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CMBR is published Semiannual (online and in print= 2 Issues per year). All submitted manuscripts are checked for similarity through a trustworthy software named iThenticate (Permissible level of plagiarism is 18%) to be assured about their originality and then rigorously peer-reviewed by international reviewers. EndNote Style (CMBR) Submit Your Manuscript Online Some of the top-authors of this Journal Dr. Michael R Hamblin has published 7 articles in Nature journal that we thanks him to publish an article in Cell. Mol. Biomed. Rep. Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Dr. Irwin Rose Alencar de Menezes Bioinformatics analysis of microtubule-associated protein-1 light chain 3 (MAP1LC3A) and (BECN1) genes in autophagy Ali Reza Mirzaei; Farzaneh Fazeli Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2022, Pages 129-137 Autophagy is an effective regulatory process for eliminating tumors and worn-out intracellular components. Different groups of enzymes and regulatory elements are involved in the autophagy process. MAP1LC3A and BECN1 genes are the most important gene groups in autophagy. These genes, through the production ... Read More Autophagy is an effective regulatory process for eliminating tumors and worn-out intracellular components. Different groups of enzymes and regulatory elements are involved in the autophagy process. MAP1LC3A and BECN1 genes are the most important gene groups in autophagy. These genes, through the production of beclin-1 and lc3 proteins, are involved in the production of autophagosomes. In general, both MAP1LC3A and BECN1 genes are active in cellular responses and the biological process. The aim of this study was bioinformatics analysis at the level of genome and proteome and to evaluate and compare the expression of MAP1LC3A and BECN1 genes in different human body tissues. The results of this study showed that the expression level of the BECN1 gene was relatively higher than the MAP1LC3A gene in different mammals. Cell analysis of MAP1LC3A and BECN1 genes by antibodies that bind to proteins of target genes showed that the protein encoded by the BECN1 gene is more present in the cytosol and the proteins encoded by MAP1LC3A gene are locally present in vesicles. It was also found that the protein encoded by the MAP1LC3A gene had a higher expression in brain tissues than in other tissues, while the beclin-1 protein in cardiac tissue showed higher expression than in other tissues. Finally, by using this information, it is possible to provide the ground for targeted therapies. Current trends and new methods of detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection Mohammad Reza Mohammadi; Amir Hossein Omidi; Hoda Sabati Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2022, Pages 138-150 SARS-CoV- 2 is the causative agent of the global pandemic, also known as Covid-19. This virus belongs to a group of coronaviruses and has affected more than ten million people across the globe, causing nearly half a million deaths worldwide. The pandemic has spread worldwide, originating in the Wuhan ... Read More SARS-CoV- 2 is the causative agent of the global pandemic, also known as Covid-19. This virus belongs to a group of coronaviruses and has affected more than ten million people across the globe, causing nearly half a million deaths worldwide. The pandemic has spread worldwide, originating in the Wuhan Hubei province of China in 2019. The disease is a significant challenge as there is no antiviral treatment. This review will address current trends and emerging new methods for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratoryat present. Reverse transcriptase PCR or RT-PCR is the gold standard for detecting SARS-CoV-2 disease. The seroprevalence of Covid-19 is performed using antibody detection tests using ELISA and antigen detection as rapid tests. In clinical practice, preliminary disease identification is made based on Chest radiographs, computed tomography, and positron emission tomography (PET) scans. As the pandemic has progressed, newer methods of detection like CRISPR, nanotechnology-enabled solutions, and biosensors have emerged as new methods of detecting SARS-CoV-2. GC-MS Analysis of the Active Compound in Ethanol Extracts of White Pepper (Piper nigrum L.) and Pharmacological Effects I Nyoman Arsana; Ni Ketut Ayu Juliasih; A A Ayu Sauca Sunia Widyantari; Ni Luh Suriani; Agus Manto Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2022, Pages 151-161 Pepper (Piper nigrum L.) has been utilized since antiquity and is considered the king of spices due to its wide use. This study aims to analyze the active compounds of white pepper through GC-MS and their pharmacological effects. Pepper seeds were extracted using 96% ethanol as solvent by the maceration ... Read More Pepper (Piper nigrum L.) has been utilized since antiquity and is considered the king of spices due to its wide use. This study aims to analyze the active compounds of white pepper through GC-MS and their pharmacological effects. Pepper seeds were extracted using 96% ethanol as solvent by the maceration method. The active compounds in the dry extract were then analyzed by GC-MS. Identification of the active compound was carried out by matching it to the Willey7 Library database. Based on the results chromatogram, is known that there are 127 components of the compound, of which there are 11 main components. Most of the main components are alkaloids and have various pharmacological effects discussed. Piperidine, Caryophyllene, and Ethyl iso-allocholate are some of active compounds in ethanol extract. Ethyl iso-allocholate acts as an anti-inflammatory with a strong affinity for the target protein and also acts as an antiviral for SARS-CoV by inhibiting the attachment of the viral genome to target proteins, namely angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and main protease (MPro). Original Article Gene Expression Studies Prevalence of RDB, RSa, Hinc and Xmn polymorphisms and HBBS11D haplotypes in patients with thalassemia minor Seyyedeh Shabnam Irankhah; Saied Hoseini-Asl; Mehdi Valizadeh; Firouz Amani Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2022, Pages 162-172 Background: Beta-thalassemia is one of the most common genetic diseases with autosomal recessive inherited patterns in the world and is one of the most common diseases in Iran that exists in all age and sex groups. Determining gene mutations in this disease can be effective in controlling and treating ... Read More Background: Beta-thalassemia is one of the most common genetic diseases with autosomal recessive inherited patterns in the world and is one of the most common diseases in Iran that exists in all age and sex groups. Determining gene mutations in this disease can be effective in controlling and treating the disease. The present study determined the frequency of polymorphisms of Hinc, RSaI, RDB, and Xmn in patients with beta-thalassemia minor in Ardabil province. Methods: 53 beta-thalassemia patients referred to the genetic department of Imam Khomeini Hospital were studied. Blood samples were taken to determine the type of gene mutation. PCR samples were genetically evaluated to determine genetic mutations using RDB-Sequence-RFLP-Haplotype methods. Results: A total of 53 samples were examined, of which 56.6% were male and the rest were female. The most positive cases in the first and second ranks were related to XmnI and AvaII enzymes with 73.5% and 60.3%, respectively. The most common mutation extracted in the studied samples with 14 cases (26.4%) was IVS2.1. Among the most common mutations extracted by the RDB method was related to IVS 1.2 with 26.4%. Conclusions: The results of the present study showed that the distribution of genetic mutations in the studied samples can be different from other places. Also, by performing targeted genetic counseling, it is possible to control and prevent the disease in the future. Global perspective of phosphate solubilizing microbes and phosphatase for improvement of soil, food and human health Umesh Pravin Dhuldhaj; Namrata Malik Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2022, Pages 173-186 Soil microbial flora has a pivotal role in the phyto-availability of phosphorus and other necessary minerals and nutrients. The primary class of Rhizobacteria involved in the solubilization of phosphate from non-available forms to available forms is Phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB). The application ... Read More Soil microbial flora has a pivotal role in the phyto-availability of phosphorus and other necessary minerals and nutrients. The primary class of Rhizobacteria involved in the solubilization of phosphate from non-available forms to available forms is Phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB). The application of Phosphate solubilizing bacteria increased phosphorus availability, which is one of the major factors responsible for the increase in the yield of crops. The phosphorus content is higher in the seeds than in the other plant parts; it helps plants in disease resistance and stress management such as winter rigors and improves the quality of fruits, vegetables, and cereal crops. Application of PSB as the biofertilizers positively affects the secretion of siderophores, nitrogen fixation, Indole acetic acid (IAA), 1-aminocylopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase, chitinase, and protease. PSB can solubilize useful phosphate from rock phosphate and phosphate present in the combined state in lower to higher pH range (4 to 10), lower to a higher temperature (20 to 40 0C), and even in the higher salt ranges (0 to 7.5 % NaCl). Microbes help in the assimilation of phosphates and hydrocarbons by the secretions of different phosphatases such as monoesterase, diesterases, C-P lyase, and phosphatase and phytases. Using chemical P fertilizer in sustainable agricultural methods needs to be reduced. For this purpose, alternative and inexpensive technology are required so that plants can be provided with a sufficient amount of P. Phosphate solubilizing microbes can be an excellent option to replace chemical P fertilizers for improved agricultural production and soil fertility. The fertility of farm fields can be improved by using PSB as the bio-fertilizer and it will enhance the nutritional quality of plants and plant products which are directly or indirectly taken as food. Applying these microbes to soil/seeds makes good quality fruits and can help to fulfill the nutritional hunger of the world. Original Article Application of medicinal plants in medicine Medical and medicinal importance of Rheum spp. collected from different altitudes of the Kashmir Himalayan range Shagoon Tabin; Raghubir Chand Gupta; Azra Nahid kamili; Javid Ahmad parray Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2022, Pages 187-201 Most of the plants are essential due to their medicinal properties and have contributed to the origin and evolution of many traditional herbal therapies. Rheum is also one of the famous and known medicinal plants of Kashmir Himalaya. It ranges from an altitude of 1700-5500 m. Its Roots are long and stout. ... Read More Most of the plants are essential due to their medicinal properties and have contributed to the origin and evolution of many traditional herbal therapies. Rheum is also one of the famous and known medicinal plants of Kashmir Himalaya. It ranges from an altitude of 1700-5500 m. Its Roots are long and stout. The stem is erect, hollow, sulcate, glabrous, or strigose. It is native to Asia-Temperate to Asia-Tropical, from China to India, Nepal, and Pakistan. In India, its found in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh. Rhubarb is the English name of the genus Rheum (family Polygonaceae). Emodi, Webbianum and Spiciforme are three species of Rheum found in Kashmir Himalaya. Rheum species are well-known medicinal plant and is found on high altitudes. Its leaves and stalks are taken as food and cooked as vegetables. It’s used as medicine and is generally proven more effective against certain ailments like antibacterial, anticancerous, anti-inflammatory, rheumatoid diseases, stomachache, and intestinal problems. It is also used for the treatment of indigestion, abdominal disorders, boils, wounds and flatulence. But Rheum has become endangered due to exploitation. Active compounds like aloe-emodin, rhein, emodin, chrysaphanol and physicion are found in this plant which is anti Cancerian agents. High molecular diversity is also observed in all the three species of Rheum. Antisense RNA, the modified CRISPR-Cas9, and metal/metal oxide nanoparticles to inactivate pathogenic bacteria Mehran Alavi; Mahendra Rai Volume 1, Issue 2 , August 2021, , Pages 52-59 Finding efficient therapeutic strategies to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a complicated affair specifically in the therapy of chronic bacterial infections related to hospital-acquired infections. Recently, three major antibacterial systems based on antisense RNA, CRISPR-Cas9, and metal/metal ... Read More Finding efficient therapeutic strategies to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a complicated affair specifically in the therapy of chronic bacterial infections related to hospital-acquired infections. Recently, three major antibacterial systems based on antisense RNA, CRISPR-Cas9, and metal/metal oxide nanoparticles particularly silver (Ag) nanoparticles have shown more effective antibacterial activity compared to conventional antibiotics. ROS generation, attachment to the cell membrane, disruption of bacterial envelop, inactivation of electron transport chain, decreasing the local pH, modulation of cell signaling, and denaturation of biological macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids have been found as the main antibacterial functions of Ag nanoparticles. Antisense RNA, a single-stranded RNA, can hybridize with complementary genes in messenger RNA (mRNA) followed by blockage translation of these genes into proteins. Moreover, CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of viral DNA sequences derived from bacteriophages, which can target and destroy foreign DNA by nuclease activity. There are 2 classes and 6 subtypes (I-VI) of CRISPR-Cas systems, which may be engineered as potential antibacterial agents to target specific sequences. Therefore, here, recent advances and challenges for the antibacterial application of these three therapeutic agents are presented. The efficiency of metal, metal oxide, and metalloid nanoparticles against cancer cells and bacterial pathogens: different mechanisms of action Mehran Alavi; Mahendra Rai; Fleming Martinez; Danial Kahrizi; Haroon Khan; Irwin Rose Alencar de Menezes; Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho; José Galberto Martins Costa Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2022, , Pages 10-21 The applications of nanoparticles in various practical fields, owing to their unique properties compared with bulk materials, have been occupying the minds of scientists for several decades. In this regard, a combination of pharmacology and nanotechnology has contributed to producing newer effective ... Read More The applications of nanoparticles in various practical fields, owing to their unique properties compared with bulk materials, have been occupying the minds of scientists for several decades. In this regard, a combination of pharmacology and nanotechnology has contributed to producing newer effective anticancer and antimicrobial agents to inactivate resistant cancer cells and microorganisms, specifically multidrug-resistant ones. The physicochemical properties of nanoparticles based on metalloid, metal, and metal oxides such as selenium, silver, gold, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, copper oxide, platinum, and magnesium oxide, have been well known and referred to as anticancer and antimicrobial agents or carriers. The inactivation and eradication of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria may be mainly resulted from the oxidative damages in the bacterial medium. Overall, metalloid, metal and metal oxide NPs can be functionalized by other antibacterial or anticancer agents and biocompatible stabilizers to increase their efficiency in physiological conditions. However, the undesirable cytotoxicity of these nanoparticles in physiological conditions is the major hindrance to their application in the pharmaceutical industry and therapeutics. Nevertheless, it is expected that these problems will be solved in the near future. Therefore, the main objective of this review is to report an overview of the recent signs of progress in increasing anticancer and antibacterial mechanisms of metal and metal-based nanoparticles. Cell, Organ and Tissue Culture Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells versus injectable insulin for the treatment of rats with type I diabetes Sarhang Hasan Azeez; Sarwar Nawzad Jafar; Zahra Aziziaram; Le Fang; Ahang Hasan Mawlood; Muhammed Furkan Ercisli Volume 1, Issue 1 , April 2021, , Pages 42-51 Recently, stem cells have been considered renewable cell sources in the treatment of diabetes and the development of insulin-producing cells. In this regard, the current study aimed to compare Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells with injectable insulin in rats with type I diabetes. For ... Read More Recently, stem cells have been considered renewable cell sources in the treatment of diabetes and the development of insulin-producing cells. In this regard, the current study aimed to compare Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells with injectable insulin in rats with type I diabetes. For this purpose, 40 rats were divided into four groups: the control or healthy group, the diabetic control group, the group that received differentiated insulin-producing cells from bone marrow, and the group that received insulin treatment. To differentiate insulin-producing cells from bone marrow, the femoral bone marrow of rats was extracted using the flushing method. Differentiated cells were evaluated using dithizone-specific dye, anti-insulin-proinsulin antibodies, and anti-insulin beta receptors. Also, the expression of the pdx-I gene, as the specific gene of pancreatic cells, was examined by RT-PCR. The results showed that transplantation of insulin-producing cells could significantly increase blood insulin levels in diabetic rats. This increase intensified in the second stage of transplantation when more cells were injected into rats. Concerning decreasing blood sugar levels, differentiated cells were able to reduce blood sugar levels significantly. Even in the first stage of cell injection, in which the rats received a small number of cells, their blood sugar levels were controlled by these cells. As a result, the present study showed that repeated transplants of insulin-producing cells differentiated from bone marrow could decrease blood sugar and increase insulin levels. Surface modification of SiO2 nanoparticles for bacterial decontaminations of blood products Mehran Alavi; Michael R. Hamblin; M. R. Mozafari; Irwin Rose Alencar de Menezes; Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho Volume 2, Issue 2 , June 2022, , Pages 87-97 Bacterial infections can be caused by contamination of labile blood products with specific bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Hospital equipment, bio-protective equipment, delivery systems, and medical devices can be easily contaminated by microorganisms. Multidrug-resistant ... Read More Bacterial infections can be caused by contamination of labile blood products with specific bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Hospital equipment, bio-protective equipment, delivery systems, and medical devices can be easily contaminated by microorganisms. Multidrug-resistant bacteria can survive on various organic or inorganic polymeric materials for more than 90 days. Inhibiting the growth and eradicating these microorganisms is vital in blood transfusion processes. Blood bags and other related medical devices can be improved by the incorporation of organic or inorganic nanomaterials, particularly silicon dioxide (SiO2) nanoparticles. The addition of solid organic or inorganic nanoparticles to synthetic polymers or biopolymers can provide new properties in addition to antimicrobial activity. Among these NPs, formulations composed of SiO2 nanoparticles and polymers have been shown to improve the mechanical and antimicrobial properties of catheters, prosthetic inserts, blood bags, and other medical devices SiO2 nanoparticles possess several advantages, including large-scale synthetic availability, simple one-pot synthesis methods, porous structure for loading antibacterial agents, good biocompatibility, and thermal stability. Plasticized polyvinyl chloride is the main polymer, which has been functionalized by these nanoparticles. In this review, we discuss the recent advances and challenges regarding the functionalization of polyvinyl chloride by SiO2 nanoparticles to hinder bacterial contaminations in blood products. Cell, Organ and Tissue Culture Cytotoxic effect of diferuloylmethane, a derivative of turmeric on different human glioblastoma cell lines Ismael Bilal; Sijia Xie; Muna S Elburki; Zahra Aziziaram; Sangar Muhammad Ahmed; Salah Tofik Jalal Balaky Volume 1, Issue 1 , April 2021, , Pages 14-22 Glioblastoma is a fatal brain tumor, and the standard treatment for this cancer is the surgical removal of the tumor followed by chemotherapy with temozolomide and radiotherapy. Because chemotherapy has many side effects, the use of compounds extracted from natural herbs, due to fewer side effects, can ... Read More Glioblastoma is a fatal brain tumor, and the standard treatment for this cancer is the surgical removal of the tumor followed by chemotherapy with temozolomide and radiotherapy. Because chemotherapy has many side effects, the use of compounds extracted from natural herbs, due to fewer side effects, can be a good alternative or supplement to chemical drugs in cancer treatment. In this study, curcumin (diferuloylmethane), known as the main active ingredient of turmeric, was used to evaluate itscytotoxicity on four human glioblastoma cell lines (U373, U251, D54, and T98G). Among these cell lines, U373 was temozolomide resistance, and T98G was photodynamic treatment resistance. These cell lines were treated with increasing concentrations of diferuloylmethane. Survival percentage was assessed by MTT assay and the trypan blue staining method was used to evaluate the rate of cell death and confirm the results of the MTT assay. The results showed that diferuloylmethane has a cytotoxic effect on U251, D54, and T98G cell lines. This effect was higher in high concentrations of diferuloylmethane on U251 and D54 than on U373. Therefore, according to the results of the current study and further studies, curcumin (diferuloylmethane) can be considered an effective complementary treatment in the treatment of glioblastoma. 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If you’re not familiar with this kind of statistics, thinking about coin tossing can help: If you flip a coin one thousand times, you’re going to get heads about half the time. But what if you flip a coin only 4 times? Often you will get heads 2 times, but you’ll often get heads 1, 3 and 4 times. Four coin flips are not enough to know how often you’ll really get heads in the long run. In our case, each banner view is like a coin toss: heads is a donation, tails is no donation. But it’s an incredibly lopsided coin. In some countries, and at certain times of day might only get “heads” one in one hundred thousand “flips.” Think about two banners with a difference: one has all bold type and one only has key phrases in bold. Those are like two coins with very slightly different degrees of lopsidedness. Imagine that, over the course of a particular test, one results in donations at a rate of 50 per hundred thousand, and another at a rate of 56 per hundred thousand. Our question is: How can we be sure that the difference in response rates isn’t due to chance? If our sample is large enough (as when we flipped the coin one thousand times) then we can trust our answer. But how large is large enough? We run various functions using a statistical programming language called R to answer all these questions. In future posts, if readers are interested, we’ll get into more details. But today, we just wanted to show a few graphs we’ve made to check our own assumptions and understanding. The graph immediately below is from an exercise we just completed: We went back to one of our largest test samples, where we ran A vs B for a very long time. In fact, it is the example of “all bold” vs “some bold” I just mentioned, and the response rates across a range of low-donation-rate countries were 56 and 50 per 100,000 respectively. We chopped that long test up into 25 smaller samples that are closer to the size of our typical tests — in this case with about 3.5 million banner views per banner per test. Then we checked how often those short tests accurately represented the “true”(er) result of the full test. In the graph below, you’re looking at the data showing how much A beat B by in each test (each subset of the larger test actually). The red vertical line represents the true(er) value of how much A beats B based on the entire large sample. Each dot represents A’s winning margin in a different test — 1.1 means A beat B by 10 percent. This kind of graph is called a histogram. The bars show how many results fit into different ranges. You can see that most of the tests fall around a central value. This is good to see! Our stats methods assume the data conforms to a certain pattern, which is called a “normal distribution.” And this is one indication that our data is normal. Another piece of good news: all of the dots are greater than 1. That means that none of these smaller tests lied about banner A being the winner. What’s sad, though, is how much most of the tests lie about how much A should win by. This isn’t a surprise to us — we know that those ranges are wide — especially when response rates are as low as they were in this test. One fun thing R can do is generate random data that conforms to certain patterns. The graphs below show what happened when we asked R to make up normally distributed data using the same banner response rates. Compare the fake data graphs below to the real data graph above. First of all, notice how much the three graphs vary below. That’s one simple way of showing that our real data doesn’t need to look exactly like any one particular set of R-generated normal data to be normal. Even so, can we trust that our data is normally distributed? We think so, but we have some questions. Our response rates vary dramatically over the course of a 24-hour day (high in the day, low at night). Does that create problems for applying these statistical techniques? In this particular test, the response rate varies wildly from country to country — and there are dozens of countries thrown into this one test. Does that also cause problems? Tentatively, we don’t think so because the thing we’re measuring in the end — the percentage by which A beats B — doesn’t vary wildly by country or time of day…we think. But even if it did, since A is always up against B in the exact same set of countries and times, we think it shouldn’t matter. One little (or maybe big?) sign of hope is that the range of our real data approximately matches the ranges of the randomly generated normal data. But those are a few of the assumptions we’re working to check. We’re always reaching out to people who can help us with our stats. We’re looking for people who are Phd level math or stats people who have direct experience with A/B testing or some kind of similar response phenomenon. Email fundraising@wikimedia.org with “Stats” in the subject line if you think you might be able to help, or know someone. Zack Exley, Chief Revenue Officer, Wikimedia Foundation and Sahar Massachi Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. That’s a good intro. I will show this to my colleagues in six-sigma training. Then, A and B texts (and test) where subsequent one to the other, so not stochastically independent. It means that having read the first text for so long for many people have changed their probability to respond positively to the second one. (In my opinion) » The Top Ten Wikipedia Stories of 2016 The Wikipedian […] highlighting, boldfacing, talky subject lines, and more. 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Wikimedians sometimes interact both online and offline — and these experiences are very different from each other, says anthropologist Lionel Scheepmans. Hackathon photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0. For me, it is a real pleasure to meet people face to face, without having to use a computer to express myself. Because of my dyslexia, I have to concentrate a lot when I write — though I can now use the keyboard without looking at the keys. Despite a deep concentration and good keyboard control, l still make many spelling or grammar mistakes. These mistakes can sometimes discredit me with the people I communicate with. Besides, words are clearer when they are accompanied with a facial expression. A sad, proud, shy or upset face gives more meaning to our words, so others can understand us better. When we speak face to face, there is no need of a smiley. A real smile or a puzzled look instantly add emotions to our words. All this makes communication easier, more spontaneous, more enjoyable. When I visited the Wikimania 2014 conference in London, it was a real pleasure to meet Wikimedia projects members face to face; and I was suddenly surprised to meet people that seemed nicer and more civil than during my Internet exchanges. Was it just a personal feeling? Were they the same people online and offline? It is hard to tell. I don’t think that any of the people I have interacted with online were present at Wikimania. But how can I be sure? Our pseudonym culture does not allow people to easily recognize each other offline. On Wikipedia, real user names are rare. Profile photos are also rare, unlike on social networks like Facebook. And wikis do not let you identify people by looking at friends you have in common. Does anonymity cause this difference between online and offline behavior? I’m not sure about that either. I have had a number of altercations with people who identify themselves “openly” on Facebook, using their real names. On the Internet, people can be rude to others, even when they are not under the cover of anonymity. Though there is a difference between Wikipedia and Facebook: it is easy for me to cut all contact with unpleasant people on Facebook; but this is not possible in a wiki environment. The simplest solution is to leave and stop all community interactions; but that’s also the most harmful choice for our encyclopedia. Sometimes it’s possible for a community to ban a user from contributing; but this solution usually applies only to serious acts of vandalism or repeated abuse, and can only be applied after a collective decision, and only by a site administrator. These reflections lead me to believe that the behavior of Wikipedians is influenced by whether they are online or offline. In the same way that we behave differently during a meeting at work or a conversation in the street. But that’s just a personal belief, more social research is needed to know what is really going on. I know several new users who have stopped contributing to Wikimedia projects, because of unpleasant interactions with other users. This phenomenon also occurs with experienced contributors from one project, when they try to join other Wikimedia projects. Personally, I quickly gave up contributing in Wikinews, after a heated discussion on their Village Pump. Same kind of experience on Wikivoyage, after an administrator deleted one of my sub user pages. Even recently, I had an exchange with a researcher in sociology from Quebec, who was quickly discouraged to participate in fr.wikiversity. I am therefore not the only one to have experienced this abrasive behavior. Of course, I have no statistics on hand to back up these observations; but discussions like ‘A Culture of Kindness, a Wikimania session focused on the lack of courtesy in the Wikimedia community, make me believe that the problem is real and that solutions have still not been found (see blog post) . Working in the shadow of the Internet I first discovered the French Wikipedia community on February 26, 2011, while I was researching my master thesis in social and cultural anthropology. During this study, I observed the organization of the French contributor community for almost six months. After taking a “Wikibreak” until 2012, I discovered a number of offline activities related to the Wikimedia Foundation, including: a one-day visit to the offices of Wikimedia France in Paris; meetings to start a Belgian chapter; discussions during the French contribution month of 2013; my attendance at the FOSDEM 2013 booth; and finally Wikimania 2014 in London. This last event gave me the opportunity to experience the magnitude of the Wikimedia movement. I was very impressed by this large network of Wikimedia national associations from around the world, and the existence of a significant number employees and administrators in these associations like in the foundation it self. After meeting the employees of newly recruited Wikimedia France, I thought it must be hard for them to navigate this vast organizational field. It is even harder to understand when the organization, structures, and behaviors are so different between online (within projects) and offline (in the volunteer and staff networks). Wikipedia’s principles are the pillars that hold this global movement together. Lincoln Memorial by azucaro, LGPL. Before comparing Wikipedia and Wikimania, I will try to summarize my understanding of the Wikipedia community’s organization and characteristics. As a community project, Wikipedia operates in a more or less closed environment, in which user actions are recorded and accessible to the rest of the community. In this environment, all users have virtually the same editing rights. Only a few maintenance tools are reserved for certain user groups, which are statutorily elected by the community. To put it in a more systematic way, the Wikipedia user community is organized around a general ethic, based on the following principles and values: A respect for privacy and anonymity. An organization without a contractual relationship or monetary exchange. A freedom of expression and participation based on mutual respect. No statutory hierarchy for editorial and political decisions by all users who have reached a certain number of contributions. A commitment to the principles and ethics of the free software movement, with the adoption of free licenses and open software. A total transparency for everyone’s actions, except when they conflict with external laws in each juridiction. A willingness to pursue an altruistic project to produce knowledge accessible to every human being. Using this partial set of principles, let us now review the differences between Wikipedia and Wikimania, in terms of organization and ethics. Incompatible with a desire for anonymity It is evident that physical presence at an event like Wikimania makes anonymity impossible, because of obligations related to the registration. Also, unlike Wikipedia, Wikimania does not take place in a closed universe where everything can be organized and controlled by the whole community. At Wikimania, you have to worry about travel, food, accommodation, host structures, paperwork, etc. All this inevitably requires the exchange of money and contractual relationships between organizers, vendors and participants. For example, renting a bike to get from my hotel to the Barbican Center required me to make a monetary exchange to lease it from the Barcley firm. Less freedom of expression and participation A workshop at Wikimania 2014 in London. Photo by Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the Wikimania temple, you’d better understand the language of Shakespeare to understand what is going on. Unlike the Wikipedia projects, where communities can use their own native language, Wikimania London was organized mainly in English. I think it was the only language used for meetings published in the program. Of course, I also had the opportunity to communicate in my native language, around a table dedicated to Francophone participants — or even in Portuguese during side discussions. But why should the entire program be organized in English? The use of other languages could make it easier for non-English speakers to connect more easily. This would give them the opportunity to express themselves more freely in their native language and thus make their Wikimania experience more enjoyable. In 2015, the Wikimania event will take place in Mexico, in a non-English speaking country. I imagine that some activities will be scheduled in Spanish, but why not in other languages? To attend Wikimania, you must also be able to go there, either by funding your own expenses — or by getting financial support, as was my case. In terms of freedom of participation, Wikimania is therefore not comparable to Wikipedia. Moreover, I noticed that the freedom of expression and participation can be very different depending on whether you are just a visitor — or have a statutory position in the organization. During the Hackathon, roundtable discussions could be started by any member, as on Wikipedia. But during the Wikimania conference itself, everything was programmed in advance. A selection was made by a program committee, presumably influenced by community interest on the submission pages. Subsequently, participation in the actual meetings varies, depending on whether they take place in a small meeting room or a large auditorium. Though meeting rooms are well suited for discussions, a large auditorium often limits public participation to only question and answer sessions. Here is an example: during the virtual community roundtable, I was not able to speak — even though this is a subject that interests me and that I know well. This roundtable was held in the largest amphitheater, and its panelists included four employees of the Wikimedia Foundation and three external guests specializing on this topic. The discussion took place between them through microphones. Towards the end of the allotted time for the meeting, the audience was invited to submit questions for one of the panelists to answer. Before he had a chance to speak, time was up and we had to leave the premises. This experience was even more frustrating when I detected several errors and deficiencies in the panel discussion. For example, I wanted to emphasize that the term “virtual” was not ideal as the session title. The word “virtual” can be interpreted as “latent” or “imaginary”, which is not a good description for the Wikimedia community. It would have been more accurate to use the term “online”. This would avoid creating some confusion — just as the use of the term “democracy” to describe the oligarchy found in the western states can make political debate difficult. When a word is used incorrectly, it becomes difficult to use it well. On the other hand, the word “environment” was never mentioned during the meeting, when it could have made for a much more interesting debate. Finally, in terms of freedom of expression and participation, what I observed during the five days ranged from one extreme to the other. One day, I had a productive dialog with a student in anthropology who had posted a handwritten sign on one of the tables, that simply said “Digital anthropology.” But the next day, I found myself watching a roundtable discussion on a topic to which I could made useful contributions, but where it was impossible for me to speak. A panel discussion with the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. Photo by Ziko, GFDL. Unlike in Wikipedia, a clear hierarchy is present in the context of a conference like Wikimania. First, the Wikimedia Foundation itself follows a classic relatively organizational chart, with Directors, Vice-Presidents, Heads, Managers, etc. And we also see a more discrete hierarchy in local chapters such as Wikimedia Switzerland or Wikimedia France. In terms of hierarchy, this Wikimedia world is very different than the Wikipedia world, in which a real-world authority like a university professor is not given any special on-wiki authority due to their academic title. But in the offline world of Wikimania, hierarchy clearly influences one’s ability to be heard — and therefore to influence the community. Some sessions are structured based on a presenter’s hierarchical status, without providing an opportunity for the audience to respond to their presentation. In cases like these, the Wikimedia organization opens the door to potential abuses of power, as well as risks that a personality cult and dogmatism could grow around a charismatic leader. Fortunately, I didn’t experience any of these issues at Wikimania, but I think it might be good to address this challenge before a problem arises. Why don’t the Wikimedia Foundation and its affiliates take inspiration from the distributed and non-hierarchical structure of online Wikipedia communities they serve? For example, they might consider adopting some of the principles of Wikinomics, which could be an interesting approach for offline Wikimedia organizations. Cognitive dissonance with free culture values In an event hosted by an organization that supports the free sharing of knowledge, I was very surprised to attend presentations where a real debate was not always possible. It was even more amazing to me that an organization that encourages the use of open formats and free software would allow the sale of copyrighted books in its conference. If the purpose of the Wikimedia Foundation is to enable people to freely share human knowledge, why does it let authors promote and sell copyrighted books within its biggest annual event? If only open formats and free software are permitted on the Wikimedia projects, why make an exception at Wikimania? I can understand that speakers would be allowed to use a proprietary Macbook for their presentation, but I have trouble with authors coming to sell copyrighted books to project members who provided that information for free. During Wikimania conferences, I believe that authors should share their knowledge in compliance with the rules and ethics of Wikimedia movement: if these rules are violated, this impacts the credibility of the entire movement. And I question the legality of producing a copyrighted work using Wikipedia content, considering that its CC BY SA license requires derivative works to use similar ‘share-alike’ terms. The transparency offered by the MediaWiki software is of course impossible when organizing an event such as Wikimania. In Wikimedia projects where all activities lead to the writing of a code, user actions can be easily recorded and made accessible to all. As the saying goes, spoken words fly away, but written words remain; and this is valid for the computer code when it is recorded. That said, we must not forget that nowadays, if the words fly away, they can also be captured. I came to Wikimania with a video camera, but only used it the first few days, because my hotel was far away and other attendees were much better equipped than me. I thought it was not worth the trouble to carry all my gear, thinking that a lot of footage would be available on Wikimedia Commons to edit a movie if I wanted. Moreover, many of the activities in which I participated were filmed by volunteers or by participants. Unfortunately, to date there are only five videos on Commons within the categories ‘Wikimania 2014 presentations’ ‘and 13 in that of’ ‘Wikimania 2014 videos’. Where is the rest of the footage filmed by all these people? On other sites? I imagine that many people would like to see the Wikimania meetings which they were unable to attend. It would be so nice to have all these videos on Commons, indexed the Wikimania site and on the cover page for each session or activity. This idea was implemented in the case of some presentations, but why not all? This requires more coordination in the production and distribute of videos, but this should be possible. An idea to consider for next year. Altruism is the opposite of egocentricism, but doesn’t preclude individualism. The difference between egocentrism and individualism is subtle but important seems to understand the Wikipedia culture as a whole. In fact, the Wikipedia project is unique in that each article in the encyclopedia is created by a set of actions that are both individualistic and altruistic. This probably explains that there are few visible conflicts of interest on Wikipedia, but lots of conflicts of opinion. What we call an “edit war” is usually caused by a difficulty for some contributors to abandon their individual viewpoints in favor of a collective viewpoint. And it’s worth noting that throughout my Wikimania experience, I did not witness any conflict of interest or viewpoint. Quite the opposite: the people I met or heard at Wikimania appeared to overflow with altruism, and didn’t seem very egotistical, only barely individualistic. So much so, that altruism appears to be a central value for all Wikimedia projects — and is perhaps even the foundation that bonds the community, a tool for conflict resolution and for bringing people together. Disparity in the Wikimedia projects Group photo of participants at Wikimania 2014. Photo by Adam Novak, CC BY-SA 4.0. Throughout this report, I observed many disparities between the ethics, values and organizational structures of online Wikipedia projects and offline conferences like Wikimania. This diversity seems normal and even quite healthy in an international movement as large as Wikimedia. It makes it possible for members to adapt to the different environments to which they are exposed. However, these variations in values, ethics and organizations could also pose some risks. One of those risks would be the possibility of misunderstandings between users that operate in different environments, even if they are part of the same movement. To avoid this pitfall, I think international conferences such as Wikimania are essential to bring together people from different environments within the Wikimedia movement. I also think that this annual conference is insufficient and that more regular meetings should be organized at the regional level, if they aren’t already. During these meetings, it is important that foundation or chapter employees meet contributors to share information about their work environments; and online meetings between employee and contributors should also take place, ideally within different projects. I believe this balance between online and offline interactions can strengthen the movement’s internal cohesion and ensure its sustainability. All views in this blog post are the author’s own and do not represent the views of the Wikimedia Foundation or its affiliates. An earlier version of this post included a statement that singled out an individual community member to describe a movement-wide issue. In the current version, the individual’s name has been removed. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Thanks. Some interesting things to ponder. Hi, Lionel. I took a look at the page you had deleted on the French Wikivoyage (though I’m not an admin there, so I can’t see the content). It looks like it was deleted for being a curriculum vitae? Or at least for appearing to be one? If so, I’m pretty sure most Wikimedia projects would prohibit CVs from their userspace. Is part of the disparity due to limitations on the physical world that are different than the online world? What things can we do to keep the spirt of the moment apparent when we meet physically? Hosting an event with so many participants has to be a logistical challenge. I’ve put on a few events (~300 attendees) and keeping all the plates spinning for that was stressful enough. I agree that smaller, more local or regional events would not only allow for more dialog than large auditoria-filling sessions. The difference between online/offline meeting is that I can be ‘present’ in… Read more » Thank you all for your thoughtful comments about this stimulating essay! I really enjoyed working with Lionel to help translate it from French and publish it here on the Wikimedia Blog, as part of my work for the foundation. I think it raises some important questions on how to bring together the different cultures that co-exist in our movement — as well as the different modes of communications we use to interact with each other (e.g. verbal versus written exchanges). In my view, both cultures and communication modes are needed for our global movement to grow; and our challenge becomes… Read more » For fr.wikipedia et fr.wikiversity there is no problem to use a sub user page for posting a CV. A online cv is not heavy in term of data storage and can be useful for other user to have a clear vision about you and your knowledge and abilities. Original and complete version of this article is available on this page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/An_analysis_of_Wikimedia_organizations_as_they_are_offline_and_online La version originale et complète de cette article est accessible sur cette page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Une_analyse_comparative_de_l%27organisation_en_ligne_et_hors_ligne_au_sein_de_Wikimedia Lionel did question why all work at Wikimania was done in English , and mused that in Mexico some work would be done in Spanish. Actually Lionel AFAIK it wouldn’t and I’m pretty shure it wasn’t. Only language group meetings would be in another language. English being the common speech/language by the community and expected from every delegate/attendee, and no simultaneous translation being foreseen. In my experience actually apart from the UN only Belgium has a tradition of widespread mulitlingual conferences and simultaneous translated speeches, lectures, presnetations and Q&A , outside our borders a conference is either in the local… Read more » Posted in Chapters, Community, Events, Global, Main page (EN), Wikimania, Wikimedia, WikipediaTagged civility, culture, free knowledge, multilingual post, offline, online, Participation, wikimania, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikimedia Movement, Wikipedia, Wikipedian Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! 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1 Horticultural Department, Faculty of Plant Production, Gorgan University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran 2 Plant Physiology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran Nitrogen monoxide or nitric oxide is a biological active growth regulator that a wide range of studies have recently shown that it acts as a growth regulator (signaling molecule) in plants. As soon as Nitric Oxide (NO) known as a new biological agent in plants and animals, biological branches of sciences like medicine, biochemistry, physiology and genetics have paid special attention to it. NO is a very reactive gas shape free radical which has attracted much attention during recent years. This compound is produced by the plant and it has increased the shelf life of some fruits, vegetables and cut flowers in low concentrations. NO is mostly synthesized from enzymatic and non-enzymatic pathways whose enzymatic biosynthesis pathway is done by reductase nitrate biosynthesis pathway through the cytosol, also it is known as an important and very reactive signaling molecule with short life which is produced by a group of enzymes known as synthesize NO which transforms L-arginine to L-citrulline and NO. It has been revealed that plants use NO as a growth regulator which regulates and modifies antimicrobial defensive responses. Recently, it has been approved that this material plays a vital role in regulating the normal physiological activities of plants such as pores closing, aging, increasing the vase life of cut flowers after harvesting, respiration and photosynthesis, antioxidant enzymes activities and growth. Selected author of this article by journal CMBR journal remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional afflictions. 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Wikipedia only exists because thousands of people volunteer their time everyday to create, improve and maintain it. Many people ask: “who are these people?” and “why do they do it?” In April 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation conducted a survey of our editors around the globe.  The survey was available in 22 languages (thanks to the work of volunteer translators) and was completed by over 5,000 editors.  The aim of the survey was to better understand who the editors are?  What motivates them? What their experience is like? What their needs are? It was really interesting to see who the editor community is, as this was our most comprehensive survey of editors. As has been discussed recently, it is an important priority for the Wikimedia movement to progressively add diversity to our community.  We have set targets in our strategy for greater participation of women and for rapid growth in the Global South.  These actions seek to both increase the size of the community (our goal is to grow to 200,000 by 2015) and to bring important new knowledge to our projects. With all of the options people have for occupying their time online and offline, we always wonder: why do people edit Wikipedia?  One of the major answers: Editing Wikipedia is both fun in its own right and it feels really good sharing knowledge with the rest of humanity.   Few, if any, people do this because it is part of their job or they are seeking some sort of personal benefit. This is something anyone can do, after all Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit. Mani Pande, Head of Global Development Research (This is the first in a new series of blog post where we will share insights from the April 2011 Editors Survey.  We will be releasing the data, report, and more insights over the next two months) Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wikipedia editors write for fun. This is the open source way « How To The Open Source Way « Opensourcepedia – The download encyclopedia for open source alternative solutions! […] answer to this question we’ll find from the Wikipedia itself, mainly from their last survey conducted on 5000 editors, so the average Wikipedia editor is a man that is in its 40′s and […] I’m a bit disappointed : big survey, lots of figures, but nothing as to giving some meaning to the results. If you cannot get assistance from researchers to problematize and test hypothesese, make at least some effort to answer clear questions “are wikipedians more educated than the general population ?”, “what are the biases of this study ?”, “how does it compare to previous studies and results ?”… […] 维基百科对全球5000名编辑做了问卷调查,从发布的数据发现,男人在编辑群体中占有绝对主导地位,变性人也做了自己的贡献.从年龄构成来看,很惊讶的发现,40岁以上的编辑近3成(猜想这些人之中应该很少有中国人),看来年轻人在维基百科编辑群中并不是优势群体:).教育背景,大学本科以上学历占一半以上,还有很大的发展空间,有这样一个拥有良好教育背景的编辑团队,维基百科的条目的质量会越来越好. 这些编辑多数都有一个共同的特点,他们乐于奉献的自己的时间和智慧,有肯为他人服务的精神,并向往自由和民主. 此条目发表在 忙里偷闲 分类目录,贴了 wikipedia, 维基百科, 编辑 标签.将固定链接加入收藏夹. ← 维基百科观察(7):移动客户端应用 […] Who Knew? Your B2B’s Culture is the Same as Wikipedia’s | The B2B Formula […] Wikimedia surveyed 5,000 Wikipedia editors in 22 languages to find out what makes them tick.  Turns out, they have a LOT in common with the people at your B2B company.  In fact, the top three reasons — four if you’ve got a healthy corporate culture — perfectly mirror a company’s social media goals and policies. Read the full report here. […] I find this exciting because the top 3 (maybe even 4) reasons for why people contribute perfectly align with the goals of most corporations. That means they’ll be more willing to let their expert employees contribute their technical knowledge and enrich everyone. (Of course in line with Wikipedia’s policies, not to mention those at companies meant to protect secrets, yadda, yadda, yadda.) This survey was really a disaster: There was no simple plain hyperlink to access it, it needed JavaScript and Cookie stuff, the link appeared only once a day, no static link anywhere, not working with all web browsers, many people could not participiate because of such stupid technical reasons. There was a question if you are an IP-user, but for IP user it was not possible to access the survey. Bad translations… The survey should not have started under that conditions. I’d be interested in seeing the education breakdown of the editors we have who are over 21. I’d strongly suspect that there will be a high correlation between the 27% in the 12 – 21 age groups and the 39% whose highest educational level so far is Primary or Secondary. Of course I’m hoping that the 13% of our editors who are currently 12 – 17 years old will all get degrees in the next ten years, but I suspect next to none of them have so far. So amongst our editors who are 18 or over over 70% are… Read more » Wikimedia blog » Blog Archive » Wikipedia editor survey: Top-line data released […] week we released the very first insights from the recent semi-annual survey of Wikipedia editors.  This week […] How do you do? We are Akita of the new comer. Immediately, it is but as for Wiki, the basics are English and as for the people in the other? country, the person who can use English doesn’t connect with the world of? probably about how many there are because the people whom English can not talk to create Wiki by the independent language. When it should improve there It is thought of. Motywacje edytorów Wikipedii - historiaimedia.org […] Wikipedię. Ankietę, dostępną w 22 językach wypełniło ponad 5 tys. osób. Niedawno opublikowano jej wyniki. Interesująco przedstawiają się dane dotyczące motywacji osób, które tworzą i edytują […] Greg Kohs gets it wrong again | Non-Commcercial Use […] studies in question are discussed in this Wall Street Journal article and this WMF blog post respectively, and as Kohs says, shows the number of female participants dropping over 4 percent in […] Misja i frajda, czyli dlaczego wikipedyści edytują? – Blog Stowarzyszenia Wikimedia Polska […] Wikipedia editors do it for fun: First results of our 2011 editor survey   […] Posted in Global, WikipediaTagged Editors survey, global, Research, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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Herein will follow an update from the Swedish education program. Perhaps to call it an update would be to overestimate its size and current importance. A first glimpse of what is to hopefully become something rather exciting is perhaps a more appropriate label. Workshop with pupils about Wikipedia, democracy, free knowledge, gender issues where they presented various ideas and perspectives. To actually have as a part of the Swedish Wikimedia organisation an education program is a rather new and thrilling idea. The year of 2012 is the year where the Swedish education program has seen the light of day and where the first goals were set as to what should be regarded a good result for a first step in creating and shaping an education program. I, Sophie Österberg, became engaged in Wikimedia Sverige as an intern undergoing a six-week internship which led to the great opportunity of being offered a job as education manager. With pride and great joy I commenced this position in the beginning of October. Let me though tell you that these two months have felt rather more like a year, be it the intensive work, the conferences, the bright ideas thrown at my table, the inspiration from beautiful minds all over Sweden and foremost, the joint motivation to create something worthwhile, lasting and qualitative, not for Wikipedia or Wikimedia solely, nor for only students or their teachers. But for us all, as a great global society. Well. That might perhaps be a goal to far-fetched to reach, but at least there is a vision in place. We have looked at the current programs in place around the world to learn from their experiences and to gain knowledge in what we could reuse here in a Swedish context. We have mostly spoken to and looked at the German and the American examples of education programs, but we have been flirting a bit with the Indian and Egyptian as well. To date we have met teachers at conferences, had individual meetings, lunches, coffees (coffee is huge in Sweden, read more about this here), held workshops, shared ideas to teachers about how to use Wikipedia, met public institutions, held lectures, been part of public debates, created and translated material, thought about how a program should best be organised, read about current trends in education in Sweden, been open to learn about the new Swedish curricula and find out how best to match Wikipedia in education with it. Our Wikipedia in education t-shirts which we use at workshops, conferences and various other events. Orange is the theme colour of the educational program. But most importantly, wee have given ourselves a face. We have become people who actually exists. It may sound ridiculous, but let me tell you that the most common comment we have been met by is ‘Wow, do you guys actually exist?”. Yes we do. We have simply been rather silent about it. But this is the end to that silence! Hello world and at the moment, Hello Sweden! This may sound trivial, but it is not. People have found that there is someone, there are people, with whom they can build trust and communication. We exist, we are real and we are to be trusted. Let us not forget that this is the strongest currency there is between humans, no material or other physical resources may ever be as important as the intangible trust which we build between and in relation to one another. Let me though share the more practical aspects of what have been done, in a rather sincere and honest tone. I do think that this programme initially did lack some confidence; read more about the Swedish mentality here. We didn’t have an understating of how many teachers and professors would be interested. This has led us in a rather interesting direction, which is now to be turned into something more long-lasting and fruitful. Our first Wikipedia in education broschure, also orange of course. We printed brochures and t-shirts and talked to teachers who are using Wikipedia. We organised volunteers to come with us to teacher conferences and we stood in our bright orange t-shirts and spoke about the education program which had just been initiated. These conferences did make us realise that people were interested, curious, and above all, did have plenty of opinions regarding Wikipedia and the use of it in education. Whilst standing at these events and meeting teachers and others within education, we started to get invitations. Teachers wanted workshops, professors wanted lectures, institutions of education wanted information, among many others. Was our lack in confidence unrealistic? Yes! Suddenly, we were buried with workshops, meetings, cravings for information, lectures, more conferences and seminars and we had to rethink. And one key thing we did realise with this was that we could actually, which is not easy to do with lacking confidence, set demands. So with glowing confidence and surprise, it was simply to go back and hide in our basement office and rethink. If we could set demands, find only the ones who are eager to actually do work on Wikipedia and other projects, whilst creating a long-lasting and qualitative cooperation, what would we do? A blackboard with thoughts on Wikipedia, used at a techers’ conference. Well, first we obviously had to go to those workshops, meetings, lectures and such that we had planned and offered ourselves to do. And some of them proved to be fruitful. Perhaps due to our generosity in coming and talking about, and holding workshops about, Wikipedia for professors and their students, and teachers with their pupils for free. But some of them turned out to be one-offs. Which is an issue, as we should not aim to hold one-off events as it will most probably not enhance contribution to any Wikimedia project. At the moment, seven of these early promised ideas are most likely to bloom and prosper, and hence, provide beautiful contribution to Wikipedia and other projects. These are; – The Royal College of Music. We briefly met with this professor over lunch. He is an acquaintance of a colleague here at Wikimedia Sweden (start with the ones you know!). He was interested in Wikipedia and how he could contribute to it with his students. His greatest motivation was to improve articles about music production as that was his broad area of research and a course which he currently lectured at the university. This course had four students who are about to become teachers in music and music production. He emailed a while after this lunch, after having spoken to his colleague who also enjoyed the idea of having students improving articles in the area of music production. So we set up a workshop, here at the Wikimedia office. We did, during three hours, go through the basics of Wikipedia. They seemed to get it and we set up a Wikipedia project on the Swedish Wikipedia called music production. We had already planned another workshop a while later and the idea was that they were going to contribute and then have next workshop about what they encountered. But, not much happened before that next workshop. I was stressed, what had gone wrong? What had I done? Not done? I spoke to the professor before the next workshop and he told me the students had just had a week off and had after that had intensive study for a practical exam. It did cool me down a bit, but the issue was still there, nothing had been contributed to the Swedish Wikipedia, was I wasting my time and most importantly, the money that had been donated to Wikipedia and thus, in hope of its continuation and advance? We met again, one professor and the four students. They were curious, had intelligent questions about neutrality, critical thinking and the ‘lack of control’ on Wikipedia. We had rewarding dialogues about these subjects and then circled more exactly what was to be done before the next time we would meet up. But the most important thing during this second workshop was that the professor had, after having been shown the basics of Wikipedia and had the time to talk about how it is organised, realised how he would want it to be more integrated in his course this spring. Ah, great! I could not have come up with this myself, as he is the one with the extensive knowledge about the course, whilst also being the one teaching it. So I wondered, if it did take two workshops for this professor with his students to come to a point where he clearly could see how they best could contribute, is it worth that time? How do we measure if it is worth that time? How will we know if these contributions are qualitative, to Wikipedia and Commons? Should we give goodies (free workshops, lectures) first and then speaking of a long-lasting education program? Or should we demand first, and then provide support and information? It is indeed a rather difficult balance. – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Olle at SLU had been in touch with Daniel Mietchen about a Wikipedia-day on 18 January 2013. Olle, with colleagues, have a plan to ask researchers and doctoral students to contribute to Wikipedia with their knowledge, whilst the university through a ‘Wikipedia help-desk’ provide support. We are currently setting up user templates (as they wanted them to look the same for all the SLU users) in 15 languages as the researchers to be asked are from various backgrounds. The Wikipedia-day will be a launch (and most hopefully a yearly event) of this project, labelled ‘Knowledge transfer to Wikipedia from researchers at SLU.’ Olle and I had a long lunch, discussing the various aspects of this project and we are emailing back and forth about the user templates, how they can calculate all their users contributions and what we should do with their logo (which they wished to have on the userpages) as it may not be uploaded and used on Swedish Wikipedia. A volunteer in Sweden has helped to develop a tool which may count several users contributions. The user templates have been placed on the 15 different language versions with a plea for help to translate it into the various languages. Surprisingly many of them were translated past the first and second day. What a true joy it is to work with so many engaged and enthusiastic people around the world. This experience, of asking Wikipedians from Arabic, Persian, Spanish, French and Dutch versions among others, for help, and seeing how quickly people did come and offer their support, provided me with a sincere feeling of awe and sheer humbleness. One sometimes forgets this, sitting in an office in cold and dark Sweden, but this was truly a beaming and uplifting experience, thank you all for the support and help! The support for this project will continue and most hopefully, SLU will have funding enough (they have filed an application for external funding) to employ a Wikipedian who will be their ‘help-desk’ for the next year. Wikipedia workshop for students learning Swedish. – Swedish as a second language. This is a course in Sweden for newcomers who have been through the initial stages of learning Swedish. I met this teacher at a teachers conference and she liked the idea of using Wikipedia as a way to learn language, since the students could then write about their own passions and interests. So a rather cold (which is quite common in this country) morning I went to have a workshop with them. I was met by old women from Somalia, young girls from Iran, men from Poland, women from Thailand, among many others. For a short moment I was struck by this. These people, with their various backgrounds, upbringing, varied levels of education, and much more, were gathered for this single cause, to share free knowledge to the world. Even though the workshop as such may not have changed Sweden that much (yet) it did make me realise how great this is. The students were eager learners and some were more computer literate than others. One of the old women from Somalia spent most of her time commenting on the lack of information about her dear country, which hopefully will give here inspiration to contribute much more to Swedish Wikipedia about her knowledge of Somalia. Simply because she finds it to be so greatly important that all of us in Sweden know all about her home town, her culture, her language and the known writers and musicians from Somalia. Yes! If we may tap into that more often, the motivation of students to tell about their passions, this will be a lovely journey! This teacher, much like the professor at the Royal College of Music, came up to me after a workshop and had suddenly realised how this could work for her in the future in a much more integrated way as a part of the course. This is to be planned for spring 2013. So, should we then offer these free workshop and hope that this will happen yet again? Difficult question. – Stagneliusskolan. At another teachers conference we met Dan. Dan works pupils of the age 16 – 18 on a programme called ‘Global profile’. A part of this is that the pupils go to South Africa or Uganda to take part in their education system, culture and ceremonies. They had gained much knowledge, had photos, and videos, but were unsure where to put it. So we gave them the idea of putting part of that information on Wikipedia and asking the pupils to further research about the cities they’ve seen, the ceremonies they’ve attended and so on. Dan liked the idea and we will next week go to Kalmar, a lovely city on the east coast of Sweden, to hold a workshop about Wikipedia and how they may best contribute. Dan wants to record this as he wants his future pupils to be able to do the same thing after they have experienced parts of Uganda and South Africa. Perhaps need I not say that these areas are not the most well-covered in Swedish Wikipedia, so I am very joyous to see where this is leading. – Gamla Lundenskolan. At the same teachers conference a rather stressed but very sympathetic woman ran by us in the corridor. She did have a few moments to stop and chat with us, and so we did. We told her about Wikipedia, and the education program. She let us know that she was a teacher in handicraft at Gamla Lundenskolan. What could she possibly do on Wikipedia? Well, perhaps her pupils were a bit to young (10-12) to write articles, but could they not take photos of, and make video recordings of making handicraft? The process, the finished work, the tools needed. She liked the idea very much and would contact us again. We heard nothing for a while. Then we got this email from someone saying that she had lost our contact details and had been searching for them for ages before finding us on the internet. She was so interested in the idea and wanted to know how she could get started. We asked her if she would be willing to try out Wikipedia and Commons herself first, to see how it works, as the pupils are so young, it would be essential that she can support and guide them. She was very willing and eagerly told me about the few hours she had off on Wednesday afternoons. That gave me another insight. Swedish (and I am sure it is the same elsewhere) teachers are drowned in administrative tasks, are acting counsellors for upset and confused pupils, have goals to reach, should support pupils go get high grades so the school will do well in rankings, should be inspirational, motivate others, be up to date with their topic, learn new pedagogical methods, use these methods, and also have a life. And here comes I, and we, and ask teachers to do one thing more. Learn Wikipedia and Commons. And she was eager. Not stressed, not in complaint, but eager. I was full of respect, and still am with all the teachers who are eager and interested. This teacher will try out Wikipedia and Commons for herself, with support via phone and email and on Wikipedia of course. We will thereafter schedule a workshop, to see if this a better and quicker way to get the teachers on-board rather than offering free workshops and then having them understand how best they may use it. So let us see what this may bring. – An online course for teachers. I have gotten the impression that many want to take part in Wikipedia education program around the world. What they seem to, correct me be I wrong, be longing most for is support and help in person. They want to know that there is someone behind that screen. So we thought about how we could make this education program scalable. It is obviously not to have me, or anyone else, sent around this country (which is actually quite big I realised) to hold workshops. It is simply not a good way to use me or anyone else as a well utilised resource. So what then? They want personal support and contact, but we should not spend our lives on trains and buses. A board member mentioned a course, an online course, for teachers. Sure that sounded interesting, but then there’d be no personal contact. Or? The course is currently being designed and the contact will be part of the actual course, and a requirement to pass. Contact will be established to an online supporter, another teacher doing the same course, and us here at the office. So there will all of a sudden be plenty of contact but no sitting on buses and trains. The course is divided into three modules; Why, What and How. Let me shortly tell you about the reason to this. It is actually taken from Simon Sinek, even though he takes the How before the What, but his main point (or what corresponds well in my head) was the Why and the importance of it. That is where we get people on-board the Wikimedia project. By tapping into their intrinsic motivation, their hopes, wishes, joys and desires. What education do they wish to see? What democracy? What society? What do they think about knowledge? So the why seemed essential to have all the participants standing on the same ground, or being on-board the same journey which they were about to depart. The first module is therefore not practical nor technical, it’s philosophical. We mention Kant and Socrates and modern researchers in education like Hattie. This being done with the strong conviction that they will solely contribute long-lastingly and qualitatively if they can motivate themselves and remember the Why. Why they do this. Why it is important. Less important is the What and the How. They can look that up, ask their online supporter, or us at the office. But the why, they need to know for themselves. That is what we need to tap into. So, it’s not a small aim for an online course, but nevertheless, I think it will work perfectly fine. We will award them a certificate from Wikimedia Sweden have they undergone the course, and they may be awarded the grades (same as the articles on Swedish Wikipedia) recommended, good or excellent. The idea is not to reward what is stuck in their head, but rather that they will gain a higher grade if they disseminate what they have learned at this course. Do they hold their own lecture about Wikipedia at their school? Or talk to colleagues about it? Or make an essay or a clip about their experience of using Wikipedia so far? This is what should be reflected in the grades, not how well facts stuck in their own head. The first course will start spring 2013. – The Educational Radio (UR). Just to make clear, this is not a radio station (as it may sound) but a governmental institution that provide films, material and some radio, in relation to school subjects and thematic topics. They are rather interested in us and especially this one woman, Maria, who eagerly keeps on coming back to us about how we may work together as to enhance the free knowledge in our society. Well, we could not say no to that offer. So we’ve met them a few times. At conferences and twice in their colourful and playful offices. We told them about Wikiversity and how they could put the teaching material there, free for all to use and also, to change to the better. They were skeptical. Someone had written that for them, how would they do with the licensing? We spoke about the importance of having teachers, in this particular case teacher who teach foreigners Swedish, collaboratively enhancing the quality of their teaching material whilst using the videos they provided. So the teachers could use Wikiversity to share information on how they best used these videos, i.e. Set up Wikiversity courses, linking to these videos from UR. They were still skeptical and the meeting had come to an end. But a short while later I received an ecstatic email from Maria having been given time to dedicate to Wikiversity and how they best could use it. So this is about to depart! More than anything, we are currently building trust. We are aspiring to show teachers, pupils, students, public institutions and others that we are knowledgeable, we are trustworthy and we have brilliant resources that they may freely utilise. But people do not solely wish to utilise a tool, they wish to know who the person is behind this tool or this project, such as Wikipedia. That has at least come to be my strongest impression past these first two wobbling months of an education program. So current status: Yes, we do exist. And at the moment, the future seems only bright, bold and beautiful. Please do share ideas, comments or your experiences of education programs that might be useful for us at utbildning@wikimedia.se We greatly look forward to hearing from you and very much appreciate your input. Sophie Österberg, Wikimedia Sverige Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Global, Wikipedia Education ProgramTagged Academia, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikimedia Sverige, Wikipedia Education Program, Wikipedia Education Program Sweden Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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The Wikimedia Foundation’s report for last quarter gives an overview of how we fared on 130 goals by 32 different teams, alongside some key overall metrics. Download the PDF version (1 MB) or read it as a wiki page. This is the second report since we switched from a monthly cycle, to align with our quarterly goal setting process. The report’s purpose is to help our movement and supporters understand how we spend our time, and what we accomplish; in this version, we made several changes that focus more on results and achievements. One major difference is that goals are counted as either a success (green) or a miss (red, even if they were only missed narrowly – no “yellow”). Also, this report is now a comprehensive overview of all our Q3 objectives, rather than a subset of the quarter’s goals, as delivered in the Q2 report. In a mature 90-day goal-setting process, the “sweet spot” is for about 75% of goals to be a success. Organizations that are meeting 100% of their goals are not typically setting aggressive goals. To reduce the amount of time and effort that goes into producing this report, we are re-using information from the Quarterly Review Meeting documentation. In this report, you will also find a couple of new pieces of data. The overview slide shows the status of all 130 goals from Q3 on a single page, broken down by department. Additionally we have been able to include site speed metrics as part of our overall report card, and improve the design of the report a bit. The report’s format is still evolving (as is the quarterly goals review process), and we welcome feedback here in the comments or on Meta-wiki. Terence Gilbey, Chief Operating Officer, Wikimedia Foundation Tilman Bayer, Senior Analyst, Wikimedia Foundation Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Thank you for sharing this, I like this new format very much. Repeating some questions asked privately earlier: What is happening in areas where all or almost all goals were missed? What does it mean that there is only one goal for all of legal? Posted in Quarterly reportsTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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(This is the eighth installment in a series of updates from the WikiHistories summer research fellows, who will be studying the virtual community history of different Wikipedia editing communities.) Almost 15.000 articles since 2003 and just a few dozen active contributors: how to change the situation? Well, looks like 2011 can be a year of change for Վիքիփեդիա– the Armenian Wikipedia, as the community, supporting organizations and even the state have started taking Wikipedia seriously. Armenian Wikipedians and volunteers translating Wikipedia guidelines at the hackathon, April 2011 For the first time on April 3 of this year, a 1-day Wikipedia hackathon was organized for Wikipedians and their friends to come together in one place and translate Wikipedia policies and guidelines. About 50 people gathered and 17 guidelines were translated during the day. Even though many of those 50 people did not edit another article afterwards, it was an important step for the development of the Վիքիփեդիա: this in fact was the first event organized by a few interested parties such as educational – humanitarian foundations, software developing firms, IT NGOs and of course, the Wikimedia community. It all started after Richard Stallman’s visit to Armenia. The Web2.0 activist shared his enthusiasm about open, interactive and collaborative online platforms and suggested, “Why not have another look at Wikipedia?”. Armine, who works for the educational NGO “Instigate” says that Stallman’s enthusiasm was contagious and, soon after his visit, she and her colleagues registered on Wikipedia, tried and loved it. They thought this was something particularly useful for kids and students and they announced the start of the “Wikipedia: School and University- Armenia” project that now unifies 6 organizations and groups, including the Wikipedia community. Apart from the hackathon, the initiators of the project visited a few schools: not all of the school headmasters greeted them with enthusiasm, but some were really open to innovations. However, it was Spring, the end of the school year, and both teachers and pupils were too busy to try something new. 15-year-old Mariam is the head of the student council at the Anania Shirakatsi National Lycee.  She is eager to take the first steps as soon as the schools open in September. She has asked some of the active Wikipedians to teach the students the basics of editing and the main principles of the Armenian Wiki community. She says that every student in the Lycee writes over 10 essays during the school year that can be suitable for the online encyclopedia. Besides, she thinks that Wiki platform can be a good place for developing and editing the articles in collaboration with classmates and teachers. “What can be more attractive for children than the feeling that their work will be available and useful for millions of people. This will also make them more responsible and motivated”,- says Armine. She believes that the sense of collaboration is ideal for classrooms and hopes that more schools will adopt the tool. The idea has been proposed to the Ministry of Education as well. The reaction was positive, but so far it hasn’t gone any further. Separate from the School and University project, another Wikipedian – SusikMkr (Susanna Mkrtchyan), has started a process for establishing a Wikimedia Chapter in Armenia. “The community will not grow without a proper organization”, she says. Susanna works at the Science Management Department of the National Science Academy Computing Institute of Armenia. Discovering Armenian Wikipedia, she was astonished to find the right tool for promoting science and knowledge but disappointed with the current situation. She registered as a Wikipedia contributor last December. Since then she has been reading the policies and studying the experience of other countries trying to find ways for developing Wikipedia. In August she took part in the WikiMania 2011 conference in Haifa and gave a presentation about the situation in Armenia, with suggestions on how to change it. Now she says she is in touch with the Wikimedia Foundation and has their full support to realize  her plan, i. e. to  increase the number of contributors and articles, and establish a  chapter for coordinating the job. Armenian Wiki community discussing the measures of Wikipedia promotion in Armenia This Saturday she invited the active Wikipedians for a talk and discussion of her ideas. She says she already has the support of the Science Academy: they will provide a room and most likely some computers for the workshop and training. Also, the Academy is happy to help with the content. “We have lots of great minds, scientists who are retired and do not know how to keep themselves busy. We also have high rates of unemployment in the country, so there are a lot of people who have the knowledge but don’t know how to share it. They do not know about Wikipedia. We need to inform and train people”, Susanna insists. She is also up for more practical approaches: schools should incorporate Wikipedia in the curriculum, universities should take responsibility for enriching the encyclopedia with X number of articles per month, including policy translations. Also, there might be competitions for Wikipedia articles to encourage children to start contributing. The veteran-Wikipedians, however, are a bit sceptical about these plans. Being guards of Wikipedia traditions and rules, they strongly believe in “good faith”, “openness”, voluntarism” of Wikipedia. If there is any chance that anyone will be paid or forced to contribute to Wikipedia, the community will resist. Susanna promises not to break the rules and to discuss every step with the community and the Foundation, but one thing is clear for her: she needs to do something about the situation. For her Wikipedia is not just a tool but a philosophy that can be used in all spheres of cultural, social and academic life. 10 years after the creation of Wikipedia, Armenians want to give it another try and really make use of it. MSc Digital Anthropology (UCL), journalist Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. You know something, high schools all over the world should have “Wiki clubs” as part of their extracurricular provision to develop Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in their native tongue. Even though the Malay Wikipedia (which I work on) has 10 times as many articles as the Armenian one as I speak, yet most of them are stubs and a lot more is left to be desired. Malaysians are currently grappling with a huge, zero-sum language conundrum, especially since a controversial policy to teach Science and Mathematics in English in all schools in the past decade which allegedly dealt a… Read more » Anak, thanks for the comment and for sharing your concerns. It’s always useful to have comparisons with other language communities. Actually, Armenians are a bit strict about the quality of the articles and the stubs: empty articles are usually deleted, that’s one of the reasons Armenian Wikipedia is not that big. 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3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran Tuberculosis is a contagious infectious disease. This disease is called tuberculosis and is abbreviated as TB. Tuberculosis is one of the most important infectious diseases of this century, which can involve all the organs of the body, but the lungs are most affected by tuberculosis. The occurrence of 10 million new cases of tuberculosis and the treatment of only two-thirds of them, which unfortunately was incomplete in more than 50% of cases, shows the depth of the disaster in these years. The occurrence of three epidemics of this disease in the last two decades shows that the prospect of controlling tuberculosis soon is very uncertain. Today, more than 8 million people are infected with this disease in the world every year, and until now, one-third of the world's people have been infected with the germ of tuberculosis without feeling sick. Tuberculous peritonitis is an uncommon disorder; sometimes, it is not considered in the initial evaluation of ascites. A negative 5-TU PPD test, or a low level of ascitic fluid protein, can mistakenly divert attention from tuberculosis. Tuberculosis peritonitis can be fatal if not diagnosed in time. Here we report a 67-year-old patient who was confirmed to have tuberculous peritonitis after clinical examination and laboratory diagnosis. The patient recovered after diagnosis with prescribed drugs. Selected author of this article by journal CMBR journal remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional afflictions. Given that CMBR Journal's policy in accepting articles will be strict and will do its best to ensure that in addition to having the highest quality published articles, the published articles should have the least similarity (maximum 18%). Also, all the figures and tables in the article must be original and the copyright permission of images must be prepared by authors. However, some articles may have flaws and have passed the journal filter, which dear authors may find fault with. Therefore, the editor of the journal asks the authors, if they see an error in the published articles of the journal, to email the article information along with the documents to the journal office. CMBR Journal welcomes letters to the editor (bfazel[email protected]) for the post-publication discussions and corrections which allows debate post publication on its site, through the Letters to Editor. Critical letters can be sent to the journal editor as soon as the article is online. 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The Lancet 367(9519):1328-1334. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68579-6 Volume 1, Issue 3 Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports Receive Date: 02 May 2021 Revise Date: 09 July 2021 Accept Date: 12 August 2021 First Publish Date: 01 December 2021 Mohammadi, M., Mehran, M. A., Omidi, A. H., & Hassani, M. H. (2021). Clinical analysis of diagnosing a case with tuberculous peritonitis from Afghanistan. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1(3), 122-128. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.354911.1053 Mohammad Reza Mohammadi; Mahram Ali Mehran; Amir Hossein Omidi; Mohammad Hadi Hassani. "Clinical analysis of diagnosing a case with tuberculous peritonitis from Afghanistan". Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1, 3, 2021, 122-128. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.354911.1053 Mohammadi, M., Mehran, M. A., Omidi, A. H., Hassani, M. H. (2021). 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The Argostoli Evening High School in Kefalonia, Greece has been active on Wikimedia projects since 2007. It is one of the few schools in Greece to have its own article on Greek Wikipedia (after “surviving” a heated deletion debate). For the school year 2012-13, we decided to embark on two ambitious journeys: First Grade of Upper Secondary is studying the edible species of wild flora on the island, while Second Grade is investigating a local legend that says there are 365 villages on the island, one for each day of the year. What better place to publish the material we are gathering than a Wikimedia Commons gallery! The Wild Flora of Kefalonia: Survival and Relish First Grade of Upper Secondary in the computer lab, working on the wild flora project. Kefalonia is an island with bountiful natural assets. The wild flora of the island is mostly typical to regions of the Mediterranean basin, however with certain species that are particular to the Kefalonian flora (e.g. the black fir abies cephalonica). It is only logical that the locals turned to the flora in times of difficulty for their mere sustenance: older senior citizens in their late seventies, eighties and nineties have tales to tell of their survival “off the fruit of the land” during World War II. Is this weed really edible? Yes indeed: bulbs helped the population survive during WWII, stems and leaves used in gourmet recipes today. But that’s not all: many of the native species are gastronomic delicacies in their own right! Greek chefs can often be found rummaging through open-market stalls, on the lookout for freshly cut pot-herbs and other wild flora ingredients for their recipes. In the larger cities, they will often pay dearly for such treats… while here in Kefalonia, they’re growing all around us. We decided to document as many edible species as possible, and started a gallery on Commons with the designation: photo 1 is a view of the tree, shrub or plant – photo 2 is a view of the edible part(s) – photo 3 is the species processed as food, with emphasis on preservation methods where applicable (pickled – preserves – dried etc.). For each species we will find the botanical name to use as a title for the photos, while also mentioning English and Greek common names in the descriptions (as well as local names, where applicable). Have a look at our ongoing work here. 365 Villages in Kefalonia: Myth or Reality? Mihalis (right) shows the ropes in uploading, while his classmate Makis (left) gives it a try. Ask any native in Kefalonia “How many villages are there on your island?” and he/she will proudly respond “365! One for each day of the year”. Sounds interesting… but no-one has ever actually written a book or essay, or so much as made a list to prove it. The idea had been lingering in my mind for a couple of years, and this year I introduced it to my pupils. They were excited, so we embarked on the project. Less than a month had passed when we identified major obstacles: Greece has been subject to numerous administrative reforms over the course of modern history, the latest being “Kallikratis,” by which many municipalities were “fused” into larger ones. This is what happened on our island: the long-standing seven municipalities — shaped in the previous “Kapodistrias” reform, but closely tied to the history of the island dating back to Ancient times — were pooled into one, the Municipality of Kefalonia. So, we figured, imagine how many villages were “usurped” during each of the previous reforms. How could we find a valid scientific method to document these currently non-existent villages, as each of them carried its own history, culture and ancestry? The answer was to visit the General State Archives’ local offices. The director was kind enough to open the premises in the evening (our school is for working pupils and adults aged 14 upwards) and talk to us about the research that she could help us carry out there. She also told us that we would have to look up the Government Gazette issues pertaining to each of the past reforms to find the now-obsolete villages. OK, so now we have a method. Why not get started with the “easy stuff”, and leave the research for later? Pupils were broken down into groups, and each was handed a map and assigned a former municipality to cover with photos under the general designation: view OF village – view FROM village – landmark (church, ancient ruins or other point of interest). They grabbed their cameras and brought back their material, which we are continually uploading to our gallery in Commons. Kostas on field work for the 365 villages project. Where does the local community step in? Kefalonia is quite a large island: it’s the sixth largest in Greece. To reach either the northernmost or southernmost tip from the capital (Argostoli), you need to drive around 50km. In times of financial crisis, this is not affordable. One group of pupils set out in the early afternoon (17-year-old Kostas and 26-year-old Giorgos both work on weekends) to a distant location in late autumn, only to find that they could not cover the entire area, as the sun was setting and they couldn’t take any more pictures. It’s not easy for them to repeat the process. So where do we get the copyright-free, original material we need for our galleries? The answer: get the local community involved. Kefalonians are proud of their rich history and culture, and eager to hear about projects illuminating aspects of their heritage: for example, there is ongoing excavation work with interesting finds that may prove that Homer’s Ithaca was not on the neighbouring island bearing the same name, but in southern Kefalonia. I believe that they will be intrigued to participate in proving the villages’ legend, and willing to share their photos; others may want to share knowledge on the edible wild flora (it’s amazing how many plants around us are edible, and we don’t even know it!) The event is planned for mid-March. Apart from presenting the work we have already carried out, we intend to include a mini-lecture on Creative Commons licenses (so they know how the material they contribute will be shared). I will suggest that the material either be sent to me by e-mail, or brought to the school in person, or… why not engage the locals themselves in editing? That would mean an extra seminar on the basics of Wikimedia editing, which I would be happy to organise, if there are enough interested participants. Panagiotis interviewed WWII survivor A. Bozas about eating wild plants to survive. We hope to gather more stories and knowledge at the planned event. Project instructors: Mina Theofilatou (Saintfevrier), Vasiliki Karadimou. Video footage from school visit to General State Archives (Kefalonia) here In video: Ms Paraskevi Kroussou (replaced by V. Karadimou in 2nd semester), Ms Dora Zafiratou (Director of State Archives Kefalonia), myself and pupils Fodasnos7, Mixalispapadatos, Giorgos, Maria and Kostas. Press release on wild flora project (with video from WWII-survivor interview and “teaser” for upcoming event) published in the local news portal here. School blog: http://esperinogymnasioargostoliou.blogspot.gr (sorry, no English translations/subtitles available yet) Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. I posted the abstract of this Post in a French-speaking wikipedia readers’ Google+ Community, hope you’ll have more and more feedback… Nice report and pictures (I like the one with the Vet’, and also the one with the motorcycle) 😉 Hi and thanks for your feedback, glad you liked our work:) Thanks for sharing the post! The project is an ongoing one so you’ll be seeing more and more photos as we collect them… the motorcycle rider is right here next to me (we’re in the school computer lab), he says thanks too 😉 Posted in Global, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia Education ProgramTagged Greek, multilingual post, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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2 Undergraduate Student of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran 3 Midwifery Expert. Iranshahr School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Iranshahr, Iran A cerebral aneurysm is an abnormal bulge in the cerebral artery that spreads where the blood vessel wall has weakened. Cerebral aneurysms may allow blood to leak into the subcutaneous space around the brain and cause damage to brain cells. Brain aneurysms can also be ruptured and can lead to serious and possibly fatal strokes. A cerebral aneurysm is known as swelling of a blood vessel in the brain. In the definition of these conditions, it is said that it looks like a hanging berry from a stem. In cases where most aneurysms do not rupture or cause health problems, samples that experience such conditions cause bleeding in the brain - hemorrhagic stroke. Intracranial hemorrhages have attracted much attention because of the increasing role of indirect maternal mortality and the importance of rapid diagnosis and treatment in reducing mortality, and since in many cases, they occur due to brain vascular aneurysm. The topic is also essential. When faced with an aneurysm in a pregnant woman, the decision about pregnancy, termination and termination is based on the indications of midwifery and decision-making about the diagnosis and treatment of aneurysm based on neurosurgical indications. Selected author of this article by journal CMBR journal remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional afflictions. Given that CMBR Journal's policy in accepting articles will be strict and will do its best to ensure that in addition to having the highest quality published articles, the published articles should have the least similarity (maximum 18%). 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The Wikimedia Foundation Engineering staff has grown quite a bit over the past year, which has made it a lot harder for everyone to keep track of what we’re all working on. In an effort to make things a little clearer, we plan to report monthly on all of our active efforts, and maintain information pages on all of our active projects. Note that this isn’t (yet) a complete list of everything that the Wikimedia Foundation engineering team is up to, but we plan to make this increasingly comprehensive and more organized as we get better at putting together these reports. Here is a full list of projects. You’ll see that each of these areas has a program manager assigned to the area. That’s the person who is responsible for coordinating the activity in that area, and someone from whom you can expect to get more detailed updates.  More below the fold… Virginia Data Center – Setting up a world-class primary data center for Wikimedia Foundation properties. Status: We’re in the final selection phase for which facility will house our new primary data center in the Ashburn, Virginia area. Media Storage – Re-vamping our media storage architecture to accommodate expected increase in media uploads. Monitoring – Enhancing both ops and public monitoring to a) notice potential outages sooner, b) increase transparency to the community, c) support progress tracking required in the 5-year plan. Article assessment – Working on feature to collaboratively assess article quality and incorporate reader ratings on Wikipedia Status: We’re in the beginning phase of this project, figuring out requirements and generally determining the scope of our near-term and long-term efforts in this area. We are currently working on a pilot rating system which will be available as part of the Public Policy pilot program in late September. Pending changes enwiki trial Pending Changes is a new review feature recently deployed to en.wikipedia.org, which allows changes made by anonymous and new users be reviewed before they appear as the primary version of an article. Status: The official trial period has ended, with a straw poll now underway. Nimish Gautam and Devin Finzer put together some helpful statistics that we hope helps everyone how the feature performs on a per-article basis. Howie has provided some additional analysis to help interpret the numbers. Chad Horohoe has done some work on diagnosing and fixing some lingering performance issues with the feature as his schedule allows. Aaron Schulz is helping out when and where he can as he tackles other obligations, generally advising the rest of us on many aspects of the system. Liquid Threads – LiquidThreads is an extension that brings threaded discussions capabilities to Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki. Upload wizard – The upload wizard is an extension for MediaWiki providing an easier way of uploading files to Wikimedia Commons, the media library associated with Wikipedia. Status: As part of the ongoing Multimedia Usability project, we recently conducted a usability study to assess and compare the current upload system and our prototype. We’re currently ironing out remaining back-end and interface details. The Wikimedia community is warmly invited to test the prototype, read the Questions & Answers page and provide additional feedback. Add media wizard – The Add-media wizard is a gadget to facilitate the insertion of media files into wiki pages. Its development is supported by Kaltura. Status: This tool was originally released as a gadget on a test server. It’s currently being adapted to run as an officially supported extension and be better integrated into MediaWiki. This effort will be assisted by the deployment of the Resource Loader (see below). Resource loader – The resource loader aims to improve the load times for JavaScript and CSS components on any wiki page. Status: Trevor and Roan are busy implementing this feature, with hopeful completion sometime in the next month or so. Central Notice – CentralNotice is a banner system used for global messaging across Wikimedia projects. Status: We’re revamping the CentralNotice extension to make it easier to add, manage, and test new banners and campaigns. We’re also looking into including new functionality like geo-location and tightly coupling in analytics to improve our decision making. We’re not only looking to make this tool more usable for fundraising but also simple and broad enough to benefit the Wikimedia community as a whole. Ryan Kaldari recently finished up our first phase of making input simpler. The interface has gotten a huge face lift and is quickly approaching the discussed mockups at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice_upgrades . We’ve tried to focus on not overwhelming our users and have chosen to collapse, hide and/or remove certain components so that banner input is simpler. In our second phase, we’ll be looking for volunteers to help test the new geo-location functionality. We’re also working on a better testing infrastructure for our CentralNotice banners. Analytics Revamp – Incorporate an analytics solution that can grow and answer the questions that the Wikimedia movement has. Status: We are evaluating several possible analytics frameworks such as Open Web Analytics as a supplement or even replacement for our homegrown system(s), based on therecommendations from the Strategy task force. We plan to make a decision soon about the system we will use for (at least) this year’s fundraiser, but with an eye toward deploying a more generally useful system. Program managers: RobLa & Tomasz Selenium deployment – Building an automated browser testing environment for MediaWiki. Status: Markus Glaser wrote the original set of tests using the Selenium web application testing framework. Ryan Lane has set up a cluster of machines dedicated to Selenium testing. Priyanka Dhanda and Ryan have been working to refine the requirements and generally get us to the point where we can build out a large suite of automated tests for MediaWiki, and Mark Hershberger is starting to figure out how to drive automated runs of Selenium and PHPUnit tests using CruiseControl. A small group has started to meet regularly to plan a more coordinated push in this area. Ping any one of us on IRC or the mailing list if you’re interested in chipping in! Fraud Prevention – This project will focus on integrating new fraud prevention schemes within our credit card donation pipeline. Status: We’ve wrapped up our pilot phase of this project, developing in-house solutions along with adopting industry standard practices to safeguard our donors, payment processors, and local systems. We’ve now incorporated many improvements to our credit processing pipeline. CiviCRM Upgrade – Upgrading from our heavily customized CiviCRMv2 install to a mostly stock CiviCRMv3 install Google Summer of Code – Several projects from students funded by Google. Extension management platform (Student: Jeroen De Dauw, Mentor: Brion Vibber) Improve metadata support (Student: Brian Wolff, Mentor: Chad Horohoe) General RDF export/import in Semantic MediaWiki (Student: Samuel Lampa, Mentor: Denny Vrandecic) Javascript overhaul of Semantic MediaWiki (Student: Sanyam Goyal, Mentor: Yaron Koren) Wikisource Legal Tool (Student: Stephen LaPorte, Mentor: Ariel Glenn) Reasonably efficient interwiki template transclusion (Student: Peter Potrowl, Mentor: Roan Kattouw) Status: This has turned out to be a very successful year for us. Though not all projects were finished completely as specified, all were completed to a sufficient degree that we felt very comfortable passing all of the students. While there’s no guarantee that everything here will get beyond the proof-of-concept stage (though at least a couple already are), there’s a lot of promising work to look forward to. Process improvement – Increase transparency and generally organize Wikimedia Foundation’s engineering efforts more efficiently Status: We’re currently figuring out the general practices that don’t involve new tools (such as this blog post, and the wiki pages), as well as figuring out what tools will help us work best together with each other and the larger community. We’re also working to figure out what ways our existing tools (such as Bugzilla) can be configured to make it clear the order that we plan to tackle tasks clear and obvious to anyone who wants to find out. If you read this far, thanks for sticking with us! We hope you found this useful. Please let us know what we can do to make this more useful for you. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wow, very nice update. This posting was very welcome. Indeed, a great update! Thank you so very much. Lots of things to follow-up on (and pray for a successful implementation of). Yes this is a great update. Thanks especially for the links to the current pages for the different projects. I’m looking forward to reading each month! Hurray, says the guy responsible for news reporting on such topics for the Signpost. Would it be too much to ask to have less but more often? (Or more and more often 😛 ) A step in the right direction, nevertheless. Would it be too much to ask to have less but more often? (Or more and more often 😛 ) We’re planning to keep monthly general engineering updates on the tech blog, but you should see posts about specific projects more often. Jarry1250, one way to stay on the leading edge: we’ll be working on the draft blog post publicly. The October draft is here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Engineering_Overview_October_2010 I may also pick a time to have a public work session which is sort of like an office hour, but with an expectation that people are there to help build out the update. Details TBD. Great post, keep them, and the changes to Wikimedia sites coming! Posted in Technology, WMF engineering reportsTagged report, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! 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This begins our refactoring effort and aims to minimise the use of inheritance in MobileFrontend. We will reduce components to classes that extend the View class to minimise confusion in navigating through files to understand how the inheritance change impacts our component. Per T206036#4832740 (MFA: [Spike, 8hrs] Views: You Gotta Keep 'em Separated) and similar discussions in T209647 our main focus will be the Overlay's. We will limit efforts to separating the content of overlays from the overlay itself. We can replace many of our classes with factory functions that create Overlays and append child components via jQuery. The outcomes of this epic will be: More granularity in our components and more reuse The DRYing up of many template and template partials This EPIC can be resolved when the following classes either do not exist (replaced with factory functions or removed) Documentation on how to make View's has been written The following query should return 0 results in Minerva and MobileFrontend. TalkSectionAddOverlay extends Overlay (T217102, T278590) Nearby extends WatchstarPageList extends PageList (T217814) Remove the loadingOverlay factory function (replaced by promisedView pattern) What happens after this epic? We'll review the newly created components and with a spike evaluate how we can break them down further. Do we write new tests? This will be decided by the team as and when we work on this. We'll talk about our commitment to code coverage and how it will change during this refactor. What will code look like in future? All Overlay's will be Overlay's with widgets inside them var overlay = new Overlay( { title: 'Editing Spain article' } ); overlay.append( new EditorSurface() ); Take a look at T214641 and determine whether the issue has been solved. If not adjust/rewrite Make CategoryAddOverlay use Overlay.make Customize query in gerrit T195473 [GOAL] Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture T195478 [EPIC] Speed up unit test execution and increase code coverage T195482 [EPIC] Review and refactor MobileFrontend components used by Minerva T281930 [EPIC] Migrate MobileFrontend's code to Vue.js/WVUI T212465 [EPIC] None of our View's should exhibit 2 levels of inheritance T205592 Composition experiment: DownloadIcon and ShareIcon should not extend Icon T139798 It should be easier to create new overlays T215370 TalkOverlay should not extend Overlay T215657 MFA: LanguageOverlay should be an Overlay with a LanguageSearcher component T216198 MFA: ImageOverlay should be an Overlay Composed of Components T217102 MFA: TalkSectionAddOverlay should use Overlay.make pattern T218173 [Bug/Regression] New talk topic edits are lost when I click browser back button T217295 ReferencesDrawer should be a Drawer, not extend the Drawer T217296 Use the Overlay.make pattern for notification feature T218176 [Bug] Buttons in filter overlay close overlay T217298 Repurpose BetaOptinPanel as a Panel T217810 TalkSectionOverlay should use the Overlay.make pattern T217814 Nearby isn't a WatchstarPageList. 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T218813 Refactoring Nearby: Remove messageBox template partial inside Nearby T219036 MFA: Create Notifications filter overlay using modern techniques T232517 Watchstar should not extend the Icon class T282473 [GOAL] Use the Codex search widget inside the mobile site T275251 New Vector Search is not Wikidata aware T316093 Make new Vector search use wbsearchentities on Wikidata T317681 Make new Vector search navigate to item search results on Wikidata T317682 Make new Vector search navigate to search result URL when selecting search result using keyboard T275252 Codex Typeahead search should be adapted for mobile (Vector and Minerva) T283188 TypeaheadSearch defaults to English Wikipedia for "domain" options T211006 Add red link experience to empty search results for Codex/mobile T217790 Add 'articleAdd' icon to OOUI T216743 Page disappears when searching on tablet/desktop T143741 Search failures are not handled well T279072 MobileFrontend search bar dropdown suggestions link directly to pages T221194 Search input of overlay is not tab-able, inaccessible by alternative input users T278283 Clicking back in the search box should reactivate the suggestions T221124 Entire search result element should be clickable (PageList component) T285223 Show item description in the Wikidata search results in MinervaNeue skin T285356 [tablet/desktop] Minerva search bar blurs text and moves/shrinks slightly when focussed T286851 [Search] Lighten color of search thumbnail placeholder icon T286922 Add message for no results in TypeaheadSearch T286729 Improve tabbing functionality for new search component T279674 Use of dir=auto in WVUI breaks search interface is broken in wikis mixing LTR and RTL languages T287770 [Bug] Codex TypeaheadSearch component does not scale well with small font size user preference T288686 WVUI's TypeaheadSearch should work with a non-default `$wgScriptPath` T308288 Implement search token clickthrough tracking on autocomplete for mobile web T309795 Autocomplete highlighting should ignore trailing space inserted by Android keyboard autocomplete T278590 Review outstanding mobile talk page bugs T298393 No warning about exposing IP address when using mobile "Add discussion" button T258846: Editor should not use OverlayManager.replaceCurrent T210630: [Engineering EPIC]: Loading screen improvements T88559: VisualEditorOverlay should be written as an OO.ui.ProcessDialog T214641: [Technical] The LoadingOverlay and src/mobile.startup/rlModuleLoader.js pattern should be removed - it results in overlay flashes during switches T201687: [Bug] No failure states for various workflows T139798: It should be easier to create new overlays T206036: MFA: [Spike, 8hrs] Views: You Gotta Keep 'em Separated T246049: Remove the category overlay feature and output html-categories T278590: Review outstanding mobile talk page bugs T217814: Nearby isn't a WatchstarPageList. Nearby has a WatchstarPageList. T217810: TalkSectionOverlay should use the Overlay.make pattern T215370: TalkOverlay should not extend Overlay T216198: MFA: ImageOverlay should be an Overlay Composed of Components T217102: MFA: TalkSectionAddOverlay should use Overlay.make pattern T217296: Use the Overlay.make pattern for notification feature T217298: Repurpose BetaOptinPanel as a Panel T217295: ReferencesDrawer should be a Drawer, not extend the Drawer T214641: [Technical] The LoadingOverlay and src/mobile.startup/rlModuleLoader.js pattern should be removed - it results in overlay flashes during switches T205592: Composition experiment: DownloadIcon and ShareIcon should not extend Icon T206036: MFA: [Spike, 8hrs] Views: You Gotta Keep 'em Separated T209647: MFA: Allow our View's to support easy adding of children There are a very large number of changes, so older changes are hidden. Show Older Changes Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 10 2019, 12:26 AM2019-01-10 00:26:38 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 10 2019, 8:10 PM2019-01-10 20:10:40 (UTC+0) phuedx added a subscriber: phuedx.Jan 16 2019, 2:39 PM2019-01-16 14:39:22 (UTC+0) Can I ask that an outcome of this epic be well-written documentation about how to author new overlays both within and without the MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue codebases? Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 16 2019, 4:06 PM2019-01-16 16:06:24 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 24 2019, 10:41 PM2019-01-24 22:41:59 (UTC+0) gerritbot mentioned this in T201687: [Bug] No failure states for various workflows.Feb 4 2019, 7:24 PM2019-02-04 19:24:58 (UTC+0) gerritbot mentioned this in T214641: [Technical] The LoadingOverlay and src/mobile.startup/rlModuleLoader.js pattern should be removed - it results in overlay flashes during switches. Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Tech debt on the MinervaNeue board.Feb 5 2019, 6:50 PM2019-02-05 18:50:29 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson edited projects, added MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend and MinervaNeue architecture); removed MobileFrontend.Feb 6 2019, 12:30 AM2019-02-06 00:30:37 (UTC+0) matmarex mentioned this in T88559: VisualEditorOverlay should be written as an OO.ui.ProcessDialog.Feb 6 2019, 4:22 PM2019-02-06 16:22:37 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 11 2019, 6:00 PM2019-02-11 18:00:59 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 11 2019, 11:24 PM2019-02-11 23:24:09 (UTC+0) Niedzielski added a comment.Feb 19 2019, 7:07 PM2019-02-19 19:07:12 (UTC+0) Do we want to add any requirements around mfExtend()? I think this is mostly used on Views but it's also used in some surprising places like Skin, ScrollEndEventEmitter, and ReferencesMobileViewGateway. It seems to me that it should only be used for second layer Views. Niedzielski added a comment.Feb 19 2019, 7:58 PM2019-02-19 19:58:59 (UTC+0) It might be nice if at least View, and perhaps other inheritance pattern usages, forbid modification via a deep Object.freeze(). This would make it easier to limit and reason about the View API, and prevent unintentional changes to the prototypal hierarchy by child classes. Jdlrobson added a comment.Feb 19 2019, 8:33 PM2019-02-19 20:33:32 (UTC+0) Do we want to keep mfExtend? Would using ES6 classes make it redundant (and remove the need for the oojs dependency from mobile.startup/ the critical path) Niedzielski added a comment.Feb 19 2019, 8:56 PM2019-02-19 20:56:15 (UTC+0) I would love to drop mfExtend!!! I haven't looked into the OO internals so I'm not sure how practical it will be to drop but we could make that our goal and see where we end up? Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 26 2019, 12:28 AM2019-02-26 00:28:37 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson raised the priority of this task from High to Needs Triage.Feb 26 2019, 7:09 PM2019-02-26 19:09:36 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Review and refactor components on the MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend and MinervaNeue architecture) board. Jhernandez removed a subscriber: Jhernandez.Feb 27 2019, 1:00 PM2019-02-27 13:00:21 (UTC+0) Niedzielski closed subtask T215657: MFA: LanguageOverlay should be an Overlay with a LanguageSearcher component as Resolved.Feb 27 2019, 8:57 PM2019-02-27 20:57:31 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 27 2019, 9:24 PM2019-02-27 21:24:44 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 27 2019, 9:26 PM2019-02-27 21:26:45 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. 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(Show Details)Mar 7 2019, 1:13 AM2019-03-07 01:13:04 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson added a subtask: T219036: MFA: Create Notifications filter overlay using modern techniques.Mar 22 2019, 9:03 PM2019-03-22 21:03:12 (UTC+0) ovasileva closed subtask T217296: Use the Overlay.make pattern for notification feature as Resolved.Mar 29 2019, 12:49 PM2019-03-29 12:49:48 (UTC+0) MBinder_WMF edited projects, added Readers-Web-Backlog (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-Board-2018-19-Q4); removed Readers-Web-Backlog (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-Board-2018-19-Q3).Apr 1 2019, 5:17 PM2019-04-01 17:17:21 (UTC+0) MBinder_WMF moved this task from To Do to Quarterly Goals on the Readers-Web-Backlog (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-Board-2018-19-Q4) board.Apr 1 2019, 5:18 PM2019-04-01 17:18:09 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 1 2019, 10:12 PM2019-04-01 22:12:53 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details) Jdlrobson edited projects, added Readers-Web-Backlog; removed Readers-Web-Backlog (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-Board-2018-19-Q4).Apr 1 2019, 10:15 PM2019-04-01 22:15:03 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Epics/Goals on the Readers-Web-Backlog board. Jdlrobson changed the status of subtask T217810: TalkSectionOverlay should use the Overlay.make pattern from Open to Stalled.Apr 3 2019, 3:24 AM2019-04-03 03:24:04 (UTC+0) ovasileva closed subtask T216198: MFA: ImageOverlay should be an Overlay Composed of Components as Resolved.Apr 8 2019, 11:02 AM2019-04-08 11:02:17 (UTC+0) nray closed subtask T217298: Repurpose BetaOptinPanel as a Panel as Resolved.Apr 18 2019, 5:16 PM2019-04-18 17:16:49 (UTC+0) phuedx closed subtask T217220: Post-inheritance cleanup as Resolved.May 8 2019, 4:44 PM2019-05-08 16:44:58 (UTC+0) nray closed subtask T217814: Nearby isn't a WatchstarPageList. Nearby has a WatchstarPageList. as Resolved.May 21 2019, 8:42 PM2019-05-21 20:42:14 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 24 2019, 12:52 AM2019-07-24 00:52:12 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson moved this task from Epics/Goals to Tracking on the Readers-Web-Backlog board.Aug 1 2019, 8:23 PM2019-08-01 20:23:05 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson edited projects, added Readers-Web-Backlog (Tracking); removed Readers-Web-Backlog. Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 2 2019, 2:15 AM2019-08-02 02:15:12 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson moved this task from Review and refactor components to Epics on the MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend and MinervaNeue architecture) board.Aug 2 2019, 5:00 PM2019-08-02 17:00:14 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 7 2019, 3:24 AM2019-08-07 03:24:00 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson closed subtask T217295: ReferencesDrawer should be a Drawer, not extend the Drawer as Resolved.Sep 5 2019, 8:34 PM2019-09-05 20:34:18 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 5 2019, 8:39 PM2019-09-05 20:39:26 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson closed subtask T232517: Watchstar should not extend the Icon class as Resolved.Oct 28 2019, 9:47 PM2019-10-28 21:47:15 (UTC+0) Restricted Application added a subscriber: Masumrezarock100. · View Herald TranscriptOct 28 2019, 9:47 PM2019-10-28 21:47:15 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson closed subtask T219036: MFA: Create Notifications filter overlay using modern techniques as Resolved.Oct 28 2019, 9:48 PM2019-10-28 21:48:56 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson closed subtask T217810: TalkSectionOverlay should use the Overlay.make pattern as Declined.Nov 6 2019, 7:03 PM2019-11-06 19:03:21 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson reopened subtask T217810: TalkSectionOverlay should use the Overlay.make pattern as Open. 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(Show Details)Dec 19 2019, 4:15 PM2019-12-19 16:15:51 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson edited projects, added MobileFrontend; removed MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend and MinervaNeue architecture), MinervaNeue.Jan 17 2020, 10:16 PM2020-01-17 22:16:24 (UTC+0) gerritbot added a comment.Feb 5 2020, 6:29 AM2020-02-05 06:29:12 (UTC+0) Change 570196 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; owner: Jdlrobson): [mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Make CategoryAddOverlay use Overlay.make gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 5 2020, 6:29 AM2020-02-05 06:29:13 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Team: web on the MobileFrontend board.Jul 24 2020, 2:45 AM2020-07-24 02:45:19 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson moved this task from Team: web to Epics on the MobileFrontend board.Jul 24 2020, 3:11 PM2020-07-24 15:11:38 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson mentioned this in T258846: Editor should not use OverlayManager.replaceCurrent.Jul 24 2020, 10:59 PM2020-07-24 22:59:41 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson changed the status of subtask T217102: MFA: TalkSectionAddOverlay should use Overlay.make pattern from Open to Stalled.Mar 26 2021, 10:19 PM2021-03-26 22:19:08 (UTC+0) gerritbot added a comment.May 4 2021, 9:10 PM2021-05-04 21:10:00 (UTC+0) Change 570196 abandoned by Jdlrobson: [mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Make CategoryAddOverlay use Overlay.make This will be redundant with the approach outlined in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/ /683441 Jdlrobson changed the status of subtask T217810: TalkSectionOverlay should use the Overlay.make pattern from Open to Stalled.May 4 2021, 9:10 PM2021-05-04 21:10:45 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)May 4 2021, 9:13 PM2021-05-04 21:13:45 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson edited projects, added Readers-Web-Backlog; removed Readers-Web-Backlog (Tracking). Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Epics/Goals on the Readers-Web-Backlog board. Jdlrobson added a parent task: T281930: [EPIC] Migrate MobileFrontend's code to Vue.js/WVUI.May 4 2021, 11:17 PM2021-05-04 23:17:46 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson edited projects, added Readers-Web-Backlog (Tracking), MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend and MinervaNeue architecture); removed Readers-Web-Backlog, MobileFrontend.Jun 1 2021, 7:07 PM2021-06-01 19:07:26 (UTC+0) DannyS712 updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 6 2021, 7:20 PM2021-07-06 19:20:01 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson closed subtask T217810: TalkSectionOverlay should use the Overlay.make pattern as Declined.Aug 2 2021, 10:49 PM2021-08-02 22:49:20 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson closed subtask T217102: MFA: TalkSectionAddOverlay should use Overlay.make pattern as Declined. Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 2 2021, 10:51 PM2021-08-02 22:51:37 (UTC+0) Jdlrobson added a subtask: T282473: [GOAL] Use the Codex search widget inside the mobile site. Jdlrobson added a subtask: T278590: Review outstanding mobile talk page bugs. Jdlrobson added a comment.Aug 2 2021, 10:53 PM2021-08-02 22:53:42 (UTC+0) I need to review this epic. The code that is important that remains is the editor code and Special:Watchlist. The talk page code is going to be removed at a future date, as is the search / page lists code . 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On September 1st, educational centers of the country - higher, secondary and secondary vocational schools opened their doors widely. Education and student youth’s day is celebrated in our country, and this wonderful event was the continuation of the holidays of the year of "The era of the people with Arkadag". We sincerely congratulate the President of Turkmenistan and all turkmen people on the occasion of this remarkable holiday. At the Powerful period of new era of the Sovereign state modernizing the education system in the country under the wise leadership of our esteemed President of Turkmenistan, and achieving the content and quality of the education provided to the young generation in accordance with the advanced international requirements, is the main goal of education workers. Based on such noble principles, to educate the youth who are a happy future of us, deep love and boundless loyalty to our motherland, our brave people, and to our esteemed President, in order to further promote of high-speed developments, the first lesson dedicated to the beginning of the 2022-2023 academic year is being held in secondary schools of general education, secondary vocational and higher educational institutions of the country under the name "The era of the people with Arkadag". Educational staff worthily continuing the patriotism, humanism, teaching-methodological principles of the patriotic soldier, master teacher Berdimuhamet Annayev, the loyal son of the Motherland, Malikguly Berdimuhamedov, they are devoted to providing modern education to youth, educating them in the national spirit, and training them to be masters of the perfect profession. Our esteemed President noting that: "Every effort will be made to improve the national education system, educate highly qualified and trained youth who are capable of managing innovative technologies with broad vision, purposefulness, and high scientific potential", implements work to strengthen the foundation of the science and education system at the Powerful period of new era of the Sovereign state. The increase in the number of youth admitted to higher and secondary vocational schools of the country in the new academic year is a clear manifestation of this. One of the main goals is to provide all stages of education in the country with high-quality electronic educational information, to enriching the content of education provided in educational institutions by using of digital resources, and to improve its quality is one of the main objectives. Currently, specific measures are being taken in the country to improve the national education and science system, to introduce the latest equipment, and to modernize the relevant infrastructure. Within the framework of these measures, the adoption of the planned version of the Law of Turkmenistan "On Education" was of great importance in improving the education system in the country. This Law regulates the legal basis of public relations in the field of education. The basic principles of the state policy in the field of education, as well as the goals of the education system, defines its functions, services and management of its business. Large-scale reforms are being implemented so that the young generation in the country can get modern education, learn skills, become well-mannered people, loyal to the Motherland and the ways of our people, and become patriots. As a result of our esteemed President's efforts, effective work is being carried out to improve the education system in our country, to ensure that its quality meets the world level, and to widely introduce innovative technologies. Following the original tradition, every year, computers are given as a gift to school pupils who take their first step into the world of science. This testifies to the fact that all efforts are being made so that our happy generation can enjoy our Motherland, our wonderful life, and study with determination for our great future. May our esteemed President’s and Hero Arkadag’s lives who take great care in the modernization of the education system in the country will be healthy, long, and may their works for benefit to our country and world-important works are always prosper! May the new 2022-2023 academic year, which begins with great hopes based on the great initiatives of our esteemed President for the country and the general public, be fruitful and prosperous! chief specialist of Organizational management of apparatus of the Commission for holding Elections and referendums in Turkmenistan. CENTRAL COMMISSION FOR HOLDING ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS IN TURKMENISTAN Image and description of the state symbols of Turkmenistan Ashgabat city, Gorogly street, 44 Central Commission for Holding Elections and Referendums in Turkmenistan © 2020. All rights reserved.

