Usapang Wikipedia:Kapihan/Sinupan 22

message: Mabuhay, friends. :) Apologies for my English. Just checking in and hoping to hear how things are going with your education outreach and the Smart Tap & Learn Road Show. Would you please post an update here: Outreach:Education/Countries/Philippines and would you please write up a brief summary about what's been done so far here: Outreach:Education/Newsletter/Newsroom. We discussed this in Manila. It will be the first contribution to the Education Newsletter from the Philippines! Maraming salamat po. Anna Koval (WMF) (usapan) 13:51, 19 Nobyembre 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. I also asked about this on Facebook in the Wikimedia Philippines Kapihan Network and on English Wikipedia at WT:TAMBAY. :) Anna Koval (WMF) (usapan) 13:51, 19 Nobyembre 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education outreach update 

message: dapat bang gumamit na di pormal na pananalita?
thread_title:  filipino 

message: Bakit kailangan gumamit ng Pang-ukol sa Pangungusap?
thread_title:  Bakit kailangan gumamit ng Pang-ukol sa Pangungusap? 

message: Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
*Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
*Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
*Pelican Books - ebook monographs
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Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:22, 18 Disyembre 2014 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014) 

message: Did you know?
Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).
=== Recent improvements ===
Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "" into a "".
Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.
There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work. 
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.
=== Looking ahead ===
The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)
The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.
Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
=== Let's work together ===
* Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
* Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
* Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
* File requests for language-appropriate "" and "" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
* The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
* If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!
— Elitre (WMF)
 
19:00, 26 Disyembre 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  VisualEditor News #10—2014 

message: Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "" into a "".
Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.
There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work. 
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.
thread_title:  Recent improvements 

message: The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)
The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.
Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
thread_title:  Looking ahead 

message: * Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
* Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
* Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
* File requests for language-appropriate "" and "" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
* The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
* If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!
— Elitre (WMF)
</div> 
19:00, 26 Disyembre 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's work together 

message: Inedit ko ang artikolo ng  Mona Lisa sa tagalog, pero may isang admin. Ang  nagbago dito at ibinalik sa dati "WayKurat" ang username nya.
Pumunta sakin ang kaibigan ko upang isalin ko ang English Article ng Mona Lisa sa Tagalog at nagawa ko naman ito ng maayos, naipasa nya sa kanyang guro sa kolehiyo at mataas na grado ang natamo nya. 
Doon ko na isip na ilagay ko ito wikipedia upang makatulong pa sa iba.
Paulit-ulit ko itong inayos ng inayos hanggang makatulog ako, pero ng pag gising ko binago ito kagad ng admin at ibinalik sa dating edit na ang gulo naman ng pagkaka-tagalog.
Ano bang ang gagawin ko para hindi na ito maulit na tila binu-bully ako.
Paano makakasigurong hindi mababasura ang pinaghirapan ko???
—Ang komentong ito ay idinagdag ni Melgazar Abanto Galvan (usapan • kontribusyon) noong 14:34, Enero 26, 2015‎ .
replies: text: Ibalik mo sa dati mong ginawa, at mag-revert war kayo para ma-block ka. :) --180.191.131.190 09:01, 7 Pebrero 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  May in-edit akong article pero binalik lng ito sa dati nitong itsura.. 

message: Ipaaalala ko lamang po na gumamit po kayo ng apat na tilde (~) sa dulo ng inyong mga pangungusap upang madali po kayong matugunan kapag may mga katanungan po kayo. Sa gayon, madaling makikita ng tagapangasiwa (admin) o kaya ng inyong mga kapwa taga-ambag gaya ko po kung sino ang nagtanong at anong petsa ito ipinaskil, at anong sagot ang maaaring makatulong sa inyo. Salamat po. Geoffbits (makipag-usap) 06:14, 1 Pebrero 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ganyan talaga nangyayari kung bago ang tagagamit. Inayos ko na ang komento sa taas. Maaari ninyong gamitin ang :en:WP:UNSIGNED para sa mga walang pirma na kumento. --Lenticel (usapan) 00:49, 3 Pebrero 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paalala sa mga magbibigay-komento 

message: Since the last newsletter, the  Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. 
Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the  VisualEditor roadmap.  
The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC).  Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. 
Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem. 
=== Recent improvements === 
The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
* starts a new task, like opening the  dialog:  blue , 
* takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation:   green ,
* might remove or lose your work, like removing a link:    red ,  or  
* is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:    gray .  
The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor.   (T67815, T73746.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (T73077, T73078.) 
Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(T78234.)
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (T86688, T87027.) If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
=== Looking ahead === 
The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.   
We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined. 
=== Let's work together === 
*Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. 
*Please help  complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language. 
*Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact James F. to learn more about this initiative. 
*Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.  
*Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta.  If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready.  Thank you! 
— Elitre (WMF)
 18:30, 5 Pebrero 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  VisualEditor News #1—2015 

