestina.jpg|Leonid Pasternak
File:Pasternak Ansky.jpg
File:Maison sans escalier1.JPG
File:Halimeda 3.png
File:Goldap 1914.jpg
File:Preignac Mam.jpg
File:Holcombe Moor NT sign - geograph.org.uk - 341806.jpg
File:Maison émaillée 2.JPG
File:Peinture-arriere.jpg
File:Elisabeth maria austria1883-2.jpg
thread_title:  Happy Public Domain Day! 

message: :
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:
replies: text: *Wikimania 2016 Scholarships
Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (arutelu) 5. jaanuar 2016, kell 03:49 (EET)
thread_title:  Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon! 

message: :
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 (arutelu) 18. jaanuar 2016, kell 21:06 (EET)
thread_title:  2016 WMF Strategy consultation 

message: Estonian is missing from this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/There_is_also_a_Wikipedia_in_your_language
Thank you, Varlaam (arutelu) 19. jaanuar 2016, kell 23:54 (EET)
replies: text: Great. Thanks very much. Varlaam (arutelu) 20. jaanuar 2016, kell 00:56 (EET)
Aga võru keel? Võru viki on ju ka.
thread_title:  Estonian is missing 

message: Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Did you know?  
  
Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.
If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.  
Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.
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 Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.   
=== Recent changes ===
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.    
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to :mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.    
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.  
=== Future changes ===
The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab. 
This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the  tab of Special:Preferences:   
* ,
* ,
* , and
* . (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: 
Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.
 
=== Let's work together ===
* Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?  
* Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer David Chan needs to know. Please see the instructions at :mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org.
* Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016. 
 
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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), 26. veebruar 2016, kell 21:21 (EET)
thread_title:  VisualEditor News #1—2016 

message: You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.    
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to :mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.    
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
thread_title:  Recent changes 

message: The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab. 
This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the  tab of Special:Preferences:   
* ,
* ,
* , and
* . (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: 
Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.
thread_title:  Future changes 

message: * Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?  
* Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer David Chan needs to know. Please see the instructions at :mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org.
* Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016. 
 
If you aren't reading this in your favorite 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> Elitre (WMF), 26. veebruar 2016, kell 21:21 (EET)
thread_title:  Let's work together 

message: Hello. As some of you may know, on Meta-Wiki we are handling centralized translations for messages and policies. If are interested in translations and wish to stay up to date on how it is pending for translation, please subscribe to the language(s) you'd like to work via m:Special:TranslatorSignup. Your work and time will be greatly appreciated. Best regards, MarcoAurelio (arutelu) 29. veebruar 2016, kell 13:20 (EET)
thread_title:  Interested in translations? 

message: Hi people,
the calls for posters, discussions and trainings for Wikimania 2016 are officially opened, you can find all the relevant links on the conference wiki:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The calls will be closed on March 20.
Posters will be reviewed just to make sure that there aren't things which are too much out of scope. Since we have a whole village we will surely find places to attach them, even if we they will be a lot!
Discussions will be managed by a guiding committee who will work on the wiki to meld all the proposals and suggestions.
Trainings will be reviewed by the programme committee. Please note that we request that each training has at least 3-5 interested attendees in order to be put in the programme.
By the beginning of April we will have a first list of all the accepted proposals.
If you have questions we suggest you to ask them on the discussion pages on wiki, so that everyone will be able to see them (and their answers, of course).
We are looking forward to read your ideas! --Yiyi (arutelu) 29. veebruar 2016, kell 17:23 (EET)
thread_title:  Wikimania 2016: call for posters, discussions and trainings 

message: Hello!
. 
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.
To learn more about the work of the Discovery department and other improvements to search, please check out the Wikimedia blog. Read about  CirrusSearch, the MediaWiki extension that makes wiki search possible.</div> - User:CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 8. märts 2016, kell 00:09 (EET)
thread_title:  Updates to wiki search auto completion are arriving 10 March 

message: Apologies for writing in English. 
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!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 17. märts 2016, kell 22:30 (EET)
replies: text: You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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 (March 2016) 

message: :
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
*Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants
With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 31. märts 2016, kell 18:47 (EEST)
thread_title:  Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants 

message: The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its newest data center in Dallas.
This will make sure 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 new data center on Tuesday, 19 April.
On Thursday, 21 April, 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 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
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 a code freeze for the week of 18 April.
No non-essential code deployments will take place.
This test was originally planned to take place on March 22.
April 19th and 21st are the new dates. 
You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org.
They will post any changes on that schedule.
There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18. aprill 2016, kell 00:07 (EEST)
thread_title:  Server switch 2016 