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Under the wise leadership of our esteemed President, fundamental reforms aimed at the continuous strengthening of the democratic foundations of the state, the strengthening of the principles of real people's power, and the provision of constitutional rights of citizens are being carried out in the country. The Constitution of Turkmenistan, the Electoral code of Turkmenistan, which includes internationally recognized democratic norms of conducting elections, is the legal basis of the elections held in the country, and the electoral rights of citizens are ensured in accordance with the law. The political life of any country is judged by the quality of the elections held in that country. Thus, elections are of great importance in increasing the country's reputation at the international level. Elections are an integral part of a democratic state. Based on our national democratic principles, within the framework of the organizational activities carried out in order to ensure the conduct of elections on a competitive basis, is a necessary condition for creation of constituencies, nomination and registration of candidates. A constituency - are territorial units that are divided in order to prepare for and hold elections and elect representatives of the state's elected bodies. The constituency is also means dividing the territory into parts for holding elections. Depending on how many representatives are elected from each constituency in different states, they are divided into single-mandate and multi-mandate constituencies. In our country, single-mandate and multi-mandate constituencies are created according to the relevant elections. Mandate - a concept that indicates the number of representatives to be elected in a given area (within the constituency). More precisely, if one deputy or one member is elected from one electoral district, it is called a single-mandate constituency. If several deputies or several members are elected for one electoral district, it is called a multi-mandate constituency. The direct elections in our country - elections of the President of Turkmenistan, deputies of the Mejlis of Milli Gengesh of Turkmenistan, members of velayat, etrap, city halk maslahaty, members of Gengeshs are held in single-mandate constituencies. The indirect (indirect) elections of members of Milli Gengesh of Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan are held in multi-mandate constituencies. These elections were held for the first time in our country on March 28, 2021. Constituencies are created by the respective election commissions at least seventy days before the elections. At the elections of deputies of the Mejlis the names of constituencies are also specified. It should be noted that the number of constituencies created on the territory of the country varies with each elections. In accordance with the Election code of Turkmenistan, in the elections of the President of Turkmenistan the entire territory of Turkmenistan is one constituency. In the elections of members of Milli Gengesh of Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan, the territory of each velayat, and the city of Ashgabat is an eight-mandate constituency. In the elections of deputies of the Mejlis of Milli Gengesh of Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan has 125 constituencies with approximately the same number of voters; In the elections of the members of the velayat, Ashgabat city halk maslahaty, 40 constituencies with approximately the same number of voters in the respective territory; In the elections of the members of etrap, etrap - level city halk maslahaty are created 20 constituencies with approximately the same number of voters in the respective territory. In the elections of the members of Gengesh are created 5-15 constituencies with approximately equal number of voters in the respective territory. In this election 5-6 in the area with 1000 voters, 7-8 in the area with 1001 to 2000 voters, 9-11 in the area with 2001 to 4,000 voters, and 12-15 constituencies are created in the territory with more than 4000 voters. The number of constituencies is determined by the respective Gengesh within the prescribed limits. Division of constituencies according to the number of voters: For example, in the elections of the members of Gengesh each city, township, gengeshlik in the district is divided into 5 to 15 constituencies depending on the total number of registered voters and the approximate number of voters in each constituency is determined. According to the approximate number of voters in each constituency, the boundaries of the city, township, and gengeshlik are divided into constituencies. On the elections of the members of Gengesh held on March 25, 2018, were established 5,900 constituencies with approximately the same number of voters in the territory of Turkmenistan, including: 1,000 in Ahal velayat, 393 in Balkan velayat, 1,376 in Dashoguz velayat, 1,426 in Lebap velayat, and 1,705 in Mary velayat. In order to ensure democratic and equal principles of the elections held in our country, the terms are defined in part 5 of article 38 of the Election code of Turkmenistan "The number of voters in each constituency should not exceed ten percent of the average number of voters in the respective constituency, and fifteen percent in remote and hard-to-reach areas." These conditions are fully observed in the elections held in our country. Within the scope of measures related to ensuring transparency of elections, the list showing the boundaries of the created constituencies is made available to the public. This shows that within the legal guarantees of the voters, their information guarantees are also provided legally. We wish to our esteemed President who attaches great importance to the improvement of the election system in the democratic state and confidently leads the people of Turkmenistan to the highest levels of development in freedom, peace and democracy healthy and long life, high dignity, successful continuation in the works for the benefit of the country! head of Organization department of apparatus of the Commission for holding Elections and referendums in Turkmenistan. CENTRAL COMMISSION FOR HOLDING ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS IN TURKMENISTAN Image and description of the state symbols of Turkmenistan Ashgabat city, Gorogly street, 44 Central Commission for Holding Elections and Referendums in Turkmenistan © 2020. All rights reserved.

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Under the reasonable leadership of our esteemed President at the Powerful period of new era of the Sovereign state every day of our high spirit people turned into prosperity, our holidays go to holiday. The year of "The era of the people with Arkadag" is devoted to historical events and significant dates. September 22 is also an important date in our calendar, and it is the birthday of esteemed President, who confidently leads our people on the path of eternal happiness to a bright future in the new historical epoch, and continues the noble initiatives of our Hero Arkadag. Our people celebrate this wonderful day with joy and feasts. As we know, on February 11, 2022, at the session of Halk Maslahaty of Milli Gengesh of Turkmenistan, which was held under the leadership of our Hero Arkadag, the strategic directions of socio-economic development of our country were determined. "The Powerful period of new era of the Sovereign state: National program of socio-economic development of Turkmenistan in 2022-2052" was adopted, which was well received by our people. Also, at that session our Hero Arkadag emphasized the importance of our future being connected with the youth. Great confidence in the youth was evident at the session of Halk Maslahaty. As our Hero Arkadag pointed out: "The youth are the realization of all our hopes and dreams for the future. In the new stage of our country's development, I prefer to give way to young leaders who have been formed on the basis of modern spiritual conditions and high demands in state administration." He emphasized that the older generation should help the younger generation in following the right path and loving the Motherland, and our young people should take an example from the elders. In this regard, on March 12 of this year, an important socio-political event, which is of decisive importance in the life of our country and people was held - the elections of the President of Turkmenistan. The elections of the President of Turkmenistan were held on the basis of competition in accordance with our democratic principles from our ancestors, the Constitution of Turkmenistan, the Electoral code, our national laws, and generally recognized international norms. In this elections, Serdar Gurbangulyevich Berdimuhamedov was elected as the President of Turkmenistan with 72.97% of the votes among nine candidates. In the social and political life of the country, the integration of the people and the state is the main starting point of all developments and progress. "A Motherland is a Motherland only with its people!" A state is a state only with its people!" said our esteemed President, and in achieving its goals, it relies primarily on our people, their unity and integrity, their understanding and courage. That's why, today the hearts of every turkmen citizen living in our happy Motherland are full of heartfelt applause and gratitude to our esteemed President. The characteristic features of today's turkmen society - its unwavering unity, the integrity of the state and society, and the strong consolidation of the people around of their esteemed President - are conditioned by this. These characteristics are based on the general understanding of the concepts of Independence and Neutrality, spiritual values, historical and cultural heritage and national traditions. As a result, civil harmony and social peace are firmly established in the country, and friendship and spirit prevail. During the Powerful period of new era of the Sovereign state the efforts of our esteemed President for the happiness of our people today and for the bright future life are invaluable. The internal and foreign policy of the country makes Independent, permanently Neutral Turkmenistan a more powerful state. In this regard, the noble policy of our Motherland is based on the experience of our wise fathers who always consider the dreams and thoughts of the people. It is a proud occasion to note that during the years of Independence, our Motherland Turkmenistan was among the stable developing countries. As it is said, "The state that builds is strong", today Turkmenistan is considered to be a strong state that is building its happy future. Today, our country is widely recognized in the world as a democratic, legal and secular state. Turkmenistan has become a venue for international conferences, forums, exhibitions and other important events. This informs that the international prestige of our dear Country is increasing under the leadership of our esteemed President who continues the reasonable path of our Hero Arkadag, every new initiative is supported by major international organizations, and as a result, Turkmenistan is recognized as a peace-loving state by various international organizations. In the Basic Law of Independent Turkmenistan says that "the highest value of the society and the state in Turkmenistan is a human." The large-scale reforms that are being implemented in the country under the leadership of our esteemed President clearly show that the principles of democracy, humanitarianism and justice, which form the basis of the country's domestic and foreign policy are being implemented in reality. A new level of development under the leadership of our esteemed President, in the Powerful period of new era of the Sovereign state in accordance with the Program of socio-economic development of our country in 2022-2028, along with ensuring socio-economic development of Turkmenistan, great works are being done to strengthen people's power, democratize political and social life, effective functioning of state power and administrative bodies, human rights and freedoms. Our esteemed President initiates intensive activities, carrying out fundamental reforms in the country in all areas, further improve the living conditions of the people, strengthen and promote well-being, to ensure a bright future for generations. We heartily congratulate our esteemed President on the occasion of his birthday on this festive and joyous days. May our esteemed President's life will be long, healthy, may his life be safe, and may his honor be high! Let the works for country and people are always be prosperous! leading specialist of Organizational management of apparatus of the Commission for holding Elections and referendums in Turkmenistan. CENTRAL COMMISSION FOR HOLDING ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS IN TURKMENISTAN Image and description of the state symbols of Turkmenistan Ashgabat city, Gorogly street, 44 Central Commission for Holding Elections and Referendums in Turkmenistan © 2020. All rights reserved.