message: The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
* starts a new task, like opening the  dialog:  blue , 
* takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation:   green ,
* might remove or lose your work, like removing a link:    red ,  or  
* is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:    gray .  
The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor.   (T67815, T73746.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (T73077, T73078.) 
Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(T78234.)
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (T86688, T87027.) If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
thread_title:  Recent improvements 

message: The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.   
We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.
thread_title:  Looking ahead 

message: *Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. 
*Please help  complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language. 
*Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact James F. to learn more about this initiative. 
*Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.  
*Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta.  If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready.  Thank you! 
— Elitre (WMF)
</div> 18:30, 5 Pebrero 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's work together 

message: Magandang araw. Nais ko lamang na imungkahi ang aking ginawang bagong rebisyon ng Unang Pahina (Burador para sa Unang Pahina). Salamat po!
--雅博直井(会話) 08:09, 15 Pebrero 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, hindi ko gusto 'yung bawat section heading ay may logo ng Wikipedia.  Actually, mas gusto ko 'yung walang mga larawan ang mga section headings.  Simple at mas madali kasi mag-load ang pahina kapag konti lang ang larawan.  Hindi ko pa nasubukan ang Unang Pahina sa mobile version ngunit 'yung kasalukuyang Unang Pahina ay hindi magandang tingnan sa mobile version.  Minumungkahi ko rin na ayusin ang main heading ng Unang Pahina kasi hindi rin maganda ang itsura nya sa ibang screen resolution.  Sa kabila niyan, nice work Masahiro. :-) --Jojit (usapan) 10:20, 22 Pebrero 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unang Pahina 

message: Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like .m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!
Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:32, 1 Marso 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [Global proposal] m.{{SITENAME}}.org: {{int:group-all}} {{int:right-edit}} 

message: Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
*Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
*DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
*Royal Pharmaceutical Society — pharmaceutical information and practice resources
*Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
*Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 21:14, 2 Marso 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator page.

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 2015) 

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

message: Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:45, 13 Marso 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  SUL finalization update 

message: Hi, sorry for writing in english. These two categories are redundant and should be merged, could you please do it? -> :Kategorya:Stub (Windows) and :Kategorya:Stubs tungkol sa Microsoft Windows :-) Thank you in advance. --Superchilum (makipag-usap) 15:05, 24 Marso 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge categories 

message: Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:12, 10 Abril 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stewards confirmation rules 

message: Did you know?
With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:
Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results.  Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:  
After inserting the citation, you can change it.  Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator. 
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC).  You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker.  Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.  Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. 
=== Recent improvements ===
VisualEditor is now substantially faster.  In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias.  The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates.  If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, 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 special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users.  After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March.  This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. 
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese.  These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”).  Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model.  Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries.  This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu".  It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename.  The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead. (T90734)
=== Looking ahead ===
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor.  Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list.  Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.
The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors.  The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (T90666)
=== Let's work together ===
* Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
* Can you translate from English into any other language?  Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language.  Contact us to get an account if you want to help! 
* The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program. 
* File requests for language-appropriate "" and "" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator. 
Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta.  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)
 19:48, 10 Abril 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  VisualEditor News #2—2015 

message: VisualEditor is now substantially faster.  In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias.  The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates.  If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, 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 special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users.  After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March.  This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. 
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese.  These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”).  Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model.  Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries.  This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu".  It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename.  The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead. (T90734)
thread_title:  Recent improvements 

message: The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor.  Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list.  Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.
The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors.  The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (T90666)
thread_title:  Looking ahead 

message: * Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
* Can you translate from English into any other language?  Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language.  Contact us to get an account if you want to help! 
* The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program. 
* File requests for language-appropriate "" and "" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator. 
Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta.  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)
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thread_title:  Let's work together 

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

message: This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.
The FDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki. 
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015/MassMessages/FDC voting has begun|Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015]] 

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

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

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

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

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
* Taylor & Francis  — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
*World Bank eLibrary  — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present.  (100 accounts)
* AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)
New French-Language Branch!
* Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
* Cairn.info (en Francais) —  Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
* L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials  (1000 accounts).
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including an expansion of accounts for Royal Society journals and remaining accounts on Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Highbeam Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to make a request! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015) 

message: Apologies for writing in English.
Hi everyone.
Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.
Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.
Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.
/Johan (WMF)
 22:00, 19 Hunyo 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  HTTPS 