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 21. aprill 2016, kell 18:35 (EEST)
thread_title:  Wikipedia to the Moon 

message: Hello, machine translation support for Content Translation (beta feature) has now been extended and enabled for users of Estonian Wikipedia using Yandex. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles into Estonian 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. Details about Yandex translation services, including a summary of the contract are available on this page. More information about the machine translation services in Content Translation is available on this page. We request you to kindly take a look at these pages.
We have tested the service for use on the Estonian 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 Estonian for other users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of WMF Language team: --KartikMistry (arutelu) 27. aprill 2016, kell 15:11 (EEST)
thread_title:  Machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation 

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 10. juuni 2016, kell 18:31 (EEST)
thread_title:  Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun 

message: Hello! Sometimes I comment on the meta page :m:Translation of the week/Translation candidates and I've noticed that recently the number of candidates and votes has been relatively low. More importantly, there is some unbalance in the group of 5-7 editors that usually comment, with 2-3 it-N users, 1-2 es-N, 1 sv-N, 1 zh-N. Is there any users from different language editions who would like to join? Suggesting articles to be translated may be considered just a game, but still it is a fun game once in a while and at least 2 to 4 language translation are added every week so it does have an impact on the global perception of a topic so it is worth that the selection represent the global language community. So, I though it would be nice to leave a reminder to some "minor" wikipedia to take a look... 
Can anyone translate this request and post it on a village pump? No hurry.--Alexmar983 (arutelu) 1. juuli 2016, kell 10:27 (EEST)
thread_title:  Translation of the week/Translation candidates 

message: Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the coming week for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to  your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.
Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this message and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-1. juuli 2016, kell 15:57 (EEST)
thread_title:  Compact Links coming soon to this wiki 

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 1. juuli 2016, kell 17:10 (EEST)
thread_title:  Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit 

message: Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
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), 3. juuli 2016, kell 20:20 (EEST)
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), 3. juuli 2016, kell 20:20 (EEST)
thread_title:  Let's work together 

message: :
replies: text: Greetings!  The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.

text: Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

text: *Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab

text: *Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session

text: *Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

text: Also accepting candidates to join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.

text: With thanks,  I JethroBT (WMF) 5. juuli 2016, kell 18:25 (EEST)
thread_title:  Open call for Project Grants 

message: Hello. A new 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 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 admin activity review.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
#TarmoK (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, Rschen7754 8. juuli 2016, kell 04:46 (EEST)
thread_title:  IMPORTANT: Admin activity review 

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)-8. juuli 2016, kell 06:03 (EEST)
thread_title:  Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today 

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 “” 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) 9. august 2016, kell 21:03 (EEST)
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 30. august 2016, kell 21:38 (EEST)
replies: text: You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language! Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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 (August 2016) 

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)
replies: text: We need help! Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.

text: This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015) 

message: The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of harassment on Meta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)
replies: text: :*Harassment consultation 2015

text: Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
thread_title:  Harassment consultation 

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.
Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.
(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)
Thank you for your participation!
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Free Bassel/MassMessages/2015 Free Bassel banner straw poll|Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign]] 

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!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org

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 (December 2015) 

message: Dear Wikimedians,
As every year, Wikimedia Polska Association is accepting scholarship requests for this year’s Wikimania, to be held at the Italian town of Esino Lario, June 22-28. The scholarship encompasses travel expenses, accomodation, insurance and the possible conference fee. Please submit your requests by email to wikimania@wikimedia.pl from March 14, 00:00:01 (CET) by March 27, 23:59:59 (CET). Up to two international scholarships will be funded. The scholarship request, submitted in English or Polish, ought to contain:
* short description of your activity within the Wikimedia movement, your real name, your global username or local usernames, Wikimedia activity outside project editing (including local chapter activity), prior input into the Wikimedia conferences, especially international ones;
* information about your desired participation in the conference: planned or submitted lectures or other activities during Wikimania or its associated events;
* information about your forecast activity in pre- and post-conference activities, with the justification for participating in these non-core conference activities;
* declaration of your command of English sufficient to actively participate in the conference;
* information about the international airport closest to your place of residence;
* declaration of being 18 years or older; in case of younger applicants, 16-18, a scan of a parent’s or legal guardian’s consent to the participation in the conference;
* the information on citizenship(s) held;
* agreement to provide and process your personal data (name, address, bank account details, passport number) if the scholarship is granted. Please, do not provide these personal details in the application itself, apart from your real name.
On the behalf of the Scholarship Commitee, Wpedzich (arutelu) 13. märts 2016, kell 22:13 (EET)
thread_title:  Wikimania 2016 scholarships