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A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue involving media uploads affecting Internet Explorer version 6 and earlier.   Note: fully addressing this issue requires web server configuration changes.  See bug 28235 and full announcement below for details (discovered by Masato Kinugawa). A CSS validation problem in the wikitext parser.  This is a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue for all Internet Explorer clients, and a privacy loss issue for other clients. See bug 28450 and full announcement below for details (discovered by user Suffusion) A transwiki import problem with  access control checks on form submission, which only affects wikis where this feature is enabled. For more details, see bug 28449 and full announcement below for details (discovered by MediaWiki developer Happy-Melon) Full announcement from Tim Starling after the jump… I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.16.3, which is a security release. Three security issues were discovered. Masato Kinugawa discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, which affects Internet Explorer clients only, and only version 6 and earlier. Web server configuration changes are required to fix this issue. Upgrading MediaWiki will only be sufficient for people who use Due to the diversity of uploaded files that we allow, MediaWiki does not guarantee that uploaded files will be safe if they are interpreted by the client as some arbitrary file type, such as HTML. We rely on the web server to send the correct Content-Type header, and we rely on the web browser to respect it. This XSS issue arises due to IE 6 looking for a file extension in the query string of the URL (i.e. after the “?”), if no extension is found in path part of the URL. Masato Kinugawa discovered that the file extension in the path part can be hidden from IE 6 by substituting the “.” with “%2E”. To fix this issue, configure your web server to deny requests with URLs that have a path part ending in a dot followed by a dangerous file extension. For example, in Apache with mod_rewrite: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .[a-z]{1,4}$ [nocase] RewriteRule . - [forbidden] Upgrading MediaWiki is necessary to fix this issue in dynamically-generated content. This issue is easier to exploit using dynamically generated content, since it requires no special privileges. Accounts on both public and private wikis can be compromised by clicking a malicious link in an email or website. For more details, see bug 28235. Wikipedia user Suffusion of Yellow discovered a CSS validation error in the wikitext parser. This is an XSS issue for Internet Explorer clients, and a privacy loss issue for other clients since it allows the embedding of arbitrary remote images. For more details, see bug 28450. MediaWiki developer Happy-Melon discovered that the transwiki import feature neglected to perform access control checks on form submission. The transwiki import feature is disabled by default. If it is enabled, it allows wiki pages to be copied from a remote wiki listed in $wgImportSources. The issue means that any user can trigger such an import to occur. For more details, see bug 28449. The localisations were updated using content from translatewiki.net. Rob Lanphier, Director of Platform Engineering Patch to previous version (1.16.2), without interface text: Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in MediaWiki, Platform engineering, TechnologyTagged Security, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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One aspect of encouraging donors to create accounts and edit is that we promise them that they will be welcomed by a mentor. However, this mentorship system based on Growth tools is not yet set up at some wikis, including our polit wiki for this experience, Spanish Wikipedia. There is a mentorship system at Spanish Wikipedia, but it is disconnected from our tools: newcomers have to find their mentor when we automatically assign one. The goal of this task is to setup a Growth mentorship page. What are the differences between the two systems? Automatically assigned to new accounts Newcomers have to find their mentor, to work on a specific topic Take care of immediate questions Specialists of in-depth topics newcomers to become “young” editors Help young editors to become long-term, experienced editors We advise to have one mentor for each batch of 500 newcomers joining each month. On average, es.wp gets 20,000 new accounts per month, which means a need of +40 mentors. Change the Help links module to display the help panel form, that would post on the local help desk. T293695 [EPIC] Account creation T284799 [EPIC] Account creation: LATAM test July 2021 T285235 Activate Growth mentorship at Spanish Wikipedia Trizek-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Jun 21 2021, 2:43 PM2021-06-21 14:43:19 (UTC+0) Trizek-WMF created this task. Trizek-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Started on the CommRel-Specialists-Support (Apr-Jun-2021) board. Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 21 2021, 3:53 PM2021-06-21 15:53:11 (UTC+0) Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details) Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 21 2021, 4:08 PM2021-06-21 16:08:55 (UTC+0) kostajh edited projects, added Growth-Team (Current Sprint); removed Growth-Team.Jun 23 2021, 11:30 AM2021-06-23 11:30:11 (UTC+0) kostajh moved this task from Incoming to In Progress on the Growth-Team (Current Sprint) board.Jun 23 2021, 12:39 PM2021-06-23 12:39:36 (UTC+0) Trizek-WMF edited projects, added CommRel-Specialists-Support (Jul-Sep-2021); removed CommRel-Specialists-Support (Apr-Jun-2021).Jun 23 2021, 3:40 PM2021-06-23 15:40:55 (UTC+0) Trizek-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Started on the CommRel-Specialists-Support (Jul-Sep-2021) board. Trizek-WMF removed Trizek-WMF as the assignee of this task.Oct 5 2021, 1:00 PM2021-10-05 13:00:28 (UTC+0) Trizek-WMF removed a project: CommRel-Specialists-Support (Jul-Sep-2021). Removing my self as an assignee, since this will be one of the first tasks of the Ambassador we plan to hire. kostajh edited projects, added Growth-Team, GrowthExperiments-Mentorship; removed Growth-Team (Current Sprint).Oct 18 2021, 7:29 AM2021-10-18 07:29:28 (UTC+0) kostajh added a subscriber: kostajh. In T285235#7401942, @Trizek-WMF wrote: Removing my self as an assignee, since this will be one of the first tasks of the Ambassador we plan to hire. OK, I'm removing from the current sprint in this case. kostajh moved this task from Inbox to Upcoming Work on the Growth-Team board.Oct 18 2021, 7:29 AM2021-10-18 07:29:35 (UTC+0) MShilova_WMF moved this task from New Tasks to Backlog on the GrowthExperiments-Mentorship board.Apr 15 2022, 4:11 PM2022-04-15 16:11:50 (UTC+0) Log In to Comment Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted; code licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source licenses. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Code of Conduct. · Wikimedia Foundation · Privacy Policy · Code of Conduct · Terms of Use · Disclaimer · CC-BY-SA · GPL

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German Wikipedians discovered a road sign citing Wikipedia. The road sign is located at Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany. It denotes the “Erika-Mann-Bogen”, a street named in 2006 after Erika Mann (1905–1969) (article in English), the eldest daughter of Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann. Members of the German Wikipedia community assume that the Hamburg municipality, by explicitly citing Wikipedia, wanted to express its esteem for the Wikimedia project, which is in Germany comparably high. Others raised the question if the usage of the text complies the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). One participant of the discussion joked that the GFDL had perhaps been printed on the backside of the sign which can not be seen on the photo. Frank Schulenburg, Head of Public Outreach Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. I wonder – would they refer to any source if it wasn’t GFDL? Well, this is great. Finally some more real life citations. During summer 2007, I have seen a Wikipedia definition for [[Candela]] in a Museum. I suddenly realized how important the mission is : to share knowledge ! I don’t know what the German laws are, but the cited extract likely qualifies as a fair-use quote. I think it is great to see Wikipedia being viewed as valuable enough to do something like this. And… It’s free advertising. I’d love to hear more on the general perception in Germany of Wikipedia and other projects. You see their accomplishments, like the book, and the serious quality drive, and I think Frank is understating the respect afforded to the project in the country. I’ve seen citations at two museums in Ontario, Canada: One is at the Peel Heritage Complex, the other was at a small town museum, I believe referencing something to do with Napoleonic Europe. Posted in Free Knowledge, Wikimedia, WikipediaTagged Germany, road sign, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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German Wikipedians discovered a road sign citing Wikipedia. The road sign is located at Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany. It denotes the “Erika-Mann-Bogen”, a street named in 2006 after Eri

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By digitizing venerable translations, they’re bringing the world’s literary history to Punjabi speakers – Diff 8 August 2019 by Wikimedia Space The Punjabi-language Wikisource is the fastest-growing Wikimedia project in the world. Rupika Sharma, a volunteer Wikimedia editor and community member, writes about one of the initiatives that has helped made this a reality. Imagine a world where you grew up in a world where the greatest literary works in history never existed. For many of the world’s language speakers, this can be their functional reality. Titles like these have either never been translated, or were translated decades ago and now hide in ancient paper-bound texts on dusty library shelves. As an example of this problem, let’s take a look at the Punjabi language. Separated as part of the 1947 partition of British India, the language is today spoken by 120 million people in regions of Pakistan and India. I’m one of them. I grew up in northwest India and can still remember hearing about Chambe Diyan Kaliyan, a short story collection by Leo Tolstoy that was adapted into the Punjabi by Abhai Singh. That particular book is frequently cited in the history of Punjabi literature as one of the first collections of short stories to be published in the language. You’ll note, though, that I didn’t say I can remember reading it—I’ve never been able to track down one of the published books to read it for myself, nor have I been able to find anything but a bunch of pop-culture songs with similar titles when I search for it online in Punjabi. All of which is to say that when I was growing up, reading and learning from Tolstoy’s story was functionally impossible for Punjabi speakers. Thankfully, times are changing. While there are still many barriers to surmount, the advent of the internet has made the fundamental problem of publishing and distributing of translations far easier. The Wikimedia community has an entire project devoted to this sort of thing: Wikisource. Bringing the lost literature of long-forgotten times into the modern era for interested users, Wikisource is a free e-library that provides freely licensed or public domain books free of cost, in different formats, and able to be used for any purpose. It is one of thirteen collaborative knowledge projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, the largest of which is Wikipedia, and Wikisource is available in nearly seventy languages. The Punjabi-language Wikisource was and is small compared to other language Wikisources, and to grow this resource, I formed a partnership with a government library in the Indian city of Patiala to digitize public domain books. By making rare literature books accessible in languages that have little to no presence online, Wikisource serves the common people, allowing them to freely browse these resources. As a titled Wikimedian-in-residence at the library, I helped their staff scan a selection of important books. The collaboration brought forty-two public domain Punjabi-language works online—including a reprint of Chambe Diyan Kaliyan, the Tolstoy short story collection. But just making the scanned images available online isn’t enough; they are not easy to read and often rank low in search engines. Wikisource plays a crucial middleman role: they host the images and pair them with searchable text versions, created and vetted by volunteers. They’re helped in this process by Jay Prakash’s IndicOCR, a new tool that helps to easily transcribe any Indic language to Wikisource. (It replaced an older Linux-based tool that could not be used on many devices.) In addition, Wikisource makes everything available in different file formats so that readers can download whatever works best on their device, whether it’s a computer, tablet, phone, or otherwise. Finally, Wikisource also allows anyone to contribute, and so I helped organize an online contest, held from December 2018 to January 2019. Prize offerings and in-person trainings brought around three dozen new volunteers to the project, including twenty-four who made more than fifty edits. Kuljit Singh Khuddi, a new volunteer who joined Punjabi Wikisource during the contest, says that “I am proud to be able to contribute to my mother tongue on Wikisource. Such contests help make my language known worldwide.” The results were stark—the contest made the Punjabi Wikisource the fastest-growing Wikimedia project in the entire world in both content and editors. As of October of last year, the Punjabi Wikisource contained a bit over 1,200 pages. By January of this year, it had over 6,770 belonging to 200 different books. Moreover, over 6,000 of these pages had been proofread by volunteers. The growth of the Punjabi Wikisource through the contest and other volunteer work is just a beginning. There are a number of opportunities for supporting the project with technical contributions and GLAM partnerships with different government organizations and institutions. Moreover, they’re just one of several expanding Wikisources in the region. The Wikisources for the Indic languages of Marathi, Kannada, and Assamese each more than doubled in size in the last year, and with every edit, they’re bringing the sum of all knowledge into their own mother tongues. Rupika Sharma, Wikimedia community member Originally published by Rupika Sharma on Wikimedia News 11 July 2019 Archive notice: This is an archived post from Wikimedia Space, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Main page (EN)Tagged Editor experience, Punjabi, Shared learning, Wikimedia Space (EN Archive), wikisource Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Today the Ada Initiative announced the appointment of Sue Gardner, ED of the Wikimedia Foundation, to its first advisory board. The Ada Initiative launched just a few weeks ago, and has the aim of promoting the visibility and participation of women in open-source culture. The group, founded by Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner, will undertake unique research in the field of women in open-source culture, provide consultative services to organizations and businesses, and develop training and education services. The Initiative‘s namesake, Countess Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), was considered one of the world’s first computer programmers, and was almost certainly the first woman in computer programming. She collaborated with Charles Babbage, the creator of one of the first mechanical computers, the analytical engine, writing what is generally considered the first code instructions for a computer. She was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron (with Anne Isabella Milbanke), but had no relationship with her father, who died when she was nine. As a young adult she took an interest in mathematics, and in particular Babbage’s work on the analytical engine. Between 1842 and 1843 she translated an article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea on the engine, which she supplemented with a set of notes of her own. These notes contain what is considered the first computer program—that is, an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine. Though Babbage’s engine was never built, Lovelace’s notes are important in the early history of computers. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities. [1] Wikipedia has been in the news recently following a New York Times story highlighting the lack of women participating in the project, based on researched gathered by the United Nations University Study.  Interest in the topic has brought new thinkers to the Wikimedia community, which also recently resulted in the creation of a Wikimedia gender gap mailing list, which is open to the public. Congratulations, Sue, and good luck to everyone involved in the Ada Initiative! [1] Ada Lovelace. (2011, February 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:03, February 24, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ada_Lovelace&oldid=415671634 Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. There is a wonderful picture of Lady Lovelace. Why have your blog posts to be so boring ?? PS Congratulations Sue, a nice cause 🙂 Posted in Free Culture, Friends, Highlights, Wikipedia, WikiWomenTagged open-source, Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Wiktionary, the online dictionary that anyone can edit, is now available as a mobile app for Android in Google Play (formerly Android Market). With the official Wiktionary App, you can: Read Wiktionary in over 150 languages Read the Word of the Day Expanding the reach of Wikimedia projects on Android is an important contribution to spreading free knowledge globally. And this is a great example of the motto, “Fork our code, reach millions, and help educate the world!” A volunteer development effort, the Wiktionary App was developed in collaboration with Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects. Four Canadian undergraduate Computer Science students built the app as volunteers, using the code of the existing Wikipedia App, and adding additional features for Wiktionary. Like the Wikipedia App before it, the Wiktionary App is committed to Open Web technologies. It is built using the open source framework PhoneGap, and uses HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. The code is completely open source, and available on GitHub. Anyone can get involved – by submitting code, adding translations on Translatewiki, or by becoming a contributor to Wiktionary. We’re excited to release this app and get Wiktionary into the hands of more mobile users. We hope you are as excited as we are! Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. 维基百科观察(15):wiktionary Android app | 石木说 Wiktionary Launches on Android - AppNewser This is an amazing application ! So excellent! And even more inspiring that it’s volunteer work, like the content itself. Thank you! The GitHub link in the post pointed to the code for the (now outdated) Wikipedia app; the Wiktionary app is at https://github.com/wikimedia/WiktionaryMobile . Hi! My name’s Rodrigo. I’m a language teacher in Argentina and have been using Wiktionary for a long time. i find it extremely useful. problem is, my phone is in Spanish and I want to use the Wiktionaey App fully in English, since there are more contents in that language. But for some reason I just can’t do it. Could you help me? Too bad it seems stalled… seems more & more outdated by ðe day. Ðe Translate wiki is also unreachable at ðe given address. Posted in Mobile, WiktionaryTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Yesterday we discovered that WikiHow, a wiki neighbor of ours that provides user-generated ‘how-to’ info has hit the admirable 50,000 article milestone. WikiHow provides their content freely in a creative commons license, they publish in multiple languages, and they run MediaWiki, the same open-source software that powers Wikipedia and thousands of other wikis around the world.  They’ve also been a hugely generous financial sponsor of previous Wikimania conferences. Congrats to WikiHow and their dedicated volunteers.  Here’s to 50K more how-to articles! Jay Walsh, Head of Communications Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Bluebirch, by-nc-sa is more free than 99%+ of websites, so it seems better to be pleased that they are one of the most free websites, not complain that they could be slightly more free. Posted in Free Culture, HighlightsTagged WikiHow, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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MediaWiki is the software that underpins Wikipedia. This conference shows all the other ways it can be used. – Diff 1 May 2019 by David Strine Earlier this month, a group of dedicated MediaWiki administrators, contractors, and users met in Daly City, California, United States for the annual Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (EMWCon for short). MediaWiki is the main underlying software that makes Wikipedia possible, but its use cases range far beyond that of the encyclopedia. It is a critical technology for knowledge bases across the internet, and thousands of organizations rely on it for critical documentation and organization. With MediaWiki being used by hundreds for organizations with thousands of installs, EMWCon is integral to understanding how and where MediaWiki can be improved. “It’s about sharing best practices, finding like-minded people to work on projects together, and just making enterprise usage of MediaWiki more visible,” says Yaron Koren, one of the main organizers. This year’s EMWCon saw speakers presenting on a wide range of applications, new features, and shared challenges in a collaborative environment. These speakers came from 26 organizations large and small, ranging from General Electric and NASA to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Denny Vrandečić, an ontologist at Google and former Wikimedia Foundation board member, presented the keynote on “Wikidata and Beyond.” Everyone was eager to share their own reasons for celebrating MediaWiki’s many uses. NASA flight controllers, for instance, described how they took multiple, disparate Wikis and merged them into a single wiki which documents many of the systems on the International Space Station. “The ISS Wiki is critical to our day to day documentation and planning needs,” says James Montalvo, flight controller and instructor at NASA. “It has become the nexus of information for ISS operations both by housing unique content as well as by aggregating content from other sources.” The MediaWiki Stakeholders Group, which focuses on improving MediaWiki software for its wide array of users, has a primary role in organizing EMWCon. “I go to these conferences to meet other people who have found that MediaWiki is a great way to organise the communal knowledge of their group,” says Mark Hershberger, the group’s president. Looking to get involved? Here’s a few ways to do that: If you’d like to attend EMWCon next year, please keep an eye on its event page or subscribe to the MediaWiki-l mailing list. If you’re in Europe, SMWCon will be held this fall. The MediaWiki Stakeholders Group holds regular meetings. You can join the MediaWiki-enterprise mailing list for more information. David Strine, Product Manager, Fundraising Tech, Technology Archive notice: This is an archived post from the News section on wikimediafoundation.org, which operates under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Events, Foundation, MediaWiki, TechnologyTagged Enterprise MediaWiki Conference, NASA, Wikimedia Foundation News (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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English Wikipedia has more than 25,000 medical articles, which receive approximately 200 million page views a month[1]. The encyclopedia is one of the foremost health care resources in the world, used by the lay public as well as professionals. Surveys have found that between 50 and 100 percent of physicians use Wikipedia in their clinical practice[2][3], and Wikipedia is consistently at the top of Google web searches for medical terms[4]. The ultimate goal is to provide health information for every person on the planet in the language of their choice. One of the biggest challenges has been reaching out to the often ignored non-English demographic. “The only viable platform to get health care information out to the whole world is Wikipedia,” said Dr. James Heilman, an editor and English Wikipedia administrator (Jmh649). Heilman, or “Doc James” as many people refer to him, is the founder of the task force. “I asked myself, ‘How can I get high-quality health care information to everyone in the world?'” A plan developed to take the improved English Wikipedia articles and translate them into the multiple language versions of Wikipedia. Heilman sought out Translators Without Borders (TWB) a non-profit whose mission is to provide humanitarian translation for other non-profits and NGOs worldwide. The initial goal of TWB’s inolvement is to take the 80 peer-reviewed, core articles and translate them into 80 different languages. Lori Thicke, co-founder of Translators Without Borders, said partnering with Wikipedia would help “bridge the language last mile for access to high quality health information.” “Wikipedia has the reach to make a major impact on public health in the developing world. Because of language and physical barriers, the health information we take for granted is locked away from the people who need it most — those with the deadly combination of relentless poverty, a high disease burden and grossly inadequate health resources,” said Thicke. “Yet these people are connected. Increasingly their phones are Internet-enabled and they are ready to move into the digital age. We need to help them.” While the task force aspires to translate content, another goal is to do so at a level of complexity that is accessible for every reader. Heilman and Thicke enlisted the support of Content Rules, a company that specializes in professional simplification of technical content. Although they typically focus on information technology, Content Rules offered to take on simplifying the entire first batch of 80 medical articles (13 have been simplified as of this writing). “When people can actually read medical information and understand it, it can save lives,” said Content Rules CEO Val Swisher, who put a call out for pro-bono editors to work on the Wikipedia medical articles in late 2011. “The response I got from my network was so overwhelming that I literally had to turn people away.” Swisher explained that although the articles are outside the core area of her company, Heilman is there to review them and Content Rules does have some medical experts on staff. “Our purpose is to take deep medical information and make it understandable,” said Swisher. “So, if we don’t understand it, then we have to rewrite it. And if we do understand once we are done, then we know we’ve been successful.” Once the simplified articles have been translated, Heilman and the task force members search for Wikipedia editors who can integrate that content into their own language version of Wikipedia. Heilman said he is currently on the lookout for editors from the Dari, Turkish, Polish, and Vietnamese projects, as well as any others who think they can help. “No one else is attempting to solve the problem of delivering medical information in the other 280 plus languages we work on,” said Heilman. “We need to make sure that when the next billion people come on line — those who don’t speak English, Spanish, or French — that there’s something there for them.” (You can monitor the progress of the translations here or sign up to become involved here. For further reading, see the Wikipedia Signpost’s coverage of WikiProject Medicine) ↑ Heilman JM, Kemmann E, Bonert M, et al. (2011). “Wikipedia: a key tool for global public health promotion“. J. Med. Internet Res. 13 (1): e14. doi:10.2196/jmir.1589. PMID 21282098. ↑ Laurent, MR; Vickers, TJ (2009 Jul-Aug). “Seeking health information online: does Wikipedia matter?”. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 16 (4): 471-9. PMID 19390105. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. This is amazing. Congratulations to James, the WikiProject Medicine and everybody who’s involved in making this happen! «“No one else is attempting to solve the problem of delivering medical information in the other 280 plus languages we work on,” said Heilman.» This is frankly excessive. I hope the other dozens of medicine wikiprojects of the other wikis and other editors there don’t read this blog post! What are those 80 languages and what will happen to the articles there (how much of them exist already)? Will the information be adapted to the local culture? For instance, I see that the translations to Italian in some case produced only some copyediting or small expansion because the local article… Read more » Nemo, there is some ambiguity in the wording, and it could be read as you do, but the way I read that statement was a bit different: “Nowhere else than at Wikipedia” people are attempting to solve the problem of delivering medical information in the other 280 plus languages we work on. I don’t think the point of the statement was to degrade other Wikimedians’ work. u r doing a good thing to transform the word to a good place to leave Wikipedia project takes on global healthcare information gap | The Stinging Nettle […] Wikimedia blog, 9 August 2012 Author:  Jake […] Yes when I said “no one else” I meant no one other than Wikipedia (which of course includes dozens medicine wikiprojects). The World Health Organization translates content into about 70 languages. When significant content already exists, translation only occurs if their is support from a local Wikipedian in that language who is able to integrate the translated content with the existing content. The Italian translations occurred partly independently from this project (in that they where not done by TWB). Medicine Translation Task Force « Blog wikipediowego proteusza […] Sierpień 2012 Author: pmgpmg Dzięki wpisowi na blogu Fundacji poznałem inicjatywę Medicine Translation Task Force. Prezentuje ona to wszystko […] By the way we are concentrating primarily on languages in which little medical coverage exists like Dari and Tagalog. Posted in WikiProjectTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. 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We’re very excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation was named a winner in the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge for our work to expand and improve Wikimedia mobile projects, particularly for users in developing countries. Knight Foundation supports expansion of access to Wikipedia via mobile As mobile technology is increasingly the primary opportunity for billions of people around the world to access the Internet, our mobile teams are working to remove the two biggest hurdles to access free knowledge: cost and accessibility. The $600,000 News Challenge grant will be utilized in four areas: Improving the way that users experience our mobile platform on feature phones; Expanding Wikipedia Zero, which gives mobile users free access to Wikipedia on their phones; Developing features to improve the mobile experience regardless of how feature-rich the device is, including new ways to access Wikipedia via texting; Increasing the number of languages that can access Wikipedia on mobile. “Knight Foundation’s funding will support us making the mobile version of Wikipedia easier to use, as well as enabling us to expand Wikipedia Zero, our project with mobile operators that lets their customers access Wikipedia for free,” said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “I’m very happy Knight has chosen to support us; it’s an important affirmation of our mobile work.” The Wikimedia Foundation is one of eight mobile projects to receive a total of $2.4 million today through the Knight News Challenge, which aims to accelerate projects with funding and advice from Knight’s network of media innovators. A full list of the News Challenge Mobile winners is at knightfoundation.org. “Wikipedia has helped define the way that people collaboratively create content. Making the site available to more people  across the world will help foster and spread that culture,” said John Bracken, director for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation. The $600,000 News Challenge grant is for two years and follows a general support grant of $250,000 that Knight Foundation awarded to the Wikimedia Foundation in December 2012. The Wikimedia Foundation and the other winners of the challenge will present their projects from a gathering on the future of mobile at Arizona State University via live Web stream at 12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT, Friday, Jan. 18 at knightfoundation.org/live. (Follow #newschallenge on Twitter.) For more, visit knightfoundation.org or newschallenge.org. Matthew Roth, Global Communications Manager, Wikimedia Foundation Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wikipedia Zero: para un conocimiento todavía más libre […] Wikimedia ganó el concurso Knight News Challenge que premia a iniciativas de innovación en los medios. El dinero recibido fueron 600 mil dólares […] Posted in Mobile, Wikipedia ZeroTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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The first audiences jumped and shouted when pictures began moving on screens in front of them. It seemed like magic—and movies were, almost magically, invented and improved by different people in different parts of the world at the same time. Movies still flicker with magic in the hearts of many. For me, movies have always been evocative, conjuring laughter, suspenseful intrigue, and compassionate sorrow as I sat in the dark. Growing up in Poland, I watched movies from my homeland and around the world. Sometimes I watched several movies a day, setting up camp to learn and delve into the world of cinema. I read books about the history of moviemaking. When I became a Wikipedian I edited and read sources and edited and read sources, as we editors do. Now I’d like to share some of that knowledge and enthusiasm with you, to connect about one famous and one little-known film. A double-feature of ‘Wikipedia goes to the movies,’ if you will.[Citation, and popcorn, needed] Introduced as a picture with a smile and (perhaps) a tear, The Kid (1921) was the first full-length movie by Charlie Chaplin. It is one of the masterpieces of the silent-film era. The story is about a little boy, abandoned by a poor and desperate mother and adopted by the Tramp. As a filmmaker Chaplin goes back to his own childhood in London of gritty poverty, crime both mischievous and menacing, and authority both unsympathetic and watchful. Maybe this autobiographical factor helped Chaplin to create a film so very touching, mixing heartbreak and laughter. I laughed—as did the world two generations before me—when I first watched The Tramp’s attempts (at the same time funny and charming and touching) to change every day objects (a chair, a jug, some ropes) into a machinery which would somehow taking care of the baby easier. Another of the movie’s highlights is a stunning performance by Jackie Coogan, a child actor playing the Tramp’s little companion. After The Kid, Coogan built a life-long and versatile acting career, even becoming Uncle Fester in The Addams Family television series of the 60s. The actor is also known for inspiring the Coogan act, an early law protecting child performers. And while many may think that silent movies are long-forgotten oldies, Wikipedia statistics prove that this is not the case with The Kid. Articles about this picture are in almost 40 languages of the online encyclopedia (including Ukrainian where it has a status of a Good Article), and are read by thousands of readers every day. If this blog post made you interested in the movie you will be happy to know that Wikimedia Commons brings you beautiful photos from the picture (including a frame from perhaps one of the most touching scenes in movie history—the scene of the little boy being taken away from his caregiver and friend by social workers). Commons has the whole movie, so you can watch it, feel moved and inspired, and use that as motivation to edit an article in your language’s Wikipedia. The Night Train (1959) Far less famous, The Night Train may be one of the best Polish movies. It takes place in a crowded overnight train going to the seaside. At the beginning the movie seems to be a psychological thriller with a very Hitchcockian atmosphere—the newspapers write about a wife murderer on the loose and the viewer gets the feeling that the killer is in fact somewhere on the train. But very soon one discovers that this criminal plot (a hiding criminal, a police investigation, a chase) is not what the movie is really about. Minute after minute, like train cars pulling through a tunnel, stories of the other passengers pass by. Each of them (a neglected wife, an concentration camp survivor, an old priest, a middle-aged conductor) carries a unique and textured loneliness. The most important characters are Jerzy and Marta, strangers who by accident share a sleeping compartment. Their involuntary intimacy uncovers dark secrets for them both—and new light of hope. “Everyone wants to be loved, but no one’s ready to love,” says Marta. The thriller has fooled us, slowly settling down next to us in the dark, a confidante to share our longing and vulnerability. What adds weight to the movie are magnetic performances by two of the greatest Polish actors, Leon Niemczyk and Zbigniew Cybulski. The latter, called the Polish James Dean, died after falling under a train some years after The Night Train. The atmosphere is also enhanced by a jazz score, quite popular in Polish movies at that time, and incredible cinematography. And while this movie is in so many ways unique it is still not well covered in many language versions of Wikipedia. Watch it, feel it, confide with it in the dark. Then bring that inspiration to your Wikipedia, where The Night Train probably needs an article. What are your favorite world-famous and little-known movies? Tell us about that double-feature in “Wikipedia goes to the movies.” Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska, Wikimedia Poland Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Just watched The Kid after reading this blog post – what a treasure! Posted in Community, Wikimedia Commons, WikipediaTagged Charlie Chaplin, cinema, movie, multilingual post, Night Train, Poland, The Kid, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. 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Looking at today’s Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Day (POTD), it may come as a surprise that the photographer, Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), is not a specialist in sports photography. In fact, Nguyen had never even shot at a sporting event prior to the day she took this amazing picture at the Trophée Monal, an event of the 2012 Fencing World Cup circuit. Nguyen took this photo during the final match of the tournament. “The audience was plunged in the dark while the piste was brilliantly lit, naturally providing a dramatic lighting,” she said. “I was lying on the floor propped on my elbows to get a good angle, with my photo backpack used as a bean bag to support my camera. To change position I had to military crawl on the floor.” Nguyen had the advantage of having some knowledge of fencing, since she used to fence as a student. “Though I was useless at it, it helped with understanding what kind of action was going to get interesting,” she said. “The key was to spot the beginning of an attack, press the shutter-release button long enough to get the whole action, and hope for the best.” She took approximately 100 pictures in just the final match alone, and her POTD came from a single burst of 8 shots. The action depicted in the photo is a flèche attack, which she had several bursts of, but she especially likes this one because of the “nice symmetry in the bend of the blades. I hope [the photo] reflects the speed, accuracy and elegance of a fencing bout.” She got the opportunity to photograph this sporting event through the support of Wikimédia France, the national Wikimedia chapter. She is a member of the Paris “cabal,” a joking designation for the informal local chapters. At one of their meetings, they discussed the success that the Swiss chapter and the Toulouse cabal had in gaining official accreditation to do sports photography for Commons. These successes and others are reflective of a growing trend toward recognizing Wikimedians as storytellers, allowing them the accreditation to attend events as photographers or reporters. The Paris cabal had never tried anything of the sort, but Nguyen had no trouble getting accredited for the Trophée Monal just by mentioning her affiliation with Wikimédia France. “I don’t usually take the kind of pictures that get nominated as a QI [quality image] or a FP [featured picture],” said Nguyen, who typically takes photos of museum objects. “I’m glad this one made it, as it’s the result of a collaborative process” with assistance from other Commons users, Wikipedians, Wikimédia France, and the French WikiProject:Fencing. “I’m aware I’m lucky to get a FP for my first sports event. I learnt a lot covering it, and the FP is great encouragement for me to keep doing sports photography.” Nguyen first started taking pictures in 2004 using her 1.3 megapixel compact camera. She was a contributor to the French language Wikipedia at the time, and she noticed that there was a severe lack of quality pictures in her field of interest–ancient Greek and Roman history–so she went to the Louvre to take some pictures. She quickly developed a greater interest in photography and bought an entry-level DSLR. Nguyen now owns two Nikon DSLRs (a D300s and a D200) and “a whole array of lenses,” and her primary project is now Commons. She estimates that more than three-quarters of her photos are shot for Commons. “Beyond its use as a common repository for Wikimedia projects, I see [Commons] as a project in its own right,” she said. “I believe Commons is a great way to increase academics’, teachers’ and students’ awareness about free content, and to get them to contribute to all Wikimedia projects.” (View more of Nguyen’s photos) Elaine Mao, Communications Intern Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Generally I do not learn article on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very pressured me to take a look at and do it! Your writing style has been amazed me. Thank you, quite nice article. Posted in Communications, Picture of the DayTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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I’ve put in a fix for uploader tools and bots that have been broken since the last update — these bot tools didn’t expect the upload form to change, so they don’t pass in new required fields such as the edit token which was added to the form in the latest update. Since the edit token isn’t actually required for web uploads (it’s a protection against a class of attacks which, as it happens, can’t forge file uploads) I’ve relaxed the check. I’ve confirmed that it fixes Commonist and have a report that CommonsHelper is also fixed. Most other bots and tools that were affected are probably also fixed; please test them and let us know if anything’s still broken! Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. You can do CSRF uploads, you just have to get the user to try uploading the file on some site owned by the attacker. Not even that if you find a suitable security hole in the browser, like these (probably fixed by now, but there will be others): Of course WMF sites are not particularly attractive targets as you can’t upload executables or config files or anything else an attacker could really take advantage of. So providing an API for file uploading is better. 🙂 Posted in MediaWiki, Technology, Wikimedia CommonsTagged Commonist, CommonsHelper, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Sometimes a negative experience may turn into a catalyst for change. Andrea Kleiman’s (Usuaria:Jaluj) interest in Wikipedia’s gender gap rose after reading a psychological article written by a male editor that she thought was sexist. This sparked Kleiman, an Argentine psychologist, to join Wikipedia. “I decided to [register] only to write in that article,” she recalls. Surprising even herself, the article didn’t remain the last she edited. Since 2011, Kleiman has contributed tens of thousands of edits and arranged workshops for women in Argentina and Uruguay. Kleiman is concerned about how fewer than 15 percent of Wikipedia editors are women, so she focuses on encouraging and engaging young women to edit Wikipedia. She believes young women need extra attention to feel comfortable in the editing environment. “Because I am old, I feel very secure about myself, about my knowledge, and about my voice. But younger women, they don’t feel like that. If somebody criticizes them, they feel bad and they [leave].” As a way to narrow the gender gap, Wikimedia Argentina—a local affiliate of the Wikimedia movement—is now inviting influential women for breakfast to inform them about the importance of contributing to Wikipedia. Among invitees, consisting of women working for Argentine government and beyond, a gender gap in society is generally a well-known problem. Wikipedia’s gender gap, however, has surprised many participants. Kleiman wants to correct these sorts of misconceptions. “We need to work to explain people that it’s not the reality, and that it’s important that women contribute too.” Engaging more women editors brings out new perspectives. For Kleiman, it’s inadequate if the sum of human knowledge is written only by the half of the population. “Men have a different vision of the world, of the women, of what’s going on, and all of the articles are written from their own point of view. There is only one point of view, so I think it’s very important to have all points of views on Wikipedia,” Kleiman states. “I mean not only women, but men, minorities, different people from all over the world … not only white, men, and young”. For her, Wikipedia is a powerful tool due to its potential to reach the entire world. “If I teach at the university, I can explain something to my students. But if I explain that in an article on Wikipedia, [many] more people will read it.” Interview by Jonathan Curiel, Senior Development Communications Manager Draft by Reetta Kemppi, Communications Volunteer Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Great to hear about Andrea’s enthusiasm. It’s inspiring!! Posted in Chapters, Communications, Community, Editor engagement, Free Culture, Free Knowledge, From the archives, Gender gap, Global, Profiles, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, WikipediaTagged editors, gender, Spanish Wikipedia, Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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New online learning courses on Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment – Diff 17 December 20208 January 2021 by Cassandra Casares “The Tree of Life”, The Roma Community Office of Aliveri. 2016 Greece Update:Applications to the WikiLearn closing soon We ask that all applicants who have submitted an application to either cohort, please contact the Community Development team comdevteam@wikimedia.org with their preferred email address. You may also submit your email address using this form. We will only be contacting you with course relevant communication. The deadline for applications to the WikiLearn (Online Learning Pilot) will close on January 14, 2021. To apply, please find applications on our Meta pages: 1) Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online Read our privacy statement Please visit our project page on Meta if you have any questions or email the Community Development team at comdevteam@wikimedia.org. Please share this email with others who may be interested. We look forward to reading your applications. The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is launching the WikiLearn (Online Learning Pilot), a capacity-building project. This project will deliver two courses over an 8-week period that will begin on February 1, 2021. Courses are free to take part in and will be hosted on Moodle. During this pilot project, each course will be taught, and assignments are to be prepared, in English. At the end of the pilot, we will be making course materials available for anyone interested in self-study, and for translation. The two courses we will be launching on February 1, 2021, are: Identifying and Addressing Harassment: This course will focus on developing skills that will help volunteers respond to on- and off-wiki harassment. This course will combine scheduled sessions and independent study. The weekly commitment of this course is 2-3 hours per week. Target Audience: Volunteers with administrator or other advanced user rights. Partnership Building: This intensive course will provide an in-depth curriculum on how to develop meaningful programmatic and organizational partnerships within the movement and with external partners. This course will consist of scheduled sessions and individual assignments with a weekly total commitment of up to 6 hours. Target Audience: Volunteers with intermediate-level experience contributing to Wikimedia projects and beginner-level experience with building partners with Non-Wikimedia groups and organizations. To ensure our small team can provide each learner individual support, we are limiting each course in this pilot to 40 participants. We ask that all interested applicants commit to attending weekly for the full course. All efforts will be made to ensure that scheduled sessions are time-zone friendly to the greatest number of enrolled participants. However, with the wide distribution of volunteers, that may not always be possible. Applications open December 15, 2020 and will close on January 14, 2021. Successful applicants will be notified on January 18, 2021. The first session for each course will be held on February 1, 2021. To Take Part in the Online Learning Pilot: To participate in the Partnership Building online course, fill out this application form. To participate in the Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online course, fill out this application form. For more details on the Online Learning Pilot, please see our Meta page. Feel free to ask questions on the project Talk page or contact us at comdevteam@wikimedia.org. The Community Development Team Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Equity & Inclusion, Main page (EN)Tagged anti-harassment, building partnerships, community development, wikilearn Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Milan, Italy will be the host for State of the Map (SOTM), the annual OpenStreetMap community gathering, in 2018. The conference will be organized by Wikimedia Italy (Italia) and the Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano, Polimi), the largest technical university in Italy, after they submitted a joint proposal. The event will take place from 28 to 30 July 2018 and will be hosted on Polimi’s university campus. It will bring together at least 400 participants from 5 continents, including several community members from emerging communities supported by the SOTM Scholarship Program. Polimi has put great effort in fostering the advancement of OpenStreetMap in recent years, developing projects based on OSM and promoting training, research activities, mapathons and initiatives like PoliMappers. State of the Map 2018 will aim to enhance the collaboration between the Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap communities, who will join forces to showcase their efforts to promote open and free culture. Wikimedia Italy started laying the groundwork for the event by working with the Wikimedia and OSM communities in Italy. This included a joint effort with Fondazione BEIC to geocode the photos of the Paolo Monti photographic archive, released under a free license by Fondazione BEIC on Wikimedia Commons. The photos helped make a prototype map that shows how libraries and heritage institutions could use OpenStreetMap with Wikimedia projects to provide an alternative way of browsing their collections. At Wikimania 2017, the project was called out as one of the “coolest projects” developed by an independent Wikimedia chapter. And Wikimedia Italy is continuing to support these data-growing projects: one of our main objectives for 2017 is to increase the coverage of house numbers and street names to facilitate routing. Between January and April 2017, we reached a big goal by adding over a million house numbers for Emilia-Romagna. In the next few weeks, Wikimedia Italy and Polimi will start event organization work with the SOTM Committee: one of the first steps in our plan is launching a contest to choose a logo and build visual identity guidelines for the event. Conference updates will be available on the SOTM and Wikimedia Italy websites. Francesca Ussani, Communications Manager 2018 Wikimedia Conference dates are announced: Wikimedia Germany (Deutschland, WMDE) has announced the dates and plans for hosting the 2018 Wikimedia Conference. WMDE is the independent chapter that supports the Wikimedia movement in the country, and the conference is the annual meeting for all Wikimedia organizations around the world; the chapter has expressed their intention to continue hosting and supporting the conference in Berlin. A report about the learned lessons from hosting the conference in Berlin in 2015–2017 will be published by Wikimedia Germany by the end of October. More details can be found on Wikimedia-l. Editathon on the Western Ghats biodiversity in India: The Malayalam Wikipedia community and the College of Forestry, in Kerala Agricultural University, have hosted an editing workshop that aims at improving the Malayalam Wikipedia content on on Biodiversity of Western Ghats in Malayalam. The organizers shared their experience with the event. 2018 Wikimedia developer summit basic plans announced: The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 will be held on 22 and 23 January in San Francisco, California. The program and call for participation will be shared with the public shortly; the organizers have shared their basic plans and are inviting the developer community to share their thoughts to help make a successful meetup. “We invite technologists, managers and users to study, reflect and propose ways to support the strategic vision we are committed to. We would like you to capture your thoughts in a short position statement and join the conversation,” says Victoria Coleman, the Foundation’s Chief Technology Officer, in an email to Wikimedia-l. Armenian Wikipedia milestone: Last week, the Armenian Wikipedia community celebrated their 230,000th article on Wikipedia. The Armenian Wikipedia community and Wikimedia Armenia, the independent Wikimedia chapter, have been exerting great efforts to recruit and support new participants in their community, primarily, their WikiCamps, which mixed editing and fun to encourage young learners to participate in editing Wikipedia. Affiliations update: Last week, the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom) announced the de-recognition of Wikimedia Macedonia, a now-former Wikimedia independent chapter. The chapter had been notified by AffCom in February about the guidelines and requirements they need to go through to keep their chapter recognition. Details on that decision can be found on Wikimedia-l and information about movement affiliation de-recognition can be found on Meta-Wiki. New board for Wikimedia Argentina: Last Saturday, the General Assembly of Wikimedia Argentina convened to hold the chapter’s board elections. More details on the election results can be found in an email from Anna Torres, the chapter’s executive director on Wikimedia-l mailing list. Compiled and edited by Samir Elsharbaty, Digital Content Intern Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. 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In tables where we enumerate something we usually add a first column with row numbers. Of course we set it as unsortable (class=unsortable) – BUT it doesn't prevent the column from being sorted while we sort another column. Then the row numbers get all messed up. There should be an additional parameter (class or something) for setting which column should not be sorted in any circumstance. (I cannot think of anything more in that column than row numbers…) Template:Static_row_numbers creates tables with fixed row numbers: A deprecated method is used for tables in this category: Some of the tables in that category have row number columns that do not sort under any circumstance. Some only sort if that particular row number column header is clicked. For example; if ascending or descending ranking is desired. But none of the row number columns sort when other column heads are clicked. Wikitext of fixed row numbers in a table on Polish Wikipedia below, and in use here: The row number column does not sort under any circumstance. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" align="left" !class="unsortable"|№ !color !name !city |- |1||white||John||New York |- |2||green||Alice||Warsaw |- |3||black||Mark||Rennes |} Th attached chart images show what happens if the row number column is not fixed. For example; if the above table wikitext is used on English Wikipedia. The best patch would add a column of fixed row numbers to any chart. Without having to manually enter the row numbers. Or reenter the numbers after every addition of more rows in the middle of the table. Add class rownumbers for tables T180687: Provide automatic numbering for rows in wikitable (currently manual) T245277: VE can't edit tables nested inside a transcluded table (example: row number single-column table from {{Rank}} on English Wikipedia) T200476: Table row height in the VisualEditor is increased before editing cells, and after editing in VisualDiff rMWdfe838b0d634: Update ContentTranslation to 3d551a9 T113340: Allow to request modules by CSS classes in content T4315: Create numbered list inside table T12433: Client-side auto-numbering of table rows There are a very large number of changes, so older changes are hidden. Show Older Changes Krinkle added a comment.Sep 30 2012, 12:45 AM2012-09-30 00:45:38 (UTC+0) (In reply to comment #9) Yes, let's say it's a "new feature" but I feel it's inseparable part of Sure. If we're going to add this, it'll be part of the jquery.tablesorter module. • bzimport added a comment.Sep 30 2012, 1:15 AM2012-09-30 01:15:06 (UTC+0) I just looked into the code with hope that I could help a bit but I understand too little to see what's going on there ;) But I thought I'd ask if it could be like: search for a colmun with class "fixed", sort the table as usually, Or simplified version, only for ordering numbers: search for a column with class "ordering-numbers" fill the cells of the column with ordering numbers. matmarex added a comment.Edited · Dec 26 2012, 4:48 PM2012-12-26 16:48:58 (UTC+0) I've created a proof-of-concept implementation using the sortEnd.tablesorter event $.tablesorter fires upon finishing sorting. The code is essentially five lines: $('table.sortable th.unsortable.ordinal').each(function(i, th) { var $th = $(th), $table = $th.closest('table'); $table.on('sortEnd.tablesorter', function() { $table.find('tr td:nth-child('+ (th.cellIndex+1) +')').each(function(j, td) { $(td).text( (j+1) ); }); }) }); This means that for every column with class="unsortable ordinal" on the header cell inside a table with class="sortable", the code will re-fill it with consecutive numbers, starting at 1, when the table is sorted. This allows for columns which contain ordinal numbers (the original use case). The solution was discussed on pl.wikipedia's technical village pump[1][2] and is currently live in its common.js[3]. It's used on a few pages already, including the aforementioned [[pl:Miasta w Polsce (statystyki)]] and our help page with a list of interwiki codes, [[pl:Pomoc:Interwiki]]. [3] [[pl:MediaWiki:Common.js]], at the very bottom • bzimport added a comment.Dec 26 2012, 10:33 PM2012-12-26 22:33:59 (UTC+0) And I'd say it works very well…! Thanks, Bartosz! I really hope it will be implemented widely soon, as it's ready to work! matmarex added a comment.Dec 31 2012, 3:19 PM2012-12-31 15:19:40 (UTC+0) Bug 40634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Jan 1 2013, 9:57 AM2013-01-01 09:57:12 (UTC+0) Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Jan 1 2013, 10:26 AM2013-01-01 10:26:33 (UTC+0) I am not sure if T4315 and T12433 are resolved duplicates of this. I marked T4315 as a resolved duplicate of this, but now I am not sure. Maybe we can fix that problem too. It would be nice if the fixed number column was automatically numbered (row numbering) without having to fill in anything in the column cells at all. T12433 offers some automatic numbering JS that does this: The example given at T12433 is this: "Example: say an author creates a chart that alphabetically lists all of the 535 members of the US Congress. It would be laborious to list the numbers 1, 2, 3, … 533, 534, 535 near each of the 535 entries on the list. And next time the list changes (at the next election, when names are added to or subtracted from the list of Congress members), the author would have to repeat the laborious process of numbering the 535 entries on the list all over again." For T12433 the original poster's user page has moved to here: The table wikitext he provided in T12433 produces this: Yair_rand added a comment.Mar 31 2014, 5:30 AM2014-03-31 05:30:34 (UTC+0) To just get the fixed numbering column without manually adding cells to each row or using JS, one could use CSS generated-content cells with counters: Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Apr 1 2014, 3:40 PM2014-04-01 15:40:07 (UTC+0) (In reply to Yair Rand from comment #17) It works great, and is a lot easier to use than the row-numbering method I was using before. I am using Yair Rand's method on a ShoutWiki wiki. Currently using this easy method on the table on this page: Before I would have to manually create a cell at the beginning of each row in the table. Here is the table with the old method: Now all I have to do is add this to the top line of any table: I adapted the CSS a little. Here it is: I removed the border coloring, and I used # for the header. See: # is more common in American English. I hope this easy method can be implemented soon on Wikipedia and the Commons. It is by far the easiest auto-row-numbering method I have seen. It would make things a lot easier than the hacks currently listed at Help:Sorting: • bzimport added a comment.Apr 2 2014, 11:10 AM2014-04-02 11:10:56 (UTC+0) This solution is great, I hope this one will be implemented soon. As for '#' or '№' – I think there could be also an empty cell or even a cell without borders and background (as if there was no cell). It could also be up to local admins choice. matmarex added a comment.Apr 2 2014, 6:51 PM2014-04-02 18:51:56 (UTC+0) (In reply to Yair Rand from comment #17) To just get the fixed numbering column without manually adding cells to each row or using JS, one could use CSS generated-content cells with counters: I was thinking about doing this with just CSS, and this solution is very neat, but is has two problems: Obviously, no support for old browsers. I understand that this is a trade-off that we're willing to make. Less obviously, no support for internationalization! No support for digit conversion (some languages use other numerals than 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, e.g. Arabic uses ٠‎ ١‎ ٢‎ ٣‎ ٤‎ ٥‎ ٦‎ ٧‎ ٨‎ ٩‎). I don't think this is possible with CSS (although I might be wrong). No support for various typographic conventions on the number formatting; again, proper Polish would require a dot to be placed after the ordinal number (as in 1., 2., 3. etc. for first, second, third), some might want 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. in English as well, and who knows what other languages might require. In the heading neither "№" nor "#" would be acceptable in, say, Polish (we use "Lp." which is an abbreviation of "ordinal number"), although this might be worked around by just leaving the space empty as tm112 suggests above; I'm not sure if that'd be acceptable for all languages we support in MediaWiki, though. It's probably a good solution on a per-wiki basis (for at least some languages), but I'm afraid we won't be able to use it in core unless we manage to solve the above problems (might be doable with some deep LESS magic, at least for the latter two). matmarex added a comment.Apr 2 2014, 6:55 PM2014-04-02 18:55:26 (UTC+0) (In reply to Bartosz Dziewoński from comment #20) No support for digit conversion (some languages use other numerals than 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, e.g. Arabic uses ٠‎ ١‎ ٢‎ ٣‎ ٤‎ ٥‎ ٦‎ ٧‎ ٨‎ I don't think this is possible with CSS (although I might be wrong). I underestimated the CSS designers, it does support this :) (in the spec at least). See http://www.w3.org/TR/css-counter-styles-3/ and http://www.w3.org/TR/predefined-counter-styles/. • bzimport added a comment.Apr 2 2014, 7:30 PM2014-04-02 19:30:47 (UTC+0) They also say (on w3) that you can add suffix which solves the problem with number formatting that you mentioned. In such way those numbering issues are solved but every wiki would have to set its own @counter-style and heading cell content. (Or – can it be preset?) Timeshifter added a comment.Apr 2 2014, 11:54 PM2014-04-02 23:54:02 (UTC+0) On long lists autonumbering table rows means sorting any column takes longer. Around a couple seconds to sort a column 800 rows long. This is true whether using the easy CSS method or the hard CSS method (with every cell manually added in). I link to an example below of a table with around 800 rows. Table from above-linked old revision has been copied to this sandbox after converting to the easy CSS method: Same table without autonumbering sorts faster: The initial click takes a couple seconds in all cases. Click again. I haven't been able to find a working JS method of autonumbering. Can someone link to a table with JS doing the autonumbering. I want to see how fast it is. I have not seen any JS tables linked from previous comments that work for me. Please point me to working JS I can copy to Shoutwiki, or to my personal user JS on a wiki. So I can test it on some tables. matmarex added a comment.Apr 29 2014, 6:02 PM2014-04-29 18:02:56 (UTC+0) Bug 10433 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Timeshifter added a comment.May 15 2014, 3:24 PM2014-05-15 15:24:11 (UTC+0) In comment 18 I linked to a row-numbered sortable table in a page that no longer has that table. I copied the table from an old revision of the page to this sandbox: This table has 168 rows. Sorting is not slowed down by the auto numbering. The auto numbering CSS used is found here: CSS is in the section titled "Easy method of auto numbering of table rows". As I said previously (comment 23) sorting a table with 779 rows is slowed down by the addition of auto numbering: Schnark added a comment.Sep 24 2014, 7:52 AM2014-09-24 07:52:04 (UTC+0) (In reply to Bartosz Dziewoński from comment #20) Obviously, no support for old browsers. I understand that this is a trade-off that we're willing to make. According to http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-counters the CSS solution even works in IE8, and because IE7 and below are now grade C, a JS solution can't reach a greater level of support anyway. I doubt that there is great support for CSS Counter Styles Level 3 yet, but at least most of the stuff from Predefined Counter Styles should be supported, so localization up to the level it is done for ordered lists ([1]) should be possible. matmarex edited projects, added MediaWiki-Interface, JavaScript; removed MediaWiki-JavaScript.Dec 21 2014, 5:36 PM2014-12-21 17:36:28 (UTC+0) MZMcBride added a subscriber: MZMcBride.Jan 4 2015, 4:48 AM2015-01-04 04:48:41 (UTC+0) Krinkle removed a subscriber: Krinkle.Jan 5 2015, 6:18 PM2015-01-05 18:18:11 (UTC+0) Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-jQuery-Tablesorter--archived.Feb 12 2015, 4:36 PM2015-02-12 16:36:50 (UTC+0) Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptAug 18 2015, 2:01 PM2015-08-18 14:01:51 (UTC+0) Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Aug 18 2015, 4:27 PM2015-08-18 16:27:48 (UTC+0) Is there any reason this can not be implemented right now? I will be adding row numbering to dozens of tables right away when this is implemented. Once I do so, I am sure it will be immediately added to hundreds more tables as others see how easy it is to add something like See Help:Sorting to see how convoluted it is to add row numbers now without a class for it: See also the talk page and this current thread (before it goes to the talk archive): gerritbot added a subscriber: gerritbot.Aug 28 2015, 7:46 AM2015-08-28 07:46:48 (UTC+0) Change 234473 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gerrit Patch Uploader): Add class mw-autonumber for tables gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 28 2015, 7:46 AM2015-08-28 07:46:48 (UTC+0) MatthiasDD added a subscriber: MatthiasDD.Aug 30 2015, 9:49 PM2015-08-30 21:49:29 (UTC+0) A good patch, it works good for ltr- and rtl-direction. But why starts the classname with mw- ? I suggesst use of "autonumber" instesd "mw-autonumber". Every user read this HTML-code in the wiki-editor. It should be simple and short. For the counter i suggest use of "row": table.autonumber tr td:first-child:before { Schnark added a comment.Aug 31 2015, 8:15 AM2015-08-31 08:15:07 (UTC+0) In T42618#1588087, @MatthiasDD wrote: But why starts the classname with mw- ? I suggesst use of "autonumber" instesd "mw-autonumber". To avoid clashes with classes added to MediaWiki:Common.css, e.g. T42618#434098. matmarex added a comment.Aug 31 2015, 6:09 PM2015-08-31 18:09:18 (UTC+0) Hmm, "autonumber" might be better in this case for consistency with existing classes from this script (like "sortable") and since the script aspires not to be MediaWiki-dependent. Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Sep 1 2015, 12:03 AM2015-09-01 00:03:13 (UTC+0) I prefer simplicity. There is no great need for "mw" in front of the class name. I have no problem with "autonumber", "rownumber", or just "rows". Or anything else without "mw" in front of it. I doubt too many people other than me used the old class=autonumber CSS provided by Yair_rand higher up in this thread. It has the Yair_rand CSS for easy autonumbering used on these pages: By changing to the latest Mediawiki class name those pages will still work when the mediawiki software used on Shoutwiki incorporates the new automatic row numbering class. I can then delete the old Yair_rand CSS for autonumbering from MediaWiki:Common.css on that Shoutwiki wiki. Schnark added a comment.Sep 1 2015, 7:29 AM2015-09-01 07:29:14 (UTC+0) You almost convinced me to drop the "mw-" prefix, but then I noticed, that autonumber is already in use for autonumbered external links. This shouldn't be a problem if everything is done right, as in one case the class is on an , in the other case on a element, but you never know with what expectations users added rules for .autonumber to their personal CSS. Also note that there is a class mw-datatable which is used on tables in wiki content, too, so the "mw-" prefix isn't my invention. Of course I'm open to arguments against my concerns and other suggestions, the currently proposed patch won't be the last one. Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Sep 1 2015, 6:43 PM2015-09-01 18:43:13 (UTC+0) What about using "rownumber"? Is that in use on Wikipedia, or other wikis? "mw-" is used for mw-collapsible and mw-collapsed on Wikia: But not on Wikipedia: A side note. I noticed that the numbeo.com site uses fixed row numbering on most of their many sortable tables: *http://www.numbeo.com - for example: *http://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp - the rank column. TheDJ added a subscriber: TheDJ.Sep 1 2015, 7:19 PM2015-09-01 19:19:26 (UTC+0) Hmm, i still find the whole feature somewhat confusing: And it's still purely a stylistic effect, that will rely on people still fixing the fallback values, which of course they won't... And the whole initial premise of it being 'confusing' that the numbers follow the sort state, is rather an arbitrary valuation as well. I find it confusing if they don't follow the sorting actions personally. I don't know. I'm still not enthusiastic. Timeshifter added a comment.Sep 1 2015, 8:39 PM2015-09-01 20:39:44 (UTC+0) And the whole initial premise of it being 'confusing' that the numbers follow the sort state, is rather an arbitrary valuation as well. I find it confusing if they don't follow the sorting actions personally. I don't know. I'm still not enthusiastic. I suggest that the patch remove the sorting icon from the rank column. Then people are more likely to figure out that the rank column is not supposed to sort, nor change at all. The patch needs to add the "unsortable" class to the rank column header. See how here: Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Sep 1 2015, 9:10 PM2015-09-01 21:10:27 (UTC+0) It seems that the patch does not create a column for the row numbers? Why not? Schnark added a comment.Sep 2 2015, 7:41 AM2015-09-02 07:41:53 (UTC+0) In T42618#1594012, @Timeshifter wrote: What about using "rownumber"? Is that in use on Wikipedia, or other wikis? rownumber in singular or rownumbers in plural? But yes, that's probably the best idea. In T42618#1594246, @TheDJ wrote: Hmm, i still find the whole feature somewhat confusing: I just added a second example, to both show how it works with an unsortable first column and how it looks like in a different language. And it's still purely a stylistic effect, that will rely on people still fixing the fallback values, which of course they won't... Well, in most cases the fallback values won't be added at all, so users of IE6 and IE7 will see an empty row instead of the rank, which isn't perfect (that's why I think it should be possible to add a fallback), but doesn't hurt much. And the whole initial premise of it being 'confusing' that the numbers follow the sort state, is rather an arbitrary valuation as well. I find it confusing if they don't follow the sorting actions personally. I don't know. I'm still not enthusiastic. In my example of course it doesn't make sense to have a column for the rank in the current order, but for example the table in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Gro%C3%9Fst%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland uses a hack to add such a fixed rank column, and it does make sense there. In T42618#1594736, @Timeshifter wrote: It seems that the patch does not create a column for the row numbers? Why not? Because it doesn't know what to use as heading. Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Sep 2 2015, 4:55 PM2015-09-02 16:55:43 (UTC+0) OK, I see that currently it requires an existing blank column. See: How about "rownumbers" class for adding numbers to an existing blank column? And "autorownumbers" class for adding both the numbers and the column. See: In T42618#434018, @Yair_rand wrote: To just get the fixed numbering column without manually adding cells to each row or using JS, one could use CSS generated-content cells with counters: But why require an existing column at all? And a blank header is fine for the number column. I used Yair_rand's method without problems on Shoutwiki. I removed the border coloring from his CSS. Maybe some other changes in the CSS too. I don't remember, since it was done a couple years ago. Here is what I did: *http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/wiki/2013list - see section called "Alphabetical city list". If editors are required to add a blank column first this will be used a lot less than it could be. Country lists have over 200 rows. Schnark added a comment.Sep 3 2015, 7:25 AM2015-09-03 07:25:48 (UTC+0) In T42618#1598099, @Timeshifter wrote: And a blank header is fine for the number column. I would consider a blank header just because the user was to lazy to add a row for it as bad practice. It's not clear whether that blank header is acceptable for everyone, see matmarex's comment: In T42618#434067, @matmarex wrote: In the heading neither "№" nor "#" would be acceptable in, say, Polish (we use "Lp." which is an abbreviation of "ordinal number"), although this might be worked around by just leaving the space empty as tm112 suggests above; I'm not sure if that'd be acceptable for all languages we support in MediaWiki, though. If editors are required to add a blank column first this will be used a lot less than it could be. Country lists have over 200 rows. Adding a blank column is easy. That's two clicks in Visual Editor, or replacing /^\| / with | || with the search-and-replace-tool in the WikiEditor toolbar. Given that users are currently willing to add code like on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarceration_rate#Incarceration_rate_by_state adding a blank column won't scare them away. Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Sep 3 2015, 8:21 AM2015-09-03 08:21:14 (UTC+0) How about something like header=Lp in the top of the table wikitext? So to get Polish numbers and header: {| lang="pl" header="Lp" class="wikitable sortable rownumbers" In T42618#1601171, @Schnark wrote: Adding a blank column is easy. That's two clicks in Visual Editor, or replacing /^\| / with | || with the search-and-replace-tool in the WikiEditor toolbar. Given that users are currently willing to add code like on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarceration_rate#Incarceration_rate_by_state adding a blank column won't scare them away. I am the one that added the fixed row numbering to that article. It had previously been in rank order, and so it was impossible to update it easily. I added much more recent numbers that I copied from the data table of a Commons map of US incarceration rates that someone else did. It was in alphabetical order, and not rank order. The Wikipedia article had been using 2009 numbers until I updated it this summer. This patch will not be used much if it depends on skilled editors. I don't use Wikieditor. I rarely use the Visual Editor. I barely understand some CSS, and I occasionally have figured out (and soon forgotten) some regex methods in Notepad++ to do complicated replacements within the Unicode wikitext of long lists or SVG images. Very frustrating. I am not a developer like you. I am skilled in other areas. Currently, people are adding rank columns that are not fixed. Many of these table lists are way out of date because even a single change messes up the rank order, and the list is soon completely out of order. People stop updating it at all. A fixed row-number column fixes this because then the list can be put in alphabetical order. Alphabetical order is far easier to maintain. Sorting a column instantly produces a list in rank order. If this patch is dead simple to use then hundreds of tables will then be easy to set up and maintain. TheDJ added a comment.Sep 3 2015, 10:21 AM2015-09-03 10:21:54 (UTC+0) I'm of the opinion that functions like this should 'just work' and so far none of the proposals I have seen qualify as 'just work'. That means that people will use it incorrectly and there will be confusion. That's not a good experience. I'm also pondering: What would the dialog window look like for this in VE. As an 'overall picture' kind of guy, i'm just not enthusiastic and I think that we should be careful of 'feature creep' and long term maintenance burden. Sometimes it's better to NOT have a feature, then to add extra complexity. Timeshifter added a comment.Sep 3 2015, 9:18 PM2015-09-03 21:18:01 (UTC+0) In T42618#1601171, @Schnark wrote: Adding a blank column is easy. That's two clicks in Visual Editor, It is not immediately intuitive, but it is easy after I figured it out! So it takes exactly 3 steps to add a row-number column to an existing table. See history: Now that I see how easy it is to add a blank column this is definitely easier than my previous suggestion. I could explain it all in fewer paragraphs than is currently used in Help:Sorting. See the section currently titled "Auto-ranking or adding a row numbering column (1,2,3) next to a table". How does this fail in Internet Explorer 7? Is it just a blank column? If so, that is not important in my opinion. Schnark added a comment.Sep 4 2015, 7:39 AM2015-09-04 07:39:31 (UTC+0) In T42618#1604298, @Timeshifter wrote: How does this fail in Internet Explorer 7? Is it just a blank column? If so, that is not important in my opinion. Yes, in IE7 and other unsupported browsers (if any), just a blank column will be shown. Or, if you add the numbers as fallback with the rownumbers-fallback class, these will be shown, but will be sorted along with the rest of the table, instead of being fixed. Timeshifter added a comment.Sep 11 2015, 3:52 AM2015-09-11 03:52:16 (UTC+0) I was looking at: and a note from Sept 3, 2015 3:31 AM says "Added code to make the rank column always unsortable" I assume this is added to the column header?: That is necessary to remove the sorting icon from the header. So people will not be confused. Timeshifter added a comment.Sep 21 2015, 10:32 PM2015-09-21 22:32:11 (UTC+0) I checked the Internet Explorer 7 page on Wikipedia: A reference from that article said that IE7's desktop browser share in August 2015 was 0.31%. Timeshifter added a comment.Nov 12 2015, 5:12 PM2015-11-12 17:12:06 (UTC+0) Is T113340 (Allow to request modules by CSS classes in content) holding this up? I was looking at the proposed patch: Trying to decipher the holdup from the notes there. There are so many tables not being updated because they are in rank order initially. Timeshifter added a comment.Nov 30 2015, 8:07 AM2015-11-30 08:07:11 (UTC+0) I updated the tables in this Wikipedia article: *List of countries by total health expenditure per capita. I noticed on the talk page that I had left a message over 3 years ago suggesting adding row numbering. No one had updated the list since then even though this is a topic frequently in the media. The reason is that people had the list in rank order instead of in alphabetical order. I put it in alphabetical order which makes it much easier to update. See some of my method here: Unfortunately, the current primitive method of row numbering I am using over the last few years breaks many functions of tables: *Flags can not be used because they break the alignment of the row-number column with the rest of the table. This adds up at the bottom of the table where the rows will be completely misaligned, especially at smaller text sizes. *A note column can not be used due to narrow screens breaking alignment due to laddering. *References can not be added within the table due to the superscript increasing the height of that one line, and thus breaking alignment. *The tables can not be put side by side or laddering will occur, and alignment is broken. This health expenditure table has to do without more than a few years of data or the table is too wide. This is a problem on many such lists of nations inside tables. For example; many more years of data could be added to these popular articles: *List of countries by intentional homicide rate *List of countries by incarceration rate There are many more years for homicide rates for example. See: Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Dec 5 2015, 1:07 PM2015-12-05 13:07:08 (UTC+0) I put some tables in a sandbox of mine to see if the patch has been implemented in the test release of MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.7. The patch has not been implemented in the test release of MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.7. Timeshifter renamed this task from jquery.tablesorter: Add support for a "fixed" column to jquery.tablesorter: Add support for a "fixed" column of row numbers..Jan 14 2016, 10:39 PM2016-01-14 22:39:57 (UTC+0) Timeshifter updated the task description. (Show Details) Timeshifter set Security to None. Izno added a subscriber: Izno.Apr 12 2016, 1:33 PM2016-04-12 13:33:07 (UTC+0) Timeshifter added a comment.Jul 2 2016, 10:35 PM2016-07-02 22:35:35 (UTC+0) Here are some lists with row numbering: Discovered another problem with the current method of row numbering. Italics used for some of the country names causes the rows to not align the farther down the list one goes. See this list revision: Had to remove the italics to fix it. These lists are popular and are maintained since they are in alphabetical order. The row numbering allows rank order to be seen easily with a click of the mouse on the sorting button. The problem is that the initial setup of such lists is tedious, and subject to many rules such as no italics, no flag icons, and no references within the chart itself. All break the row alignment. Along with wide tables. So the number of columns has to be limited to allow the charts to be seen correctly on narrower screens. • Phabricator_maintenance removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.Jul 30 2016, 3:45 PM2016-07-30 15:45:22 (UTC+0) • Phabricator_maintenance removed a parent task: T33601: [DO NOT USE] jquery-tablesorter (tracking) [superseded by #MediaWiki-jQuery-Tablesorter].Jul 30 2016, 3:45 PM2016-07-30 15:45:57 (UTC+0) -jem- added a subscriber: -jem-.Oct 27 2016, 1:08 PM2016-10-27 13:08:41 (UTC+0) Krinkle added a subscriber: Krinkle.May 23 2017, 2:10 PM2017-05-23 14:10:08 (UTC+0) It seems there are two feature requests being mixed here: Having a "fixed" column that won't change when the rows are sorted. Typically a column that numbers the rows, which we want to treat separately and not related to the other fields in each row. Not needing to manually maintain the numbers in these rows when editing pages so that you don't have to change all other rows when inserting or re-ordering entries. The current patch essentially implements a solution for issue 2 (automatically number the rows and render the row's number). It also kind of solves issue 1. It doesn't really preserve the authored cell contents, but rather it reproduces them dynamically in CSS. This still requires manual work and seems fairly limited. I'd recommend solving these problems separately. Two ideas: Allow for automatic numbering of rows. Perhaps by providing syntax in wikitext that would allow a cell in each row to be set as the placeholder for an incrementing number within the current table. Or perhaps by generating the tables with a Lua module? Or by keeping them maintained manually, with perhaps a client-side feature in VisualEditor/WikiEditor to automatically encourage re-indexing the "index number" cell based on a particular marking on the class (e.g. a class on the table, similar to "wikitable" and "sortable"). Add a feature in tablesorter that allows one of the columns to be marked as "static" (similar to "unsortable") which will preserve that table column as-is regardless of the sorting of the rest of other columns for each row. Timeshifter added a comment.Jun 28 2017, 3:24 AM2017-06-28 03:24:55 (UTC+0) Any system of row numbering is fine by me. I saw another list today I would like to add row numbers to: Click the header of the hourly PPP minimum wage column to get a list covering the highest to lowest minimum wages by country. USA is around 15th on the list. Not sure since there is no row numbering. That list though is too wide to use the method I have used in other lists. Such as in this one: Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Jul 15 2017, 1:44 PM2017-07-15 13:44:52 (UTC+0) This may be a starting point to pass on to others interested in this topic: Articles containing tables with fixed row numbers are in this hidden category: Please add the category to any article I have missed. I noticed that the 800 row table with fixed row numbers is now sorting fast for me: Later edit: I checked sorting using an 11-year old PC, and I see that sorting took 2 seconds for that very long table of 779 rows. On that same 11-year-old PC sorting is fast on lists of around 200 rows. Such as this one that has fixed row numbers: So since country lists on Wikipedia are a little over 200 rows, then this type of CSS will not be a problem, even on old PCs. Country lists are about the longest lists on Wikipedia. Krinkle updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 15 2017, 7:13 PM2017-07-15 19:13:23 (UTC+0) gerritbot added a comment.Nov 27 2017, 7:49 PM2017-11-27 19:49:34 (UTC+0) Change 234473 abandoned by Krinkle: Add class rownumbers for tables Closing to reduce review noise. Feel free to re-open once task has settled on a solution. Krinkle removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 28 2017, 8:51 PM2017-11-28 20:51:34 (UTC+0) Krinkle removed a subscriber: Krinkle.Dec 15 2017, 1:25 AM2017-12-15 01:25:05 (UTC+0) Timeshifter added a comment.Apr 10 2018, 3:29 PM2018-04-10 15:29:16 (UTC+0) Could someone explain to me in simple English why there is no simple way to add a column of fixed row numbers to tables. What is blocking this? Many tables are out of date due to their use of rank order columns that are completely out of whack. Due to any change in data in the table. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of tables that would benefit from this. Currently, the only method of adding a column of fixed row numbers is so tedious, timeconsuming, and problematic that only 5 tables has a column of fixed row numbers. See them here: I bring this up now due to this template deletion discussion: Removing the rank numbers might be too bold. People don't realize that there is an alternative that works better, and does the same thing (row numbers). They get pissed when the rank numbers are removed, and not replaced with the alternative (row numbers). And that takes some work. The template serves a purpose in remembering some tables to go back to someday, and hopefully someone will work on them. It also helps developers see the need for their patch that they sometimes work on, but haven't finished due to problems. There are thousands of tables that this template could be placed on. A patch would be so much simpler. matmarex added a comment.Apr 10 2018, 4:54 PM2018-04-10 16:54:17 (UTC+0) You could convince an English Wikipedia administrator to copy the solution from Polish Wikipedia that I implemented there five years ago, see comment above: T42618#433972. Timeshifter added a comment.Apr 10 2018, 8:36 PM2018-04-10 20:36:08 (UTC+0) matmarex. Could you edit that old comment of yours and add in full URLs so that we can check it out? I have had to do that on old comments after we changed over to phabricator. Is the JS the same? You might update that also on that post. And could you start a new comment listing some more info and links since then. Links to working tables, etc.. Also, any how-to pages concerning its use. I can use Google translation to figure it out somewhat. Are people using this function of tables? Is it easy to use? Does it require a blank column to be set up? Or does it create the column too? Aklapper added a comment.Apr 11 2018, 10:43 AM2018-04-11 10:43:35 (UTC+0) In T42618#4121570, @Timeshifter wrote: matmarex. Could you edit that old comment of yours and add in full URLs so that we can check it out? In T42618#433972, @matmarex wrote: The solution was discussed on pl.wikipedia's technical village pump[1][2] and is currently live in its common.js[3]. It's used on a few pages already, including the aforementioned [[pl:Miasta w Polsce (statystyki)]] and our help page with a list of interwiki codes, https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:Interwiki . [3] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js , at the very bottom In T42618#4121570, @Timeshifter wrote: And could you start a new comment listing some more info and links since then. Which "more info and links" are needed? What's missing in the current information provided? (It's hard to provide more info if you don't get told which info.) Timeshifter added a comment.Apr 11 2018, 9:31 PM2018-04-11 21:31:34 (UTC+0) Thanks for the links. I would like some links to long tables where the matmarex JS method of row numbering is being used. Of the links you provided this is the only one with such a table: This is the class needed in the column header to fix the row numbers: Here is the wikitext for that table below. I don't like the fact that one has to add the numbers. That is problematic. For example; with a long alphabetical list one would have to manually renumber the row numbers after each new row added in the middle of the table. Especially tedious the farther up the table one adds the row. Since all row numbers after the new row entry would have to be changed. Can this JS solution be changed so that it also creates the row numbers? That way we can leave the row number column blank, and let the JS fill it in. Or maybe a combination of JS and CSS. Since table sorting depends on jquery.tablesorter.js, then I don't see why this JS can not be part of the solution. I like that the column header is default blank for the row number column. It is obvious it is a row of numbers, and that it is not sorting. Yet one could manually add a column header name, symbol, or icon. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" align="left" !class="unsortable ordinal" width="25px"| !width="60px"|kolor !width="60px"|mebel !width="60px"|miasto |- |1||biały||stół||Kraków |- |2||zielony||taboret||Iława |- |3||czarny||szafa||Puck |} Is the previous CSS solution fixable? It does not require manually entering the row numbers. Could it be combined with the matmarex JS solution? Timeshifter updated the task description. (Show Details)May 14 2018, 6:44 AM2018-05-14 06:44:12 (UTC+0) Timeshifter mentioned this in T200476: Table row height in the VisualEditor is increased before editing cells, and after editing in VisualDiff.Aug 3 2018, 6:40 AM2018-08-03 06:40:15 (UTC+0) The_Equalizer added a subscriber: The_Equalizer.Sep 6 2018, 8:23 PM2018-09-06 20:23:19 (UTC+0) The_Equalizer raised the priority of this task from Low to High.Sep 6 2018, 8:38 PM2018-09-06 20:38:19 (UTC+0) Team Phabricator, will there be any traction on this? This is such a core function of any table that I am surprised this has stalled for so long. As a builder of a few advanced tables this has been quite literally a bug-bear to me, even more so that we have a working solution on Polish Wiki. I appreciate the English Wiki will need some testing, but really this needs to be actively worked with a higher priority. Even if we implement this initially and then going forward, add functionality to make any column fixed. If need be I can supply coffee and biscuits to help get this going. Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from High to Low.Sep 6 2018, 10:02 PM2018-09-06 22:02:00 (UTC+0) @The_Equalizer: Welcome to Phabricator! I'm resetting the priority as you don't seem to plan to work on fixing this (correct me if I'm wrong!) and as the Priority field summarizes and reflects reality and does not cause it. If you're interested in contributing code to fix this, please refer to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker . Or you could propose this task for the next Community Wishlist survey. Thanks! PeterBowman added a subscriber: PeterBowman.Oct 20 2018, 3:23 PM2018-10-20 15:23:12 (UTC+0) Timeshifter added a comment.Dec 31 2018, 2:43 PM2018-12-31 14:43:36 (UTC+0) List of countries by intentional homicide rate: The current version is very usefully sorted initially by region and subregion. See my comment on the talk page: I noticed that the current version of the table is wider than the last time I checked months ago: A separate column of row numbers (something I added to a few charts) does not work correctly with wider tables and narrow screens. The rows do not align. I suggest adding an integrated rank order column instead. There is new info in Help:Table in the Visual Editor section at the end. It makes editing of tables much easier and faster. It makes adding an integrated rank order column very easy too. Just copy and paste from another table. Of course when the table is put in rank order, it is not sorted by region or subregion. That is why there is a Phabricator thread asking for an integrated row number column that remains static when the rest of the table is sorted. Then we could have wide tables that are initially sorted in any way we please. See Help:Sorting and the section called something like: "Auto-ranking or adding a row numbering column (1,2,3) next to a table". See phab:T42618. TheDJ removed a subscriber: TheDJ.Dec 31 2018, 8:06 PM2018-12-31 20:06:45 (UTC+0) Larske added a subscriber: Larske.Mar 2 2019, 6:09 AM2019-03-02 06:09:46 (UTC+0) Timeshifter added a comment.Apr 16 2019, 4:22 AM2019-04-16 04:22:20 (UTC+0) List of U.S. states by incarceration and correctional supervision rate is an example of a table that needs a fixed row number column. Because there are 3 separate columns that are important enough that people want to see them in rank order. That can't be done with an integrated rank order column. It can only be done with a fixed row number column. List of countries by incarceration rate may or may not need a fixed row number column. It depends on whether one believes there is more than one column that people want to see in rank order. Timeshifter added a comment.Edited · Nov 20 2019, 9:54 AM2019-11-20 09:54:50 (UTC+0) A much easier and better method for creating a static row number column exists. Sandbox 89 linked below uses the new method, and is updated as needed. The table in Sandbox 89 is taken from a version of "List of countries by incarceration rate". *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Static_column_begin - see its documentation. {{Static column begin}} redirects to {{Rank}} Can any of that template code be used here for this phabricator task? I added class="wikitable nowrap sortable" to simplify things further. The nowrap class means the table rows do not ladder as the screen is narrowed. So the rows always align. Header-lines=4 allows text alone to be zoomed to very high levels without causing row alignment problems. Here is the wikitext at the top that adds the fixed row-number column: {{Rank | rows={{TRC|ignore=1|id=nations}} | header-lines=4 | caption=Incarceration populations and rates. From [[World Prison Brief]].}} {|class="wikitable nowrap sortable mw-datatable" border=1 style="text-align:right;" id="nations" |-valign=bottom And this goes at the end of the table: Timeshifter added a comment.Dec 11 2019, 5:36 AM2019-12-11 05:36:07 (UTC+0) It has been pointed out to me that row alignment is off when viewed in mobile browsers. This is when using the previously mentioned {{Rank} template. This is another reason for an integrated, fixed row number column. Timeshifter mentioned this in T245277: VE can't edit tables nested inside a transcluded table (example: row number single-column table from {{Rank}} on English Wikipedia).Feb 14 2020, 3:45 PM2020-02-14 15:45:07 (UTC+0) Timeshifter mentioned this in T180687: Provide automatic numbering for rows in wikitable (currently manual).Feb 14 2020, 3:53 PM2020-02-14 15:53:16 (UTC+0) Krinkle edited projects, added MediaWiki-Interface (Tables); removed MediaWiki-jQuery-Tablesorter--archived, MediaWiki-Interface.Jul 25 2020, 3:40 AM2020-07-25 03:40:02 (UTC+0) CasparV closed this task as Invalid.Edited · Apr 28 2021, 8:12 AM2021-04-28 08:12:09 (UTC+0) CasparV added a subscriber: CasparV. Unfortunately the {rank}-template does not seem to work for regular Wikipedia articles. I have tested the results from multiple pages on multiple browsers and multiple platforms and it consistently fails. Screenshots here: The {rank}-template does seem to work on: en.m.wikipedia.org (which of course uses different CSS) edit previews (again, whyyy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_drug_overdose_death_rates_and_totals_over_time (what did they do right where the others failed?) Yeah... it's gonna suck to fix this bug if you can only see it in 'production'. (incomplete) list of pages using this template: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Template%3ARank&namespace= Sorry for accidentally closing the task. I'm a noob. CasparV reopened this task as Open.Apr 28 2021, 8:15 AM2021-04-28 08:15:20 (UTC+0) Timeshifter added a comment.May 20 2021, 12:17 AM2021-05-20 00:17:25 (UTC+0) The new template {{Static row numbers}} is a lot better: Works great in both desktop and mobile. For multiple examples see: Unlike {{rank}} it works with the Visual Editor. For tables with a single header row all that is needed is to add {{static row numbers}} just above the top of the table wikitext. And class=static-row-numbers to the top line of the table wikitext. For other options see the template documentation. Is there any reason this could not be added to the Mediawiki software? That way people could just add the class to get the result. And maybe something could be added so that multiple header rows don't need class=static-row-header in order for the row numbering to be correct. PeterBowman added a comment.Oct 27 2021, 2:24 PM2021-10-27 14:24:58 (UTC+0) Expanding on T42618#434018, wikt:pl:MediaWiki:Gadget-autonumber.css works with both regular and sorted (class="sortable") tables, either HTML or wiki-syntax ({| |}), all basic skins (including mobile Minerva). No extra column needed, just add class autonumber. Example: wikt:pl:WS:STAT. Timeshifter updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 27 2021, 6:56 PM2021-10-27 18:56:49 (UTC+0) Timeshifter added a comment.Oct 27 2021, 7:10 PM2021-10-27 19:10:45 (UTC+0) In T42618#7461512, @PeterBowman wrote: Thanks PeterBowman. I want to see the wikitext for a simple table. Not this: Can you create a user sandbox page on that wiki with some simple example tables? PeterBowman added a comment.Oct 29 2021, 11:19 AM2021-10-29 11:19:31 (UTC+0) Can you create a user sandbox page on that wiki with some simple example tables? Sure, see wikt:pl:Wikisłownikarz:Peter Bowman/autonumber (permalink). It looks like desktop Minerva has a different set of rules which I have not considered yet. CasparV removed a subscriber: CasparV.Nov 9 2021, 8:18 PM2021-11-09 20:18:07 (UTC+0) Log In to Comment Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted; code licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source licenses. 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Between August 2nd-5th, Hungarian Wikipedia was calmer than usual for a few days when Wikipedians took their annual leave at the third Wikicamp, organized by three local Wikipedians in and around Veszprém in Western Hungary. Nineteen community members, aged 14 to 73, took part in 4 days of sightseeing, exhausting hikes and splashing in lake Balaton. Wikicamp is the biggest community organized Wikipedia event in Hungary that takes place in a different region of the country every year. Editors eagerly await the camp each year and proudly display on their user pages the years they have participated in or helped organize. The camp is a chance to socialize outside the usual virtual environment in a safe place where people can bring their partners and their dogs. The exhausting hikes and excursions ensure that people do not waste any energy on quarreling, and the local chapter tries to ensure everyone has a good time by providing pins, yo-yos and financial support. Though the programme didn’t involve any computers, discussions inevitably veered towards Wikipedia topics and some participants were caught patrolling Wikipedia even at 1AM in the morning. We had a few Wikipedia-related outcomes as members of Wikiproject China decided on coordinating their article writing plans and on the last day we had a very interesting discussion on GLAM projects in Hungary and the future of the Hungarian chapter. Two participants, Máté (also the main organizer of the camp) and Oren, gave an update on their experience interacting with Hungarian museums and shared with the audience some of the lessons from international projects. In the following discussion it became very clear that for these projects to succeed we need not only to overcome institutional barriers, but we also need an influx of new and enthusiastic volunteers in the chapter. Next year’s camp and our chapter are always open to local and international participants, make sure to contact us if you would like to get involved! Bence Damokos, Vice-president, Wikimedia Hungary. Participant, Wikicamp Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Chapters, GlobalTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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During the month of April, all Wikimedia wikis will be placed into read-only mode for two short periods—an action that will allow the Wikimedia Foundation’s Technology department to test services in a new secondary data center in Texas (referred to as “codfw”). The new data center is a replica of our cluster in Virginia. The main purpose of this data center is to improve the reliability and failover capabilities of Wikipedia and all of our sites for users around the world. It maintains a full, up-to-date copy of the databases for Wikipedia and other projects, plus many other services. In case of any type of disaster at the main data center in Virginia, the Operations team expects to be able to transfer all traffic to the secondary data center in Texas within minutes. Upcoming test for the new data center Major pieces of our infrastructure have been successfully deployed or tested there with actual live traffic, but until now, the heart of our sites has been missing: MediaWiki itself. This is changing. Working together with teams in Technology and several outside of it, the Technology department is now ready to perform a failover test, during which we will transfer all application server traffic and tightly coupled service dependencies to the new data center for a minimum of 48 hours. At the end of the test, we will transfer it all back again. This failover process is scheduled to happen during the week of 18 April, with the actual switchovers beginning on Tuesday, 19 April at 14:00 UTC and Thursday, 21 April at 14:00 UTC. Any changes to this schedule will be noted on our Wikitech calendar. Effect of this test on editors and other contributors to our sites Ideally we’d make this switchover without impact to our users, but limitations in MediaWiki prevent that at this time.  At the start and end of this test, we will have to place all wikis in read-only mode for a short time. We expect this step to take approximately 15 to 30 minutes each time. During the week of 18 April, we will be halting all non-essential code deployments. This means that the regular MediaWiki deployment process will be stopped, and no other non-critical deployments will be done that week. The process for this is quite involved today, but this switchover test will give us information that we can use to make the process simpler, faster, and more secure in the future.  We hope to not only greatly reduce the disruption for our users and the time needed to make the switch, but also to reduce the amount of manual effort necessary. We appreciate your patience while we improve this essential infrastructure that helps us to keep useful information from the projects available on the Internet, free of charge, in perpetuity. Mark Bergsma, Director of Technical Operations and Lead Operations Architect Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. So, we have to fail the system to test the failover system? This is one step that many failover systems never take, and then they fail, for good. I also agree that it’s preferable to perform a real fullscale switch in a scheduled time where there are enough teams available to monitor what happens and see how the failover mechanism can be improved later. However I’m not sure that the selected schedule was the least disruptive for users, notably for this first test, that could have been made in a less critical time. But a true failover event could happen at anytime in the future where there will be much less people available to make the switch. This scheduled test is then necessary to see how the processs… Read more » Editing will temporarily pause for a failover test – Wikimedia Blog […] You can read about a previous similar and successful failover test in a blog post from April 2016. […] Editing will temporarily pause for a failover test - Beard Looks […] You can read about a previous similar and successful failover test in a blog post from April 2016. […] Posted in MediaWiki, TechnologyTagged codfw, failover, MediaWiki, read-only, test, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. सर्व मानव ज्ञान की ध्वनि की खोज प्रारंभ: इस वैश्विक प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य विकिपीडिया और विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं के लिए सर्वप्रथम ध्वनि लोगो की पहचान करना है 21 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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On Czech Wikipedia, we have been teaching seniors how to edit for many years, and our proven method has always been regular face-to-face meetings, mostly in the computer rooms of Czech libraries. The coronavirus pandemic brought about a forced transition to the online environment and concerns about how participants would cope. Is it possible to teach seniors remotely? And how did the participants in this year’s online courses fare compared to before the pandemic? This year we met mainly online. Screenshot from the WikiGap Senior Editathon For the year 2020, we had a number of courses prepared as part of the Seniors Write Wikipedia programme, one of the educational programmes of Wikimedia Czech Republic. The rapid onset of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns were a shock to everyone and it took us some time to adapt to the situation. We had to cancel the courses prepared for the spring and only a minority of our participants and even trainers dared to switch to the online version. Online meetings have some obvious disadvantages. Physical contact and socialising elements have always been very important for senior participants, perhaps even more so than in other age groups. And for less computer-savvy seniors, the presence of a trainer in the classroom is an important encouragement. All of this gets quite complicated in the online version. But there are advantages. Participating from the comfort of one’ s home is a huge relief for many older people because they don’t have to make the difficult commute. In addition, we are opening up our classes to regions where no classes have been held before. In 2020, during the first few online courses, we learned how to run Wikipedia writing courses remotely. Gradually, the interest of seniors grew – perhaps related to them gaining more confidence from e.g. the online classes of the Universities of the Third Age, but also due to the extension of lockdowns, where Wikipedia work could be a welcome escape from an otherwise stereotypical day. By the beginning of 2021, interest in online courses had exceeded our expectations, and during the first half of the year we had comparable numbers of participants and courses as before the pandemic. That in itself is great news. But let’s now see if online courses can really replace the basic “offline” option in terms of long-term results. Let’s compare the first half of 2019, when there were 5 classic beginner courses, with the first half of 2021, when there were 6 online beginner courses (we left 2020 out of the comparison because there were far fewer courses and we were still learning how to do them). In the first half of 2019 there were 5 courses for beginners: in Havířov, Pilsen, Brno and two in Prague. In contrast, 6 online courses were held in the first half of 2021. These were attended mostly by people from Prague, often also from Brno and Liberec, but also from all other parts of the country, frequently from places where courses are not normally held. Further comparison shows that we are seeing a similar number of participants in both periods (37 vs. 41). The first difference we see is in the number of registered participants. 5 people from the 2019 course did not create a Wikipedia account at all, which in practice means that they left the course after the first lesson. Such “dropouts” are normal for any course, but interestingly, there were no dropouts for the online courses. Of course, with such small samples there is a large effect of chance (which will also be true for all subsequent analyses), but a possible explanation is that only the more computer-savvy participants dare to take online courses, and then they are also less likely to drop out after the first lesson. The greatest difference in this comparison is seen in the number of completers (i.e., those who have completed the entire course: they have attended more or less all six sessions and mastered the core material), where the success rate of offline learners is 41% compared to 73% in online courses. Again, the greater general computer proficiency of participants from the online courses offers an explanation, but such a large difference could easily be due to some other, unmeasurable factors. The penultimate parameter focuses on the longer-term potential of the course completers, which is one of the main goals of the courses: to “nurture” new, independent Wikipedians. 9 of the 2019 completers continued in our senior program: 6 continued with the advanced course, 3 preferred to repeat the beginner course once more, in the fall of 2019. These 9 continuers out of the 15 completers (and 37 participants at the beginning) are very respectable numbers. In contrast, we have 8 continuing participants from the first half of 2021: 6 through the advanced course, 3 through the Commons course, and 3 through participation in Senior WikiCity (some continued in multiple activities, so the total is higher than 8). 8 out of 30 completers is not such a great result anymore, on the other hand, it is to be expected that some of this year’s completers have not even had the opportunity to participate in continuing activities (2019 completers are two years ahead) and will “reactivate” in the future. The last parameter tracks the long-term potential of completers, like the previous parameter, but not through participation in other courses, but through real editing on Wikipedia. We could refer to this parameter as long-term retention or “survivals”. We tracked which participants in the beginner courses from the first half of 2019 continued to edit after the courses, specifically from July 2019 onwards. According to the results, we can see that this is 9 out of 32 registered participants. 5 of these 9 last edited in the second half of 2019, 1 in 2020 and 3 in 2021. Thus, with a gap of two years, less than 10% of the participants (3 out of the initial 37) have permanently retained their Wikipedia presence. At first glance, this seems like a bad result, but on the other hand, in the context of the general success rate of newcomers to Wikipedia, and even compared to our other training programs (which are often not primarily aimed at educating new Wikipedians), these are still very good numbers. The 2021 group of “online” course participants has the following results: 14 of the 41 registered participants have edited since July 2021 onwards. Of these, 3 most recently in July, 1 in August, 2 in September, 3 in October and 5 in November. This makes, with a gap of less than half a year, a success rate of more than a third, which is a great result. This parameter is probably the best indicator of how many participants actually continue editing. The numbers above show that seniors from this year’s online courses are not doing worse, on the contrary, they are doing much better. The small size of the overall data makes it impossible to draw strong general conclusions, but by all accounts the online courses seem to be working very well. In addition to the characteristics of the participants, we can also compare the results of their work. In this case, we will only focus on editing during the periods when the courses were running and the participants were starting out on Wikipedia (we will therefore not track the results of their possible long-term editing, but such data would certainly be interesting). The data above (calculated by Event Metrics) shows quite a big difference. The 37 registered participants of the 2019 courses created a total of 16 new articles between January and June 2019, compared to 68 articles from the 41 participants of 2021. However, the “offline” course participants did better in the number of edited articles (968 vs. 555) and the number of edits is more or less balanced. However, the number of bytes changed suggests that the total volume of content added is significantly in favour of the “online” course participants, as is the number of photos uploaded and edits on Wikidata. So again, at least from a quantitative point of view, the online course participants performed better. Of course, it is difficult to draw general conclusions: with such small amounts of data, it often depends on one or two individuals who can multiply the total numbers by several times by their significant activity. The influence of chance (especially in the sense of how able and motivated the participants are that year) and other factors is also certainly crucial, but there is much to be gleaned from the numbers and the conclusion that online courses for seniors can, under favourable conditions, produce comparable or even better results than traditional courses. The success rate of online courses may, as already mentioned, be due to the fact that more computer-savvy seniors may, on average, venture into an online course (which is not to say that some participants do not have serious difficulties in going online; to address these difficulties, we have, for example, introduced lesson zero to check the functionality of the technology or offered extra telephone support). This year we also managed to organize a number of follow-up activities. In addition to the six beginner courses from the first half of the year, there were 3 advanced courses (with 27 participants), 2 Commons courses (with 17 participants) and a WikiGap Editathon (with 4 participants). The course completers also made use of the online Wikiporada services. The culmination was a weekend event in September, Senior WikiCity (with 10 participants, 3 of whom were newcomers). The involvement of newcomers in these follow-up activities is both a testament to the success of the beginner courses and a guarantee of more sustainable results. And what do these results actually look like in non-numerical terms? Take a look for example at the valuable archive photos by Mr. Broukal. Thanks to this year’s courses, he has uploaded images of actors he took many years ago to Commons. And if you’ve made it this far in this article full of statistics, you’ll be happy to read about the history of the pie chart in the wiki article “Pie Chart” by our participant JanaJin. Cheers to senior writing! Would you like to support seniors in writing on Wikipedia? Become a patron of the Seniors Write Wikipedia project! Josef Vinklář (1986) / Václav Postránecký (1997) / Boris Rösner (1992), author: J.Broukal, CC BY-SA 4.0 This article was originally published on 8 December 2021 on Wikimedia Czech Republic blog. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Equity & Inclusion, Main page (EN), Partnerships & EventsTagged Shared learning Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced that it conducted 268,878 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. As part of its intensified testing campaign, MoHAP announced 744 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of recorded cases in the UAE to 727,541. According to the Ministry, the infected individuals are from various nationalities, are in a stable condition, and receiving the necessary care. MoHAP also announced 3 deaths due to COVID-19 complications, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 2,060. The Ministry expressed its sincere condolences to the family of the deceased and wished COVID-19 patients a speedy and full recovery. It called on all members of the society to cooperate with health authorities, adhere to the instructions and physical distance to ensure the health and safety of all. MoHAP also noted that an additional 961 individuals had fully recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of recoveries to 718,218.

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1 Department of Biological Systems Engineering, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University, Washington, USA 2 Department of Genetics, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 3 Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Zhejiang, China 4 Department of Biotechnology, Pramukh Swami Science & H. D. Patel Arts College, Kadi HNGU University, Patan, India Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers known, and it is also a significant cause of death in women. If breast cancer is diagnosed in the early stages of the disease and treated appropriately, we can see an increase in life expectancy for more than 90% of patients. Research on molecular biomarkers with enough sensitivity and specificity can be a good solution for rapid diagnosis in the clinical stage. Meanwhile, endogenous retroviral biomarkers can have good functional benefits. Human Endogenous Retroviruses as heterochromatin fragments of the genome usually lack expression, but in several types of human cancers, including breast cancer, HERV-Kenv mRNA is significantly increased. This study used RT-PCR to detect the expression of HERV-K mRNA and tried to introduce screening tools for the early detection of breast cancer. In this case-control study, blood samples of 50 patients with hospitalized breast cancer and 50 healthy individuals were designed to evaluate the expression of HERV-Kenv mRNA using specific primers and were analyzed by RT-PCR. PCR test was optimized as a positive control using Hela cancer cell line (cervical adenocarcinoma), which expresses the HERV-Kenv gene. Studies on both patient and control groups showed that the increase in mRNA expression was positive in 64% of patients with breast cancer and negative in all healthy individuals. The results indicate an increase in the expression of endogenous human retroviruses (HERVs) in breast cancer. Because the amount of HERV-Kenv mRNA in the blood of breast cancer patients increases dramatically, it is predicted that these mobile genetic elements could be used as a diagnostic biomarker. Selected authors of this article by journal CMBR journal remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional afflictions. Given that CMBR Journal's policy in accepting articles will be strict and will do its best to ensure that in addition to having the highest quality published articles, the published articles should have the least similarity (maximum 18%). Also, all the figures and tables in the article must be original and the copyright permission of images must be prepared by authors. However, some articles may have flaws and have passed the journal filter, which dear authors may find fault with. 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Sometime when you travel you end up ordering food that is, well, not what you expected. I myself ended up ordering a big plate of cow stomach with fries in Rome a few years ago, mistaking the sign language from the waiter and believing that I would get me some ribs. For me, this was mostly a fun experience, but for people wanting food that is vegetarian, vegan, halal or kosher, or that simply are a bit picky with what they eat, ordering food during travels can be tricky. It’s time to take our menus to the 21st century and learn some new glossaries and better pronunciation on the way! Wikimedia Sverige is now organizing the first ever (we think so at least) contest focusing on enriching Wikidata. This time we are aiming at a list of vegetables, meat, fruits and other ingredients and cooking related terms that 30 restaurants will be serving at a food festival in Stockholm, Sweden in June. Wikimedia Sverige will be there to highlight how open data and crowdsourcing can benefit nearly every aspect of society. We will be using the great made-up restaurant menu that was developed by User:Denny a little more than a year ago. When we were thinking about how to show off what Wikidata can do, we stumbled upon this menu and thought: why not put this to the test and try the menu out in the real world? With real restaurants and real menus used by real customers. But what would be needed for the digital menu to be useful for people? What added benefit could it create? We figured that the menus would be very interesting if we could add more languages and the possibility to include images and pronunciation recordings. The Menu Challenge is designed to create that added value! The Menu Challenge will be based around translations of the Wikidata labels, adding images and pronunciation audio to the items of the ingredients. The Challenge will take place between May 8 and 27. Please help us prepare the menu by translating all the ingredients and the dishes to your language and by photographing and recording as much as possible. With this menu, we can show how Wikidata could be used in a hands-on way by people who never before thought about open data. Let’s get some #tastydata! John Andersson, Project Manager, Wikimedia Sverige Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Now there is also hourly updated statistics on the progress: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Menu_Challenge/statistics This given information regarding Testydata is of utmost help. Very good information about Testydata.. Good Informative Post. Thanks Wikimedia Teams 🙂 great news from wikimedia. nice read. Wikimedia Sverige is now organizing the first ever (we think so at least) contest focusing on enriching Wikidata. Great !! the information for Testydata is interesting and i appreciate it very much. Good Job & Good Informative Post. Thanks Wikimedia Teams 🙂 Posted in Chapters, Community, Editor engagement, Global, Technology, WikidataTagged challenge, data, food, menu, Participation, recipes, wikidata, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikimedia Sverige Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells versus injectable insulin for the treatment of rats with type I diabetes Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement Guiding Principles for Research Involving Animals and Human Beings Editorial Policies (Appeals and Complaints) Practical Guide to the SI Units Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells versus injectable insulin for the treatment of rats with type I diabetes Document Type : Original Article 1 Department of Biology, College of Education, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Erbil, Iraq 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cihan University-Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq 3 Research and Development Department, Giga Biotics, San Diego, California, USA 4 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of medical, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Zhejiang, China 5 Medical Microbiology Department, College of Health Sciences, Hawler Medical University, Hawler, Kurdistan Region, Iraq 6 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital, University of Health Science, Istanbul, Turkey Recently, stem cells have been considered renewable cell sources in the treatment of diabetes and the development of insulin-producing cells. In this regard, the current study aimed to compare Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells with injectable insulin in rats with type I diabetes. For this purpose, 40 rats were divided into four groups: the control or healthy group, the diabetic control group, the group that received differentiated insulin-producing cells from bone marrow, and the group that received insulin treatment. To differentiate insulin-producing cells from bone marrow, the femoral bone marrow of rats was extracted using the flushing method. Differentiated cells were evaluated using dithizone-specific dye, anti-insulin-proinsulin antibodies, and anti-insulin beta receptors. Also, the expression of the pdx-I gene, as the specific gene of pancreatic cells, was examined by RT-PCR. The results showed that transplantation of insulin-producing cells could significantly increase blood insulin levels in diabetic rats. This increase intensified in the second stage of transplantation when more cells were injected into rats. Concerning decreasing blood sugar levels, differentiated cells were able to reduce blood sugar levels significantly. Even in the first stage of cell injection, in which the rats received a small number of cells, their blood sugar levels were controlled by these cells. As a result, the present study showed that repeated transplants of insulin-producing cells differentiated from bone marrow could decrease blood sugar and increase insulin levels. 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"Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells versus injectable insulin for the treatment of rats with type I diabetes". Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1, 1, 2021, 42-51. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138888.1006 Azeez, S., Jafar, S., Aziziaram, Z., Fang, L., Mawlood, A., Ercisli, M. (2021). 'Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells versus injectable insulin for the treatment of rats with type I diabetes', Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1(1), pp. 42-51. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138888.1006 Azeez, S., Jafar, S., Aziziaram, Z., Fang, L., Mawlood, A., Ercisli, M. Insulin-producing cells from bone marrow stem cells versus injectable insulin for the treatment of rats with type I diabetes. 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JS error logging should be able to gracefully handle the case when there is an error in JS code which runs on every page (or even lots of times for every page - e.g. error in scroll handler), and the server is swamped by error reports. add a configuration option to sample error reports (i.e. the JS module doing the logging should toss a coin to decide whether it does any logging) add a configuration option to throttle error reports per page (i.e. the JS object doing the logging should have an error counter and ignore all further errors once it reaches some specified value) if possible, add a configuration option to throttle error reports globally, such as <N reports per minute (this would involve some sort of throttling in the API and varnish endpoints, in T500 and T501 respectively) Limit Sentry calls to 5 per page load Wrap asynchronous callbacks with error logging T106915 Use Sentry in production T382 RfC: Server-side Javascript error logging T526 Add sampling and throttling support to JS error logging rESNT36b6361a5b5a: Limit Sentry calls to 5 per page load rMEXT8e4ee101d93c: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/Sentry… T108157: Sentry running into infinite loop on beta.wmflabs.org T382: RfC: Server-side Javascript error logging T92247: Wrap jQuery AJAX callbacks in try..catch via mw.errorLogging T501: Create WMF endpoint for error logging - part 1 (producer) T500: Create basic endpoint for JS error logging Tgr created this task.Oct 1 2014, 12:48 PM2014-10-01 12:48:35 (UTC+0) Tgr claimed this task. Tgr raised the priority of this task from to Medium. Tgr updated the task description. (Show Details) Tgr changed Security from none to None. Tgr added a subscriber: Tgr. Tgr mentioned this in T382: RfC: Server-side Javascript error logging.Oct 1 2014, 1:00 PM2014-10-01 13:00:14 (UTC+0) Tgr added a project: Multimedia.Oct 26 2014, 1:55 PM2014-10-26 13:55:20 (UTC+0) Tgr removed Tgr as the assignee of this task.Jan 30 2015, 2:38 AM2015-01-30 02:38:27 (UTC+0) Tgr added a parent task: T91649: Deploy Sentry (JavaScript error logging) to production, configured to log only a limited subset of users/pages.Mar 6 2015, 1:37 AM2015-03-06 01:37:14 (UTC+0) gerritbot added a subscriber: gerritbot.Mar 17 2015, 3:51 AM2015-03-17 03:51:30 (UTC+0) Change 188328 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza): Wrap asynchronous callbacks with error logging gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 17 2015, 3:51 AM2015-03-17 03:51:30 (UTC+0) Tgr added a comment.Mar 17 2015, 3:54 AM2015-03-17 03:54:03 (UTC+0) Also needs some way to limit logging to certain pages, for gradual rollout. (The plan is to start with Special:UploadWizard which only gets a few thousand hits a day, but has a fair amount of errors, although we don't know for sure if they are JS errors or something else.) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/188328/ adds a ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars variable ($wgRegisterJavascriptErrorLogging). I've tested locally and it seems a MakeGlobalVariablesScript can override a ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars hook for the same variable, so that also takes care of selective enabling from the UW extension. gerritbot added a comment.Mar 25 2015, 11:41 PM2015-03-25 23:41:02 (UTC+0) Change 188328 abandoned by Gergő Tisza: Wrap asynchronous callbacks with error logging Abandoning, see T92247#1147500. Might be revisited later. 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1 Department of Medical, Assistant professor of forensic medicine and toxicology, Zabol university of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran 2 Department of Community Medicine, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran. 3 Student Research Committee, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran 4 Department of Emergency Medicin, Schol of Medicine, Amir al momenin Hospital, Zabol university of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran. Changes in blood sugar in poisoning can be one of the most important determinants of the outcome of patients with poisoning. Since poisoning is one of the most common and increasing causes of death worldwide and one of the most critical medical emergencies, this study aimed to investigate changes in blood sugar in patients with acute poisoning and how patients' blood sugar can predict the severity and outcome of the disease. The present study was performed on 200 patients with acute drug poisoning referred to the emergency department of Amir Al-Momenin Hospital in Zabol from March 2018 to March 2020. Blood glucose levels of all patients were recorded at the time of admission and every hour to the first 5 hours after admission, and the results were entered in the information form of each patient. Finally, the data were entered into SPSS V22 software and statistically analyzed. The mean age of participants was 23.21 ± 12.80 years, and the minimum and maximum age of patients were 1 year and 77 years, respectively, and only 9.8% of them had a history of diabetes. In this study, the highest rate of intoxication with opioids such as methadone and tramadol was (38%), followed by benzodiazepines (20.5%), NSAIDs (19.5%), and SSRIs (7%) were the most commonly used drugs. The prevalence of hypoglycemia in this study was 3% (6 patients), while no cases of hyperglycemia were reported. In this study, most changes in blood sugar were caused by alcohol poisoning. Also, neuroleptics, NSAIDs, and chemicals had the least changes in blood sugar. However, patients' blood sugar at the beginning of poisoning did not affect patients' prognosis. The present study results showed that changes in blood sugar during treatment during drug intoxication, alcohol, medications(sulfonylurea, glibenclamide), and NSAID are very important, so regular monitoring of blood glucose in intoxication with these cases is essential. Cell, Organ and Tissue Culture Selected author of this article by journal CMBR journal remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional afflictions. Given that CMBR Journal's policy in accepting articles will be strict and will do its best to ensure that in addition to having the highest quality published articles, the published articles should have the least similarity (maximum 18%). Also, all the figures and tables in the article must be original and the copyright permission of images must be prepared by authors. However, some articles may have flaws and have passed the journal filter, which dear authors may find fault with. Therefore, the editor of the journal asks the authors, if they see an error in the published articles of the journal, to email the article information along with the documents to the journal office. CMBR Journal welcomes letters to the editor ([email protected]) for the post-publication discussions and corrections which allows debate post publication on its site, through the Letters to Editor. Critical letters can be sent to the journal editor as soon as the article is online. Following points are to be considering before sending the letters (comments) to the editor. [1] Letters that include statements of statistics, facts, research, or theories should include appropriate references, although more than three are discouraged. [2] Letters that are personal attacks on an author rather than thoughtful criticism of the author’s ideas will not be considered for publication. [3] There is no limit to the number of words in a letter. [4] Letter writers should include a statement at the beginning of the letter stating that it is being submitted either for publication or not. [5] Anonymous letters will not be considered. [6] Letter writers must include Name, Email Address, Affiliation, mobile phone number, and Comments [7] Letters will be answered as soon as possible Sawalha AF, Sweileh WM, Tufaha MT, Al‐Jabi DY (2010) Analysis of the pattern of acute poisoning in patients admitted to a governmental hospital in Palestine. Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology 107(5):914-918. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-7843.2010.00601.x Eizadi Mood N, Gheshlaghi F, Montazeri K, Memarzadeh MA, Masoomi G, Mesri M, Dorvashy G (2014) Evaluation of the Therapeutic Interventions Performed in Patients Before and During Referral to Poisoning Emergency Department in Isfahan Province. Scientific Journal of Forensic Medicine 20(4):243-350 Schwake L, Wollenschläger I, Stremmel W, Encke J (2009) Adverse drug reactions and deliberate self-poisoning as cause of admission to the intensive care unit: a 1-year prospective observational cohort study. Intensive care medicine 35(2):266-274. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-008-1250-1 Jayashree M, Singhi S (2011) Changing trends and predictors of outcome in patients with acute poisoning admitted to the intensive care. 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Journal of research in medical sciences: the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences 18(10):865. doi:PMCID: PMC3897070; PMID: 24497857 Sabzghabaee AM, Eizadi-Mood N, Gheshlaghi F, Adib N, Safaeian L (2011) Is there a relationship between admission blood glucose level following acute poisoning and clinical outcome? Archives of medical science: AMS 7(1):81. doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.5114%2Faoms.2011.20608 Moon JM, Chun BJ, Cho YS (2016) Hyperglycemia at presentation is associated with in hospital mortality in non-diabetic patient with organophosphate poisoning. Clinical toxicology 54(3):252-258. doi:https://doi.org/10.3109/15563650.2015.1128544 Volume 1, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2 Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports Receive Date: 02 March 2021 Revise Date: 07 June 2021 Accept Date: 07 September 2021 First Publish Date: 07 September 2021 Saravani, K., Afshari, M., Aminisefat, A., & Bameri, O. (2021). Blood Sugar Changes in Patients with Acute Drug Poisoning. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1(2), 91-97. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.146061.1022 Khadije Saravani; Mahdi Afshari; Alireza Aminisefat; Omid Bameri. "Blood Sugar Changes in Patients with Acute Drug Poisoning". Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1, 2, 2021, 91-97. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.146061.1022 Saravani, K., Afshari, M., Aminisefat, A., Bameri, O. (2021). 'Blood Sugar Changes in Patients with Acute Drug Poisoning', Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1(2), pp. 91-97. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.146061.1022 Saravani, K., Afshari, M., Aminisefat, A., Bameri, O. Blood Sugar Changes in Patients with Acute Drug Poisoning. 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Translations of MediaWiki’s user interface are now stored in a new file format—JSON. This change won’t have a direct effect on readers and editors of Wikimedia projects, but it makes MediaWiki more robust and open to change and reuse. MediaWiki is one of the most internationalized open source projects. MediaWiki localization includes translating over 3,000 messages (interface strings) for MediaWiki core and an additional 20,000 messages for MediaWiki extensions and related mobile applications. User interface messages originally in English and their translations have been historically stored in PHP files along with MediaWiki code. New messages and documentation were added in English and these messages were translated on translatewiki.net to over 300 languages. These translations were then pulled from MediaWiki websites using LocalisationUpdate, an extension MediaWiki sites use to receive translation updates. So why change the file format? The motivation to change the file format was driven by the need to provide more security, reduce localization file sizes and support interoperability. Security: PHP files are executable code, so the risk of malicious code being injected is significant. In contrast, JSON files are only data which minimizes this risk. Reducing file size: Some of the larger extensions have had multi-megabyte data files. Editing those files was becoming a management nightmare for developers, so these were reduced to one file per language instead of storing all languages in large sized files. Interoperability: The new format increases interoperability by allowing features like VisualEditor and Universal Language Selector to be decoupled from MediaWiki because it allows using JSON formats without MediaWiki. This was earlier demonstrated for the jquery.18n library. This library, developed by Wikimedia’s Language Engineering team in 2012, had internationalization features that are very similar to what MediaWiki offers, but it was written fully in JavaScript, and stored messages and message translations using JSON format. With LocalisationUpdate’s modernization, MediaWiki localization files are now compatible with those used by jquery.i18n. An RFC on this topic was compiled and accepted by the developer community. In late 2013, developers from the Language Engineering and VisualEditor teams at Wikimedia collaborated to figure out how MediaWiki could best be able to process messages from JSON files. They wrote a script for converting PHP to JSON, made sure that MediaWiki’s localization cache worked with JSON, updated the LocalisationUpdate extension for JSON support. Siebrand Mazeland converted all the extensions to the new format. This project was completed in early April 2014, when MediaWiki core switched over to processing JSON, creating the largest MediaWiki patch ever in terms of lines of code. The localization formats are documented in mediawiki.org, and MediaWiki’s general localization guidelines have been updated as well. As a side effect, code analyzers like Ohloh no longer report skewed numbers for lines of PHP code, making metrics like comment ratio comparable with other projects. Work is in progress on migrating other localized strings, such as namespace names and MediaWiki magic words. These will be addressed in a future RFC. This migration project exemplifies collaboration at its best between many MediaWiki engineers contributing to this project. I would like to specially mention Adam Wight, Antoine Musso, David Chan, Ed Sanders, Federico Leva, James Forrester, Jon Robson, Kartik Mistry, Niklas Laxström, Raimond Spekking, Roan Kattouw, Rob Moen, Sam Reed, Santhosh Thottingal, Siebrand Mazeland and Timo Tijhof. Amir Aharoni, Interim PO and Software Engineer, Wikimedia Language Engineering Team Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Internationalization and localization, MediaWiki, TechnologyTagged i18n, l10n, language support, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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Ten is turning out to be the number of the year for Wikimedia. First, the Wikimedia Foundation celebrated the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia in January, and now Wikimedia Commons – the library of images, sound files, and videos that constitutes an integral component of Wikipedia’s user experience – has logged its 10,000,000th file. All files on Wikimedia Commons can be used for any purpose, including commercial use, under terms consistent with the Definition of Free Cultural Works. This, together with its educational focus, makes Wikimedia Commons a media repository unlike any other. The ten millionth file uploaded to Commons is a photograph of a waterfowl observation platform near Lipno Lake in the Wdzydze Landscape Park in Poland.  It was uploaded by Commons user Leinad, who has been uploading to Commons since 2006. Leinad is also active on the Polish Wikipedia, and attended the 2010 Wikimania conference in Gdansk. What stories these ten million files can tell. The scope of Wikimedia’s ambitions has always been epic, and comparing 2006’s 1 millionth image – a pygmy hippopotamus at the Singapore Zoo – to 2009’s five-millionth upload – an article detailing democracy from an 1838 Danish newspaper – succinctly demonstrates the near-limitless capacity for sharing knowledge we’ve fostered. While the frequency of new articles appearing on Wikipedia may have slowed, our repository of educational media is growing faster than ever. Today’s entry marks less than a two year period during which more than five million new files have been uploaded. This is in part thanks to Wikimedia’s global volunteer building more and more relationships with cultural institutions and collection holders around the world, receiving and uploading large treasures of photographs, video and other content. And we are hoping to accelerate the project’s growth further, with a new media upload tool (login required) which we are currently beta testing, as well as improved video support. Our huge thanks to the tens of thousands of individuals who have contributed to Wikimedia Commons and who have helped bring the project to this milestone.  You have helped us create the largest, and almost certainly, the highest quality trove of entirely freely re-usable, education-oriented media files in history. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Commons llega a los 10 millones de archivos libres […] los autores y mientras tú liberes tus copias/mejoras en el mismo sentido. Más info (en inglés): diff.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/04/15/ten-million-free-media-files-and-co sin comentarios tecnología, internet karma: 10 etiquetas: commons, conocimiento […] Posted in Free Culture, Highlights, Milestones, Wikimedia, Wikimedia CommonsTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Most top websites have thousands of software developers on staff, creating new features and keeping the site running securely. The Wikimedia Foundation has about forty. That’s pretty amazing, considering Wikipedia is the fifth most popular web property in the world. So, what’s our secret? Well, we don’t have any secrets. We make everything free, in every sense of the word. The technology we operate has been built by thousands of people around the world who collaborate freely and build upon each other’s contributions. Every article, every picture, every piece of code is free for anyone to use, reuse, copy, distribute and improve. “Other tech companies wouldn’t share their installation, configuration or system documentation,” said Ryan Lane, an operations engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. These proprietary data are the competitive advantage most websites have over their peers and they guard them dearly. “Wikipedia documents and shares all of that.” “No other organization of our scope would dream of being this open,” he added. “It is our fundamental organizing principle.” Lane understands what it means to operate in secret. Before coming to the Foundation, he spent six years working on classified projects for the U.S. government at the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO). He was forbidden from speaking about his work. “In the government, I wouldn’t be allowed to talk about any of it. Not being able to talk about anything I do is really painful,” he said of working in a closed environment. “The ability to share everything is very freeing.” Lane hails from New Orleans, where he studied computer science at the University of New Orleans. He has been with the Foundation for nearly two years, managing web infrastructure to ensure that Wikimedia projects become more reliable and efficient. For Lane, working in an open-source and transparent environment is what makes his work meaningful. “In computer science, it’s very difficult not to be able to share your knowledge with other people. The way I learned most of the things I know is because people shared their expertise with me,” he noted. Because the Wikimedia sites are so open, according to Lane, it’s much easier to collaborate with the community. In addition to the roughly 40 software developers on staff at the Foundation, there are more than 200 regular volunteer developers improving MediaWiki software, the backbone of Wikipedia and thousands of other wikis. Lane manages Wikimedia Labs, a project that was created to allow volunteers to make contributions to MediaWiki development, tools and analytics. Working in an open environment means Lane can not only talk about a problem, he can give a total stranger a replica of our configuration system so they can help change and improve our operations infrastructure. At a recent hackathon in San Francisco, Lane said, a programmer who had never previously worked within Wikimedia’s environment fixed a bug in the logging infrastructure behind our https site. His code was good and Lane pushed it to production. “It was running live within a few hours,” he said. According to Lane, in a closed environment everyone has to do everything themselves, which requires more people on the whole for the organization. Or you have to pay “a lot of money to get support to come and help you, and the support is generally subpar in comparison.” When asked whether being so transparent was a security liability, Lane argued the value of open-source was more significant than the risk of someone hacking the projects. “It might be a little crazy to share our server configuration,” Lane admitted. “To a point, it does make us more vulnerable, but I think there’s enough benefit in it to outweigh the worries about the vulnerabilities.” (For more information about Lane’s work with the Wikimedia projects, read his blog here.) Reporting and story by Elaine Mao and Jordan Hu Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wow That’s great! Wikipedia is a Organic product. And that’s what I love about it. And it great that you guys encourage young talent. Its evident from the incident that how much you guys care for transparency. Alternative Viewing | CBrajkovich Ramblings […] Wikimedia – A profile in free collaboration […] I will open it and it is from the Content Projects for Wikimedia Wikis and Content Projects of Wikimedia wikis. Everyone can edit in this wiki. Posted in Labs, MediaWiki, Operations, TechnologyTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Currently people manually update templates to list similar messages. This should be automated to reduce edits to qqq (to avoid conflicts) and to save time that could be spend on translating or other kind of work. T195760 Language Annual Plan 2018-2019 T204818 Language tools maintenance intervention: Improve the quality of translations for Translate extension Nikerabbit created this task.Nov 16 2018, 7:04 AM2018-11-16 07:04:40 (UTC+0) Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptNov 16 2018, 7:04 AM2018-11-16 07:04:41 (UTC+0) Pginer-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 26 2018, 11:19 AM2018-11-26 11:19:54 (UTC+0) Pginer-WMF added a parent task: T204818: Language tools maintenance intervention: Improve the quality of translations for Translate extension. Pginer-WMF moved this task from Backlog to translation aids on the MediaWiki-extensions-Translate board. Pols12 added a subscriber: Pols12.Feb 20 2021, 5:47 PM2021-02-20 17:47:47 (UTC+0) Log In to Comment Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted; code licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source licenses. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Code of Conduct. · Wikimedia Foundation · Privacy Policy · Code of Conduct · Terms of Use · Disclaimer · CC-BY-SA · GPL

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By 2007 in Argentina, the web was becoming a valuable academic resource. Students and teachers had frequent and unlimited access, and we began to find fascinating resources we had never seen before in our scholarly studies. As a teacher of history of photography and a scholar of visual arts and art history, I began to notice a qualitative difference in this access, regarding to my experience as student: many of us studying artistic careers in peripheral cities throughout the world have based our knowledge on a few reproductions of works of art, sometimes of poor quality. And paradoxically, the access to sources of knowledge about art history also significantly deteriorated when the work we wanted to analyze is from our own legacy. Old and serious problems in heritage conservation policies and their dissemination, common throughout Latin America, remind us that the web would not necessarily be the exception. Thus, in 2007, teaching History of Photography from Argentina and Latin America presented a number of challenges, starting with building a body of valuable data for study and analysis. Looking for material, I found some valuable resources on the web. But many were hard to find (beyond the first results of Google, and absent in Wikipedia), and so I designed a research assignment for my students, based on various information sources, from libraries to the internet. I noticed then a situation that is almost impossible now: information we found in our school library was not present on the web, including Wikipedia. Thus arose my first Wikipedia experience with my students: to summarize the findings of photographers who worked in the nineteenth century in Argentina and Latin America, writing articles for Wikipedia. La Porteña by Antonio Pozzo. ca. 1873. I admit I had just begun to edit, and I knew little of the dynamics of the community. The first reactions to the “experiment” were doubts from some of the students: Anyone can edit? Who controls what we write? Why did somebody delete my contribution? Why is it necessary to cite sources correctly? That experience contributed around 20 articles on ancient Latin American photography. They are the first search results in Google today, thanks to Wikipedia, but this was a responsibility that we had not originally planned. Editing Wikipedia is a real practice of knowledge production, useful outside of the usual school duties. The learnings students derive from working with others is now for me of a very high educational value, with multiple aspects that change with each new experience. In all cases, Wikipedia is in “writing mode”. Wikipedia is a resource widely used in almost all educational levels, but poorly understood in its educational potential. Teachers are the key links between free knowledge and meaningful learning, and Wikipedia is a space where to work with the community of Wikipedians. While we know that there are many potential and known problems in this collaboration, it is urgent that we work to strengthen it. Lila Pagola, Wikimedia Argentina | National University of Villa María Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Global, Wikipedia Education ProgramTagged multilingual post, Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikipedia Education Program Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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The first release of a complete copy of the English Wikipedia as ZIM file, for offline reading using Kiwix; The move from Subversion to git as our primary code versioning system; The kick-off of Wikimedia’s participation to Google Summer of Code 2012. Hover your mouse over the green question marks ([?]) to see the description of a particular project. 98 unique committers contributed code to MediaWiki. The total number of unreviewed commits went from 31 to about 100. About 40 shell requests were processed. 82 developers got developer access to Git and Wikimedia Labs, among which 71 are volunteers. Wikimedia Labs now hosts 75 projects, 126 instances and 222 users. Some metrics were disrupted this month by the move to git. Chennai Hackathon (17 March 2012, Chennai, India) — Yuvaraj Pandian and volunteer Srikanthlogic held this one-day hackathon for experienced developers. Yuvaraj’s report praised the 21 participants for coming up with 13 completed hacks, including 2 core MediaWiki patches, 3 Tamil Wikipedia userscript updates, and 2 new deployed tools. Berlin hackathon (1–3 June 2012, Berlin, Germany) — Registration opened in March for this three-day “inreach” hackathon for the Wikimedia technical community, including MediaWiki developers, Toolserver users, bot writers and maintainers, Gadget creators, and other Wikimedia technologists. The event, hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland, will mostly involve focused sprints, bugbashing, and other coding, with a few focused tutorials and trainings on Git, Lua, Gadgets changes, or other topics of interest. Wikimedia Deutschland will also use this event to consult on and discuss the Wikidata structured data project. Developers are encouraged to register now, and to mention in the registration form if they will need financial subsidies or help with accommodation or visa. Developers who will need that sort of assistance are urged to register as soon as possible, preferably before May 1st. Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up, and we really love talking to active community members about these roles. RFP-Wikipedia S40 J2ME Mobile Application Software Developer Backend (Editor Engagement Experiments) Senior Software Developer (Front End) Pau Giner joined the Product team as Interaction Designer (announcement). Wikimedia Deutschland announced the composition of their team working on the Wikidata project (announcement). Ashburn data center [?] — Mark Bergsma completed the Squid to Varnish conversion for image caching, and successfully deployed Varnish on 8 servers in our Ashburn data center for about half a day. During that time, he monitored and assessed the behavior of the software and the impact on the servers. Where there are currently 24 Squid servers, 8 varnish servers would provide sufficient capacity to replace them. However, there are concerns about overloading the NIC cards and the risk of concentrating too much cache on each server. Mark is now working on improving the Varnish implementation and possibly adding a few more servers. Also, because the Ashburn data center seem to be experiencing a higher server outage ratio than the Tampa site, Rob Halsell reviewed and added extra earth grounding to the cabinets, as a precaution. We are monitoring the situation to see if that does reduce server issues. Peter Youngmeister and Jeff Green are making good progress in testing, preparing and bringing up the Ashburn Search clusters. Full scale testing has just started and results have been quite promising. In the coming weeks, they will conduct limited trial deployments of the Ashburn clusters, running in parallel to the ones at the Tampa data center. The Ashburn data center added network peering, and Leslie Carr peered over 10 other big sites/ISPs with our network shortly after that, thus reducing latency especially to Europe, Japan and Hong Kong for many of our users there (and reducing bandwidth costs too). Amsterdam data center [?] — Mark Bergsma restacked, re-arranged and decommissioned servers, and started racking the new router and switches. The actual network switchover at Evoswitch is still to be scheduled; however, Mark did replace the old core router in Vancis and deployed the new one there. Media Storage [?] — After addressing earlier issues with the Swift deployment, Ben Hartshorne re-deployed it and it has been stable since. Ben removed the original testing hardware from the cluster and added the final production node to the cluster, bring a total of 5 new Swift nodes to be the thumbnails object store at Tampa. Swift is also now running in the Labs environment and ready to be used by other Labs projects that interact with Swift in production. Volunteer attention to the Swift Labs cluster is welcome to improve monitoring, analyze the configuration, and in any other way understand this component of our infrastructure better. Wikimedia Labs [?] — Gluster project storage is now available. In total 71TB are available for use. Each project has a default quota of 300GB that can be increased on request. Soon, public datasets (such as XML dumps) will also be available within Labs. There were two Labs downtime events this month. Both were due to glusterfs instance storage. The first was due to a limitation in the FUSE filesystem (in regards to recreating deleted directories) and was relatively short (roughly 2 hours). The second was due to malfunctioning hardware, which caused the glusterfs storage to go into a splitbrain situation that was unresolvable. There was no dataloss, but the instance’s images had to be recovered manually from gluster’s backend. Total downtime for the second outage was roughly 24 hours. Andrew Bogott has finished his work on the SharedFS support in Nova, with a gluster driver. Proposal for this for inclusion to nova is set for the folsem release; this will be discussed at the upcoming OpenStack design summit. Andrew has begun work on adding support for updating MediaWiki on nova changes. Backups and data archives Data Dumps [?] — We sorted out the network issues to our mirror sites on our end by replacing a switch. We set up a new host to hold a copy of all uploaded media for copying to our mirror sites, and and the first copy of this media to an external mirror is now underway. Mirror sites will also be able to pick up a list of dump files to copy (the last 1, 2 or 5 good dumps) in a few different formats, produced by a new script. The first copy of recent dumps to a gluster share available to Labs users is available, but already out of date; one process is too slow, so a script is being tested that will dispatch copy requests to several processes running at once. Christian Aistleitner is working on PHPUnit tests now for the maintenance scripts used for the dumps. We’ve improved our process for deployment of new versions of the XML dump scripts, so that new code can be rolled out more often. Performance engineer Asher Feldman published an article explaining how site performance is measured at the Wikimedia Foundation. He notably presented graphite and a limited version available at http://gdash.wikimedia.org. Operations engineer Ryan Lane, who is leading the Wikimedia Labs project, was featured on the Wikimedia Blog this month. We started investigating the possibility of a caching center on the West Coast of the US. We believe it would improve the experience for users in Asia and America’s West Coast. Readers reported intermittent performance issue on March 25th. Tim Starling investigated and determined it was a network problem. Leslie Carr quickly found the root cause, redirected the traffic and thus resolved the problem. Rob Halsell later swapped and replaced the problematic fiber and transceiver. Visual editor [?] — A big decision in March was to move forward with contentEditable (CE), implemented by Wikia developers Inez Korczynski and Christian Williams, instead of Editable Surface (ES). Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw focused on the data model. Rob Moen worked on the user interface, first on right-to-left support in ES, then on getting the UI working in CE. Gabriel Wicke and Audrey Tang continued their work on Parsoid and need to decide on RDFa vs. microdata. They created a dump grepper with syntax highlighting, and used it to analyze existing wikilink/image syntax use. Article feedback [?] — Fabrice Florin worked with OmniTi to develop new features for version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool (AFT5). This month, the team created new feedback links, new monitoring tools for editors and for oversighters, and started development on an abuse filter and a relevance filter. Brandon Harris and Heather Walls helped enhance the article feedback design, creating new icons for the monitoring tools. The AFT5 team also published its first report on phase 1 of AFT5, co-authored by Fabrice and Dario Taraborelli, with Howie Fung, Oliver Keyes and Aaron Halfaker. Roan Kattouw helped solve some tricky technical issues and deployed several new releases with the team this month. Current goals for this project are to complete feature development by the end of May, with full deployment in the summer. Page Triage [?] — This month, the new editor engagement team developed the first prototype of Page Triage, which provides an enhanced list of articles to be triaged by community patrollers. Benny Situ completed APIs for retrieving metadata about articles and their authors, while Ian Baker and Ryan Kaldari developed new features for the list view enabling users to see that article metadata, working with new designs by Brandon Harris. Oliver Keyes acted as community liaison and Fabrice Florin managed this project with Howie Fung. Current goals for this project are to complete development of the list view in April, and start development of advanced features like the zoom view, for release in May. Article Creation Workflow [?] — Benny Situ, Ryan Kaldari, Brandon Harris, Andrew Garrett, and Ian Baker released ACW to Labs (development is ongoing, so bugs are expected). Oliver Keyes is collecting feedback from the community. Fabrice Florin started to facilitate new development as product manager. TimedMediaHandler [?] — Michael Dale and Jan Gerber have TimedMediaHandler set up on beta. It is running into issues related to the Labs beta setup that are preventing the test plan from being run. Labs and QA leads are working with them to get to the point where testing can be run. QA support has been lined up. ResourceLoader [?] — Besides the Git migration and organizing some time to work on ResourceLoader 2 (RL2), Roan Kattouw and Timo Tijhof have started planning and merging master into the RL2 branch. The next target is to deploy RL2 on Labs for testing. Wikipedia Education Program [?] — Jeroen De Dauw completed stuff struck through on the roadmap. Testing and code review will follow when complete. 2012 Wikimedia fundraiser [?] — The team continued to work on GlobalCollect recurring donations, with the code review remaining to be done. They also engaged in cleanup after an eventually successful upgrade of our production instance of CiviCRM from 3.4 to 4.1.1, the migration to git, and Mingle training. There was an issue with an imbalance of chargebacks, due to a spinning down of the Winter fundraising flagging fraud in GlobalCollect, that was resolved. Internationalization and Editor Engagement Experimentation Internationalization and localization tools [?] — The team started to develop (with UI/UX contractors) the UI for a Universal language selector for desktop and mobile. They also added keymaps for language support to Narayam, added Lohit font updates from upstream to WebFonts, fixed bugs, reviewed code for localization support in MediaWiki 1.19, and discussed language support metrics. Niklas Laxström migrated the Translatewiki.net workflow to reflect the move to git/gerrit. Editor Engagement Experimentation [?] — The newly created, cross-functional Editor Engagement Experimentation team will focus on engineering for experimentation around strategies to reverse stagnating/declining participation in Wikimedia projects, and will effectively launch on April 16. It will be composed of people from the Community and Engineering/Product departments, tasked specifically with conducting small, rapid experiments designed to improve editor retention. This is intended to go beyond the projects that are already being worked on; the purpose of this team will be to identify the possible changes we don’t yet know about. The engineering team will report to Alolita Sharma, with two new software developer positions to be hired in the current fiscal year. Mobile and Special Projects Mobile design [?] — Heather Walls updated mockups for mobile Footer, Reference Reveal and Contact page. Lindsey Smith created language selection and initial menu designs. Wikimedia Apps [?] — Brion Vibber merged a volunteer-contributed pull request adding support for the BlackBerry Playbook. Yuvaraj Pandian released new beta versions of the Wikipedia app for iOS and Android. Wikipedia Zero [?] — Patrick Reilly deployed the ZeroRatedMobileAccess extension to production, and we tested it with Digi. Mobile Frontend [?] — Arthur Richards deployed changes to the MobileFrontend extension to make it less Wikimedia-centric, as well as persistent cookie support for options to beta. Jon Robson started to develop the newly revised full screen search, footer & the new collapsible sections. Mobile Contact us [?] — Arthur Richards worked with Phil Chang to revise the product specs of the new Contact us form, and started to implement it. Mobile Photo Upload [?] — Lindsey Smith created the first set of basic wireframes for mobile uploads, and Philip Chang updated the mock-ups to v0.4 with final language reviewed by the legal team. GeoData Storage & API [?] — Further development is now pending testing to see how well it works with our apps Mobile QA [?] — Tomasz Finc interviewed candidates who responded to our request for proposals. Wikipedia over SMS & USSD [?] — We had our first partner roll-out, pending resolution of remaining operations issues. Max Semenik joined the project to build better MediaWiki API support for Vumi and rewrite the Vumi plugin for Wikipedia. J2ME App [?] — We’re about to post our RFP and are starting to talk to potential vendors for development. UCOSP Spring 2012: Wiktionary mobile app [?] — After Spring Break, the student team worked through the blocking bugs, and released their first beta of the Android app. The current effort is to recruit beta testers to get feedback, and deal with the resulting bugs. The project will be featured in an upcoming panel presentation at the Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education. Kiwix UX initiative — The team decided not to use Mozilla Gecko as the platform to port Kiwix to Android; an alternative is cordova-qt. Work continued on Kiwix 0.9 RC1, the largest release ever made for Kiwix. New ZIM files are regularly released for offline reading using Kiwix. In particular, for the first time this month, a full ZIM version of the English Wikipedia was made available, containing about 4 million articles, 11 million redirects, and 300,000 math images (see online demo). MediaWiki 1.19 [?] — We have now finished deploying MediaWiki 1.19 to all Wikipedia sites, including the Chinese language wikis (zh*). However, we are monitoring some post-deploy issues. We are keeping an eye on site performance; there’s been a slight regression in our parser cache hit rate. The new diff colors have been temporarily reverted, and Trevor Parscal and Timo Tijhof plan to look into the subject. Marcin Cieślak and Aaron Schulz have cleaned up areas where the CheckUser feature briefly stopped working properly. Continuous integration [?] — This activity was somewhat deprioritized in March in favor of the git migration. Nonetheless, Jenkins is now running the PHPUnit test suite and reporting tests results in Gerrit interface. This will help catch possible culprits as soon as a patch is submitted. Timo Tijhof wrote workflow specifications for continuous integration. Over the course of April, the Jenkins/Gerrit interaction will be polished and we will start looking at Selenium and bringing Testswarm back in action. Git conversion [?] — We’ve now moved MediaWiki core and WMF-deployed extensions over to Git and Gerrit, and for those directories Subversion is now read-only. We’ve communicated links and workflow planning, and the new procedure to add and remove people from Gerrit project owner groups. A summary of the move was published in the Wikipedia Signpost. SwiftMedia [?] — Swift is deployed for thumbnails. There are still some corrupted thumbnails in the Squid cache, but all known issues with new thumbnail corruption have been resolved. Work is underway to test and deploy Swift for original images, with work scheduled to complete in late May. Report Card [?] — The analytics team is finetuning the interface of the new Report card. The test site in Labs is currently unavailable. The team is working towards showcasing a first report card prototype by April 6th, the date of the next metrics meeting for the Wikimedia Foundation. This prototype will replicate readers and pageviews. The team will also make a serious attempt at getting editor data up and running, and add the ability to add and signal benchmarks, for the April 6th meeting. Technical Liaison; Developer Relations Bug management [?] — Mark Hershberger started gathering volunteers to take part in the Bug Squad to help triage bugs. Summer of Code 2012 [?] — Sumana Harihareswara submitted the Wikimedia Foundation’s application for Google Summer of Code 2012 (GSoC), which was accepted by Google. The Summer of Code management page lists principles for how we will run GSoC this year. Students can apply between March 26 and April 6. Engineering project documentation [?] — Besides ongoing maintenance of project pages and the Roadmap, a new team hub was created for Wikimedia Mobile and Special Projects engineering and activity pages were created for all Mobile engineering projects. Volunteer coordination and outreach [?] — Sumana Harihareswara continued to follow up on contacts and recruit new contributors to the Wikimedia tech community, and mentored new contributors. Sumana also prepared for the June Berlin hackathon and recruited participants for upcoming events. The Berlin hackathon registration page went up and developers from the Wikimedia technical community can now register and request financial subsidy. One volunteer contributor got Subversion commit access, and more than eighty contributors got Git/Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts (developer access). Wikimedia blog maintenance [?] — Development was mostly on hold in March in favor of discussions and longer-term planning. The theme’s layout rewrite should be resumed in April. The engineering management team continues to update the Software deployments page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the engineering roadmap, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts. In March, a particular focus of the engineering management team was also the annual goal and budgeting process. This article was written collaboratively by Wikimedia engineers and managers. See revision history and associated status pages. A wiki version is also available. This article was edited on December 1st, 2012. The following content was changed: the number of processed shell requests was corrected. 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In the existing WVUI library code, there is little use of TypeScript features beyond typing. As we evaluate whether to continue using Typescript (T282835), we should consider alternatives that could replicate all or most of the benefits we get from TypeScript. JSDoc may be sufficient for our needs, at least for error highlighting in the IDE. To investigate this, we should: Experiment with a file or two: replace types with JSDoc equivalents and see if there's a workflow that would help us effectively catch type-related errors Inspect type hints on the end user side and confirm whether they're adequate compared to what we get with TypeScript T286949: Determine whether (and how) to use Typescript in the shared component library T282835: Evaluate use of TypeScript in the new Vue component library AnneT created this task.May 27 2021, 3:28 PM2021-05-27 15:28:00 (UTC+0) Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 27 2021, 3:28 PM2021-05-27 15:28:00 (UTC+0) santhosh added a subscriber: santhosh.Jun 10 2021, 5:09 AM2021-06-10 05:09:36 (UTC+0) This is an approach I successfully tried with VSCode. You can use IDE's type checking support in javascript files without any typescript at all. JSDoc annotations facilitate this. This can be done in two ways. "javascript.implicitProjectConfig.checkJs": true in VSCode configuration create a jsconfig.json in the project repository with checkJs as true. AnneT mentioned this in T286949: Determine whether (and how) to use Typescript in the shared component library.Jul 19 2021, 9:12 PM2021-07-19 21:12:14 (UTC+0) BEANS-X2 added a subscriber: BEANS-X2.Aug 9 2021, 7:10 PM2021-08-09 19:10:17 (UTC+0) AnneT moved this task from Untriaged Backlog to Deprecated -DST Kanban Board 2021-2022 on the Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board board.Aug 27 2021, 2:33 PM2021-08-27 14:33:56 (UTC+0) AnneT edited projects, added Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board (Deprecated -DST Kanban Board 2021-2022); removed Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board. egardner added a subscriber: egardner.Sep 10 2021, 5:38 PM2021-09-10 17:38:05 (UTC+0) My recent experience has been similar to @santhosh's – I wrote a longer summary of my approach in a comment to the sibling ticket about Typescript: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282835#7345366. Here's another good blog post about the JSDoc way of using Typescript: https://austingil.com/typescript-the-easy-way/ I think we should seriously consider adopting this approach in our new library. Jdlrobson added a subscriber: Jdlrobson.Sep 10 2021, 8:14 PM2021-09-10 20:14:38 (UTC+0) Just in case it's not well known, my team has been using this form of type checking in various web extensions and are using https://github.com/wikimedia/typescript-types to document mediawiki core types. • LZaman edited projects, added Design-Systems-team-20200324-20220422 (Design Systems Team FY2021-22 Kanban Board); removed Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board (Deprecated -DST Kanban Board 2021-2022).Sep 13 2021, 10:16 PM2021-09-13 22:16:04 (UTC+0) AnneT closed this task as Resolved.Mar 30 2022, 9:34 PM2022-03-30 21:34:58 (UTC+0) AnneT claimed this task. We've moved forward with full TypeScript in Codex, so I'm closing this Log In to Comment Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted; code licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source licenses. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Code of Conduct. · Wikimedia Foundation · Privacy Policy · Code of Conduct · Terms of Use · Disclaimer · CC-BY-SA · GPL

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Design-Systems-team-20200324-20220422 (Design Systems Team FY2021-22 Kanban Board) (Ready for development ) Using TypeScript with Vue, especially Vue 2, can lead to certain pitfalls and confusing situations. Some examples: We should add a page on TypeScript to the Vue docs on medaiwiki.org to cover the following: Help for getting started with TypeScript Help for setting up a Vue project written in TypeScript (probably an ongoing topic as we figure this out ourselves and choose a build tool) Vue-specific information: common pitfalls, standards to follow, etc. Let's start this page, then share it with the broader front-end community so we can crowd-source more and better information. T286949: Determine whether (and how) to use Typescript in the shared component library AnneT created this task.May 27 2021, 3:38 PM2021-05-27 15:38:19 (UTC+0) Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 27 2021, 3:38 PM2021-05-27 15:38:20 (UTC+0) Aklapper added a project: Documentation.May 27 2021, 4:00 PM2021-05-27 16:00:19 (UTC+0) AnneT mentioned this in T286949: Determine whether (and how) to use Typescript in the shared component library.Jul 19 2021, 9:12 PM2021-07-19 21:12:14 (UTC+0) R4356th added a subscriber: R4356th.Jul 20 2021, 1:59 PM2021-07-20 13:59:18 (UTC+0) AnneT moved this task from Untriaged Backlog to Deprecated -DST Kanban Board 2021-2022 on the Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board board.Jul 20 2021, 6:11 PM2021-07-20 18:11:09 (UTC+0) AnneT edited projects, added Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board (Deprecated -DST Kanban Board 2021-2022); removed Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board. eamedina added a subscriber: eamedina.Aug 12 2021, 8:10 PM2021-08-12 20:10:41 (UTC+0) egardner moved this task from DST Kanban Backlog to Ready for development on the Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board (Deprecated -DST Kanban Board 2021-2022) board.Aug 16 2021, 6:05 PM2021-08-16 18:05:10 (UTC+0) • LZaman edited projects, added Design-Systems-team-20200324-20220422 (Design Systems Team FY2021-22 Kanban Board); removed Deprecated-Design-Systems-team-board (Deprecated -DST Kanban Board 2021-2022).Sep 13 2021, 10:17 PM2021-09-13 22:17:35 (UTC+0) • LZaman moved this task from Incoming/Requests to Ready for development on the Design-Systems-team-20200324-20220422 (Design Systems Team FY2021-22 Kanban Board) board. Aklapper added a project: Design-Systems-Team.Apr 25 2022, 11:31 AM2022-04-25 11:31:13 (UTC+0) Adding Design-Systems-Team because Design-Systems-team-20200324-20220422 got archived though this open task has no other active project tags associated, so it cannot be found on boards. STH moved this task from Needs Triage (Incoming Requests) to Foundational Technology Backlog on the Design-Systems-Team board.Apr 30 2022, 5:34 PM2022-04-30 17:34:46 (UTC+0) ldelench_wmf moved this task from Foundational Technology Backlog to Backlog on the Design-Systems-Team board.Fri, Sep 16, 6:14 PM2022-09-16 18:14:26 (UTC+0) Log In to Comment Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted; code licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source licenses. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Code of Conduct. · Wikimedia Foundation · Privacy Policy · Code of Conduct · Terms of Use · Disclaimer · CC-BY-SA · GPL

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Neonatal Screening for Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Deficiency in Ardabil Province, Iran, 2018-2019 Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement Guiding Principles for Research Involving Animals and Human Beings Editorial Policies (Appeals and Complaints) Practical Guide to the SI Units Neonatal Screening for Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Deficiency in Ardabil Province, Iran, 2018-2019 Document Type : Original Article 1 Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran. 2 Department of Pediatric, Faculty of medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran 3 Center for Cell Pathology Research, Department of Biological Science, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan 4 Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran. 5 Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran 6 Center for Cell Pathology Research, Life Sciences Department, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan. 7 Department of Molecular Genetic, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran, Iran Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is one of the most common genetic deficiencies that affect approximately 400 million people worldwide. This study aimed to identify neonates with G6PD deficiency in Ardabil province during 2017-2018. This cross-sectional study was conducted on all term and preterm newborns in Ardabil Province from April 2018 to April 2019. The sampling method was census and in study duration, 1044 newborns were entered in the study. For each infant, severe hyperbilirubinemia (total serum bilirubin equal or greater than 300 micromol/L) was tested by the diazo method and G6PD was evaluated by Fluorescent Spot Test (FST). Of all infants, 15 (1.4 %) were diagnosed to have G6PD deficiency by FST. The prevalence of G6PD deficiency was significantly in boys higher than in girls (80% vs. 20%, p=0.001). Of all infants, 97 (9.3%) had jaun dice 72 hours after birth that of them 7 neonates (7.2%) had G6PD deficiency. Results showed that the prevalence of G6PD deficiency in this study was less than in other places in Iran that may be because of different ethnicity and demographic features. Cell, Organ and Tissue Culture Selected authors of this article by journal Ardabil University of Medical Sciences Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan GoogleScholar(H Index=24); Publons(H Index=8) GoogleScholar(H Index=12); Publons(H Index=9) This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. 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[6] Letter writers must include Name, Email Address, Affiliation, mobile phone number, and Comments [7] Letters will be answered as soon as possible Kilicdag H, Gökmen Z, Ozkiraz S, Gulcan H, Tarcan A (2014) Is it accurate to separate glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia as deficient and normal? Pediatrics & Neonatology 55:202-207. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedneo.2013.10.006 Al-Musawi BM, Al-Allawi N, Abdul-Majeed BA, Eissa AA, Jubrael JM, Hamamy H (2012) Molecular characterization of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient variants in Baghdad city-Iraq. BMC blood disorders 12:1-6. doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2326-12-4 Moosazadeh M, Amiresmaili M, Aliramezany M (2014) Prevalence of G6PD deficiency in Iran, a mata-analysis. Acta medica Iranica 52:256-264 Cappellini MD, Fiorelli G (2008) Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. The Lancet 371:64-74. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(08)60073-2 Ahadi A, Mirzarahimi M, Ahmadabadi F, Tavasoli A, Parvaneh N (2013) Comparison of the efficacy of Clofibrate with Phenobarbital in decreasing neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Iranian Journal of Neonatology IJN 4:13-19 Tang J, Jiang C, Xiao X, Fang Z, Li L, Han L, Mei A, Feng Y, Guo Y, Li H (2015) Changes in red blood cell membrane structure in G6PD deficiency: An atomic force microscopy study. Clinica Chimica Acta 444:264-270. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cca.2015.02.042 Pahlavanzadeh M, Hekmatimoghaddam S, Ardestani MT, Ghafoorzadeh M, Aminorraaya M (2013) G6PD enzyme deficiency in neonatal pathologic hyperbilirubinemia in Yazd. Iranian journal of pediatric hematology and oncology 3:69-72. doi:PMCID: PMC3915450; PMID: 24575273 Mesner O, Hammerman C, Goldschmidt D, Rudensky B, Bader D, Kaplan M (2004) Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in male premature and term neonates. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition 89:F555-F557. doi:https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2004.049148 Liu H, Liu W, Tang X, Wang T (2015) Association between G6PD deficiency and hyperbilirubinemia in neonates: a meta-analysis. Pediatric hematology and oncology 32:92-98. doi:https://doi.org/10.3109/08880018.2014.887803 Farhoud D, Yazdanpanah L (2008) Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency. Iranian Journal of Public Health 37:1-18 Iranpour R, Hashemipour M, Talaei S-M, Soroshnia M, Amini A (2008) Newborn screening for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Isfahan, Iran: a quantitative assay. Journal of medical screening 15:62-64. doi:https://doi.org/10.1258/jms.2008.008027 Ghoreyshi S, Soltani AH, Ghoreyshi S (2007) Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Icteric neonates admitted in Tabriz pediatric medical center. 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Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences 30:94-96 Sinha R, Sachendra B, Syed VS, Nair L, John B (2017) To study the prevalence of glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in neonates with neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and to compare the course of the neonatal jaundice in deficient versus non deficient neonates. Journal of Clinical Neonatology 6:71-74. doi:https://doi.org/10.4103/jcn.jcn_59_16 M Abo El Fotoh WM, Rizk MS (2016) Prevalence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in jaundiced Egyptian neonates. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 29:3834-3837. doi:https://doi.org/10.3109/14767058.2016.1148133 Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1 Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports Receive Date: 04 July 2021 Revise Date: 12 August 2021 Accept Date: 13 October 2021 First Publish Date: 13 October 2021 Fathi, A., Barak, M., Damandan, M., Amani, F., Moradpour, R., Khalilova, I., & Valizadeh, M. (2021). Neonatal Screening for Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Deficiency in Ardabil Province, Iran, 2018-2019. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1(1), 1-6. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138793.1000 Afshin Fathi; Manouchehr Barak; Mahshid Damandan; Firouz Amani; Rouhallah Moradpour; Irada Khalilova; Mehdi Valizadeh. "Neonatal Screening for Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Deficiency in Ardabil Province, Iran, 2018-2019". Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1, 1, 2021, 1-6. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138793.1000 Fathi, A., Barak, M., Damandan, M., Amani, F., Moradpour, R., Khalilova, I., Valizadeh, M. (2021). 'Neonatal Screening for Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Deficiency in Ardabil Province, Iran, 2018-2019', Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1(1), pp. 1-6. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138793.1000 Fathi, A., Barak, M., Damandan, M., Amani, F., Moradpour, R., Khalilova, I., Valizadeh, M. 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1 Department of Soil and Plant, Faculty of Agriculture, Assistant professor, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran 2 Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Herat University, Herat, Afghanistan 3 Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan Plant cells are the basic unit of life in organisms of the kingdom Plantae. These organisms as eukaryotic cells have a true nucleus along with particular structures called organelles that perform various functions. The plant cell wall can provide a structural framework to support plant growth and defense the cells against various viral and bacterial pathogens. The cell wall can retain flexibility, also when subjected to developmental, biotic, abiotic stimuli, and stresses it can be efficiently remodeled in response. Genes encoding enzymes are able to fabricate or hydrolyze substances of the plant cell wall exhibit differential expression when subjected to different stresses, suggesting they may facilitate stress tolerance such as heavy metals, dust accumulation, and salty medium through changes in cell composition wall. Bacteria are small single-celled organisms that get the nutrients they need from their environment. Sometimes, this environment can be your child or any other living thing. Bacteria are very small and cannot be seen under a microscope. Bacteria help the digestive system and prevent harmful bacteria from entering the human body as well as some other bacteria are also applied to produce drugs and vaccines. A cell wall as the non-living component can cover the outmost layer of a cell. According to the type of organism, the cell envelope has a different composition. The cell envelope separates the interior contents of the cell from the exterior environment. In addition, it provides shape, support, and protection to the cell and its organelles. However, this cellular component is present exclusively in eukaryotic plants, fungi, and a few prokaryotic organisms. Compounds found in plant cells are absent in animal cells, and DNA base sequences reflect this. Moreover, plant DNA is often larger than animal DNA. In this mini-review, we concluded that the differences between plant and animal DNA defendant on the sequence of bases in the helix. Selected author of this article by journal CMBR journal remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional afflictions. Given that CMBR Journal's policy in accepting articles will be strict and will do its best to ensure that in addition to having the highest quality published articles, the published articles should have the least similarity (maximum 18%). 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Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports 1(1):7-13 Daemi HB, Kulyar MF, He X, Li C, Karimpour M, Sun X, Zou Z, Jin M (2021) Progression and Trends in Virus from Influenza A to COVID-19: An Overview of Recent Studies. Viruses 13(6). doi:10.3390/v13061145 Rahbar-Karbasdehi E, Rahbar-Karbasdehi F (2021) Clinical challenges of stress cardiomyopathy during coronavirus 2019 epidemic. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports 1(2):88-90 Volume 2, Issue 1 Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports Receive Date: 22 October 2021 Revise Date: 08 December 2021 Accept Date: 30 January 2022 First Publish Date: 01 March 2022 kheyrodin, H., Jami, R., & Rehman, F. (2022). Cellular structure and molecular functions of plants, animals, bacteria, and viruses. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2(1), 33-41. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2022.330941.1021 Hamid kheyrodin; Raheba Jami; Fazal Ur Rehman. "Cellular structure and molecular functions of plants, animals, bacteria, and viruses". Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2, 1, 2022, 33-41. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2022.330941.1021 kheyrodin, H., Jami, R., Rehman, F. (2022). 'Cellular structure and molecular functions of plants, animals, bacteria, and viruses', Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2(1), pp. 33-41. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2022.330941.1021 kheyrodin, H., Jami, R., Rehman, F. Cellular structure and molecular functions of plants, animals, bacteria, and viruses. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2022; 2(1): 33-41. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2022.330941.1021 Corresponding author ORCID 2022-05-01 Special Issue about the " Nanomaterials to Combat ... 2022-04-08 Happy News: Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports ... 2021-10-10 This open-access journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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April 23 was World Book and Copyright Day, an international day created by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and protection of intellectual property. This year, the day was celebrated with events and activities happening around the world, focusing on access to information for print disabled people and how information and communications technologies can help to improve it. Access to printed materials is an essential part of access to education and culture, and a key support for individuals to fully participate in society. Literacy and access to books is a global issue that affects people’s abilities to address other development challenges; access in particular is an acute problem in many parts of the world, such as in sub-Saharan Africa, where most people do not own a book. Access to printed works is even lower for people with a print disability. The World Blind Union has calculated that in developed countries only 10% of written material is accessible to people with a print disability. In developing countries, this number falls to just 1%. “World Book and Copyright Day is an opportunity to highlight the power of books to promote our vision of knowledge societies that are inclusive, pluralistic, equitable, open and participatory for all citizens,” said Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO. “It is said that how a society treats its most vulnerable is a measure of its humanity. When we apply this measure to the availability of books to those with visual impairments and those with learning or physical disabilities (with different causes), we are confronted with what can only be described as a ‘book famine’.” One potential solution to people’s limited access to printed materials is to make digital books and other online resources—like Wikipedia, for instance—available to them on mobile devices. Over six billion people, out of a total of seven billion on the planet, now have access to a mobile phone. Volunteers are working to ensure that Wikipedia is available for everyone to access and contribute, including people with print disabilities. Projects within Wikimedia like Wikispeech, an open source text-to-speech solution targeted to Wikipedia, and other information-rich texts, including ebooks, aim to improve accessibility. Wikipedia also uses more general assistive technologies, like screen readers, which improve people’s ability to access and add to Wikipedia’s knowledge. A wonderful explanation of what life is like as a blind Wikipedia contributor was recently written about Graham Pearce, who shared his experiences including how it differs from sight-based contribution. Whilst Wikipedia has usurped the role of print encyclopedias in many parts of the world and the vast majority of the references on Wikipedia link to other digital material, books are vital to Wikipedia. Despite most contemporary publications having some form of digital incarnations, for hundreds of years physical books offered – and still offer – a vital way to share information. A simple search on Google Books or on more targeted research collections, like JSTOR or Project MUSE, will not provide the information found in many books. Wikipedia editors rely heavily on physical reference materials, especially when working on specialist or historical subjects. There is a huge volume of printed materials that currently have no digital representation; digitization is simply too costly and takes too long for many institutions holding these books. Wikipedia needs free licenses Copyright is an intrinsic part of how Wikipedia is created. The Creative Commons licenses provide two permissions that are fundamental to the functioning of Wikipedia: To adapt: Wikipedia is a collaboration between tens of thousands of people working together. It is far from unusual for hundreds of people work together on a single article. Without the ability to alter other contributors’ text, Wikipedia would be unable to adapt over time. To share: Wikipedia’s free licenses this allows people to reuse the text elsewhere, including printing Wikipedia in books and other printed media and making offline copies of Wikipedia available for places with limited or no internet access. For many people, their love of reading stems from specific books—whether that’s falling through portals into fictional worlds, or understanding the world in new ways through factual, non-fiction narratives. You can help people learn more about the books you love, the characters within them, the authors who created them, and the worlds that inspired them by writing on Wikipedia. If you have never contributed to Wikipedia before, you can use our getting started guide. You can also share knowledge within these books on Wikipedia by using them as references. This is especially important for less well-known subjects where limited information is available online. The English Wikipedia, for example, generally require that users note where they got their information by citing reliable sources, like books, so that readers can verify everything for themselves. To assist in this process, Wikipedians on many language wikis can get access to the Wikipedia Library, which has been set up to grant Wikipedia contributors free access to various online databases for the purpose of improving Wikipedia. By contributing to Wikipedia, you will not only be helping others to discover the books you love—you will become an author yourself and work with thousands of other people to build on the largest reference work ever created. John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. 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Assen Gert Sennema – Sisyphus 2 Fundamentally shifting the copyright narrative is not a weekend job. Since July 2013 Dimitar Dimitrov is Wikimedian in Brussels. In assorted blogposts he talks about his experiences vis-à-vis the EU. Fundamentally shifting the copyright narrative is not a weekend job. Still, the effort that needs to be undertaken here is beyond that of a traditional lobbying campaign. Very few people (regardless of whether they’re civil servants, politicians or industry actors) can actually answer questions concerning intellectual property. Even fewer are able to grasp the complex and complicated interplay between cultural, social and economic changes that what we call “digitisation”. There is virtually no one who dares to express a coherent, future-oriented vision for copyright. Well, not really no one. Us Wikimedians got the big vision. The idea of rich and sustainable knowledge commons. Making this idea part of the EU’s paradigm is what the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU has dedicated itself to. To give you a better picture of what our efforts look like, here’s a rundown of our activities in the past month. We started participating in the EU Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights. It is run by the European Commission. Your very first questions should be: What now? Where? Us? At least these were my initial thoughts. The Observatory was conceived as a place for EU civil servants and industry lobbyists to join forces and find a way to stop freeloaders and pirates. After massive criticism in the past year, they have now decided to open up and include civil society organisations. Apart from us, EDRi and the European Consumers’ Organisation were invited to the last plenary. The Observatory commissioned a study that allegedly proves how indispensable and advantageous intellectual property is for the European economy. Our reaction was to remind the Commission that intellectual property does not come into being in an empty space, but always builds on top of our common cultural heritage, i.e. the public domain. After a chain of emails and conversations, the Observatory accepted our arguments and agreed to include a study on the “Contribution of Public Domain and Open Licensing to the European Economy” in its 2014 programme. We will keep up the pressure and also keep an eye on the study process. Laying the Foundation: Open Data The Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information aims to guarantee that information produced by public institutions is opened up to and re-usable by the general public. It was revised and extended this year in order to put more focus on Open Government Data. The problem here is, that many public institutions are honestly overwhelmed by the the subject matter and not sure what to do (To quote a ministry representative from a south-eastern Member State: “We have no idea what is expected from us. Can you please tell us what we’re supposed to do?”). Therefore, the Commission decided to stage two hearings and write up best-practice guidelines, helping institutions implement the Directive. We participated in the first hearing in Luxembourg together with representatives of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Creative Commons. Our basic points were to ask for free-of-charge access, unrestricted re-usability (i.e. no NC clauses) and the use of standard licensing, whenever possible. Major Hiccup: Licenses for Europe “Even re-opening the Copyright Directive isn’t off limits.” This statement by Commissioner Michel Barnier (Internal Market and Services) at the start of Licenses for Europe dialogue last December sounded unrealistic. As it turns out, it might have very well been a shrewd tactical move by the Commission. The idea behind Licenses for Europe was to give the industry a chance to come up with “market-driven solutions.” These imagined solutions were supposed to tackle problems like access to digital products on what is supposed to be a single European market. Instead, we witnessed a year-long discussion circle fixated on the idea of creating additional fields for licensing. A new required permission for text and data mining was dreamt of and the absolute necessity of territorial licensing within the EU (i.e. for each member state separately) was emphasized whenever possible. The whole process was so tedious and so void of any actual answers, that this November, at the closing plenary in Brussels, even Barnier had to conclude that “markets cannot resolve all problems. I am not satisfied with the results and the current situation.” Such clear statements by a Commissioner for the Internal Market are rather rare in rooms full of industry lobbyists. In the middle of November a new consultation on copyright already seemed palpable. We were just hoping for broad topics and meaningful questions. New Hope: Copyright Consultation And so it was Sinterklaas who came bearing good news. In the newly started consultation the Commission is – and this is a rare concept in Brussels – asking the right questions. Thirty-six pages full of copyright term length, new limitations or even an opt-in system. Suddenly nothing seems as impossible as it did even two weeks ago. The “re-opening the Copyright Directive” we heard of last year is no longer a taboo topic in the pubs surrounding Place du Luxembourg, the lively Brussels square in front of the European Parliament. And it would be exactly this document that could be pivotal in solving some of our key issues – Freedom of Panorama and Government Works in the Public Domain. Don’t get me wrong, it will be a tough one. It’s a long, rocky uphill road. A Commission consultation is usually only the first step of a slow process filled with countless, painfully repetitive procedures. We will need to stay on top and keep pushing our point of view. Let’s rock and roll! Dimitar Dimitrov, Wikimedian in Brussels Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Affiliates, Legal, LicensingTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Wikimania, the largest gathering of the Wikimedia world, is just around the corner. In less than a week, hundreds of volunteers will be gathering in Hong Kong to share stories and talk about grand plans for the year ahead. The Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation also plans to join in! The team has been working consistently on improving internationalization support in MediaWiki tools and in Wikimedia projects. At Wikimania 2013, the team will be present to talk and exchange ideas about these projects. Team members will be presenting technology sessions, organizing a translation sprint and showcasing at the DevCamp. At the Translation sprint workshop, participants will get a quick introduction to using the Translate extension on Wikimedia wikis and translatewiki.net. The Translate extension provides MediaWiki with essential features needed to do translation work. It can be used to translate simple content, wiki user interfaces and system messages. In an interesting design session, our team’s interaction designer Pau Giner will be presenting on the challenges and complexities of designing language-conscious user interfaces. In the talk titled Improving the user experience of language tools, he will look at two significant projects developed by the team: the Universal Language Selector (ULS) and Translate UX as case studies. Team engineers Amir Aharoni and Niklas Laxström will discuss multilingual feature enhancement possibilities for handling multimedia content meta-information on Wikimedia Commons. Multilingual Wikimedia Commons – What can we do about it? To find an answer, they will touch upon the advanced features in Translate, ULS and other tools that can be used to translate images, templates, descriptions and other graphics metadata to make Commons a truly multilingual Wiki. A technical session, MediaWiki i18n getting data-driven and world-reusable, on improvements in MediaWiki internationalization (i18n) will be presented by Santhosh Thottingal and Niklas Laxström. They will be talking about the preference of using data-driven approach in place of custom code which helps code maintainability across multiple i18n frameworks. An example is data usage from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR). They will be speaking about the challenges and benefits of maintaining two code bases MediaWiki JavaScript i18n extension and the jquery.i18n library for different developer audiences. Language team members will be part of panel discussions covering WMF Agile practices and at the Ask the Developers session. Come meet us at any of these sessions and bring your toughest language software questions along! Complete list of Language Engineering sessions. Outreach and QA coordinator, Language Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Internationalization and localization, Technology, WikimaniaTagged i18n, l10n, language support, Wikimania 2013, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Over the years, the Wikimedia Foundation and Yale Law School have established an ongoing research and educational affiliation and collaboration during which both Yale students and faculty and the Foundation have participated in symposia, presentations, and conferences, hosted by either Yale or Wikimedia. Furthermore, students and new graduates from Yale have held internships and fellowships at Wikimedia and Yale researchers have engaged in collaborative research with Wikimedia. Given Wikimedia’s mission and interests, one of Wikimedia’s fundamental activities is to directly contribute to the research and education mission of Yale and other institutions of higher education. The ongoing affiliation and collaboration between the parties has benefited both sides by allowing for the advancement of public policy research, the exchange of new ideas about the regulations and laws of online platforms, and mentorship opportunities for promising students and new graduates from Yale to better understand the Wiki-model of knowledge creation. As a continuation of this affiliation, members of the Wikimedia legal team visited Yale for two events this past spring. On March 7, Jacob Rogers, an attorney from the Wikimedia Foundation, attended a panel at Yale Law School on addressing the topic of fake news and false information online. The panel brought together a number of academics, news publishers, and online platforms to discuss the nature of the problem and look into proposed solutions. The discussion focused on the complexity of the problem, with falsehoods potentially arising from misunderstandings and honest attempts to get things right in a complex world as well as from intentionally malicious misleading information. One solution discussed was the use of crowdsourcing, and the panelists looked at Wikipedia’s model to try to understand how some crowdsourced projects succeed with motivated, empowered volunteers. The panel also discussed different approaches to automation and the idea of combining automated tools with human review to reach a better result than either can accomplish alone. On March 21, James Buatti and Zhou Zhou, attorneys at the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered a presentation on the Wikimedia v. NSA lawsuit to the Yale community. The presentation provided background for some of the known U.S. government surveillance programs, information about the history of litigation against these programs, the ongoing status of Wikimedia v. NSA lawsuit, and previewed possible new changes and implications for the government surveillance under the new administration. The Foundation attorneys had an extended discussion with audience members afterwards, who, among other things, expressed appreciation for the presentation’s explanation of the differences and similarities of the various government surveillance programs. The audience also provided their own valuable insights on how surveillance power might be balanced with the need to protect civil liberties within a proper and practical legal and policy framework. Events like these recent ones at Yale help the Wikimedia Foundation share our unique values and processes with the outside world and build support, by educating prominent members of the legal and policy community, for the causes we believe in and fight for. As such, we look forward to continuing our affiliation and collaboration with Yale for many years to come. Jacob Rogers, Legal Counsel Zhou Zhou, Legal Counsel For more information about Wikimedia’s perspective on public policy issues and to stay engaged, please visit the Foundation’s public policy page and join the Wikimedia movement’s mailing list. Academic and research institutions who wish to connect with members of the Wikimedia legal and public policy team about these topics are also welcome to email the team at policy@wikimedia.org. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in From the archives, Legal, Wikimedia v. NSATagged discussion, fake news, lawsuit, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikimedia v. NSA, Yale Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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This week, Wikimedia Sverige announced an important ongoing partnership with international media group, Bonnier, releasing freely-licensed photographs to Wikimedia Commons. The media group has released 27 photographs of notable Swedish authors to Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license and plans to continue releasing photographs in the future. Authors included in the first release include: Inger Alfvén, Karin Johannisson and Martin Widmark. This partnership was the result of important educational outreach and relationship building conducted by representatives of Wikimedia Sverige. The relationship was sparked by Bonnier’s curiosity about how to edit Wikipedia and interest in understanding how free licensing works on Wikimedia Commons. The partnership with Bonnier is just one example of the important educational outreach work Wikimedia Sverige has conducted. This September, for the third year, the chapter will conduct outreach activities at the Gothenburg Book Fair, the largest in Scandinavia. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Chapters, Free Knowledge, Global, Highlights, Wikimedia CommonsTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikimedia Sverige Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Improving language support on our sites via summer interns’ projects and easier configuration options, and asking for help translating the VisualEditor interface Enabling users to edit our sites from mobile devices, like phones and tablets, and announcing a future user experience bootcamp focusing on mobile editing Finishing our transition from keeping source code in Subversion to storing it in Git Launching a Wikipedia Zero partnership with Aircel, giving mobile subscribers in India the potential to access Wikipedia at no data cost Updating the Wikimedia movement on how we intend to protect our users’ privacy with HTTPS Signing a contract with longtime MediaWiki contributors to manage MediaWiki releases for the open source community Explaining how we find and gather software problems and deliver the fixes to users Note: We’re also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge. 114 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki. The total number of unresolved commits went from around 960 to about 1283. About 40 shell requests were processed. Wikimedia Labs now hosts 168 projects and 1,623 users; to date 2,167 instances have been created. The tools project in Labs now hosts 252 tools and 218 members. Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up, and we really love talking to active community members about these roles. Software Engineer – Language Engineering Software Engineer – Multimedia Systems Senior Software Engineer – Platform Software Engineer – Editor Engagement Experimentation Software Engineer – Editor Engagement Director of Program – Mobile Front-end Developer – Analytics Bryan Davis joined the Platform Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer, working generally on backend software issues and starting off supporting multimedia (announcement). C. Scott Ananian joined the Parsoid team as a Senior Features Engineer (announcement). Kenan Wang joined the Product team as Product Manager for Mobile (announcement). Lots of Puppet refactoring work got done this month, including considerable reorganization of the puppet masters. Several manifests have been moved into modules, but completing this project will take many months. The English Wikipedia dumps ran out of our Ashburn data center this month, and so did a number of other big wikis’ dumps. There’s an issue with the abstract dumps that needs to be sorted out for those, but other than that everything ran smoothly. Petr Onderka has been getting a lot of work done on the incremental dumps. A first preview of the code was announced as well as a proposed binary file format which the program currently uses. For a preview of what’s coming up, you can check the timeline. Your comments and suggestions are welcome! Though there were some features introduced this month, the majority of our time was spent on documentation, tracking down bugs and improving usability. We had a documentation sprint this month, targeted at improving documentation for the Tool Labs project. Work continued on stabilizing the NFS server — we believe we’ve tracked down the stability issues to RAID controller problems. The compute nodes are becoming increasingly low on disk space, but we’ve tracked this down in a change in behavior of nova and have deployed a fix. nova-network was starting to experience timeouts due to excessive load, leading to instance creation failures. We’ve extended dhcp renewal times to reduce load. We upgraded wikitech.wikimedia.org and wiktech-static to the 1.22wmf11 version of MediaWiki. We also: deployed the AJAX-enabled delete instance feature; deployed a change to display more informative instance statuses; fixed issues in LdapAuthentication that broke blocking and renaming users; and deployed a change to allow service groups to be added to service groups, to make sharing code and data between tools easier. Editor retention: Editing tools In July, the VisualEditor team began switching the deployment from opt-in alpha to opt-out beta, so becoming the default editor for users of the various Wikipedias. The deployed version of the code was updated three times (1.22-wmf10, 1.22-wmf11 and 1.22-wmf12), with several mid-deployment releases as the code was developed to patch urgent issues. There were a number of user interface improvements, most notably to the references insertion dialog, alongside fixes to a number of bugs uncovered by the community. In July, the Parsoid team supported the deployment of VisualEditor as default editor on eight Wikipedias, continuing to monitor bug reports, feedback pages, and village pump and fixed a number of bugs to eliminate instances of dirty diffs and other corruption that were reported. An absence of performance issues let us focus our attention on functionality and dirty-diff related bugs. This continued to be the primary focus of our work this month. On the staffing side, C. Scott Ananian joined the Parsoid team as a full-time employee — he has been working with us since earlier this year, first as a volunteer and then as a contractor. Marc Ordinas i Llopis from Spain and Arlo Breault from Canada joined the Parsoid team as contractors this month. This month, we released two new prototypes to showcase some ideas around Flow-enabled user-to-user discussion. We continued to collect user feedback and prioritize use-cases for a potential minimum viable product. In July, we released our final features for Notifications on the English Wikipedia and mediawiki.org and meta.wikimedia.org. Benny Situ completed development of HTML Email notifications, as well as improved notifications, based on designs by Vibha Bamba. Fabrice Florin managed the release of these final features, and prepared this release plan to deploy Notifications on more wiki projects, starting with French and Polish Wikipedias in August. Dario Taraborelli and Matthias Mullie updated our new metrics dashboards, while Aaron Halfaker completed his report on our A/B test of new user activity. To learn more, visit the project portal, read the FAQ page and join the discussion on the talk page. In July, we deployed a few last features and bug fixes for the Article Feedback Tool (AFT5) on the English and French Wikipedias. Matthias Mullie released the auto-archive feature, as well as this list of articles with feedback enabled on enwiki and on frwiki. At the request of the French Wikipedia community, he also developed new feedback notifications to let users know when feedback is marked as useful for a page they watch (or for a comment they posted). The team plans to make the AFT5 tool available to other wiki projects interested in testing this tool, provided that no new development is required to support their needs, as outlined in the release plan. We’re hiring! Are you a front-end developer? Do you know someone who is? Apply today. In July, the Editor Engagement Experiments (E3) team made progress on a number of continuing projects. In terms of features, the team also completed work to integrate the onboarding new Wikipedians project with new infrastructural changes and feature releases.For the GettingStarted, E3 collaborated with Platform engineering to ensure compatibility with the new “SUL2” cross-wiki authentication architecture. For the GuidedTour extension, the team completed a first release of support for guided tours of the VisualEditor interface, alongside tours of the legacy wikitext editor, and developed a plan to refactor the GuidedTour extension as well as its API. E3 also planned for its sixth A/B test of the GettingStarted workflow (see proposed specification and mockups). As an addition to the team’s redesign of account creation and login (launched in May-June), we enhanced the design of the form for users who fulfill account creation requests for others.E3 team member Matthew Flaschen also worked with two Google Summer of Code students on their projects. Richa Jain is working on the Annotator extension, which allows adding inline comments to a wiki page. Rahul Maliakkal is working on the Pronunciation Recording extension, for adding audio of pronunciations to Wiktionary. On the experimental tools and data analysis front, E3 completed a significant rewrite of the Puppet configuration for EventLogging, our data collection pipeline, among other changes. For the MediaWiki-Vagrant portable desktop development environment, E3 added support for flexibly provisioning and unit testing extensions such as GettingStarted, GuidedTour, ParserFunctions, EventLogging, and others. Last but not least, the micro-survey of gender of new account registrations was enabled on German, French, Italian, and Polish Wikipedias, while data analysis on the English Wikipedia results began. In July, the fundraising team did its first successful tests of our new payments gateway: Adyen. The (as yet) US-only Credit Card backup gateway performed similarly to our primary credit card processor in A/B testing, and can be successfully used as a failover. We also ran, for the first time, several short campaign tests targeted at mobile devices in the US. In these tests, users were able to choose between Paypal or Amazon Payments. Additional tests to determine peak times, appropriate localities, and optimum messaging for mobile campaigns will continue throughout August, as the campaigns are prepared. This month, the team launched Wikipedia Zero with Aircel in India, a carrier with about 60 million cellphone subscribers. We also completed our first cut of automation testing, started the implementation of the Wikipedia Zero software re-architecture, and patched bugs. During July we planned for the upcoming year in Wikipedia Zero. On the engineering front we are focusing first on test automation and re-architecture concurrent with SMS/USSD and J2ME releases, and afterward will be focusing efforts on end user UX and carrier-oriented enhancements that will support the continued growth of the program. This month, the mobile web team released a new contributory nav to all Wikimedia mobile sites, including the existing upload and watchlist star features, as well as an edit button. This means that editing (in the form of section-level markup editing) is now enabled on all mobile Wikimedia sites for logged in users. In beta, we began work on mobile notifications restyling, as well as guiders for first-time editors and uploaders. In July 2013, MediaWiki 1.22wmf10 through 1.22wmf13 were successfully deployed to Wikimedia project sites. We skipped the week of July 4th as there was reduced capacity in both engineering and operations due to the US holiday. We also named Markus Glaser and Mark Hershberger as the new contractors maintaining the MediaWiki “tarball” for release to other system administrators and organizations. With the migration of pywikipediabot from Subversion to Git, we were able to switch svn.wikimedia.org to read-only mode, thus completing this migration. We plan to keep the Subversion service around indefinitely for archival purposes, and can still migrate any dormant project that hasn’t already been migrated on request. In July, we continued to expand our multimedia team: Mark Holmquist joined as front-end software developer, working with product manager Fabrice Florin and engineering director Rob Lanphier, as well as contractors Brian Wolff and Jan Gerber. We prepared a first multimedia plan for the coming year and discussed our goals with community members in two separate events: a multimedia roundtable and an IRC chat. Based on community feedback, we identified five main areas of activity 2013-2014: improving the viewing experience and upload pipeline in the first half of the year, then focusing on file curation, discovery and placement in articles for the second half of the year. Our overall goals for this year are to increase both the number of contributions and files used in Wikipedia articles. For now, we have started work on a new media viewer to display images in larger size when you click on a thumbnail, as well as display file information and a full-screen viewing option, right on the same page. We plan to have a first version of that feature next month, and will be testing it as part of a beta experiment on a few pilot sites. We will also be hosting more community planning discussions, such as this multimedia roundtable at Wikimania 2013. To participate in these discussions and keep up with our work, we invite you to join this new multimedia mailing list. Last but not least, we are also recruiting for two more positions for our team: a multimedia systems engineer and a senior software engineer. Please spread the word about this unique opportunity to create a richer multimedia experience for Wikipedia and MediaWiki sites! This activity was on hiatus in August. Nik Everett and Chad Horohoe have continued writing an extension to implement ElasticSearch searching for MediaWiki, and we’ve finished most of the required features. Next comes getting it deployed, scaled, and fixing the inevitable bugs. We’re aiming to deploy to the test site beta.wmflabs.org before the end of the month. Peter Youngmeister and Asher Feldman will be handling the operations tasks for the new setup. Engineers worked towards for an OAuth deployment to the beta cluster in early August, and aim to roll OAuth out to the test wikis (e.g., test2.wikipedia.org) after Wikimania. HipHop work was mainly on hold in July, with the exception of some minor work on virtual machines. Security auditing and response The team continued to respond to reported security issues, and addressing outstanding bugs. This month QA made contributions to the VisualEditor, UniversalLanguageSelector and Mobile web projects, among others, finding and reporting issues in a timely manner. Our intern with the Outreach Program for Women is working on more automated browser tests. We continue to engage our community on the QA mail list and in live sessions, where we have several contributors (see Volunteer coordination and outreach). The Beta cluster continues to be a target for automated and manual testing. It also finally has a syslog receiver on deployment-bastion, thus solving bug 36748 (no syslog::server in beta). The logs can be accessed via either /home/wikipedia/syslog or /data/project/logs/syslog/ . This is thanks to Leslie Carr. In July we added coverage for a number of features, including VisualEditor, UniversalLanguageSelector, and Mobile Search. We are making extensive use of beta labs as well as the test2wiki test environment. Our automated browser tests continue to identify important issues during feature development. We reviewed our planning document with the Sue and Erik and the Engineering Directors. Reception was positive and we will be communicating next steps more widely in August. The Analytics team focused on short term deliverables, reliability and hiring in July. We identified two potential candidates for front-end/Python work. We have been performing multiple phone screens together with Recruiting, and the hiring pipelines are good. We kicked off a reliability project with Ops with the end goal of stabilizing Hadoop and the logging infrastructure. Teams have been in discussions on architecture and planning, and should have a path forward in the next 2 weeks. We identified a consultant who will perform a system audit to aid the project. We continue adding new metrics and alerts to monitor all the different parts of the webrequest dataflows into Kraken. We expect to keep making improvements in the coming months until we have a fully reliable data pipeline into Kraken. We puppetized Hue, Hive, and Oozie. We also have a working setup of the Hadoop cluster in Labs for testing purposes. All Puppet work is open sourced. We started this month with designing a canary event monitoring system. A canary event is an artificial event that is injected at the start of the data workflow and which we will monitor to see it reaches its final destination; that way we can ensure that the dataflows are functioning. We are investigating what data format to use for sending the webrequest messages from Varnish to the Hadoop cluster. Formats that we are scrutinizing are JSON, Protobuf and AVRO, but we are also looking at compressions algorithms such as Snappy. Analytics Visualization, Reporting & Applications Wikimetrics: We successfully launched the initial version of Wikimetrics: see metrics.wmflabs.org. This version has support for cohort upload and two metrics: 1) bytes added and 2) namespace edits. We are working on adding support for time-series and aggregators. In the coming sprints we will focus on adding new metrics. Wikipedia Zero: Dashboards have been moved off of Hadoop for the time being and are now being populated again. We have identified some issues with logrotation that are causing gaps in the graphs, and will look into these problems. Also, we have been working on technical handoff as Evan Rosen leaves the Foundation. Limn: No development news. Wikistats: No development news. Erik Zachte published data and longitudinal analyses of edit and revert trends for Wikimedia projects (read the announcement). We provided data and ad-hoc analysis for the presentation A State of Decline? The State of Wikimedia Communities as of July 2013 at the July 2013 Monthly Metrics Meeting. We published the analysis of a controlled experiment that we ran in June to test the Impact of notifications on new contributors and a pre-release A/B test of Visual Editor on the English Wikipedia. We performed an extensive audit of the quality of the data collected during and after the VE test, taking into account browser limitations and known bugs, and posted an update on the state of the analysis. We released via our open data repository the complete dataset of the sample of new registered users who participated in the split test to ensure the replicability of the analysis. We released real-time dashboards on edit activity, new account registrations and reverts for the 10 Wikipedias on which VE has been rolled out. (en • de • es • fr • he • it • nl • pl • ru • sv) A PATCH_TO_REVIEW status was introduced in Bugzilla which is automatically set (by the Gerrit Notification Bot) on bug reports when a commit message in Gerrit mentions a corresponding bug number. Andre prepared a patch for using the InlineHistory extension in Bugzilla and a patch to make Bugzilla’s guided bug entry form for new users usable for Wikimedia Bugzilla. Andre also continued his weekly blogposts of Bugzilla tips. Thanks to Daniel Zahn, Bugzilla administrators now regularly receive an email with a database dump of Bugzilla’s “audit log” which lists the most recent taxonomy changes in Bugzilla (component or keyword additions, etc.). In Bugzilla’s taxonomy, the components in the “Parsoid” product were reorganized as requested by its main developer, and the remaining open “OggHandler” tickets were closed as it has been superseded by TimedMediaHandler. Quim Gil organized meetings with each Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women team, one by one. Most projects were already at full speed, and for them, the meeting was primarily social and nice to have. A few really benefited from going through a checklist to highlight early problems easy to solve now. All GSoC and OPW projects, 21 in total, are now on track. Like in June, Guillaume Paumier was seconded to the VisualEditor deployment effort, working on communications, documentation and liaising with the French Wikipedia. Work on technical communications mostly focused on perennial activities like ongoing communications support to the engineering staff. Volunteer coordination and outreach On Community metrics, Quim Gil focused on the consolidation of korma.wmflabs.org, the new dashboard for automated community metrics. We have made good progress on this alpha, including basic metrics from Git, Bugzilla and mailing lists being retrieved on a daily basis, and have filed bugs and enhancement requests on GitHub (mediawiki-dashboard, VizGrimoireJS). We are deciding on the key metrics we need in order to make decisions, e.g. average time to resolve on Gerrit changesets or bug reports. We also planned and promoted a Browser Testing Automation workshop with Cucumber together with the QA team, with 13 people participating online. You can watch the session here (1h40). The experience was useful, as we agreed on MediaWiki-Vagrant as the default environment for automated testing and highlighted the list of easy bugs. Also, the Engineering Community team held its quarterly review. The language team deployed Universal Language Selector (ULS) to most Wikimedia wikis to provide easier configuration options to readers and contributors. ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Also, ULS allows users to type text in different languages not directly supported by their keyboard, read content in a script for which fonts are not available locally, or customise the language in which menus are displayed. For more information, please see the FAQ. The Language engineering team also mentored summer interns’ projects to improve language support on our sites, and asked for volunteer help translating the VisualEditor interface. The Kiwix project is funded and executed by Wikimedia CH. We are preparing the first release of a new Wikipedia ZIM creation solution for August. We also have achieved a new release of Kiwix for Android; this new version includes a few bug fixes and new features. Beside the release of traditional Wikipedia ZIM files, we have also published two interesting ZIM files: one which includes 2,500 ebooks (EPUB & PDF) of French literature and one with the new Wikipedia for Schools selection. The ZIM incremental update GSoC project progresses well too: first working versions of zimpatch & zimdiff console tools are available, and integration with Kiwix has started. Kiwix developers will be available at Wikimania, during the hacking days and at the WikimediaCH both during Wikimania itself. The Wikidata project is funded and executed by Wikimedia Deutschland. In July, we deployed Wikidata to all Wikivoyage sites in all languages, to manage their language links. We updated the continued Roadmap for Wikidata Development. Coveralls.io support has been added to most of our components. Since the first deployment of Phase1 to Wikipedia, about 240 million interwikilinks (5GB text) have been removed from articles (2012 vs 2013 analysis). In other news, the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize for Watson was donated to the Wikimedia Foundation by IBM research to support work, especially on Wikidata. Denny Vrandečić explains why Wikidata items are identified with a Q. The engineering management team continues to update the Deployments page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the engineering roadmap, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts. Annual goals for the 2013–2014 fiscal year are being drafted by some teams and have been finalized by others. This article was written collaboratively by Wikimedia engineers and managers. See revision history and associated status pages. A wiki version is also available. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Menu Dashboard Locu Launches Publisher Platform, Makes Its Data Available To All | whatsweb […] Wikimedia engineering July 2013 report (wikimedia.org) […] I’m B.tech Computer Engg from India like to contribute the wikimedia foundation. Currently I’m in the last semester and interested to work for the wikimedia. Is there any way to join with you.? “Macedonia was greece provincia” This is very funy because Macedobnia was conquest ellenic people and ellada was a Macedonian province its a true Posted in Technology, WMF engineering reportsTagged report, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Visitors to the small town of Toodyay in Western Australia can learn about historic landmarks by scanning QR codes that bring up related Wikipedia pages on their smartphones. Here are some of the Toodyaypedia plates they created to share local knowledge on mobile phones. Photo by Gnangarra, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 au. The WikiTowns project lets you learn more about local landmarks by scanning barcodes to bring up related Wikipedia pages on your smartphone. This initiative started in Britain’s historic town of Monmouth in 2011, using QRpedia project, a mobile Web-based system which uses QR codes to deliver Wikipedia articles to users. When I saw this project at Wikimania in 2012, I immediately thought it was a great new way to share knowledge! After I returned home to Perth, I contacted the City of Fremantle about this idea, and from there the first WikiTown project in Australia took hold: Freopedia. In March 2013, my efforts in developing this and other Wikimedia projects resulted in my nomination for the Western Australian State Heritage Awards. While I didn’t end up winning the award, it gave me and another Wikipedian an opportunity to attend the awards, where we talked with a number of people about new ways to use Wikipedia and the free knowledge movement. The President of the Toodyay Historical Society invited me to join an expedition to visit two very significant historical sites in the Avon Valley National Park in Western Australia. It was during this hike that I met the Shire President and we first discussed the idea of applying the WikiTown concept to their area. From this initial conversation, the Toodyaypedia project was born. Wikimedia Australia booth at the 160th Toodyay show. Photo by Gnangarra, CC BY-SA 2.5 au. Over the next six months, we started planning Toodyaypedia, to share knowledge about historic landmarks in the Shire of Toodyay. Our first public event was an information booth at the 160th Toodyay Agricultural Show in October, 2013 (see photo). This was followed by some general editing workshops. Then in January 2014, we partnered with a Shire tourist publication, so that we could use it as a resource for some of the project’s articles. Our first contribution related to Toodyay was a “Did You Know” (DYK) entry about an Michael Cavanagh, the architect who designed the Victoria Hotel. The editor who started the article had previously been working on buildings related to Fremantle and noticed that hotel was one of the last works created by that architect. Two days later, another DYK entry was filed for a residential building used as Toodyays first bank. The editing bug had bitten a new editor, who has since created many more articles. In September 2014, we documented many unique elements that were initially set in place 100 years before, resulting in a DYK that also coincided with the re-publication of The Bugle Call by William Henry Strahan in the newspaper that first published it. The local community in Toodyay has embraced this project and truly made it their own. They’ve placed QR codes on historical buildings, as well as throughout its two museums. The next step of the project is already underway: a walkthrough of the town, focusing on its residents. The Toodyaypedia project was recently featured in WA Weekender, a lifestyle TV program that showcases “the Best of Western Australia”: watch the segment online, to see how Toodyaypedia works and how others view the project. WikiTown projects like this one have many benefits: they provide valuable information to town visitors they help diversify and improve content on Wikipedia they give participants a way to engage with new people they give tangible purpose to volunteer efforts WikiTown projects also create new opportunities for partner organizations to help younger generations in the community gain an understanding of their own history. In the long term, they can help participants enjoy the journey of discovery, now and further into the future. Wikimedia Australia is ready to help anyone who would like to replicate the success we are having with WikiTowns in Western Australia: maybe your town could be next! Vice President Wikimedia Australia Founder of Toodyaypedia & Freopedia Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Great work by WikiTowns, Now here is good use of bar codes. Congratulations. its really useful most of life is with smart pone and making use of barcodes its saves lots of time of us. I agree with the comments you have made Posted in Chapters, Free Knowledge, Global, Mobile, Technology, WikipediaTagged Australia, Mobile, QR code, Wikimedia Australia, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikipedia, Wikitowns Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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A small church in Quebec, now available for free on Wikimedia Commons thanks to an innovative collaboration between Wikipedia, museums, and education. Photo by Champlain Marcil, public domain. Wikimedia Canada, the Gatineau Center at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ Gatineau), and the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) are proud to announce a successful educational project in partnership with a cultural GLAM institution. In the middle of 2015, BAnQ Gatineau team uploaded part of the Champlain Marcil archive holdings to Wikimedia Commons. A few months later, UQO students edited Wikipedia, inserted Champlain Marcil photographs in their articles, and digitized archival documents during a visit to BAnQ Gatineau Preservation Centre. First, the BAnQ Gatineau team went through 135,425 scanned files from the iconographic archival holdings of Champlain Marcil, a photojournalist for the daily Le Droit from 1947 to 1969. The BAnQ Gatineau team was led by Nathalie Gélinas (Coordinator archivist), with the support of Benoît Rochon (vice president of Wikimedia Canada). Nearly 200 files, documenting the religious architectural heritage of the Outaouais region, were selected and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Second, students from the course “Wikis, pictures and free licenses” (fr), led by Professor Nathalie Casemajor from the Department of Social Sciences at UQO, worked on eighteen Wikipedia articles on municipalities of Outaouais. They placed images of Champlain Marcil in articles and developed content through a bibliographic research. Nathalie Gélinas came in class to present the resources of the archive center, and students went to BAnQ Gatineau and digitalized documents in connection with the municipalities of the Outaouais region. You can visit the Champlain Marcil project and see the uploaded images from BAnQ Gatineau. Nathalie Casemajor, Wikimedia Canada and Université du Québec en Outaouais Benoit Rochon, Wikimedia Canada 60 hour editathon: A straight 60 hours of editing with over 80 people has just concluded in Mexico City’s Museo Soumaya, where they uploaded documents from Mexico’s history to Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Mexico’s Ivan Martinez told us that “we think this event is a testament to our still-living chapter after a Wikimania. One third of the participants were Wikimania volunteers so we are very happy about retention.” Tweets about the event used #50Años50Horas, and a previous 50 hour editathon was held at the museum last year. Wikipedia Library signups in English, Finnish, Farsi: New signups for the Wikipedia Library, a Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) program that connects editors with the reliable sources they need to create content, have been announced. Wikimania scholarships open: You may now apply for a full or partial scholarship to Wikimania 2016, the annual conference of the Wikimedia movement that will be held next June in Esino Lario, Italy. Partial scholarships are being brought back after a two-year hiatus. Discovery team: The WMF’s Discovery department is planning on improving Wikimedia’s search function and adding OpenStreetMaps to the sites, among other initiatives. Do you have questions? Join their IRC office hour on December 17 at 19:00 UTC. Gadgets 2.0: Wikimedia’s gadget function will be overhauled to make it “more powerful and user-friendly.” For more, see the November Community Tech update on the Wikimedia-l mailing list. Ombudsman Commission: The Ombudsman Commission, the body charged with investigating potential violations of the Privacy Policy on any Wikimedia project, is looking for new members. Applicants are required to meet several qualifications; if interested, email pearley [at] wikimedia [dot] org. Help define a new IdeaLab campaign: After the successful Inspire campaign earlier this year, the WMF’s Community Resources team has invited community members to generate ideas for future campaigns, which “generate novel proposals for improving and addressing community needs on the Wikimedia projects to which you contribute.” State of the Commons: The 2015 State of the [Creative] Commons, the non-profit whose free licenses underpin the Wikimedia projects, has been published. GLAM newsletter: The monthly GLAM Newsletter, looking back on November, has been published. Arbitration Committee: The English Wikipedia’s Signpost has a rundown and analysis of the recent arbitration committee election. Nine individuals were elected by a record number of voters: “[one] consequence of surge in voter numbers was a reduction in raw proportional support for the most popular candidates. Last year, the top four candidates were supported by between 50% and 60.5% of voters; this year, the top four were supported by just over 40% of the electorate, and the other successful candidates ranged from the high 30s down to 27.6%.” Beirut and Paris: How did Wikipedians respond to the reports of terror attacks in Beirut and Paris last month? The WMF’s Joe Sutherland writes that “Wikipedians are changing how breaking news is gathered and reported by curating news from around the world to produce a constantly updated, crowdsourced view.” Ed Erhart, Editorial Associate, Wikimedia Foundation Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Well done, Nathalie and Benoit! Great to see some progress with achive collaborations in Canada! Posted in Affiliates, Chapters, Community, Community digest, Free Culture, Wikimania, Wikimedia Commons, WikipediaTagged Champlain Marcil, Gatinea Center, innovative, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikimedia Canada Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. 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Update (15 September 2016): The EC has released their official proposal for the Directive. It differs in some minor ways from the leaked version. Those differences do not substantially affect the analysis and concerns discussed in this post. Several documents by the European Commission (EC) leaked during the past couple of weeks, giving us a clear view of the Commission’s plans for EU copyright reform. The EC had great ambitions to modernize copyright and to “ensure wider access to content across the EU.” However, its proposals do not look good for the public’s ability to access and share knowledge on the Internet. The burden is now on the European Parliament and the EU Council to balance the proposal. The EC proposes creating a new copyright for publishers that would make it harder for the public to find news articles online and restrict their freedom to share the articles they do find. Another proposal targets online platforms built on user contributions—as the Wikimedia projects are—forcing them to implement technology to monitor for copyright infringement. Just as important are what the EC left out of its proposal, such as an EU-wide freedom of panorama copyright exception to give people the right to share photographs of public spaces. Some of the proposed rules would benefit libraries, museums, schools, and other important institutions for public knowledge. However, these benefits are highly circumscribed and far from outweigh the recommended measures’ harms. As part of its public consultation in preparation for its proposal, the EC asked for input specifically on the topic of freedom of panorama. We focused much of our comments on that exception, which has already been adopted in many EU member states. With a full freedom of panorama exception, it does not infringe copyright for people to take and share pictures of art and buildings in public spaces. It is a sensible copyright reform that redounds to the public’s benefit without significantly harming artists’ and architects’ ability to make a living. It is also a major topic in European copyright discussions and within the Wikimedia communities. While the EC does recommend all EU Member States incorporate freedom of panorama into their national law, and it recognizes that “the current situation holds back digital innovation in the areas of education, research, and preservation of cultural heritage”, it does not even consider harmonizing freedom of panorama EU-wide. In its study of possible reforms, it relegates the freedom of panorama issue to a single footnote. While failing to propose positive reforms like freedom of panorama harmonization, the EC pushes for regulations that are potentially harmful to Wikimedia. The EC wants to force sites that host “large amounts of works” to enter agreements with rightsholders that would require the services to monitor for copyright infringement on their platforms. The EC seems unconcerned with the difficulty in determining which platforms the law would affect, saying it would be based on “factors including the number of users and visitors and the amount of content uploaded”. Based on those factors, however, the Wikimedia projects may meet the criteria for regulation. There are tens of millions of articles on Wikipedia and media files on Wikimedia Commons, and hundreds of millions of monthly visitors to the Wikimedia sites. However, as seemed to be the consensus at a multistakeholder discussion of similar requirements in the US, it would be absurd to require the Wikimedia Foundation to implement costly and technologically impractical automated systems for detecting copyright infringement. The Wikimedia projects are dedicated to public domain and freely licensed content and they have dedicated volunteers who diligently remove content suspected of infringing copyright. Furthermore, beyond Wikimedia, this proposal would lead to over-removing non-infringing content, with a corresponding chilling effect on free expression and creativity. The EC’s recommendations also include the creation of a new 20-year copyright for press publishers—even more extreme than we and others feared. The concern behind the publisher’s right is that sites like Google News that aggregate news articles and list their headlines (accompanied by brief excerpts or summaries) are reducing traffic to news sites and thereby diminishing publishers’ ad revenue. The publisher’s right would force news aggregators to pay fees in order to aggregate articles—potentially including to simply list article headlines—or else be liable for copyright infringement. This proposal would make it more difficult for the public to find and access news articles, because there would be additional financial barriers to providing that access. It would also make it more difficult for new news aggregators to emerge to challenge existing ones. The extraordinarily long term for this right exacerbates these problems. Creating a new copyright for publishers could impair the public’s ability to learn about important events in the world around them. The proposal does contain small steps in the direction of positive copyright reform. It grants an exception to “cultural heritage institutions” who make copies of works for preservation purposes. However, “cultural heritage institution” is narrowly defined to include only libraries, archives, museums and film heritage institutions, with apparently no consideration of entities like Wikimedia and Internet Archive that are important for cultural heritage but do not fit a traditional mold. Limiting who is allowed to preserve works makes it more likely that the world will lose them. The proposal also recognizes the value and importance of text and data mining for research. Unfortunately, the proposed exception only covers public interest research institutions. These few brighter spots in the EC’s proposal are overshadowed by its many problems. Altogether, the Impact Assessment’s language and focus suggest that the EC’s primary concern is the amount of money legacy publishers are making. They try to frame this as concern for long-term “cultural diversity”, but they offer no support or argument for why it will diminish cultural diversity for businesses built on ink-and-paper revenue models to fail. They appear to give no credit, or even consideration, to the democratic cultural production that has flourished thanks to technological developments and Internet platforms. Instead, they paint these platforms as mostly indifferent to copyright infringement and as obstinate for refusing to capitulate to rightsholders’ demands for overzealous takedown systems. There are more issues with this proposal than can be addressed in one blog post, but it should be apparent by now that the EC’s recommendations must not be enacted as legislation. The European Parliament now has the opportunity to amend or reject the proposal. Charles M. Roslof, Legal Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation John Weitzmann, Legal and Policy Advisor, Wikimedia Germany (Deutschland) Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. charles, john, how would you like that european policy makers target online advertising revenue streams? they seem to be keen to to (1) prevent 2-3 companies monopolizing the market, and (2) make them pay more than 0.5% tax on the revenue. my feeling is that if somebody comes up with more intelligent ideas to reach the policy makers goals such proposals would not be made. Fix Copyright! | EC Failed to #FixCopyright: Stop ‘RoboCopyright’ and Ancillary Copyright & Start to Focus on Users and Creators […] Wikimedia – In an attempt to modernize copyright laws, the European Commission forgets about users […] Very useful summary of this subject. I guess its expected that the law should be based on history but the barriers it creates to new developments should be foreseen and appreciated. This proposed requirement for auto copyright checking fails to appreciate the problem of what you are going to do with the billions of hits that are reported each day. If copyright can cover six or seven words then the number of false or more likely trivial finds will be astronomic. Assuming that a web site could afford to have all these reviewed then what advice could the law offer?… Read more » Panoramafreiheit in Europa, Urheberrecht | Daily eLearning […] In an attempt to modernize copyright laws, the European Commission forgets about users: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2016/09/13/european-commission-copyright-leaks/ […] I have proposed a solution involving distribution of compulsory royalties on the Wikimedia Public Policy mailing list in July. I would like to name the proposal after Rick Astley, who supposedly has only made $14 from Rick-rolling. Wikipedia is built on the public domain – Wikimedia Blog […] the public domain to provide room for new creations. The European Parliament has already begun considering a proposed change to the Copyright Directive, including concerning new rights that would make the public domain less […] Posted in From the archives, LegalTagged Copyright reform, EU, European Commission, leak, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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(This video is part of a series for this year’s Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser. You can support Wikipedia and free knowledge by contributing at donate.wikimedia.org. You can also view this video on YouTube.) What Gideon Digby will do to get a good photo for Wikimedia Commons Gideon Digby has climbed fences, crossed swollen creeks, hiked through the rain and has driven over a thousand miles – all in the pursuit of photos to upload to Wikimedia Commons. Gideon is a photographer by profession and he shoots flowers as a hobby in his native region of Western Australia, which is home to more than 30,000 unique species of plants. “It’s going to take years to shoot every one, and that’s part of the challenge, getting in and finding some of those flowers when they’re in season,” he said. “A lot of them are endangered, a lot of them are in restricted areas where you’re not supposed to go and a lot of them you don’t know a physical location, so you’ve got to work that out yourself.” Many of these elusive blooms have led Gideon on adventures deep into the untamed Australian Outback. “Friends and family think I’m a bit crazy,” he admitted with a chuckle. And yet, it is this particular brand of craziness which has benefited and refined the pages of Wikimedia Commons, where he has contributed over 2,000 photos in the past seven years. Like many stories in Gideon’s life, his involvement with Wikipedia began with a flower. In this case, the flower in question was the Kangaroo Paw. He stumbled across the Wikipedia entry for the Kangaroo Paw in 2005, back when the article was a single sentence. “It says, ‘This is the floral emblem of Western Australia’ or something and that’s it,” he said. “I knew more about the flower than what was there and I saw the little button at the top that said ‘edit this page,’ so I started editing.” For Gideon, Wikimedia Commons provided an intriguing way to share his photos with the world.  Many of the other photographic forums he contributed to lacked the context he felt necessary to detail the unique qualities of the plants he captured. On Wikipedia, he could upload photos and provide editorial information to contextualize the plants. “For photographers,” Gideon said, “[Wikipedia] is a fantastic world. You can pick and choose what you release. You can change subjects. You can go read an article about something and say, ‘Oh, I know where that is. That’s only down the road. I’m going to take a drive and take some photos.’ It challenges you.” Profile by Zoe Bernard, Communications Intern Interview by Jonathan Curiel, Development Communications Manager Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Fundraising, ProfilesTagged "The Impact of Wikipedia", profile, Profiles, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Today, the Wikimedia Foundation enabled VisualEditor–the visual interface to edit wiki pages–for all logged-in users on the English Wikipedia. Now, we need your help to ensure that editors are informed about how VisualEditor works, and that they can find help if they need it. Among the tools brought by VisualEditor, the Reference dialog provides an interface for editing references that is more convenient than editing tags in the middle of the page’s source wikitext. There are various reasons that lead existing and prospective contributors not to edit; among them, the complexity of wiki markup is a major issue. One of VisualEditor’s goals is to empower knowledgeable and good-faith users to edit and become valuable members of the community, even if they’re not wiki markup experts. We also hope that, with time, experienced editors will find VisualEditor useful for some of their editing tasks. Now, all registered users can benefit from VisualEditor without needing to explicitly turn it on in their preferences. Of course, the classic wikitext source editor remains available to edit both pages and page sections. While we hope that experienced editors will gradually transition to VisualEditor, this new interface doesn’t yet support the broad range of functionality that raw wikitext allows. We also appreciate that some editors may prefer to use wikitext; we are happy to stress that there are currently no plans to remove the ability to edit the wikitext source. VisualEditor brings major changes to how you and your fellow contributors edit Wikipedia. In order to minimize the disruption, we’ve prepared a lot of documentation to guide users through the process. This includes a Portal page, a list of frequently asked questions and an extensive user guide illustrated with many screenshots. The template dialog allows you to change template parameters in a way that is more robust than with wikitext, provided that the right metadata have been added to the template. Early adopters of VisualEditor have provided us with a mountain of feedback, and we’re immensely grateful for your help. This has allowed us to work with developers to fix many of the bugs and improvements that you reported. Thanks to you, VisualEditor has been much improved, and it is in good shape for wider adoption. But there’s also a caveat: not all browsers will be supported by VisualEditor immediately. Supported browsers include the current and recent versions of Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Note that Internet Explorer is not a supported browser at this time. You can help with the following activities: Continue to provide feedback as you notice issues with VisualEditor. Update Wikipedia’s Help pages — Over the years, volunteers have created many help pages to guide new editors as they figured out the wiki markup language. We now need help to update them so that they reflect the new editing interface. Add TemplateData — Templates are one of the most difficult wikitext elements to edit. VisualEditor provides a nice interface in the form of a dialog where you can add values to a template’s parameters. In order for this to work automatically, however, metadata need to be added to the template’s documentation subpage. Usually, the information is already there in the form of a list of possible parameters, and it just needs to be formatted using the TemplateData syntax. Translate and localize the documentation — If you edit Wikipedia in languages other than English, VisualEditor will soon be enabled on your wiki as well, and we need your help to make sure your fellow contributors can benefit from the documentation and help pages we’ve prepared. The next few weeks are going to be busy, as we iron out issues and work together to adapt to the new interface, updating help pages and templates, and welcoming new editors. We hope that you’ll join us in our efforts to make this transition as painless as possible. Philippe Beaudette, Director, Community Advocacy James Forrester, Product Manager, VisualEditor and Parsoid Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wikimedia rolls out its WYSIWYG visual editor for logged-in users accessing Wikipedia articles in English | LiMiT […] Wikimedia Foundation has finally enabled its long-awaited VisualEditor for all logged-in users on the English-language version of Wikipedia. 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[…] Source: Wikimedia […] » Wikipedia rolls out VisualEditor, lets you edit without the cumbersome markup - Royal Gadgets News […] Source: Wikimedia […] Will this editor be available as an extension for MediaWiki based wiki’s? see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/FAQ (“Can I install VisualEditor on my personal wiki outside Wikimedia?”) Wikimedia abre al público la beta de su editor WYSIWYG para la Wikipedia inglesa | Soynadie […] Vía | The Next Web > Blog oficial de la Wikipedia […] Wikimedia abre al público la beta de su editor WYSIWYG para la Wikipedia inglesa | ITech Soluciones Informáticas […] Vía | The Next Web > Blog oficial de la Wikipedia […] 维基百科开始向注册用户提供所见即所得编辑器 | 牛 X – Hot Key […] 维基媒体基金会终于开始向 英文版维基百科注册登陆用户开放所见即所得可视化编辑器VisualEditor.经典维基百科编辑器wikitext仍然保留,可继续用于编辑条目,维基基金会表示没有计划移除旧的编辑器,因为VisualEditor还不支持wikitext允许的所有功能.维基基金会指出,虽然会有部分编辑志愿者愿 意继续使用wikitext,但它希望大部分用户能转到VisualEditor. […] […] 维基媒体基金会终于开始向 英文版维基百科注册登陆用户开放所见即所得可视化编辑器VisualEditor.经典维基百科编辑器wikitext仍然保留,可继续用于编辑条目,维基基金会表示没有计划移除旧的编辑器,因为VisualEditor还不支持wikitext允许的所有功能.维基基金会指出,虽然会有部分编辑志愿者愿 意继续使用wikitext,但它希望大部分用户能转到VisualEditor. […] Wikipedia rolls out VisualEditor, lets you edit without the cumbersome markup - Advanced Computer Learning Company […] Source: Wikimedia […] 维基百科推出可视化编辑器,所见即所得大幅降低编辑门坎 | 牛 X – Hot Key […] 经由:Engadget,The Next Web 引用来源:Wikimedia […] […] 经由:Engadget,The Next Web 引用来源:Wikimedia […] It seems that the Visual Editor is also working in Opera 15.0 (on a Mac). 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Cytotoxic effect of diferuloylmethane, a derivative of turmeric on different human glioblastoma cell lines Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement Guiding Principles for Research Involving Animals and Human Beings Editorial Policies (Appeals and Complaints) Practical Guide to the SI Units Cytotoxic effect of diferuloylmethane, a derivative of turmeric on different human glioblastoma cell lines Document Type : Original Article Salah Tofik Jalal Balaky 6 1 Department of nursing, College of nursing, Hawler medical University, Erbil, Iraq 2 Department of Periodontics, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China 3 Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Benghazi, Libya 4 Research and Development Department, Giga Biotics, San Diego, California, USA 5 Department of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq 6 Medical Microbiology Department, College of Health Sciences, Hawler Medical University, Hawler, Kurdistan Region, Iraq Glioblastoma is a fatal brain tumor, and the standard treatment for this cancer is the surgical removal of the tumor followed by chemotherapy with temozolomide and radiotherapy. Because chemotherapy has many side effects, the use of compounds extracted from natural herbs, due to fewer side effects, can be a good alternative or supplement to chemical drugs in cancer treatment. In this study, curcumin (diferuloylmethane), known as the main active ingredient of turmeric, was used to evaluate its cytotoxicity on four human glioblastoma cell lines (U373, U251, D54, and T98G). Among these cell lines, U373 was temozolomide resistance, and T98G was photodynamic treatment resistance. These cell lines were treated with increasing concentrations of diferuloylmethane. Survival percentage was assessed by MTT assay and the trypan blue staining method was used to evaluate the rate of cell death and confirm the results of the MTT assay. The results showed that diferuloylmethane has a cytotoxic effect on U251, D54, and T98G cell lines. This effect was higher in high concentrations of diferuloylmethane on U251 and D54 than on U373. Therefore, according to the results of the current study and further studies, curcumin (diferuloylmethane) can be considered an effective complementary treatment in the treatment of glioblastoma. Cell, Organ and Tissue Culture Selected authors of this article by journal ِDr. Salah Tofik Jalal Balakyn This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. 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The molecular targets and therapeutic uses of curcumin in health and disease:269-300. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-46401-5_12 Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1 Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports Receive Date: 07 June 2021 Revise Date: 07 August 2021 Accept Date: 14 October 2021 First Publish Date: 14 October 2021 Bilal, I., Xie, S., Elburki, M., Aziziaram, Z., Ahmed, S., & Jalal Balaky, S. T. (2021). Cytotoxic effect of diferuloylmethane, a derivative of turmeric on different human glioblastoma cell lines. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1(1), 14-22. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138815.1004 Ismael Bilal; Sijia Xie; Muna S Elburki; Zahra Aziziaram; Sangar Muhammad Ahmed; Salah Tofik Jalal Balaky. "Cytotoxic effect of diferuloylmethane, a derivative of turmeric on different human glioblastoma cell lines". Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1, 1, 2021, 14-22. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138815.1004 Bilal, I., Xie, S., Elburki, M., Aziziaram, Z., Ahmed, S., Jalal Balaky, S. T. (2021). 'Cytotoxic effect of diferuloylmethane, a derivative of turmeric on different human glioblastoma cell lines', Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 1(1), pp. 14-22. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138815.1004 Bilal, I., Xie, S., Elburki, M., Aziziaram, Z., Ahmed, S., Jalal Balaky, S. T. Cytotoxic effect of diferuloylmethane, a derivative of turmeric on different human glioblastoma cell lines. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2021; 1(1): 14-22. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2021.138815.1004 Corresponding author ORCID 2022-05-01 Special Issue about the " Nanomaterials to Combat ... 2022-04-08 Happy News: Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports ... 2021-10-10 This open-access journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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During ingestion the service will enter a maintenance window of approx 4 to 6 hours. During maintenance, T259471 Sockpuppet detection API [low effort] T265722 New Service Request: Sockpuppet Detection T286036 Ingest user similarity data for June 2021 T316557: [SPIKE] Investigate building out automated data pipeline job for Similarusers service T287274: [SPIKE][PLACEHOLDER] we need to estimate the effort required to migrate Similarusers' backend to Cassandra T268505: New database request: sockpuppet T276948: Ingest user similarity data for February 2021 T279640: Ingest user similarity data for March 2021 T282992: Ingest user similarity data for April 2021 T284424: Ingest user similarity data for May 2021 gmodena created this task.Jul 2 2021, 12:35 PM2021-07-02 12:35:58 (UTC+0) gmodena moved this task from Backlog to Doing on the Platform Team Workboards (Green) board.Jul 14 2021, 11:40 AM2021-07-14 11:40:45 (UTC+0) gmodena moved this task from Doing to Done on the Platform Team Workboards (Green) board. gmodena added a subscriber: Marostegui.Edited · Jul 14 2021, 11:43 AM2021-07-14 11:43:42 (UTC+0) June run has successfully completed on 2021-07-13 at 1600UTC/1800CEST. Model=Temporal Read=19932894 Skipped=0 Inserted=19932894 Model=UserMetadata Read=8898300 Skipped=0 Inserted=8898300 Model=Coedit Read=120067390 Skipped=0 Inserted=120067390 @Marostegui @hnowlan would you object to having this ingestion process automated (=scheduled by a cron job) moving forward? What kind of safeguards would you need in place? Marostegui added a project: Data-Persistence (Consultation).Jul 21 2021, 7:58 AM2021-07-21 07:58:07 (UTC+0) I am fine with that as long as we use the same parameters we've been using for the previous runs. We should probably try to report or graph these runs if possible in order to detect anomalies (ie: super short or long runtimes might indicate problems). How would this automation deal with errors? (ie: the host being down for maintenance). gmodena mentioned this in T287274: [SPIKE][PLACEHOLDER] we need to estimate the effort required to migrate Similarusers' backend to Cassandra.Jul 23 2021, 6:35 PM2021-07-23 18:35:06 (UTC+0) Aklapper added a project: Platform Engineering.Oct 18 2021, 7:41 AM2021-10-18 07:41:36 (UTC+0) Adding Platform Engineering as Platform Team Workboards (Green) was archived and as open tasks should have an active project tag gmodena closed this task as Resolved.Nov 16 2021, 9:45 AM2021-11-16 09:45:46 (UTC+0) gmodena mentioned this in T316557: [SPIKE] Investigate building out automated data pipeline job for Similarusers service.Sep 1 2022, 9:43 AM2022-09-01 09:43:45 (UTC+0) Log In to Comment Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted; code licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source licenses. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Code of Conduct. · Wikimedia Foundation · Privacy Policy · Code of Conduct · Terms of Use · Disclaimer · CC-BY-SA · GPL

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On a Friday evening in November of 2012, an errant line of code was found in MediaWiki, the software supporting Wikimedia sites and thousands of other wikis. This potentially affected all of the sites in the world’s fifth most visited web property, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, etc. It was a fixable security problem, but only if Wikimedia’s engineers were aware of the flaw. At another website, this would be the type of problem that could generate thousands of disgruntled users. Or worse. But at the Wikimedia Foundation, even outside normal office hours, a problem like this is flagged as a bug and listed as an issue almost immediately. And not always by developers who work for the Foundation. In this case, Wikipedia User:PleaseStand spotted the flaw and filed a report, which then went through the chain of communication to the security team. The bug was fixed before any noticeable damage was done. Security issues are reported as security bugs in Bugzilla, or by simply sending emails in to security@wikimedia.org. And those two avenues are used constantly. This is of course every website administrator’s dream – a Good Samaritan user quietly and diligently pointing out security flaws. But that goodwill doesn’t exist just anywhere. “We usually don’t directly reach out to volunteers and ask them to actively look for security issues,” says Roan Kattouw, a Senior Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation and a lead developer on MediaWiki. “Usually they approach us because they find an issue.” Kattouw knows the process well. He started as a volunteer developer in the Wikimedia movement before joining the engineering team at the Foundation. He now works with volunteer developers to patch up holes in the MediaWiki code. He explains that developers at the Wikimedia Foundation will often get “drive-by reports,” where someone reports a security issue by email once. “And after that we usually never hear from them again,” says Kattouw. But some users, like the Wikipedia user who pointed out the Javascript error, are repeat reporters. These users are invaluable. Due to the number of sites running MediaWiki software, security is very important, but fixing issues for so many different configurations can be very complex, and some sites even need the option to run with an insecure configuration to accommodate their users. Some bugs are more serious than others, and thus have less community involvement. Other security issues need to be dealt with before users can get a chance to point them out. “If our payments anti-fraud system was published somewhere public, with all the enabled rules and point values clearly spelled out, the fraudsters would immediately change their behavior just enough to get around whatever rules we create,” explains Katie Horn, Lead Software Developer in the Wikimedia Foundation’s Fundraising Engineering team. In these cases, relying on help from users becomes problematic. When cases of fraud and theft – two of the most common security issues – are spotted by users, it can be too late. Horn and her team must be perpetually mindful of security issues, from the early planning stages of a fundraising project right through to the end. “Donation fraud is a constant threat to our online payments system,” she says. “Most of the fraudulent activity comes from people trying to use us as a preliminary low-friction test to verify that stolen cards are still valid, before they attempt the all-out shopping spree somewhere else.” An unusual attribute that makes the Wikimedia Foundation’s donation pipeline such a target is that donors are not required to create accounts. Requiring accounts would add a layer of security on donations. But, as Horn explains, it’s a balance. “Mandatory account creation causes friction that we have no good reason to inflict on our donors, most of whom are anonymous readers.” Anonymity, however, doesn’t prevent good, honest feedback; that feedback just comes through different channels set up specifically to address the needs of donors. Usually, donors aren’t familiar with Wikimedia’s standard bug reporting processes, and so they are encouraged throughout the donation process to report issues to problemsdonating@wikimedia.org. This feedback helps fundraising engineers anticipate possible donation-related security issues, and squash technical bugs early. “Happily, we have a small team of people who heroically comb through donor feedback emails, make sense out of the noise, and surface technical issues to the right people,” she says. “It would be unimaginably more difficult to do our jobs if they weren’t there.” Maintaining the security of MediaWiki sites is the job of a small team. There are around three to five people who work on security from time to time, with one engineer on the job full time. But with an army of users reporting in to security@wikimedia.org and the other channels, site security works around the clock. So if you see an issue, please report it. Joshua Errett, Wikimedia Foundation Communications volunteer Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. I would like to start working for wikipedia Posted in TechnologyTagged Security, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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Climate Change, Access to Information and Open Knowledge in Latin America: Challenges and Future Perspectives – Invitation to panel discussion – Diff Choose a language English Español Português 6 June 202214 June 2022 by Scann and Brisa Ceccon By: Evelin Heidel, Wikimedistas de Uruguay & Brisa Ceccon, Wikimedia Foundation With the global #WikiForHumanRights campaign, Wikimedia organizers have been doing local or regional activities to highlight the importance of open knowledge to tackle the triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change. The connection between human rights and the environment has been vivid in Latin America in recent decades. Join us for a panel discussion! To learn more, we invite you to join us on 15 June 2022, from 15 to 16.30 UTC for the panel conversation: “Climate Change, Access to Information and Open Knowledge in Latin America: Challenges and Future Prospects”. Register for the event on Zoom. We will be providing simultaneous interpretation to Portuguese, English and Spanish. Experts from various international and regional organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (GFLAC), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), who play an important role as generators of knowledge and advisors in the design of public policies and investments in climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean, will discuss the following topics: What are the main climate change information gaps in the region and their causes? What are the impacts of the lack of access to accurate, quality and locally/regionally relevant climate change information in Latin America? What actions and partnerships can we undertake to facilitate access to such information? Where should we collectively put the focus? The expert panelists include: Sandra Guzmán, Climate Policy Initiative manager and founder of the GFLAC, the Climate Finance Group of Latin America and the Caribbean. Graham Watkins, Chief of the Climate Change Division, IDB. Martial Bernoux, Senior Natural Resources Officer, FAO. Julie Gail Lennox, Head of the Agricultural Development Unit and Focal Point for Climate Change at UN ECLAC’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico. Help us spread the word on social media! Access to environmental knowledge matters more than ever One of the main challenges that have inspired our actions in the #WikiForHumanRights campaign this year is that access to knowledge about the climate crisis is not available to everyone. The climate movement has taught us that not everyone is impacted by environmental crises in the same way. Climate change has disparate impacts that worsen already inexisting inequalities, such as race, gender and age inequalities. For that reason, not every region will suffer the same impacts or have the same response or solutions for climate change. Latin America is home to six out of the 17 megadiverse countries in the world that are under threat from human activities such as deforestation, mining and intensive agriculture. This crisis is compounded by the climate crises. We depend on our ability to have access to information that is locally relevant and culturally appropriate to understand the undergoing changes, adapt better to its impacts, and design creative solutions to these crises. Wikipedia, the free and multilingual online encyclopedia, is the largest and most-read reference work in history and also one of the 15 most popular websites in the Internet, and the only non-profit site on that list. Therefore, Wikipedia plays an important role in providing access to this information in the main languages spoken in Latin America, including Spanish and Portuguese. Millions of people access Wikipedia to search for information about climate change in their own language. Last year, around 25 thousand articles on climate change across Wikipedias were viewed 325 million times. Everyone needs access to environmental information in their own language, as recognized in Latin America recently by the Escazú Agreement, in order to make decisions in their everyday lives. Wikipedia can provide that knowledge to all the decision makers in their own language, so that we can work together to solve these compounding crises. The virtual event will be open to the public and we will be providing simultaneous interpretation into Portuguese, English and Spanish. In order to access the interpretation, you need to register in the Zoom link. The original audio will be streamed through the Wikimedistas de Uruguay YouTube channel. A more detailed agenda is available here. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Main page (EN), Movement StrategyTagged #WikiForHumanRights, Latin America on Wikipedia Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. 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Federal Emergency Crisis and Disasters Prosecution warns against flouting COVID-19 precautionary measures The Federal Emergency Crisis and Disasters Prosecution has warned public not to spread rumours or false information about the preventive measures adopted by authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19 and not to flout them. "In light of the recent circulation of photos and videos on social media spreading information from some COVID-19 patients on the Al-Hosn application, accompanied by comments and songs mocking the precautionary measures and calling on others to flout them, threatening the national efforts to address the pandemic, we, therefore, call upon members of the community to refrain from this behaviour, which is punishable by the law," said the prosecution’s statement The prosecution also pointed out such actions are punishable with administrative sanctions or the penal sanction stated in Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 on combatting rumors and cybercrimes. The prosecution urged community members and social media users to act responsibly when sharing or circulating any COVID-19-related news, adhere to the precautionary measures and support the country’s related efforts.

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The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the appointment of Toby Negrin as Chief Product Officer. Toby has been leading the Foundation’s product development in an interim capacity since April. He brings nearly 20 years of experience of integrating data, research, and design to produce effective and popular products. The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. Together, Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects are visited by more than a billion unique devices every month. The Wikimedia Foundation is driven by its mission to build a world in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. As Chief Product Officer, Toby will lead one of the organization’s largest departments in collaborating with the Wikimedia communities on the development of the software products which operate Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be responsible for cultivating a culture of excellence, engagement, and sustainability within the product engineering teams. Toby will also work with others in the organization’s leadership on responding to the product needs and requests of the Wikimedia communities. “Toby has demonstrated a style of leadership focused on outcomes, collaboration with the Wikimedia community, and respect for Wikimedia values,” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “He has a deep interest in partnership with our communities, an instinct for assembling and cultivating teams, and a record of supporting staff as they develop and explore new skills and roles. I am thrilled to have him leading the Wikimedia Foundation’s product development efforts.” Since joining the Wikimedia Foundation in 2013, Toby has led an expansion of our analytics efforts, built a new team focused on people who utilize the content developed by Wikimedia’s volunteers, and championed the development of intuitive mobile interfaces and mobile applications. Toby played a critical role in the creation of the organization’s Community Tech team, which develops features and tools based on feedback from active members of the communities. He was also a part of the creation of the New Readers program, a cross-departmental effort to help new people discover and benefit from Wikimedia’s projects. Prior to joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Toby led analytics efforts at DeNA, a mobile social games company. At DeNA, he partnered with colleagues in Japan and China to build global dashboards used to track gaming performance around the world. He also held roles at Yahoo! related to cloud platforms, anti-abuse efforts, and content moderation. Toby grew up in Los Angeles and the UK before landing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and worked in software development at startups in Sweden and The Netherlands. “The Wikimedia movement is an amazing collaboration among editors, developers, chapters and other organizations around the globe,” Toby said. “I am excited and honored to be part of the movement and look forward to partnering with our communities to build the tools and experiences for the next 15 years.” Toby graduated from the NIMBAS Graduate School of Management and University of California – Santa Cruz. In his free time, he enjoys spending time winemaking and grape growing, running and hiking Bay Area trails, playing tennis, and supporting the Golden Gate Philharmonic youth orchestra. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Communications, Foundation, TechnologyTagged analytics, Chief Product Officer, development, software, Toby Negrin, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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This blog post is the second of a two-part series that talk about integration between Wikidata and Wikisource. While the first part is about an initiative by the Wikimedia community that helps to make use of the data on Wikidata, in Wikisource, this part will focus on possible opportunities and applications in this space for further work. Bibliographic metadata is used on Wikisource in various forms and processes, including but not limited to, verifying the copyright status, on index pages, for categorization etc. However, most of this data currently entered manually to Wikisource, in the majority of the language editions. Though this is not a problem, it not the ideal situation. For instance, if there is a mistake in the data, updating data on either Wikidata or Wikisource, will not fix the mistake on the other platform, unless it is updated as well. At this point, Wikidata can be leveraged to its best, and one of the main reasons for its creation, to centrally curate all data on various Wikimedia projects. In the previous post, we spoke about modules that help index pages on Wikisource to retrieve respective bibliographic data from Wikidata. Here are a few ideas for opportunities and applications where further integration between Wikidata and Wikisource can take place. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of all possibilities, but only to be indicative for further work in this area. Web application to create and add Wikidata QIDs to index pages: The above-mentioned modules only work if the Wikidata QIDs are added to the index pages. While a bot can scan the main pages, retreieve respective Wikidata items and add them to the index pages, its work is limited to only existing Wikidata items and only if they are linked to respective main pages on Wikisource. To overcome this limitation, a tool can be helpful for contributors to semi-automate the process. Roughly, the workflow of the tool will be: Extract all index pages from a Wikisource, that are not linked to Wikidata. Show a list of possible matches based on a string-based search on Wikidata for each of them. If there is a match, users selects of the items. The QID is then added to the respective index page Wikisource and the index page link as value to the index page property to the Wikidata item. If there aren’t any matches, the users will be able to create Wikidata items with the help of predefined fields, similar to a cradle form, and link them. Editing Wikidata items from index pages on Wikisource: Though the current modules display data retrieved from Wikidata on index pages, edits to the data will still have to be made on Wikidata itself, to reflect here. This may turn away newcomers contributing to Wikisource. A possibility here could be to able to provide the ability to edit/add data to Wikidata with the help of a popup or a page overlay so that users will not have to leave the site. Header template on the Main Page of work: The header template on the main pages present the title, year of publication and author(s). While these are currently manually added strings + wikilinks, they can also be rendered with the data retrieved from Wikidata. An example header; Popular Science Monthly Volume 31 May 1887 License template on Wikisource: It is customary and generally considered a good practice to add license information to the main page of a work under which the source text is released/uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. While this information is not exactly available on Wikidata, it is available through Structured Data on Commons. Several bots on Wikimedia Commons have been working to add structured licensing and authorship data to all the files. With the help of this data, respective templates can be displayed on the main page of a work. Author pages: The author pages on Wikisource can also be auto-generated based on the author’s respective Wikidata item, by generating a list of works created/written by the author. As already mentioned, these are a few ideas of many possibilities in this area. Another crucial step in the development is to enable these functionalities as MediaWiki extensions that communities can easily enable on their Wikis. Currently, the Lua modules need to be individually deployed on each wiki with necessary modifications, and it can be problematic for communities lacking technical support. The biggest benefit of this work would be fewer discrepancies in data about a bibliographic work across Wikimedia projects, and errors could easily be fixed by editing Wikidata items, and it reflects all around. WikiCite is a Wikimedia initiative to develop open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge. Initially a series of conferences and workshops in support of that goal, WikiCite is now a community of people and an ecosystem of projects which focuses on source metadata leveraging the Wikidata platform—a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines, and central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in GLAM, Main page (EN), Technology, Wikidata, WikisourceTagged Cross-wiki, Structured data on Commons, Wikicite, wikidata, wikisource Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Ecatepec de Morelos is a city and municipality of Greater Mexico City, about one hour from downtown Mexico City. It is the most populated municipality in the State of Mexico and ranks second in most population in the country. Instructor Jorge Luis Esquivel Zubiri from the Universidad de Ecatepec invited his law students to edit the Spanish Wikipedia and Wikisource about Mexican legal concepts and laws. But since the second term of 2013, after learning about the Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia México, the teacher and the students decided to give more structure to their local organization and work in Wikimedia projects grouped under the name of Club WikiUNE. Since August 2013, the students edited articles on Wikipedia about legal concepts such as absence and custody agreement. In Wikisource, they upload some Mexican law, such as the Commercial Establishments Act or the Industrial Property Law. Teacher Jorge Luis notes that this work serves to give greater publicity to the Mexican legal provisions, and he wants to increase the quality and depth on the origin and development of laws that govern more than 100 million Mexicans. Guadalupe García, president of ClubWikiUNE, and teacher Jorge Luis. “It’s a form of open government and for the students a way to develop their professional skills to contribute to a noble project,” says Esquivel Zubiri, also a teacher at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores campus Aragón (School of Higher Studies Aragón) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he will soon establish another Wikipedia Student Club. On February 15, the students of the Club WikiUNE invited the board of Wikimedia Mexico to a report of work held in the auditorium of the university, in which the directors of the school, the teacher Jorge Luis and Guadalupe Garcia, president of the club, gave details to Ivan Martinez and Carmen Alcázar from Wikimedia Mexico about the work. They also requested support of the Mexican chapter to continue working on the Wikimedia projects at the University of Ecatepec. It was very rewarding to arrive at school with the logos of Wikimedia and Wikipedia on the front door and hallways of the schools, plus students printed shirts, flyers, and even bottled water with the logo of WikiUNE. For Wikimedia Mexico, it is very valuable to start a joint work in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, and expand the Wikimedia mission to more educational institutions in the country. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Los conocimientos son tan infinitos y así debe ser su propagación. Posted in Chapters, Education, Global, Wikipedia Education ProgramTagged multilingual post, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikimedia México Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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We are excited to be dropping the second episode of WIKIMOVE, the new podcast on everything Wikimedia Movement Strategy. Wiki Movimento Brasil surveyed the Portuguese speaking communities about some of the big juicy concepts in the MS20230 recommendations – equity in decision making, leadership development and diversity. By doing that, they reached many community members not previously engaged. In this pod they talk about the insights, opportunities and challenges that emerged. These Wikimedians are showing the way of how we can make the strategy come to life at community level, and jointly figure out what our next steps are locally and regionally. We also talk about money, building communities and the Movement Charter Drafting Committee…. Érica Azzellini, Community Manager at Wiki Movimento Brasil Érica is in charge of community support, partnerships and strategy development at Wiki Movimento Brasil. She is also a member of the movement charter drafting committee. Lucas Piantá, Wiki Movimento Brazil’s Strategy Working Group Works as researcher on the movement strategy implementation in the lusophone community. He serves on a number of committees including the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Committee. You can find the audio podcast on our website and a video version with english and portuguese subtitles on Youtube. Please visit our meta page to react to the episode and subscribe to get notified of each new release. You can also follow us on Twitter to continue the conversation. The topic and guests for our next episode will be announced soon, stay tuned! Nicole, Nikki & Eva Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Main page (EN), Movement StrategyTagged Podcast, Wikimove Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Change "Total unique applicants (all time)" to "Users who received access (all time)", and instead of showing the figure for total unique users with any application, show total number of authorizations (incl. expired). Additionally, for all partner pages, we can remove all the graphs in the metrics section. They're not useful to anyone. The Metrics heading can go too. (see T218868) Keep the per-collection numbers, but have them show active authorizations per-collection instead. For bundle partners, we should get rid of the number boxes and metrics section entirely because it deals with applications, and is therefore meaningless. These changes should be made for both proxy + non-proxy partners. We'll make attempts to sure up the number of total accounts available for non-proxy partners. T240160 Improve Library Card platform analytics T175564 Re-work partner page metrics T203163 Fix List Applications overlapping statistics for waitlisted partners with short description panels T236676: Applications should be made to collections T218868: Move or remove per-partner graphs T218868: Move or remove per-partner graphs Samwalton9 created this task.Sep 11 2017, 1:37 PM2017-09-11 13:37:13 (UTC+0) Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptSep 11 2017, 1:37 PM2017-09-11 13:37:13 (UTC+0) Samwalton9 triaged this task as Low priority.Sep 11 2017, 1:52 PM2017-09-11 13:52:36 (UTC+0) Samwalton9 moved this task from Incoming tasks to Authentication on the Library-Card-Platform board. Samwalton9 edited projects, added Library-Card-Platform-Proxy; removed Library-Card-Platform.Jun 5 2018, 12:17 PM2018-06-05 12:17:57 (UTC+0) Samwalton9 moved this task from Incoming tasks to Open tasks on the Library-Card-Platform-Proxy board.Jun 5 2018, 12:40 PM2018-06-05 12:40:01 (UTC+0) Samwalton9 added a comment.Apr 17 2019, 9:51 AM2019-04-17 09:51:24 (UTC+0) This comment was removed by Samwalton9. Samwalton9 renamed this task from For authentication-based partners, add information to partner pages on how many users are currently on the access whitelist to Re-work Total applications and Total unique applications metrics boxes.Oct 15 2019, 10:38 AM2019-10-15 10:38:13 (UTC+0) Samwalton9 updated the task description. (Show Details) Samwalton9 updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 15 2019, 10:41 AM2019-10-15 10:41:21 (UTC+0) • AVasanth_WMF claimed this task.Oct 15 2019, 10:43 AM2019-10-15 10:43:35 (UTC+0) • AVasanth_WMF moved this task from Open tasks to Planned on the Library-Card-Platform-Proxy board. Samwalton9 updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 15 2019, 12:57 PM2019-10-15 12:57:50 (UTC+0) Samwalton9 renamed this task from Re-work Total applications and Total unique applications metrics boxes to Re-work partner page metrics.Oct 24 2019, 10:39 AM2019-10-24 10:39:47 (UTC+0) Samwalton9 updated the task description. (Show Details) Samwalton9 merged a task: T218868: Move or remove per-partner graphs. Samwalton9 added a subscriber: • WingedBladesofGodric. Samwalton9 mentioned this in T230523: Redesign partner pages.Oct 25 2019, 12:21 PM2019-10-25 12:21:23 (UTC+0) • AVasanth_WMF moved this task from Planned to Doing on the Library-Card-Platform-Proxy board.Nov 1 2019, 6:55 AM2019-11-01 06:55:01 (UTC+0) • AVasanth_WMF added a comment.Edited · Nov 1 2019, 8:48 AM2019-11-01 08:48:59 (UTC+0) Change "Total applications (all time)" to "Accounts distributed", and instead of total applications, show e.g. "15/50". 15 is the number of valid authorizations, and 50 is the total number of available accounts. If we have no accounts_available data set, just show "15". @Samwalton9 and how do we plan to handle partners with collections with non-empty accounts_available field? And I guess my other question is, when we say 'valid' authorizations, do we mean authorizations that are active (non-empty date_expires and date >= today)? If so, what about authorizations with an empty date_expires field? Samwalton9 added a comment.Nov 1 2019, 10:39 AM2019-11-01 10:39:00 (UTC+0) how do we plan to handle partners with collections with non-empty accounts_available field? I'd be tempted to just handle it purely based on the partner accounts_available. As such, if we have individual collections with accounts_available, we ignore that and just show the current running total. I'm hesitant to over-engineer when we should prioritise T236676 as the more comprehensive fix. "Keep the per-collection numbers, but have them show active authorizations per-collection instead" is good enough for the time being I think. when we say 'valid' authorizations, do we mean authorizations that are active (non-empty date_expires and date >= today)? If so, what about authorizations with an empty date_expires field? I mean .is_valid(), which should cover this. • AVasanth_WMF moved this task from Doing to Done on the Library-Card-Platform-Proxy board.Nov 1 2019, 3:58 PM2019-11-01 15:58:22 (UTC+0) • AVasanth_WMF added a comment.Nov 1 2019, 3:59 PM2019-11-01 15:59:20 (UTC+0) Can be tested on staging. • AVasanth_WMF moved this task from Done to Planned on the Library-Card-Platform-Proxy board.Nov 1 2019, 4:14 PM2019-11-01 16:14:59 (UTC+0) It occurs to me that we're also removing CSV download buttons here. That means there's a bunch of CSV URLs we can remove wholesale, and then we just need to extract the partner specific parts of the CSV download views, leaving the rest intact for the metrics page. • AVasanth_WMF moved this task from Planned to Done on the Library-Card-Platform-Proxy board.Nov 2 2019, 5:49 AM2019-11-02 05:49:35 (UTC+0) • AVasanth_WMF closed this task as Resolved.Nov 13 2019, 4:36 AM2019-11-13 04:36:17 (UTC+0) Nikkimaria added a parent task: T240160: Improve Library Card platform analytics.Dec 8 2019, 10:25 PM2019-12-08 22:25:00 (UTC+0) Nikkimaria added a subtask: T203163: Fix List Applications overlapping statistics for waitlisted partners with short description panels. Samwalton9 closed subtask T203163: Fix List Applications overlapping statistics for waitlisted partners with short description panels as Resolved.Jan 6 2020, 9:59 AM2020-01-06 09:59:27 (UTC+0) MBinder_WMF added a project: The-Wikipedia-Library (Kanban).Jun 2 2020, 7:45 PM2020-06-02 19:45:11 (UTC+0) · Log In to Comment Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted; code licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source licenses. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Code of Conduct. · Wikimedia Foundation · Privacy Policy · Code of Conduct · Terms of Use · Disclaimer · CC-BY-SA · GPL

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Hello! Please activate this functionality (notify activations of private filters) in the Spanish Wikipedia, for a better fight against vandalism, especially from IRC T266298: Enable wgAbuseFilterNotificationsPrivate by default for WMF wikis MadriCR created this task.Oct 31 2020, 11:13 PM2020-10-31 23:13:59 (UTC+0) Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptOct 31 2020, 11:14 PM2020-10-31 23:14:00 (UTC+0) MadriCR updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 31 2020, 11:17 PM2020-10-31 23:17:11 (UTC+0) Billinghurst added subscribers: MusikAnimal, Billinghurst.Oct 31 2020, 11:21 PM2020-10-31 23:21:23 (UTC+0) Have you looked to utilise @MusikAnimal 's AbuseFilterIRC Huji edited projects, added AbuseFilter, Wikimedia-Site-requests; removed Wikimedia-abusefilter-global-maintainers.Nov 1 2020, 1:24 AM2020-11-01 01:24:19 (UTC+0) DannyS712 added a subscriber: DannyS712.Nov 1 2020, 1:48 AM2020-11-01 01:48:11 (UTC+0) See also T266298: Enable wgAbuseFilterNotificationsPrivate by default for WMF wikis Aklapper added a comment.Nov 1 2020, 11:41 AM2020-11-01 11:41:14 (UTC+0) @MadriCR: Hi, for future reference, please follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes when requesting such kinds of changes. Thanks! • Hermann added a parent task: T267016: Plan for november meeting with Göteborgs museer.Nov 2 2020, 1:21 PM2020-11-02 13:21:28 (UTC+0) DannyS712 removed a parent task: T267016: Plan for november meeting with Göteborgs museer.Nov 2 2020, 1:25 PM2020-11-02 13:25:58 (UTC+0) MusikAnimal added a comment.Nov 2 2020, 7:13 PM2020-11-02 19:13:44 (UTC+0) Have you looked to utilise @MusikAnimal 's AbuseFilterIRC $wgAbuseFilterNotificationsPrivate will need to be true for it to report hits to private filters. Personally I think we should move forward with T266298 instead, though. SRuizR closed this task as Resolved.Nov 10 2020, 12:06 AM2020-11-10 00:06:06 (UTC+0) SRuizR claimed this task. SRuizR added a subscriber: SRuizR. Urbanecm removed SRuizR as the assignee of this task.Nov 10 2020, 12:08 AM2020-11-10 00:08:08 (UTC+0) Log In to Comment Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted; code licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source licenses. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Code of Conduct. · Wikimedia Foundation · Privacy Policy · Code of Conduct · Terms of Use · Disclaimer · CC-BY-SA · GPL

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Folks over at Microsoft Research have been thinking about ways to improve content translation between instances of Wikipedia.  For example, today the largest collection of articles is at English Wikipedia (more than 3,000,000).  Compare that number with the collection at Hindi Wikipedia (which as of July 31 of this year had 55716).  One proven way to increase the articles in Hindi is machine translation, but such translations still need human review and often subtle editing to make them elegantly readable. Enter WikiBhasha, formerly known as WikiBABEL, which launches today as both a MediaWiki extension project and a bookmarklet.  WikiBhasha takes content from a targeted Wikipedia page and displays a machine translation to a second language side-by-side.  Users can edit, add to or delete the translated content, preview their work and then submit it to the second language Wikipedia. What’s especially interesting to me about this project is the fact that its author, researcher A. Kumaran, has tirelessly persuaded Microsoft to allow him to open source the client.  The code has been checked into the MediaWiki code tree under the Apache License 2.0, which means that the powerful side-by-side editing tools developed by Mr. Kumaran can potentially be used in other MediaWiki projects.  I’m very pleased to see Microsoft take this step, and I hope you will join me in welcoming WikiBhasha. Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Microsofts nya översättningsverktyg « Wikimedia Sverige […] meddelade Danese Cooper, som är teknisk chef på Wikimedia Foundation, att Microsoft Research center kommit […] Wikipedia translation tool WikiBhasha goes open source […] language to another. They’ve developed a tool, and it’s now going open source. From the Wikimedia blog: Enter WikiBhasha, formerly known as WikiBABEL, which launches today as both a MediaWiki extension […] Hi, it is good to know that there are now tools that will help increase the content coverage in other languages. This will be incredible. I applaud Microsoft for making the client open source. However, I see that WikiBhasha is a Microsoft service with users signing a Microsoft’s TOU. Who owns the user contributed content – is it Microsoft or WikiPedia? On the other hand, Microsoft WikiBhasha team member confirmed that translation database will be used to improve Microsoft’s commercial products. Could you please clarify these issues? Thank you. Excellent tool indeed! Very intuitive and efficient. It only takes English as a source language, though. Note: It came to our notice after the launch yesterday that there is a Terms of Use (ToU) http://www.wikibhasha.com/wikibhasha/terms.htm that users must agree to when using WikiBhasha, which includes terms at odds with the open source nature of the client software. Wikimedia Foundation was not shown this ToU document before the launch, or we would have pointed out how its ambiguities would likely retard community interest in the project. We have pointed out the problem to A. Kumaran, who is now seeking to rework the ToU to clarify that it applies only to Microsoft’s machine translation engine. Danese, thank you very much for looking into this matter. The way I understood this, from one of the WikiBhasha team members, Microsoft plans to use user translations to improve its translation engine furthering their commercial product. This seems to be a blatant use of Wikipedia content towards commercial gains. User generated translation database needs to be kept away from Microsoft’s product use if not Microsoft’s servers. Grammatical error: “…the fact that it’s author…” * it’s = contraction of “it is” * its = possessive term “…the fact that its author…” Come one! The Wikipedia Chief Technical Officer’s message shouldn’t contain errors in basic grammar! @Truewell (#6): Fixed, thanks for the heads-up! Everyone makes typos every now and then, your comment had one too, after all! 😉 (“Come one!”) Hats off to Microsoft for putting aside commercial concerns for once and doing somethimg positive for society. WikiBhasha: la herramienta para traducir la Wikipedia e impulsar su internacionalización - Colegios Equilingues […] fundación Wikimedia considera esta iniciativa como una interesante herramienta para hacer crecer el contenido de la […] The JavaScript they added is “Copyright (C) Microsoft. All rights reserved.” without any further permission. I wonder if the person who added that JavaScript code to Wikipedia has the right to release it under a free license. Prof Ramesh C Manghirmalani Fantastic -Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks the best in world to develop society at large. @Taskado, Microsoft is doing this for two reasons: 1. to help increase the content in other languages. 2. Capture user corrections to their machine translated text and improve their commercial translation products. They are getting free samples and testing done for their products. The commercial concerns are a huge part of this contribution. Hmm interesting. It means of course Microsoft are competing with Google in this area [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/translating-wikipedia.html] except I don’t think Google agreed to release any of their code. Will they now? @Nil Einne: What Microsoft has released under Apache or GPLv2 is the client code. Client code, either as a bookmarklet or a Mediawiki extension, talks to their translation service or their CTF service. While it is good that Microsoft has released this code, I really don’t know how useful it is for people to have the code that talks to their backend service. The translation or the collaboration takes place on the server side, where the real meat is, is not released. It may be an attempt to mislead people in thinking that they are contributing to an open service.… Read more » A translating machine will never work as well as a human. Anyone who thinks it will probably is monolingual or they have never studied linguistics. Edith Grossman is helpful here, so I will copy and paste something she said (from the Wikipedia entry about her): “Fidelity is surely our highest aim, but a translation is not made with tracing paper. It is an act of critical interpretation. Let me insist on the obvious: Languages trail immense, individual histories behind them, and no two languages, with all their accretions of tradition and culture, ever dovetail perfectly. They can be linked by… Read more » Posted in MediaWiki, Technology, WikipediaTagged Microsoft, open-source, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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Teahouse was launched on Wikipedia one year ago, with the hope that building a warm and friendly community space for new editors to connect with experienced Wikipedians might help decrease Wikipedia’s gender gap. The goal was to measure the impact of a many-to-many support system targeted at newbies. Would inviting newcomers to participate in a welcoming, social learning experience encourage more of them to continue on their journey from making that first edit to their 1000th? One year later, the data shows that Teahouse indeed has a positive impact on the new editor experience for English Wikipedia, and demonstrates some promise as a gender gap strategy. New editors who visit the Teahouse make nearly 3 times the number of edits to Wikipedia articles than a control group with similar early editing patterns. They edit twice as many articles. They have twice the number of talk page discussions with their fellow editors, and they return to edit Wikipedia every week for nearly twice as long. But Teahouse is about people and experience as much as numbers, and so to celebrate Teahouse’s first birthday, we spoke with Teahouse hosts and guests to learn about what the project has meant for them and what it might signal for the years still to come. Gtwfan52 is a Teahouse host who first started editing Wikipedia on the day the Teahouse launched. He was invited to visit the space by Rosiestep, a long-time Wikipedian and one of the first hosts who brought hundreds of new editors to participate in the project’s early days. Gtwfan52 remembers coming for help with the Goshen College article. “I asked for an honest critique. I got a great one. They offered constructive criticism and specific instruction on how to do some things I had no idea how to do. This was followed up by some copyediting from Teahouse hosts once I put the addition in the article, and finally, by a very encouraging “atta boy” from Sarah [Stierch] at the Teahouse.” Sarah Stierch’s gender gap fellowship at the Wikimedia Foundation sparked the Teahouse project in collaboration with Teahouse team members Heather Walls, Jonathan Morgan and Siko Bouterse.  Sarah also served as Teahouse’s first host and maitre d’. Gtwfan52 reflects that “without Teahouse and especially the kind words from Sarah, I probably would be long gone.” Today, he has made over 11,000 edits to Wikipedia and gives back to the project by hosting. “Teahouse is always friendly, and completely adopts my Dad’s favorite saying, ‘The only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.’” Gtwfan52 now has his eye on the next generation of hosts-to-be. Among them is Anne Delong, a librarian and computer programmer who started editing just Wikipedia 2 months ago. She told us, “I am used to material that is logical and arranged according to a preset plan. Wikipedia is more like a village where the roads have grown in random directions because that’s where the first people happened to walk. The Teahouse helped me get past that until I could see the underlying infrastructure and the people that are gradually article by article pulling it toward a cohesive whole.” What does Anne wish for Teahouse’s birthday? “I hope that the Teahouse hosts keep up the good work, and attract more super-friendly people to help out. What goes around comes around!” Over the past year, about 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served and 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project. 137 Wikipedians have served as hosts at some point during the year. Edit counts by Teahouse visitors compared to control Participants say the lively atmosphere of the space has been a key to its success. Host TheOriginalSoni said, “while most projects and groups had only one or two dedicated editors working endlessly to make things work, the Teahouse always had a steady stream of a bunch of cool and helpful editors who keep lurking around. Even when one of these editors is not here, there is always someone else to fill in.” Guest BeatrizBibi commented, “I’m glad to read words from real people, I always thought Wiki was about writing and reading alone.” Last month was the most active month on the Teahouse so far: 46 active hosts answered 263 questions in the Teahouse, and 11 new hosts joined the project. Go Phightins! said, “I love it when a couple of hosts team up to answer a tough question and the proverbial light bulb goes off in the inquirer’s head.” Guest-turned-host Doctree agreed, “Yep, that happened to me. Thanks to Teahouse hosts, I began to really understand Wikipedia.” What motivates these Wikipedians to give back to each other in the Teahouse, when there are so many other ways to spend their time? Gwickwire shared, “Teahouse enables me to empower other editors.” Yunshui reflected, “Helping new editors to build articles that meet the requisite guidelines and will improve Wikipedia is probably the most useful thing I can do here, and the Teahouse provides a tool to enable me to do just that.” As Teahouse enters its second year, it continues to evolve. Ocaasi and Anyashy recently launched a new experiment with Teahouse badges, micro-awards to recognize hosts and guests for their participation. 11 different badges acknowledge contributions like asking a great question or giving a clear and helpful answer, and in total 250 badges have been given out so far. To celebrate Teahouse’s first birthday, we’re giving out tasty cupcake badges, so, please drop by the Teahouse for a cup of wiki-tea and a birthday badge. In the words of Doctree: “The Teahouse is a model of civility and collaboration, an example of how Wikipedia should function. Keep up the good work…Wishing all a great Teahouse birthday. May there be many more.” Jake Ocaasi, Wikipedia editor Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Coool! 😀 although to the next year,we could have a meeting haha in real life and share more 😀 and eat cakes 😀 I love Teahouse CONGRATS !!! 😀 Virtual Skeptics #28 – 2/27/2013 | The Virtual Skeptics Posted in Community, Editor Retention, Gender gap, WikiWomenTagged Teahouse, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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What is Creative Commons? Video by Victor Grigas, CC BY-SA 3.0. You can also view it on Vimeo or Youtube. One of the simplest requirements for using freely-licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons is to give credit to whoever created the material. But even this is not easy for users to comply with if they aren’t familiar with Creative Commons licenses and the right wording for license labels. As opposed to those under copyright, freely-licensed photos on Wikimedia Commons are available to the world. Anyone can use them, for free, in printed material, blogs, social media channels, etc., without getting permission from the photographer—but with some stipulations, including attribution. Wikimedia Germany (Deutschland), the independent chapter that supports Wikimedia in Germany, wants to show you how easy it is to re-use these freely licensed works. We have created a web tool to simplify these stipulations—and it’s as simple as copy and paste. This license notice should include the author’s name and the license type. Creative Commons licenses have clear legal requirements, but they’re not always easy to interpret when the photos are being reused. Attribution requirements for the license notices can be hidden in “legalese,” which can be a challenge for the layman to decipher even with the best of intentions. Moreover, missing information can have serious legal repercussions! Even accidental non-compliance with license requirements can lead to copyright infringement. An easy way to follow the rules with a ready-to-copy license label The attribution generator is a new tool by Wikimedia Germany. The tool automatically compiles the license information. The user just needs to answer a few simple questions: Do you want to use the image digitally or in print materials? Have you modified the photo? Is it going to be used alone or with multiple images? The correct license notice is then generated after the user answers these questions. This short video, available in German (with English subtitles on Commons), shows how easy it is to create the license notice for an image with the Attribution Generator. In addition, Dr. Till Jaeger, a specialist attorney in copyright and media law, briefly explains the benefits of Creative Commons licenses. Dr. Jaeger collaborated with Wikimedia Germany in developing the Attribution Generator. At the time of this writing, the Attribution Generator is only available in German and English. To get the word out about the Attribution Generator internationally, we need your help! Our goal for the tool is to make it available in as many languages as possible so that everyone can easily use freely-licensed images. Help us translate the Attribution Generator into your language. You can find details on how it works on Wikimedia Commons. You can also contact us via email. Katja Ullrich, Project Manager for the Attribution Generator Photo by Sailesh Patnaik, CC BY-SA 4.0. A Wikidatathon was organised during the 7th WikiTungi Puri meetup. The goal of the Wikidatathon was to translate labels and descriptions of the articles created so far on Women’s History Month Editathon on Odia Wikipedia. Eight Wikimedians joined the event, where they translated nearly 220 labels and descriptions. Photo by Fjmustak, CC BY-SA 4.0. On March 10, 2017, Zwolle, Netherland hosted an introductory workshop to Wikipedia. The Workshop was attended by a group of fourteen Syrian refugees and migrants to the Netherlands. The workshop was held in Arabic. Photo by Francesca Lissoni, CC BY-SA 4.0. This month, Wikimedia Italy organized six Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thons in Milan, Florence, Rome, Battipaglia, Venice and Potenza. More than 100 participants attended the events and more than 80 articles on female artists and their productions were created or improved. Arabic book about Wikipedia: Wikipedian Abbad Diraneyya has published a new book about Wikipedia. This book discusses how Wikipedia works, how to edit on the website, and the author’s personal experience with it. It took Diraneyya over three years to compile the the book. However, the book is free to download and is available under CC BY-SA 3.0, the same free license used for Wikipedia’s content. WikiLesa encourages Argentinian students to edit about human rights: Over the past two years, Wikimedia Argentina held four editing events for the project WikiLesa. The project aims at improving Wikipedia’s content on human rights violations during the (1976–1983) military dictatorship. Wikimedia Argentina worked in partnership with a local media agency specialized in human rights where they worked together on training students, educators and researchers on Wikipedia editing. 54 Wikipedia articles have been improved while 21 new ones were created as part of this project. More about the project on the This Month in Education newsletter. DARM challenge helps with nearly 2,200 photo uploads on Wikimedia Commons: Between 25 December 2016 and 25 January 2017, the Wikipedian in Residence at DARM (National Archive of the Republic of Macedonia), in collaboration with the State Archive, helped coordinate the DARM challenge. As part of this challenge, 2,190 files were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by sixteen Wikipedians. The photos have been used on nearly 1,400 pages on Wikipedia in 33 different languages. More about the project on Wikimedia’s GLAM newsletter. Wikipedia Education Program kicks off in Finland: The Finnish Wikipedia community and Wikimedia Finland (Suomi), the local chapter, are getting ready to support the first regular Wikipedia courses in their country. The courses will be hosted by the University of Helsinki and the University of Jyväskylä starting in the next academic year. More about the courses in the This Month in Education newsletter. Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi hosts a ‘women in science’ editathon: On 4 March, the Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi hosted an editathon on Indian women in science. Participants were a mix of new and experienced Wikipedia editors who worked on creating and improving relevant articles to commemorate the women’s history month on Wikipedia. New hardware donation program: Asaf Bartov has announced that the Wikimedia Foundation will begin donating fully-functional but depreciated laptops to community members who apply for them. The pilot year for the program begins with twenty laptops, subject to several conditions; you can apply for one over on Meta. Similarly, a community-driven equipment exchange program has been started for Wikimania 2017. If you are looking for or have equipment that could be donated, navigate to the official wiki for more. Compiled and edited by Samir Elsharbaty, Digital Content Intern Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Art + Feminism wikieditathon was organized in 6 cities of Italy (in prestigious locations like MAXXI museum in Rome, Gli Uffizi musem in Florence, Ca’ Foscari university in Venice etc) by WikiDonne (a user group recognized by WMF on November 16th 2016 as UG affiliated to the Wikimedia movement) and supported by Wikimedia Italy. Our group collaborates with WikiWomen, WikiMujeres, LesSansPages, Viquidones as part of Women in Red global project, Iberocoop and FilmFrauen. Camelia Boban, WikiDonne’s founder That’s really good, thank you. I have a GLAM contact who are looking for an API version of this tool. Is such a thing planned? Thank you, a great contribution. Attribution while needed is not necessarily easy! 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There are several confusing and surprising things about the Javanese language. First, a lot of people confuse it with Japanese, or with Java, a programming language. Also, with over eighty million speakers, it is one of the ten most widely spoken languages in the world, yet it is not an official language in any country or territory. Illuminated manuscript of Babad Tanah Jawi (History of the Javanese Land) from the 19th century. Javanese is mainly spoken in Indonesia, on the island of Java, which gave its name to a popular variety of coffee. The only official language of that country is Indonesian, but Javanese is the main spoken language in its area. It is used in business, politics and literature. In fact, its literary tradition goes back to the tenth century, when an encyclopedia-like work titled Cantaka Parwa was written in it. Another Javanese encyclopedia was published in the nineteenth century, titled Bauwarna. This tradition is being continued today by Wikipedians who speak that language: every day they strive to improve and enhance the Javanese Wikipedia, now having over forty thousand articles. One of them is Benny Lin. In addition to writing articles and explaining to people the Wikipedia mission, Benny’s special passion is making the Javanese language usable online not just in the more prevalent Latin alphabet but also in the ancient Javanese script. This ancient script also known as Carakan was used for over a thousand years, and numerous books have been published in it. These days there’s little book publishing in it, though it is still used in some textbooks, in some Facebook groups and in public signs. Elsewhere the Latin alphabet is used more frequently. The younger generation is starting to forget the old script and this rich heritage becomes inaccessible. Benny hopes that transcribing classical literature for Wikisource and writing modern encyclopedic articles in this script, will revive interest in it and help the Javanese people achieve greater understanding of their own culture, and make these largely unknown treasures of wisdom accessible to people of all languages and cultures. Javanese Wikipedia article about Joko Widodo Benny presented a talk about this at Wikimania in Hong Kong, the international gathering of Wikipedians. There he also worked with Santhosh Thottingal and myself, developers from Wikimedia’s Language Engineering team, to improve the support for the Javanese script in Wikipedia. Thanks to this work, Wikipedias in all languages can now show text in the Javanese script, and the readers don’t have to install any fonts on their computers, because the fonts are delivered using webfonts technologies. The exquisite Javanese script has many ligatures and other special features, which require the Graphite technology for displaying. As of this writing, the only web browser that supports it is Firefox, but Graphite is Free Software, and it may become supported in other browsers in the near future. Benny also completed his work for Javanese typing tools for Wikipedia, so now the script can not only be read, but also written easily. This technology can even be used on other sites and not just Wikipedia, using the jquery.ime library. He sees his work as part of a larger effort by many people who care about the script. There are others, who design fonts, promote the script in different venues and research its literature. Beeny saw that he could contribute by making the fonts and typing tools more accessible through Wikipedia, and he just did it. Wikimedians believe that the sum of all knowledge must be freely shared by all humans, and this means that it must also be shared in all languages. Passionate volunteers like Benny are the people who make this happen. Software Engineer, Language Engineering team Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. This is totaLly utterly cool. And yet another example of why wikipedia is a planet-changing movement supported by some really smart and committed volunteers. Restoring the forgotten Javanese script through Wikimedia | maiki […] Restoring the forgotten Javanese script through Wikimedia […] glad to know somebody is want to recover javanese script because i am indonesian and i live in java I’m Javanese and really really looking forward for this javanese script project. I can read and write Javanese script. Is there any way I can do to help as a volunteer for javanese script project? 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These 3 tips will help you create a thriving pollinator-friendly garden this winter - The Permaculture Research Institute Your cart is currently empty. Photo by Anson Aswat on Unsplash Editor Send an email May 31, 2021 The busy buzz of pollinating bees is a sound most of us associate with summer. If you live in temperate regions of Australia, you may start to notice fewer insects as the weather gets colder. Across most of the continent, however, some flower-visiting insects are active all year round – and some are more common in cooler months. Planting winter-blooming flowers is a great way to support beneficial garden insects. Now is the perfect time to start planning your pollinator-friendly winter garden. Flowers are an important source of food for insects such as bees, butterflies, wasps and hoverflies. Sugary nectar is an important source of carbohydrates, while pollen packs a powerful protein punch. Planting flowers also attracts and sustains predatory insects. This can help keep pest species under control, meaning less need for pesticides. Image by congerdesign from Pixabay Planting flowers means less need for pesticides. Know your winter-active insects First, let’s look at which pollinators and helpful predators you can expect in your garden in winter. This guide, as well as the below gardening tips, applies primarily to temperate regions of Australia where temperatures become cool over winter. The temperate region comprises the areas shown in blue below. It includes the coastal rim that curves from inland of Brisbane down to Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide, as well as Tasmania and the southwest tip of Western Australia. Australian climate zone map – Bureau of Meteorology One of the most common pollinators is the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera). This introduced species evolved in cooler regions of the world and tends to be more cold-tolerant than most native bees. They’ll start to leave the hive when the temperature rises above 13℃, but are most active above 19℃. Most native Australian bees prefer warmer temperatures. But a few species, such as reed bees (Exonerua) and the sugarbag bee (Tetragonula carbonaria), make an appearance on warmer winter days when the temperatures reach the mid- to high teens (although the sugar bag bee is usually not found south of Sydney). Flies tend to be relatively tolerant of cooler temperatures, and are the stars of winter pollination. Hoverflies (Syrphidae), in particular, are garden superheroes. Adult hoverflies feed on nectar and pollen and can pollinate a range of plants. As a bonus, the maggot-like larvae of some hoverfly species are voracious predators, happily eating soft-bodied pests such as aphids. It’s bee season. To avoid getting stung, just stay calm and don’t swat Image by Hier und jetzt endet leider meine Reise auf Pixabay aber from Pixabay. Hoverflies, which have similar patterning to bees, are common garden visitors in winter. Hoverflies are often mistaken for bees or wasps because of their similar yellow and black patterning. The resemblance is not accidental; hoverflies have evolved to mimic the appearance of stinging wasps and bees. Don’t let them fool you – hoverflies cannot sting and are generally harmless. Some hoverfly species lay their eggs in stagnant water. The resulting larvae are known by the unflattering name “rat-tailed maggots” because they breathe underwater through a long, thin siphon that resembles a tail. Don’t worry if you find these alien-looking critters swimming in your pond or beneath potted plants – the adults are flower-loving vegetarians that can help with pollination. Hidden women of history: Eleanor Anne Ormerod, the self taught agricultural entomologist who tasted a live newt Other flies such as blowflies (Calliphoridae) are also active through the cooler months. Although blowflies are often considered pests, they play an important role in the pollination of some fruits including avocado and mango, as well as seed production for carrot, celery and cauliflower. With the right planting, you can also attract predators such as parasitoid wasps, lacewings and ladybird beetles. These insects mostly feed on other insects, but live longer and produce more offspring when they have access to a sweet sip of nectar. So now we’ve met our winter pollinators and predators, read on for three ways to support them in your garden. Image by Beverly Buckley from Pixabay Blowflies and other pollinating insects can be active in cooler months. 1. Plant lots of flowers The easiest – and most beautiful – way to support winter insects is to plant lots of colourful winter-blooming flowers. Winter-loving brassicas such as broccoli, bok choi and mustard greens produce flowers that are a favourite food of many insects. Letting a few of these veggies go to flower will help support your local beneficial insects. Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Salvias such as chia (Salvia hispanica) and basils such as sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) will attract and support a variety of flower-visiting insects. Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Native flowers such as coastal rosemary (Westringia fruticosa), Happy Wanderer (Hardenbergia violacea), wattles (Acacia) and grevilleas are excellent for some of our pickier native insects. Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND When planning your winter garden, aim for a variety of colours, shapes and blooming times. Ideally, something should be in bloom all year round. Try to include as many native species as possible. Different winter-active insects have different preferences, so a variety of flower types can ensure you cater to a wider range of insects. For example, a winter survey of community gardens in Sydney found honeybees were most abundant on sweet basil, lavender (Lavendula) and borage (Borago officinalis), while hoverflies (Melangyna_sp) preferred Brassica rapa, Veronica persica and Stellaria media. Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND The differences in flower preferences likely reflect differences in the shape and length of insect mouth parts. Honeybees have relatively long tongues that can access nectar in tube-shaped flowers (such as basil and lavender). Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Hoverflies, with their shorter tongues, have an easier time accessing nectar and pollen from shallower, daisy-like flowers. By planting a variety of flower shapes, you can make sure no insect misses out. Image by Bretagne22 from Pixabay Plant flowers ina. variety of shapes, sizes and colours. Even organic or so-called “eco-friendly” insecticides may harm beneficial insects. Instead of insecticides, try low-impact options such as removing caterpillars by hand, or using a water spray to remove aphids. If you feel you must use insecticides, read the label carefully and choose selective baits and sprays, which target one type of insect, over broad-spectrum sprays (such as pyrethrins, pyrethroids and neonicotinoids) which kill insects indiscriminately. Keep in mind that in some cases, using insecticides can actually make your pest problems worse by killing beneficial predatory insects. Planting a garden for winter-active insects is a wonderful way to support local wildlife. Your garden will thrive as a result of the free pollination and pest control services these beneficial insects provide. So get planting, and enjoy the delight of a buzzing garden full of helpful insects. 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the launch of guided tours to 31 more language versions of Wikipedia, including all of the top 10 projects by number of page views; improvements to the tools and process used to deploy code to Wikimedia production sites; the release of the first archive of the entire English Wikipedia with thumbnails, for offline use. Note: We’re also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge. 149 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki. The total number of unresolved commits went from around 1320 to about 1453. About 22 shell requests were processed. 3.1 Editor retention: Editing tools Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up, and we really love talking to active community members about these roles. Software Engineer – VisualEditor (Features) Software Engineer – Language Engineering Software Engineer – Mobile (Android Apps) Director of Community Engagement (Product) Leila Zia joined the Analytics team as Research Scientist (announcement). Faidon Liambotis was promoted to Principal Operations Engineer (announcement). YuFei Liu joined the UX Design team as Visual Design Intern (announcement). Following changes in the Language engineering team, Amir Aharoni is now the Acting Product Manager, and Runa Bhattacharjee the ScrumMaster (announcement). Final negotiations have completed with the 3 remaining data center bids in February, and the Wikimedia Operations team will make a decision in the first week of March. Expect a public announcement soon. Amount of RAM in use (in MBs): 1,812,992 Amount of allocated storage (in GBs): 24,540 Number of virtual CPUs in use: 906 Number of users: 2,714 The Wikimedia Labs infrastructure in the eqiad data center has been deployed with the OpenStack Havana release, and testing completed in February. Labs users will have 2 weeks to migrate their own projects & instances starting in March. During the last two weeks of March, the Wikimedia Operations team will handle the transfer of the remaining instances that have not been migrated by users themselves. During a short deployment of our West Coast data center ulsfo in October 2013 several reliability problems were found with some of our network service providers, which forced us to take this site out of service until they could be resolved. We have worked since to improve reliability and increase redundancy of network transit and transport to this site. As of the week of February 3rd ulsfo is in full production usage again, and is now serving traffic for the US west coast, Oceania and large parts of Asia. A blog post is being prepared describing the improvements in user perceived site performance. eqiad data center capacity expansion The Wikimedia Foundation has expanded the capacity of its main data center site eqiad in Ashburn, Virginia by 33%. A fourth row of racks has been added, and all power & networking infrastructure has been installed and configured in February. The added rack space is available for new equipment as of February 24th. Editor retention: Editing tools In February, the VisualEditor team continued their work on improving the stability and performance of the system, and added some new features and simplifications. Media item editing is now much richer, allowing the setting of position, alt text, size (or setting as default size) and type for most kinds of media item. When adding links, redirects and disambiguation pages are now highlighted to help editors select the right link, and changing the format or style of some text was tweaked to make editing clearer and more obvious. Adding and editing template usages is now a little smoother, auto-focussing on parameters and making them clearer to use. Page settings have expanded to set redirects, page indexing and new section edit link options. The extensive work to make insertion of “citation” references based on templates quick, obvious and simple neared completion. The deployed version of the code was updated four times in the regular releases (1.23-wmf13, 1.23-wmf14, 1.23-wmf15 and 1.23-wmf16). In February, the Parsoid team continued with bug fixes and improved image support. See the deployment page for a summary of deployments and fixed bugs in February. Part of the team has continued to mentor two Outreach Program for Women (OPW) interns. This program ends mid-March. Others are mentoring a group of students in a Facebook Open Academy project to build a Cassandra storage back-end for the Parsoid round-trip test server. We have a first version of a Debian package for Parsoid ready. This package is yet to find a home base (repository) from which it can be installed. This will soon make the installation of Parsoid as easy as apt-get install parsoid. This month, Flow was launched on the talk pages of two English Wikipedia WikiProjects that volunteered to be a part of the first trial, WikiProject Breakfast and WikiProject Hampshire. We’ve continued to iterate on the front-end design of the discussion system based on user feedback, releasing a new visual treatment during the trial and starting work on a front-end rewrite for better cross-browser and mobile compatibility (to be released sometime in March). We also spent time making sure Flow integrates better with vital MediaWiki tools and processes (e.g., suppression and checkuser) and improving the handling of permalink URLs. Slides of the quarterly review. In February, the Growth team first focused on releasing the new Wikipedia onboarding experience on additional projects. The GettingStarted extension was deployed to 30 Wikipedias, including all of the top 10 projects by number of page views. This marks the first time its task suggestions and guided tours were available outside English projects. The GuidedTour extension was also deployed to those projects (as a dependency of GettingStarted), as well as the Czech Wikipedia and se.wikimedia.org. Late in the month, the team also presented its work at its first Quarterly Review of the 2014 calendar year (see slides and minutes). For the first half of the month, we focused on the current Education Program extension. We fixed many old and new bugs—including a few remaining database-related problems—and improved the UI for editing courses. Also, two Facebook Open Academy students started work on new notifications for the extension. In mid-February the team shifted our focus to creating new software for many kinds of collaborative editing, including, but not limited to, Education Program courses. The first phase of this work, called editor campaigns, is being carried out with the Growth team. We’ve worked primarily on enabling wikitext editing, specifically enabling logged-out editing, logged-in editing, logging in and creating accounts. We’ve been working on bringing VisualEditor to tablets (currently in alpha). This is a requirement for redirecting tablets to mobile later on. Specifically, we’ve been working on enabling inspectors, especially the link inspector. We’ve also been fixing a variety of bugs to ensure that the basic editing functionality works as expected. During the last month, the team added zero-rating for HTTPS for select carriers in cooperation with the Operations team. In collaboration with the Mobile Apps team, we integrated Wikipedia Zero into the forthcoming rebooted versions of the Android and iOS apps, including API and client-side code for zero-rating detection. We updated the legacy Firefox OS app with bugfixes from January (make spinner background opaque, remove mozmarket.js legacy JS); we also prepared other bugfixes for that app (keep last page browsed on low memory crash, avoid text overlaying dropdwon, ensure ‘X’ clicks stop processing and not send user to Main Page). Discussion with the Operations team and Platform Engineering continued on the ideal portal hosting approach concurrent with sprint planning; portal work is probably deferred until the hosting strategy is formalized. The team also started work on the core API to allow dynamic category pages based on search terms, as well as continuing the discussion on core ResourceLoader features, in support of a proof of concept HTML5 webapp riding atop MobileFrontend. We also started a patch to make contributory features (not just banners and rewritten URLs) present for Wikipedia Zero users on carriers supporting HTTPS zero-rating. Last but not least, Yuri Astrakhan performed extensive analytics work on pageviews and page bandwidth consumption for gzip-capable Wikipedia Zero clients across all Wikipedia Zero-scoped partner pageviews; Yuri also conducted additional analytics work on SMS/USSD data. In February, we launched Wikipedia Zero with MTN South Africa (Opera Mini browser only). MTN South Africa responded directly to the kids of Sinenjongo High School with an open letter to the students and the youth of South Africa. They said they agree that Wikipedia could give a boost to their education system, and that offering Wikipedia Zero is a small thing that could change everything (see video on YouTube). We also launched Wikipedia Zero with Safaricom, the largest operator in Kenya. We now have three partners in Kenya, covering 90% of all mobile subscribers. South Africa is our 23rd country to launch, and Safaricom is our 27th operator partner. The Mobile Partnerships team attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where we met with existing operator partners, prospective partners and tech companies who want to support the mission. At the conference, our Wikipedia Text pilot with Airtel Kenya and the Praekelt Foundation was nominated as a finalist for the GSMA Global Mobile awards in the education category. UniversalLanguageSelector was re-enabled with webfonts disabled by default. Research is ongoing to see whether they can and should be re-enabled by default at least for some languages. More convenient shortcuts were added by Niklas Laxström to the Translate extension. Kartik Mistry and Amir Aharoni are working on stabilizing the browser tests for all the language extensions and on setting up more robust online staging sites. Several bugs were fixed in jquery.webfonts. Language Engineering Communications and Outreach Runa Bhattacharjee is setting up a Test Case Management System, to facilitate manual testing inside the team and helping volunteer translators test new versions of language tools and report the results. The prototype ContentTranslation server was created in Node.js, mostly by Santhosh Thottingal and David Chan. The server will be responsible for syncing the translations between all the languages, storing translated parallel texts (using Redis) and retrieving caching the results of language tools queries (machine translation, translation memory, dictionaries, segmentation, etc.). Some front-end components for the translation interface were made, mostly by Sucheta Goshal and Amir Aharoni. Work is starting back up on this project, with the goal of having at least one production service running on HipHop by the end of the quarter. Tim Starling is working with the HHVM upstream to finish off a compatibility layer for running Zend extensions (ext_zend_compat) under HipHop, with the goal of using it for our Lua module. Ori Livneh is working on packaging and deployment issues, as well as generally wrangling the overall development effort. Aaron Schulz is starting to investigate what is needed for wmferrors support. Wikimedia development and deployment flowchart The Release and QA team had their latest quarterly review on February 13. Highlights from the meeting include: We will be hiring two new positions (a QA Automation Engineer and a Test Infrastructure Engineer). We will process through all pain points from the Development and Deployment process review. We will continue performing incremental improvements to the current deployment script (known as “scap”) to better inform future deployment tooling work. We will create a way for tests to create fake/stub data (for use in throw-away/one-off test instances). We will make it so our browser tests are more accurate cross testing and production environments. Notable progress on things with visuals includes an updated Development and deployment flowchart (opposite), as well as an auto-generated version. While this workstream is still officially on hold, the related Global CSS/JS extension to provide per-user global modules was deployed to beta labs for testing. Additionally, patches were contributed by volunteer developers. This month, almost all LuceneSearch and MWSearch bugs have either been closed as problems that are fixed in CirrusSearch, or moved to the CirrusSearch component. We then prioritized all CirrusSearch bugs. After clearing out any remaining high priority issues, engineering work for an update to the design of the search results page is due to commence on March 10. The application automatically transitioned from the active scholarship collection period to the review-only period on 2014-02-17. No major issues were reported for February. The back-end features of the application were demoed for the IEG team as part of their information gathering process for implementing a more structured review tool for grants. The month of February saw a lot of work on WMF deployment tooling. To see a real life example of what it looks like to deploy code on the WMF server cluster, watch this screencast created by Bryan Davis. That shows you what the person deploying the code sees when doing a localization (translations) update. A deployment that includes new changes to the code (e.g. MediaWiki and extensions) on the servers would be different. The suite of tools that make up the current MediaWiki deployment tooling is continuing to be updated and rewritten in Python. You can see the work of this in the repository’s history. The updated Development and Deployment Process flowchart is now created using Blockdiag, a Python library for converting text into flow charts. You can see the current draft in the newly-minted Release Engineering repository. There is now a matrix showing the requirements for deployment tooling for 3 projects (MediaWiki, Parsoid (and related), and ElasticSearch (and related)). This is not a fixed document and will grow/change as more is learned. Security auditing and response MediaWiki 1.22.3, 1.21.6, and 1.19.12 security updates were released. We started a review of the Hadoop infrastructure and the Popups extension. In February, we updated our 3rd-party Jenkins instance to use Jenkins job builder configuration rather than Jenkins templates. Now our 3rd-party Jenkins builds matches the WMF Jenkins build scheme, giving us maximum flexibility for when and how these jobs are run in the future. Also, we laid the groundwork for several significant new test features to be announced in the near future. Not much happened on the beta cluster beside the usual maintenance and the platform being used to detect nasty bugs before they land on the production cluster. It is being used successfully for staging various features, bugfixes and extensions as well as for browser tests tracking regressions. Next month will see the beta cluster migrating from the pmtpa datacenter to the eqiad datacenter. Two instances in labs have been added as Jenkins slaves. They are equipped with tox and pip to let us tests python software while fetching dependencies from pypi (bug 44443). Nik Everett made the CirrusSearch browsertests runnable on a labs instance which has elastic search. The job is now triggered from Gerrit and being improved. The experimental Meetbot instance setup by Antoine back in November has been overhauled and is now maintained by the community in the tools-labs project (thank you Tim Landscheidt). Several Debian packages are now build automatically via Jenkins thanks to an effort by Carl Fürstenberg https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Ops-DebGlue/ . It helped packaging Parsoid among others. Our test coverage of MediaWiki extensions continues to prove itself. In February, using the automated browser tests running against beta labs and test2wiki, we found and fixed several critical errors that would have disrupted production wikis severely if they had been released. Presentation slides about Media Viewer In February, the multimedia team continued to focus on Media Viewer v0.2, getting it ready for a wider release next quarter. Gilles Dubuc, Mark Holmquist, Gergő Tisza and Aaron Arcos released a variety of new features, such as: permissions, file usage, pre-loading of images, previews during load and an improved full-screen experience. We also started development on a better ‘Use this file’ panel, including share, embed and download features. Pau Giner designed this panel, as well as a new Zoom feature for next quarter’s v0.3 version of Media Viewer. We invite you to test the latest version (see the testing tips) and share your feedback. Fabrice Florin managed product development for Media Viewer and prepared the release plan for a gradual deployment of Media Viewer out of beta in coming months, based on the team’s latest development goals. We also hosted an IRC chat to discuss Media Viewer with the rest of the community and plan our next steps together. Lastly, the video RfC we started last month was closed with a community recommendation to not support the proprietary MP4 video format on our sites; as a result, we will only support open video formats like WebM and Ogg in the next version (v0.3) of Media Viewer. For more updates, we invite you to join the multimedia mailing list. Bugzilla got upgraded from version 4.2.7 to 4.4.1, which fixed numerous bugs. Daniel Zahn puppetized Bugzilla and (together with Sean Pringle) moved Wikimedia Bugzilla to a new server. Bugzilla now displays useful queries and personal information on its front page. Its table of duplicates now displays bug resolutions (to identify popular WONTFIXed requests) and priorities as columns. The Bugzilla etiquette was finalized (read the announcement). In Bugzilla’s taxonomy, the MobileFrontend components were restructured and the Windows and MacOS entries in Bugzilla’s “OS” dropdown were reordered to list recent versions first. Andre Klapper refreshed the Annoying little bugs page by adding a section covering common questions and issues of new contributors, based on Google Code-In experience. Project management tools review After summarizing community input into consolidated requirements, Andre Klapper and Guillaume Paumier listed the different options mentioned during the consultation process. Those go from keeping the status quo to changing a single tool, to consolidating most tools into one. They also continued to research the main candidates by reading articles and testing demo sites. Once the list of options has been shortened collaboratively, the community RFC will start. The six ongoing FOSS Outreach Program for Women projects all made good progress, and are headed to completion by the end of the program on March 10. For more details, check their dedicated reports: Complete the MediaWiki API development course on Codecademy Clean up Parsoid round-trip testing UI Clean up tracing/debugging/logging inside Parsoid Getting Facebook Open Academy projects up to speed is becoming even more complex than expected, but we are getting there slowly. All students and mentors met at the kick-off hackathon at Facebook headquarters on February 7−9 (see Marc-André Pelletier’s report). Wikimedia applied to Google Summer of Code 2014 and we were accepted. We also confirmed our participation in FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 8. We are organizing both programs simultaneously under a common umbrella, as we did last year with great success. In February, Guillaume Paumier continued to provide ongoing communications support for the engineering staff, and contributed to writing, simplifying, publishing and distributing the weekly technical newsletter. He also edited essays from Google Code-in students for publication on the Wikimedia blog. Volunteer coordination and outreach Wikimedia completed its more ambitious participation in FOSDEM (Brussels) with mild success. The Wikis devroom (co-organized with the XWiki and Tiki projects), the Wikimedia stand, and The Wikipedia Stack main track session achieved their basic goals in terms of participation and quality, but at the same time we got many ideas to do better next year. There was more progress on the tech community metrics front, and we now have interesting data gathered around our five key performance indicators: Who contributes code; Gerrit review queue; Code contributors new and gone; Bugzilla response time, and Top contributors. Architecture and Requests for comment process We held several architecture meetings to review Requests for Comment on IRC, and continued discussion and implementation of work begun at the architecture summit in January. We also worked on improvements to the architecture guidelines and on a draft of performance guidelines for developers. We continue to make progress on the Hadoop/Kafka roll-out. We’ve encountered some issues with cross-data center latencies with Varnish-Kafka that we are currently debugging. We are also testing the Kafka-tee component that provides backwards compatibility for udp2log subscribers. Finally, we are finishing a report for the Mobile team on browser breakdowns using Kafka-provided data on Hadoop. We’ve rolled out some minor changes that make creating dashboards easier and more intuitive. Work progresses on enhancing Wikimetrics into a more flexible general tool. This month we completed work on a Vagrant deployment environment which will make it easier for the community to work on Wikimetrics. We’ve also made progress on the scheduler, reporting enhancements and a deployment issue. We’ve fixed the following production issues: Resolved on No sampled-1000 tsv file for 2014-02-06 on stat1002; Wikipedia Zero team investigated ~30% increase of number of lines zero tsvs between 20140218 and 20140220 file; Wikipedia Zero team investigated on light drop in zero requests around 2014-02-08; Data for ULSFO Cache performance prepared for Ops blog post. Video of the February 2014 Research Showcase This month, we welcomed Leila Zia as the newest addition to the team. Leila joins the Foundation as a research scientist after completing a PhD in management science and engineering at Stanford University. Her work will initially focus on modeling editor lifecycles to better understand what affects their survival and retention. We hosted the first public Research and Data showcase, a monthly showcase of research conducted by the team and other researchers in the organization. This month, we presented two studies on Wikipedia article creation trends and on the measurement of mobile browsing sessions. The showcase is hosted at the Wikimedia Foundation and live streamed on YouTube every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 11.30am Pacific Time. We attended the 17th ACM Conference on Computer-supported cooperative work and Social Computing (CSCW ’14) in Baltimore. Research on Wikipedia and wiki-based collaboration has been a major focus of CSCW in the past, and this year three Wikipedia research papers were presented. We hosted a session to discuss collaboration opportunities for researchers interested in tackling problems of strategic importance for Wikimedia (a detailed CSCW ’14 report will follow on wiki-research-l). We started creating public documentation for data sources and tools used by the team for research and data analysis and porting docs previously hosted on internal wikis (for example: analytics/geolocation). We continued to provide ad-hoc support to various teams at the Foundation and worked closely with the Growth and Mobile teams to prepare and review results for their respective quarterly reviews. The Kiwix project is funded and executed by Wikimedia CH. For the first time, we have released a ZIM file of the entire Wikipedia in English with all encyclopedic articles and thumbnails (download the 40GB file via torrent). In our announcement, we’ve also explained how we generate those archives and advertised the tools we’ve been working with, like mwoffliner and zimwriterfs. This month, a student also worked on the creation of ZIM files containing TED talks. The internship is now over and was a success; ZIM files will be published soon. Preparation work for our Usability Hackathon has started. The Wikidata project is funded and executed by Wikimedia Deutschland. Wikisource now has access to the the data in Wikidata like ISBNs and the date of birth of an author. The Lua interface for Wikidata has been extended significantly to make it more powerful and easier to use. Support for article badges has seen more work and is now missing mostly the user interface part. Loading time of items on Wikidata has been improved drastically. Everyone is asked to provide input for the upcoming redesign of Wikidata’s user interface. The engineering management team continues to update the Deployments page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the annual goals, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts. This article was written collaboratively by Wikimedia engineers and managers. See revision history and associated status pages. A wiki version is also available. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Good and well I am also intarested Posted in Technology, WMF engineering reportsTagged report, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. 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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader, most recently with SugarCRM. Photo of incoming WMF Executive Director Lila Tretikov Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States as a teenager. She’s been working for technology companies, primarily in open source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a technology marketing company. She spent three years as senior director of development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing, customer support and professional services, engineering, and product development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious. The Executive Director Transition Team, chaired by me, has unanimously recommended Lila to the Board to be our next ED, and the Board has unanimously approved the recommendation. We believe she will be an excellent leader in the Wikimedia movement. She strikes us all as smart, brave and unpretentious, and we believe she has the skills the Foundation needs. Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode, and will take over the ED position on June 1, 2014. Her first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of the Wikimedia projects. I want to close this post with a heartfelt and deeply appreciative thanks to Sue Gardner, who has been the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. Sue’s leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded and well-managed organisation with integrity and a clear sense of purpose, and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely on her support in the months and years ahead. In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila. She’ll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she’s going to do next. Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August. Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wikimedia Foundation Names Lila Tretikov Executive Director TechTaffy […] Foundation has appointed Lila Tretikov as  its new executive director.  Sue Gardner, who has been the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven […] Let me be the first to congratulate Lila on her new job and to congratulate Sue on a job well done. Despite the dramas and the soothsayers of the past seven years, the Wikimedia projects are still thriving and Sue played no small part in that. I hope Lila has an equally successful time over the next few years. Welcome aboard the pirate ship that is Wikimedia. 🙂 Wikipedia is an international treasure. I hope its value increases and it merely maintains its position as the most reliable source of information and knowledge in the world. Good Luck 🙂 ! Congratulation Lila & good luck.. Congrats Lila for being part of this larger family. We all loved Sue and she will always be this hyperactive influential speaker and a working bee. The community in the Indian subcontinent would love to meet you in person. 🙂 I have personally relied upon much of your research, data and support that you provide freely. I recently published a book called “the golden thread” (http:www.fuadudemans.com). This was a personal milestone and written with great resentment toward a socio-economic system that enslaves global citizens. I tried hiding most of my anger in the book, and it is a difficult read. It does however contain extremely important information on how to improve our global socio-economic trajectory. I would like to contact you and donate the book and its proceeds to your organisation. Software-Expertin wird neue Chefin von Wikimedia | Wiki-Watch-Blog […] Stiftung eine neue Geschäftsführerin (Executive Director) gefunden. Wie die Wikimedia Foundation bekannt gab, wird die Software-Expertin Lila Tretikov am 1. Juni die Geschäftsführung der Stiftung hinter […] All Change at Wikimedia Foundation | WikiAfrica […] Gardner, the former Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, announcement from the official Wikimedia Foundation blog confirmed Lila Tretikov as the new Executive Director. She took her position beginning the first of […] Hun er Wikipedias nye toppsjef | Datamaskin […] går ble 36-åringen utpekt til ny toppsjef i Wikimedia Foundation, og dermed øverste leder i stiftelsen bak det frie oppslagsverket […] Épisodes 18 – 1,5 k | Les échos d'en bas […] Nouvelle directrice exécutive ■ Créer des Shérifs ? ■  Wikimag ; Signpost ; RAW ; Wikimedia […] Welcome to the family! You certainly have a large shoe to fill! Wikimedia ha un nuovo capo | SecoloNuovo […] un anno fa la sua uscita di scena, e la scelta della fondazione madre di Wikipedia questa volta è caduta su un manager conosciuto nell'ambiente della Silicon Valley e con una competenza tecnica e […] Лaйлa, Bы Moлoдeц! yдaчи Ha HoBoй дoлжHocTи! congrats lila and good luck for future endeavors.. La nueva directora de Wikipedia es rusa y tiene 36 años - Vox Populi […] La Fundación Wikimedia, la organización matriz de Wikipedia y otras wikis (sitios web que pueden ser editados por cualquier voluntario), tiene una nueva directora ejecutiva: Lila Tretikov, quien reemplazará a Sue Gardner el 1 de julio, según comunicó la fundación en su blog. […] Wikipedia impacts the world daily. It must thrive and expand. Congratulations Lila and welcome to the wacky Wikimedia family. Just make sure that Uncle Jimbo doesn’t try to plug his beard trimmer directly into one of the servers! Finally, a BIG THANK YOU to Super Sue who has been a pivotal part of Wikimedia’s success. We wish you success in your future endeavours. Nueva Directora Ejecutiva de Fundación Wikimedia: Lila Tretikov […] Traducido y adaptado de la entrada original, publicada en el blog de Fundación Wikimedia, por Jan-Bart de Vreede, Presidente del Consejo […] » Meet Lila Tretikov, Wikimedia’s New Leader… and Her Uninvited Plus-One The Wikipedian […] May 1, the Wikimedia Foundation named a successor to Sue Gardner as executive director: Lila Tretikov, a “Russian-born technologist […] Posted in Board, Communications, FoundationTagged Executive Director, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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Over the past six months, a Wikimedia UK trustee led two Wikipedia-related projects, Monmouthpedia and Gibraltarpedia, in a way that seemed to some observers to blur his roles as a Wikimedia UK trustee, a paid consultant for the projects’ government partners, and an editor of the English Wikipedia. This raised questions in the Wikimedia community about whether a trustee was able to balance appropriately the interests of his clients with his responsibilities to Wikimedia UK, the values and editorial policies of Wikipedia, and whether any conflict of interest that arose as a result was effectively managed. To better understand the facts and details of these allegations and to ensure that governance arrangements commensurate with the standing of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and the worldwide Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia UK’s trustees and the Wikimedia Foundation will jointly appoint an independent expert advisor to objectively review both Wikimedia UK’s governance arrangements and its handling of the conflict of interest. The review will consider Wikimedia UK’s current governance arrangements, current internal policies, such as the Trustee Code of Conduct, the Nolan Committee Requirements, the Conflicts of Interest policy, the Representing Wikimedia UK policy, any other relevant policies of Wikimedia UK, and best ethical practices. Considering specifically the conflict of interest, we will ask the expert advisor to identify any gaps between how the conflict of interest situation within Wikimedia UK would ideally have been handled and how it actually was handled, and to recommend how situations such as this should be managed in the future. The review will also touch on any activities that may have blurred work as a paid consultant with work as a Wikipedia editor, but recommendations for changes to Wikipedia’s policies and practices will be outside its scope: we leave the broader topic of reviewing Wikipedia’s editorial policies to the community. Once the review is completed, it will be reviewed by both the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK and then published. At the same time, Wikimedia UK has agreed with the Wikimedia Foundation that the Foundation shall process payments for the United Kingdom during this year’s fundraiser. Wikimedia UK has the benefit of legal and professional advice to assist in understanding and handling conflicts of interests. The goal of both organizations in carrying out this review, and Wikimedia UK’s in deciding to absent itself from the 2012 fundraising campaign as a payment processor, is to demonstrate that we mutually recognize the importance of handling conflicts well beyond simple requirements of the law. We understand our responsibilities to you: the members of Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia movement, its donors, editors, and readers. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Foundation appoint independent reviewer | Wikimedia UK Blog […] on the governance of Wikimedia UK. The governance review was announced on September 28, 2012 in a joint statement by Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation. The legal teams at Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia […] Posted in Community, Foundation, HighlightsTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Our annual fundraising campaign reached a successful conclusion today having raised a record-breaking USD 20 million from more than one million donors in nearly every country in the world. It is our most successful campaign ever, continuing an unbroken streak in which donations have risen every year since the campaigns began in 2003. Wikimedia Foundation websites serve more than 470 million people every month. It is the only major website supported not by advertising, but by donations from readers. From Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Our model is working fantastically well. Ordinary people use Wikipedia and they like it, so they chip in some cash so it will continue to thrive. That maintains our independence and lets us focus solely on providing a useful public service. I am so grateful to our donors for making that possible. I promise them we will use their money carefully and well. The number of Wikimedia Foundation donors has increased ten-fold since 2008 and the total dollar amount raised in the campaign has risen to over $20 million from $4.5 million. Funds raised in this campaign will be used to buy and install servers and other hardware, to develop new site functionality, expand mobile services, provide legal defense for the projects, and support the large global community of Wikimedia volunteers. The Wikimedia Foundation’s total 2011-12 planned spending is 28.3 million USD. The bulk of that is raised during the annual campaign and the remainder comes throughout the year in the form of grants from institutions (such as the Sloan Foundation) and many other small donations year round. This year’s campaign highlighted staff and volunteers who help to create Wikipedia. It featured testimonials from volunteer editors in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, India, Kenya, the United Kingdom and the United States ranging in age from 18 to 76, explaining why they edit Wikipedia and why they think readers should support the Wikimedia Foundation. More than 100 volunteers translated the banners and appeals into dozens of languages, reaching hundreds of millions of people. A special thanks goes to all the contributors who work on the fundraiser year-round, the editors who helped tell their story, the translators who helped spread the message of the fundraiser, Wikimedia foundation employees, and to the readers of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for their support. With over 20 million articles in 282 languages, Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in human history. Over 100,000 volunteers work on Wikipedia and its 10 sister projects (including projects like Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wiktionary), furthering the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission to freely share the sum of all human knowledge. On January 15, 2012, Wikipedia will celebrate its 11th anniversary. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wikimedia Foundation: Fundraiser 2012 abgeschlossen | schneeschmelze | texte […] Foundation-l ein sehr positives Fazit der diesjährigen Spendenkampagne gezogen hatte, wurde heute im Blog der Foundation deren Ergebnis bekanntgegeben: Insgesamt wurden weltweit gut 20 Milliionen US-Dollar eingenommen. […] Aughavey Computers - Aughavey Computers Cookstown […] Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other sites, this morning announced that they’ve raised $20 million from more than a million donors, shattering a record once […] Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million - techtaffy: | techtaffy: […] The Wikimedia Foundation annual fundraising campaign has raised $20 million from more than one million donors in nearly every country in the world, said the foundation. […] Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million From 1 Million+ Donors | The Atlantic Press […] Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other sites, this morning announced that they’ve raised million from more than a million donors, shattering a record once again. […] Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million From 1 Million+ Donors […] Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other sites, this morning announced that they’ve raised $20 million from more than a million donors, shattering a record once […] Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million From 1 Million+ Donors | SEO Today […] Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other sites, this morning announced that they’ve raised $20 million from more than a million donors, shattering a record once […] KabayanTech » WikiMedia Foundation raises $20 million […] Wikimedia blog Tagged: Tech News, Wikibooks, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikimedia foundation, Wikinews, […] Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million From 1 Million+ Donors | Techno Magazine | Daily Technology News Magazine […] Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other sites, this morning announced that they’ve raised $ 20 million from more than a million donors, shattering a record once […] Wikipedia recaudó récord de US$20 millones para financiar este 2012 […] sin fines de lucro -cuyo fundador Jimmy Wales pone carita de pena cada año para la campaña- recaudó la no menospreciable suma de US$20 millones gracias al aporte de más de un millón de donantes. La suma recolectada superó en US$4 millones […] Wikipedia recaudo US$20 millones para 2012 | Rutas Geeks […] 2011 fue un buen año de recaudacion para Wikimedia, ya que alcanzo la pequeña cifra de 20 millones de dolares gracias al aporte de poco mas de 1 million de donantes.Con lo cual a logrado superar por 4 millones […] 维基百科获得来自100万捐献者的2000万美元融资 - Android iphone 移动开发博客 Wikimedia finishes fundraising campaign with $20 million for upgrades […] annual fundraising campaigns have been steadily growing in donations since 2003. According to the Wikimedia blog, this year’s fundraiser was strikingly successful when compared to 2008′s total of $4.5 […] Wikipedia Reaches $20 Million Funds | Fresh Infos […] campaigns  of wikimedia have been steadily growing in donations since 2003. According to the Wikimedia blog, this year’s fundraiser was strikingly successful when compared to 2008′s total of $4.5 […] Wikimedia Reaches $20 Million Funds | Fresh Infos […] campaigns  of wikimedia have been steadily growing in donations since 2003. According to the Wikimedia blog, this year’s fundraiser was strikingly successful when compared to 2008′s total of $4.5 […] Wikimedia: nel 2011 totalizzati 20 milioni di dollari di donazioni | Tecnologia | BlogLive.it - Testata Giornalistica Registrata […] per Wikimedia. La società a cui fa capo il progetto Wikipedia ha pubblicato sul proprio blog un articolo in cui vengono messi in evidenza alcuni aspetti molto interessanti: ad esempio, il numero di […] Great news! I have a quick question: do you have information on which countries donated what figures? Will you make them public? Wikipedia recaudó récord de US$20 millones para financiar este 2012 | YukaFrita […] sin fines de lucro -cuyo fundador Jimmy Wales pone carita de pena cada año para la campaña- recaudó la no menospreciable suma de US$20 millones gracias al aporte de más de un millón de donantes. La suma recolectada superó en US$4 millones […] Finanzierung steht: 20 Millionen Dollar für Wikimedia - NETZWELT […] Mitteilung der Wikimedia Foundation […] Fundación #Wikimedia rompe récord al recaudar 20 millones de dólares @Wikimedia | Vox Noticias […] detalles: http://diff.wikimedia.org/2012/01/02/wikimedia-fundraiser-concludes-with-record-breaking-donations/ Be Sociable, Share! TweetTemas relacionados:enero 3, 2012 — Beckham no irá al […] Vpopulare.ru » ФoHд BиkиMeдиa пoлyчил 20 MиллиoHoB дoллapoB oT MиллиoHa чeлoBek […] 15 яHBapя Bиkипeдия бyдeT пpaздHoBaTb cBoë 11-лeTиe.via Wikimedia blog VK.Widgets.Like("vk_like", {type: "button"}); BиkиMeдиa Bиkипeдия […] gratitude runs deep for one and all who directly or indirectly support this cause of spreading knowledge 🙂 humbly thank the team for an immediate response & action to the sentiments / suggestions i made made a minuscule contribution requesting a friend to club it with his own …but am still proud that i am part of the project THANKS & REGARDS to one and all who are a part of this project Wikipedia is one of the best websites in the whole world wide web. The amount of help that Wikipedia is doing to students and researchers can't be mentioned. Keep up the work and keep on spreading good work. Love Wikipedia! Wikipedia’s Campaign: Was it a success? | HelpAttack! […] campaign recently wrapped up as they met their fundraising goal of $20M.  This has been described in the past few days as a success, in part because we can now return to […] wiki is my favourite site and i have no idea how much time i have spent on wiki reading through a variety of information. So whatever little i could contribute was just a way of showing my gratitude…long live wiki!! Enciklopedijai Wikipedia buvo paaukota virš $20 mln. | FACEIT.LT […] Wikimedia savo oficialiame tinklaraštyje pranešė, jog sausio 1-ąją pasibaigė kasmetinis aukų rinkimas jos elektroninei enciklopedijai […] Semaine 1 (2012) « Les échos d'en bas […] [Méta] La levée de fond a été un beau succès [graphique] avec 20 millions de dollars récoltés cette année [blog officiel] […] Thanks to all those who participated in the campaign! Thanks to Isaac Kosgei from Kenya for being part of them. Your other contributions to Wikimedia is evident also! Thanks you’ve made Kenya and the whole of Africa proud. La Repubblica dello svarione « Wiki spiegata a mia nonna […] maggiori informazioni sulla raccolta fondi: Wikimedia Fundraiser Concludes with Record Breaking Donations sul blog ufficiale della WMF. LD_AddCustomAttr("AdOpt", "1"); LD_AddCustomAttr("Origin", […] Wikipedia зiбpaлa бiлbшe 20 MлH дoлapiB Ha пiдTpиMky cBoïx пpoekTiB | BicTkap […] “Haшa oHлaйHoBa kaMпaHiя з пoшyky rpoшeй cboroдHi ycпiшHo зaBepшилacя пicля Toro, яk Mи дocяrли pekopдHoï cyMи пoжepTB y 20 MлH дoлapiB Biд бiлbшe Hiж 1 MлH дoHopiB Maйжe з koжHoï kpaïHи cBiTy”, пишe Джeй Boлш (Jay Walsh) y блoзi Wikimedia Foundation blog. […] Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million From 1 Million+ Donors | Technomania.. […] Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other sites, this morning announced that they’ve raised $20 million from more than a million donors, shattering a record once […] ACTU : WIKIPEDIA | Les petites notes […] 02 janvier, la fondation Wikimedia a annoncé […] Appel aux dons 2011-2012 | Autour de Wikipédia et des projets Wikimedia […] : Wikimedia Deutschland (3,8 millions d’euros récoltés et 160 000 donateurs), Wikimedia Foundation (15,6 millions d’euros et 1 million de donateurs), Wikimedia United Kingdom (1,3 millions […] Gratitude is kind of running dry right now with the blackout, to get a 2012 donation out of me wiki will have to do something really special to reearn my respect. Wikipedia vybrala další rekordní částku na svůj provoz | Blog počítačového nadšence 2.0 […] Zdroj: Wikimedia Foundation Fundraiser Blog […] Posted in FundraisingTagged Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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If you’ve seen a great aviation photo on Wikimedia Commons, odds are good it was taken by Łukasz Golowanow (User:Airwolf). A book translator professionally, Golowanow’s passion is aviation and he documents his hobby with remarkable skill. Every winter and spring, he travels across Europe to as many airshows as possible, taking photos and contributing them to his website, Konflikty.pl, and Wikimedia Commons, the free knowledge repository behind Wikipedia. “I am what you might call a proselytizer,” said Golowanow. “ I deeply believe in the all-around beauty of aviation and want to share my passion with as many people as possible, and in order to do this, I share my photographs.” Golowanow came across Wikipedia in late 2005 while looking up something for his homework, and he uploaded his first image July 2006. Back then, he said, good aviation photos were sparse, inspiring him to fill a niche. When it comes to photography, Golowanow likes shooting multiple subjects at once. “I prefer taking photos of aerobatic teams in formation rather than individual aircraft. I think the perspective, the overlapping, the different angles and position of aircraft in relation to one another, provide some great opportunities for a unique shot.” Golowanow took the photo above of the Frecce Tricolori, the aerobatic team of the Italian Air Force, in July 2010 at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT). It was selected by his peers on Wikimedia Commons as the Picture of the Day for 6 August 2013, indicating that it is one of the finest images on the site. Golowanow also compares taking pictures of airplanes to wild bird photography. “Similarities with photographs of wildlife is that you have no influence at all on what the subject will do and you need to be able to take the photo at the best possible moment, as you can’t count on any second chances,” he said. “Even during air show displays, which are planned so as to give the public as good a view as possible, everything happens usually just once per display. If you miss the opportunity, it’s gone.” Golowanow notes he has been contributing less frequently lately, but not due to loss of interest. “Right now I’m overjoyed to see more and more pictures by various photographers.” Come autumn, when Golowanow expects to have more time on his hands, he says he will upload more of his photos to Wikimedia Commons. Ultimately, Golowanow’s goal with his photography is to inspire others. “I hope my photos will make them think: ‘I want to see this live!’” (View more of his photos on his Commons userpage) Michael Guss, Wikimedia Foundation Communications Volunteer A Czech W-3 Sokół helicopter Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Freedom to all and freedom of expression wikimeadia stands for truth and freedom of all to express there truth by fact to share with all around the world from war to peace from markets to financial crashes and from disease to cure from science to technology freedom of the world press is wikimeadia! Posted in Communications, Picture of the Day, Profiles, Wikimedia CommonsTagged profile, Profiles, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Leigh Thelmadatter photographed for the 2012 Wikimedia Foundation fundraising campaign. Photo by Karen Sayre for the Wikimedia Foundation, released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. “I think that Wikimedia and similar movements offer at least the idea that we can make more information available more easily to more people,” says Leigh Thelmadatter. For an education professional like her, these are certainly not words without meaning. “In Mexico, the issue isn’t really so much money, as the country is not all that poor. The issue is promoting the value of becoming actively involved in making the changes you want to see happen,” Leigh continues. “It’s one thing to say that the world should see Mexico as more than just beaches and the Mexico-US border, but quite another to work to make that information available yourself rather than thinking that ‘authorities’ should do this.” A Wikipedia contributor since 2007, Leigh is a Regional Ambassador for the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico and an English as a Foreign Language professor at the Tec de Monterrey, one of the biggest multi-campus universities in Latin America. She is also a contributor to this blog and a coordinator at Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning, an officially recognized Wikimedia user group operating at the university. Picture of a street car selling bolillos in San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico, used in the article about Mexican breads written by Leigh. Taken by Leigh’s husband Alejandro Linares García, released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Small ceramic figures for sale at the Tianguis de Domingo de Ramos in Uruapan, Mexico. Photo by Alejandro Linares García, released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Leigh’s beginnings with Wikipedia are directly related to her life of a self-professed vagabond. Born in New York, she has also lived in New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, Texas, Arizona, abroad in Germany, and finally moved to Mexico in 2003. “After a few years here in Central Mexico, I found I needed to improve my Spanish and get a better understanding of what was around me,” she recalls. “I put these two things together and started reading in Spanish about the towns I experienced—as the best and often only information is available in this language—and writing Wikipedia articles in English.” Thinking back to her first days as a Wikipedian, she says, humbly, “In 2007, the coverage of Mexico on the English Wikipedia was atrocious. Today, I like to think it is a bit less so.” Once Leigh got started, she continued to edit both from personal and professional motivations. “Personally, I like the idea that I can do something not too many people can do: write about Mexico in English and about topics that most [people from outside of the country] don’t think about exploring. I know these articles are read, and hopefully they help people get a fuller understanding of Mexico and its culture.” As for the professional level, Leigh says that working with Wikipedia gives her a kind of niche. “Tec de Monterrey has 32 campuses around the country, and I am known as ‘the Wikipedia teacher’ at least at the Mexico City area campuses and at the main campus in Monterrey. Collaboration with the Tec allows me to experiment with activities I could not do on my own, for example animation and video, and to work with entities such as the Festival Internacional Cervantino and the Tec’s library at the Mexico City campus where we organized a mega-edit-a-thon last March.” During her almost 8 years as a Wikipedian, Leigh has written over 750 articles on the English Wikipedia, mostly about topics in Mexico. She even admits to having persuaded her husband, Alejandro, to contribute to Wikipedia, too; together they travel the country in search of subjects to cover on Wikipedia. “Most of our weekend and vacation trips are now wiki-expeditions. Alejandro takes pictures and I take notes and write articles later. Our last expedition was to Uruapan, Michoacán, to see the city and its annual Domingo de Ramos handicraft fair.” Leigh’s work on Wikipedia is far from finished. “I’m generally not keen on talking about future plans in detail; I guess I’m just a little superstitious. I will say, however, that there is some promise in our current video projects, and in collaborations with local governments for students and any Wikimedians who want to work with us. In September, we will organize a wiki-expedition for about 70 participants, likely covering the Mexico City boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan.” She also hopes to increase online support from the Spanish Wikipedia community, calling her fellow Wikimedians to action, particularly for those who’d like to mentor students during their work on Wikipedia. “A few have already started doing this, and I’m really thankful to Jarould in particular for his support.” Speaking about the future of the Wikimedia movement, Leigh says: “I believe that much of Wikimedia’s future, especially the writing and maintenance of Wikipedia articles, will lie with the Wikipedia Education Program and GLAM collaborations. There is simply no way to get collaboration with the people who have the kinds of knowledge and skills that we need without these programs. We will need to find a way to provide credit, similar to that of having research published, and maybe for specialized articles, we’ll need to have some protection for a particular version—similar to what James Heilman did with the dengue fever article that was published in the Open Medicine journal in October 2014.” Leigh’s reports on the work of the Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning can be read on this blog. Leigh’s husband Alejandro’s story was part of the 2012 Wikimedia Foundraising campaign. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Community, Profiles, Wikimedia, WikipediaTagged Mexico, multilingual post, Spanish, user profile, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive), Wikipedia, Wikipedia Education Program Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Vaccinations are the best way to defeat this pandemic, and the higher the level of vaccination in the community, the higher the percentage of immunity in this community. "Therefore, we were closer to reaching recovery, as acquiring herd immunity through the vaccine is the most successful way to eliminate the virus. Covid-19 Vaccine Booster shot Guide Vaccination Type and Booster Doses Individuals from age 16 years and above who have chronic diseases 3 months after second dose One booster dose of the same type of vaccine or another vaccine What is COVID-19 of Coronavirus? COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2. It is very contagious and the effect of the infection can vary from mild to severe symptoms. Older adults, and people with underlying medical problems like heart diseases, diabetes, chronic lung diseases, kidney diseases, liver diseases and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. How does COVID-19 virus spread? 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The current approved COVID-19 vaccines in the country are SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Inactivated Vaccine (Sinopharm), mRNA (Pfizer/BioNTech) and the Sputnik V. What is this vaccine? The SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (Vero Cell) is an inactivated biotechnology product intended to provide protection against COVID-19. Who should take the vaccine? The vaccine can be given to everyone starting from the age of 16 years. However, it is recommended to give the priority for vaccination to those at highest risk of contracting the infection and those who are at risk of serious complications of infection, when being infected including the following priorities: People aged 50 years and above People with chronic condition/s such as: How many doses to be given? Two doses (3 – 4 weeks interval). Is the vaccination mandatory? I may not be available to take the second dose, can the appointment be changed to another day? 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The Ministry of Health and Prevention continues to provide COVID-19 vaccines across most of its medical facilities while prioritising the elderly and people with chronic diseases and People of Determination, in addition to those who had already taken the first dose of the vaccine. Is vaccination safe for people taking medications? This will be evaluated by the medical team. You need to inform the team of all medications you are taking and if you have allergies of any kind. Who should not take the vaccine? Participants of Phase III of the clinical trial. Pregnant and lactating women and women planning to get pregnant. People with certain conditions (based on evaluation of the medical team). People with severe allergic reaction to any component in the vaccine. Will the vaccine give protection from COVID-19 Virus? The COVID-19 vaccine will reduce the chance of COVID-19 virus and spread infection to others. When many people are vaccinated, COVID-19 virus is less likely to spread in the community. Immunity against COVID-19 virus does not develop until few weeks after receiving the second dose. Some people may be exposed to COVID-19 virus before getting the benefit from the vaccine. What are the side effects of the vaccine? The vaccine is like any other medicine and could cause some side-effects. The risk of severe reaction is rare. Some minor side effects may occur following a vaccination, including: Pain, tenderness, redness, and pruritus at the vaccination site Muscle pain and arthralgia Generally, the mild symptoms subside without treatment. If symptoms seem to get worse, seek advice from a healthcare provider to get the required treatment. What to do if I experienced any side effects due to the vaccine? You can go to the nearest healthcare center or hospital or contact health authority call center. What do I do after taking vaccine? After you have had the first dose you, make sure you keep a record of the second dose appointment. It is important to have the two doses of the vaccine to get the optimal vaccine effectiveness. It is also important to continue following all the precautionary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Can I get vaccinated if I am sick? It is better to wait until you have recovered to have your vaccine. Can people with history of COVID-19 infection be vaccinated? Yes, if the infection was mild or without symptoms, people will be vaccinated. However, if the infection was moderate or severe that required hospitalization, the case will be assessed by the assigned medical team. Can I give COVID-19 to anyone, after I have had the vaccine? COVID-19 vaccination is an important measure to help stopping the pandemic. However, combination of getting vaccinated and following all the precautionary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will offer the best protection from COVID-19 virus. I have got the flu vaccine; do I need the COVID-19 as well? The flu vaccine does not protect you from COVID-19. Both vaccines are important, but should be taken separately, at least two weeks apart. What is the time interval between taking COVID-19 vaccine and any other vaccine? Minimum interval between a dose of COVID-19 vaccine and any other dose of vaccine is from 2 – 4 weeks depends on the vaccine type. Is the vaccination free for the targeted groups? Yes, all health services related to vaccination are free of charge. Where will the vaccination service be provided? The vaccination service is being provided at various public and private healthcare facilities as well as “Majalis” and vaccination centers. Can participants of Phase III of the clinical trials be vaccinated? No, they cannot for the time being. Are people who received the vaccine exempted from home or institutional quarantine? Exemption from quarantine is applied 28 days after receiving the second dose. It is important to do the required tests (PCR): Travel arrivals: upon arrival, day 4 and day 6. Close contacts of positive COVID-19 case: do the rest at nearest authorized testing facility within 24-48 hours of receiving the notification/ text message. Are people who received the vaccine exempted from COVID-19 test upon entry to Abu Dhabi Emirate within the UAE? Exemption is applied 28 days after receiving the second dose and getting the letter (E) in Alhosn App. Can I stop taking precautionary measures after getting a COVID-19 vaccine? No, as to now you must continue to adhere to all the recommended precautionary measures to reduce the spreading of COVID-19 virus such as wearing mask, physical distance and washing hands. Will the vaccine provide immunity forever or should be repeat it yearly? The concerned health authorities are working currently to determine the periodicity of taking the vaccine, as is the case with other vaccines, such as the seasonal influenza vaccine, to ensure adequate immunity for people. It is difficult to determine the exact period of protection provided by the vaccine, because the vaccination rounds only began recently and the vaccine's efficiency may differ from one person to another. How can I get more information? You may contact call center of the authority: MOHAP Call Center 80011111 Estijaba Abu Dhabi Call Center 8001717 DHA Call Center 800342 How does the vaccine work? Vaccines contain inactive or weak parts of the organism that causes the disease or the genetic code that would create the same response and stimulate the immune system. This leads the body's immune system to recognise the foreign body and produce antibodies to learn how to fight it. The Sinopharm vaccine works by using dead virus particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a violent reaction, and works to stimulate the human immune system and form antibodies to fight the COVID-19 virus. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine uses messenger RNA, a genetic material that human cells read to make proteins. The molecule, called mRNA for short, is fragile and would be broken down into pieces by the human natural enzymes if it were injected directly into the body. To protect their vaccine, Pfizer and BioNTech wrapped the mRNA in oily bubbles made of lipid nanoparticles. In the meantime, both the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine and the Sputnik V vaccine are adenovirus vectored vaccines and both deliver genetic instructions for the cells of the body to produce the spike protein for SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine can reduce the chances of infection with coronavirus and prevent complications resulting from the virus, but no one has yet been able to determine how long the protection will last, as is the case with all vaccines developed to fight the coronavirus. The level of antibodies will decrease over the course of months, but the immune system contains special cells called "memory cells" that may retain information about the coronavirus for long periods, up to years. This means that these cells can remember the pathogen in case the infection is encountered again and stimulate the immune system to reproduce the antibodies that fight the virus. Researchers found out that these cells underwent many cycles of mutations even after recovery and thus were able to produce more effective antibodies than those initially caused by the infection. Additional laboratory tests indicated that these antibodies were also able to identify mutated strains of the virus, such as the South African strain. By following up on the latest scientific developments on the subject of mutated strains of SARS Covid-2 virus, we find that studies have shown the variation of vaccinations in the degree of their effectiveness with the South African strain, and vaccinations are still effective despite this disparity and therefore it is important to emphasize the importance of taking the vaccine and completing the second dose of these vaccines. Can I still get infected by the Covid19 after taking the vaccine? As the nature of how all vaccines work, most of the recorded infections occur after the first dose and the causes are due to being exposed to the virus from community before the immunity is achieved, which is expected to be reached not less than two weeks after the second dose. We advise all individuals to adhere to and not tolerate taking the second dose to ensure the highest rate of disease prevention and to continue preventive measures even after obtaining the two doses. People who were exposed to the virus after taking the first dose, and in case of being infected without symptoms or with minor symptoms, we advise them to complete the second dose after full recovery. If the symptoms are moderate or severe and require admission to the hospital, then "we advise individuals to see a doctor and take immunology tests to determine the need for a second dose.

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The theme of this year’s International Museum Day is “The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine,” focused on exploring new business models for cultural institutions; practices of (co-)creation of value; and solutions for the social, economic, and environmental challenges of the present. To help inform this conversation, I interviewed several GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) that recently went open access to learn from their experiences. 2020 was not an easy year for anyone. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many economic sectors, from different countries, felt a retraction. One of the most affected sectors was culture, since most museums and libraries had to close their spaces to visitors. Even museums that enjoy a high level of government support, still depend on exhibition ticket sales and secondary spend in their shops and cafes to meet their costs. Relocation of paintings during the fire in the town hall during WW1, collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims (Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Unable to open their doors, museums had to rethink their priorities, seek audiences through other channels, and accelerate their digital transformation. Open GLAM and Wikimedia networks were contacted in 2020 by more institutions wanting to know how to share their collections to extend their reach. However, not every institution was able to respond to the challenges of the pandemic in this way. Looking at Douglas McCarthy and Dr. Andrea Wallace’s Survey of GLAM open access policy and practice, I found that most of the institutions that went open in 2020 were from the Global North, especially from North America and Europe, in countries such as France and Germany. I found only one institution from the Global South, or from the considered emerging countries, that released their collections as open access in 2020. DAG Museums in India contributed 13 artworks and are planning to share more soon. I wanted to find out more about what it takes for a museum to go open during a pandemic, so I contacted the institutions included in the survey. For Biblioteca Nacional de España, which released millions of items in November 2020, “the COVID-19 crisis moved us to take the final decision.” However, the adoption of an open access license is underpinned by years of digitization and rights research, work that needs to be carried out on location with collections. All of the other institutions I interviewed either opened their collections just before the pandemic or, at least, had already planned to do it. Some were also guided by governmental policy changes, which shows the level of advocacy required. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims adopted open access as part of the Musées de Reims cohort, and the Musée Cognacq-Jay, which released 70% of their collections under a CC0 license, followed the initiative of the digital team for Paris Musées, in which more than 150,000 items from their 14 museums were shared as public domain. Diana Returning from the Hunt, by François Boucher, a painting in the Musée Cognacq-Jay collection, uploaded on Commons as part of the Sum of all paintings project and using Structured Data on Commons (François Boucher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) The Augustinermuseum, in Germany, which is also part of a municipal museum federation comprising five museums, started the discussion and planning for open access in 2016, but only really opened the collection on January 31st, 2020. “It was possible to launch the digital collection in January 2020, the ‘right’ time before the COVID-19 pandemic affected our lives. It helped us a lot to stay visible during the museums’ closedown and make our digitization affords visible. We also had a real peak of users during the first lockdown.”, said Jochen Dietel, from the Augustinermuseum Department of Documentation and digital projects. Archives of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada, had a similar path, but with Wikimedia outreach too. The institution started a ‘GLAM-Wiki initiative’ in October 2020, but their plans preceded the pandemic, as a strategic effort to improve their digital capacity and expand audiences online. However, as Danielle Manning, Outreach Officer from the institution, said: “With our public facility closed, we focused more attention on digital projects that could be done by staff working from home—including our GLAM-Wiki initiatives.” Other institutions prioritized Wikimedia projects as a work-from-home activity during the pandemic. With the support of Wikimedia UK, 70 staff at the National Library of Scotland used Wikisource to transcribe 3,000 chapbooks. Library staff reported enjoying the work and were gratified that the project brought an important collection to a broader audience. Since the launch of their initiative in October 2020, the Archives of Ontario has shared approximately 2,000 images, from four different collections. The items were chosen if they had already been digitized, had an appropriate copyright status, were considered to be significant, and were popular among students and other researchers. They also prioritized the representation of black, indigenous, and people of color communities, from diverse Ontario locations. Finally, they considered whether the subject matter would lend itself to Wikipedia articles, to increase the use and exposure of the uploaded images. One of the opportunities from open access, as the Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians and GLAM highlights, is the fact that it gives more visibility to institutions and their collections. As Augustinermuseum put it, “We are more visible, have much more inquiries on our collection, and also get feedback and additional information about our collections.” Since sharing their open access images in Wikimedia, the Archives of Ontario has seen a huge increase in viewership for their collections, reporting that their images received close to 1.4 million views from April 2020 to March 2021. But it’s not just about views, it’s about inviting the public to put the collection to their own use. The Smithsonian, which released 2.8 million 2D and 3D images into the public domain shortly before the pandemic in their Open Access initiative, reports that, “We were not disappointed. We saw individuals producing film, writing poetry, making student projects, and creating data visualizations… It was truly inspiring and helped us see the collections we steward a little differently.” There was also evidence in 2020 of museums thinking critically about open access. Wien Museum launched with a mix of CC0 and CC-BY. CC0 because they want to ‘make knowledge about the museum’s objects as easily and comprehensively available as possible.’ But for images of 3D objects, they chose CC-BY because they wanted to ‘show appreciation’ for their museum colleagues working in photography. The Nasjonalmuseet, in Oslo, Norway, changed their license from CC BY-NC, introduced in 2015, to CC-BY in November 2020, encompassing 75% of their objects (33,000 items). With more experience in the open access movement, they wanted to adopt an even less restrictive license. Augustinermuseum wanted to release all of their collections as open access but they felt less confident applying licenses to objects acquired in colonial contexts. They see the museum as “the preserver, rather than the owner” of such objects. In the absence of well agreed international guidelines, they followed the approach of other ethnographic collections in Germany. They noted that the best solution would have been to co-develop a policy with source communities, like the Auckland War Memorial Museum and Museum of Auckland have done, but regretted that they didn’t have the resources to engage the many communities connected to a collection as diverse as their own. I expect to see more discussion of how decolonization intersects with open access, such as this recent seminar with Wikimedia Finland, Creative Commons, and the Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group. Royal Siege of Cana, Benin artifact (Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) While I didn’t see much of a COVID-19 effect on open access adoption in 2020, because there is a lot of work between initiating a conversation and releasing the collection, I wonder if the effects of this period of closure and refocus will be seen in the years to come. Giovanna Fontenelle is a Program Officer on the GLAM and Culture team at the Wikimedia Foundation Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Education & Open Access, Main page (EN)Tagged GLAM, GLAM WIKI, libraries, Museums, Smithsonian Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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I’m pleased to announce that, along with our Summer of Research team, we have five more graduate students participating in another research fellowship this summer. (See our previous announcement.) The WikiHistories project is designed to bring together multilingual academics from diverse fields in the humanities — including history, literature, journalism, and digital anthropology — to study the historical development and community dynamics of non-English Wikipedias. Using their skills as ethnographers, historians, and writers, these researchers will be shedding light on editing communities around the world, documenting the mechanisms that different groups of editors have developed to address the unique cultural and technical issues they face. If you’re a Wikipedian from one of these communities, these researchers will need your experience to gather and fine-tune these histories, so please feel free to get in touch with them on their user talk pages on Meta. Our team (from left to right): Patricia Sauthoff (Meta:cloudmessenger): Masters candidate in History at the University of London’s School of African and Oriental Studies. Journalist, freelance writer, studying religion in South Asia. Wikipedia: Hindi. Stuart Easterling (Meta:stoomagoo): PhD candidate in History at the University of Chicago. Creative writer, software developer, studying Mexican politics and visual arts. Wikipedia: Spanish. Lusine Grigoryan (Meta:Blue moon): received her MSc in Digital Anthropology at University College London. Journalist, media ethnographer interested in social media and its role in national communities. Wikipedia: Armenian. Meredith Ramirez Talusan (Meta:1demerith): PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Cornell. Fiction writer, artist, translator of Philippines literature, blogger at ARCADE. Wikipedia: Tagalog. Ayhan Aytes (Meta:Aaytes): PhD candidate in Communication and Cognitive Science at the University of California San Diego. Digital media artist, ethnographer, interested in the cultural history of Artificial Intelligence. Wikipedia: Turkish. Each week, the WikiHistory fellows will be documenting their findings on this blog, and at the end of the summer they will produce a detailed historical narrative that addresses critical questions that affect all Wikimedia communities: over the years, what kinds of structures and policies have been best suited to attracting and retaining editors, and what has slowed down growth or inhibited editor retention? Starting next week, be sure to watch this space for updates from the field, as our researchers interview Wikipedians in India, Turkey, Spain, Armenia, and the Philippines and present their stories here and on the wikis. Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Wikimedia blog » Blog Archive » Tagalog Wikipedia – Let’s Talk About Language […] following is the first installment in a series of weekly updates from the WikiHistories summer research fellows, who will be studying the history of different non-English Wikipedia editing communities and […] Wikimedia blog » Blog Archive » Armenian Wikipedia: Part of a Bigger Battle […] is the second installment in a series of updates from the WikiHistories summer research fellows, who will be studying the history of different non-English Wikipedia editing communities and […] Armenian Wikipedia: Part of a Bigger Battle […] community history, research (This is the second installment in a series of updates from the WikiHistories summer research fellows, who will be studying the history of different non-English Wikipedia editing communities and […] Posted in CommunityTagged Research, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, Earth’s land surface was barren and devoid of life. It would take another 2 billion years for the first single-celled organisms to appear in the ocean, including the first algae Grypania spiralis, which was about the size of a 50 pence piece. Plants composed of many cells have only been around for a mere 800 million years. To survive on land, plants had to protect themselves from UV radiation and develop spores and later seeds which allowed them to disperse more widely. These innovations helped plants become one of the most influential lifeforms on Earth. Today, plants are found in every major ecosystem on the planet and scientists describe more than 2,000 new species every year. David Attenborough’s new documentary The Green Planet casts the spotlight on plants and their ability to inspire us. In just one recent example, engineers have successfully mimicked the shape of winged maple seeds to design new wind turbines. Plants retain many secrets which scientists have yet to discover. But here are five discoveries which helped us see our distant green cousins in a new light. 1. Plants ‘talk’ to each other Of course, plants do not possess vocal cords and so cannot talk like we do. But they do use chemical and electronic signals to coordinate responses to their environment. When plant cells are damaged, like grass cut by a lawnmower, they release protein fragments which can be detected by surrounding plants. It’s like a neighbourhood watch system: when one plant is harmed, the others are notified that there is danger nearby. This can trigger an immune response or other defences. Similarly, plants can detect pollinators in their vicinity and release chemicals to attract them. These signals make plants very complex communicators. Photo by Leen on Unsplash 2. Plants can move In his seminal book The Power of Movement in Plants, published in 1880, Charles Darwin described the ability of plants to move away or towards light. Scientists call this phototropism. Plant movements are now known to not only be guided by light, but also water, nutrients and in response to grazing by animals and competition from other plants. Plants may appear frozen in place, destined to remain where their seeds germinate. But in fact, plants constantly adjust their leaves, roots and stems to improve their chances of survival. For example, the shaded sides of stems always grow longer to ensure the plant grows towards light in a process mediated by hormones. Roots show the opposite effect, causing them to grow away from the light. In some extreme cases, plants can even move across an entire forest. Nomadic vines grow upwards from the bottom of a tree trunk then detach from the soil. Later, they put down aerial roots and descend again, allowing them to move between trees. 3. Plants can grow in outer space The idea of traversing space and living on other planets has long excited the human imagination. But no planets with the same environment as Earth have been found. We know plants are experts at modifying environments to suit the needs of more complex life. As early forests began photosynthesising, they oxygenated Earth’s atmosphere and drew down CO₂, making the planet more hospitable. Could growing plants on distant planets make them more suitable to our needs? During the space race between the USSR and the US in the 1950s and 1960s, scientists studied how plants grow and develop in space. So far, scientists have grown 17 different species of plants in specialised chambers, including crops like corn, wheat, tomatoes and lettuce. Big challenges to growing Earth’s plants outside our atmosphere remain, including radiation during space flight and differences in gas movements in space compared to Earth. If you think it’s hard to keep a plant alive at home, try doing it in space. The ability to terraform a planet – making it suitable for humans to live on – remains elusive. But major progress in plant science over the last few years make this an achievable target, perhaps within the lifetime of people alive today. 4. One in ten plants grow on other plants Often towering tens of metres tall are some of the largest organisms on the planet. Redwood trees, for example, can grow over 100 metres tall. Scientists first began studying their lofty forest canopies by training monkeys or employing skilled climbers to collect samples. Some even used shotguns to shoot down samples. It was not until the 1980s that canopy research became a scientific discipline in its own right, with the use of rope climbing techniques borrowed from mountaineering. Later, cranes, balloons and drones joined the toolset of many scientists. But why risk your life to climb a tree? What’s up there? It’s estimated that up to 80% of species in a forest either use or live their entire lives in the forest canopy. One in ten of all known species of vascular plants – species which use vein-like vessels to transport water and nutrients throughout their body – grow on top of other plants. Image by Dinesh Valke (flickr) under CC BY-SA 2.0 These are called epiphytes. They are not parasites, but instead use their host for physical support. This gives them an advantage over plants growing in the forest understorey, where light is scarce. Most orchids grow on trees and a single tree can hold as many as 50 species of epiphyte. Often, these epiphytes put out more leaves than their host tree. 5. Plants can indicate global change Organisms are very sensitive to changes in their environment and plants in particular have been used to detect these changes for centuries. When leaves start to change colour in autumn, it usually heralds the arrival of cooler and darker months. Certain species of ferns are particularly vulnerable to changes in their local climate. Filmy ferns grow in shaded regions of tropical forests, usually near the bases of trees or on wet rocks. They rely on water and low temperatures, and are good indicators of oncoming drought and rising temperatures. Since the 1980s, the global average temperature has been rising as a direct result of burning fossil fuels like coal, which was deposited by plants millions of years ago during the early formation of forests. We are living in a time of change and understanding how plants respond to changes in climate can help us to prepare ourselves for the future. Sven Batke, Lecturer in Biology, Edge Hill University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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When good people get together in a friendly, well organised setting like this weekend in Pune, many great things happen. Several MediaWiki developers had come to provide the many people new to MediaWiki with their expertise and guide people into its inner workings. Many people worked on Wikimedia mobile and the SmartPhone software, others worked on MediaWiki and its extensions. Bugs got fixed and functionality got extended. One of the surprises was two people working on the localisation for the Mongolian language. The inclusion of a web font that will support the Dzonka language is another. Dzongkha is the official language of Bhutan and according to Ethnologue, the script used is either Tibetan script, Uchen style or the Tibetan script, Umed style. These scripts and styles are also used for the Tibetan language, it is not only Dzongkha that stands to benefit. One of the highlights of the work on the SmartPhone app is support for scripts that are written from right to left, this is now “beta” functionality. The result of more people looking at the code was that several bugs received the attention needed to make them go away. Scrolling was one area that got attention; this results in a smoother user experience. New input methods have been created for Punjabi transliteration and for an Gujarati input method to be included in Narayam. The continued collaboration with RedHat engineers ensures that our work benefits both MediaWiki and RedHat/Fedora. We do realise that there is still a lot to do and it is not only documentation. Additional work was done on the “visual on-screen keyboard” that was started at the previous hackathon in Pune, it still needs more testing and design work. Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff. Comments are closed automatically after 21 days. Posted in Features, Internationalization and localization, Mobile, TechnologyTagged Hackathon, India, MediaWiki, Mobile, Narayam, Participation, web fonts, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive) Welcome to Diff, a community blog by – and for – the Wikimedia movement. Join Diff today to share stories from your community and comment on articles. We want to hear your voice! Subscribe to Diff via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to Diff and receive notifications of new posts by email. The search for The Sound of All Human Knowledge begins: Global contest aims to identify the first ever sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects 13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022! 29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington Down the Rabbit Hole The journey to make Wikipedia’s technology more equitable 9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner This is Diff, a Wikimedia community blog. All participants are responsible for building a place that is welcoming and friendly to everyone. Learn more about Diff. A Wikimedia Foundation Project Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA) unless otherwise noted.

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A call for technical projects that could for instance be completed as part of our mentorship programs; Design experiments to show the community behind Wikipedia articles on mobile devices; Another release of the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle, with an explanation of how it’s put together; The completion of the sixth round of the Outreach Program for Women; A recap of the launch of Notifications to more language versions of Wikipedia, and their impact. Note: We’re also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge. 135 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki. The total number of unresolved commits went from around 1080 to about 1020. About 29 shell requests were processed. Wikimedia Labs now hosts 173 projects and 1,848 users; to date 2305 instances have been created. The tools project in Labs now hosts 325 tools and 266 members. Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up, and we really love talking to active community members about these roles. Vice President of Engineering: Search Firm Engagement – Engineering Software Engineer – Core Features Software Engineer – Language Engineering Senior Software Engineer – Multimedia QA Engineer – Manual Testing – Visual Editor Software Engineer Data Analytics (Back End) Product Manager – Platform Dev-Ops Engineer – SRE Ops Engineer – Labs Contractor Kartik Mistry joined the Language Engineering team as Software Engineer (announcement). Sucheta Ghoshal joined the Language Engineering team as associate software engineer (announcement). Kaity Hammerstein joined the User experience team as Associate UX Designer (announcement). Aaron Halfaker joined the Analytics team as Research Analyst (announcement). Oliver Keyes transitioned to the role of Product Analyst (announcement). Dan Garry joined the Product development team as Associate Product Manager for Platform. (announcement). Nick Wilson joined the Product development team as Community Liaison (announcement). Work to refactor and modularize our Puppet repository continues: this month, lots of dead code was removed, and some tiny miscellaneous classes aggregated with more relevant components. Work on git-deploy has also restarted this month. Changes were made to make git-deploy easier to configure and to make initial setup of new repositories and setup of new minion targets completely automated. Many of the services within the Tampa data center have already migrated to EQIAD, however there remain several smaller, unique, or in some cases orphaned services that we still need to document or scope prior to the closure of this center. Several of these services may no longer be required, and we expect there to be some discussion about how they are migrated or maintained going forward. Additionally, several of these systems need to be moved to the new secondary data center (see below), and will be waiting until infrastructure is in place to do so. Our goal is to try to have these systems moved before the end of 2013, but we’ll continue to have equipment in this location for as long as necessary to ensure stability of our network. For EQIAD, the ordering process is underway to complete our fourth row of machines, and ensure we have capacity to take in systems that will be arriving from the sunsetting of the Tampa data center, as well as handle our expected growth. For ULSFO, after a long initial setup, initial bootstrapping and configuration of the systems is finally underway. Over the next several weeks, we will be configuring, testing, and redirecting traffic at this location. Lastly, work has begun on a definition and RFP process for a new, secondary data center, likely on the west coast of the US. We will send further updates on this project once our RFPs are complete and we begin the selection process. Our hope is to have this facility ready to take systems from Tampa by the end of 2013. The GSoC incremental dumps project has drawn to a close, but User:Svick will still be around. There’s work to be done before this can go into production, as well as extensive testing and code review from folks with C++ expertise. If you want to help, check the repository. The DNS infrastructure of the Labs has been overhauled and much improved. The hardware switch to replace Labs’ NFS server unreliable hardware is ready, and should be enabled this week. Yuvaraj Pandian has created and deployed a new instance proxy with an OpenStack-style API. The new proxy is in use for a small number of instances right now, but will be expanded to most instances in the future. The new proxy uses nginx with Lua code to read its configuration of virtual hosts from redis and can handle arbitrary URLs to arbitrary back-ends. Editor retention: Editing tools In September, the VisualEditor team continued their work to improve the editor and roll it out to additional wikis. The deployed version of the code was updated four times (1.22-wmf16, 1.22-wmf17, 1.22-wmf18 and 1.22-wmf19). The focus in the team’s work this month was to continue to improve the stability and performance of the system, fix a number of bugs uncovered by the community, and make some usability improvements. We fixed a few bugs reported in production, added performance stats to our RT-testing framework (and discovered a couple bugs and fixed them as a result) and did some long-standing cleanup work in our codebase. September also saw the all-staff meeting at the WMF offices in San Francisco which gave us the opportunity to work in person and discuss some proposals. We planned out an implementation strategy for language variant support, and started researching and experimenting with HTML storage options which is required for a number of projects in our roadmap. In September, we released Notifications on more Wikipedias, such as the Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Fabrice Florin and Keegan Peterzell managed community relations for these new releases, and are reaching out to more projects. Our next deployments will take place every other Tuesday. Developer Benny Situ was responsible for these deployments and fixed a number of bugs, with the help of Erik Benhardson and Matthias Mullie. Community response has been very positive so far, across languages and regions. For each release, we reached out to community members weeks in advance, inviting them to translate and discuss the tool with their peers. As a result, we have now formed productive relationships with volunteer groups in each project, and are very grateful for their generous support. To learn more, visit our project hub, read the help page and join the discussion on the talk page. This month, we continued back-end work on the Flow first release – integrating with the recent changes table (to ensure that users will be able to monitor Flow boards via the watchlist and Special:Recentchanges, in the same way they monitor wiki pages), mentions and notifications, and an early experiment with VisualEditor-enabled posting. We also kicked off a sprint to create a new visual design treatment for the board and discussions that will work across desktop and mobile platforms. We are aiming to implement this design next month, in preparation for several rounds of new user and experienced user feedback before the first onwiki release. In September, the Growth team (formerly known as Editor Engagement Experiments, or E3), primarily worked on the onboarding new Wikipedians project. In particular, this included the creation and deployment of two new guided tours to teach any new user how to make their first edit, using wikitext or VisualEditor. The guided tours extension was also deployed to the following language editions of Wikipedia: Catalan, Hebrew, Hungarian, Malay, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. Along with the renaming, the team held its third Quarterly Review (minutes are available), published its 2013–2014 product goals, and shared a new job opening for two additional software engineers. In accordance with our 2013-14 goals, the Growth team began research into modeling newcomer retention on Wikipedia, anonymous editor acquisition, and article creation improvement. This month, the team mostly focused on preparing for the upcoming English fundraiser. Planning began for periodic tests throughout October, which will help determine the launch date and other aspects of our fundraising efforts in November and December. This month, the team released enhanced URL rewriting and debug flag-only Edge Side Includes (ESI) banner inclusion to production, supported the Ops implementation of dynamic MCC/MNC carrier tagging, identified web access log and user agent anomalies, further analyzed and recommended load balancer IP address-related changes in support of HTTPS requirements, and tested JavaScript-based Wikipedia Zero user interface enhancements. In September, we mostly focused on Tutorial A/B testing, Notifications overlay in Beta, and adding campaign tracking to MobileFrontend. In September, MediaWiki 1.22wmf16 through 1.22wmf19 were deployed to the production Wikimedia Foundation cluster. In September, we continued to expand our multimedia team and updated our multimedia plan for the coming year (see slides). Mark Holmquist continued development on the Media Viewer to improve the image viewing experience, based on designs by May Tee-Galloway and Jared Zimmerman. We also made good progress on the Beta Features project, which will invite users to test, give feedback, and use a range of new features in real-world settings. We aim to have first beta versions of both products ready by the end of the October. New employee Bryan Davis started work on several multimedia platform bugs, and Summer contractor Jan Gerber completed his work on the TimedMediaHandler extension. To discuss these features and keep up with our work, we invite you to join the new multimedia mailing list. Last but not least, we are also recruiting for a senior software engineer position on our team. Although this activity is still officially on hold, several bug fixes were committed this month by community members. The GSoC project to implement a simple Bayesian Filter extension was successfully completed. In September, we expanded the new CirrusSearch back-end to a number of wikis. Italian Wiktionary, Catalan Wikipedia and English Wikisource are all running CirrusSearch now. Additionally, we deployed to all “closed” wikis. Further feature refinement and bugfixing are ongoing, with roughly 2 to 3 deployments a week. The team improved the user interface of OAuth and deployed these changes to mediawiki.org and test.wikipedia.org. We hope to test and refine the extension with third party developers, and subsequently deploy to all wikis. An initial review of Extension:OpenID was performed, and several issues were brought to the attention of the extension maintainer. Several bugs with CentralAuth/SUL were also fixed. Security auditing and response The team responded to reported issues, and released MediaWiki 1.21.2, 1.20.7 and 1.19.8 security releases to fix several issues in core and extensions. This month, we wrapped up Rachel Thomas’ Outreach Program for Women internship successfully. Rachel helped us extend our browser test coverage of VisualEditor. Besides our ongoing collaboration with Wikimedia Foundation development projects, we are also engaging the greater community on the QA mailing list, where we discuss both code contributions and general QA topics. This month saw significant improvements to both coverage and speed in our tests for VisualEditor. We are collaborating with the Language team on browser tests for the UniversalLanguageSelector extension and Translatewiki.net. We created our first tests for the new Flow feature and are in the process of supporting Flow fully in a reference test environment. We presented yet another of our ongoing series of training sessions, this one live in San Francisco. This month, beside our usual ongoing work and numerous small fixes to Bugzilla’s code and changes to taxonomy, Legoktm provided a patch to support Sourceforge URLs in Bugzilla’s “See Also” field, as part of moving pywikipedia bug reports from SourceForge to Bugzilla. Andre Klapper added an option to display metadata changes to a bug report (which are available via the “History” link in a Bugzilla ticket) inline, between the comments. It is now possible to distinguish the products ‘MediaWiki’ and ‘MediaWiki extensions’ in Bugzilla’s search results. Furthermore, work on creating a guided bug entry form for newcomers continued. 18 out of the 20 Google Summer of Code projects have passed the program evaluation, as well as the one Outreach Program for Women project (read our announcement and blog post). These numbers are unprecedented and we have to ensure that they are not just occasional results but a trend. Wrap-up reports from the projects: Browser test automation for Visual Editor Internationalization and Right-To-Left Support in VisualEditor Improve support for book structures Section handling in Semantic Forms jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome Guillaume Paumier wrapped up work on supporting the deployment of VisualEditor, and resumed regular activities like preparing the Tech newsletter and ongoing communications support for the engineering staff. Volunteer coordination and outreach Together with XWiki and Tiki, we submitted a Wiki devroom proposal for FOSDEM, the biggest open source source conference in Europe. We are also preparing a proposal for a stand, lead by volunteers at the nascent Wikimedia Belgium chapter. The overall goal is to achieve a good MediaWiki & Wikimedia tech gathering in Brussels next February. We are also supporting the organization of the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco on 23-24 January, 2014. The team has been focused on smaller but more important work items this month, including enhancement to Wikimetrics, Grantmaking and Program Developments graphing infrastructure and fixing some long-standing Limn bugs. On the infrastructure side, our collaboration with Ops has the Kafka middleware project moving along nicely. The all-staff meeting and travel schedules definitely impacted our throughput this month. Two notable accomplishments should be called out: our Hadoop environment is now 100% free software, as we swapped out a proprietary JDK for OpenJDK 7. We also spent a lot of time on our engagement processes and planning for our first combined quarterly review in October, and made significant process on our hiring goals. This month, Aaron Halfaker joined the research team as a full-time employee. We started to reorganize the team structure and engagement model in coordination with the Analytics developers. We performed a survival analysis of new editors in preparation for new experiments led by the Growth team, and worked with the team to iron out the data collection and experimental design for the fortcoming iteration of GettingStarted. We worked with product owners to determine the initial research strategy for features with key releases scheduled for the next two quarters (Mobile Web, Beta Features, Multimedia, Flow, Universal Language Selector, Content translation). We started a cohort analysis of conversion rates for mobile vs desktop account registrations; the results will be published on Meta shortly. We drafted a proposal to host tabular datasets in a dedicated namespace and solicited feedback from interested parties (particularly the Wikidata community). We also started fleshing out the Labs2proposal, an outreach program for academic researchers and community members, launched at Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong. We co-hosted the second IRC research office hours and prepared for the first Wikimedia research hackathon, an offline/online event to be held in various locations worldwide on November 9, 2013. Last, we contributed to the September 2013 issue of the Wikimedia research newsletter. The Kiwix project is funded and executed by Wikimedia CH. Mediawiki offliner is now pretty stable, and its first release will happen in October. The ZIM incremental update GSoC project was successfully completed; we still need to do a little bit work to finish the integration in the openZIM and Kiwix code bases. libzim, the openZIM reference implementation, has been packaged for Debian. The Wikidata project is funded and executed by Wikimedia Deutschland. In September, the Wikidata team mainly concentrated on the sister projects Wikimedia Commons and Wiktionary. For Wikimedia Commons, we added the ability to store interwiki links in one central location (Wikidata) together with the ones for Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. For Wiktionary, we published an analysis of all existing proposals for the integration of Wikidata and Wiktionary. On Wikidata itself, we rolled out the URL datatype. This for example allows you to provide a URL as a source of a statement. Denny Vrandečić published 2 blog posts about the ideas behind Wikidata: “Wikidata Quality and Quantity” and “A categorical imperative?“. In addition, he shared a few thoughts on the future of Wikidata before leaving the project at the end of the month. The development team is looking to hire another front-end developer experienced in JavaScript. 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