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

message: There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)
This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (makipag-usap) 08:40, 24 Hulyo 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images 

message: Ano ang nangyari sa Upload Wizard? Dati nakakarga ako ng mga talakasan para sa patas na paggamit katulad ng paskil ng Meet Dave. Maari ba malaman kung anong batas copyright ang ginagamit dito? Ng Estados Unidos ba o ng Pilipinas? Sa parehas na kaso may mga probisyon dito para sa pagpatas na paggamit.--Hariboneagle927 (makipag-usap) 01:35, 31 Hulyo 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ang file ay hindi talaksan. -- Namayan 20:04, 31 Hulyo 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: :Ewan, yun kasi yung nakalagay dito sa Wikipedia. Katulad nito thumbnail
Hindi ko rin alam kung paano naging talaksan yun. Pero hindi ukol doon ang tanong ko. Pero ano nga ba nangyari sa upload form dito?--Hariboneagle927 (makipag-usap) 04:27, 1 Agosto 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pagkarga ng mga talakasan sa ilalim ng patas na paggamit (fair-use) 

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

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

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

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

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

message: My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project.  Ways to participate:
*Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
*Join a small group conversation.   
*Learn more about this consultation.
Feedback is welcome in any language.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.
(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 00:01, 19 Agosto 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better? 

message: Hello. The VisualEditor team would like to inform you of a plan to redirect local pages for VisualEditor feedback to the board on mediawiki.org a few weeks from now.  This applies to all the wikis where such pages are inactive or have low traffic, including yours. When this happens, editors will be free to use their own language to write on the mediawiki.org's page - although English is the most popular language there. Even feedback left from within VisualEditor with the built-in tool will be posted to the board on mediawiki.org.
Having all the feedback on a single, centralized place mainly means getting faster, more frequent replies and more attention from a higher number of people, including the people who are building the software.  It also means chances are high, that editors will find that someone else has already written there about the issues or requests they wanted to post.  
Maintaining a local page instead can be cumbersome: it needs to be checked frequently in case someone reports urgent issues.  Old threads need to be archived from time to time.  Off-topic comments should be removed to keep readability.  Feedback left there is sometimes not easily understandable or actionable at all. 
We think this will help us in being more effective while processing feedback from a larger pool of wikis, not just the biggest ones. If you have any comments about this announcement, please leave them at my talk page. Thanks for your understanding, Elitre (WMF) 18:02, 27 Agosto 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Your attention please: VisualEditor feedback will be centralized on www.mediawiki.org

message: Hi all,
We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.
Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/
Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.
Thanks,
Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:12, 2 Setyembre 2015 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site 

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

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

message: (Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)
There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline.  If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today!  Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well.  Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
*Submit a grant request
*Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab
*Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 21:01, 22 Setyembre 2015 (UTC)
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) 16:56, 28 Setyembre 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reimagining WMF grants report 

message: (My apologies if this is written in English.) We have submitted an IEG Proposal related to this WikiProject.  The project proposal is called Philippine Music Survey.  You can check the proposal at meta: :meta:Grants:IEG/Philippine Music Survey.  If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please post it at the talk page of the IEG.  Thanks. --Jojit (usapan) 05:38, 9 Oktubre 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philippine Music Survey IEG 

message: Kumusta po.. bago lang po ako bilang wikipedista, tanong ko lang po kung paano maglagay ng image sa bagong gawang article, pano maglagay ng box, ano pa kailangang gawin para maging ganap na article ang isang usbong pa lamang .. Jumark27 (makipag-usap) 14:44, 9 Oktubre 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mga Patnubay sa Bagong Artikulo 

message: ESEA Newsletter is out! Check out some amazing work done by Wikimedia Communities in East and Southeast Asia! Here is the summary of the Newsletter.
* Wikimedia Taiwan initiated a monthly meetup called “A Room of WikiWomen's Own”. They are also planning to incubate Wikipedia of local aboriginal languages in Taiwan.
* Wikimedia Indonesia is helping to build the Sundanese Wikipedia community by launching various activities called “Wiki Sabanda”. 
* Wikimedians in Kansai successfully held “Wikipedia ARTS”, an offline edit-a-thon, to integrate fine arts information from a library into Wikipedia articles.
Subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter. -- AddisWang (WMCN) (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (makipag-usap) 23:15, 18 Oktubre 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ESEA Newsletter October 2015 

message: buod ng kabanata 6 sa el filibusterismo?
thread_title:  el filibusterismo 

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

message: Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.
If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.
Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:48, 10 Nobyembre 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed 

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: ESEA Newsletter is out! Check out some amazing work done by Wikimedia Communities in East and Southeast Asia! Here is the summary of the Newsletter.
* 5 of East and South East Asia affiliates collaborates to host Wikipedia Asian Month to improve Asian contents in WIkimedia projects.
* Wikimedia Taiwan is helping to build the teaching materials of Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia software, for an international service group to deploy in Cambodia. 
* Wikimedia Indonesia is collaborating with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT-OSM) Indonesia in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in Open Content in Kalimantan Project to simultaneously map and generate content about Kalimantan.
-- Addis Wang (WMCN)
Subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter. MediaWiki message delivery (makipag-usap) 07:44, 25 Nobyembre 2015 (UTC) (talk)
thread_title:  ESEA Newsletter November 2015 

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: 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 (makipag-usap) 14:39, 1 Disyembre 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Wishlist Survey 

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: 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 from late August 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) 18:39, 14 Disyembre 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Your attention please: feedback about the visual editor will soon be centralized on www.mediawiki.org

message: This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.
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!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 20:59, 18 Disyembre 2015 (UTC) •  •
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikipedia 15|Get involved in Wikipedia 15!]] 

message: (Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.)
Hi everyone,
The 2015 Community Wishlist Survey is over, and now the Community Tech team's work begins on the top 10 features and fixes.
In November and December 2015, we invited contributors from all Wikimedia projects to submit proposals for what they would like the Community Tech team to work on for the purpose of improving or producing curation and moderation tools for active contributors.
634 people participated in the survey, where they proposed, discussed and voted on 107 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and endorse proposals, followed by two weeks of voting. The top 10 proposals with the most support votes now become the Community Tech team's backlog of projects to evaluate and address.
You can see the whole list with links to all the proposals and Phabricator tickets on this page: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey.
For everybody who proposed, endorsed, discussed, debated and voted in the survey, as well as everyone who said nice things to us recently: thank you very much for coming out and supporting live feature development. We're excited about the work ahead of us. -- DannyH (WMF) (makipag-usap) 22:17, 21 Disyembre 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Community Wishlist Survey

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 (makipag-usap) 01:49, 5 Enero 2016 (UTC)
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 (makipag-usap) 19:06, 18 Enero 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  2016 WMF Strategy consultation 

message: ESEA Newsletter is out! Check out some amazing work done by Wikimedia Communities in East and Southeast Asia! Here is the summary of the Newsletter.
* 4,310 articles in 41 language versions of Wikipedia contributed during the Wikipedia Asian Month 2015.
* 40 Wikimedians celebrated 15th anniversary of Wikipedia in Hong Kong.
* 100 books are digitalized and uploaded to Wikimedia Projects in collaboration between Wikimedia Indonesia and Museum Tamansiswa Dewantara Kirti Griya.
* 46 entries of Spoken Wikipedia are contributed to Chinese WIkipedia by Wikimedia Taiwan project partnered with National Chiao Tung University.
* Wikimedia Philippines announces its new project: the Encyclopedia of Philippine Heritage (EPH), as the second phase of Cultural Heritage Mapping Project, which contributed 800 articles in past two years.
Subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter. -- AddisWang (WMCN) (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (makipag-usap) 14:28, 1 Pebrero 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ESEA Newsletter January 2016 

message: Hi all. Some of you may recall that visual editor feedback centralization was implemented recently. As a result of that, this wiki lost an additional venue for the upcoming issues of the newsletter. Would you please choose a page and add it to this list (or tell me what the new target should be)? Otherwise, I'll temporarily send the bulletin to this page anyway. Thanks for your attention. Best, --Elitre (WMF) (makipag-usap) 16:03, 16 Pebrero 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This place is actually the right place (as the central meeting point of the Tagalog Wikipedia community), so please send it here. :) --Sky Harbor (usapan) 17:50, 19 Pebrero 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Where should the visual editor newsletter be delivered?

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 (makipag-usap) 16:11, 29 Pebrero 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikimania 2016: call for posters, discussions and trainings 

thread_title:  Completion suggestor 

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) 22:09, 7 Marso 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates to wiki search auto completion are arriving 10 March

message: Hello, machine translation support for Content Translation (beta feature) has now been extended and enabled for users of Tagalog Wikipedia using Yandex. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles into Tagalog 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 7 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 Tagalog 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. Our message is written in English only and we will be very grateful if the message could be translated into Tagalog for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of WMF Language team: --Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (makipag-usap) 12:32, 11 Marso 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation